I generally add kahlua to my hot chocolate.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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 - Nov 19, 2025 4:36:30 pm PST #10267 of 14052
"The Senate today have voted to make me a god in Palmyra. They'll put a little statue to me in the temple, and people will bring offerings to me, asking me to bring rain or cure their father's gout. Tell me, Livia: if I'm a god, even in Palmyra, how do I cure gout?!" Augustus, "I Claudius"
aurelia - Nov 19, 2025 5:46:38 pm PST #10268 of 14052
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Connections: I was pretty sure that the blue answers would be purple.
Right? I really thought I was getting purple first. I did get both pangrams off the top and made it to QB during morning coffee. Wordle took 5 tries though.
Jesse - Nov 19, 2025 5:48:17 pm PST #10269 of 14052
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
While you people were talking about delicious boozy hot chocolate, I was making Swiss Miss in the office. Sad.
aurelia - Nov 19, 2025 5:54:56 pm PST #10270 of 14052
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm in my office, listening to the Fezziwig party, drinking hot water.
Hil R. - Nov 19, 2025 9:06:02 pm PST #10271 of 14052
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Frustrating day today.
Tried to do the annual enrollment thing for health insurance and so on, but the network refused to recognize that I was logged on.
Student came to class wearing a mask. I asked if she was feeling OK, and she said, "Yeah, I tested positive for Covid on Monday, but I met all the requirements to come back to class." So, I put on my N95.
I had to send out exams for high school students taking my online calculus class. I email the exams to teachers at their schools, and those teachers print them out, supervise the students taking them, and then scan them and send them back to me. I can't just send the same exam file to each one, because we use a system where each exam had QR codes on it, so I needed to be careful to send the right exam to each person, and to make sure not to send the same file to two different people. It took me a while to get the individual emails put together and the files attached and to double-check that I'd matched up the names and the files correctly. And then one of the teachers emailed me to say that she couldn't open the attachment. I checked, and none of the files had downloaded to my computer correctly, which meant that none of the attachments were right, and I had to redo the entire thing, after downloading each individual file (I'd done it as a batch before, which apparently you can't do.)
Dana - Nov 20, 2025 5:14:05 am PST #10272 of 14052
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Even one of those things is too shitty for a single day. Three is just rude.
-t - Nov 20, 2025 8:20:14 am PST #10273 of 14052
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, that is some unneccessary piling on
Calli - Nov 20, 2025 10:49:11 am PST #10274 of 14052
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
-t, if you want to give it a go, maybe nab one of those airline minis that liquor store often have? You’d just be out a dollar or so if you don’t like it.
-t - Nov 20, 2025 10:52:41 am PST #10275 of 14052
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, that's a great idea! Thanks!
JenP - Nov 20, 2025 11:22:44 am PST #10276 of 14052
I got purple first, but I haven't started anything else yet (well, except Wordle, which is my first one every day) + I have to go back to yesterday in Spelling Bee -- I think I only guessed, like, two words. The world is very invasive on my puzzle time these last couple of days. Rude.