Walking cancelled tonight on account of inclement weather and local power outage. I'm fine -- I have candles and batteries and blankets and plenty of food and water. I'm just having a little camp-out in my apartment. Feeling very close to the spirit of my maternal grandmother, who used to weather storms like this every winter out on the Point Reyes peninsula in my youth. (Forty years ago!)
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Karl - Jan 04, 2023 7:31:47 pm PST #19820 of 30000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
JZ - Jan 04, 2023 8:23:57 pm PST #19821 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
May it be a safe, dry and peaceful camp-out, Karl. I love the vision of your grandmother in a storm like this, maybe saying, "Wild nights are my glory."
Cass - Jan 04, 2023 10:11:12 pm PST #19822 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I don't think they could get them to flip their vote but it would be some what amusing.
One of the Never Kevins said that Jeffries was more acceptable than McCarthy. I read that yesterday and don't recall the source.
The veggie pasta bake looks yummy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2023 10:23:08 pm PST #19823 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
I'm fairly certain the Uproot violates the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy. There should be no way the amount of shed hair it picks up could fit inside that small a volume of fabric.
I forgot to mention that yesterday the cable technician who connected me had to spend 30 minutes with a huge power drill to make the necessary hole in an exterior brick wall, coming in panting several times to check if the drill bit had breached yet. He said that he didn't know what the bricks were made of, but they were the strongest he'd ever tried to drill through. Not a bad thing to hear as a new homeowner, and that windowless brick-enclosed front closet is now my go-to tornado shelter.
Also, I managed to insert FOUR USB cables correctly on the the first try yesterday, so I'm regretful that my cousin didn't schedule her Las Vegas wedding for January instead of October.
beekaytee - Jan 04, 2023 10:51:25 pm PST #19824 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I feel that, properly employed, the Uproot could still be the right tool for this job.Matt, you have inspired visuals in my mind that I cannot thank you for, but you aren't wrong.
I've become sort of addicted to the Uproot, I spent an hour doing three rooms tonight. And, I discovered an extra added bonus...my Fitbit registers the vigorous activity as actual exercise!
I take an unwholesome delight in the fact that I only wear one kind of short, black socks most of the time and thanks to the Uproot, for the first time, I don't have to take extra measures to de-fur them before washing. It really is the little things that make life so delightful.
I haven't been following the GOP conflagration closely but one of my clients said that it's been fun watching the Rs eat their young. I'm no stranger to schadenfreude, but I just hope the chaos is short-lived and that some sort of reason prevails.
Laura - Jan 05, 2023 5:57:15 am PST #19825 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Also, I managed to insert FOUR USB cables correctly on the the first try yesterday
Most impressive.
Dana - Jan 05, 2023 6:57:57 am PST #19826 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I got up at 6:30 to make it downtown in time for jury duty. Grabbed breakfast, found the correct parking garage, walked over the skybridge to the court building, found the lobby. There was a security guard there greeting people. We had to tear off part of the card to prove we'd shown up, and then we were done. So that was a waste of $3 parking, and an hour 45 commuting.
sj - Jan 05, 2023 7:01:12 am PST #19827 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I feel so much better today after spending most of yesterday reading the paper and drinking tea. December really was a stressful month. I’m working at the library bookstore this afternoon. So, hopefully I can interact with some other humans and maybe even have an interesting book conversation or two.
sj - Jan 05, 2023 7:02:09 am PST #19828 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ugh, Dana. That’s so annoying. I hope you can enjoy the rest of your day.
Steph L. - Jan 05, 2023 8:06:03 am PST #19829 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Also, I managed to insert FOUR USB cables correctly on the the first try yesterday, so I'm regretful that my cousin didn't schedule her Las Vegas wedding for January instead of October.
You may have used up all your luck and need to wait until October for it to fully recharge. Because correctly inserting 4 USB cables on the first try is some kind of spooky magic.