Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.

Xander ,'First Date'


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.


sarameg - Aug 17, 2014 3:31:43 pm PDT #4367 of 30000

Target. Though the prices have been bouncing all over. My earlier $1 ones are now back to $2 at this store.

A lot of them are going in modified mason jar lids, to be given as gifts.* Once I find the right sized hole cutter.

* and probably all over my deck.


Theodosia - Aug 17, 2014 3:32:33 pm PDT #4368 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"

One of the smartest moves I made when I got into this "new" house (coming up on 15 years!) was getting all the locks redone... and making all the locks deadbolts that require you to use a key to LOCK from the outside. At least that way the door won't latch when you go outside to retrieve a newspaper or whatever.


§ ita § - Aug 17, 2014 3:46:52 pm PDT #4369 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My apartment is set up like that which means I lost my keys, and I have no idea where. After I finish some fandom stuff tomorrow, I'll have to go looking. I fear it's a lost cause.


Calli - Aug 17, 2014 3:47:10 pm PDT #4370 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I could set my door to automatically lock behind me, but I know that would lead to trouble.

I had an unexpected vegetable in my CSA called a water gourd. It worked out really well in a standard zucchini bread recipe. And now my apartment smells like baking, which is lovely.


sarameg - Aug 17, 2014 3:49:39 pm PDT #4371 of 30000

With the exception of when the cats threw the security bolt on the front (since disabled) all my lockouts have been due to the basement doorknob lock. It's got a deadbolt and locking doorknob.Had I thought it through, I'd've had the knob be keyed on the inside or require unlocking from the inside to turn.

Front door requires keys to lock, deck door, I assiduously only use the deadbolt ( key inside and out) and kitchen roof balcony, deadbolt + knob won't turn unless it is unlocked.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 17, 2014 3:57:16 pm PDT #4372 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 got home from dinner to discover that my cats had knocked the paper towel rolls off the kitchen island (where they know they're not supposed to climb) and shredded them all over the floor. Guilt at not having any entree leftovers for them: vanished.


sarameg - Aug 17, 2014 4:05:15 pm PDT #4373 of 30000

where they know they're not supposed to climb

Which has stopped no cat ever. Some are just more polite. All my paper is secreted away else I will come home to snow. Loki cannot resist temptation, no matter what shreds of politesse he may posess.

Still so charmed you ended up keeping them.


brenda m - Aug 17, 2014 4:11:38 pm PDT #4374 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

We're dog sitting a corgi this week e nd who just came in with her lower half covered in swamp muck. Oops. (That makes three-for-three on dogs who've visited here. 0 and 1 for the home team, thank you miss priss Darby.)


Sophia Brooks - Aug 17, 2014 4:12:33 pm PDT #4375 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

The corgis are low to the ground.


brenda m - Aug 17, 2014 4:20:48 pm PDT #4376 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

Of course, as soon as I posted that construction noise started up beneath me from under the house where Darby is apparently constructing an extensive labyrinth of tunnels. Swamp Thing smells worse but long term I'm not sure I'm on board for a Minotaur.