That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.

The Mayor ,'End of Days'


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.


Amy - Jan 13, 2021 10:47:07 am PST #2347 of 30000
Because books.

I just got home from work (at the bakery I have no time to check any news, and rarely even my phone for texts), just like last Wednesday ... so I'm a little reluctant to turn on the TV.

Hugs to all who need/would like them, and yay to good news. That's pretty much all I got. Between work and managing Sara (who will be lucky if she graduates this spring, at this point) and managing my parents wants/needs, I've got shit-all left most days. But at least it's sunny today. It's been so relentlessly gray for more than a week, I was going a little nuts.


msbelle - Jan 13, 2021 10:50:19 am PST #2348 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Got my pre-travel COVID test. no lines, straight in basically.

Now home and getting in comfy clothes for the rest of the day of plowing through emails and writing up step by step directions for everything I do.


-t - Jan 13, 2021 10:50:26 am PST #2349 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm in a meeting that could not have been an email but that I don't need to be in. And yet I can't leave.


flea - Jan 13, 2021 11:36:43 am PST #2350 of 30000
information libertarian

Amy, I send you solidarity as the mother of a senior. Casper managed to get a 36 in 2nd quarter English and failed two other things. I am now enforcing nightly homework at the dinner table and have access to her online assignment software so I can track what she’s turned in. She may need to be hard-carried across the finish line and I’m grateful to have the ability to do it.


shrift - Jan 13, 2021 11:50:14 am PST #2351 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I double-masked and took out my garbage and compost on the way to my COVID test. The Doctor tells me I should have results in less than 2 days, which is faster than I expected, so that's good.

An Australian Member of Parliament continues to think that my personal gmail address is hers, so I just got to write another round of correspondence disabusing people of that notion.


meara - Jan 13, 2021 11:55:16 am PST #2352 of 30000

I mean if someone is going to mistake your Gmail at least it’s an interesting person? But yikes.


shrift - Jan 13, 2021 12:08:28 pm PST #2353 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

The good news for her is that she's mistakenly chosen to send her correspondence to an ethical person who cares about information security.


Dana - Jan 13, 2021 12:16:55 pm PST #2354 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

That's bonkers, that it's still a problem. You'd think someone would fix this kind of thing immediately.


shrift - Jan 13, 2021 12:24:15 pm PST #2355 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I'm not getting official government correspondence for her, at least?


msbelle - Jan 13, 2021 12:41:45 pm PST #2356 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

god, I would hope not on a gmail account. She's not a US Congressperson.