The packers have been here for an hour and a half, and they have packed the kitchen, the garage, the speakers, the breakable tchotchkes, and the lamps, and they're about to do the few framed pieces of art we have. I think we can maybe take a deep breath and relax.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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.
Dana - Oct 25, 2016 5:32:06 am PDT #60 of 30002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Volans - Oct 25, 2016 6:15:24 am PDT #61 of 30002
move out and draw fire
No way in hell this trio of New Mexicans was going to order the enchiladas at a spendy MD restaurant, we know it'd not compare to our comfort food favorite hole in the walls at quarter the cost in the hometown.
They would be rolled anyway.
Layoffs. The wife of my mentor is getting laid off in December from a very large company based in Rochester that failed to believe digital photography would be a thing. They let her know early as she's Mahogany Row. She already kind of knew, so she's been looking for a new job for like 2 years, but it turns out no one hires female executives.
Dana - Oct 25, 2016 6:18:15 am PDT #62 of 30002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Packers done! I am doing the dance of them being done! Still have to work, but the packers are done!
smonster - Oct 25, 2016 6:27:00 am PDT #63 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hurray, Dana!
::waves at Vonnie:: I will just offer one anti-rec: do NOT give into convenience and go to Mulate's across the street from the Convention Center. It is nast.
meara - Oct 25, 2016 6:49:30 am PDT #64 of 30002
Wait, am I supposed to know who Volans is?
As long as you're healthy and traditionally employed, the system here works great!
Hahahah. Yes. "As long as you don't need our system, the system works!"
And I'm definitely looking into immigration if Trump wins. For serious.
Steph L. - Oct 25, 2016 6:50:18 am PDT #65 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
And I'm definitely looking into immigration if Trump wins. For serious.
He's not going to win.
Vonnie K - Oct 25, 2016 6:51:00 am PDT #66 of 30002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Hee! Thanks, smonster. Will stay away accordingly.
food at the convention center is also pretty darn good, considering.
I saw a bunch of stalls that looked like a decent sized food court on the way in. Might try that since I only have an hour for lunch.
3 hours into the symposium and I am already squirming. I paid for the sessions and everything, so I shouldn't shove off and play hooky / go off to sightsee, right? Sliiigh.
meara - Oct 25, 2016 6:55:33 am PDT #67 of 30002
He's not going to win
I'm clinging to polls and such. Feeling much less worried about it than I was even a few weeks ago...but also a tiny bit worried that the certainty won't get the vote out and then it'll be scary?
In other news, I once again want to scream at the system we are using. Wtf who planned that training can ONLY be done in IE??
meara - Oct 25, 2016 6:56:35 am PDT #68 of 30002
(Ah, and just saw beep me--thanks Volans!)
Volans - Oct 25, 2016 7:02:09 am PDT #69 of 30002
move out and draw fire
And I'm definitely looking into immigration if Trump wins. For serious.
You should hear the discussions happening in the government around this. No one thinks they can work for him, but at the same time we all swore an oath to protect the Constitution.
And then there are the few deplorables who want to have their salary and benefits paid for by the government but don't want to pay taxes, or who think it's OK to support a government by and for just some of the people.