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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.


SuziQ - Feb 09, 2014 10:26:23 am PST #19623 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Are you doing anything, or postponing celebration til you are more mobile?

I'm mobile in small doses. Had a great bunch with a couple of great gals. I had a Parisian Benedict - basically a croissant, shaved ham, swiss, egg, hollidaise aka NOM.

Now I'm chilling and resting my foot before I go out for dinner with CJ, B, and KCD. Not sure where we are going, they just told me to be ready at 6pm.

Sadly, I think I'm going to do some work this afternoon to try to get caught up on being out last week.


-t - Feb 09, 2014 10:30:36 am PST #19624 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, wow. I might have been better off not knowing that Parisian Benedict is a thing, since I cannot have one right now. That sounds incredible. Have a lovely dinner, and I hope work is not too onerous.


flea - Feb 09, 2014 10:38:59 am PST #19625 of 30000
information libertarian

Boy, a lot of people buying computers at Best Buy do not know much about computers. A woman was buying a wireless printer, and she was like, "So, can we get cables for it?" and the salesperson was like, "Um, it is *wireless*, but if you want cables I am sure we can find some...".

The thing Dillo wanted most in Best Buy was a $400 fan. This amuses me.


Liese S. - Feb 09, 2014 10:46:49 am PST #19626 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Those fans are pretty nifty, I must say.

Halfway through the laundry pile! But yes, lunch, I should lunch. Seeing as it is nearly two. Teppy's coconut oil oatmeal apparently really did keep me fuller longer.


Kat - Feb 09, 2014 10:47:28 am PST #19627 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Partly because then I'd have to buy all new cords with the stupid new charger thing.

That is such a good point. Hmmm.... I'm way past renewing my contract at AT&T. And I'm driving cross country this summer (which means hesitant to switch to, oh, say, t-mobile for coverage issues). I'm also grandfathered into unlimited data...but...I'm tired of paying $89 a month. I need someone who has more brain space for this than I do to figure this shit out.


Kat - Feb 09, 2014 10:55:56 am PST #19628 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

meara, my issue with Armstrong's statement is that AOL didn't pay for her care. The insurance plan did. And while it may have raised the premiums for AOL, so did the guy with cancer, the woman with hypertension and the person with clinical depression that also worked at AOL.

Noah and Grace CERTAINLY drove up premiums for my district, but so did all of the other people who suffered a catastrophic illness. Our district has approximately 80,000 employees so our risk pool is much deeper, but to single out one group that AOL is supporting at great expense? I call bullshit.


Connie Neil - Feb 09, 2014 10:59:20 am PST #19629 of 30000
brillig

The Goddess does love me. The update that's already been pushed back for our program and was due on Thursday night, and which was expected to cause the usual nightmare of support, has been pushed back again, to this coming Thursday night, AKA, The Night My Week-Long Vacation Begins. And if they say "We need you to come in," I say "My husband is having chemotherapy, I'm only coming in if our program starts trying to take over the world and is doing it badly."


le nubian - Feb 09, 2014 11:09:10 am PST #19630 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Any one of us could have something catastrophic happen. I was reading about a bad accident where a DUI killed 6 people in Los Angeles. The two who survived are in ICU? You think their bills will be $100 when they get out? The AOL CEO is a dickhead.


le nubian - Feb 09, 2014 11:09:35 am PST #19631 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

congrats to MM on the publication. That rocks.


-t - Feb 09, 2014 11:27:35 am PST #19632 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The AOL CEO is a dickhead.

Yeah, that's as far as my thoughts on the issue go. I think it's far enough.

3 loads of laundry not only clean but folded and put away! Huzzah! Last load for the day is on deck to go in the washer, so the end is in sight. Still distant, but in sight.

Pulled the trigger on the new phone, I hope I can manage to do the switching phone dance competently. I think, since it's iPhone to iPhone, I can do it all with iTunes, just backup the old phone and restore to the new?

Now to figure out what kind of internet connection I want.