Aww, Kat, you should be able to get out of there!
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Liese S. - Nov 20, 2012 11:51:14 am PST #1617 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Cass - Nov 20, 2012 12:47:08 pm PST #1618 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Hospital waiting is hard waiting.
Toured the Base today and it was fascinating. They have a recycling program that is amazing. And they've not only recouped the costs from the program but made a tidy profit. The household recycling is just good for the environment as is the chemical recycling. But ordnance makes bank. Plus, is good both for recycling the materials and cleaning up the training sites. Amusing parting gift - two brass balls.
Less amusing was coming home and having to dispose of the rest of the tailless lizard from yesterday. Poor critter. I was happy with him eating bugs and living under my fridge. The cat was not.
Sheryl - Nov 20, 2012 1:12:03 pm PST #1619 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Nova seems to be back to what passes for normal with her.(Generally that means meowing a lot and sticking her nose in anything.)
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2012 1:12:26 pm PST #1620 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have no idea where this massive vertigo attack came from. Stress at the things I need to deal with this week? I don't know. But language too much like ultimatums is flying around (not from or to me--it's the collateral thing again), and the CIO just set up a meeting for 8:30 tomorrow morning on the topic.
This makes me hyperventilate because my manager is on PTO, and my boss is in the midwest. I am assuming my boss will be on the line for the call, but it's still not the same thing as having layers of our department there. I don't want the slightest expectation that I have to offer up any opinions.
Actually, I hadn't linked the possible clusterfuck and loaded language being tossed around like shuttlecocks and my overwhelming urge to fall down and stay down, but it sure seems plausible...
And I just embarrassed myself in front of a team member by not realising he sits down the way from me--I thought he wasn't even in California.
Really not my day.
billytea - Nov 20, 2012 1:15:15 pm PST #1621 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.
And Mitt Romney apparently thinks "Add dental to Obamacare' would be a terrible threat, instead of "Wow, could they do that?"
Well, sure. They already hate Obamacare, and frankly from this country's viewpoint it looks pretty mild. They'll fear it even more once it has teeth.
Vortex - Nov 20, 2012 2:50:11 pm PST #1622 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
So Cambridge got 12 new cops, and 9 of them appear to be white men, just from looking at the picture and names. [link] Come ON, Cambridge! You should do better. (City population in 2000 was about 65% white, 12% black, 12% Asian, 7% Latino.)
Are they all really short, or is the one guy freakishly tall?
Jesse - Nov 20, 2012 2:58:25 pm PST #1623 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm hoping the one guy is up on a thing? Or something?? But maybe they are all really short AND the one guy is tall. Because that picture is weird.
SuziQ - Nov 20, 2012 4:04:00 pm PST #1624 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Back at karate. Did an hour private class and never reached for my inhaler. Woot. No karate tomorrow after giving blood. Boo. But my dentist appointment got cancelled. Yay! (yeah, I need to reschedule that).
smonster - Nov 20, 2012 4:05:35 pm PST #1625 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
skimming and skipping to wish ~ma to Grace.
Kat - Nov 20, 2012 4:33:59 pm PST #1626 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
We are home. We left the hospital and 2:00 and contended with stupid traffic on both 405 and 101. By the time we got home, my nerves were frayed and we decided to go to the Yard House to make it better. Which a pear cider and mac and cheese DID improve my outlook.
Noah played racquetball for an hour today so he was wiped. And he performed America the Beautiful and 5 poems at his T-giving Day program which K went to.
Grace's meds are sort of herwollaped and f-ed up. They faxed over the form to the pharmacy which meant I had to call from the recovery room on a landline to get the fax number. Then the docs handwriting sucked and they made the mades Q6 instead of Q8. The pharmacy distributed the keflex as 250 mg/50 ml instead of 50 mg/ml so we wouldn't need as much. And they didn't have the codeine which I will have to pick up tomorrow.
I need to order a night mouth guard because I'm having shocking TMJ pain.
Grace just burped in K's face which was rude and funny. Well Grace thought it was funny.