Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed.

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


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 - Aug 23, 2020 10:18:29 am PDT #25209 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

was it the wildfires or another cause? Oh I just saw on FB, awful.

Electrical fire started by the AC. JZ's mom was staying there this week with the AC on and smelled something funny (burning plastic-y). They called the realtor, she had an electrician come out to check it. He said turn off the AC which was getting strained with all the smoke from the wildfires. But I guess the fire might have already started? Unsure. But they do know it started with the AC.

I can't believe they actually had somebody out to look at it and still couldn't prevent this.

I think those are the correct details. Jacqueline can report on it better. She's meeting with the insurance agent now.


Jesse - Aug 23, 2020 10:24:31 am PDT #25210 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

How awful.


Theodosia - Aug 23, 2020 10:33:52 am PDT #25211 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"

Oh NO! I'm so sorry.


Theodosia - Aug 23, 2020 10:40:10 am PDT #25212 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"

Sophia -- You can go into the app to rate your Uber driver. Report his damn ass. I say this as a driver with lots of experience. They know what they have to do per company directions, and I doubt they're going to be casual about it.

That said, 15 minutes is supposedly acceptable if you yourself are masked, since it's the accumulation of virus particles (AKA the inoculum, my favorite new word) that seems to be the most important factor in getting sick.


Sheryl - Aug 23, 2020 11:06:51 am PDT #25213 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I'm sorry about JZ's dad's house.


Laura - Aug 23, 2020 11:07:56 am PDT #25214 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Oh, David. What a terrible blow. I'm so sorry.


Shir - Aug 23, 2020 11:50:42 am PDT #25215 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I am so sorry to hear about JZ's father's house. Terrible news.


shrift - Aug 23, 2020 12:14:07 pm PDT #25216 of 30019
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Jacqueline's father's house caught on fire last night.

Fuck. That is terrible news on top of everything else, and I'm sorry.

I had planned to do stuff today but our air quality is officially unhealthy

Same. I'm trying to figure out when I can get some errands done when I won't be On-Call and the air quality isn't so bad.


msbelle - Aug 23, 2020 2:16:46 pm PDT #25217 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Text-banking for 2 orgs: Red2Blue which has you go through a training, send controlled texts at specific times in a moderated slack channel for specific areas or candidates, and reviews your texts each day. Also these lists are small because they are for a specific candidate or a county or something similar.

Then for When We All Vote, which does not give you training, does not limit how many you text, has HUGE lists of all registered voters, has no means that I can see to ask a live person questions while you are texting, and also from what I can see offers no feedback on the texts you send. For this to be Michelle Obama's group and have so little oversight is really bad.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 23, 2020 2:22:27 pm PDT #25218 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

So sorry to hear the news about JZ's dad's house.