Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

'Serenity'


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.


Laura - Sep 02, 2020 3:16:55 am PDT #25596 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

I'm lactose-sensitive and I hate skim milk so I'd rather eat the cereal dry.

The various alternatives, almond, cashew, coconut, or rice milk work great in cereal. I'm partial to the cashew or coconut. My numbers for both sugar and cholesterol dramatically improve with adding lots of fiber to my diet. I even add grape nuts to my oatmeal. Adding stuff as well as removing stuff works twice as well. My family tree is filled with diabetes so I've always been careful there. {{hugs}}

My bff insists that I don't eat real meals I eat snacks.

Also often a valid way to eat for diabetes.

Cass, I am sorry this is such a painful process. I wish I had better words of comfort. You know from experience your mother's words of comfort. Visit with her memory and listen to her advice. Take care of your self.

{{meara}} {{Katie Bee}} Universe, we have enough on our plates already!


Laura - Sep 02, 2020 3:23:26 am PDT #25597 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

The Markey Kennedy race was odd to watch from afar, possibly stranger for the constituents. Haven't followed closely, but it seemed inappropriate timing for Kennedy to challenge that way.

In other political not-news, the world has gone mad. Every single day there is a year's worth of scandal. It is exhausting.


Jesse - Sep 02, 2020 3:58:37 am PDT #25598 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The Markey Kennedy race was odd to watch from afar, possibly stranger for the constituents. Haven't followed closely, but it seemed inappropriate timing for Kennedy to challenge that way.

I think the idea is that he couldn't beat Ayanna Pressley for the next open seat (potentially Warren's soon, in a Biden administration), so he thought he'd take a shot now.


sj - Sep 02, 2020 4:40:59 am PDT #25599 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

TCG thought maybe it was a practice run for Warren's seat, but I didn't think about the fact that Pressley would likely run for that as well.


sj - Sep 02, 2020 4:42:25 am PDT #25600 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I forgot home difficult it can be to put on outside clothes every day and make small talk with people and worry about not looking like a mess.


Jesse - Sep 02, 2020 5:21:20 am PDT #25601 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am still exhausted from working the polls yesterday -- a long day, lots of talking, lots of people!


sj - Sep 02, 2020 5:22:15 am PDT #25602 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

People are exhausting.


Jesse - Sep 02, 2020 5:24:23 am PDT #25603 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

True fact. Especially the one guy who insisted that he had already rejected his party affiliation, when the city had no record of that, and insisted on getting a republican ballot, when they had him down as a democrat.


Theodosia - Sep 02, 2020 5:48:15 am PDT #25604 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"

All the candidates I liked won, albeit for a primary. I just hope this is a harbinger for November.

Alas, I am extrapolating from results in The People's Republic of Massachusetts.


-t - Sep 02, 2020 6:03:48 am PDT #25605 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

My parents volunteered with Kiwanis to be pollworkers many times and they always found the days long and tiring and always with some kind of weirdness whether from voters or from the official apparatus. Thanks for doing that, Jesse!

Just before I woke up I was dreaming that I was, for reasons that are now unclear outside of dreamland, beating on a leather upholstered chair with my fists but that was too tiring and I was despairing of being so weak and tired that I couldn't beat up furniture when my alarm went off so that really set the tone for the day