They haven't been activated. Swift water rescue is a specific set of skills and there are other teams that specialize in that. It was a very quiet search and rescue summer. I think they only had one mountain search and a couple of in town searches.
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
SuziQ - Sep 14, 2013 5:02:19 pm PDT #4733 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Cass - Sep 14, 2013 5:03:52 pm PDT #4734 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Go and see the kids, sj. Whatever else happened, I've rarely regretted making that call.
Congrats, Suzi!
Okay, let's talk wedding makeup. Best cry-proof mascara recommendations were Blinc and Diorshow, right?
I do Blinc on my lower lashes and DiorShow Waterproof on the top because even waterproof will eventually smudge on my skin. I ooze makeup remover or something. But the Blinc only comes off with warm water and light pressure, so on the lowers it both doesn't smudge and provides somewhat of a barrier for my upper lashes smudging under my eyes.
I only like the DiorShow and DiorShow Waterproof. The DiorShow Iconic has a different brush and I loathed it. The formula was pretty good but I was never happy because it was the wrong, wrong, wrong brush for me.
WindSparrow - Sep 14, 2013 5:21:27 pm PDT #4735 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Woo! And might I add, Hoo! Suzi, congrats!
sj - Sep 14, 2013 5:21:32 pm PDT #4736 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yes, that is my thinking, Cass. Unless I wake up too anxious or in too much pain to drive, I'm going.
Zenkitty - Sep 14, 2013 6:11:45 pm PDT #4737 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Congratulations, Suzi!
Pix - Sep 14, 2013 6:25:54 pm PDT #4738 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
What an achievement, Suzi! Congrats!
SuziQ - Sep 14, 2013 6:52:08 pm PDT #4739 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I just realized I didn't schedule my massage for tomorrow. It is a week from tomorrow. Blast. Instead I have a meeting from 9 - 12 and then out for birthday dinner for KCD.
Oh, and my dad is staying here tonight also, I thought he was just staying last night. Not that it is a problem, but it is the second morning in a row that I'll be out the door early.
Trudy Booth - Sep 14, 2013 6:53:17 pm PDT #4740 of 30002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Thank you for all the birthday happies, guys. They really mean a lot :)
Y'all have helped me so much through the years. I'm hoping to lean on you again as I play "Ginger beats the odds."
Ginger, you'll go all Klingon on those odds. They don't stand a chance.
Burrell - Sep 14, 2013 8:03:07 pm PDT #4741 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Congratulations, Suzi!
Also Making Light explains the creation of the Christian gospels by analogy to fandom, blogging, fan conventions.
Fascinating. I'm too tired to read it all tonight, but it's very interesting.
Typo Boy - Sep 14, 2013 10:14:01 pm PDT #4742 of 30002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
BTW, in case anyone is worried the Making Light piece is definitely not anti-Christian. Just using an funny analogy to explain a fascinating and underdiscussed bit of history. One side note: this piece reveals that the actual Saint Nicholas is MUCH more interesting than Santa Claus/Father Christmas. (Of course a lot of the stuff from his lifetime may be no truer - but still, even if just as false a much more interesting tale.) A Bishop who patrolled the docks with the time's equivalent of brass knuckles to take down thieves, who carried gold with him to redeem women from debt, and whose powers of deduction were so great that people came to him to find solutions to crimes nobody else could solve. St Nicholas was not Santa Claus - he was freaking Batman!