Good Luck Strix!
Stay safe and dry, Chicagoistas!
Needed to be said again.
Random thing: Did you all know we have a National Cryptologic Museum? [link]
We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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.
Lee - Apr 18, 2013 9:48:48 am PDT #19309 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Kate P. - Apr 18, 2013 10:06:13 am PDT #19310 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
y'all have probably figured out, but the explosion was far away from me. I do not have any personal connections of people there.
msbelle, I'm glad to hear it! I thought you weren't especially nearby, but I'm definitely glad to have you check in and say so.
Maria - Apr 18, 2013 10:14:35 am PDT #19311 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
What Kate said, msbelle.
Lee, yep. I pass by the sign for it every time I'm on the BW Parkway or Route 32.
-t - Apr 18, 2013 10:23:22 am PDT #19312 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am failing to keep up with all these disasters. Stay safe, peoples!
In Me news, calling the benefits people yesterday seems to have been all I needed to do, I've got a 401k in my name now. I guess I need to figure out what to do with it - roll it over into one with my employer, or maybe start one with my insurance agent (who also does financial services). I hope there's no hurry on that.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2013 10:24:33 am PDT #19313 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Random thing: Did you all know we have a National Cryptologic Museum?
OK, I was going to say why didn't my grandfather (20 years in the NSA) ever take me there, but then I saw it only opened in 1993, after they had already moved away.
Beverly - Apr 18, 2013 10:26:58 am PDT #19314 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Thank you for checking in, msbelle. Glad you're out of the chaos.
Saving two million kids is good. Otherwise? Knock it off, universe.
Also, best healing vibes to Strix.
Scrappy - Apr 18, 2013 10:43:58 am PDT #19315 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Quick healing vibes for Strix.
Hil R. - Apr 18, 2013 10:45:20 am PDT #19316 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oklahoma state representative uses "Jew me down" on the House floor. Then "apologizes" by saying that Jews are good businessmen. Is this 1955? [link]
Jessica - Apr 18, 2013 10:50:21 am PDT #19317 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Best comment on that story:
I knew there was a time difference between New York and Oklahoma, but I didn’t realize it was 60 years.
JZ - Apr 18, 2013 10:51:05 am PDT #19318 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Re Hil's link, oh UGH. Fuckin' people, man.
I've heard people use that expression twice in my hearing: The first one, when called on it, explained hastily and in Oklahoma-statesmanlike fashion that it was meant in an entirely complimentary way, because she has always had great admiration for the Jews -- after all, they're so thrifty!
The second person insisted that, gosh, it was just a homophone coincidence and it had nothing to do with Jewishness at all; when I insisted that yes, it really did, she said cheerfully, "Well, one of my best friends is Jewish, and we're hanging out tonight. I'll just ask him about it!" I bet that was one fun cocktail hour.