She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.

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.


Cass - Oct 17, 2021 5:40:36 pm PDT #10014 of 29851
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

But she has plans for the "next phase" of her life and told me about her plans to renovate her place and get new furniture and to hopefully be able to travel . She was happy and upbeat about it. She wouldn't be doing this alone she has a ...special man in her life.
Good for her. It a lot to Care for another. Glad she has plans and will also care for herself.


EpicTangent - Oct 17, 2021 5:41:52 pm PDT #10015 of 29851
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I'm watching a new (to me) procedural out of Australia (Halifax: Retribution on PBS) and one of the main characters has a late teen-early twenties daughter who looks so much like Matilda it's messing with my head.


Laura - Oct 18, 2021 6:29:58 am PDT #10016 of 29851
Our wings are not tired.

I'm glad you got to see your grandmother, askye. It is good that your aunt is looking forward. One of the biggest grief issues for caregivers is the feeling of not being needed anymore and preparing for that is huge.


Laura - Oct 18, 2021 6:48:32 am PDT #10017 of 29851
Our wings are not tired.

Is it wrong that when I heard about the death of General Powell that my first thought was at least I didn't have to hear nothing except Senators Manchin and Sinema news for a day?


Steph L. - Oct 18, 2021 7:24:24 am PDT #10018 of 29851
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

That's better than my first thought, Laura, which was: why couldn't it have been Trump instead?


Topic!Cindy - Oct 18, 2021 7:28:10 am PDT #10019 of 29851
What is even happening?

Right there with you, Tep. My first thought was: "Really, Walter Reed? You saved TFG, and you couldn't save Powell?"

Laura, I've had the news off for the last couple of days, because it was really doing in my head. I can't say I feel that much better, but the worsening has stopped. I can't keep being so mad at people and things I can't change.


Trudy Booth - Oct 18, 2021 7:40:38 am PDT #10020 of 29851
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I am rickety too. The mask somehow makes it so I have no depth perception at all, and I already had poor depth perception.

Sophia, I feel you. The first time I wore a mask I discovered in the face-plant-on-the-sidewalk way that peripheral vision isn't just to the sides and that I look at the ground more than I realized.

Any other fully-hearing person discover just how much they read lips to understand what people are saying?


Dana - Oct 18, 2021 8:08:07 am PDT #10021 of 29851
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

My doctor and I were just talking about how the mask messes with your vision, as he had to help me step down from the table. I got progressives a year ago, which makes it even worse for me.


Trudy Booth - Oct 18, 2021 8:15:39 am PDT #10022 of 29851
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I fortunately had a chance to get used to the mask before I had to get used to the progressives... took me about a month to go down stairs without grabbing the rail CUZ WE BE RICKETY!


meara - Oct 18, 2021 8:22:17 am PDT #10023 of 29851

I already knew I read lips a lot, but masking has def proved it.

Cindy what does TFG mean? All I can think is “that ducking guy”

How do mondays keep happening? And I keep having to WORK for a living? Wtf. Surely I should get paid to lay around and pet me dog and watch tiktok?