You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.

Buffy ,'Help'


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.


billytea - Feb 09, 2021 3:50:21 am PST #3293 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

And YIKES billytea! I'm glad it was no worse that that, since it sounds like it could have resulted in deaths instead.

Very easily. I was fine at the scene, but once I'd got home and was telling Biyi what happened, I was a bit of a mess about it. (It was just that, thinking about how much worse it could've been.)


Laura - Feb 09, 2021 4:58:06 am PST #3294 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Oh dear, billytea. That kind of near miss will stay with you. School pickup really is a fraught situation. I'm grateful all will recover.


Toddson - Feb 09, 2021 5:54:31 am PST #3295 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

billytea, glad it wasn't worse.

In re bread - I used to bake a lot and I remember making what was called Swedish rye bread - it had oranges and, I think, raisins and I believe it included molasses. It was yum.


Laura - Feb 09, 2021 6:02:05 am PST #3296 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

If I make bread again I'll likely use the bread maker for the kneading and hold times, then bake it in the oven. I don't like the size and shape of the bread maker results. I want it in a normal loaf pan, or laid out on a stone. Right now I don't make it because the aroma convinces me that a loaf is clearly a single serving.


-t - Feb 09, 2021 6:14:14 am PST #3297 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yikes, billytea! Very glad it wasn't worse.


Toddson - Feb 09, 2021 6:18:22 am PST #3298 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

And, in news from Australia, why did the koala cross the road ... or at least try to.


dcp - Feb 09, 2021 6:30:48 am PST #3299 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Yikes, billytea! I join the chorus of "glad it wasn't worse."

thank goodness for seatbelts and airbags

Hear, hear!


JZ - Feb 09, 2021 6:49:49 am PST #3300 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Oh, billytea, that sounds awful for everyone. I'm so glad it wasn't worse, but still. That's plenty bad enough.

Dealing-with-all-the-yikes~ma to msbelle, in abundance.

Things I am jealous of: Epic's trivia night full of HP and Friends instead of completely obscure STEM questions (which the lab assistants did okay on, but even they weren't great; these were like a US history trivia night focusing exclusively on John Jay's childhood tutors), and shrift's rye bread.


JenP - Feb 09, 2021 7:39:47 am PST #3301 of 30000

Right now I don't make it because the aroma convinces me that a loaf is clearly a single serving.

Ha! Yeah.

billytea, I'm glad it was no worse, but that's understandably upsetting.

It's going to 50 whole Fahrenheit degrees here today. Practically spring!


-t - Feb 09, 2021 9:14:48 am PST #3302 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Unrelated to the ongoing conversation: I went to bed last night thinking someone should do a version of that "Friday" song from whatsername, Rebecca Black?, but make it "Tuesday" and I still think it's a good idea.

My cat just bit the charging cable and pulled it out of my laptop. I knew she didn't like me working but that is distressingly to the point.