Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.

Spike ,'Potential'


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.


meara - Jun 15, 2015 4:13:52 pm PDT #28779 of 30000

Enjoy, shrift!

I am stuck in the salt lake airport for another hour. So annoyed. But otoh it forced me to do some more work than I might've otherwise? Maybe? I was supposed to get in at 4pm and had planned to do work after working out and dinner. Instead dinner was yogurt and overpriced broccoli slaw from a random airport place, and workout will hopefully happen in the morning (...someone remind me I really need to do that). Ugh. Two travel dramas in two trips. I'm not feeling this job.


Kat - Jun 15, 2015 4:15:45 pm PDT #28780 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

meara, it sounds like you should have a glass of wine with your slaw.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 15, 2015 4:33:58 pm PDT #28781 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

Things I learned today that I was previously unaware of: there is in fact a Castle Frankenstein in Germany which predates the Mary Shelley novel by centuries and once had a creepy alchemist/possible grave robber in residence. And it has a restaurant for tourists.


Ginger - Jun 15, 2015 4:41:08 pm PDT #28782 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I spent three hours on the telephone today trying to find out why I got a bill saying my monthly health insurance premium was $1,600. I was unable to live blog this experience, because I started the day be spilling coffee on my keyboard, and I was waiting for it to dry.

The answer is too complicated to bear, but includes having the Health Care Exchange cancel my tax credit because "other sources" indicated my income doesn't qualify and Kaiser having an unrelated system bug that doubled premium amounts. After having the entire Affordable Care Act read to me, I theoretically have a tax credit again, but have to pay the two months.

No one, however, told me his life story or discussed his sweating, so I'm ahead of Zenkitty.

Ah, Father's Day. I'm glad I no longer have to spend 30 minutes looking at cards trying to find one that did not imply my father was even adequate.


Burrell - Jun 15, 2015 4:45:38 pm PDT #28783 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

That is full on bullshit, Ginger. Ugh!

Things I learned today that I was previously unaware of: there is in fact a Castle Frankenstein in Germany which predates the Mary Shelley novel by centuries and once had a creepy alchemist/possible grave robber in residence. And it has a restaurant for tourists.

OMG must go there!


WindSparrow - Jun 15, 2015 4:47:09 pm PDT #28784 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Yeah, I don't miss having to deal with Father's Day. It's a bit like Mother's Day - card for Daniel's mom = cute, sweet, and funny; card for my mom = "Happy Mother's Day" thus far and no further.


Ginger - Jun 15, 2015 4:59:27 pm PDT #28785 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Also, I took my poor scratching dog to the vet, but his antibiotics are going to have to wait until tomorrow. I have negative spoons.


sarameg - Jun 15, 2015 5:28:14 pm PDT #28786 of 30000

Please call your congresscrappers, Ginger. I know it's one more thing but when you find the bonus spork...


sarameg - Jun 15, 2015 5:29:04 pm PDT #28787 of 30000

Not fixing that autocorrect. I've never used that phraseology, but I'll take it.


-t - Jun 15, 2015 6:01:38 pm PDT #28788 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

WTF Ginger! Argh.