Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


hippocampus - Apr 16, 2008 6:23:43 am PDT #4911 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

Happy Birthday ND! Congrats Nora! K-Bug, be nice to your momma.

insent (x2) d


Toddson - Apr 16, 2008 6:28:31 am PDT #4912 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Happy Birthday, ND!

(they're having a birthday party for the pope at the white house. but he's not attending because he doesn't do social occasions on state visits)

And, as I sat here listening to the motorcade go nearby, all I could think was "All your Pope are belong to us!"

(I think I'm spending too much time on the web.)


hippocampus - Apr 16, 2008 6:30:18 am PDT #4913 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

cherrios -

so with all of the recurring sick (doctor says 'just a string of colds'... but if it keeps up 'too long' come back in for tests... wtf. "too long"? not a medical term with which I am familiar.), I nearly spaced my massively important conference call at 10. DH is awesome and took sprog to the Dr. but I was still all over the place this morning. And had to pin down two very fast talking programmers on speakerphone while trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with their data structure that they can't permit certain queries. Only a specific set of declared queries. Bad. When they tried to sell us another web server solely for their data source, that would allow "more interaction with the data, but you still need to tell us exactly what your plan is and changing the plan in the future will require months of work," I was glad I made it to the call. "Which of the data would you like access to?" "um. all of it? it's our data, right?"


Toddson - Apr 16, 2008 6:39:53 am PDT #4914 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Our "tech support" is in today and - finally - re-enabled the spam filter. We're still being buried in the stuff, but at least some of it is getting separated from the real mail. yay?


Vortex - Apr 16, 2008 6:42:56 am PDT #4915 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

So, my beloved navy flats have given up the ghost. I go to the Nordstrom site to look at shoes, select the "wear to work" option, and the first shoe pictured is this: [link]

I don't know about you, but a 3 1/2 inch heel patent leather red sandal does not strike me as "wear to work". Unless you work at Cosmo or Playboy. WTF? (it even appears when I click on the subcategory "classic") Am I turning into a fuddy duddy?


brenda m - Apr 16, 2008 6:47:26 am PDT #4916 of 10001
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

This is apparently the new thing. I see it all over the place these days. @@


Toddson - Apr 16, 2008 6:49:27 am PDT #4917 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Vortex, do they have a category of "wear to work in the real world"?


SuziQ - Apr 16, 2008 6:52:47 am PDT #4918 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

The shoes I'm wearing today are completely not "wear to work" shoes, but yet, here I am. Black high heeled sandles with just a toe strap and an ankle strap. Was feeling sassy when I got dressed at o'dark thirty this morning.


hippocampus - Apr 16, 2008 6:57:02 am PDT #4919 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

yeah, I got tapped for wearing these to work on Monday: [link]

(wish I could flickr from my iphone. and copy/paste weblinks. is this possible? Should I ask in tech? can I have a pony?)


lisah - Apr 16, 2008 6:57:51 am PDT #4920 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

yeah, I got tapped for wearing these to work on Monday

what do you mean "tapped"?