Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed.

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


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.


shrift - Apr 12, 2015 7:25:57 am PDT #24300 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I coffeed myself several times and ate some yogurt before showering. Now I'm on my way downtown for brunch and Furious 7. After that, who knows?


Hil R. - Apr 12, 2015 7:28:35 am PDT #24301 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I am confused by people today. Someone in a vegan food group posted a photo of some vegan "ribs" she made. Pretty much just a block of seitan with seasonings, grilled. It looked pretty good. Anyway, someone commented that she didn't like foods that are made to look like meat. Which, OK, whatever. But then her examples of foods that she'd prefer: veggie burgers and veggie sausage. Which she is now insisting have nothing at all to do with meat, while veggie ribs are clearly gross because they look like meat.


-t - Apr 12, 2015 7:34:30 am PDT #24302 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

People are certainly peculiar.

You'll be looking at the faucet a long time, brenda, get the one you love! Disclaimer: my kitchen faucet is the cheap-ass one that came with the utility sink in the garage (there's a faucet set into the wall out there so that sink didn't need a faucet) BUT I love it and it makes me happy to use it.


meara - Apr 12, 2015 7:37:35 am PDT #24303 of 30000

That is weird, Hil.

Get what you love, Brenda! It will make you happy when you use it. (Though this is part of my issue with the Marie Kondo school--the clothing pieces that bring me "joy" are really not necessarily the ones I actually need or tend to wear. I mean, sure, the goldfish-patterned knee socks are great, but sometimes a girl just needs boring black socks that don't inspire joy but do go well with the shoes and outfit?)

I have eaten breakfast and coffeed, and am now needing to get my ass in gear and pack (and hopefully run a work report thing that wasn't functioning on Friday afternoon). Don't wanna, though. But I have to leave in an hour to make my flight.


brenda m - Apr 12, 2015 7:46:06 am PDT #24304 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

You've convinced me. I will do at least an hour of work and then go reward myself.


flea - Apr 12, 2015 7:51:21 am PDT #24305 of 30000
information libertarian

Plan for today: do all the things. (So far, bring a carload of stuff to new house, scrub walls of half the living room, grocery shop, mourn lack of including lunch in the grocery shopping.)

The kids have been pounced on by 2 10 year old girls on the block, and they're having a bake sale (involving fudge, which isn't baked, but whatevs.) So far I know of 5 10 year olds on the block: Julia, Lily, Ava, Olivia, and John (the last 2 are twins.)


Ginger - Apr 12, 2015 8:01:58 am PDT #24306 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

B5 fans: Check out Paul Krugman's blog [link] (I suspect this was a suggestion by Krugman, who studied economics because it was the closest he could get to Asimov's psychohistory.)


beth b - Apr 12, 2015 8:34:37 am PDT #24307 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

So far. I just woke up


Beverly - Apr 12, 2015 8:37:57 am PDT #24308 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

It's a small thing to miss, but in the old house we had finally found kitchen and bath faucets we liked that really worked, and I loved them. We replaced the kitchen one here when we moved in, but the holes don't line up right to install the ones I really loved. Kitchen faucet, it's a must to have one high enough to fill tall pots, and we did get one, but it doesn't have the elegant curve of the one we had before. And the bath one is just standard faceted plastic "crystal" hot and cold knobs and a slanted faucet, rather than the retro white china cross knobs and swoopy faucet. At some point we'd like to replace the sinks, and we can make sure the holes are right for the good faucets when we do.


Tom Scola - Apr 12, 2015 8:41:05 am PDT #24309 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

So that’s two rolls of film that I spoiled. Now sitting at home sulking, and watching the Mets.