Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


askye - Mar 17, 2025 1:23:43 pm PDT #6250 of 6269
Thrive to spite them

I don't know how I feel about Dems voting to pass the budget. On the one hand...don't vote for it. On the other hand...if the government shuts down then it just seems like anything could happen.

In other news I had my ultrasound sound today and I checked My Chart ...good news .. everything looks great . The bad news is it cost me $600 to find that out and I still have stomach pains and nausea. And dizziness. So ....I don't know what the next step is.

Right now I'm at Mom's amd the drive up wasn't bad until I had some stomach pains and was having to go around 5 cyclists who were really spread out which made it hard to pass them.

Oh M's mom has COPD and is refusing to call a specialist but hasn't smoked in almost a week! M decided not to come up with me so he can stay and support his mom/keep an eye on her.

I have no experience with microblading. My eyebrows are still the same even though the hair on my head keeps thinking


Steph L. - Mar 17, 2025 1:33:02 pm PDT #6251 of 6269
I look more rad than Lutheranism

You'll be like Luke Skywalker clicking the little widgets when he got his robot hand.

Yesssssss.


meara - Mar 17, 2025 3:29:28 pm PDT #6252 of 6269

How am I supposed to get the motivation to go to the gym when I don’t want to if it also starts HAILING. WTF Seattle. Ugh. But I gotta go today because of how the rest of my week is booked already. And my usual gym companion has not been available the past few weeks which definitely doesn’t help.

Just don’t get an evil hand, Teppy…


Steph L. - Mar 17, 2025 3:45:45 pm PDT #6253 of 6269
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Just don’t get an evil hand, Teppy…

But now I kind of want one!


-t - Mar 17, 2025 3:53:44 pm PDT #6254 of 6269
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

OK, but only one.


Steph L. - Mar 17, 2025 3:55:18 pm PDT #6255 of 6269
I look more rad than Lutheranism

That's fair.


aurelia - Mar 17, 2025 5:03:38 pm PDT #6256 of 6269
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I'm not sure we can afford to count on long term strategizing if the short term is going to just discard the rule of law entirely.

Exactly. The strategies that worked in the Bush era do not apply to our current situation.


Laura - Mar 17, 2025 5:45:08 pm PDT #6257 of 6269
Our wings are not tired.

Go Evil Hand! Choose Evil Hand! I have every confidence that you will yield it wisely.


askye - Mar 17, 2025 5:45:30 pm PDT #6258 of 6269
Thrive to spite them

Evil hand!! Evil hand!!


askye - Mar 17, 2025 5:51:33 pm PDT #6259 of 6269
Thrive to spite them

Also fuck cancer. Fuck . My Aunt J's partner (also J) was just diagnosed with prostate cancer. It's spread to his bones. I talked to her today and he has said for TWO YEARS he has suspected he had cancer or something seriously wrong and the Drs dismissed him.

Next week he has another appointment soon to get a better idea of the time frame he has. He is 82.

Aunt J had a complicated marriage where she was a caregiver, then she was the care giver for my grandmother. And only when Grandma E died in 2021 was she able to just go and do things without planning or caring for anyone.

They've been planning several trips and they are going to try and make a trip to Italy happen.