You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.

River ,'Objects In Space'


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.


chrismg - Mar 31, 2020 12:05:18 pm PDT #19039 of 30019
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

Possibly there should be regular broadcasts of someone reading the first few chapters of The Stand.


askye - Mar 31, 2020 12:07:17 pm PDT #19040 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

And apparently even though we have 2 containers of leftovers (because I'm the only one who will eat them if they haven't been doctored) dinner still needs to be cooked because there's a pack of chicken that needs to be cooked. So I'm frustrated cooking and trying to figure out how to make a casserole thing with just cream of mushroom soup and some chicken broth and no cheese. I think I'm going to cook everything, layer it, top with panko crumbs and parmesan cheese and get it toasty on top.

And I think we have pie dough in the fridge that is still good so tomorrow maybe we can make hand pies out of my kinda picadillo I made last night. Or someone can.


DavidS - Mar 31, 2020 12:14:42 pm PDT #19041 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Leprosy is hard to catch and can be readily cured. Do they still have sanitoria for tuberculosis?

Ayn doesn't have to die from it! I just want her nose to fall off.


aurelia - Mar 31, 2020 12:22:20 pm PDT #19042 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

And I thought, "I want to see Ayn Rand in a Leper Colony fighting off contagion with her personal responsibility."

I'd plop her in Wrigleyville on St Pats weekend.


aurelia - Mar 31, 2020 12:26:47 pm PDT #19043 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I use mostly coconut milk, but occasionally soy and/or oatmilk in my baking all the time, and it turns out splendidly. As in, if I didn't tell you that it was dairy-free, you wouldn't know it.

Coconut milk would have been my first choice, but that was not an option. It's good to know that you've had success with oatmilk.


-t - Mar 31, 2020 12:42:14 pm PDT #19044 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Casserole sounds good, askye


Pix - Mar 31, 2020 12:43:02 pm PDT #19045 of 30019
The status is NOT quo.

Texas gov is still not ordering a statewide stay-at-home order. I can almost see the argument that we're too big and varied for a single ordnance.

Unlike California....?


chrismg - Mar 31, 2020 12:54:51 pm PDT #19046 of 30019
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

I said almost.


Beverly - Mar 31, 2020 1:24:36 pm PDT #19047 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Random re: mascara raccoon eyes, the *only* thing that ever made me completely stop going to bed with mascara still on was inheriting my gran's hand-embroidered and hand-tatted lace-edged pillowcases. Nuh-uh would I get anything on those!

Also, I will and have cut anybody's hair. I cut several boyfriends' hair. I cut hair for everybody in the band, and their girlfriends. I cut my roommate's hair, and her boyfriend's hair, and his friends' hair. And half the dorm. I cut my kids' hair, and their friends and girlfriends' hair. I cut H's hair until he talked me into letting him buzz it--which he loves and I still don't, but...his head.

I can trim my own ends when my hair is collar-length or longer, and I used to razor-cut my nape and neck when I had it short-short for skating. I can cut my own bangs, and the top. And if I could take my head off and set it on the counter in front of me I could cut *all* my own hair, but I can't. I had it cut very short for reasons, so short I had to double-tiny-barrette it out of my face while the top-front grew out. Just when it was at a length to do something with the warnings started and I hesitated to go in for a cut. And now it's too late.

Ah well. There's always the ponytail, if the quarrantine lasts that long. Or I practice contortionism with a couple of mirrors and go for cut myself.


askye - Mar 31, 2020 2:00:53 pm PDT #19048 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

The casserole was pretty decent. Matthew's brother in law is doing better at this point, no fever so that is really good. Of course I'm the only one who thinks we should stay in self quarantine. We need to get groceries and the only real option is Instacart or Walmart delivery/pick up. Or have someone go out and I think that is the option that is going to win and I'm done arguing about why if we were exposed to someone who ran a fever for several days we shouldn't go places.

McMasters ordered non essential close contact businesses to close, not all non essential businesses. I'm expecting the next order will be ALL non essential businesses. Although an emergency alert went out saying this and to stay home.