No power in the 'verse can stop me.

River ,'War Stories'


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.


Dana - Mar 07, 2021 5:30:33 pm PST #4276 of 29428
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I'm sorry, msbelle.


msbelle - Mar 07, 2021 5:35:45 pm PST #4277 of 29428
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

ION - this beer I am having for dinner is delicious. Blue Moon Mango Wheat.


-t - Mar 07, 2021 5:50:18 pm PST #4278 of 29428
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm so sorry, msbelle


JenP - Mar 07, 2021 6:12:37 pm PST #4279 of 29428

I'm so sorry, msbelle.

I am not a big beer fan, but I do like Blue Moon beer, I recall.

We spent a decadent day WoWing, going for a drive (including the soon to be neighborhood), and WoWing some more. I am surprisingly wiped out. Got a shake from Sheetsz, too, which is my current fave shake out there. I am such a not-expensive date, I tell you what.

Tomorrow, back into packing.


Volans - Mar 07, 2021 6:30:58 pm PST #4280 of 29428
move out and draw fire

My life has been so different. We were really locked down for maybe 4-5 months? But the kid and I have gone in for multiple haircuts over the year and I got the last of the navy blue stripped out. I've been going in to an office to work without fail other than a month last March-April. My son's been back in evening martial arts (distanced) and I sit at a cafe while he's there. We pick up food from a local business a couple times a week. The hospitalization rate has been very low, and the mortality rate lower.

I occasionally see someone wearing a mask not over their nose, but rarely...apparently there were a couple people at work that didn't want to wear masks and they got fired. Everyone's been very diligent about safety protocols and it makes a difference.


DebetEsse - Mar 07, 2021 6:58:06 pm PST #4281 of 29428
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Got my second shot yesterday. I went to bed very early. Still a little dizzy, but I've been trying to drink a lot of water.

The experience here has also been quite different. We're under a rolling average of 5 cases per day (on an island of 200,000) so we've felt okay to go back to our small in-person game nights with masks. Half of us are now vaccinated. But they're being real slow to proceed through the age groups, I think partly because we have so many essential workers getting it (2 percent of the total population of the island will be getting shots next Saturday in a megaton) and partly because the old people are actually signing up for it.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 07, 2021 7:30:23 pm PST #4282 of 29428
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis

I'm sorry msbelle.

My mom got her second shot Thursday (only side effect was a sore arm), so in a week and a half or so dining out at places with patios is back on the table just in time for decent spring weather. No idea when Phase 2 begins vaccinating here as yet, but I'm hopeful it'll be before summer.


aurelia - Mar 07, 2021 8:04:10 pm PST #4283 of 29428
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I'm sorry, msbelle. I'm right there with you. My uncle who has been in and out of the hospital since just before Christmas has gone into hospice care. And my 93 year old grandmother fell and broke her hip a little over a week ago. She's actually doing pretty well. They're just having trouble getting insurance to approve a rehab facility for her recovery. I am worried that my parents haven't been vaccinated and are away from home regularly visiting the hospital. I haven't been able to find any useful information on vax availability in Missouri to pass on to them. The only useful thing I've been able to offer is a zillow link for my uncle's house.


Steph L. - Mar 07, 2021 8:06:11 pm PST #4284 of 29428
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

I'm sorry, msbelle.

you'd be marinading your head in Olaplex until we chopped it off.

I may have threatened Tim to stop using my Don't Despair, Repair! hair mask now that my hair is re-highlighted (he is very curly and his hair loves that mask). He sensibly suggested we just buy extra.


amyparker - Mar 07, 2021 9:18:12 pm PST #4285 of 29428
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.

I may have threatened Tim to stop using my Don't Despair, Repair! hair mask now that my hair is re-highlighted (he is very curly and his hair loves that mask).

My hair was never happier than when I was using AG products. My skin, on the other hand - I'm allergic to something in it, and had horrible, non-stop irritation and peeling. Now I look scruffy, but my face doesn't hurt/shed dead skin onto my glasses.