I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

Cheese Man ,'Chosen'


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.


Steph L. - Apr 21, 2015 8:24:13 am PDT #24924 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

There is weird synchronicity going on at my house: the same landlady owns the houses on either side of us, and she happens to have vacancies to rent in both houses, so today she has her contractors working on things that needed to be shored up (front steps, etc), on BOTH houses. So the contractors on one side have the radio on, and the contractors on the other side have the radio on a DIFFERENT channel.

I am slowly losing my mind hearing 2 different broadcasts.


Theodosia - Apr 21, 2015 8:58:30 am PDT #24925 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I don't suppose you could print things out, go to a nicer quiet coffee/tea/library place and mark things up for a while?

I walked over to the library to see if anyone had turned up for algebra tutoring, and fell into a nonfiction book about Mark Twain's travels. And I didn't drive, even a little.


-t - Apr 21, 2015 9:05:58 am PDT #24926 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

THat sounds nice, Theo.

I kinda like when that happens, Tep, although I am also pretty good at tuning out external stimuli.


Jesse - Apr 21, 2015 9:14:39 am PDT #24927 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am slowly losing my mind hearing 2 different broadcasts.

Oh yeah -- that makes me lose my mind quickly.


shrift - Apr 21, 2015 9:23:04 am PDT #24928 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I've downgraded myself from a towering fury to a sullen cranky pants. It's the kind of day where you're a butterfingers and get paper cuts and have a very tall man squash you on the bus, and things generally don't go your way.

The data wipe on my old XP machine finished around 4:30am, so I wrestled that heavy beast into my purple suitcase and brought it into work for recycling. Man, why is getting rid of things so arduous?

But now that I've got almost all of my old electronics out of the apartment, the next thing I need to do is get rid of the books I don't want.


aurelia - Apr 21, 2015 9:25:25 am PDT #24929 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I kind of love the Google home page today

The underwater street view is hilarious.


Steph L. - Apr 21, 2015 9:44:56 am PDT #24930 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I am slowly losing my mind hearing 2 different broadcasts.

Oh yeah -- that makes me lose my mind quickly.

The contractor at the house to the north has started using a circular saw, so now I just have a radio to the south and bzzzzz bzzzzzz bzzzzzz from the north. Also the sound of our dryer from the basement. It's all blurring together now.


Burrell - Apr 21, 2015 9:56:20 am PDT #24931 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ugh Steph, I hope you get the chance to run away soon.


shrift - Apr 21, 2015 10:08:38 am PDT #24932 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

That sounds like aural torture, Steph.

Can you write off noise-canceling headphones as a business expense?


flea - Apr 21, 2015 10:09:42 am PDT #24933 of 30000
information libertarian

We've reached that point post-moving where everything is still kind of chaotic, there's a truly staggering amount of work to do, and we're exhausted just thinking about it. I took today off because Casper is home sick with a spring cold and I am mostly just wandering around the house and sighing.

In, I guess, good news, we're paying off our car May 1? So we can divert that money into house fixing funds.