I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.

Angel ,'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.


Laura - May 23, 2024 2:50:52 pm PDT #682 of 3465
Our wings are not tired.

After 48 hours I'm finally reunited with my luggage.

Yay! It was so good to see you and get F2F hugs. I'm grateful that you could come, and that you are home and reconnected with your luggage.


Shir - May 23, 2024 3:14:33 pm PDT #683 of 3465
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Thank you, friends. I'm so happy that I could come and see so many of you and give you hugs.

That vacation was very much needed.


erin_obscure - May 23, 2024 3:28:11 pm PDT #684 of 3465
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

Shir it was so delightful to meet you and hang out a bit (unexpected brunch was especially lovely). Glad you made it home safe and that your luggage eventually made it too. I guess if there’s ever going to be a luggage delay, it’s better on the rest in home end of things than when you are in a strange climate without anything but what’s shoved in the carryon. I hope your kitty has welcomed you home with purrs and only brief feline disdain.

Smonster that’s rough, and I would like to send your former employer a strongly worded letter re respect. If you were decent enough to give notice, they ought to continue to at least pay you for the time you were intending to continue working.

Entirely unrelated, I just got word that my dad is getting a pacemaker installed June 24th. I’m pondering a trip to RVA for support before and after. Annoyingly, my mother is in town at my place June 1-18th for her medical stuff and I’ll be taking a fair amount of sick leave to shuttle her around and take care of her in my guest room. So not the greatest time for me, but I know he would like to get it done asap and out of the constant life vest wearing so….faster cardio surgeon, install install install!


Jessica - May 23, 2024 4:50:36 pm PDT #685 of 3465
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Shir it was wonderful having you here and seeing you again in SF! Glad your luggage made its way home.


P.M. Marc - May 23, 2024 7:51:32 pm PDT #686 of 3465
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Shir, I echo the delight everyone else has written of with regards to getting to see you (and, in my case, your lovely local friend!). Thanks to you, I now know where to go for pretty killer vegan burgers, too.


erin_obscure - May 23, 2024 8:08:54 pm PDT #687 of 3465
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

J finished Season 2. Imma share a lil something he just shared with me:

Spike's Saga (to date)

• Came in like he was going to own the town

• Got into a power struggle with a small child

• Got his ass handed to him in every single encounter with Buffy

• Was such a non-threat to Buffy that she declined to stake him despite multiple glaring opportunities to do so

• Let Buffy's crew waltz in and out of his lair

• Telegraphed his big plan so badly that Buffy was able to one-shot his superweapon

• Got himself crippled restoring Dru

• Immediately after let Angel steal Dru away with hardly a peep

• Was forced to side with Buffy and play nice with Joyce

• Could only fight Angel by bushwhacking him

• Turned tail and ran out of town as fast as he could


erin_obscure - May 23, 2024 8:12:37 pm PDT #688 of 3465
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

And I have my phone again! HUZZAH! It had quite the journey. Charging up and then I should be able to start dealing with photos from this weekend. Not that I took many...but there is at least a prophetic pic from the back of a Waymo, LOL


DavidS - May 23, 2024 8:13:06 pm PDT #689 of 3465
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

J finished Season 2. Imma share a lil something he just shared with me:

Bwah!

TL;DR: Not just Love's Bitch.


DavidS - May 23, 2024 8:14:23 pm PDT #690 of 3465
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And I have my phone again! HUZZAH!

Yay! Props to the Waymo Lost and Found protocol. I waltzed in, gave them the number and they handed me the phone.


erin_obscure - May 23, 2024 8:21:06 pm PDT #691 of 3465
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

Props to the Waymo Lost and Found protocol. I waltzed in, gave them the number and they handed me the phone.

If only they would also ship, but I grock the liability issues.