I generally add kahlua to my hot chocolate.
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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 11178
aurelia - Nov 19, 2025 5:46:38 pm PST #10268 of 11178
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 11178
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 11178
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 11178
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 11178
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 11178
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 11178
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 11178
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 11178
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.