The kitty's Advent calendar was delivered less than 24 hours after I ordered it. That's service! I didn't pick next-day shipping; just the flat-rate option. So now we need to hide it until December 14.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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.
Steph L. - Oct 15, 2020 9:13:45 am PDT #27686 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
sj - Oct 15, 2020 9:21:37 am PDT #27687 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Calli, I just handed that catalog off to ltc so she can circle things she wants.
My town is currently a maze of different detours of construction projects, and every time I pass a group of construction workers and cops talking to each other without masks on I get angrier and angrier.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 15, 2020 9:33:59 am PDT #27688 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
Much the same here, sj, minus the cops. And me thinking "hope they have ICU beds left for you, ignorant motherfuckers!"
meara - Oct 15, 2020 9:38:02 am PDT #27689 of 30019
I have not yet received an Amazon catalog, but since my ballot wasn't mailed until yesterday I sure hope a catalog isn't gumming up the works.
I've seen multiple friends on fb or elsewhere ask for a ride to the airport, in the past few days. Which is frustrating—I know there are some folks that feel they have to travel (for a sick family member, say) or are appropriately quarantining on either end and combining with testing and whatnot, but man it makes me annoyed I'm doing the "right" thing when I really want to be going somewhere and seeing someone (anywhere, anyone!)
sj - Oct 15, 2020 9:38:32 am PDT #27690 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There are like 4 cops being paid goodness knows how much to direct traffic at every construction site and you know they are also interacting with the public.
-t - Oct 15, 2020 10:07:01 am PDT #27691 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My department is apparently reorganizing. I am tense and anxious about it. I think the changes are probably good, but I don't know yet what it'll mean for me personally, so, anxious.
-t - Oct 15, 2020 10:08:32 am PDT #27692 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And a team meeting has been scheduled for 20 minutes from now, presumably to discuss the department meeting, which we sure as hell need but I don't know when I'm going to be able to have lunch...
Toddson - Oct 15, 2020 10:08:47 am PDT #27693 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There were actual PEOPLE in the office today! I'm so used to being alone ... our top two staff members were in, along with a representative from our new tech support company. It was strange.
-t - Oct 15, 2020 10:09:38 am PDT #27694 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, wow, Toddson!
Calli - Oct 15, 2020 10:16:13 am PDT #27695 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My town is currently a maze of different detours of construction projects, and every time I pass a group of construction workers and cops talking to each other without masks on I get angrier and angrier.
I get that. We have a roundabout going in about half a block from me. Hardly anyone involved is wearing a mask. And on one hand, it's very physical work, and wearing a mask might be difficult in those circumstance. On the other hand, when COVID came in, they really hadn't done much. Halting construction would have been a much better choice, I think. I don't recall anyone crying out for a roundabout to begin with.