I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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.


§ ita § - Oct 03, 2013 5:30:59 am PDT #7695 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Good thing you have the "kill you with my pinkie gene."

I have the gene that wants to read everything this woman has posted to see if she calls white women girls too, but...I thought she didn't like me before. Now I know we're nemeses. But yesterday was a day in which I got called a YouTube troll, so...I am clearly a vicious venomous person who is cruel to use question marks against innocent people.


Jesse - Oct 03, 2013 5:31:26 am PDT #7696 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

90 minutes for extra big or pain in the ass airports (O'Hare, LaGuardia

But if you're flying the US Air Shuttle out of LGA, you only need a half hour! Because they have their own security line. (Which you can also use for other US Air flights if you remember to go down that end of the terminal.) Two flights an hour = no lines.

So, flight at 9:15 means get to terminal at 8:00, means get to long-term parking at 7:30, means leave the house ideally by 6:30 but probably safe if we leave by 6:45. Sound okay?

That seems like plenty.


Jesse - Oct 03, 2013 5:32:34 am PDT #7697 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh yeah, checking bags is a whole other factor! But leaving your house at 6:45 still seems fine to me. (I've been pulled out of a long security line because of my departure time as well, but I guess you can't count on that.)


§ ita § - Oct 03, 2013 5:34:18 am PDT #7698 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't believe I let the provocateuse domain registration run down to the last month! IDIOT. I am under-utilising it, but I do know that would disappear faster than velvetedge (WHICH ISN'T EVEN BEING USED) and even though it's a pittance, it's a profit pittance. So--re-upped for five years, and entered into my task manager which will one way or another not be around in five years.


Steph L. - Oct 03, 2013 6:16:00 am PDT #7699 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I'm going to kill this washer repair guy. Guy #1 came out Saturday, didn't know how to do the repair, even though he's allegedly trained by Samsung to do it. But I appreciate that he didn't try to do something he didn't know how to do, because it could have fucked up the washer more.

They send out Manager today, and he looks at everything -- the washer is still taken apart, from when Guy #1 was here and took it apart. Manager says, "I don't know if I can put this back together, because I didn't see how it came apart." Which is fair, but, really? YOU'RE A REPAIR GUY. THINGS COME APART.

I offer to pull up the schematics online for him, and he says "No, if I can't do it, Guy #1 will come out Saturday and do it."

I say "We're going to be out of town then."

Manager says, "Well, he'll do it SOMETIME."

You know what? That is BULLSHIT. Guy #1 can't fix it, Manager can't put it back together, Manager doesn't want to look at the actual schematics THAT I CAN SHOW HIM, Manager doesn't give a crap about servicing this in a timely manner.

BULLSHIT. I can't even deal with this.


tommyrot - Oct 03, 2013 6:34:37 am PDT #7700 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.

Can you talk to his manager? Damn, that would really piss me off too.


Steph L. - Oct 03, 2013 6:44:20 am PDT #7701 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I think he is THE manager. It's a small shop.

I hear a power tool downstairs, so I'm hoping he can do his fucking job and put the washer back together. I'm resisting the urge to tell him this is a learning experience.


Hil R. - Oct 03, 2013 6:46:35 am PDT #7702 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My mom just told me that she found a bunch of savings bonds that people gave me for my bat mitzvah that she had forgotten about. So I'm now $1400 richer, and also wondering what else is just sitting around somewhere.


Tom Scola - Oct 03, 2013 6:47:49 am PDT #7703 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

also wondering what else is just sitting around somewhere.

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juliana - Oct 03, 2013 6:51:42 am PDT #7704 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I like lamb, though I tend to have it in forms that are mixed with something else. Never had goat. Have had a few buffalo burgers.

Love lamb, love buffalo, love moose. Cannot eat goat, but will happily nom on all forms of goat dairy - goat milk, yoghurt, cheese, butter - all good. (Which is good, because cow milk and I do not get along any more.) The goat milk from TJ's is very good, very mild. Much tastier than almond milk.

Seriously love lamb, though. M and I cook it more often than we cook beef.