I’m looking forward to not being constantly earwormed by a certain Kate Bush song, perhaps in a few months or so.
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
Tom Scola - Feb 19, 2026 8:25:33 am PST #11622 of 11634
hwæt
-t - Feb 19, 2026 8:47:54 am PST #11623 of 11634
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ha, I feel lucky that that is one I didn't obsessively listen to over and over back in the day so while I am reminded of it all the time I don't get it stuck in my head. I never read the book so all the discourse just flows through me like fear past the Kwisatz Haderach. Only I remain.
Happy birthday BevDog!
Steph L. - Feb 19, 2026 10:38:16 am PST #11624 of 11634
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Happy Birthday, Beverly!!!
erikaj - Feb 19, 2026 11:23:22 am PST #11625 of 11634
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Yes, happy Beverly day. Finally feeling a bit better, though I thought that before, and food is still not quite appealing. We raised my mattress, maybe it will help.
JenP - Feb 19, 2026 11:36:52 am PST #11626 of 11634
Happy Birthday, Beverly! I hope there's much good fun for you in the coming year.
I hope you keep feeling better, erika.
I made sautéed shrimp over quinoa for lunch. That's two quinoas this week. I'm down to half a small bag and a boxed, pre-mixed thing with brown rice and some spices. Progress.
Going to make and direct-to-freezer some more red lentil soup. There are just a LOT of red lentils to get through.
meara - Feb 19, 2026 12:01:54 pm PST #11627 of 11634
Pantry progress is good, t! Mine usually just involves me going through the pantry and realizing most of it is expired and throwing it out.
I got a real haircut (as opposed to a great cuts “just chop an inch off and make it a vague bob”) last night. It ended up probably a full inch shorter than requested (the front pieces were supposed to be cheekbone length, but ended up more like eye length by the time she was done?) but I guess now I know. I think it’ll eventually grow out to be more what I want.
-t - Feb 19, 2026 1:45:44 pm PST #11628 of 11634
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Bwahaha I have no internet. I’m physically in the office, and mgmt sent an email this morning saying they’d be doing something tomorrow (not today) which will knock out the wi-fi but most laptops are wired (ethernet, I guess?) so should only be an issue for, like, cell phones - especially, for some reason, if you are on Verizon.
So today, my laptop (which is plugged into a dock but says it’s on wifi) has no internet connection. Pretty much all my work is in the cloud. I’m typing this on my (Verizon) phone.
-t - Feb 19, 2026 1:57:37 pm PST #11629 of 11634
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hilariously, I can post here but I can’t get to Slack
Atropa - Feb 19, 2026 2:16:55 pm PST #11630 of 11634
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Happy birthday, Bev!
Atropa - Feb 19, 2026 2:18:07 pm PST #11631 of 11634
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I hate that I have to use ChatGPT for work, but I'm amused that I've trained my instance of it to speak my language: "Or we could do option D: CHOOSE VIOLENCE".