I gotta say, this plumber's customer service was excellent. Aaand they made a point to get my email "because we're a paperless office." So I can email you if I have further random questions? "Of course!" I gather it is the wife half of the owners that I talked to.
Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.
'Serenity'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
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 - Mar 21, 2016 3:23:11 pm PDT #18024 of 30003
Steph L. - Mar 21, 2016 3:30:31 pm PDT #18025 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Back up to 110/68 (which is still low for me, but better).
Let's hear it for crystal meth! (Okay, putting my feet up and drinking water.)
shrift - Mar 21, 2016 6:49:20 pm PDT #18026 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My coworkers are younger than I am, and I'm pretty sure they don't know how old I am and therefore assume I'm around their age. I'll say something like, "I don't think Burning Man is for me." And they're all, "How do you know? You should go. Maybe you'd learn something about yourself!"
Coworker, I am not fresh out of college. I've had multiple careers. I go on adventures. When I make a statement about my preferences, it's not because I'm fearful of going outside my comfort zone. It's just that I have plenty of life experience informing me that I would not learn anything about myself that I don't already know at Burning Man.
Burrell - Mar 21, 2016 8:08:16 pm PDT #18027 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
that's hilarious, shrift
Consuela - Mar 21, 2016 8:23:17 pm PDT #18028 of 30003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
For the umpteenth time: read the recipe all the way through. The frosting for tomorrow's retirement cake requires, as a final step, to be refridgerated for an hour, and beaten every fifteen minutes. WTF.
Can't decide if I have to frost right away at the end of the hour, or if I can put it back in the fridge and do it in the morning. To be safest, I should probably frost right away.
But seriously, who makes a frosting that you have to chill and beat and chill and beat (repeat and repeat)? The ladies at the Silver Palate, that's who.
Coworker better appreciate this.
WindSparrow - Mar 21, 2016 8:29:30 pm PDT #18029 of 30003
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.
-t and Amy, thanks. I think that second link of Amy's is probably the most succinct explanation I have seen. Now, getting people to read and understand and then use it correctly may be a different kettle of fish, but I'll do what I can.
DavidS - Mar 21, 2016 9:12:40 pm PDT #18030 of 30003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Coworker, I am not fresh out of college.
But when I first met you, you were just out of college. So in my mind you still are kind of.
And Holli is an Eskimo.
And Dana is sometimes a street sign in New Orleans. (or Frodo)
And also you and Dana are the same BNF in Farscape.
Pix - Mar 21, 2016 9:20:31 pm PDT #18031 of 30003
The status is NOT quo.
It's just that I have plenty of life experience informing me that I would not learn anything about myself that I don't already know at Burning Man.
Ha! Sing it, sister.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 21, 2016 10:59:06 pm PDT #18032 of 30003
"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'd love to go to Burning Man if it were held in a place about 40°F cooler so I could enjoy being outside all day and appreciate the warmth of a big-ass bonfire. Pleasantly Cool and Breezy Man, maybe.
meara - Mar 22, 2016 1:15:56 am PDT #18033 of 30003
At least they don't think you're older than you are, shrift?
Back in the USA! Though still have a five hour flight ahead. Not happy that I stepped off the international flight and found out there's been a bombing at an airport (in Brussels). Ick.
Suela, I'm hoping the frosting is worth the effort? Or maybe that it's not, so you never feel the need to make it again?