Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?

Wash ,'Ariel'


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 - Jun 24, 2016 3:47:32 pm PDT #23642 of 30003

We've got a bunch of workarounds to try, still aren't sure exactly what changed the behavior, but suspect a hardware systems patch that *can't* be rolled back, (it doesn't even register in error logging, you just see symptoms ) but now we've got to come up with a whole new paradigm for operations, such that it will impact our hardware budget in drastic new ways (we're gonna need a whole lot more flavor b storage, which wasn't budgeted for) and it's all just very high level jesusfuckingchrist. And has big implications for JWST. And future development.

I got an apology for being treated dismissively back when I started raising alarms.

And the damn Tribble is still walkabout. Did I mention he needs surgery (perforated diaphragm, was probably hit by a car a long time ago) and shouldn't be allowed to exert himself much? And he DESTROYED the cushion on the cat shelf in a bid to break out the cat door and climb down the deck? Yeah, that. Sarah is less worried, he'd been outside and feral like that for a while before he moved in but I don't like cats going walkabout when I'm catsitting.


brenda m - Jun 24, 2016 3:49:47 pm PDT #23643 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

JFC, is Mahler always this long and tedious? Please send help. This concert will never end.


brenda m - Jun 24, 2016 3:50:44 pm PDT #23644 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

This outdoor concert, I should note. I'm not totally without couth, posting from a theater.


Dana - Jun 24, 2016 3:52:16 pm PDT #23645 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Yes, Mahler is often long. First year I sang in the chorus here, the women sang for about five minutes in the fifth movement of a Mahler symphony, and then the maestro made us stand through the whole sixth movement, which was about half an hour.


Nora Deirdre - Jun 24, 2016 3:54:47 pm PDT #23646 of 30003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

My own personal entry in "shit that people say kind of jokingly on FB but pisses me off nonetheless" is when people talk about Texas seceding. Or Mississippi. Or any of the South, as if it's one ignorant, monolithic, hillbilly block.

Yeah.


brenda m - Jun 24, 2016 3:56:41 pm PDT #23647 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

This piece started over an hour ago.

Oh thank god. The power of posting works again. It won't solve all the other things I'm pissy about, but I'll take it.


amych - Jun 24, 2016 4:11:10 pm PDT #23648 of 30003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Or any of the South, as if it's one ignorant, monolithic, hillbilly block.

Yup.


Jesse - Jun 24, 2016 4:34:31 pm PDT #23649 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Y'all. If you need a little heartwarming, may I recommend the HBO doc Suited? It's about tailors who make suits for trans and genderqueer people, and it was just lovely.


sarameg - Jun 24, 2016 4:54:39 pm PDT #23650 of 30003

Troubling Tribble finally came home. And was very hungry. Dumbass.


Consuela - Jun 24, 2016 7:03:09 pm PDT #23651 of 30003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

That sounds great, Jesse.

I should do something useful. But I had unexpected dental work done today, and as a result I've spent most of the day lazing around. Got my first milkshake in about 3 years (not really worth it), and then got takeout wonton soup and lo mein, because my teeth are still sore.

I'm an aunt again! My SIL had a little boy around 4AM. 8 lbs, which is big, and she is small, so I'm sure she's glad he's out. I'm not loving the name they picked, but hey, it's their kid. We'll get used to it.