Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.

Spike ,'Showtime'


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.


-t - Nov 03, 2025 7:21:06 am PST #9994 of 10007
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have light coming in my windows before 7 am which I like. Still do not want to get out of bed


meara - Nov 03, 2025 8:15:12 am PST #9995 of 10007

Yeah I really appreciate the earlier light to help me not want to just turn the alarm off and go back to sleep.


Laura - Nov 03, 2025 8:36:39 am PST #9996 of 10007
Our wings are not tired.

I have a latte and a savory scone and am idly contemplating if I want to replace my 23” screen with a giant 34” monitor like I was using at my sisters. It’s excessive but also kind of fun…

I left my large external monitor in NY so I wouldn't have to carry it back and forth. I was looking at the 32" curved monitors for maybe a replacement here. There are too many options!!

It's a non-trivial improvement over actual nothing, erika! Just hearing that a phone bank went well keeps my morale up, on top of any election results you may have affected

Being phone-phobic myself, I am so very grateful for those who do the hard work. It matters.

The garden apartment is already ready for guests, so I just have to put some sheets on the TV room couch for one of them.

Note to self: Really need to travel more and visit friends.

We had I dunno 100 kids? Anyway all our candy is done.

I do miss having lots and lots of kids for Halloween. I stayed in Otter Lake and bought goodies just in case. There are only maybe 6 little ones in town. It was rainy and maybe 40F, so I had one. My neighbor has a daughter with Down Syndrome, and I had let dad know I would be home, so she came as a princess and got a bunch. The rest came on our road trip. Her aunt lives across the street from me so we were probably her only two stops. Her excitement was a delight.

Morning all. Hope some of you got to enjoy that mythical extra hour of sleep, personally I went with the tried and true "woke up at 5:30am with a headache, couldn't get back to sleep if you put a gun to my head" method of celebrating the end of DST. Do not recommend.

This mythical hour was totally wasted on a miserable night in a hotel on the road. I want a do-over.

We departed at 7:30 AM Saturday, which was fine, with an expected arrival in Emporia VA at about 7 PM. Three accidents requiring detours near DC put us into the hotel after 9. On the top floor of the hotel, which was the pet floor, so we encountered way too many people and pets. Skinner feels he needs to socialize with everyone. My son was on the floor below and heard even more barking than we did. We all slept miserably and met up in the lobby for breakfast around 7 AM after the animals were fed and put in the car. The cat managed to get under the platform bed, which required disassembling the bed before capturing her and getting her in the carrier. All 3 of us planned to convince the others to forget staying in a hotel Sunday night and to drive through instead. We got home around midnight, and B got to Bonita Springs around 10. For future trips forget hotels. I am going to look for individual cabin type setups or AirBnB/Vrbo options where I don't have to worry about the pets so much. I am so tired. But B has his computer set up and is happy in his new digs. Yay.

It’s so dark right now.

It isn't as bad here as in NY, but I still hate it. FL voted to keep DST all year, but the feds didn't approve it.


askye - Nov 03, 2025 10:01:17 am PST #9997 of 10007
Thrive to spite them

I was so glad for the extra time to sleep. I think I'm finally actually able to sleep some. I have been so sleep deprived and exhausted this past week. Saturday mom came to get her car back. m and I both miss her car. .it's a Rav4. I have a Honda Fit .

And I've had to deal with a few coworkers who have really negative things to say about SNAP receptients, and some of our coworkers rely on SNAP . One of them is just really negative about almost everything and she was so harsh and judgemental and she has kidney damage from drug addiction. She's sober now but I wanted to point out that people could make some really mean generalizations about her because of her past.

It's been really slow . Really really slow. And it makes me mad at this whole situation because I know we are slow because people don't have a way to buy groceries.


meara - Nov 03, 2025 10:28:01 am PST #9998 of 10007

That is wild Askye, that folks with coworkers on SNAP would be like that. Damn.

Laura that is so strange to make the top floor of the hotel be the pet floor! I’ve seen the ground floor be it (because you have to take the dog out) but top floor seems an odd choice.

I know a lot of people don’t like daylight savings (or is it daylight savings time ending? I never know) but I do like the light in the morning because I feel like 4pm vs 5pm sunset means the evening feels nighttime either way, but 730am vs 830am sunrise is the difference beteeen “fine I’ll get up in time for work” vs “just no, I’m going back to sleep, I do not want to start work in the dark”


-t - Nov 03, 2025 10:30:45 am PST #9999 of 10007
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Daylight Saving Time is in the summer time, it's standard now. I like having more light in the morning but realistically I still have to get up in the dark if I'm going in to the office which dampens my enthusiasm for the change somewhat

Edited to fix the punctuation but now that Tep has reminded me to look at post numbers, this is a good one!


Steph L. - Nov 03, 2025 10:53:35 am PST #10000 of 10007
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I just haven't had a cool post number in a while, so I'm taking this one.


dcp - Nov 03, 2025 10:56:56 am PST #10001 of 10007
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Also a cool number.


Steph L. - Nov 03, 2025 10:59:36 am PST #10002 of 10007
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I actually like yours more, dcp. I planned poorly.


-t - Nov 03, 2025 11:11:45 am PST #10003 of 10007
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Aw, nice to see some quality numberslutting!