Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.

Buffy ,'Him'


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.


Topic!Cindy - Nov 16, 2020 5:46:26 pm PST #29800 of 30019
What is even happening?

I figure those of us from dysfunctional families finally get our chance to shine.


Steph L. - Nov 16, 2020 5:50:28 pm PST #29801 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I figure those of us from dysfunctional families finally get our chance to shine.

Ahahahaha!!! This just made me do my loud donkey laugh. (I *knew* I was keeping this C-PTSD around for a reason!)


meara - Nov 16, 2020 6:03:23 pm PST #29802 of 30019

Meanwhile I’m about ready to strangle this dog. He has not shut up with the whining and barking all day, and I’ve felt sick all day so it was even less appreciated than usual. Plus it rained all day so I couldn’t take him to the dog park. But Jesus. I just fed him some doggy CBD stuff, fingers crossed it works.


Beverly - Nov 16, 2020 6:11:32 pm PST #29803 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

quester - Nov 16, 2020 6:20:15 pm PST #29804 of 30019
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

~ma and condolences, a round for everybody, barkeep! Keep 'em coming! always need more. :-(

omg, this year is wearing me down. I now have a persistent, not quite a migraine headache, I keep hoping antihistamines and mucus thinners will help. so far, not so much.

funny, but not funny thing is how the loss and health has brought us back here, the one truly safe place on the intertubes.

Also, I feel like I've been haunted by DX. for the last month I've see random posts from him. probably just my screwed up FB algorithm, but it was so weird to hear that he'd died in June. Seriously weird.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 16, 2020 6:32:58 pm PST #29805 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

I went in to my doctor for a punch biopsy today, and he looked aghast when I read off the litany of crappy things that have happened (or I've become aware of happening) this past week. I'm going to take the fact that I'm *not* feeling completely overwhelmed and depressed as a mark in the win column.

Also, no one warned me that when they freeze skin tags, they swell up tight like very tiny balloons afterwards. These things cannot fall off soon enough for my liking.


Steph L. - Nov 16, 2020 6:46:39 pm PST #29806 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

My dad just told me he has about 200 rolls of TP. ("I work at a grocery store," he said. "I buy it whenever it's on sale!") I called him a hoarder.

This information is probably really only useful to Hil, who does live near-ish to him.


Calli - Nov 16, 2020 6:49:00 pm PST #29807 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I hope Tim’s test comes back negative.

Here’s hoping the rest of the week is better for people.

Last night, at the family Skype call, I learned that my niece would be hosting family Christmas. She’s in upstate NY, I’m in NC, and the rest of the family is in MI. I floated the idea that I’d be watching the COVID rates, and if things didn’t get much worse, I’d drive up. I expect things are going to get significantly worse and sincerely doubt I’ll be traveling over Christmas. But with 11 years of Christmas visits in my rear view it seemed best to ease them into things.


Hil R. - Nov 16, 2020 7:11:55 pm PST #29808 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

This information is probably really only useful to Hil, who does live near-ish to him.

Heh. I'm actually in NJ now, so not all that useful to me.

My dad had to bring my mom's old SUV to the wheelchair van place, because they're getting a new one tomorrow. It took me a while to convince him to let me drive there, too, and then give him a ride home. He thought he'd be fine just taking an Uber.


Steph L. - Nov 16, 2020 7:15:18 pm PST #29809 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

This information is probably really only useful to Hil, who does live near-ish to him.

Heh. I'm actually in NJ now, so not all that useful to me.

I betcha he'll STILL have a veritable bunker of TP whenever you get back. You could get back in 2022 and he'd probably still have quite the stash.