Here is your cup of coffee.  Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.

Xander ,'Chosen'


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.


meara - Jul 04, 2022 9:40:33 am PDT #16086 of 30000

I have no issue with the monies of a bookcase and every issue with the wall space. Though I have stopped buying paper books many years ago now and only have electronic collections. Which are much more portable but less pleasure to browse.

I have no plans today and am reading a book which I think I’ve read before? But feel like I ought to do some cleaning and accomplish something. Not sure what. Dog freaked out a bit last night hearing some of the early fireworks so I’m a bit worried about tonight. I don’t remember him having any issues last year but I also can’t remember what I did last year! Knowing I have to work in the morning does put a damper on the fun. And nobody I know is doing anything today. Boo.


lisah - Jul 04, 2022 11:51:34 am PDT #16087 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

I'm lucky Bob is much neater than I am. Keeps my shit tighter. Plus we are VERY lucky to have a house cleaner every 2 weeks. But it hasn't stopped the Professor from peeing on the couch and making it so I feel like I can't invite anyone over. Cats, amirite?


Sheryl - Jul 04, 2022 3:15:44 pm PDT #16088 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Like the button says "I don't need speed-reading, I need speed bookcase building."


sumi - Jul 04, 2022 3:39:04 pm PDT #16089 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

Glad that they have a person of interest in the Highland Park mass shooting.


JenP - Jul 04, 2022 3:44:38 pm PDT #16090 of 30000

Happy Birthday, sj! The cocktails sounded yum.

I had a nice brunch with a friend today, and then we walked around scoping furniture, mostly for grins.

DH and I swapped offices over the weekend for reasons too boring to share, but I love my new set-up!

He seems happy with his, too. It's really half music room, half office for him. Drums and keyboard and synthesizer keyboard thingie take up more room than work desk. And I am glad he's pursuing his hobbies in music more lately.

And me? I have so much more space! And light!


sj - Jul 04, 2022 5:44:47 pm PDT #16091 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Hec, I have run out of walls.


DavidS - Jul 04, 2022 6:34:04 pm PDT #16092 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hec, I have run out of walls.

Yeah, that's where we were in our previous apartment. Now realizing that we were out of walls by a factor of 4 or 5.

I just took advantage of Best Buy's 4th sale to buy two new fancy bigass TVs for the new house, and we're getting the deluxe Installation/Wall Mounting/Polish the Silver While You're Here Geek Squad service. Because we're tired of dealing with this shit!


Beverly - Jul 04, 2022 6:43:04 pm PDT #16093 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

We did what we could with the walls we have. Between the art I already own that's in storage and *MOaR BoOkShElvES!* I could use another room or two just for the wall space. This here picture and the next two. Not counting the three bookcases in my office.


DavidS - Jul 05, 2022 10:16:45 am PDT #16094 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Last night we noticed that our Guinea Pig, Marceline, was very lethargic and not eating.

This morning she wouldn't eat and hid her face from me in the corner of the cage. When I picked her up she'd lost a lot of weight and her breathing was labored.

We called the Vet and found out the small animal vet was on vacation so they referred us to a vet in San Ramon.

So we scheduled a visit with them this morning, and I woke Matilda up so she could go with me. I went to get coffee and when I got back, Marcie had already died.

We were so worried about her sister, Prubs, when she had surgery a couple months ago, but she came through that fine.

It happened so fast.


Steph L. - Jul 05, 2022 10:19:56 am PDT #16095 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Awww, poor Marcie. And poor you guys. How's Matilda?