Maybe I've always been here.

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Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

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.


Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2017 7:46:39 am PDT #15168 of 30002
brillig

For what it's worth, speaking of my mother, when it gets cold (or just when the temperature changes?) that light always goes on on her car, and it usually goes away in a day or so.

That's what the car guys said. And I was driving through big puddles of cold rainwater. I'm just used to dashboard lights meaning "You could die if you don't deal with this!" and was afraid I was looking at imminent tire failure.


NoiseDesign - Aug 10, 2017 7:49:38 am PDT #15169 of 30002
Our wings are not tired

Okay, I'm back from vacation, time to face the mountain of work that has piled up.


brenda m - Aug 10, 2017 7:50:20 am PDT #15170 of 30002
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

Ugh. The car talk reminds me I have a decision to make. I took my car in the other day to have the killer Takeda airbag swapped out, which was free because of the recall, but they tell me there's also a problem with the airbag module that controls it. Basically it means the airbags can't be counted on to go off, but if they do they won't kill us anymore.

I'm really not sure what I'm going to do. It's a $1000 fix. On a 12 year old car. I don't really want a new car right now, so I'm disinclined to sell it, but I'm also not sure about driving around without airbags.

Which, we all did for most of my life and some very short people do now, right? But if something were to happen I'd feel super shitty. God what a PITA.


-t - Aug 10, 2017 7:53:01 am PDT #15171 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ugh, that's a tough decision, brenda. Could it be covered by your insurance since it is a safety issue?


Jesse - Aug 10, 2017 9:17:24 am PDT #15172 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've having the kind of week where I both feel fat and am constantly hungry. I realize the one reinforces the other, but I'm still going to get a snack.


Toddson - Aug 10, 2017 9:24:38 am PDT #15173 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

fwiw, this made me smile


Atropa - Aug 10, 2017 9:34:17 am PDT #15174 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

My adulting has consisted of hiring the teenage son of a friend to come extensively weed the yard. He came over at 7am today (because he's a weird morning child), and was still working at 10 when I was up. I gave him iced coffee, food, and money. Needless to say, I'll be hiring him again.


Atropa - Aug 10, 2017 9:48:53 am PDT #15175 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Also, Pete is away for three weeks for various Magic: the Gathering shows in the UK and France, which means poor sleep despite meds starts now.


Laura - Aug 10, 2017 10:18:03 am PDT #15176 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

Adulting sucks. The local funeral and burial and so forth for my mother is on the 19th in Otter Lake, which would have been her birthday. Too much to figure out. Lots of people. Too much to arrange. If my family does any of this stuff for me I will haunt them.


meara - Aug 10, 2017 10:28:16 am PDT #15177 of 30002

Jilli, think he'd want to come do my yard too? How much is he asking? I've had the worst time finding someone regular. It's a tiny yard.