Drew, no fair taking the good weather back with you. It's overcast and rainy here again.
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
'Soul Purpose'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[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.
sj - Jul 07, 2009 1:52:33 pm PDT #15601 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
NoiseDesign - Jul 07, 2009 2:24:07 pm PDT #15602 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
I've been out on deck for the past couple of hours taking pictures and shooting some HD video. We'll see how it turns out but I've got about 5 or 6 minutes total of 1080p footage of the scenery. It's just so clear and amazing without a cloud anywhere. I was chatting with one of the crew and even he was blown away by how amazing this week has been. He said when we pulled into Ketchikan yesterday and he saw how clear it was he almost started crying. It is apparently just never this clear.
Polter-Cow - Jul 07, 2009 2:28:53 pm PDT #15603 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I was in Ketchikan years ago on an Alaskan cruise, and, yeah, it's pretty up there. I also liked the times when we were just out on the ocean and covered in fog and you couldn't see five feet in front of you. It gave me a real admiration for the early explorers who had no goddamn idea what was out there and still kept going.
Jessica - Jul 07, 2009 3:37:17 pm PDT #15604 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Finally, one day, he got thoroughly frustrated with me and said, "How can you be so SURE?" And I had to go back and explain every logical progression and theory I'd already run through and he just sat there, open-mouthed and said, "There's no way that you went through all of those that fast."
Bwah! I do the *exact* same thing. It drives both DH and myself crazy - DH because I'm a know-it-all smartass, and me because I don't understand why he doesn't trust me to already thought of all those things!!
I am insanely jealous of ND right now.
Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2009 3:43:32 pm PDT #15605 of 30000
brillig
Hubby is the one who makes the logical leaps, and he gets *pissed* when I don't make the same leaps. We cannot work on the same project if there are multiple ways to do something.
javachik - Jul 07, 2009 3:50:51 pm PDT #15606 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I don't understand why he doesn't trust me to already thought of all those things!!
You just nailed why I get so frustrated when boyfriend doesn't "get" my leaps.
Atropa - Jul 07, 2009 3:59:21 pm PDT #15607 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
He looks at me and thinks my little red choo choo has gone chugging 'round the bend, and *I've always been this way! I just could hide it better when you weren't all up in my bidness 24/7!*
Ahahahaha. That describes some of mine & Pete's conversations perfectly, especially during the times when between jobs and at home.
Steph L. - Jul 07, 2009 4:08:06 pm PDT #15608 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Finally, one day, he got thoroughly frustrated with me and said, "How can you be so SURE?" And I had to go back and explain every logical progression and theory I'd already run through and he just sat there, open-mouthed and said, "There's no way that you went through all of those that fast."
Bwah! I do the *exact* same thing. It drives both DH and myself crazy - DH because I'm a know-it-all smartass, and me because I don't understand why he doesn't trust me to already thought of all those things!!
Heh. I do that all the time. The Boy can ask a question and I can answer the next 3 logical questions that proceed from the first one, without him needing to ask them.
He, on the other hand, when asked a question, pauses for so long before answering that I've asked him more than once if he heard me. So one time, at shindig for his family, I asked his sisters-in-law if they have the same problem with his 2 brothers.
They just laughed and laughed and laughed and told me to get used to it. Then his mom told me his dad is even worse than "the boys."
In stark contrast, The Boy is still a little whipsawed when I answer a question before the asker is even finished asking it.
-t - Jul 07, 2009 4:15:49 pm PDT #15609 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In stark contrast, The Boy is still a little whipsawed when I answer a question before the asker is even finished asking it.
Oh, I don't deal well with that. Especially when the question I'm asking is not exactly what the answerer is anticipating. And DH's whole family does it as a matter of course.
Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2009 4:33:05 pm PDT #15610 of 30000
brillig
Hubby objects to me answering before he's done because he's getting uneasy about how well his mind is working, and he doesn't like any indication that he may not be functioning at full speed.
Unfortunately, he's not wrong about the acceleration on his brain having fallen off since I met him.
Still, I can occasionally catch him off guard with a witticism or bit of knowledge. And he often will use me as an encyclopedia. I may not be able to make the logical leaps, but my mental archives are a lot better indexed and more eclectic than his.