Everyone's getting spanked but me.

Willow ,'The Killer In Me'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DavidS - Aug 25, 2012 10:05:58 am PDT #19429 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Maybe some sparkly hair clips? (Actually, he would probably dig that.)

You should totes explore that. Maybe a French braid.


billytea - Aug 25, 2012 10:07:45 am PDT #19430 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

As far as I know, there's no way to get rid of the evil possums. (They like to sit on the fence behind my house and taunt the dog.)

We had a possum encounter at the park today! A brush-tailed possum, to be precise. It was wandering about on the ground, on its way to another tree to eat some budding flowers. Ryan was quite impressed, and I could point out to Biyi that the underside of its tail was bare (better grip on branches).


§ ita § - Aug 25, 2012 10:10:32 am PDT #19431 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think after the two jobs I have to monitor Sunday midnight, I don't have any more midnight weekend monitoring...for at least a week. There is also a Sunday 9-11AM wait-for-the-thumbs-up gig I've been avoiding, since it's been about a month of midnights and I didn't want to hem my ER visits between work at two ends.

The information security officer tried to convince me to add to the three jobs I have this weekend by seeking emergency board approval for a job where he's doing the work--he wanted me to do the paperwork and monitoring. I do like to establish I'll do random stuff outside my established field of expertise (I want to be able to grab for good projects), but there are limits. I opened the ticket for the rest of the tech work surrounding his task, but dude, you're the entire officer of all the security. It's not my fault you're the only person in that group. I don't do your paperwork.

I told him I'd be more than happy to help him fill out the forms, though. He was pretty aghast at me not wanting to monitor a nine hour job (neither of mine should take more than an hour) Sunday morning that he'd have to be awake for anyway.

I'm not going to lie. It would be great if people were taking notice that I worked out a way to accelerate the execution of this task so it wouldn't risk affecting our immovable but unknown deadline. I WANT MY GODDAMNED GOLD STAR.

Shit, it's performance review time and I'm weeks overdue. No star for me...


Steph L. - Aug 25, 2012 10:11:59 am PDT #19432 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Maybe some sparkly hair clips? (Actually, he would probably dig that.)

You should totes explore that. Maybe a French braid.

I often threaten to put his hair in about 30 tiny pigtails. Just because.


Zenkitty - Aug 25, 2012 10:12:50 am PDT #19433 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Most of those wildlife will stay around to bedevil your new neighbors.

That'll be fine, then.


Jessica - Aug 25, 2012 10:18:46 am PDT #19434 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I should clean the bathroom, but I want to believe if I ignore it, the grime will go away.

I feel strongly that since the bathroom is the room where I get clean, it should by all logical rights also clean itself.


Tom Scola - Aug 25, 2012 10:25:59 am PDT #19435 of 30001
hwæt

Neil Armstrong has died.


Steph L. - Aug 25, 2012 10:35:04 am PDT #19436 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I feel strongly that since the bathroom is the room where I get clean, it should by all logical rights also clean itself.

ESPECIALLY the bathtub/shower. I mean, the dirt goes DOWN THE DRAIN!


Steph L. - Aug 25, 2012 10:39:19 am PDT #19437 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Neil Armstrong has died.

I had no idea until I read the news that he lived in the Cincinnati area. How about that.


le nubian - Aug 25, 2012 10:43:36 am PDT #19438 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

They say he died as a result of complications of heart surgery from 3 weeks ago.