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'Trash'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


sarameg - Dec 19, 2013 3:56:48 pm PST #15037 of 30000

Tarp AND bucket, save receipts, call back HOA, read riot act, make sure they have keys, move or cover any and everything in the room affected. Proceed with flight. Do you have someone you can trust to come over and check on things?

So today, I got to work a little after 7, with plans to take a long lunch to do some shopping the neighborhood over. Did that happen? No. Was I at work until freaking FIVE, which is way past when I normally am? YES.

I have been telling my coworkers for YEARS that starting/getting into the thick of big projects between TG and NYrs is futile and frustrating. Save that time period for all the little independent one-offs because you are never going to be able to get together all the people necessary, folks are trying to bring ongoing stuff to a good stopping point before they leave, no one able is to just drop everything to deal. Do the ever listen? NO. Swear to god, I get into mgmt, this will be my rule. Save December for cleanup and sorting things out in prep for post NYrs projects. Jesus.


Ginger - Dec 19, 2013 4:09:38 pm PST #15038 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

That's a pretty significant leak. What's the weather prediction?


Jesse - Dec 19, 2013 4:24:35 pm PST #15039 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

If the HOA or whoever can get into your place, I would just protect all my stuff and get on the flight. Riot act as needed.


Burrell - Dec 19, 2013 4:29:59 pm PST #15040 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh le n, what a pain. I hope it gets fixed quick so you don't have to stress about the flight.

These Los Angeles winters are just too much for me, that's why we're going to Florida in a week.

ND made me laugh.

I thought Brian Boitano wasn't "officially" out so much as he never was closeted. Which is how I feel about a lot of famous people, like Jodie Foster. I thought she had been out since college.


brenda m - Dec 19, 2013 5:15:39 pm PST #15041 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Yeah, I think it must not have been official, because I had the same reaction as bon when they said there were two out gay people in the delegation, and also Brian Boitano.


le nubian - Dec 19, 2013 5:18:23 pm PST #15042 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Thank you for sympathies and suggestions all! I bought the "Dexter special" at Lowe's:

2 tarps, duct tape, towels, a bucket, gloves and bricks. I put down the new towels and have laid out the tarps to tape them together.

That's a pretty significant leak. What's the weather prediction?

Rain tonight, then sunny for the next 7 days or so.

The drip has slowed for now, but I am not sure what it will do when the rain start again (at least a drizzle is expected).


Sue - Dec 19, 2013 5:23:01 pm PST #15043 of 30000
hip deep in pie

Tonight I found part of a mouse in my hallway. Head, shoulders and one leg, for the curious. I have no idea where the rest is. Ugh.


Kat - Dec 19, 2013 5:27:09 pm PST #15044 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Sue, Thank you kitties?


Sue - Dec 19, 2013 5:31:05 pm PST #15045 of 30000
hip deep in pie

At least they're catching them, I guess. They've gotten lots of praise. Well Clio has, because I'm pretty sure she's the hunter. But she still won't give up the location of the rest of the mouse.

And, I've checked my bed already.


Steph L. - Dec 19, 2013 5:31:55 pm PST #15046 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Tonight I found part of a mouse in my hallway.

A few years ago, we were participating in our neighborhood's program to give people light bulbs for their porch lights, with the idea that houses with porch lights on after dark are less likely to be burglarized (though I don't know if that's true, and that's not my point anyway).

We found on the steps of one house -- just a mouse head. It was like a tiny Godfather tableau for, say, a dollhouse.