Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


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 - Jan 11, 2014 5:46:04 pm PST #16964 of 30000

then called me to tell me he'd buried the bag in the bushes out front. Which we don't actually have. After scouring the neighbors bushes for a while (in freezing rain) I finally found it in a big plant on the porch.

Um, that is so many kinds of wrong. And then I get to abandoned tuna and I can't get over that, freezing temps or no.


-t - Jan 11, 2014 5:51:35 pm PST #16965 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Wow, brenda, that is an incredible misadventure. Impressive!


Jesse - Jan 11, 2014 6:06:15 pm PST #16966 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

"Buried the bag in the bushes out front" may be the craziest thing I've ever heard. Related to food delivery, at least.

Basically giving the snaking one more go before I surrender to committing to a new line+cleanout+ TEAR UP MY NEW FRONT YARD (I think that bothers me more than even the $$$$. Goddamn, I will have to dig up all those plants, get the guy to rebuilt the wall, uhhg.)

Ugh, that all sounds terrible.


sarameg - Jan 11, 2014 6:09:07 pm PST #16967 of 30000

Really, it is a day or so of work for the plumbing, probably a day for the yard guys....and a few hours for me digging and replanting. Really, not bad. Not like some. BUT I DON'T WANT TO.


-t - Jan 11, 2014 6:10:43 pm PST #16968 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

No, of course you don't, but once it's done it's done, right?


sarameg - Jan 11, 2014 6:17:02 pm PST #16969 of 30000

Yup. But first, need to get over hating the phone and calling for bids/videoscoping to see if truly necessary.

What I really want to know is who is cutting metal a block or so over at past 11 at night the past couple nights? Sounds serious.


aurelia - Jan 11, 2014 6:46:03 pm PST #16970 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Brenda, your delivery guy never made it past the first word of the slogan.


brenda m - Jan 11, 2014 6:57:24 pm PST #16971 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

Ayup. It occurred to me that "for stoners, by stoners" might also be apt.


sarameg - Jan 12, 2014 5:26:21 am PST #16972 of 30000

Managed more than 5 hours of consecutive sleep (you'd think this wouldn't be a thing for someone who loves sleep and hates waking as much as me, but it's been rare for the past month or so) and even the cats cooperated.

Now to finish the coffee and think about cleaning this first floor. As long as Pumpkin doesn't sabotage me....


-t - Jan 12, 2014 5:32:30 am PST #16973 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I managed to make a cup of coffee with no mishaps this morning, hooray! Now to get in as much To Do List clearing (which includes buying more coffee because that was the last of it, would have been trouble if it had gone wrong) as I can around watching the Niners.