Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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.


Sheryl - Feb 17, 2021 1:52:28 pm PST #3622 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Yay meara!

We're supposed to get snow/wintry mix starting early tomorrow morning and going all through the day. Sigh...


-t - Feb 17, 2021 2:54:23 pm PST #3623 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Y'all, I was reading a murder mystery and I accidentally spoiled myself for whodunnit by searching for something in the text but then I got the killer's name confused with another character's and spent most of the book thinking I knew the wrong person did it. Now I feel like I should re-read it, because my emotional reactions were just all wrong throughout.


chrismg - Feb 17, 2021 4:01:59 pm PST #3624 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

Psst! Gudanov is Willy Wonka - pass it on.

Power came back on here after being off since 11am and the water pressure has upgraded from "nopety nope nope" to "not a heck of a lot". I have therefore thrown dinner in the oven for the first time in days. If the power goes out before it's done I'll just finish on the gas range in the Dutch oven.


askye - Feb 17, 2021 5:05:51 pm PST #3625 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

My mom's sister and her daughter and her family live in Texas. And cousins on my other side live there as well. My aunt lost power and her upstairs neighbor's pipes frozen and burst and water is...everywhere . Her daughter also lost power but they have a generator and she and her husband just recovered from covid so my aunt is going to stay with them.

I haven't heard about the other cousin's. They may have been traveling they've done that a bit this past year according to Facebook.

I hate that this is happening.

I am glad Rush Limbaugh died.

Chris glad you have power. Stay warm!


meara - Feb 17, 2021 5:33:46 pm PST #3626 of 30000

Yikes. And with all that crazy pipe bursting stuff it’s not like you can even feel ok getting out of town or something (which I remember my parents doing once when an ice storm hit and we weren’t going to have power for three days—after a day, as soon as you could drive again, they packed us up and headed out of town to a friend’s with power), even before you think of COVID and who you could crash with


Steph L. - Feb 17, 2021 6:03:29 pm PST #3627 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I have my sense of smell back! (Lost it with Covid.) I knew my sense of smell was gone when I couldn't smell the Yankee Candle, even when I put my face up close (unlit candle!) and took a big sniff. So when I realized I could smell my coffee this morning, I sniffed the Yankee Candle, and it was a full-on olfactory assault.

So now my sniffer works.


dcp - Feb 17, 2021 6:08:14 pm PST #3628 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Excellent.


Dana - Feb 17, 2021 6:50:43 pm PST #3629 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Had a brief scare that something had broken and we were going to have to turn off water, but it seemed to be a weird fluke. So far, so good. We did talk to a plumber who gave a couple of recommendations, including turning the water off when we go to bed.


brenda m - Feb 17, 2021 6:54:29 pm PST #3630 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I got "lucky" when my pipes burst a few years ago because the gushing water shorted out the well pump and cut itself off. When we flipped the breaker back on it was an instant furious waterfall. I wasn't expecting the force of it.


Gris - Feb 18, 2021 2:53:13 am PST #3631 of 30000
Hey. New board.

Psst! Gudanov is Willy Wonka - pass it on

I was just about to ask about Gud again. Is this in reference to something?