Natal Anniversary Felicitations, Consuela!
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Beverly - Dec 10, 2012 11:53:57 am PST #3818 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2012 11:56:05 am PST #3819 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy Birthday, Consuela!
Consuela - Dec 10, 2012 11:59:49 am PST #3820 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thank you all! I forgot that I gave myself a birthday gift in that my dog has a vet appointment at 4, so I get to leave the office early for that. Woot.
Still better than driving my mother to her psychiatrist appointment...
SuziQ - Dec 10, 2012 12:02:00 pm PST #3821 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
sweet and salty trek mix
NOM!!!
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2012 12:03:59 pm PST #3822 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Kinda blue that I won't be participating in any of the secret Santa round robins this year, but the unexpected $4,000 Christmas gift to my mom has curtailed the scope of my other gift giving.
Ginger - Dec 10, 2012 12:09:30 pm PST #3823 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
One factor is that everyone gives sweets at Christmas, so things like pretzels and cheese crackers are appreciated.
I don't know if there's an answer to this, but I thought I'd throw this out to the hivemind. My mother has a CD/radio/cassette player, i.e. an ancient boombox, that she likes, but she wants a new one because the old one has tiny buttons and her sight is almost gone. As far as I can google, there isn't such a thing. Maybe there's a children's version that can work? It's all complicated by the fact that my mother and sister are Luddites.
Consuela - Dec 10, 2012 12:14:46 pm PST #3824 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Aww, my sister sent me flowers at work! Of course, the delivery guy couldn't get into the building, so I had to go down, and there's no card, but they're lovely. It's been a long time since I got flowers from anyone.
flea - Dec 10, 2012 12:19:49 pm PST #3825 of 30001
information libertarian
Ginger, the Amazon keyword combo you want is portable radio cassette cd. There's this, for example: [link]
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2012 12:25:20 pm PST #3826 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
One factor is that everyone gives sweets at Christmas, so things like pretzels and cheese crackers are appreciated
FTR, if you are considering surprise food to me, this does not apply. No need to be more savoury than bacon inside the chocolate. I can cover my savoury needs. Please supply chocolate.
My default lunch restaurant has shrunk the size of their side of garlic fries by at least half. So it is no longer able to pretend it's an entire lunch. I'm pretty sure the price was the same, though. Not happy that they've ruined Garlic Fries Monday.
I was looking for a BA to back me up this weekend when I'm at the wedding, and I was disallowed from asking the first one (he'll be in Vegas, but he said he was going to be online anyway), and the second one said he needed to be able to get in touch with me. I explained that was the problem--I couldn't predict my availability, otherwise I'd do it myself. Now he's assuring me he would have done it, but my manager says no. Yeah, she probably does, but I'm sure it was after he complained. She told me to find someone, and he was the only candidate (other than herself, which she has now volunteered). Which means that now I need to find a screenshot of what IE looks like when you click on a file that's a MIME type you don't have a handler for, because she's not tech savvy enough to tell success from failure on that front. Yay google?
I need to go pad my unhealthy lunch with something still unhealthy.
Sheryl - Dec 10, 2012 12:38:41 pm PST #3827 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Consuela! You also share this date with my DH.