Dana, your husband (and you!) deserve immense praise for putting up with all that drawn-out bullshit for so long. What assholes.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
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.
Amy - May 14, 2020 7:31:36 am PDT #21226 of 30019
Because books.
Gudanov - May 14, 2020 7:36:29 am PDT #21227 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
A very good restaurant in Maryland - The Inn at Little Washington - will be opening at 50% capacity. They've acquired mannequins, dressed them in 1940s style clothing and have them at alternate tables. The wait staff have been instructed to treat them as customers, to the extent of pouring wine for them.
Sounds like eating in a Doctor Who episode.
Gudanov - May 14, 2020 7:36:48 am PDT #21228 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
Sorry you two are being dragged through this, Dana.
Dana - May 14, 2020 8:03:27 am PDT #21229 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Thanks, guys.
I guess the possible good news is that my contract job is again making noises about a conversion to full-time. The local guy I work with has been very complimentary and is agitating for it, trying to convince the higher-ups. So that's a possible route back to having benefits we don't pay out the nose for.
-t - May 14, 2020 8:11:32 am PDT #21230 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Uuuuggghhhh Dana. Good luck with the benefits getting!
Zenkitty - May 14, 2020 8:48:10 am PDT #21231 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Best of luck with obtaining employment, Dana and DH of Dana. What a lot of stress for nothing! That company doesn't deserve either of you.
I dislike the person I have become, and the illness I wish upon the idiots. But I can't help it. They deserve what they get, but the rest of the citizens they will come in contact with don't.
Laura, I am right there with you. I'm afraid for the workers who are forced to be in harm's way, but I no longer give a crap what happens to the idiots who want to behave as if everything is normal and fine. I just don't have the emotional bandwidth left to care about people who won't care about anyone else.
DebetEsse - May 14, 2020 9:52:29 am PDT #21232 of 30019
Woe to the fucking wicked.
sigh
~ma to everyone. I just want to charter a private plane and fly allay'all out here to stay for the duration. We've had no active cases on-island for several days, and there's actual testing and, while there's absolutely going to be some tourist who brings it in, we've got some hope of limiting the spread, since we have much more ability to limit people coming in.
-t - May 14, 2020 10:08:55 am PDT #21233 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is good to hear, DebetEsse. I was just having a moment of despair that everywhere was fucking up.
Jesse - May 14, 2020 10:40:17 am PDT #21234 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana, your husband (and you!) deserve immense praise for putting up with all that drawn-out bullshit for so long. What assholes.
What Amy said! And I hope you get those sweet sweet benefits.
amyparker - May 14, 2020 11:39:46 am PDT #21235 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
I would like to echo DebetEsse in wishing I could bring all y'all here: there haven't been any new confirmed cases on the island in nearly a week, and with only one ferry running and all the cruise ships having canceled their stops in Seattle, we're expecting a lot less tourist traffic this season.