Ooh, surprise package!
I almost bought a LOT of knitted stuff with my mental exchange rate off by a power of ten. Google really saved me. Still got some, because it's beautiful, but not the tons that I wanted.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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.
-t - Mar 24, 2015 6:12:45 am PDT #22896 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
flea - Mar 24, 2015 7:12:18 am PDT #22897 of 30000
information libertarian
Someone I know is currently in a room with Ta-Nehisi Coates! (Looks like a small conference room-style panel discussion about reparations.) Cool.
I also sort of just got offered another freelance Classics librarian job. I never in a million years would have assumed that there was freelance Classics Librarian work, but I guess there is!
-t - Mar 24, 2015 7:27:08 am PDT #22898 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wow, flea! To both those things.
Sigh. Looks like there is concious uncoupling happening in my family. Not all about me, of course, but I can't really call and be supportive right now and that's a bummer.
meara - Mar 24, 2015 7:40:39 am PDT #22899 of 30000
Cool, flea! Is it the sort of freelance job you can take, or one where you're like 'that would be cool if I didn't already HAVE a job"?
I...don't wanna work. (I just wanna bang on the drum all day?) I need to do a bunch of stuff today, and I have to leave the house around 1pm....and I just...can't motivate. I also need to do a bunch of laundry, so I have clean clothes to take with me on my trip tomorrow. But...
Jesse - Mar 24, 2015 7:55:15 am PDT #22900 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Very cool, flea!
meara, you remind me that I have got to do laundry tonight. I could muddle through a few more days, but I have a work thing all day Saturday and church on Sunday and etc etc.
That is a bummer, -t. Things will still be happening when you get home, though.
-t - Mar 24, 2015 8:11:02 am PDT #22901 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is true! And it's not like all-hands-on-deck-crisis.
Do stuff, meara! Or don't, I'm in no position to be motivating anyone.
Steph L. - Mar 24, 2015 8:14:53 am PDT #22902 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Is "freelance Classics librarian" secret code for "Watcher"?
PLEASE SAY YES.
meara - Mar 24, 2015 8:17:31 am PDT #22903 of 30000
Is "freelance Classics librarian" secret code for "Watcher"?
If not, it should be!!!!
I just spilled coffee all down my front. So yeah. Failing at today.
flea - Mar 24, 2015 8:44:04 am PDT #22904 of 30000
information libertarian
Ok, I just looked up our house in the City Directories, to see who lived in it before the family we bought it from. In 1918, and 1927-28, the A. B---- family lived in the house. According to the 1920 census, the family had 2 sons, Alfred and Philip. (By 1930 they'd moved to a house on a nearby street.) Here's the thing - we know a B--- family with roots in Cincinnati! We shared a nanny with them when we lived in NC. The dad's father is named Philip - wrong age to be the Philip who lived in our house, but if it's not the same family I'll eat my hat. I'm guessing those boys from 1920 are the grandfather and great-uncle of the Mr. B---- we know. Wild!
Ginger - Mar 24, 2015 8:48:04 am PDT #22905 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There's nothing quite like the feels engendered by turning on a computer and getting the boot screen.
I think it's new computer time. I'm trying to shop, but the combination of my notebook computer and my home wifi is verrry sloooow for some reason. It looks like I can get more computer for my money in a laptop, which seems wrong.