We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.

Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'


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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2023 7:35:31 am PDT #22800 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 Plei!


DavidS - Jun 19, 2023 8:25:33 am PDT #22801 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Happy Juneteenth! JZ has the day off.

Happy Birthday to Pleiades!


-t - Jun 19, 2023 8:51:07 am PDT #22802 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Happy birthday to Plei!

My work has elected to celebrate Juneteenth by giving us a list of local celebrations rather than a day off. Not really satisfactory. A *lot* of people have either taken the day off or are working from home (which I *hope* means they aren’t really working). Last year the company made a donation to BLM but they haven’t said anything like that this year


Laura - Jun 19, 2023 9:21:00 am PDT #22803 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Yeah, my guess is that zero of my practices have the day off, hence no day off for me.


meara - Jun 19, 2023 10:52:32 am PDT #22804 of 30000

I would not have the day off if it weren’t for bereavement leave. But the client I work for has today off so hopefully not much going on—I did check my email and forward a few things this morning and update my out of office.


Laura - Jun 19, 2023 11:20:10 am PDT #22805 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I hope it can be a quiet day for you meara so your body and mind can get some rest.


Sheryl - Jun 19, 2023 12:21:45 pm PDT #22806 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Plei!

Both Gary and I have today off, which is why we had Mr. S for two nights. However, Gary still had/has a work meeting this afternoon.


askye - Jun 19, 2023 1:31:46 pm PDT #22807 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Happy Birthday Plei!!

I had a really nice birthday and father's day celebrations. I have pictures I need to put on FB.

I have tomorrow off and was going to try and get more in person with E time but I have to see the lawyer (there was already an appointment for something else I had forgotten about so it's about the settlement) and then Wed he is off to camp and after that he goes to his other grandma's. He is so tall. he hates us saying that but he is!

Oh and I found out that the Store Manager "no longer works here"... I don't know anything else except sometime in the afternoon or evening of the Big CEO visit he was no longer part of the store. Doubt I'll ever know which it was.


-t - Jun 19, 2023 4:07:31 pm PDT #22808 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I am always so curious when that happens, askye. Our VP of Marketing & Sales disappeared in May, I only found out because someone mentioned in passing "Since S left"; I thought she just wasn't in the office much. Not like I saw her all that often before. You would think that would change the structure of the org chart, though.

FTR, the company has announced that it's making a donation to the local Black Chamber of Commerce, which seems like an okay way for a corporation to observe Juneteenth. So I feel better about that, although I still think an actual day off would be a better gesture


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2023 9:06:54 pm PDT #22809 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

Aches and pains today made me think "damn, I'm getting old!" but then I remembered that yesterday I hauled bags of rocks to fill in a sunken area around my carport gutter drain and the cesspool/water feature in my back yard, then repeatedly climbed up and down a ladder to install my hanging planter. And early this morning I tried unsuccessfully to dig up a nandina in the vacant lot down the street. So not exactly a case of just sleeping wrong.