We got permission to run into the office long enough to grab a few things to make wfh easier today, so I'm going to rescue my poor plants and get my keyboard and mouse and probably a notebook and dayplanner. Exciting!
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
-t - Mar 23, 2020 3:51:43 am PDT #18448 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sj - Mar 23, 2020 3:53:34 am PDT #18449 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yay, plant rescue, -t! I was just thinking of the poor seedlings that ltc and her classmates were growing.
Toddson - Mar 23, 2020 4:09:53 am PDT #18450 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This situation seems to be bringing out both the worst and the best in people. Jim Bakker is pushing colloidal silver as a cure; seemingly, all it does it turn you blue (literally). So if you see someone with blue skin, they've been taking the silver. Either that or they're re-enacting Braveheart.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2020 5:00:45 am PDT #18451 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Trying to find out what the fuck was wrong with the selection process for ALL of those schools
It's a lottery, and she didn't win.
All of her friends got into their schools. About half her friends that applied to SOTA got in.
We'll go through the second round after various people decline their school choices (as we are about to do).
-t - Mar 23, 2020 5:03:50 am PDT #18452 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Have completed my pre-dawn raid on my cubicle. Spoils include a keyboard, mouse, steno pad, and 3-month calendar, a couple of pens, and my poor bedraggled plants. Zero humans encountered.
-t - Mar 23, 2020 5:06:30 am PDT #18453 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Second-round luck to Matilda! That all seems really complicated. Hey, Hec, did y'all actually take possiession of your new bed, am I remembering that right?
Amy - Mar 23, 2020 5:18:10 am PDT #18454 of 30019
Because books.
I'm so sorry, David -- I thought you mentioned something about the public school (or neighborhood school?) having a decent film program.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2020 5:19:53 am PDT #18455 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That all seems really complicated.
The SFUSD school assignment process is an absolute nightmare. Which is why Emmett went to school in the East Bay and I spent 12 years of my life on the Bay Bridge.
Hey, Hec, did y'all actually take possiession of your new bed, am I remembering that right?
We did! Jacqueline has exclusive use of it at the moment. I get to sleep on the lumpy couch and wake up at 4:30am in a rage about Matilda's school assignments.
Couch surfing your way through a quarantine sucks. JZ and Matilda get rooms. I get my nerdhole.
sj - Mar 23, 2020 5:36:55 am PDT #18456 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The MA governor has ordered all non-essential businesses to close.
Toddson - Mar 23, 2020 5:47:08 am PDT #18457 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The DC mayor has closed most of the roads around the Tidal Basin with police turning people away. Some of them just HAD to see the cherry blossoms. I saw photos and it was fairly crowded - no social distancing. Meanwhile, for those who want to see the blossoms but prefer not to go there, the Park Service has the live bloom cam. I sent it around to people in the office who are at home. Also, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has a number of live cams, which I predicted would keep a kid occupied for FIVE WHOLE MINUTES ... which is more than most parents would get otherwise.