Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.

Angel ,'Not Fade Away'


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.


JenP - Sep 27, 2025 3:14:20 pm PDT #9475 of 9533

(Or, you know, porque no los dos?)

That's what I was thinking.

And now I will add the time traveling diner to my list.

ETA: And yay new car! I'm glad we don't need a new car (hi, 2013 Civic!), because that would be a giant financial pain right now, but I do look forward to a rear camera and heated seats one day when feasible.


Laura - Sep 27, 2025 3:36:01 pm PDT #9476 of 9533
Our wings are not tired.

Just got back from buying Emmett a car, a new Camry (which is a Hybrid)

Awesome. He really needs to have reliable transportation for work. My son had the Camry hybrid and loved it. I hope the birthday dinner was a complete delight.

My list of to-be-watched is still very long. I tend to choose a series based on how many seasons, as a squishy method of seeing if it was good enough to last. Well and a few things that are new and only one season, but then I have to wait!!, and I am not good with waiting.

It is hard to fathom that we used to have to wait an entire week, or longer, for another single episode. Craziness!


Steph L. - Sep 27, 2025 3:53:47 pm PDT #9477 of 9533
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

And now I will add the time traveling diner to my list.

Yessssss!

I'm glad we don't need a new car (hi, 2013 Civic!)

We still have our 2013 Corolla, and I still love it and plan to drive it for a long time.

I do look forward to a rear camera and heated seats

But the 2023 Corolla has those, and they are pretty awesome.


Laura - Sep 27, 2025 3:57:01 pm PDT #9478 of 9533
Our wings are not tired.

If I drive a car with no rear camera, I feel completely blind, when it wasn't that long ago that I didn't trust them and had to verify by turning around.


JenP - Sep 27, 2025 4:17:02 pm PDT #9479 of 9533

But the 2023 Corolla has those, and they are pretty awesome.

I will be happy; I cannot lie. We are lucky in that we only need one car, too. I guess if we'd both had one when we got together, we'd have two, but I didn't, so... I was strictly bus and regional rail woman in Philly by the time we met. And we both work from home (so far) and don't have a ton of external obligations that clash.


Steph L. - Sep 28, 2025 10:29:08 am PDT #9480 of 9533
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

There are reunion pictures posted on Facebook, but I can infer no drama from them, damn it.


Tom Scola - Sep 28, 2025 3:10:00 pm PDT #9481 of 9533
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Well, that was an excruciatingly typical Mets season.


Steph L. - Sep 28, 2025 3:12:22 pm PDT #9482 of 9533
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

The Reds appreciate the wild card slot, though.


Laura - Sep 28, 2025 6:21:59 pm PDT #9483 of 9533
Our wings are not tired.

How is Tim doing? Hydration helping?


Steph L. - Sep 28, 2025 6:33:45 pm PDT #9484 of 9533
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

His BP came back up yesterday to the low 100s/60-something, which is good. He may end up going to the infusion center on Friday afternoons to get a bag of fluids before the weekend starts, since it's been 2 weekends in a row that his BP has dropped so low. It's a little difficult for him to get all the hydration he really needs.

He is losing some weight, but not a lot at this point. We had salmon and roasted broccoli for dinner, so that was aggressively healthy for him, and he ate it all. (He ate more than me, actually, since Zepbound has really made my portion sizes smaller.) And we've stocked up on Boost Very High Calorie drink, which I think he should just use in lieu of milk and make a nice chocolate malt with some Graeter's.