Zoe: Don't think it's a good spot, sir. She still has the advantage over us. Mal: Everyone always does. That's what makes us special.

'Serenity'


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 - Apr 19, 2022 7:29:41 am PDT #14590 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Office is regular temp today. Hooray!!

I am taking advantage of being the only one in the office in my area and listening to audiobooks when my work is not thinky or talky. Finished the current book for book club yesterday (The Children’s Blizzard) and am now listening to the book from 3 months ago that I never finished (While Justice Sleeps). I like this option since I have a lot of repetitive non-thinky work to get through (renaming and converting pdfs to jpgs).


DavidS - Apr 19, 2022 8:41:33 am PDT #14591 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Good morrow, Buffistae. We've been alternating grey rainy days with sunny days here in SF, and it's wet out today.

Hope it doesn't interfere with Matilda's softball game.

On Friday the whole family is driving up to Reno to celebrate my MiL's 80th birthday. Our Air BnB with the whole clan fell apart at the last minute (plumbing disaster) so we're scattered to various hotels now.

On the way back we'll stop in Sacramento and make two short social stops: 1) with my best man, Alex, who as an organ donor recipient has been lying very low during the Pandemic. So we'll hang with him and his family outside for lunch. We haven't had full family get together since Emmett was in Little League so that will be good to catch up.

Stop 2) will be with Cousin Nicole who you may dimly remember we hosted in SF during her HS years and she got super psyched to go out in cosplay to "blow their minds!" She's been in ill health the last couple years, and recently divorced so we have a giant box of books and graphic novels to bestow upon her. She and Emmett were close and haven't seen each other in more than a decade.

While we're gone the piggies will be in the care of Kalena.

Guinea Pig Update: Prubs is completely recovered from her surgery, seems perfectly fine and her fur is growing and her surgery wounds all healed. It's a guinea pig miracle of modern science.


Trudy Booth - Apr 19, 2022 9:12:35 am PDT #14592 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, the big news in Trudy Town is that I've gotten a dog. I've named him Warwick after the place where he was found thereby making this a tradition (three is a pattern, right?)

He's part of a group of animals rescued from a hoarding situation that was revealed by a house fire. Little man has been through a lot. He had a broken jaw that was never treated and healed wrong so all his remaining teeth had to be removed. We think he's about ten.

He's very sweet but skittish and much smaller than any non-mouse pet I've ever had. I honestly think my childhood rabbits weighed more. My cat certainly did. He could have six months, he could have ten years. We'll just have to see how he gets on. I intend to spoil him rotten - only nice things happen to Warwick from now on.


Steph L. - Apr 19, 2022 9:23:19 am PDT #14593 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

only nice things happen to Warwick from now on.

Pupper! What a lucky boy to land with you!


askye - Apr 19, 2022 9:31:29 am PDT #14594 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Trudy from the pictures on FB Warwick looks like such a sweetie. And it's good that he will be spoiled and loved on and make up for all the time he hasn't had that.


Trudy Booth - Apr 19, 2022 9:36:41 am PDT #14595 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

Thank you.

His challenges are pretty easily managed. He's tiny and has no teeth and doesn't even shed because of the poodle fur (the hoard appears to have started as people breeding cavapoos) so if it takes a month to get him out of my room much less my apartment that's fine.

When we got to the city I tried to take him out of his carrier and walk him but he fled to the back just terrified. Poor little man. It was a very "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore" moment - what dog is agoraphobic? His whole little pack has some adjusting to do. At the shelter they weren't aggressive but would bark continually and not let you approach them... as they wagged the hell out of their tails.


lisah - Apr 19, 2022 9:39:28 am PDT #14596 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

Aww poor pup! He is so lucky to have landed with you, Trudy!


DavidS - Apr 19, 2022 10:58:00 am PDT #14597 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Awww good fortune for Warwick, who I know will receive proper doting and love.


JenP - Apr 19, 2022 11:47:16 am PDT #14598 of 30000

Aw, Warwick, you're in your meant-to-be home now, little buddy, and it's a great one.


askye - Apr 19, 2022 12:59:48 pm PDT #14599 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Welp. PT was kind of not fun today. I did more than I have but I got all fuzzy headed and had trouble focusing and got emotional. And I can't go on Friday because I was only authorized for 6 vistis, today was actually my 7th and they need Worker's comp to authorize more. So....not sure how that will go.

and then about half hour ago I was snacking on Triscuits and grapes and cheese and I have to stop eating triscuits because I snapped my bridge again,

At least it snapped differently. I called my dentist, he's in the office today so they are going to call me back. I probably will have to pay for this one.