She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.

Willow ,'Help'


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.


tommyrot - Feb 12, 2014 7:30:44 am PST #19959 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

WTF Google Maps!?

It completely stopped working for me over the weekend. I think it works now.


Jessica - Feb 12, 2014 7:51:25 am PST #19960 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Oh, I clicked a thing a while back that said "Do not ever upgrade me to the new version of Maps" because the preview I tried out was so awful.


Kat - Feb 12, 2014 7:55:17 am PST #19961 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

WTF Google Maps!?

Agreed x10.

I hate change. Or at least that kind of change.

So I got up to go swim. I elected not to swim and instead ran errands that needed doing (including grocery store and drug store). Unsurprisingly 5:30 AM is a great time to pick up prescriptions and buy milk. I am depressed that my schedule is such that it's the only time I have to do that stuff.


Ginger - Feb 12, 2014 7:59:17 am PST #19962 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Right now, Snowpocalypse II is more annoyance than catastrophe, at least in metro Atlanta. It’s a few degrees colder than they originally predicted, so we have a fairly thin glaze of ice with snow on top, and the new precipitation seems to mostly be sleet. It’s nothing you’d want to drive on, but not something that brings down power lines.


flea - Feb 12, 2014 8:13:23 am PST #19963 of 30000
information libertarian

Overheard at work: "I've worked here for more than 25 years and we've never had a problem with defecation and urination like this." Yes, apparently we have a serial pee-er.

Athens GA reports a tree down at our former house (not my problem! Also very neatly fell into the road and even missed the power lines) and our former neighbors sledding down the street. (I miss Athens.)


Burrell - Feb 12, 2014 8:34:02 am PST #19964 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Gross, flea, what a bummer to have to deal with that.


flea - Feb 12, 2014 8:46:53 am PST #19965 of 30000
information libertarian

I emailed the same thing to mr. flea and he replied that Casper once peed on the floor in the public library in Durham. Given that we moved away from there when she was 4, I think that can be excused.

(While I am not super-happy about adult bodily excretions at work, they are pretty much not my problem, unlike the super-demanding but apparently sane patrons, or the obviously having a psychotic episode and also drunk woman - a regular whom I like - I spent most of an hour with last week. That sort of stuff is exhausting, and sometimes heartbreaking.)


meara - Feb 12, 2014 8:59:07 am PST #19966 of 30000

While I am not super-happy about adult bodily excretions at work, they are pretty much not my problem,

Well, that's good at least!!


Consuela - Feb 12, 2014 9:06:05 am PST #19967 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Yikes, flea. I may have lots of complaints of where I have been working (and may yet again, FSM willing and the creek don't rise), but at least I don't have to worry about poop.

Anyway, the contract firm changed their mind, they're willing to go for a regular W-2 employee, and assuming they sign the contract, I'd be making only a little less than I was when I was at Previous Employer with Previous Contracting Firm.

I'm going to make up the difference by not wearing nice clothes, though. Jeans, knit shirts, and cardigans. No dry-cleaning bills!


Theodosia - Feb 12, 2014 9:43:37 am PST #19968 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Hurrah!!!