On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


erikaj - Jan 17, 2025 1:41:42 pm PST #4590 of 6494
Always Anti-fascist!

Jessica, Consuela, yeah, though the announcement makes me glad, I know people that wanted that for YEARS. Good news, msbelle.


JenP - Jan 17, 2025 2:58:11 pm PST #4591 of 6494

Drain clogged on the way out of the house... plumber working on it now. Could be fixed tonight, or he may need to come back tomorrow. If not fixed tonight, we have to go to a hotel, because, you know, indoor plumbing and all.

Send me some spare "fixed tonight vibes" if you can, please.


brenda m - Jan 17, 2025 4:01:29 pm PST #4592 of 6494
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

With the amount of international meetings I have to do at times I'm just happy when we can make them somewhat close to normal business hours here.

The Europeans get off so fricken easy let me tell you.

YAY YAY YAY for benign!


askye - Jan 17, 2025 4:03:01 pm PST #4593 of 6494
Thrive to spite them

Yay benign. And for planning the Tokyo trip.

I'm tired.

Penny went back to the vet yesterday and her UTi is gone . They suggested monthly shots for her arthritis but I'm holding off until her thyroid levels are retested. She seems to be doing well with the gabapentin and if she needs thyroid medication I need to focus on that.

M actually took her to the vet, he took me to work and then picked me up. We went to dinner after and then the pet store for the litter we switched to. We saw super cute guinea pigs. And a very inquisitive ferret (the others were asleep).

I


brenda m - Jan 17, 2025 4:04:51 pm PST #4594 of 6494
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

Oh reminds me - colonoscopy done and clean. A few benign polyps removed, come back in three years.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 17, 2025 4:26:15 pm PST #4595 of 6494
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yay benign!

Yay Penny!

Yay colonoscopy!


-t - Jan 17, 2025 4:26:40 pm PST #4596 of 6494
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yay!


Cass - Jan 17, 2025 5:00:14 pm PST #4597 of 6494
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

he leaned hard on getting a tankless but staying with gas,

I think this is what I will do for my dead water heater.

Yay benign!

Excellent news on the colonoscopy.


Jesse - Jan 17, 2025 5:40:36 pm PST #4598 of 6494
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Good news, msbelle!!

Phew, brenda.

I'm excited for your trip, David.


Calli - Jan 17, 2025 6:19:49 pm PST #4599 of 6494
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yay benign and clean!

Woo-ho impending travels!

My department let everyone go to their three-day weekend a couple of hours early, which isn’t as enormous a joy, but still pretty happy-making. Also, my landlords finally dealt with the dish washer that’s been broken since I moved in nearly two months ago by putting in a shiny new one. So I’m ignoring all the political bs and going into the weekend feeling pretty pleased with life.