I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sumi - Jul 08, 2007 2:34:22 pm PDT #6995 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

That was indeed some tennis. And I also watched it on time delay and can I say that I am one lucky girl? I was leaving the house around 10ish and set to tape for six hours starting at ten (the final started after 8 am my time) and I did that but I forgot to change the tape speed from sp to slp so it only taped 2 hours - - my tape ended just after the final ended.

Whew. And now nobody can say that Federer can't play a five-setter. And could you have a more perfectly matched pair of opponents than Federer and Nadal?

I don't think so. Now to go find out what happened in Mixed Doubles.


Typo Boy - Jul 08, 2007 2:56:44 pm PDT #6996 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Bostonistas:

The local rag reports there are no good vegan restaurants in Boston. (The main human character in the comic Get Fuzzy wears a shirt featuring a vegetarian cafe in Olympia. The cartoonist claims this was at the request of a friend who complained that Boston has no decent vegan eateries.) This just strikes me as really unlikely. We are talking a major city... So is this just ignorance on the part the cartoonist? (My ignorance is more pardonable as I live thousands of miles from Boston.) Or does Boston actually lack restaurants that cater to vegans?


Jesse - Jul 08, 2007 3:09:06 pm PDT #6997 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So, good news and bad news. I gave the suit a fairly half-assed ironing. Maybe three-quarters-assed. Anyway, I remembered that there was a seam that needed repairing, so I did that, which is good, but then there was some kind of stain on them! WTF? So I dabbed it with water, and am now hoping that doesn't do more harm than good.


§ ita § - Jul 08, 2007 3:09:58 pm PDT #6998 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I used to not like Nadal. Watching him today--okay, I don't love him, but I can't not like him. That was some excellent quality tennis all round.

White spice pound cake is glazed.

My stomach still hates me, so although I passed Cheetos in the supermarket, I dared not make eye contact. I'm trying to bribe it with wholesome (and not junk) food, but it's not feeling (or giving) the love.

On the upside, I'm self-medicating by impulse purchasing technology. It's something.


Cashmere - Jul 08, 2007 3:15:06 pm PDT #6999 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

DH learned to iron by googling "learn how to iron" a long time ago. The best instructions he found were on a transgender website. He's much, much better at ironing than I am.

I usually just go wrinkled.


Kat - Jul 08, 2007 3:19:20 pm PDT #7000 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Jesse, water won't usually ruin linen. True linen can be machine-washed, but the ironing is usually a bitch.

I have to go back to napping now.


Theodosia - Jul 08, 2007 3:25:24 pm PDT #7001 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

FWiW, I know of vegetarian restaurants (somewhere...) but no vegan ones.


sarameg - Jul 08, 2007 3:28:18 pm PDT #7002 of 10001

Except, well, he fell. I didn't check to see the last time he'd achieved tree safely, but bully for him at 70 DOING STUPID PHYSICAL THINGS.

This seems to be a certain variety of father, as Cass & Gloom's anecdotes reveal. As has been documented here (fell off a cliff in a CAVE during S&R training being my personal favorite,) I have one too.

My nephews will get to tell about their father the explosives inexpert. And racerdriver.

The elder nephew seems to be fond of his baby brother, though the wee one isn't too interactive yet. No toy stealing. However, he is practicing for siblinghood. He opined, just once in over two weeks, that T maybe should go back in mommy's tummy and tape be used to keep him there. He wasn't mad, barely even disgruntled. It was quite random.


Cass - Jul 08, 2007 3:33:03 pm PDT #7003 of 10001
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 opined, just once in over two weeks, that T maybe should go back in mommy's tummy and tape be used to keep him there.
I think I just hurt my tummy laughing. No, I know I did. Who knew belly laughing was so belly intensive?

That is hysterical.


sarameg - Jul 08, 2007 3:38:22 pm PDT #7004 of 10001

I would have loved to see my SIL's face when she heard this. Cause she so does not like being pregnant.

I'd like to share my dorkitude: I think, not counting the first time, I've managed to reread WTVPPLTL (WVPPLL?) at least 3 times, in various order.