I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.

Book ,'Serenity'


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.


Susan W. - Oct 01, 2025 7:56:54 pm PDT #9526 of 9555
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Turning a parasocial friend into a friend.

One of the great challenges of adulthood! I'm think I'm going to make one of my goals for 2026 to actually invite this one woman at church who shares a lot of my geeky interests and lives less than a mile away over for dinner instead of just making "we should have y'all over one of these days" noises from time to time.

As for job searches, Dylan has now been looking for 11 months and has applied to at least 150 places. He has a second interview on Friday, so if anyone has spare job~ma to throw his way I'd be appreciative.


DavidS - Oct 01, 2025 10:07:19 pm PDT #9527 of 9555
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Job-ma for Dylan!


Laura - Oct 02, 2025 6:01:25 am PDT #9528 of 9555
Our wings are not tired.

Job~ma sent!


JenP - Oct 02, 2025 6:43:30 am PDT #9529 of 9555

Go, Dylan, go!


EpicTangent - Oct 02, 2025 11:08:58 am PDT #9530 of 9555
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Add me to the ranks of the Not-Wronged-By-Nilly. And to those who appreciate the yearly Yom Kippur post. It's both informative and encouraging of personal introspection, so thanks for not offending me in any way and for providing this yearly insight.

And on a separate note: Job~ma, Dylan!


meara - Oct 02, 2025 11:19:03 am PDT #9531 of 9555

There are too many possible words in today’s spelling bee. Who has time for that many words??

Also I have no more meetings today and while I should get things done I don’t wanna.


Laura - Oct 02, 2025 12:38:30 pm PDT #9532 of 9555
Our wings are not tired.

There are too many possible words in today’s spelling bee. Who has time for that many words??

Life only allows me so much time to do all my daily games, so I always do 10 words and move on. They need to have an archive for Pips! I want to go back to the beginning when I wasn't doing them.

Also, on yesterday's Spelling Bee, I took longer than usual, so I looked today to see what other words were on the list. For all the words they disallow, yesterday had fanfic and antifa.

In awesome news today, I stopped by the farm market and they had beautiful bi-color corn and absolutely gorgeous tomatoes. Also lots of pumpkins and mums, but I wasn't in the market for those.


meara - Oct 02, 2025 12:47:45 pm PDT #9533 of 9555

Omg are you kidding Laura?? I put in “fanfiction” yesterday and it said no, so I assumed “fanfic” wouldn’t be allowed! Bananas.


Trudy Booth - Oct 02, 2025 1:48:36 pm PDT #9534 of 9555
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

They keep taking games away from me. I have a frikkin' NYT subscription from my office, I'm not paying for my own just to pay fifty cents more to get games.

They took the Mini, Tiles... if they mess with WORDLE its going to be war.


Calli - Oct 02, 2025 4:53:38 pm PDT #9535 of 9555
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Job~ma for Dylan!