My landline thinks I'm on an open line. I'm not. I think it might have something to do with Loki knocking one to the floor, but I can't hang up. But I still have dsl. So maybe something else. Another thing I don't want to deal with.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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 - Apr 09, 2016 4:22:30 am PDT #19270 of 30003
sarameg - Apr 09, 2016 4:38:19 am PDT #19271 of 30003
And now it's back. But I'm pretty sure it's a short upstairs where I pulled a line. Now have to figure out which of the tangle of wires at the main connection is that line. Ahahahah.
Jessica - Apr 09, 2016 4:43:19 am PDT #19272 of 30003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I do drink the occasional manhattan, but I can't make one with dry vermouth.
Waaaaaaay behind, but dry manhattans are very nice, for people who like that sort of thing.
meara - Apr 09, 2016 5:03:11 am PDT #19273 of 30003
I'm up and just finished breakfast. Because I'm supposed to run with a group at 8am. Which didn't seem sooooo early when I signed up for it. But that means I have to leave my house by at least 7:45. And I have to have eaten long enough before to be fueled but not get sick to my stomach while I run. Thus the 630am alarm. On a Saturday. Voluntarily. For the next ten weeks. Wtf self?!?!
Tom Scola - Apr 09, 2016 5:08:26 am PDT #19274 of 30003
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
I don't like dry Manhattans, but Juliana turned me on to perfect Manhattans, which are ½ dry and ½ sweet vermouth, and are awesome.
Jesse - Apr 09, 2016 5:47:10 am PDT #19275 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What are y'all doing this weekend? I'm headed to do volunteer training and I have a massage tomorrow.
I have a massage today! Also dad and some errands. Tomorrow just dad and possible house cleaning?
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 09, 2016 5:48:17 am PDT #19276 of 30003
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Today, drawing, maybe some housework. Tomorrow I'm staying with my dad while Mom goes out of state for a birthday party.
Calli - Apr 09, 2016 5:50:30 am PDT #19277 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
What are y'all doing this weekend? I'm headed to do volunteer training and I have a massage tomorrow.
I have a blissfully unscheduled weekend. It's my first in a while, so I'm reveling in it. I do have plans to catch up on Agents of Shield with some friends, but that's less a scheduled thing and more a hang out at some point Sunday thing.
Steph L. - Apr 09, 2016 5:54:36 am PDT #19278 of 30003
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
Running errands, doing taxes. There's a reggae band playing at the bar around the corner tonight that I think we're going to go see, entirely because the band is playing in the basement bar, and I've never seen the basement of this bar and now I'm curious.
Laura - Apr 09, 2016 6:17:20 am PDT #19279 of 30003
This too shall pass.
My sister arrives this afternoon for a couple week visit! She will probably only be with me a day because she will head over to stay with Mom. But always happy to see her.