My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


msbelle - Feb 25, 2022 9:51:09 am PST #13378 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

My coping mechanism today seems to be to eat all the things. How does that help? No clue.

I got my second shingles shot today.

Congrats on new job!

Congrats on housing starts and closes.

Boo ear infection. Seems like tele-visit should be allowed for that.


Steph L. - Feb 25, 2022 10:08:47 am PST #13379 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I got my second shingles shot today.

Oh man, I have a huge welt from my first shingles shot (that I got Wednesday morning). It's almost comical.


Dana - Feb 25, 2022 10:30:34 am PST #13380 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I often have the urge to get into the car and just drive to Oklahoma. It's not that far, and then I will have been to Oklahoma.


-t - Feb 25, 2022 10:37:25 am PST #13381 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Have you not been to Oklahoma, Dana?

It's been a while since I had the urge to just drive away. I kind of could right now, pack up the cat and the laptop and go. Maybe that's why doing it is less appealing, I wouldn't be leaving anything behind.


Toddson - Feb 25, 2022 10:48:29 am PST #13382 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I've had the impulse to abandon my job, my apartment, everything, and just (as they say) light out for the territories. But I am (dammit) a grown-up and too old to start over.

For ltc - try a heating pad or something warm. I had constant infections (ear, sinus, throat) and warmth would help the ears.


Dana - Feb 25, 2022 11:11:34 am PST #13383 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I have never been to Oklahoma. I wonder how long it takes to get to Arkansas from here, where I have also never been.


DavidS - Feb 25, 2022 11:13:07 am PST #13384 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I never have the impulse to run away, because I already ran to the one place I want to stay.

I do, periodically, have the impulse to hunker down and not leave San Francisco though.

Just talked to our Realtor and he squeezed $15k out of the seller to deal with the undocumented HVAC issues. We're about two weeks from the close of Escrow and we've been warned the lenders will want ridiculous amounts of documentation about every little thing and there will be so many things to sign.

But we are still on glide path for landing [knock wood] so far.


Cass - Feb 25, 2022 11:16:29 am PST #13385 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

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-t - Feb 25, 2022 11:26:09 am PST #13386 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Am I remembering right that you are in Houston, Dana? That doesn't seem terribly far to either OK or AR, although driving 5 miles to get lunch DOES seem pretty far right now so I am no judge of distance


Dana - Feb 25, 2022 11:27:58 am PST #13387 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Dallas now. Many hours closer to both OK and AR.