Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.

Zoe ,'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.


-t - Oct 30, 2020 9:23:38 am PDT #28341 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Covid~ma, Scrappy!

I find baking bread way easier with a scale, but just adding stuff by eye and guesstimating also works pretty well, honestly.

That sounds like a long day, Laura, but working with veterans of the process should probably help it go smoothly.

We have GoogleChat/Hangouts but not everyone uses it. And I wouldn't be comfortable using any of the company provided tools for backchannel discussion, I don't think.


-t - Oct 30, 2020 9:24:40 am PDT #28342 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

10 ft! That's so close!


Laura - Oct 30, 2020 9:25:17 am PDT #28343 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

I know there will be observers there too, from both parties, but I don't know if they arrive before dawn like we do. 150' is quite reasonable. 10' is absurd! Yikes.


Laura - Oct 30, 2020 9:25:56 am PDT #28344 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Negative~ma, Scrappy.


-t - Oct 30, 2020 9:42:29 am PDT #28345 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I did send out an email to my team bemoaning that we couldn't all get together for Happy Hour, which makes me feel slightly better? Very slightly.


amyparker - Oct 30, 2020 9:45:09 am PDT #28346 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.

Toddson, as some of the cars have been in those spots for days, in the Before Times I would have been "It's only four-hour parking out there, you get what you get". Part of the neighborhood's striving for net-zero carbon includes only one parking spot per household; multicar families regularly scramble to find a secure place to keep their vehicles that's fairly close. And now, of course, a lot of folks have had people move in with them for the duration and parking enforcement is not a priority. But the city should have talked to the HOA, put flyers under the windshield wipers, SOMETHING.

askye, four hours?!? I salute your dedication.

Aw, -t, I'm sorry. Backchannel Hangouts?

Laura, let us hope all employers are awesome and give people time earlier in the day to vote, if not the day off - I don't want you to have to tell anyone "No, I'm sorry, you're too late".

JenP, I was trying to be classy and picked something too delicate for daily wear. *g*

Jesse, I only have scales because of UK cookbooks; I've never managed a successful starter - may your luck be better!


Jesse - Oct 30, 2020 10:19:17 am PDT #28347 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

PA allows campaigning up to 10' of a polling place entrance which is crazy. That's no space at all!

Wow, that is crazy.

I can't believe I had a flour crisis at the supermarket! They didn't have any 5lb bags of King Arthur AP, and only had 5lb bags of whole wheat. I am walking, so am not trying to buy a 10 lb bag, which they did have. Flour trauma!!


meara - Oct 30, 2020 10:27:01 am PDT #28348 of 30019

Ooh, just saw press. We are moving digs? Do we need money? I...can't send any until they return the $6k that was stolen out of my account but after that's fixed (please let it be fixed) I can


-t - Oct 30, 2020 10:34:54 am PDT #28349 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ooh, that is a dilemma, Jesse!


Gudanov - Oct 30, 2020 10:38:47 am PDT #28350 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping

We are moving. There's no need for money to make the move.