That all sounds great, Connie!
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
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.
-t - Sep 17, 2016 11:09:14 am PDT #27794 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
WindSparrow - Sep 17, 2016 11:24:37 am PDT #27795 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.
It does sound lovely!
Steph L. - Sep 17, 2016 11:39:36 am PDT #27796 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
That sounds like it's going to be a great place for you, Connie!
Plus I can take advantage of the insulating effects of the places around me.
That's what happened at my old apartment -- I was on the second of three floors, in the middle, so I had apartments above and below me, as well as on both sides, and the apartment was toasty in the winter.
And I have to say, after living in a house that we own, I still miss having a landlord to fix the stuff that breaks.
sj - Sep 17, 2016 11:41:32 am PDT #27797 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yay, Connie!
Calli - Sep 17, 2016 11:48:50 am PDT #27798 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Sounds lovely, Connie!
Connie Neil - Sep 17, 2016 11:57:47 am PDT #27799 of 30003
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Oh! And for the proper Erisian effect, I have a storage closet out in the breezeway of the building. On the backwall of said closet someone had drawn a monster with the word Chupacabra. Office person was startled and offered to have it painted over. I told him not to bother and did not go off into a discussion of the X-Files.
Steph L. - Sep 17, 2016 12:05:44 pm PDT #27800 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
On the backwall of said closet someone had drawn a monster with the word Chupacabra.
Now THAT is awesome.
amych - Sep 17, 2016 12:36:46 pm PDT #27801 of 30003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
On the backwall of said closet someone had drawn a monster with the word Chupacabra.
Clearly a sign that it's meant to be your place.
Hil R. - Sep 17, 2016 12:46:16 pm PDT #27802 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
On those DNA things, take the percentages with a grain of salt. To begin with, the percentage of something in your genes isn't the same as the percentage of it in your ancestry, and secondly, especially with the parts where they tell you you've got 2% or something like that, there's a lot of guesswork. The commercial services want the percentages to add up to 100%, so they'll fill in gaps with whatever seems the most likely. People using the same kind of technology for scientific research will identify what they can and label the rest "unknown." If it tells you you've got more than 10 or 15 percent or so of something, then you probably do have that ancestry, but the percentages themselves don't tell you that much. There are a bunch of webpages where four or five siblings took the same test and compared their results, and they all had the same big pieces, but in different amounts, and the 1% and 2% things were completely different.
Pix - Sep 17, 2016 1:06:14 pm PDT #27803 of 30003
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I found my DNA results pretty interesting. I'd been able to trace mostly English heritage on my family tree and knew I could trace back to the 1600s from England to the U.S. on both sides of my family, but it turns out I'm mostly Irish (29%) and Scandinavian (22%). I do have about 15% Great Britain and 13% Western Europe, but the big surprise was 11% European Jewish. My dad tested 22%, so that clearly comes from his line. We had no idea, but we suspect now that it's from the Dutch part of his heritage. I also have, in theory, trace amounts of Iberian Peninsula, Italy/Greece, Finland/Northwest Russia and South Asian, but I take that with a grain of salt, as you say, Hil.