Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


omnis_audis - Feb 23, 2017 2:39:25 am PST #7692 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

The joys of Amazon is you can order 24 hr a day. The pitfall is sometimes you misread descriptions.

Purchased a wedge pillow. Was wanting smallish (12"x12" or so) to wedge between back and bed railings. Keep me on my side, and help prevent tail bone from getting too much pressure all night.

Yeah, it's 24x24" Lets see, it might be better, if it fits between me and the handrail. Hospital beds are not queen sized.

And hey I can always use it to elevate my feet. Thankfully it wasn't expensive.

And yes, up early again. Also fell asleep before 10am, so the cough that woke me up didn't inhibit sleep too much. Nurses suggested of sitting as straight up as possible stopped the cough. Not so great on the go back to sleep. Meh.

Lets see if I do the laptop nap again before Mom wakes up.


Laura - Feb 23, 2017 2:57:05 am PST #7693 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

Amazon Prime changed my life, still not sure if it was for the good or bad.


Gudanov - Feb 23, 2017 5:11:05 am PST #7694 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

I love Amazon Prime, but I feel bad using it all the time. I just don't like going to the store and I can usually wait a few days for whatever I need to get.


msbelle - Feb 23, 2017 6:24:07 am PST #7695 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

You morning people are not to be trusted.

I took the day off for a day of dr appts.

1st appt (smooshing) is done. En route to appt 2 I have about an hour, so I returned library movie, sold books ($37!), and mailed 3 eBay items. Now it's 30 min to appt, so I should head there.


Connie Neil - Feb 23, 2017 7:21:00 am PST #7696 of 30002
brillig

I spent a lot of my vacation last week bemoaning my lack of human interaction. This week I'm having interaction opportunities popping up (sure, online, but it's still conversation). And there's a panicked weasel flailing around in the back of my mind. Is this an introvert thing? I will grab onto communication like a drowning person, but after a few minutes I start panicking and wanting to run away.


-t - Feb 23, 2017 7:30:34 am PST #7697 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I love Amazon Prime, but I feel bad using it all the time.

I hear you. I'm not completely sure I should feel bad, though, so I'm way ambivalent, I guess. Just paid my annual fee for it, though, and that's gone up (probably I agreed to try additional services and am paying extra for those now, I should review that) but boy that instant 2-day shipping that sometimes turns out to be even faster sure does come in handy.

Man, I want to talk about the train of propane tank cars I was waiting for this morning but I need to do actual work. I hope I remember what I wanted to say when I have time to say it...


Dana - Feb 23, 2017 8:07:19 am PST #7698 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I am getting lectured over chat by my coworker. "Well, the file shouldn't show that date."

WELL, IT DOES.

And now she's explaining Windows to me.


Connie Neil - Feb 23, 2017 8:30:51 am PST #7699 of 30002
brillig

I've got a customer describing an error and how he figured out how to fix it, so now he wants me to fix the error.

Apparently he shouldn't have to fix errors he gets because errors didn't happen before.


Gudanov - Feb 23, 2017 8:44:54 am PST #7700 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

but boy that instant 2-day shipping that sometimes turns out to be even faster sure does come in handy.

Yeah. It's faster that going to the store for me most of the time. I generally don't have time to go to a store during open hours until the weekend and sometimes not then.


-t - Feb 23, 2017 8:48:37 am PST #7701 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, those both sound like SO MUCH FUN

Whew finished my report and want a break. So, I cross two RR tracks on my way to work (I could avoid crossing tracks but that would require getting on Hwy 12 and waiting at 3 red lights and going an extra, oh, quarter mile or so - I generally prefer to drive by the cow pastures when I drive), the one closest to my house is the line that Amtrak and freight trains run on when they are going places, the one that goes behind work is a siding, I guess, that goes to the Budweiser brewery (I always want to call it the Budweiser plant, but I guess brewery is more correct?). It's apparently getting used to store tank cars of propane, which doesn't worry me too much, I'm oddly sanguine about having tank cars of propane stored near me. I acknowledge that if there is a fault or accident that it could be terrible, but that doesn't seem very likely. However, as I watched the tank cars shuttling back and forth in front of me this morning (apparently the length of the train and the placement of the switches meant blocking the road I was on for about 10 minutes, which isn't very long, really, but is pretty frustrating when where I'm going is RIGHT THERE on the other side of the tracks - I could literally slip between the cars while the train is stopped and walk the rest of the way before they finish moving back and forth, but I do not do that) I noticed that all these propane tanks are marked Non-odorized and THAT really disturbs me. What's non-odorized propane doing out in the wild where it could leak unnoticed?