I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.

Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


DavidS - Apr 25, 2023 1:58:43 pm PDT #21885 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Paranoid about attracting bugs.

One of the great luxuries of San Francisco living is I can leave a spoon with honey on it in the sink and it won't have roaches on it two minutes later.


erikaj - Apr 25, 2023 2:18:38 pm PDT #21886 of 30000
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

We never had great luck with dishwashers(Maybe the space isn't big enough or something?) but mostly there are just two of us.


JenP - Apr 25, 2023 2:26:38 pm PDT #21887 of 30000

Oooh, glad you're finally getting the dishwasher installed!

I was a rinser until I watched a Technology Connections on YT about this very subject. Now I am a happy non-rinser whose dishes come out sparkly anyway, because dishwashers... work. Vehemently a powder or liquid user instead of pods, though because of a different Technology Connections episode.

Productive day, yay! Fun class tonight, also yay, except I have homework to do that I haven't done yet. But it's writing dialog, and I don't find that hard -- I mean, it might not be any good at all, but I don't struggle getting the words on the paper for straight-up dialog, and I especially don't care whether it's good when the whole purpose is to practicing writing dialog to get better at it, if you get what I'm saying.

I completely spaced on a therapy appointment today, because I was getting a thing done for work, but she stayed on the video call, and I finally looked at the clock, and she VERY kindly offered to reschedule until tomorrow.

I have now set phone alarms to supplement my calendar notification on the computer which, apparently, I ignore at will, and I should probably change the setting so that it pops up no matter what. Grumble.


Steph L. - Apr 25, 2023 2:38:35 pm PDT #21888 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

A working dishwasher is a glorious thing indeed.

Especially considering that SF does compost collection.

That's the best, man. I'd love curbside compost collection.

Almost as good is that the city picks up yard waste every other week from April through the second week of January (so people with live Christmas trees can put them on the curb), and that is a goddamn delight.

My lower back doesn't want to stretch out despite me throwing yoga at it. V. annoying. Why even *do* yoga, I ask you.


Sheryl - Apr 25, 2023 4:13:21 pm PDT #21889 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I need to take the vacuum cleaner to be repaired. It doesn't have much suction going on. There's a little when it's in floor mode, but none when I try to use the attachments.


DavidS - Apr 25, 2023 4:46:01 pm PDT #21890 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It doesn't have much suction going on.

Ours had this problem and Emmett started taking it apart and discovered it was clogged with hay from the piggy cage.


Susan W. - Apr 25, 2023 5:25:49 pm PDT #21891 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

One of the great luxuries of San Francisco living is I can leave a spoon with honey on it in the sink and it won't have roaches on it two minutes later.

But what about ants? Because around here that's how you get ants.


Jesse - Apr 25, 2023 6:36:04 pm PDT #21892 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yay dishwasher! They are the best. I need to rinse because I don't run it more than once a week, basically.

ION, on 911 Lone Star, Gina Torres's character is dating her new minister, DB Woodside. Well, my church is going to be hiring a new minister, and this is just giving me IDEAS. (Although the odds my church would hire a straight man are pretty low.)


Steph L. - Apr 25, 2023 7:43:23 pm PDT #21893 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

But what about ants? Because around here that's how you get ants.

I was waiting for this!


lisah - Apr 25, 2023 7:45:30 pm PDT #21894 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

Oh that’s definitely how you get ants!

We pay for a private company to pick up our compost but it’s worth it. You can drop off at a place at the farmers market but I can’t stand the smell