I got stabbed, you know, right here.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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.


Laura - Feb 25, 2022 5:22:57 pm PST #13405 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Yeah, what Hec has to say abut the FAC.

Signing contracts on house sale tonight. Agreed to a price. Quick timeline. 10 days for inspection, close March 23rd. May all be smooth with the various hoops. Yeah, I have to do some serious purging and packing too.


Steph L. - Feb 25, 2022 5:33:36 pm PST #13406 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Signing contracts on house sale tonight.

That's so exciting, Laura!!!


amyparker - Feb 25, 2022 5:35:00 pm PST #13407 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

Yeah, sure, it's been like 20 years since I was a part of the FAC, and if I were a bigger person, I wouldn't care about this, but I am not, in fact, a bigger person, and this is giving me LIFE. I can't even tell you how much.

{offers a fistbump of solidarity}

Laura, woohoo!


Pix - Feb 25, 2022 6:00:01 pm PST #13408 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

So happy for you, Laura!!!

Hugs to all who need them, including in person hugs for Drew when he gets home.


JenP - Feb 25, 2022 6:01:54 pm PST #13409 of 30000

Awesome, Laura!


DavidS - Feb 25, 2022 6:23:06 pm PST #13410 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Signing contracts on house sale tonight. Agreed to a price. Quick timeline. 10 days for inspection, close March 23rd. May all be smooth with the various hoops

Right the fuck on! Here we go!


Jesse - Feb 25, 2022 6:32:18 pm PST #13411 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wooo Laura!!


Consuela - Feb 25, 2022 6:47:02 pm PST #13412 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Congratulations, Laura!

And continued congrats to the Zmayhems! House-buying is super stressful, and there is more paper than you will ever be able to read. But in the long run it's so reassuring to have your very own place.

Went to lunch with a long-time fan friend today, who I hadn't seen since the before times. A place called Kitchen Story, which apparently has a SF location too? Absolutely killer brunch menu, with something they call "Millionaire Bacon", which was really great thick slabs of bacon with maple and spice on it. So good. Highly recommended if the Bayistas get a chance.

In other news I managed to figure out how to get my macbook and my Dell to talk to one another, so I can move all my music to the Dell and run it as a music server, instead of streaming audio all the time.


Calli - Feb 25, 2022 7:29:24 pm PST #13413 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

That’s great, Laura!


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 25, 2022 8:12:22 pm PST #13414 of 30000
"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

Yay Laura!

All of the nice-to-visit parts of Arkansas are unfortunately on opposite side of the state from me. Lots of places in the Ozarks are great to visit, as is Hot Springs (which is a bit closer to Dallas). My personal vacation spot of choice is Eureka Springs, a little Bohemian artists community/resort town up in the mountains.