brenda, I love that story! And now I want a tamale.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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.
Jessica - Jan 28, 2021 1:56:59 pm PST #2856 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sophia Brooks - Jan 28, 2021 2:03:38 pm PST #2857 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Brenda, that just made me cry! In a good way
Amy, I am so sorry for the COVID exposure
lisah- I am so sorry for the sads
Trudy Booth - Jan 28, 2021 2:06:40 pm PST #2858 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Faith in humanity: Briefly restored
Sophia Brooks - Jan 28, 2021 2:08:51 pm PST #2859 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh- what is interesting about the vaccine tiers is that P-12 staff and faculty qualify for 1B, but for Higher Education, only the faculty qualify. So someone like the person who runs the nursing labs as a staff member and has really high contact with students does not qualify yet. But a faculty member would (although most of them already qualify because they already work in the hospital). The Medical School Staff DO seem to qualify because they are also in the hospital and we are in a separate building across the street!. It is a moot point, because there is literally no vaccine now, but they said more is coming soon. I get that I can mostly work from home (except the three days a year I run an in person lab), so I don't qualify, but there are three people who run labs and in person simulation in our building almost every day.
Sheryl - Jan 28, 2021 3:16:01 pm PST #2860 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I'm sorry, Amy. Virtual hugs sent your way.
DavidS - Jan 28, 2021 3:51:20 pm PST #2861 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In some other good news, we've sold JZ's father's house.
After the fire, the insurance paid for fixing the roof and stripping it down to the studs. So we lost about 40% of the value of the property in the fire itself. BUT he had comprehensive insurance and so we'll make up basically the full expected value of the house when the insurance pays out. We know what they'll pay, they just haven't ponied up yet. (The money we lost in repairing the place we make up because all the furniture and items in the house will be worth more in insurance write-off than they ever would have been in an estate sale.)
Side note to gamers: the buyer was the CTO of Electronic Arts back in the day. He was the guy in charge of developing The Sims! (among many other things)
His wife is originally from San Francisco and she wanted to move back to the Bay Area, and she loved the view (which is spectacular - the entire Bay, San Francisco and both bridges). And they basically get to renovate the entire house to their liking. So in some ways that was not a deterrence.
We're happy to be selling to a family who will move in, instead of a flipper. Also, he's paying cash so it'll be neat and clean and done. So that's a huge thing off JZ and her brothers' shoulders.
Jesse - Jan 28, 2021 5:11:10 pm PST #2862 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That is a great story, brenda!
msbelle - Jan 28, 2021 5:28:07 pm PST #2863 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
If he helped develop Sims did he know JZ friend who passed who did sims voice?
Laura - Jan 28, 2021 5:34:23 pm PST #2864 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
That was so good to read, brenda!
Jesse - Jan 28, 2021 5:36:34 pm PST #2865 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's good news about the house, David and JZ.
Back for more tv news: has anyone else watched Imposters? There's a conwoman who is currently going by Saffron, and that's got to be a Firefly homage, doesn't it??