We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.

Mal ,'Serenity'


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 - Feb 02, 2024 8:15:20 am PST #28413 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Good morning, and welcome Friday.

The weather has been erratic between downpours and merely cloudy, so it's been hard to get my runs in. I waited out a deluge yesterday and trotted out in the sunshine and got caught in the rain before I even got to the stadium.

I had just settled into the notion of cooking and cleaning and the rain just stopped. Bother.

I have survived my January of Many Events and Much Socializing. I'm glad I did every bit of it, but I'm planning on a quieter February.

Matilda's about to transition into baseball season, as soon as the weather lets up.


meara - Feb 02, 2024 9:03:38 am PST #28414 of 30000

I also thought the books were continuing but the main characters are like in their 70s by now, and I doubt she wants to kill them off. But there was a whole drama of the 1980s too, with kidnapping and conspiracies, that I thought she was going to address? Conspiracies through time! Who even knows.


Susan W. - Feb 02, 2024 9:05:55 am PST #28415 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Yeah, last I heard there was going to be at least one more book in the series.


-t - Feb 02, 2024 9:49:16 am PST #28416 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Wikipedia says 9 out of a planned 10 have been published. 9 is the last one I heard about but have not read. I think I stopped reading after 5. Man, the first one was over 30 years ago, that's wild!


Jesse - Feb 02, 2024 9:54:25 am PST #28417 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I know people have real problems, but I have to write my self-eval this afternoon. I already tried using AI and that didn't help at all.


-t - Feb 02, 2024 9:57:19 am PST #28418 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

My sympathies, Jesse. I barely have to do a self-eval anymore and I still hate doing it so very much. It does seem like the kind of bs AI should be good for!


Jesse - Feb 02, 2024 11:01:07 am PST #28419 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Good news -- I figured out the method last year, and it still works! When I do my annual goals, I put them in a table with a second column of planned activities. Now I just have to add a third column and respond to all of the activities. It's boring, but at least it's easy.


JenP - Feb 02, 2024 11:01:28 am PST #28420 of 30000

I call bullshit, AI! Self-evaks should be a snap!


Jesse - Feb 02, 2024 11:02:04 am PST #28421 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Shockingly, what AI produced was even more boring than what I just did, AND sounded less confident!


Laura - Feb 02, 2024 11:03:06 am PST #28422 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Wait, what? I know the TV show will end after the next season, but I thought the series was still ongoing. (Outlander) Does this mean I should actually force myself to finish book 10, which I got about 10% into and more or less died of boredom?

Ooops, I thought they had ended.