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.
Awesome, Theo!
I just had brunch with sarameg and my DH, so you may all envy me! We talked houses and cat-walking and general interesting stuff. She is smart and funny and lively and just truly excellent company.
Now I feel like my DH's cold is getting a hold on me, so it is time for a eucalyptus bath and then some comfort TV. He is feeling better and will be smoking a turkey, so dinner tonight will be fabulous!
Timelies all!
Yay, Erin!
We are back from DarkoverCon. Fairly quiet con, but that's fine.
Since I keep thinking "oh and I forgot to ask/talk about that!" I'd say I had an excellent brunch thanks to Scrappy and Mr. Scrappy.
Theo, I'm totally geeking out over your new boiler assembly. What's the grey tank the size of a propane tank for? Pressure tank? I'm fascinated (I have separate water heater and boiler that should last another decade or so, but still! Fascinating! Digital readout!!!) Copper sure is purty...
Dinner tonight and tomorrow will be Southwest Collard Greens with Turkey. That will use up last of turkey.
Oh and via Making Light, a $6,800 speaker cable has an even more hilarious customer review than one would expect:
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have only a little time..., November 15, 2010
By Whisper (CA USA) - See all my reviews
We live underground. We speak with our hands. We wear the earplugs all our lives.
PLEASE! You must listen! We cannot maintain the link for long... I will type as fast as I can.
DO NOT USE THE CABLES!
We were fools, fools to develop such a thing! Sound was never meant to be this clear, this pure, this... accurate. For a few short days, we marveled. Then the... whispers... began.
Were they Aramaic? Hyperborean? Some even more ancient tongue, first spoken by elder races under the red light of dying suns far from here? We do not know, but somehow, slowly... we began to UNDERSTAND.
No, no, please! I don't want to remember! YOU WILL NOT MAKE ME REMEMBER! I saw brave men claw their own eyes out... oh, god, the screaming... the mobs of feral children feasting on corpses, the shadows MOVING, the fires burning in the air! The CHANTING!
WHY CAN'T I FORGET THE WORDS???
We live underground. We speak with our hands. We wear the earplugs all our lives.
Do not use the cables!
sarameg, yeah, that's an overflow container. The installers seem to have done a top flight job, at least so far as I can tell. Wish I could have been there to kibbitz with them as they worked, because I've usually been able to pick up lots more about how it runs and how to set it, but that's the sad thing about starting a new job the same week as the install.
HOLY SHIT. There was a coyote in the backyard. I was taking out the recycling and he was standing there, staring at me. I screamed, he ran, I ran, and you know what? I'm not taking the rest of the trash out.
Allyson, I don't think a coyote would be brave enough to present any danger to a human being. Avoid cornering it, and you should be fine.
I'm sure I'd be scared but Matt is right. Coyotes are generally not going to be dangerous to humans unless you're confronting a whole pack of them. Or unless a baby is left unattended...
Still freaky, though. I hope you get a bit of calm, Allyson.
This is the second thanksgiving in a row that we've spent crying over animal issues. Next year, we're going away for Thanksgiving. We're renting an SUV, packing the animals up, and spending it in some cabin, somewhere, sipping hot cocoa.
The weekend we all went up to Big Bear ranks as my fave thanksgiving, evar.
You know what's weird? I would have been prepared if it was a zombie, but I have no coyote plan.
An unexpected coyote would sure make me scream, even though I know, logically, as Matt says, they're not much danger to a full-size human.
Then I'd get my camera. :-)