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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


sj - Nov 17, 2012 1:36:40 pm PST #1299 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

shrift, call your local urgent care before you go and find out if they do X-rays, some do and some don't.


shrift - Nov 17, 2012 1:44:16 pm PST #1300 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Well, I live next to an ER. I guess I could walk over there are see how busy they are?


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2012 1:55:30 pm PST #1301 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If you're breathing properly and not bleeding this is a horrible time for the ER.

Well, you know compared to the happy fun time you were going to have. I agree with sj saying to call UC. The ones I've been to advertised X-Rays, but who needs a wasted trip when you're trying to find a doctor?

Muffin question: I think I must be overmixing. I'm skimming the internet, and THREE strokes? Seriously? I hate biting into a blister of flour and leavening in baked goods. I fold until I can't see any more dry bits and then stop. Are you guys stopping sooner?

(And it does seem using sour/soda as part of the leavening might help, but still...)


shrift - Nov 17, 2012 2:01:19 pm PST #1302 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

If I could find an UC near me, I would do that. But since I don't need this ASAP, I guess I'll keep searching.


shrift - Nov 17, 2012 2:07:44 pm PST #1303 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Hmm. Maybe Lakeview Immediate Care. I'll call and see if they can do x-rays.

Edit: And they do. I'm going to register now on their website and go in the morning.


Jesse - Nov 17, 2012 2:21:06 pm PST #1304 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh. My cat just had a seizure! And of course I have no idea if he's ever had one before, because I'm really only at home awake a small bit of the time. He seems more or less OK, so call the vet Monday? Poor boo.


-t - Nov 17, 2012 2:24:03 pm PST #1305 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Good luck with the hand, shrift. I have no advice.

Nor do I have device about mixing muffins. I am a chronic over mixer and honestly don't notice the reputed ill effects. But the folding-things-into-egg-whites-to-make-souffles instructional videos seem to advocate 4 strokes, so three seems excessively meagre.

Eta: poor kitty! No advice there, either.


Sue - Nov 17, 2012 2:25:43 pm PST #1306 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Poor Homer. I'd keep an eye on him and wait until Monday if nothing else happens.


Jesse - Nov 17, 2012 2:26:35 pm PST #1307 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I thought he was hilariously chasing his tail, like a fucking cliche, but then he got a little more spastic. Yipes.

I was about to make corn muffins and chili, but now I just want to sit here with the poor cat!


Consuela - Nov 17, 2012 2:47:14 pm PST #1308 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Three strokes gets you way too little mixing. Like ita !, I mix carefully until there's no more dry visible, and then stop.

The Ikea run gave us two bureaus and a nightstand (all, oddly enough, exactly the same as the bureau & nightstand I have in my bedroom), two chairs and a small sturdy kitchen table, a plant stand, and a reading lamp. And we spent an hour assembling things and only got a little bit done. I'll have to go back tomorrow and do some more--the bureaus are going to take hours.

And of course Mom was upset that we took her shopping opportunity away from her, but seriously, taking her through Ikea would have killed me. I did buy her chocolate as a bribe.

She gets to pick the shower curtain.

Tomorrow is my one parent-free day of the next week. I think I will go see James Bond, or Lincoln.