My packrat ways resulted in me saving a ton of boxes inside the big box a (long since discarded) office chair came in, which turned out to be very useful in blocking off the wall my cats tried to tunnel through. I really need to find time to go through a bunch of boxes of magazines that I haven't looked at in a decade, though. They represent at least a dozen square feet of floor space that could be open and showing exposed brick.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 01, 2015 6:20:34 pm PST #21013 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
billytea - Mar 01, 2015 6:30:37 pm PST #21014 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Dear Tim, you will appreciate the MATH of this. You only get to keep 3x the number of boxes of things you have sold on eBay in the last seven years. That is a super fair number and you have to recognize the validity of it.
For some reason, this reminds me of the TV ads I saw in Shanghai.
Lee - Mar 01, 2015 6:49:53 pm PST #21015 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Mine got smaller and my arch got higher. Explain that.
I have no idea why, but almost every single pair of shoes I had (or at least the ones I actually wore) were slightly too big after chemo.
still flat footed as can be though.
Amy - Mar 01, 2015 6:58:10 pm PST #21016 of 30000
Because books.
I have no idea why, but almost every single pair of shoes I had (or at least the ones I actually wore) were slightly too big after chemo.
That is weird!
Lee - Mar 01, 2015 7:00:00 pm PST #21017 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
It was, yes!
I need to download 5 or 6 books for vacation reading. Anyone have any recommendations?
Amy - Mar 01, 2015 7:31:56 pm PST #21018 of 30000
Because books.
Either of Gillian Flynn's earlier two books, Dark Places and Sharp Objects. I loved the last two Alice Hoffman novels I read, The Red Garden and The Story SIsters.
aurelia - Mar 01, 2015 7:33:10 pm PST #21019 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Shall I recommend a different one here than on FB? The Eyre Affair.
Consuela - Mar 01, 2015 7:33:33 pm PST #21020 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is a cute episodic novel heavily influenced by Firefly. Except with more aliens. And more sex. And alien sex. It wasn't the best thing since sliced bread, but it's a nice lightweight novel, and it's pretty cheap.
Sherwood Smith's Rondo Allegro is a fun drama/romance set during the Napoleonic wars in France, Spain and England. There is a marriage of convenience, and lots of opera, and battles at sea, and evil in-laws, and so forth. I really enjoyed it.
The Martian by Andy Weir is basically Apollo 13 set now, on Mars: an American astronaut gets stranded on Mars and has to figure out how to survive while folks on Earth slowly realize he's not dead. It's hella fun, although a bit heavy on the science.
Lee - Mar 01, 2015 7:35:25 pm PST #21021 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
All of those sound great!
I think alien sex may be the winner though
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 01, 2015 7:37:14 pm PST #21022 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
I'm currently reading London Under by Peter Ackroyd and it's a pretty interesting read so far. [link]