Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?

Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Deena - Feb 14, 2019 12:55:47 pm PST #5295 of 8216
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

bt! I hug in your general direction!

Thanks, guys!

Edit: my keyboard keeps throwing in the random capital i.


Toddson - Feb 14, 2019 1:23:37 pm PST #5296 of 8216
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

oh ... I keep reading things about Opportunity's last message and I found this:

Last night NASA sent one final data uplink to the Opportunity Mars rover. It's been unresponsive since a dust storm last June, but us being us we kept sending commands on the crazy off chance it woke back up. Over 835 commands to be more precise.
Yesterday marked the final upload, less of a final poke but more of a kind 'goodnight'. They sent Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You" through space to no reply.


billytea - Feb 14, 2019 1:51:55 pm PST #5297 of 8216
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

bt! I hug in your general direction!

Well that's only fair. There's a lot of cuddly critters in my general direction. (You might prefer to avoid the thorny devils though.)

Edit: I take it back, I checked with them and they are down with the whole hugs concept. [link]


Beverly - Feb 14, 2019 1:57:55 pm PST #5298 of 8216
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Congrats, Hil!

Happy anniversary, Deena! Handy holidays are good reminders--ours is July 3rd, or as I phrased it, DEpendents Day before Independence Day.


Laura - Feb 14, 2019 2:12:27 pm PST #5299 of 8216
Our wings are not tired.

DEpendents Day before Independence Day.

That's awesome.

I keep reading things about Opportunity's last message and I found this:

The entire adventure was so amazing, from the moment it actually landed safely. Science rocks!


meara - Feb 14, 2019 2:47:53 pm PST #5300 of 8216

Aww I like that hugging horny devil billy tea!


billytea - Feb 14, 2019 3:55:58 pm PST #5301 of 8216
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Aww I like that hugging horny devil billy tea!

I'm imagining him saying my tagline.


Deena - Feb 14, 2019 5:22:44 pm PST #5302 of 8216
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

My horny toad is happy to take hugs from your horny devil. (edit, oops: thorny devil) [link]

(That sounds all kinds of wrong)


billytea - Feb 14, 2019 5:27:00 pm PST #5303 of 8216
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

And now I'm imagining your horny toad saying your tagline, and it still kind of works.

Edit, for the record:

Thorny devil in compromising position: "Do you accept awkward hugs? Because mine are pretty damn unsettling, on multiple levels."
Horny toad, radiating scepticism: "How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me."


Deena - Feb 14, 2019 5:39:05 pm PST #5304 of 8216
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

I love that!

I just realized -- 19th wedding anniversary, and I've been on the board for over 16 years. You guys have held my hand all through this marriage thing. It's so weird. And such a long time. And it feels like a couple of years ago, at most, for both things.