FYI, the Social Security Death Index is online and public. If there's a death certificate and you know basic information, you can find it. I verified my grandparents' death date that way.
Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
'Shells'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Zenkitty - Jan 25, 2016 3:50:58 pm PST #14175 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Kat - Jan 25, 2016 4:25:09 pm PST #14176 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Elle Fanning. Kate Hudson. Several Natalie Portmans. A man in a blazer scanned his phone, stumped. “You know, in ‘Sex & the City 2’? When they’re in Dubai? That butler?” asked Siddhartha Banthiya, an investment banker.
This was a part I found surprisingly on point, though. Of course this guy has to choose a speechless walk on part because he's INDIAN (I assume) because, Hollywood.
But that wasn't the point, right?
These trend pieces are just trolling the rest of humanity, right?
Jesse - Jan 25, 2016 4:44:58 pm PST #14177 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That was rough. Luckily, that guy can console himself with money.
Steph L. - Jan 25, 2016 4:48:56 pm PST #14178 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
These trend pieces are just trolling the rest of humanity, right?
I should write a parody of the wedding article, but using my wedding, with the unexpected historical reenactors, banjo band, and invasion of stinkbugs.
Burrell - Jan 25, 2016 5:10:14 pm PST #14179 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yes you should
meara - Jan 25, 2016 5:27:22 pm PST #14180 of 30003
I tried the social security database but had limited success--doesn't help that she had an extremely common name. Apparently there was another woman of the same name (after marriage--who knows her maiden) born the same day and year, also in Chicago, who married a man with the same (even more common) name as my grandfather. But who died like, four years after my grandmother.
shrift - Jan 25, 2016 5:54:24 pm PST #14181 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I thought my desktop computer was dead, but tonight I managed to boot it and perform a system repair. Now I'm running diagnostics and backing up shit.
Connie Neil - Jan 25, 2016 6:11:57 pm PST #14182 of 30003
brillig
In pretty minor but cool to me cooking adventures, I have created a nice little ham and cheese "puff". I had some wonton wrappers in the fridge from an experiment with baked Crab Rangoon (failures are educational), and they were just drying out and more than half the package was left. So I cogitated a bit, bought some ham, cubed it up, stuck wonton wrappers in the cups of my mini muffin pan, put a few cubes of ham in each, dropped a bit of shredded cheese in, then popped in the oven for ten minutes. I think I'll add a bit of green onion to each one next time. Nowhere near haute cuisine, but it pleases me to engineer out something edible from my own head.
Burrell - Jan 25, 2016 6:52:03 pm PST #14183 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yikes shrift, that's happened to me before. I'm glad you got it reboot.
-t - Jan 25, 2016 7:10:08 pm PST #14184 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good one, Connie.