This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.

Mal ,'Ariel'


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.


Vortex - Dec 02, 2021 8:26:15 pm PST #11087 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

And it was eaten much more quickly than the usual holiday turkey would have been (by my family).

My bro wasn't feeling well on Thanksgiving (did a test, no COVID), so we didn't go the turkey until Friday. Since we weren't doing traditional anyway, he decided to smoke the turkey. It was goooood.


JenP - Dec 02, 2021 9:57:00 pm PST #11088 of 30000

-t, good gym-ing! And good luck tomorrow.

Glad he's OK, Laura, but I'm sorry for the accident.

I took a way too long nap early evening, and now I'm wide awake. I love a nap, but I haven't taken one lately. I guess I'm out of practice with the waking up part.

We ordered a full-sized tree, and it arrived yesterday. I fluff a branch or two every time I walk by. It's a task I find SO boring and vaguely annoying (unreasonably, but a fact, nonetheless) that I can't make myself just stand there and do it all at once. The fluffiness is sort of meeting in the middle now. Maybe by Saturday, I'll start decorating it.


Calli - Dec 03, 2021 6:34:23 am PST #11089 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Whammageddon has made a major media outlet: [link]


Trudy Booth - Dec 03, 2021 8:01:15 am PST #11090 of 30000
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 think I'm going to embrace the practice of yelling "BAT!" and just walking away.

I am officially a New Yorker again and, as of Wednesday, hold a lease to a rent stabilized apartment in Washington Heights. They're going to take me out of this place in a bag.

Packing, otoh, is hell. I'm way way behind. More sorting will happen at unpack than I'd have liked. The upside is I've discoverd that maple syrup is AWESOME in tea.


-t - Dec 03, 2021 8:13:31 am PST #11091 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Congrats, Trudy!

I feel like fluffing up a tree a little at a time is the rational approach, JenP

Having an XL coffee while I do a little work before heading back for a full day of cashiering. Whee! Not too achy and sore after yesterday, which is nice.


Jessica - Dec 03, 2021 9:45:21 am PST #11092 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I had a very pre-Covid evening yesterday - my company held an actual in-person holiday party at a rooftop bar, and then a smaller group of us went out afterwards for KARAOKE!!!!

I LOVE VACCINE MANDATES.


Laura - Dec 03, 2021 10:04:10 am PST #11093 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I think I'm going to embrace the practice of yelling "BAT!" and just walking away.

Excellent plan! I just started watching this. So Much Fun! Also, welcome back to the city! Woot!

Fluffing the tree in little bits makes the most sense to do it well. We endorse this plan.

Yay for safe by vaccine mandated partying!! Woot!

Still wading through the onerous medical stuff here, but surviving.


Gudanov - Dec 03, 2021 10:06:39 am PST #11094 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

I LOVE VACCINE MANDATES.

Why do you hate America?


meara - Dec 03, 2021 10:16:49 am PST #11095 of 30000

Yay vaccines. Boo omicron! Though I feel like someone will surely start calling this weekends emerald city cómicon “omicrom”, no?

I am v relieved because after a rough start the internet here is blazing fast. Yesterday and this morning we were getting 100 kbps. Now it’s 350Mbps. Yes, from K to M. Whew!


dcp - Dec 03, 2021 10:21:38 am PST #11096 of 30000
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

Still wading through the onerous medical stuff here, but surviving.

Me too. CT scan done, 45 minutes to bone scan.