I hope the new diagnosis is useful, Kalshane.
River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are. Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?
'Safe'
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.
WindSparrow - Oct 25, 2016 1:01:49 pm PDT #98 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
sj - Oct 25, 2016 1:06:34 pm PDT #99 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Right now Princeton Consortium is giving 84% odds that the Senate will flip. That would be AMAZING.
This would be good for finally filling the empty SCOTUS seat.
Sue - Oct 25, 2016 1:08:24 pm PDT #100 of 30002
hip deep in pie
No Canadian I've ever met would get within a mile of the US system.
Everytime you guys talk about health insurance, I mentally hug our healthcare system a little bit tighter. Not that there aren't problems.
It also helps that I have supplemental insurance & a good doctor who I have had a long relationship with.
-t - Oct 25, 2016 1:28:15 pm PDT #101 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My coworker is trying to talk me into reinventing myself as a horseshoe crab rancher. Pretty successfully, I am intrigued. I'll have to check the municipal code, but I don't think that's expressly forbidden in my city.
Zenkitty - Oct 25, 2016 2:26:52 pm PDT #102 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Horseshoe crabs are tremendously cool.
Calli - Oct 25, 2016 3:15:13 pm PDT #103 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Who was it that wrote politician slash, PMM? [link]
sarameg - Oct 25, 2016 3:27:11 pm PDT #104 of 30002
I got to pet one on Monday! Also, jellyfish. Which feel so much more substantial than they look (I'd never knowingly touched one before; they look like they should feel and give like silk in water. But no, solid like...I dunno. Nearest comparison I have is a blob of dried silicon glue.)
Only you guys will get this: as I was putting away dishes tonight, I said "Damn, my parents used all my spoons!" And had to add, "Not figuratively!" (But seriously, ALL of them.Normally my drainer is filled with just forks and one spoon.)
Amy - Oct 25, 2016 3:29:59 pm PDT #105 of 30002
Because books.
Is there a big trade in horseshoe crabs, -t? That seems surprising, but I don't know anything about them!
Seeing a woman POTUS is going to be huge for girls across the country, as Steph said. Hell, it's going to be big for me.
Also, what Calli said about the rats. It's not like I didn't know shitty, small-minded people existed, but the number of people who agree enthusiastically with Trump's hatespeech is really disheartening.
SuziQ - Oct 25, 2016 3:30:30 pm PDT #106 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Zen...I wish you safely through the layoffs. It sucks.
My company is going through a major reorganization right now. The CEO had said that 800 jobs will likely get cut. The original implecation was that it would be upper, upper management types. But every Thursday for the past 3 weeks, so far, they have laid off a chunk of folks. And it appears completely random. Some folks who have great reputations and who are fully billable (not on overhead). Others who are low level and aren't going to cut much cost. Today I showed three different people how to query our company directory to see who was terminated in the last week. The results include people who quit too, but it is sad that pulling that list is now part of my Monday routine.
As for my job...I think I will make it through but who the heck knows. I'm trying to take comfort in the thought that severence plus my banked time off would cover about a half a year's salary. The weekly layoffs are supposed to be done by the end of November...so another month of sitting on the bubble.
Edited to fix the word salad courtesy of autocorrect.
sarameg - Oct 25, 2016 3:34:45 pm PDT #107 of 30002
Their blood is used for medical testing. Vital in vaccine testing, I think. Ideally, they are only blood donors, not killed (but it does have an impact on the wild population, IIRC from whatever it was I watched.)