...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Tom Scola - Aug 21, 2013 3:07:12 pm PDT #3238 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

616 Ant-man, or skeevy Mark Millar Ultimate Ant-man?


Sophia Brooks - Aug 21, 2013 3:09:20 pm PDT #3239 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

>(And it's downstairs, just for your mental map of my life...)

I did need that! In my city, doubles are usually houses where the downstairs unit is the main family, and upstairs is the in-law/grandparent/child apartment.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 21, 2013 3:10:06 pm PDT #3240 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

We got one! t /Annie Potts in Ghostbusters


Jesse - Aug 21, 2013 3:10:16 pm PDT #3241 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, even this guy on Big Brother knows it's "another THINK coming."


Jesse - Aug 21, 2013 3:10:42 pm PDT #3242 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In my city, doubles are usually houses where the downstairs unit is the main family, and upstairs is the in-law/grandparent/child apartment.

These are two identical apartments, up and down.


JZ - Aug 21, 2013 3:36:46 pm PDT #3243 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.

We got one!

Impressive. Pretty, principled, fine actor, and an accomplished writer to boot. Nicely done, your team!


Jesse - Aug 21, 2013 3:40:00 pm PDT #3244 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

HA, Matt!


Kat - Aug 21, 2013 3:50:40 pm PDT #3245 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I also remember Dana's Cheesecake Factory trauma, and as a child (and still sometimes) loved cream soda best for a special treat.

Cream soda is the bomb.

I am still waffling on another thing vs. another think. Which means that I clearly don't have an opinion and should be convinced.


sarameg - Aug 21, 2013 4:29:29 pm PDT #3246 of 30000

When I get back, I can ask my neighbor what her parents did. I know they were in a facility where her mom was on a secure floor (she had early onset alz, and was pretty much out of it by the end, but at the beginning, she just needed caretakers, not medical intervention,) and her dad had more of a senior apts thing. (Her dad actually does need assistance, did as soon as her mom couldn't handle the household, but more of the can't-cook, confounded by a washer, etc. He needs housekeeping staff and errand runners.) But that was down in VA.

Definitely exercise the hell out of your support groups for programs available thru state and local stuff. We've got a lot down here, but I suspect a lot is assets based.

Did a quick vacuum and load of laundry. Fed SN kitties. I need to go over in the morning, but they are springing her in the morning. She sounds a lot better, so that's good.

Oof, so much to do tomorrow.


Jesse - Aug 21, 2013 4:40:05 pm PDT #3247 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My mother also went to a nursing home this morning, and said it was wicked nice, and my father would be in the "active" area, so it's a possibility, although it sounded like the staff person didn't think he needed to be there. The nursing home is way more expensive, but would be covered by Medicaid once they spent their money down, so they could do it. I assume he would qualify.