I've had something like that happen on my phone, -t. I =think= it was Google's assistant thingy responding to something it heard from my computer. Needless to say, I need to figure out how to turn that assistant thingy off. Very creepy.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'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.
bennett - Oct 10, 2021 7:21:44 am PDT #9842 of 30000
Sheryl - Oct 10, 2021 9:38:12 am PDT #9843 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Adding on to the annoyances in my life, I chipped a tooth in my sleep. It’s not too big a chip, but it is one.
Cass - Oct 10, 2021 2:01:59 pm PDT #9844 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
and I slowed down and gave her the finger.
Your restraint, Cash, was admirable.
I hope your family tests negative.
meara - Oct 10, 2021 2:41:38 pm PDT #9845 of 30000
I was at a fan convention this weekend eith two friends. There was a Saturday night party but in the past it was like $40, and didn’t start until 10pm, and we figured indoors with covid wouldn’t be great (the conference was masked and vaxxed, but when people are drinking and dancing?). So we put pajamas on and watched great British bake-off…and then my one friend realized it was both outside and free. So we rallied and went out at 11pm!! We felt so unlike our usual crotchety old selves
Cass - Oct 10, 2021 3:24:49 pm PDT #9846 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
You got redressed and went out at 11 pm?!?? That is almost midnight and jammies are comfy.
The past two weeks, I’ve been very old. Early dinner, early bed, lots of things I’m happy to complain about.
I really am looking forward for this to get better. It’s long Covid, pet issues, changing schedules and roles at work and just depression. Making steps though.
meara - Oct 10, 2021 5:57:10 pm PDT #9847 of 30000
Yes we were very shocked we made it out. I mean granted my friends are 10 years younger than me but still! Tomorrow may be a bit rough, since we had to get up pretty early I’m exhausted. But gotta do some stuff before I can crawl into bed (like get home and then go get my dog!). Just landed.
DavidS - Oct 10, 2021 7:09:57 pm PDT #9848 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So we rallied and went out at 11pm!! We felt so unlike our usual crotchety old selves
Right the fuck on! Well done on rallying! Full points!
Cass - Oct 10, 2021 7:58:41 pm PDT #9849 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
JZ, I know you’ve been signal boosting and trying to keep getting fresh, local eyes on Lauren Cho’s disappearance. They have found unidentified human remains very close to where she disappeared in Yucca valley.
JZ - Oct 10, 2021 8:19:01 pm PDT #9850 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.
JZ, I know you’ve been signal boosting and trying to keep getting fresh, local eyes on Lauren Cho’s disappearance. They have found unidentified human remains very close to where she disappeared in Yucca valley.
Oh, shit. Poor young woman. Her poor family. Goddamnit.
eta: And I hate that it took the highly publicized domestic-violence murder of a young white woman to draw enough attention to Ms. Cho's and other cases that they might actually be solved and their beloveds find some kind of closure. And I hate that that other young woman was so utterly failed by the officers who came to investigate a complaint just before her fiance killed her, and I just want to swaddle Matilda and all her friends in bubble wrap and hide them from the outside world forever, but of course that can't and shouldn't happen. They all deserve the whole wide world and not an inch less.
Cass - Oct 10, 2021 8:48:23 pm PDT #9851 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
This is a difficult area to find missing people but it’s unconscionable that they barely even looked. And they didn’t look for Lauren appropriately. Awful.
Even when full resources are deployed, it took 18 months to find a missing Canadian who disappeared off of a very popular hike in summer 2018. His death was eventually determined to be accidental.