Having my crockpot cook my dinner for me while I'm at work is not really a huge time saver, but walking in the door to discover the house smells deliciously of Hawaiian short ribs is pretty great.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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 - Aug 18, 2014 2:17:50 pm PDT #4412 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
-t - Aug 18, 2014 2:31:06 pm PDT #4413 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ok, Jesse, I have something like 5 hours of Going Deep on my DVR.
Juliebird - Aug 18, 2014 2:40:32 pm PDT #4414 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Sent out a notice to all staff about something I was going to do tomorrow, any questions, ask me. Got questions, lots of them, answered them, but got pissed off that they were basically questioning my judgment and whether I'd considered all the angles (on a routine but not often task). In the end, while waiting for the nervous nellies to give the all clear on me going my task, I finally get the ED, the instigator of the nervous nellies, to say he'll defer to my judgment.
Dude, lead with that. I know what I'm doing, and that is far more than you do. I've done this same task over the past five years. I'm being transparent by letting you know what I'm about to do, not actually looking for an oversight committee.
And yet, I feel belatedly like an ass for getting aggravated over the interrogations because I specifically ask At every announcement of my task if there are any questions. God, I need Prozac.
amyth - Aug 18, 2014 3:06:39 pm PDT #4415 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
PBS Idea Channel is amazing! It seems like everything I've ever thought was cool, this guy has done an episode on it already. And he can pack a lot into five-seven minutes (plus letter-reading).
Adventure Time and third wave feminism: [link]
Orphan Black: [link]
Why are there so many superhero movies? [link]
Ms. Marvel: [link]
And a lot more!
I watched the ice cube Going Deep last night. I liked it!
DavidS - Aug 18, 2014 4:04:47 pm PDT #4416 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It seems like everything I've ever thought was cool, this guy has done an episode on it already.
Totally cool! I must go share the BMO piece with everybody in the world.
sarameg - Aug 18, 2014 4:14:29 pm PDT #4417 of 30000
Ok, so this week's Hotel Hell is in the town my grand parents retired to near the farm and where my cousin and cousin-in-law live and these owners are out of towners and it is SMALL TOWN MN and I can't see this ending well after tonight.
It's more painful than the one in my hometown. At least that owner was semi local...
shrift - Aug 18, 2014 4:41:22 pm PDT #4418 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm eating blueberries with lemon curd. A++ would recommend.
amyth - Aug 18, 2014 4:52:57 pm PDT #4419 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Mmm I love lemon curd.
David, once you fall down the rabbit hole of the PBS Idea Channel, it's hard to come back out.
My upstairs neighbor's new live-in bf is into loud, thumpy, late-night video gaming. So now I'm into sleeping with earplugs. And also sleeping through my alarm, if this morning was any indication.
Calli - Aug 18, 2014 4:58:02 pm PDT #4420 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Amyth, if you've asked the neighbor without a result, let the landlords know. I don't think they're inclined to put up with that if they know about it.
Consuela - Aug 18, 2014 5:02:54 pm PDT #4421 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I was away all weekend and I came home and the neighborhood had some fireworks going, and TNG was nervous.
... but I was foolish and didn't remember the Fourth of July, so when I woke up this morning there was a mess of "presents" for me in the kitchen. So I gave her some meds and locked the poor thing in the garage for the day. I just don't have the energy to scrub the carpets again (and I'm out of Nature's Miracle).