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hey dave — how ya doing tonight?

I’m tired. I ate too many cookies, got a sugar buzz, then crashed.

Rats. Foiled again.

So, how are you, Suzanne and 4cdave?
Haven’t watched the video yet…don’t think I’ve seen it. Can’t believe I’d forget Gilda Radner in Jane Austenish costume….

hey tejan — close but no cigar… how was your day?

and now you are wide awake?

go, go watch the video… i’ll wait :)

Not wide awake, but will be up a little longer.

still raining?

Clear and above freezing today. Thus mud. I drove by the reservoir today, there is probably two feet of water in it (should have 40 or so), but much more than before.

yikes — thats not a lotta water. how’s the forecast?

The Muffin Show!

teddy! how’s pdx tonight? today was forking gorgeous here

part two

When she started down the stairs singing Modern Major General, I wondered, “I didn’t know Gilda Radner could — oh, wait, she can’t.” Still, it takes ovaries.

Looks like the US is heading for another year of drought. Expect sharply higher food costs this year. They cut the herds last year, so meat prices should be heading up.

Paid 3.17 for gas today. Oil is 97.61 so that won’t last.

Today was a lovely day. Midfifties, sunny.

she held her own for sure…. i loved that ‘nevermind’ at the beginning of the show…

Marijuana

steph said gas went up $0.40/gallon in florida. its up here too. the weather is all fucked up and the normals are not normal anymore

the breadbasket is drying out –we are fucked

so bright it hurt my eyes teddy but so beautiful. pink skies at sunset

part three

Loaf of sourdough bread: $4.39 at discount. But I think I read that we shouldn’t be eating bread anyway, so …. well, there you go.

I’ve been mostly off bread since last summer, but I’m eating lots of flour tortillas.

As long as I stick to stupid fruits, stupid vegetables, and stupid skinless boneless chicken breast, it’s surprisingly cheap. But one little box of chocolate chip cookies, $5.

hey dearie — how’s the coast tonight?

Corn tortillas are also delicious. I’m the old white broad who actually knows how to make tamales…. made my Hispanic co=workers kinda angsty. My town is over 70% Hispanic. I love it here. I could never live by the ocean in some tighty-whitey community.

Warm and wonderful at the coast, Suz. I do love living on the Left Coast. I spent 25 years in the Midwest, and I cannot believe how it has gone all crazy. Glad I got back home!

I’ve never managed to acquire a taste for corn tortillas. I’m also the only living human who hates guacamole. Go figure.

i’m so thankful for my years at the coast. miss them but… for now this is where i need to be. i do get to hear trains and whistles tho… and boat horns on foggy nights

i prefer flour tortillas too — but i forking love love love the guac

Plus, did you all see that Jim Nabors (Gomer) married his partner of 38 years in Seattle recently? I loved Nabors’ wonderful deep singing voice. Never heard that he was gay. I’m just so happy that he found happiness and that Washington State allowed him to finally marry. Bless the west! Evolving and caring and moving appropriately down the road.

the left coast is the best coast

of course, i must admit that i’ve not been to the east coast since i left norfolk va at age 2

I don’t much care for flour tortillas or guacamole. I love broiling some corn tortillas with cheese and ‘stuff’ for a late night snack. Love frying corn tortillas for nachos of whatever variety. Love the corn tortillas for enchiladas. I spent my college years in Tucson and learned to truly love Sonoran style Mexican food.

love using flour torts to make quesadillas in a frying pan — steph showed me how to make them…. and you can nuke instead of fry but i prefer to dry fry just enough to make the cheese melt

Oops, hi, again…went off wandering around the intertoobz for awhile.
My day was fine…very nice here, got up to 70 in the afternoon, bright and sunny. I got myself out did some window shopping…and my usual wild weekend activity…hanging out in the bookstore, fast-skimming everything I can’t buy. But did buy Justice Sotomayor’s memoir. Of course, then I came home, fed the cats and turned the computer on, so I haven’t read a word more than I did in the store.

What are things like with you?

those tubes can do that to ya … especially the youtubes…

great day — token and i ran our errands and i enjoyed being outside. was pretty tired by the time i got home and have been a slug since :) tomorrow is supposed to be just as nice as today. i look forward to sitting out on my porch and getting some vit d while reading in the sunshine.

Tortillas! Bread! Some of my favorite foods. I try to eat less bread, but I just love it,and pretty much anything made with flour. :( I’m sure it’s true that not eating bread or wheat products is much healthier, but damn, I love to bake’em and I love to eat ‘em.
Sometimes if I have corn tortillas on hand I just put some butter or some grated cheese on ‘em,nuke ‘em briefly,and voila, a snack!
Love guacamole, too. and hey, avocados are defintely a good fat, up there with olive oil.
Damn, I’m gonna get hungry again in a minute, here.

ohmy… upside downton abbey by sesame street

Aw, that sounds nice. You take Token along to do your errands? Cool.

When I was a new cat guardian, I sometimes took my under 1 year old cat with me. She had gone back and forth to my place and my then-bf’s apartment (he found her; eventually left her with me when he left the state), and so was used to riding in the car without a carrier.
I remember taking her into a dry cleaner’s, carrying her over my shoulder, and all the staff coming over to ooh and aah over how pretty and friendly she was.
I’m sorta craving a dog again; such a good way to make yourself get out and walk, huh? And so much less judgmental than cats, lol.

my tummy is already growling…

Reading is so good! My older daughter sent me a book called “Quiet” about introverts, since she knows that I am one. I am reading it in chunks while overnighting at work sites. It’s so interesting. How our country went from honoring the wisdom and thoughtfulness of introverts to being an all-sales-all-the-time extrovert culture where everyone is a salesman. Very interesting. It’ll take me several more weeks of sleepovers between jobs to get through it, but just wow………..

Avocados are also huge on the fiber scale!~

he likes riding in my new to me car. he’s got his doggie bed/pad on the back seat behind the driver’s seat and hangs out there. sometimes he puts his front paws on the handle and looks out the window. i only leave him in the car for short bits, like while i go to the bank or stop at the pet food store (both of those were on my to do list today).

i’m an innie too

I think a lot of us intertoobz folks are introverts….. I don’t think the extroverts could get enough instant attention to enjoy just hanging with people who like to think before they talk. “:)~

Good evening, Suz. Good evening, Dearie, 4cdave, tejan & Teddy!

i was an extro at work at the pd but an innie at home. now i’m an innie all the time except when i’m here.

hey past — you still warming up?

Very interesting. It’s been disheartening to me for awhile now that everyone is expected to be selling something, quite often, oneself. when you’re job hunting, all you hear is that you have to be so good at selling yourself, and if you don’t take advantage of every “marketing” tool, or don’t “sell” yourself well in an interview, then you’ve only yourself to blame for not getting the job.
And I keep hearing a voice in my head crying, “but we just aren’t all any good at selling!Everybody can’t be a salesman!”
It’s discouraging indeed for introverts. They might as well be telling us we’re useless in the 21st century.

Many people would not believe that I’m an introvert, but I’ve learned how to function in an extroverted America….. given my own choice, I just love being “quiet” and thinking before I speak. I trust my own judgment. I adore people, but I don’t really need ‘em all that much, if you know what I mean. :)

i tend to be a people watcher in social situations — and someone who will go outside for a smoke in order to get some quiet time.

Was up to 42 today and sunny, felt positively balmy!

I refer you to “Quiet” .. a book about how the USA culture went all whackadoodle over salesmanship. We quiet few are just going to have to cope. I can give a great speech or presentation, but I don’t need a group of groupies to help me decide what I want to speak about!

51 on my shade covered front porch… officially it got up to 55 per the weather dood

4cdave – Hmm, Have you thought that maybe you aren’t human?

Guacamole is like one of the requirements for being human.
Of course, maybe you just overdo it in the chocolate department; no, wait, I’m not sure that would explain it either.

Well that’s what it’s all about. We introverts do not need the input of others in order to think things through, enjoy life, make decisions, etc. And some extroverts just cannot tolerate that! A la my ex. I’ve taken the Myers Briggs several times over decades, and I keep coming up with the same style. And I’m comfortable with that.

i’ve learned that i do very well as a solo… my life is quiet and peaceful and i enjoy that it is like that

Finally watched the video. Gilda was so funny. Hardto believe she’s been gone so long. So unfair.

The Upside Downton Abbey – pretty funny. But my nitpicky self kept muttering whenever “Carson” muppet finished something with and emphasized “mum.” Carson would never, never call the Dowager Countess “mum.” It’s always, always, “My Lady!” Little stuff like that just bugs me, fuss-budget that I am about some things. ;)

It’s great, isn’t it, to realize that you are just exactly who you are meant to be and that all is well~ I’m really enjoying this time in my life where I know exactly who I am and do not have to attend a Dale Carnegie course in order to please someone else by pretending to be other than exactly who I am! I earned this time. And I am enjoying it with enthusiasm!

Dearie, I forget what I come up with on Meyers-Briggs, but it’s defintely introverted. I,too, push myself to act introverted when it’s necessary, but it’s not natural to me.

Where are you going for work that you’re doing overnights? Still doing depositions mostly?

that stuck out to me too… its always my lady never mum

tis a wonderful time :) i’m enjoying it but i sure do miss that regular paycheck *laughing*

Yep. I’m doing applicant deposition defense for injured workers. My twin brother has a law firm that represents injured workers. I do depositions for him. Often in Santa Barbara and now also in Santa Maria where I sometimes do 2×2…. two on one day, a stay over, and two more on the next day. That gives him a break and earns me some money. I did personal injury cases for a number of years, but now I’m just helping out by sitting depos. It works for everyone.

Oh,good. Glad it wasn’t just me. It miight not have bugged me so much if it hadn’t been emphasized, with pause and emphatic diction. Do you suppose they thought little kids wouldn’t get “my lady?” Oh, well, who knows.
But on the Muppet Show sketch, I loved the little details that were just right, like the stringy “toes” on the carrot, and the sweet little white flats that went perfectly with Gilda’s dress, gloves, and bonnet. Loved the opener, too…wondered if it was a spoof of “Laugh-In.”

parts two and three are pretty good too…. love that finale with gilda tapdancing that continues the gag from part two with dr bunsen honeycomb and gilda…

Ah, I see. So you’re traveling! Is Santa Maria a place worth traveling to? I must admit all I know about Santa Barbara is the scenery on “Psych,” which is certainly gorgeous enough to make it look like Paradise.

I was a high school teacher before I retired to raise my own kids. Then I went back for a Masters in Social Work and spent years with a juvenile court (best job I ever had!) Then I came home to CA and went to law school at 50. I am keeping my license active so that I can keep doing depos. I sometimes drive my brother batty because I can’t keep my social worker at bay….. I just love to help! Everyone needs some ‘adjustment’ now and then about how they live their life…. even me.

Oh, that’s what part two and three are! Didn’t quite register, duh. I’ll come back in the morning, I think; starting to turn into a pumpkin. (maybe the Carrot has a place for a pumpkin in his act?)

Trying not to stay up til 2 or 3 am, so I can get up at a reasonable hour.Better trundle off to bed, methinks.
Nice spending the evening with you. (now I’ve got the “model of a modern major general” stuck in my head….)

g’nite tejan

had to look up Myers Briggs. Didn’t look familiar and don’t think that I’ve ever taken that particular test, possibly took something akin to it in basic training. I know I’m the quiet type, though, always been that way.

Hah. I’ve been told before that, “we’re lawyers, not social workers!”
I’m sure I’ve said before, I give you huge props for that career change; I cannot imagine getting through law school at 50. Seemed hard enough at 28. By 50 I would absolutely have been unable to stay awake through all the boring reading (and sooooo much of it was bo-ring!!)

Well, I’m a child of the West. Most of my great-grandparents (all but one) were immigrants. We are ‘new’ here, so to speak. The one great-grandparent who wasn’t an immigrant was actually born in San Francisco and grew up in an orphanage when her parents died. I love California…. but spent 25 years in the Midwest supporting my ex, who turned out to be a total schmuck. My kids had nice growing-ups, though, so I’m not complaining. Yes, Santa Maria is definitely worth driving two hours for. I do love the country!

tis time for me to head out too…. token is giving me ‘the look’

g’nite all. thanks for letting me hang out here with ya — hope to see ya tomorrow nite for cartoons

And now, I really am going to bed (where’s that old boring casebook, to help me fall asleep quick!Tax law, that’s the ticket!)

Sweet dreams, Suz. g’nite, everyone.

Good morning, pups. This morning Ms. Collins is off, so we have Blow and Nocera. Mr. Blow, in “Rosa Parks, Revisited,” says a new book seeks to restore a heroine’s wholeness, even at the risk of stirring unease. In “The Ed Koch Show” Mr. Nocera says a new documentary about Hizzoner says a lot about what makes a great mayor.

Here they are, and

Here’s Krugman’s blog.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup. I could really use that hot chocolate this morning, since it’s 27° down here. Even the kittens didn’t want to be outside — Bucky lasted about 5 minutes before he was at the door wanting to come back inside. Have a great day.