She has to figure out how to get to the East Bay since Muni has shut down most of their lines.
Also, she just found out that somebody broke into her church and vandalized it. Smashing things up maliciously.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
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.
DavidS - Apr 06, 2020 9:32:26 am PDT #19381 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ - Apr 06, 2020 9:38:51 am PDT #19382 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The major shutdown doesn't happen until tomorrow, so for today it should be easy enough to get out there. I just checked all the schedules and I'm good.
I cannot believe someone did that (and did it to another church a dozen blocks away last week, apparently). Our parish has been shut down and locked up for a while, but we don't have an alarm system and if someone was able to break open the side door they'd have had access to everything and the priest, in his second-story apartment behind the parish hall, couldn't hear a thing.
Laura - Apr 06, 2020 10:19:32 am PDT #19383 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
That makes me so sad, JZ. As an ancient one I remember well when our Catholic churches were open 24/7 and there was never an issue. Granted, that was a long time ago. I know the church in Otter Lake is still open much of the time despite no one being in residence. Still, you better be pretty convinced there is no God to be vandalizing churches!
JZ - Apr 06, 2020 10:25:30 am PDT #19384 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I don't even think they stole anything, because there was nothing of value to steal. Everything that was wrecked was hand-made, either by a parishioner or by a crafter commissioned by a parishioner. Things like a pasteboard landscape with five plywood butterflies on it, representing the five families our sanctuary committee spirited out of Nicaragua to safety in Canada (even in the 1980s, the US was not an optimal place for people fleeing political violence). What kind of statement does anyone think they're making destroying something like that?
Laura - Apr 06, 2020 10:25:34 am PDT #19385 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Apparently Boris Johnson has now been moved to intensive care. Man is a bozo, but I don't wish that on him.
Laura - Apr 06, 2020 10:26:50 am PDT #19386 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
What kind of statement does anyone think they're making destroying something like that?
No statement. Just mindless violence. I'm so sorry that your fellow parishioners have to have this on top of everything else.
Jesse - Apr 06, 2020 11:51:26 am PDT #19387 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't even think they stole anything, because there was nothing of value to steal. Everything that was wrecked was hand-made, either by a parishioner or by a crafter commissioned by a parishioner.
That is truly despicable. How terrible.
Sheryl - Apr 06, 2020 11:52:56 am PDT #19388 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Amy!
Ugh...Mr.S has a bad habit of taking things from our(Gary and my) night table drawers, tops of dressers, etc. Worst was when he took the ring drawer from my jewelry box. I found the drawer but not the rings that were in it. Of course, when I ask him where they are, he "doesn't remember". If I had other places to put such things, I would, but I don't.
-t - Apr 06, 2020 12:08:05 pm PDT #19389 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, that is awful about the vandalism! So sad.
Oh, man, Sheryl, I hope you can find them!
Theodosia - Apr 06, 2020 12:53:31 pm PDT #19390 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
In small but good news: I saw the first butterfly of spring today! And there are enough open/opening blossoms on hand for them, too.