Yay, I don't have to report for jury duty service on Monday! One day down, four more days of uncertainty to go next week.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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.
shrift - Mar 31, 2017 3:12:14 pm PDT #9252 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
aurelia - Mar 31, 2017 4:36:58 pm PDT #9253 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm lucky that my parents and my grandmother are doing okay, healthwise. I have wondered if I will eventually need to move nearer to them though.
it has awakened the temptation for me to daub the lintels of my cubicle with fake blood for Passover.
I would laugh.
I am sitting in my office listening to the first preview of King of the Yees, a comic fever-dream story that takes place in SF Chinatown. I can also hear Destiny of Desire in the other theatre which is a tele-novela musical. Trying to read Ah, Wilderness is not going well.
Kate P. - Mar 31, 2017 5:47:47 pm PDT #9254 of 30002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
OK, I was talking to my mother today about sewing, and I said something about tying the thread to the needle once you put it through the eye, and she looked at me like I had said something so crazy she wasn't even sure she understood it. Is this not a thing that other people do when they're sewing? Or is she the crazy one for not tying her thread to the needle?
meara - Mar 31, 2017 6:00:18 pm PDT #9255 of 30002
I....have never done that. Though I also don't do a ton of hand sewing?
Connie Neil - Mar 31, 2017 6:03:43 pm PDT #9256 of 30002
brillig
How do you tie a thread to the needle?
msbelle - Mar 31, 2017 6:06:08 pm PDT #9257 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have never tied a thread to the needle.
Kate P. - Mar 31, 2017 6:08:26 pm PDT #9258 of 30002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
WHAT. How do you keep the thread on the needle, then? Wouldn't it just slip out after every stitch? (And where did I learn to do it this way, if nobody else sews like this?)
Dana - Mar 31, 2017 6:10:22 pm PDT #9259 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I never did much in the way of sewing, but I'm pretty sure my husband ties the thread on the needle.
msbelle - Mar 31, 2017 6:10:50 pm PDT #9260 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
you thread it through the eye and leave a tail.
aurelia - Mar 31, 2017 6:14:23 pm PDT #9261 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Yeah, if you leave the tail long enough it won't slip out. Doesn't a knot leave a hole bigger than the needle in the fabric?