Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.

'Shells'


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.


Steph L. - Mar 30, 2024 6:18:11 am PDT #29443 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

I've been talked out of making Corpse Revivers

Dang it, I voted for them.


Laura - Mar 30, 2024 6:24:17 am PDT #29444 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Health~ma for Luna.

Corpse Revivers sounds like an excellent plan to me.


Calli - Mar 30, 2024 8:43:10 am PDT #29445 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Huh. Today I took Leifur in for some regular blood work. After dropping him at home I ambled over to the local botanical gardens, which I try to do on the regular. But this time I met some members of the local Sierra Club who a) showed me how to ID plants with my iPhone’s photo ID function, b) showed me an art gallery at the gardens which I’d never known about (I’ve been going regularly since the center was built), and c) invited me to a poetry meetup in April. I came home and renewed my Sierra Club membership and signed up for the poetry event.

Getting outside. Turns out it can be good for you.


Susan W. - Mar 30, 2024 9:17:21 am PDT #29446 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

What are people up to this weekend? You people, that is.

I'm planning to make a cake today, though first I'm going to the farmers market and then by the store to get some frosting, since I decided that the homemade icing recipe that comes with the cake recipe is more trouble than it's worth. Then I'm one of the readers at tonight's Easter Vigil service at my church.

Then tomorrow we have a ham for Easter dinner all because a few weeks ago at Dylan's work, there was some reshuffling and one of his direct reports was sent to another manager's team. He wasn't immediately given a replacement, so he quipped that he'd been given a 2nd and a 4th-round draft pick, plus a bag of baseballs and a ham. A few days later, a honey-baked ham arrives on our doorstep, courtesy of the other manager.

Insofar as I have a traditional Easter dinner at all, it's either to make Alton Brown's pork wellington recipe or to get lazy and pick up a nice box of fried chicken from the QFC down the road. But I will not turn up my nose at free ham.


msbelle - Mar 30, 2024 9:48:52 am PDT #29447 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

What are people up to this weekend? You people, that is.

I took off yesterday and the plan was to do yard work, but I did absolutely nothing instead.

Today I did not sleep in as long so I am trying to motivate. 1 load of laundry in and I’m straightening up the downstairs. A friend is coming over to hang out in 3 hours, so that’s the motivation to get things in order.


Jesse - Mar 30, 2024 9:50:28 am PDT #29448 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had choir rehearsal this morning, now errands and making a lemon meringue pie. Tomorrow, church for Easter and then fam coming over for ham dinner.


JenP - Mar 30, 2024 9:54:44 am PDT #29449 of 30000

Good roll call.

Calli - that is so cool!

I'm in between pedicure and meeting my friend for lunch. Puppy sleeping on my legs. So far so good.


erikaj - Mar 30, 2024 10:38:14 am PDT #29450 of 30000
If Scooby Doo taught me anything, it's that the only thing to fear is real-estate developers.Lisa Simpson

It will probably be just me and some Jews for our Town Hall tomorrow, but our Easter celebration is too small to act busy from.


Consuela - Mar 30, 2024 10:42:14 am PDT #29451 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I went for a run this morning, and I have to write up staff reviews today. But tomorrow I go see Bruce Springsteen! (Possibly for the last time, who knows?)


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 30, 2024 10:44:39 am PDT #29452 of 30000
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis

My weekend is household chores (lawnmowing, laundry) and errands, then over to Mom's Sunday night to have her traditional Easter ham for dinner. I might squeeze in a movie matinee tomorrow if I feel like it.