Happy birthday, meara!!!
River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems. Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
'Safe'
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.
lisah - Aug 29, 2025 7:42:35 am PDT #9048 of 9060
Punishingly Intricate
Laura - Aug 29, 2025 8:23:49 am PDT #9049 of 9060
Our wings are not tired.
Late to the computer screen this morning, but in time to send happiest birthday wishes to Meara! I hope this is a year filled with joyous surprises.
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2025 9:28:49 am PDT #9050 of 9060
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Happy birthday, meara!
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 29, 2025 9:32:24 am PDT #9051 of 9060
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy birthday, meara!
Yesterday I gave up on finding the motivation to assemble and charge my weed trimmer, and instead grabbed some gardening gloves to spent a while pulling crab grass and weeds out of my front shrubbery bed by hand. In addition to day job, rug cleaning, and sweeping floors it made for a productive day.
I also heard from my mom that she started playing around with the beginner's watercolor kit that I got her for Christmas. I had to point out to her that she shouldn't expect results better than a kindergartener's at first because they have the same amount of experience at painting. But it sounds like it's going to be fun for her now that she's overcome inertia and started dabbling.
amyparker - Aug 29, 2025 9:36:03 am PDT #9052 of 9060
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Happy birthday, meara!
What a complete clusterfuck. Pix, darling, preserving life includes your own. Lying in this instance is not evil.
amyparker - Aug 29, 2025 9:39:58 am PDT #9053 of 9060
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
I am utterly unsurprised that Utah is on the list. Jim is headed there for a conference in November and his luggage will include extra masks and a couple of the flu/COVID combo tests.
meara - Aug 29, 2025 10:23:25 am PDT #9054 of 9060
Thanks y’all! I woke up feeling like crap but am hopeful the meds are finally kicking in and I’ll have a nice evening DJing for dancing
erikaj - Aug 29, 2025 10:28:38 am PDT #9055 of 9060
Always Anti-fascist!
I feel like I should write a long post to catch up, as tribute,Meara, but it's kind of not like that around here, anymore.
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2025 10:31:31 am PDT #9056 of 9060
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Yesterday the physical therapist modified some of my exercises and completely got rid of a couple of exercises that were causing pain, and that combined with starting a tapering dose of prednisone this morning, my hip/quad feels SO CLOSE to normal! It's amazing. I don't think I realized how much pain I was in until it stopped. Like, I don't have to plan my breaks from the computer in terms of "What do I need to accomplish while I'm on my feet, so I can do it all at once so I don't have to get back up right away, because getting up hurts like a bitch?" I've just been hopping up for stuff without even thinking about it.
Pain blows, y'all.
Also cancer, in case I haven't mentioned it. Cancer blows. Cancer can go suck a dick.
erikaj - Aug 29, 2025 10:38:20 am PDT #9057 of 9060
Always Anti-fascist!
totally. David Simon threatens people with "A bag of unsalted dicks" from time to time and I'm sure he would approve of my borrowing that because he had an artist sister that died young of some aggressive version of it years ago. Cancer can eat stale unsalted dicks.