Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Trudy Booth - Jan 11, 2022 7:40:26 am PST #12034 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

So if I am making a worksheet where people have to enter their name, I have to triple check I haven’t asked them to enter their Nadine.

Would be awfully nice if all the world had their own Nadine.


Laura - Jan 11, 2022 11:04:22 am PST #12035 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I was just doing an online yoga class (live) and forgot to turn off my microphone.

Ha! That did make me snort.

Chitchatting with my eldest this morning as he was moaning about -9F temps. Laughable for me having been raised in that environment, but hysterical for the one who spent his first 28 years in Florida. He doesn't know it but I bought him boots for his birthday. Fool is still walking around in basketball shoes. Anyway next month he is going to a Billie Eilish concert in Pittsburgh so I discussed the whole driving on insane hills on ice thing, since he really doesn't understand either. He has driven plenty in snow last year, but in a city with well maintained pretty flat roads.


Calli - Jan 11, 2022 11:10:49 am PST #12036 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Oooh, Discovery + has Rehab Addict, too. I may have to get that.


Toddson - Jan 11, 2022 12:09:15 pm PST #12037 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

My old apartment was in the middle of a couple of hills (one along the front, one along the side) and every time there was snow I'd hear people spinning their wheels. Some people never learn to drive on snow. Or even get their cars out of the snow.


-t - Jan 11, 2022 12:29:20 pm PST #12038 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

We had our Three Year Vision Plan meeting today and I really did not know what to expect from it. About half was actually a motivational speaker. The actual "vision" part feels like science fiction, which I'm going to lean into because, hey, I like science fiction so that might work for me! Also finished my self-eval, a good couple of hours before the deadline, and feel pretty okay about it.

Still have a meeting scheduled with a customer this afternoon or I would be calling it a day.


JenP - Jan 11, 2022 12:30:05 pm PST #12039 of 30000

I just try to avoid it, though I was actually pretty good at it when I was younger, now that I think about it. Well, I mean, I guess most people try to avoid it if they can... though thresholds for what is critical to do when it's snowing vary widely.


-t - Jan 11, 2022 12:34:22 pm PST #12040 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I never learned to drive in snow. I've only had to a couple of times and I just, you know, went very slow and hoped for the best. But I live at basically sea level in a temperate zone, a snowstorm would be quite a surprise.


Toddson - Jan 11, 2022 2:42:07 pm PST #12041 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

My family lived in Louisville and, when I was five, moved to northern New Jersey. Louisville MIGHT get an inch or so of snow. First snowfall in New Jersey - 11 inches.


-t - Jan 11, 2022 3:03:52 pm PST #12042 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

OK, I ran out of people food again, but I still have a little cat food and I have groceries ordered for pickup tomorrow after work and a plan to go to Starbucks before work (which means getting out of bed more than 1 minute before work so that will be a challenge but I CAN DO IT IF I TRY) so everything is going to be okay. And I feel weirdly energetic at the moment, like maybe I actually have been a little sick for the last week while telling myself I was definitely not sick just tired. Oops. But now better? So there's that.


Sheryl - Jan 11, 2022 3:19:36 pm PST #12043 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Mr. S has fallen asleep on the couch with Netflix running.(Some Pokemon show) I'd turn it off, but I think the remote is under him.