You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


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.


sj - Aug 29, 2022 5:36:49 am PDT #17196 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Happy Birthday, meara!!!


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 29, 2022 7:32:00 am PDT #17197 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

Happy Birthday, meara!


meara - Aug 29, 2022 7:33:40 am PDT #17198 of 30000

Thanks! Sadly not really celebrating today (it’s 730am and I am already in a work meeting) but I took last Friday off for camping, so celebrated early.


-t - Aug 29, 2022 7:35:30 am PDT #17199 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, many happy returns of the day and I hope you get a little more celebration than you expect today. Nothing wrong with celebrating early, though!


askye - Aug 29, 2022 7:45:04 am PDT #17200 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Happy Meara Day!!!


askye - Aug 29, 2022 7:51:41 am PDT #17201 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I have made a follow up video appointment iwth my primary care dr. Who I've really only seen once but seemed ok.

I am feeling somewhat better but thought I should try the steroid that the ER prescribed and then realized...I don't know where it is. I may have accidentally thrown it out. I don't know because the last few days are a blur.

The inhaler seems to be working but I wasn't sure if the steroid would work better. I'm also very very fatigued and my arms and legs end up feeling shaky like baby kitten trying to wobble it's way around. Or maybe not that bad but I just feel weak. So I want to ask the dr about that and also the whole- hey I'm only working 3 hours a day but I'm not sure I can stand up./stay awake for that. What should I do?

I also haven't Skype'd with E since before I got sick and I miss him. I'll try to call him today and see if we can chat .


msbelle - Aug 29, 2022 8:53:25 am PDT #17202 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I’m the only one in my division in the office today and I do not feel like working at all. I have set up two meetings for my boss and answered my emails and that seems like more than enough to me.

Bah on this whole working stuff.


-t - Aug 29, 2022 9:25:59 am PDT #17203 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hear hear msbelle

Punctuating that just looks wrong, so I'm not going to


Tom Scola - Aug 29, 2022 9:28:46 am PDT #17204 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Happy birthday, meara!

More of the same today in NYC: [link]


Jesse - Aug 29, 2022 9:28:52 am PDT #17205 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My last few weeks have been very leisurely, work-wise. Lots of people out on vacation, not much self motivation.