My brother sent me this link, a piece written by a female lieutenant commander in the Navy. Well worth reading, I think, especially today.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
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.
Amy - Nov 11, 2010 4:16:47 am PST #4832 of 30001
Because books.
Kat - Nov 11, 2010 5:04:05 am PST #4833 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
msbelle, if you have time, can you pop on to AIM as I have a brief question for you.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2010 5:08:18 am PST #4834 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks for linking that, Amy.
tommyrot - Nov 11, 2010 5:21:54 am PST #4835 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dick Van Dyke's Life Saved by Porpoises
American actor Dick Van Dyke claims that his life was saved by porpoises. Van Dyke fell asleep on his surfboard one day, and when we woke up, he could no longer see the shore. He asserts that porpoises pushed him back to land:
“I woke up out of sight of land … and I started paddling with the swells and I started seeing fins swimming around me and I thought, ‘I’m dead!’”, he said
“They turned out to be porpoises [and] they pushed me all the way to shore. I’m not kidding.”
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2010 6:20:50 am PST #4836 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why have you not posted since I left home? Now I'm forced to recite inanity.
Good inanity--I found my work ID, quite by accident while I was filling my car with gas. Whew. Because the apartment search very much wasn't working out. Since I also found my lost earrings, all I'm missing now is the cap for my flash drive. I know I shouldn't have bought one that small, but it was really cute.
Why can't I find a place that serves breakfast potatoes? I want some bad, with cheese and salsa for brekkie. I'm tired of cake. I'm trying a jalapeno bagel. I don't expect it to end well.
Where can I find good flavoured black tea bags? What's a well-recommended brand?
tommyrot - Nov 11, 2010 6:24:02 am PST #4837 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Why have you not posted since I left home?
The internets are boring today.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2010 6:24:41 am PST #4838 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm trying to schedule more meetings in NYC, so when I go down for a meeting on a Thursday in a few weeks, I can stay over. So far, no luck! Bleh.
Connie Neil - Nov 11, 2010 6:25:21 am PST #4839 of 30001
brillig
Why can't I find a place that serves breakfast potatoes?
Do hash browns qualify as potatoes? Because dozens of places do hash browns.
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2010 6:27:05 am PST #4840 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The internets are boring today.
You are also to blame, young man.
Do hash browns qualify as potatoes? Because dozens of places do hash browns.
No, breakfast potatoes (hash browns don't show up for me until the end of the page).
Sue - Nov 11, 2010 6:29:50 am PST #4841 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I have done the first pass with coarse paper on the drum sander that I rented from home depot. The sande that, five minutes after I started, decided that it's on on/off switch need to stay ON permanently. Good thing I know how to easier unplug a twist lock.
Other things that Home Depot doesn't' tell you: that your varnishy sawdust can spontaneously combust. Mine didn't it would be good to know. First bag is out in a plastic bag (not ideal, i know) in the middle of my yard.)