I guess I'm packed again. Ugh! I'm already tired of traveling, and I haven't even started yet!
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
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.
Jesse - Apr 20, 2014 3:28:38 pm PDT #25757 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2014 4:11:20 pm PDT #25758 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mmm. The chili recipe wasn't bad. But I overspiced it.
I don't think I've ever followed the same recipe twice. I like it well enough, I lose it, I fake it when I make it on my own.
But I don't love it. I am still looking for that recipe.
I wonder what happens to the Game of Thrones wardrobe. I've seen that re-use tumblr. There can't be much not original among the leads. And it's all not standard enough for standard recycling.
lisah - Apr 20, 2014 4:20:14 pm PDT #25759 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Buying a car without driving it first seems like a really bad idea to me. Even if you know nothing about how cars work, you'll know if you feel comfortable in the car, if it has good visibility, and things like that.
beth b - Apr 20, 2014 4:53:14 pm PDT #25760 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Look for a car ...guy . we have a guy in our area - that will charge you 500 for a used car and the dealr pays if it is new. So you have to know what you want - but he can help you narrow thing s down.
I just wish I knew what to call him ...auto broker maybe?
JZ - Apr 20, 2014 6:09:58 pm PDT #25761 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I am so sorry, Sheryl and ita. And lots of migraine-go-away~ma to Suzi (there is always some going to ita, but apparently it's not very effective, for which I'm also so sorry).
Matilda Easter update: My dad took us to his golf club, which was having an Easter event for all the members' families. We got there just as the egg hunt was beginning, and oh was she jazzed about getting to do a second egg hunt in a single Easter. Jazzed, that is, until she saw the actual egg hunt, which was really an egg free-for-all, with eggs scattered all over the green in plain sight, with one roped-off section for toddlers and another for 6 and overs.
Matilda was having exactly none of it. She scoped it all out, turned her back, and said disdainfully, "How is that a hunt? The eggs are all just lying around where anyone can see them. THIS IS NOT A FUN EGG HUNT." Fortunately, there was also a petting zoo (baby goats!) and a pair of rescue ponies happily lippity-lopping around the little stand of trees where the deer come to graze at sunset, so she didn't have time to get seriously bent out of shape or weepy about it. But oh, her scorn was magnificent.
Connie Neil - Apr 20, 2014 6:22:12 pm PDT #25762 of 30000
brillig
Her scorn was well-deserved.
sumi - Apr 21, 2014 4:35:40 am PDT #25763 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Indeed it was.
Also: ita - I believe that all fruit is better w/o refrigeration.
Theodosia - Apr 21, 2014 4:37:07 am PDT #25764 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"
FWIW, years ago I DID buy a car without driving it (I rode in it while a trustworthy friend who knew stick drove). Yes, I bought a car and THEN learned how to drive stick shift. IIRC I had $3000 to spend so I had to figure out how to get the most bang for my buck, so a 1978 Honda Accord (when they were teeny compacts) was it.
It worked out fine, and I had the car for 8 years until it died of body rust.
brenda m - Apr 21, 2014 5:09:07 am PDT #25765 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've done it too and it worked out okay. But it is a gamble.
Fred Pete - Apr 21, 2014 5:09:14 am PDT #25766 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
I once taught someone to drive stick after he bought a stick shift car. I remember he killed the engine at stop lights regularly, and then yelled at the drivers getting impatient behind him.
When it came time to teach Tony, I took him to an empty parking lot late at night. So nobody cared when he killed the engine.