I always thought the name Serenity had a vaguely funereal sound to it.

Simon ,'Out Of Gas'


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. - Dec 08, 2020 3:08:10 pm PST #760 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I lived in Cincinnati and never went to Skyline.

Damn it, we let one get away!


brenda m - Dec 08, 2020 3:35:55 pm PST #761 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 lived just up the road from that Skyline

Prolly shoulda warned Steph about the pipe.


flea - Dec 08, 2020 3:41:12 pm PST #762 of 30000
information libertarian

Our children moved to Cincinnati too late to appreciate Skyline (8 and 5). Mr. Flea took them there once early on and they were appalled.

Mr. flea was good friends in college with the sculptor of the fountain across the street from the Clifton Gaslight Skyline (where Stephanie earlier got hurt and failed to get her second tetanus shot.)

I routinely see Jessica’s grandparents’ grave on walks around my neighborhood (it is visible from the sidewalk) and always think of them and her fondly.

This concludes today’s Cincinnati news.


Susan W. - Dec 08, 2020 3:42:29 pm PST #763 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

The shingles discussion is so timely for me! I can't go ON my 50th birthday in (gulp) 3 1/2 weeks, because it's a holiday, but I mean to get one within days. I had a terrible case of chicken pox at age 18, and I'd rather not give that virus a second crack at making me miserable.


dcp - Dec 08, 2020 3:50:58 pm PST #764 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Susan W., check ahead of time to make sure local supply is available. It was a problem a year or so ago, and I haven't checked into it since.


Susan W. - Dec 08, 2020 4:03:21 pm PST #765 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Thanks, dcp! Will do.


Sheryl - Dec 08, 2020 4:10:06 pm PST #766 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Today ended up being more interesting than expected. I got Mr. S dressed and ready to go in front of his Chromebook, but only got the "the host will let you in shortly" message for all of his first class, and into the second. Then I checked my e-mail to find out that the school's internet and phone lines were out because of a Comcast outage. Mr. S ended up watching random stuff on YouTube for a while. Eventually there was a second e-mail saying that they were sending the teachers home to use their internet there, and that classes would start at 11:25 am. So he got a few classes in, but ended up watching more YouTube than he really ought to.


Jessica - Dec 08, 2020 4:45:49 pm PST #767 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I routinely see Jessica’s grandparents’ grave on walks around my neighborhood (it is visible from the sidewalk) and always think of them and her fondly.

Oh, my heart. I was just thinking of Granny earlier today.


Jesse - Dec 08, 2020 5:07:30 pm PST #768 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Come to find out, my mayor has shingles right now! And it sounds terrible, in his eyes and ears both. He just had bad Lyme disease not that long ago, too. Yikes.


meara - Dec 08, 2020 5:39:30 pm PST #769 of 30000

Yikes, def don't want shingles. Jealous of the people younger than me who never had chickenpox, won't get shingles, and had the HPV vaccine too!

I still have never finished my Hep B shots, or whichever hepatitis it is that was 3 shots. I think Hep C was the gamma globulin golfball in the buttcheek; that was fun. In short: single shot yes please.

I think yeah Hep B. Hep A is two shots, and I think mine were separated by about 8 years because oops. And my yellow fever has now expired. But I did manage to update my tetanus/pertussis/diphtheria one while getting my flu shot in October! Whew.