River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.

'Serenity'


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.


-t - Apr 20, 2018 7:56:01 am PDT #24572 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Whoa, really? Damn, this school shooting thing has been going on a long time.


shrift - Apr 20, 2018 7:56:59 am PDT #24573 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Oh, shit. I totally forgot it was 4/20. My neighborhood is going to be overrun with people going to the Hippie Hill festival in Golden Gate Park.


SuziQ - Apr 20, 2018 9:31:57 am PDT #24574 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I did miss a digit back there. It has been 19 years, not 9. It happened in 1999. Last century! Even though we didn't live out here then, it is a big part of local history and there is a lot of reverence given to the Columbine family and neighborhood. Then you add the Aurora shooting, which was the next town over, and it is impossible to miss the tragic history here.


Laura - Apr 20, 2018 10:33:22 am PDT #24575 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

I truly hope that the activism that is awakening in today's youth will carry forward into the upcoming elections and bring some accountability to the previously elected idiots. The overwhelming apathy certainly contributed to the mess we currently are witnessing. Watching any DC hearings is incredibly rage inducing. Hope for the future? Gotta have it.

Still at my sister's house. Going home tonight and coming back next week. For the most part her cataract surgery went well. First eye is great, second one resulted in a large broken blood vessel or some such that is blocking her vision completely in that eye. It will most likely dissolve, which is a better outcome than the retinal tear they thought it was at first. Surgeon said he would give it a month before considering fixing surgically, but even that would be a quick easy thing. No news on her failing kidneys until next week when she has more tests. I'm frustrated with the tons of meds she has taken for the last 40-50 years. Treating symptoms instead of underlying issues, such is the way doctors and pharmaceutical companies make money! I've already trained my doctor not to waste his time writing scripts for me. I really hope this is reversible for her.

ION, I am so unproductive with work stuff!! But I did my exercise class at the OrangeTheory center over here and set a new personal record so apparently my rage is being put to good use.


Toddson - Apr 20, 2018 12:19:09 pm PDT #24576 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Laura, after my cataract surgery, I developed "internal cataracts" - basically a film across the inside of the eye. They were pretty easily broken up with a laser (I think it was a laser). It was an extremely unpleasant process and left me in bad shape for a day or so - I hope her problem can be dealt with as easily.


Connie Neil - Apr 20, 2018 12:44:43 pm PDT #24577 of 30002
brillig

My eye doctor said 50% of cataract patients have to have a laser treatment to remove the build-up within six months. I had it myself, and the blurring built up rapidly. It's been perfect since.


-t - Apr 20, 2018 1:15:28 pm PDT #24578 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

::cries:: It looks like we have a lot of cross-references product numbers wrong for JCP's new product. There's no way I'm going to figure this out today, so that'll be a Monday problem, or maybe several days next week. I have a bad feeling we have been shipping the wrong product.


Jesse - Apr 20, 2018 1:45:59 pm PDT #24579 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh my god, my day turned into a total dumpster fire. Luckily, I could have ice cream and bourbon for dinner. And probably bourbon for dessert.


DavidS - Apr 20, 2018 2:21:01 pm PDT #24580 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

My dislike of 420 is compounded multiple times over now as (a) a helicopter circles endlessly and loudly over our neighborhood) and (b) Matilda is stranded out by her school because the entire public transit system has been disrupted.

Fucking hate it.


sj - Apr 20, 2018 2:54:19 pm PDT #24581 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

ltc is currently making filk songs about poop to the tune of the Doc McStuffins theme song, and I just had to post about it.