I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!

Anya ,'Storyteller'


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.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 13, 2016 1:45:21 pm PDT #27574 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Sounds like it went well, flea!

My primary is for county judge. My choice is between a 40 something qualified black woman who switched from the Republican Party after losing an election, and a 40 something year old white man who is endorsed by all the women's associations.


WindSparrow - Sep 13, 2016 1:47:19 pm PDT #27575 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.

My doctor wants me to stop drinking diet Coke because the phosphoric acid is bad for my bones.

Meh, chew a Tums just before you drink it. Dialysis patients often get instructed to take a Tums or other source of calcium before eating each meal to bind with phosphorus in the foods they eat.


WindSparrow - Sep 13, 2016 1:49:39 pm PDT #27576 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.

flea, I'm glad it went ok.


Connie Neil - Sep 13, 2016 1:58:18 pm PDT #27577 of 30003
brillig

Meh, chew a Tums just before you drink it. Dialysis patients often get instructed to take a Tums or other source of calcium before eating each meal to bind with phosphorus in the foods they eat.

Huh! So noshing on cherry-flavored calcium tablets is not a waste of money. Cool!


sarameg - Sep 13, 2016 3:22:30 pm PDT #27578 of 30003

It took me 45 minutes, a backtrack and 2.6 miles to get to work, normally 1.7 miles away. City decided to replace water mains on 33rd. I will be trying a different, more circuitous route tomorrow, and if that's just as bad, I see a lot of telecommuting until I move offices sometime in October. Fucking Hopkin's and its vanity projects. I have a complicated relationship with them and their complicated, sometimes exploitative, relationship with this city.


Jesse - Sep 13, 2016 3:25:15 pm PDT #27579 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I bet it went really well, flea! Good luck.

Ugh, sara.

Thanks for nothing, Cincinnatians! Nah, just kidding. I'm looking at a job with one of their projects. I don't know that I would actually want to work from home, but the description sounded great.


WindSparrow - Sep 13, 2016 4:30:18 pm PDT #27580 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.

Thing I just said on Facebook to a cousin who ranted about people who disrespect our flag don't deserve to be Americans and should leave the country:

You are so right! Whenever I see a Confederate flag, it makes me so angry, those traitorous losers! And then there are all the people who come down negatively on good citizens who work so hard to bring about liberty and justice for all, as we swore to do in the Pledge of Allegiance. That is simply unAmerican.


shrift - Sep 13, 2016 5:13:42 pm PDT #27581 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

This summer has been a lot of "it never even occurred to me that I would have to ask about that; now I know" experiences.

The problem with this is that these situations are abnormal, and once you start asking these questions in other situations, people are going to look at you like you're cray.

It's Wednesday morning here, and it's still pouring rain. I guess I'll dawdle in my pajamas for a while to see if it stops raining before heading to the office for breakfast. It's not even a 5 minute walk, but it's down an alley and around a mini traffic circle. And yesterday my shoes and bag got soaked. This was all before I fell down


Zenkitty - Sep 13, 2016 5:17:58 pm PDT #27582 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Meh, chew a Tums just before you drink it.

WS in with the life hacks! Good to know.

The problem with this is that these situations are abnormal, and once you start asking these questions in other situations, people are going to look at you like you're cray.

True. But people look at me like I'm cray half the time anyhow.

What a day full of minor aggravations this has been.


Dana - Sep 13, 2016 6:06:46 pm PDT #27583 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

This was all before I fell down.

Please do not fall down again. That's my job.

So the good news is that the giant fucking roach in my bathroom is dead. The bad news is that my resident roach-dealer-with does not live here any more. I seriously thought for a moment about whether I could survive for two and a half more weeks without going in there, but it's not really feasible.