Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

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


Ginger - Feb 10, 2011 10:14:34 am PST #22191 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The Carlin theory of bigger house=more space=more stuff is apparently true.

Most of life is covered by corollaries of Parkinson's laws:

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Expenditures rise to meet income.


Sue - Feb 10, 2011 10:15:42 am PST #22192 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Nice, Sue!

I feel vindicated but still mad. I don't think I would have ever discovered that the flashing was done poorly had I not complained. WTF! (And I complained because I asked for the service in November, heard nothing, and got billed last week for it. I didn't even know they had been on my roof!!!!)


Liese S. - Feb 10, 2011 10:16:06 am PST #22193 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Apparently my onerous task for the day is going to be remaining vertical. I woke up cranky, the SO is gone all day but I don't need to leave until evening, so my plan was to putter around in pj's, do nails, take a bath, work a little at my desk, rehearse, read, and then go.

Instead, I got up, ate, felt tired and went back to bed. Got up, ate, came into the office to work, and got a nosebleed. Now I feel all post-nosebleed manky. Although I did not bleed to death, so that is a win.

But seriously, I'm going back to bed. The universe does not want me awake today.


Sue - Feb 10, 2011 10:20:30 am PST #22194 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Okay, actually onerous task day, not going so good. I have actual onerous work tasks in front of me and I am not doing them. I will get this one list of correspondence checked before I go home.


lisah - Feb 10, 2011 10:23:27 am PST #22195 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Every day you don't bleed to death is a win!

I handled a conference call on a subject I know very little about ON MY OWN! New boss is working at home and she didn't dial in for some reason. Fortunately, other people were very nice and I can still use the "I'm very new on this project and have not mastered your terminology" line frequently.


Frankenbuddha - Feb 10, 2011 10:30:25 am PST #22196 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

T-Rex calls "shenanigans": [link]


Amy - Feb 10, 2011 10:36:26 am PST #22197 of 30001
Because books.

Every day you don't bleed to death is a win!

So weird, because S. just ran past me toward the bathroom with blood dripping from his nose.

That'll wake you up.


Strega - Feb 10, 2011 10:45:55 am PST #22198 of 30001

Twitter revealed to Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of Iceland's parliament, that the feds were seeking all of her Twitter communications. Facebook did not,

The difference is that Twitter challenged a gag order meant to prevent that notification. Google & other companies have notified members when they were subpoenaed, but AFAIK gag orders weren't involved in those instances. Wikileaks called for Google & Facebook to say whether they were subpoenaed as well, and I don't think there's been any response, which is... troubling.


JZ - Feb 10, 2011 10:53:52 am PST #22199 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Holy crap. Yesterday, pizza and cheesecake. Today, the rest of the cheesecake and a free bottle of cognac.

You guys can tell me; I promise I won't flip out. I've died and gone to heaven or slipped into a multiverse or something, haven't I?


Kate P. - Feb 10, 2011 10:54:48 am PST #22200 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

What's everybody doing for their Onerous Task today?

I called the doctor for a third time to try to get an appointment, and for the third time was unable to make an appointment -- their office is closed all day today, due to last night's snow. Augh. Just write me a frelling prescription already!