The Free Willy graphic is the best!
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
Kat - Apr 05, 2016 10:50:24 am PDT #19015 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Connie Neil - Apr 05, 2016 10:54:51 am PDT #19016 of 30003
brillig
Apartment complexes are going up all over the valley as communities vie to become part of Silicon Slopes, the tech initiative that's opening to pull in big tech jobs eager to employ the local workforce that's willing to work for wages significantly lower than the national average (Utah graduates are notoriously unwilling to leave Utah, they don't like leaving the bosom of their large families or the familiarity of a somewhat reactionary worldview). In any case, with new, posh, amenity-filled, expensive apartments going up all over, I'm looking at a somewhat older complex with rent about $150 cheaper per month that's going to want to stay competitive. I haven't toured the place yet, so I'm not sure what condition it's in, but I figure I'm probably good for several years before they want to remodel. I'm at least ten years away from retirement, when things get re-evaluated.
msbelle - Apr 05, 2016 10:59:32 am PDT #19017 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
#teamgoldy
hippocampus - Apr 05, 2016 11:01:03 am PDT #19018 of 30003
not your mom's socks.
#NO
sj - Apr 05, 2016 11:07:17 am PDT #19019 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We're paying less in a mortgage than we were in rent, but that doesn't take into account a down payment, insurance, property taxes, and having to fix things when they break. Plus, yard maintenance.
Mom was here today and I was able to get in both a nap and a shower, so I'm feeling slightly less stupid than earlier. I've been taking Allegra, but I may have to give in and take Benadryl tonight, which I haven't been doing because it makes taking care of ltc if she wakes in the night harder.
Fred Pete - Apr 05, 2016 11:27:20 am PDT #19020 of 30003
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm on the hardcore allergy stuff, although a lot of it comes from asthma and a doubly deviated septum. (On the scan, my septum looks kind of like the letter "S" as drawn by a kindergartner.)
So -- Symbicort inhaler, plus Fluoxetine and Azelatime (sp?) nasal sprays, and surgery next month. Meanwhile, lots of coughing, constant slightly stuffy nose, chronic fatigue.
brenda m - Apr 05, 2016 11:45:39 am PDT #19021 of 30003
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 paying less in a mortgage than we were in rent, but that doesn't take into account a down payment, insurance, property taxes, and having to fix things when they break. Plus, yard maintenance.
Yeah, a $400 difference could get eaten up right quick.
lisah - Apr 05, 2016 11:51:39 am PDT #19022 of 30003
Punishingly Intricate
Housing in Boulder is not Bay Area expensive, of course, but it's pretty dang pricey compared to most of the country.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 05, 2016 12:00:03 pm PDT #19023 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 pay about twice my parents' mortgage in rent with no equity, but on the flip side not having to deal with home insurance, repairs, and a lawn has probably added years to my life thanks to reduced stress.
Steph L. - Apr 05, 2016 12:16:42 pm PDT #19024 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
having to fix things when they break
Which BLOWS. I've lived with Tim more than 8 years now, and I *still* hate not having a superintendant down the hall. Plus, I still resent paying for water and heat (most rentals here -- or, at least, the places I lived -- paid water and heat).
Some day I will grow up and be an adult, but today is not that day.
Fluoxetine
Fluticasone, I hope. (Fluoxetine is Prozac; fluticasone is Flonase, which I also use because I live with 2 cats, to whom I am VERY allergic, though I love them)