Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.

'Out Of Gas'


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.


Tom Scola - Mar 30, 2022 10:12:27 am PDT #14187 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Well, there's certainly nothing sketchy about this contractor.


Toddson - Mar 30, 2022 11:48:27 am PDT #14188 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

There was once a landscaper that was named Tex's Chainsaw Manicure.


Toddson - Mar 30, 2022 11:56:18 am PDT #14189 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

and, if anyone's watching Bridgerton, the UK's National Gallery has a video on paintings that have inspired the costumes (sort of?)


askye - Mar 30, 2022 12:01:09 pm PDT #14190 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I just realized that because I've been out of work I'm not getting things like my HSA contributions. So that kind of sucks. I mean it rolled over what I had and that is nice but..2 of my vyvanse prescriptions pretty much wipes out what I had. So no more HSA money .


-t - Mar 30, 2022 12:06:11 pm PDT #14191 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That is a bummer, askye


Toddson - Mar 30, 2022 12:09:29 pm PDT #14192 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Insurance is a pain. Our HR person left less than a year ago; right after I moved - TWO years ago, I asked her to update all my insurance info. So she had about a year; needless to say, she didn't. I found this out last December when there was an "adjustment" to our insurance plan that required a new insurance card ... which was sent to my old address and went back marked "forwarding order expired". This meant that when I tried to get my flu shot, I couldn't because I didn't have a valid insurance card ... and had the pharmacist telling me I had to get Part B, even though I kept telling him I wasn't on Medicare. Tried to update my address, but the numbers I had for the insurance company disconnected before the recording finished (except, for some reason, the sales department). There were no usable phone numbers, no way to use one of those online forms (you could fill out the form, but no way to send it to anyone) and, when the nice man in the sales department forwarded my call to someone - a real person - in the right department, she couldn't correct my address - only the plan administrator could change an address. I got her to contact the insurance company, update my address and have them send me a valid insurance card.

Then I got an email that my FSA card was also sent to the old address and returned. So I spent about three months with no valid insurance car and no FSA. jeepers


-t - Mar 30, 2022 12:51:16 pm PDT #14193 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

What a mess, Toddson!

Last night as I thought I had talked myself into applying for this new supervisor position but today it seems like more trouble than its worth. Perhaps relatedly I woke up around 4AM and couldn't get back to sleep despite planning on "sleeping in" until 7:30 and now I am super tired. Although another idea I had last night, adding regular fortune telling to my forecasting process, still seems like a good one. I can do two kinds of card readings and fake my way through tea leaves, I need one or two more to round out a monthly cycle. Any ideas?


-t - Mar 30, 2022 12:53:31 pm PDT #14194 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

And I just put the date 4/4 on an agenda and it is striking me as a little off that that is not a March date. Because time signatures.


Toddson - Mar 30, 2022 1:01:21 pm PDT #14195 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

-t - palm reading and a crystal ball?


Toddson - Mar 30, 2022 1:03:57 pm PDT #14196 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

My office moved to a new building; they're quite proud of the cleaning/disinfecting and have signs up about it. They're also proud of the bees they have on the roof.

I once saw someone who, having read about how much honey bees produce, caught sight of a honey extractor. They were CONVINCED that the beekeepers tossed their bees into the extractor and basically squished the honey directly from the bees. eeep