Timelies all!
Healing~ma to your friend, Matt.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
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.
Sheryl - Aug 31, 2016 2:04:03 pm PDT #26856 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Calli - Aug 31, 2016 2:08:11 pm PDT #26857 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Recovery~ma to your friend, Matt.
Cass, I hope the kids are back home soon.
sarameg - Aug 31, 2016 2:14:36 pm PDT #26858 of 30003
I am so over work this week. Do not expect me to execute a complicated procedure smoothly if you 1. bury a crucial detail deep in the documentation and 2. Take down, without warning, the server containing the complicated instruction for the procedure. I'm annoyed with a lot of people right now, including my boss. And she's probably annoyed at me for leaving when I did, but everything looked like it was working and I had repeatedly asked people to check what I was doing and all gave me a pass, so. And now I can't remember how the 2 factor authentication works so oh well.
lisah - Aug 31, 2016 2:45:30 pm PDT #26859 of 30003
Punishingly Intricate
I came home and changed out of pants into a little cotton skirt and haven't gone outside but no suddenly feel like my legs are covered in mosquito bites. What the heck? Did I get them this morning when I was walking the dog in this skirt and they got reactivated when I put the skirt back on??
sj - Aug 31, 2016 3:00:09 pm PDT #26860 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
~ma for your friend, Matt.
Cass, I'm so sorry. I've been thinking of your niecephews every day. I hope you get a lead soon.
sj - Aug 31, 2016 3:00:43 pm PDT #26861 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Lisah, could they be flea bites from the dog?
sarameg - Aug 31, 2016 3:57:14 pm PDT #26862 of 30003
Aaand putting it in perspective, my beloved former neighbors were first responders (as civvies) to a drowning on Assateague. He helped carry the guy the the beach, she (cardiac nurse) performed CPR. To no avail. And the victims' family plus Tara's 11 year old daughter & a couple young friends were all witness to it.
Yeah, I had a shitty day, but nobody died.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 31, 2016 3:57:44 pm PDT #26863 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
Lisah, maybe you got the mosquito bites I Should have gotten this weekend while waving a cloud of mosquitoes away from the kittens and wearing shorts? I didn't find a single bite, which is absurd considering there were so many hovering around that I was worried about breathing them in.
Consuela - Aug 31, 2016 4:43:08 pm PDT #26864 of 30003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
How awful, sarameg.
Cass, I'm hoping for your sister's kids. May her ex come to his senses or someone spot them soon.
Got my root canal on Friday; today was part 1 of the crown. Turned kind of scary, actually: they accidentally got some of the topical numbing agent on the back of my throat, and I nearly panicked because it felt like my throat was closing up. Not a good feeling! Happily it wore off in about 20 minutes, but yikes.
Man, we can land a space-ship on an asteroid but we can't do dental work in a way that is painless or stress-free. So exhausting.
lisah - Aug 31, 2016 5:19:59 pm PDT #26865 of 30003
Punishingly Intricate
Lisah, could they be flea bites from the dog?
nah, dog's on flea medication and the cats are indoor. No fleas on them! Thank god! Fleas were terrible when I lived in SF with one tiny cat and in NC but I think the medication has gotten so much better in the last decade or so that I've not had a flea problem here at all. Knock wood. At any rate, I've had flea bites in my day and these are bigger and hivier like mosquito bites. I sprayed some benadryl spray on them and they've calmed down.
Lisah, maybe you got the mosquito bites I Should have gotten this weekend while waving a cloud of mosquitoes away from the kittens and wearing shorts?
Thanks a lot, Matt!