They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.

River ,'Ariel'


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.


Laura - Mar 12, 2024 7:30:25 pm PDT #29138 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Dinner tonight is goat cheese on sourdough toast with preserves

That sounds pretty yummy to me. I hope you have achieved renewing sleep.


meara - Mar 12, 2024 9:33:42 pm PDT #29139 of 30000

Agree the toast sounds yummy!! Sorry about the creepy coworker but hope the new boss attitude helps/continues!

Thankfully found friend who can take dog, though hopefully he gets along with her dog who he has not met. Haven’t heard frpm dogsitter guy alll day, after he responded to my last text of "are we still on for dogsitting" late last night with "yes!" bit then didn't respond at all since. i requested on venmo that he send the money back i sent him—need it to pay the new sitter! ugh.


Laura - Mar 13, 2024 7:03:04 am PDT #29140 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

That's a relief about the dog, sorry about the stress.

I've arranged for Skinner to go stay with a friend for 4 days, well 5 nights and 4 days. He is staying with our friend who we lived with for some time after we sold the house but hadn't found this place yet so Skinner is well acquainted with the house and yard. Kevin is Jamaican and has opinions about dogs living in the house, but he makes an exception because he loves me and tolerates Skinner.

Since Brendon doesn't come in here I can share my weekend details!! As you know, my anniversary is on St. Patrick's Day (34 years!), so we like to go to different places and check out the variety of celebrations. This year it is New Orleans! (be jealous of the smonster hugs) I haven't told DH where we are going, just that we are flying out at 7:30 AM on Friday and arriving home at midnight on Monday. Unfortunately the forecast calls for rain pretty much the entire time, but warm and raining isn't really unfamiliar to us. eta: I did spoil him and upgrade the seats so he won't be miserable for the flight duration.


JenP - Mar 13, 2024 8:25:24 am PDT #29141 of 30000

Yay, that sounds like so much fun, Laura! Happy early Anniversary to you.

Just got off of the call with my doctor about Wegovy, so we'll see what happens with insurance. She didn't think insurance would be an issue. Supply, on the other hand... we'll see.

I had a productive morning yesterday, especially once I remembered that I could use ChtGPT to do scutwork like weeding out dupes, and arranging testimonials in alpha order by name, and then putting them in Excel-pastable format. Now all the random Word docs with random testimonials are organized into a database!

It's no great shakes at creativity, but it is a damn fine assistant sometimes. I'd say it got the project about 90% done. I'd be happy with a live human who got something that far along for me. It sucked at pulling out useful keywords from the testimonials, so I did that, but it took no time once everything was organized.

It's going to be 75 today! I should go work on the porch. Hmmm...


Toddson - Mar 13, 2024 9:33:38 am PDT #29142 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

If it's organizing a database, wouldn't creativity be one of the last things you'd want?


JenP - Mar 13, 2024 11:12:16 am PDT #29143 of 30000

Yeah, that's my point -- I don't like it for most of what I do, which requires creativity, originality, and, you know, human contact, but it does great with projects where that doesn't matter -- like organizing a testimonials database. Oh, and I had it draft a job description for me a while back, because that stuff is mind numbingly boring to the point of avoidance for me. It's helpful with some things that, historically, I'd have procrastinated doing forever, because I find them so boring.

Started the Ozempic today. We shall see.


-t - Mar 13, 2024 12:31:20 pm PDT #29144 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Earworm update for no reason: most of the morning I had "I'm Just Ken", which was pretty nice, but now it's some classical piece that I do not know well enough to identify, just to hum, which is fine except I keep getting distracted trying to remember what it is


Steph L. - Mar 13, 2024 12:45:28 pm PDT #29145 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Dang it, I think our dryer just died (full of wet towels, too). Unless there's some fix-it trick I don't know (and there might well be, because I know absolutely nothing about the inner workings of the dryer), I'm going to need to haul those heavy wet towels to the laundromat to dry them.

It's a pretty old dryer, so I guess I'm just annoyed with the inevitability of entropy. How dare something mechanical wear out and stop working!


-t - Mar 13, 2024 3:08:41 pm PDT #29146 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

If you have a little access panel you can open and clean out the extra secret lint trap, that might help. I seem to remember that working once (I think a professional repair person showed me where the one on my dryer was. Or washer. It was a while ago.)


Steph L. - Mar 13, 2024 3:14:50 pm PDT #29147 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Hey, Tim just got home and is examining the dryer (he said he was going to just hit it like Fonzie), so I'm going to go mention the secret lint trap!