Got to see my movie today. The 3D does a number on my eyes.

Suzanne! How the heck are ya? Me, I’m awake!

*forward dive in the pike position* forking splash is better

g’evening pups…. brrr starting to get chilly … down to 58 outside – good sleeping weather for sure

Hi, Suz. Had an absolute hermit day….. I don’t think I spoke a word. So restful. Healing, really. I’ll certainly make up for it in the upcoming week, but I sure enjoyed it. And it was sunny and just wonderful in the ‘nard. How about you?

hey dave — other than that, how was it? 3d always triggers my astigmatism and gives me a headache

tejan! awake! how’s texas tonight?

hey dearie — me too! i even enjoyed the sound of silence with no tv, no music, nothing but silence. clear skies today and tonight for the full moon. sure was pretty as it rose. whatcha gonna do tomorrow?

hey, tejana, nice to cross paths with you in real time. I enjoy your lawyering. Fun to be in the biz. I’m needing to go to some conferences to re-up my CEUs so I can keep my license current………

Nice dive, Suzanne. Getting better all the time.

Now you better wrap up in something warm. ; )

*laughing* the good news is that i’ve not had to dress in layers since i moved here … yet.

Oh, heck, that reminds me; this is my “reporting month” for MCLE…I gotta finish up a reporting form for what I hope are enough credits. dumb procrastinating me, I just set it aside to do later…back in June.
(Puts that on to-do-list for tomorrow…)

I spent today writing an appeal brief for the first time in many years…even my last few years of active practice rarely called for real writing.
Actually, I spent today alternating writing and procrastinating…also eating quantities of sugar to get going.
Which is probably why I’m still awake now.

Oh, and Suze, Texas is wet, very wet, tonight. Rained all night last night, starting in late afternoon. Periods of dry today, interspersed with an hour or two at a time of heavy downpours. No rain where I live for several hours now. Friend had had 2 1/2 inches this morning. Muuuuuch cooler, too; windows open since last night, an actual breeze blowing.
Kittehs very happy with the weather.

In my mind’s eye I see a heated towel rack that holds warm fluffy white towels and a wonderfully warm robe. And there’s a slipper warmer. Nothing too ritzy, you know; don’t want to go overboard.

hey margot — how’s the wilds of ohio tonight? i sure like your suggestion — i’m gonna forward that one on to management :)

Good enough. Flashy, CGI, explosions, car chases, lots of automatic gunfire, gals in slinky outfits. What’s not to like?

indeed! a wonderful way to escape for a few hours plus there’s popcorn!

I skipped the toxic movie popcorn. I made some when I got back.

They were selling big dill pickles at the concession stand. Is that a thing? Who eats pickles at a movie?

my youngest loves pickles — many in her generation act like they are the first to discover a kosher dill

Dang kids. Wearing droopy pants, getting tattoos, piercing their privates, texting, and now eating big pickles. Handbaskets to Hell, I say.

with a hat on, backwards of course

The wilds are q-word right now. There was a llama accident the other day but all is peaceful now (knock on wood).

*chucklin* lions, tigers, and bears and now llamas! the wilds are wild, even when they are q word

I’m kinda afraid to ask about the llama accident….

ditto

maybe it involved a GOP male and was a variation of the mickey kaus/goat thingie

It was an older woman going out to see her llamas, and one slipped on the wet grass and caused the woman to fall and hit her head.

yikes… is she ok?

Ouch.
And hey, is the “older” modifier relevant?

(getting sensitive on the issue. I just know if I get hit by a bus or something, the newspaper obit will open: “An elderly woman was struck by a city bus tonight…”

I know! Crazy, huh? I see gray-haired ladies and I want to ask them how old they are. I’m still cranking along in …. well, shit…. late sixties. My dad, who will be 95 next month, couldn’t resist telling me that in 13 years I’ll be 80. “Imagine that!” he said. Was it rude of me to say, “Bite me!” I think not!

i figure i can’t be considered elderly until all my hair is gray. if my choices are older or elderly…

Yes…I should have left that out. She had a heart attack on the way to the hospital, poor woman. She was a former coroner.

Some of my dearest friends were gray in their thirties. I’m an old crone, and my hair is still dark……….. just like my grannies and aunties. Thanks, gals!

my mother is 77 and i have more gray than she does… not that i have much…. i guess i should have qualified that factoring in the # of wrinkles and % of gray hair.. oh fuck, i’ll stop before my blasted knee is in my mouth..

Lucky you, Dearie! I had an uncle that really didn’t go gray until he was in his 90s.

its getting to where its that time in the election season that the gop usually has a kinky sex scandal… i sure was hoping it was going to be a llama in ohio

ROFL! Way to change the subject!

*innocent look* i was just circling around back to the llama…

I think a sex scandal might actually help the zombie=eyed granny-starvers! And neither of the R candidates seems to have enough energy or charisma to get up, as it were, for a spicy sex scandal. Perhaps AnnToinette Romney will have to give us some spice.

And, by the way, has anyone seen the wifey of the granny-starver? I don’t think I’ve even seen a picture of Mrs. HolierThanThouNoContraceptionAynRand. Anyone?

famous:

some blogger Marin Cogan, TNR, Pajamas Government:

If Grayson’s videos have become Internet hits, they weren’t exactly random phenomena. His staff likes to upload them–and then make him available to discuss them on blogs like Firedoglake with commenters named “beerfart liberal” and “cocktailhag.”

betcha rmoney is too cheap to pay for pool service so she can’t follow in cindy mccain’s footsteps…

mrs granny starver has a website

yeah; nothing to write home about; as good as he has any right to expect, though

hey bfl — how’s the city beautiful tonight?

I just think that if Ryan/Ayn is as Catholic as he pretends to be … while also adoring/idolizing an atheist…. that he should have 7 or 8 kids by now…. maybe more. Same with Rmoney…. 5 is kind of a cheap cop out for a Mormon, in my experience. These guys just ooze hypocrisy from every pore. Amen. Also, too.

pretty nice; going to run out to the all night store for a soft drink and chips about now; how YOU dune

he probably didn’t even go to a Blue Mass– cop hater

the rules apply to everyone else — not them

what kinda soda?

Nice. Does she put nickels between her knees to keep her breeding to only 3 children. Shoot, that’s what I managed, and I was on the pope-despised pill for years! You’re either in or you’re out…or you are a damned liar. Well, that’s how I see it.

applause!

And, no, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pic of Ryan’s wife, either.Does seem odd.

no soda; I T —

at least the duggars practice what they preach…. i gotta give them that

i thought it was asprin; I guess ann uses money though

i thought cold hard cash got them all excited…

And, of course, there is the “Akin Solution”………. but forgive me for being unkind to the hypocrites. Atone, atone. It’s hard to be nice to lying liars, but I’m going to have to try to get along with ‘em if the low information vote-against-their-own-interest folks knuckle drag to the polls.

tough choice– ryan makes his own suasage; obama makes his own beer; both have good things to say about them—– something about Jenna i don’t like, but again; as good as he has any right to expect; Jill kicks hers ass in every way

Well, it’s sure true for Mitt. Did y’all see those videos on elliott’s post? (I couldn’t get the 3rd one to work, but the others…whew) it does seem that he misses no chance to make clear that money is his highest value.

oh— hard—- hahahahahaha

Hey BFL
OK night everyone, I have scrabble people who want me to play my turn.

brb

It appears that mrs. ZEGS has given up her career to settle down in homey Janesville, though it’s hard to tell from the articles on her website (well, ok, admitting I didn’t read ‘em all. Too boring.) But, heck, Janesville has to be a step up from Madill, OK, but from DC?
Of course, she was a tax lawyer, so boring must suit her, no?

i did…. bru-tal

wink wink nudge nudge

g’nite margot

wasn’t she a lobbyist before they got married?

Scrabble people! Well, they can be most insistent. Good night, Margot!

I think Mitt has some socio-pathic glitch that we’ll hear about down the road…. kind of like we heard about RonnyReagan’s dementia. Mitt just doesn’t have that connection gene…. and Ann is his perfect match. Weird couple. Glad they are enjoying their obscene wealth, but I wish they would leave the rest of us alone. You know?!

I dunno. Just read enough to see that she graduated from Wellesley undergrad, GW Law, and worked as a tax attorney when she met the ZEGS. And now lives in Janesville with the kids.
Beyond that, I didn’t get.

napoleon

Yeah, seriously. Is it because of the total giving up of privacy and ridiculous attacks (even on certified military medal winners) that keep more or less normal folks from running for president? Now it seems that only the pathological want it enough to go through all that crap.

I think Mitt is the second recent one who just has to prove something to or for Daddy. Maybe Daddy issues are even involved for Obama…how can they not be for a man who grows up with an absent father?

But, yeah, the horrors that Mitt and the family seem to think are cute little stories (starting and ending with poor Seamus on the roof. I had no idea it was told by rMoney himself, in his autobio! And when Chris Wallace asked him about it, he still thought it was just a funny story.)

True, true. I’m hoping that my dear country will get over its juvenile angst and get a damned grip! These boys, white&black&whatever (don’t give us some damned Cuban with daddy issues!), need to move on down the road and let real people step up. I’m hopeful, but I’m not expectational. If I didn’t have kids and grandkids living here, I’d already have moved on. I’m just weary of these idiots.

i’m fading fast peeps. thanks for letting me hang out with ya’ll this week — am looking forward to seeing what tut has up his sleeve sun and mon nites — hope to see ya there

g’nite all

Thanks, Suz, for your gracious hosting. Sleep well!

G’nite, Suze. Made me look at the time…eeep! Better get myself to bed, too. ’twas fun hanging with you Late late Niters for a change. Good night, all.

Oh sure, rip the psuedo-peeps from my home state without waking me up first.

Ryan and his wife are raking in millions with government subsidies and oil leases in Oklahoma.

demi’s bud Greg Palast had the scoop on who hired Ryan to be vp candidate. There is a 20 minute video of GP at Fighting Bob Fest from about two weeks ago where he explains this in person in front of the audience. Still trying to locate it. Hello good night. Just got in and going to bed. Best to all.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13925/the_billionaire_bandits_behind_paul_ryan/

Here we are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNgZ9LaV-Wk&feature=relmfu

Niters.

anyone left here

i was just stuffing myself with shit watching football and never ate a proper meal all day– so here’s me, wide awake and hungry; hope somebody is still here