EJ icq not working today

 

2979icq not working today

Feb. 24, 2005

 

 

I accidentally erased part of me and A talking...nothing monumental.
a client gave her atty. wine, she was having trouble deciding which
bottle to choose.

 

 

2980Re: icq not working today

 

Feb. 24, 2005

 

 

Me & sineater

bramblekite: hey, you. ICQ is fubar today. their web page isn't even
up.
slashwombat: holy shit. thought i4q was only thing that worked from
your work?
bramblekite: this works, but I don't know how to use it.
slashwombat: ?how hard could it be?
slashwombat:
bramblekite: it is aim 'express'... it makes goofy noises and I can't
figure out what makes them turn on/off. People are on my list and I'm
not sure if they're 'on' or not. I send messages and Im not sure if
they're going to the person. stuff like that.
slashwombat: oh... kind of like what web ver of i4q does for me :(
bramblekite: I guess so. stupid technology.
bramblekite: and if I close instead of minimize I lose the 'history'
stuff so I don't know what the person just said to me.
slashwombat: :/
bramblekite: eh, whatever. It's not life or death. How's with you?
slashwombat: pissed that ajilon has posted two jobs instead of
calling me. fuckers.
bramblekite: what the hell. that is dumb!
slashwombat: no, it means they passed on me for some reason. no point
in asking them, they'll just lie to me anyway
bramblekite: that sucks.
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me & A
Skye DreamSinger: I guess I could always cook with it if nothing else
Skye DreamSinger: a client sent us six bottles of wine
bramblekite: Nice client
bramblekite: I know beaujolais is a good food wine, hefty enough to
stand up to BBQ, even.
Skye DreamSinger: you know that marsala kind of recipe I have for
pork tenderloin that I like so much
Skye DreamSinger: I saw a recipe just like it on one of the Italian
cooking shows recently on PBS
Skye DreamSinger: except they added milk
bramblekite: wierd about the milk. but OK, whatever works...
Skye DreamSinger: I thought so too
bramblekite: I would think wine would curdle the milk...
Skye DreamSinger: slow cooked on stove, I guess not
bramblekite: hm. wierd.
Skye DreamSinger: I think I vaguely remember the milk being already
warmed
bramblekite: hm. interesting!
bramblekite: I have a couple of crock pot recipes that use alcohol--
one that uses beef and Guinness (what a waste) and one that uses
venison and Burgundy (another very dry tannic red)
Skye DreamSinger: very yum
Skye DreamSinger: I like to cook with shiner bock
bramblekite: *nod* I've done that. Usually when the beer got skunked.
bramblekite: You going to Sharjinka's housewarming on Saturday?
Skye DreamSinger: that depends on how long the taxes take :(
bramblekite: oh, foo. yucko.
Skye DreamSinger: Sat am = vet, Sat pm = taxes
Skye DreamSinger: but I want to try
bramblekite: Her new place is nowhere as cool as Fred's, but it's a
pretty cute house, anyway.
Skye DreamSinger: I love the facade
Skye DreamSinger: and given her innate homemaking instincts I'm sure
it's lovely inside
Skye DreamSinger: and Fred apparently bit off more than he could chew
bramblekite: *nod*
bramblekite: I just don't see why she didn't try to take over his
mortgage or something, instead of moving and all that mess.
Skye DreamSinger: can't imagine it was within her budget
Skye DreamSinger: the land of the pflugers isn't cheap, we looked
there
bramblekite: she's getting a roommate in her new house, don't see why
she couldn't have done the same in the old place.
Skye DreamSinger: didn't know Fred gave her that option
bramblekite: I don't think she really communicated with him at all
after he commited the faux pas of suggesting JG move in.
Skye DreamSinger: you have to understand the way she communicates
Skye DreamSinger: because she isn't really very communicative in the
conventional sense of the word
bramblekite: Oh well. she's not me, I'm not her, no reason her life
and decisions should make sense to me :P

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2981Re: icq not working today

 

Feb. 24, 2005

 

 

You have just entered the chat room.
Skye DreamSinger has joined the room.
bramblekite: hey, it worked!
Slash Wombat has joined the room.
Skye DreamSinger:
bramblekite: cool :P
Slash Wombat: i haVE never seen this shit before in my life
bramblekite: I got everybody in the same box now. Way cool.
Skye DreamSinger: I wish Jinx "Happy Homeowner's Day" every time I
see/talk to her hehe
bramblekite: Max closes on his today.
Skye DreamSinger: :D
Slash Wombat:
bramblekite: Now to convince Sweetie to refi and life will be perfect :P
Slash Wombat: job first. then refi :9
Slash Wombat: :(
bramblekite: *nod* Yah, you want to get a good rate.
bramblekite: Uncle Uncle B just refinanced his office for somethign like
6 and a half. Cut his monthly payment almost in half.
Skye DreamSinger: ours is at 6.75 right now
bramblekite: that's very good.
Skye DreamSinger: if we can get stable I want to refi not so much
because of rates but to get away from this very bad mtg co and maybe
go 15 instead of 30
Slash Wombat: stability would be nice
bramblekite: yup.
Slash Wombat: Johnny Depp, who remained a solid friend of the Doc
since the day they met, and Sean Penn, who was another recent but
solid acquaintance, and would no doubt draw from his celebrity appeal
if he could ever be convinced to run."
Skye DreamSinger: I have a friend who wants to start his own party,
and call it the Mind Your Own Business Stay Out of My Shit party
bramblekite: that's an unwieldy acronym, but other than that ,yeah.
Skye DreamSinger: I tell him I want to be Supreme Court justice
Skye DreamSinger: AG would be last choice
Slash Wombat: "just one problem - the abbreviation[sic] is CLITORIS."
bramblekite: I don't mind fixing the roads, educating the children,
bla bla, but as it stands we pay too much and don't get enough in
return, and don't really have enough say in how its spent.
Slash Wombat: smash the state.
Skye DreamSinger: the Libs need to get themselves a viable candidate
Slash Wombat: would be nice
Skye DreamSinger: get their name out there or something besides what
they're doing/failing to do now
Slash Wombat: one that doesn't have a criminal history, been in a
psychiatric hospital, etc etc...
bramblekite: I think Badnarik lives on our street...
Skye DreamSinger: or I could just have my own island
Skye DreamSinger: since nobody's going to make me benevolent dictator
Slash Wombat: badnarik was the best national candidate i've seen the
libertarian party have. and they didn't exactly do much to promote him
bramblekite: politics is all about $ now, I don't think they had the
cash to promote him like Bush and Kerry had cash.
Skye DreamSinger: I transferred money so you can handle the isp and
get feed btw
bramblekite: I like the island idea.
Slash Wombat: i plan to build a beacon to lead the transformers to
earth. the leadertship couldn't be any worse, and the sound effects
would be a hell of a lot more entertaining
bramblekite: LOL!
bramblekite: Mom apparently has a virus, that had given her that
terrible cough she had this week. I wonder if she'll still go down
tomorrow & risk giving it to the baby and the pig.
bramblekite: (please goddess let it be captain trips)
Skye DreamSinger: not likely to be a baby, or a healthy one, if she
keeps taking abortifacient emmeno's to induce
bramblekite: hopefully she quit that shit...but you never know with
someone that utterly selfish and stupid.
Skye DreamSinger: although she may just be making noise to show off
how much she knows
Slash Wombat: no, she's stupid enough to do it.
Skye DreamSinger: I wasn't talking about her intelligence
Skye DreamSinger: just that she can't possibly do all she says she
does
bramblekite: from what I understand, you can take emmenogogues to
induce labor, but should not do it a) for a high risk pregnancy b)
without medical/midwife supervision.
Skye DreamSinger: why would you want to
Slash Wombat: cut it in half, take the worst half, and you'll
probably be right more often than not :(
Slash Wombat: she thinks she knows more than she does. somewhere in
her little mind she made the leap "abortifacient = induces labor"
Slash Wombat: timing of the birth is apparently more importantto her
than the child's health.
bramblekite: some do start contractions. Some do, plus are toxic to
the fetus.
Slash Wombat: ding! ding!
Slash Wombat: starting contractions too early is not always a good
thing
Slash Wombat: i don't see how golden her cooch could possibly be
after 4 kids... *shudder*
bramblekite: like throwing a hot dog down a hallway....
Slash Wombat: she'll need a socket wrench and a torsion retensioner :(
bramblekite: bleh!!
Slash Wombat: it seems to be very importantto her to convince the
world that the spawn was concieved later than medical science says it
was. therefore she's going to induce labor on her own
Slash Wombat: all the comments about the kid being big, doctor
questioning the conception date but she -knows- when it -really- was
Slash Wombat: i think it is part of "proving" to everyone that Brother A
is really the father.
bramblekite: &/or that she was not out of her mind on pain meds when
it happened.
Slash Wombat: and apparently this is more important to her than the
child being a) healthy b) alive
bramblekite: Brother A and Mom aren't going to ask for any kind of DNA,
they'll just be happy for a baby.
bramblekite: and besides, with Trey as her legal husband (STILL), the
presumptive father is always the legal husband...
Slash Wombat: K/Mom is not stupid. at some point the question's going
to be raised in her mind
Slash Wombat: and trey will be oin the birth cert so #4 can get free
VA care
bramblekite: And Stepdad's told me that if K/Mom/Rubber_Pig try to stick him
with being responsible for the children, he is going to demand
paperwork
Slash Wombat: firdst they are going to try and stick K/Mom with the
care, and i can't see her letting them take advantage of her like
that for long
bramblekite: ie: he and mom become their legal guardians, so he can
put them on his insurance, so Rubber_Pig can't get them back whenever she
feels like, bla bla.
bramblekite: It's all very distressing/ruinous. Stepdad's got enough on
his plate with taking care of Nana without getting stuck with rugrats
at his age!
Slash Wombat: if they actually ask him to do that it's concieveable
he might. in order for them to become legal guardians, Brother A and Rubber_Pig
will have to give up their legal rights to the child
Slash Wombat: rather trey and Rubber_Pig would have to. Brother A -has- no
legal rights
Slash Wombat: or legal obligations
Slash Wombat: if they are stupid enough to try and do it, the court
will want to know why they are giving custody to people who are not
part of the parents-of-record's families
bramblekite: something Mom and Brother A seem to not know or not care
about...it's very frustrating. Mom views it as us being
negative/attacking when Aunt L or I try to point it out.
bramblekite: so we are not allowed to talk about it at all in front
of Mom at this point.
Slash Wombat: not that i want to :( it's like watching a train wreck
Slash Wombat: and who is allowing and not allowing???
bramblekite: Mom.
bramblekite: and Stepdad is backing her up. against me, anyway.
Slash Wombat: geez
bramblekite: "dont' say this, don't say that, I know it's true, but
it doesn't do any good to say it, it just upsets your mother, bla bla"
Slash Wombat: i know, i know. she's willfully ignoring a lot of
things for Brother A's sake
Skye DreamSinger: so that's what I needed to do, early on
Skye DreamSinger: have a baby
Skye DreamSinger: that's nice to know
Skye DreamSinger: (too little too late)
Slash Wombat: but honestly, i can't see her living in Brother A and
Rubber_Pig's fantasy land for long.
bramblekite: yuck. I think using people (esp your own children) as
bargaining tools/blackmail material is just sick...
bramblekite: I don't think things will last once Mom is up close and
personal with Rubber_Pig for any length of time.
Skye DreamSinger: that was <sarcasm></sarcasm>
Slash Wombat:
bramblekite: well, that's exactly what Rubber_Pig does and why she does
it...I thought thats' what you were pointing out.
Skye DreamSinger: I want to think K/Mom won't do something completely
illogical
Skye DreamSinger: but, I watched my mom after telling STuart she
wasn't going to enable him anymore ever again, go right back to it
(for the kids)
Slash Wombat: i don't think K/Mom's gone completely off the deep end
Skye DreamSinger: My mom hasn't either.
Skye DreamSinger: this baby retrograde virus muddles their brains
bramblekite: no, but it's a very hard place, I'm sure.
Slash Wombat:
bramblekite: You don't want to reward adults for shameful disgusting
behavior, but you don't want their innocent children to suffer,either.
bramblekite: Whatever happens w/Rubber_Pig, her kids are sweet and
innocent creatures, and nothing that these horrible irresponsible
grownups do is their fault.
Slash Wombat: hopefully the kids will live through it
bramblekite: But at the same time, why do more for her kids than
you'd do for any crack whore on the street's?
Skye DreamSinger: if I personally do anything for the children it
will be under the same terms as were for Paulie
Slash Wombat: maybe even without too many hideous ill effects that
require years of therapy to cope with
Skye DreamSinger: I provide permanent solutions
bramblekite: she's a stranger. she isn't our family. there are lots
of innocent children living with poverty, abuse, insane parents, etc.
Slash Wombat: yes.
Skye DreamSinger: I am in a position to do more for Marshall for
fucks sake
bramblekite: I think that's the way Stepdad sees it too, Skye_ds. If
Rubber_Pig/Brother A want Mom and Stepdad to take care of the kids, they'll by
damn become Mom and Stepdad's kids, legally.
Slash Wombat: yes they will.
Skye DreamSinger: like Stepdad needs to raise more kids at this point in
his life
Slash Wombat: if i'm not mistaken they would have to give up their
legal rights to the child in order to pass the responsibility to
someone else.
Slash Wombat: no kidding
bramblekite: no SHIT, right. With his mom in poor health & him having
to deal with all of her business now...he doe s not need more
responsibility.
Skye DreamSinger: all I can do is point out the legal vagaries
Skye DreamSinger: which everyone with half a mind seems to have
grasped already
Skye DreamSinger: and those who don't, aren't going to care
bramblekite: yup.
Slash Wombat: nod
bramblekite: it's not a matter of caring, it's a matter of what the
law will allow. No matter how much Mom likes these kids, they're not
hers, they're not Brother A's to give to her...
Skye DreamSinger: nope, no grandparental rights if he isn't on the
certificate, I wouldn't think
bramblekite: she's got no more right to those kids than she would
going down to the battered womans shelter and picking out a couple of
cute ones there...it's called KIDNAPPING when you do that.
Skye DreamSinger: and Rubber_Pig would press charges for that in less than
a heartbeat
Slash Wombat: especially if it would save her from an afternoon of
housework/
bramblekite: as soon as she changed her mind and wanted them back
because she wasnt' getting enough attention without them.
Skye DreamSinger: we may eventually get charges pressed against us
for theft of Paulie.
bramblekite: she was going to let L&B take them all summer because of
her 'surgery'and a week later changed her mind and came and got them.
While still drugged to the gills and in excruciating pain.
bramblekite: As far as Brother A knows, he gave Paulie to Aunt L and
Uncle B...that is as much as he can prove.
Slash Wombat: or drugged to the gills at least
bramblekite: okay "excruciating" "pain" with big air-quotes
bramblekite: Paulie didn't have tags, or even a collar until Uncle B and
Aunt L bought him one. He isn't monetarily valuable, so I doubt the
law would pursue any action.
Skye DreamSinger: I wonder sometimes when I ended up getting thrust
back into the world of high school
bramblekite: and from what Connie said, he obviously wasn't up on any
of his vaccinations.
Skye DreamSinger: it isn't because I like the company of children,
because I do
Skye DreamSinger: it's because ADULTS keep acting worse than children
bramblekite: yup
Skye DreamSinger: it wasn't immediate, whenever it was
Skye DreamSinger: <straight face> what dog.
bramblekite: *nod* there ya go.
Slash Wombat: i can't believe her kids have lived this long.
Skye DreamSinger: explain to me how parents like M's managed to
produce him
bramblekite: Yeah...pretty amazing, when you think about it.
Skye DreamSinger: he has all sorts of qualities I know he didn't get
from t hem
Skye DreamSinger: honesty, loyalty, unconditional love
bramblekite: sort of like how liberal parents have conservative
children and vice versa. :P
Skye DreamSinger: hope that her kids turn out well despite her
Skye DreamSinger: but don't expect it
Skye DreamSinger: I think it may be the exception and not the rule
bramblekite: or how you can raise a child with every benefit, every
advantage, and still have him turn out dirt-stupid, greedy, and evil
(W)
bramblekite: I would think that Bliss will turn out very much like
mommy, since she's the princess of the family.
bramblekite: I already saw a bit of drama-whoring at the "wedding"
bramblekite: Whereas Lyrah being the middle, ignored, unloved, and
pretty much shit upon by mommy, who encourages Bliss and everyone
else to do the same, will probably turn out to be a lovely young
woman.
Skye DreamSinger: which one was it that was interested in Mirage
Skye DreamSinger: the oldest or the middle
bramblekite: oldest
bramblekite: I guess. I wasnt' there, remember?
Skye DreamSinger: was hoping sineater would remember
bramblekite: but I think Mom told me something about how Bliss likes
horses.
Slash Wombat: can't remember :(
bramblekite: the middle is so beaten down, she doesnt' hardly even
talk to people or make eye contact or ANYTHING.
bramblekite: which is very unusual in a child...usually kids are the
ones who will ask inappropriate questions, be curious abou tthings
they should not be, be all over teh place and in everyone's business.
bramblekite: Yummy doesn't have m uch of a personality yet, as far as
I can tell. Aunt L likes to dress her up and feed her.
Skye DreamSinger: Yummy = Bliss...?
Slash Wombat: it's so hard to keep all the made-up names straight...
bramblekite: Bliss is the oldest. Lyrah is the middle. Yummy is the
youngest.
bramblekite: which is why I said she didn't have much of a
personality yet.
Slash Wombat: she'll have whatever personality mummy imposes on her.
bramblekite: Bliss has a bossy big sister/mini-Rubber_Pig drama queen
going on. And the middle is just frozen
bramblekite: Once you reach out to her, she becomes very
clingy/lovey, but she does not engage with people on her own
initiative. Which, to me, speaks of some very serious parental
neglect, if not abuse.
Skye DreamSinger: heaven forbid one of the girls gets hurt with the
horses, we'd get sued.
bramblekite: yup
Slash Wombat: Rimmer: Erm, I think we're losing sight of the real
issue here, which is 'What are we gonna call ourselves?' Erm, and I
think it comes down to a choice between 'The League Against
Salivating Monsters' or my own personal preference,
Slash Wombat: which is 'The Committee for the Liberation and
Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into
Society'. Erm, one drawback with that - the abbreviation
is 'CLITORIS'.
bramblekite: I told Aunt L I am waxing the cat that day (whichever day
everyone goes down to see the new baby)
Slash Wombat: is that a euphamism for something?
bramblekite: heh. could be.
bramblekite: Mom just does not understand "I have no interest in
babies"... don't care whose they are. I don't care about them, I
don't want to look at them, I certainly don't want to look at Rubber_Pig's.
bramblekite: D had a baby the 27th, and I'm happy for her because I
know that she, Lyle, and Josephine really wanted this baby, but as
far as actual interest in the infant, nope.
bramblekite: Mostly life is good. Most of the people I care about are
healthy and happy. I keep trying to focus on the good stuff.
Skye DreamSinger: nodnodnod
bramblekite: and so far this year, I've done cool 'urban pagan'
things for full moons, which I hope to continue
Skye DreamSinger: I should develop a ritual from horseback
bramblekite: *nod* that would be cool.
Skye DreamSinger: and maybe once it dries up start working outside
which I haven't done in the more than two years we've had the ranch
bramblekite: well, you had neighbor issues for awhile there...
Slash Wombat has left the room.
bramblekite: Elvis has left the building...
bramblekite: I'm getting better at pacing myself, just finished my
quota for the day.
Skye DreamSinger:
bramblekite: Nice to NOT have so much time to kill at the end of the
day.
Skye DreamSinger: <whistles innocently>
bramblekite: well, your job is different, it's not production/quota
oriented, it's about calendars, deadlines, etc and the workload
varies accordingly.
Skye DreamSinger: nodnod
bramblekite: I'm SO ready for the weekend. I can't believe I have one
whole more day in this wretched place before playtime!
Skye DreamSinger: I hope it isn't too miserable Sunday
Skye DreamSinger: I would like to go to the park
bramblekite: The weather guys are often wrong. I am just going to
play it by ear.
Skye DreamSinger: I check the radar before I go out
Skye DreamSinger: although that doesn't always catch everything
Skye DreamSinger: if it does rain on us, no big, we'll just go sit
under the roof at Dukes
bramblekite: Sunday has been updated from 'rain' to 'partly cloudy'
Skye DreamSinger: I don't mind a little rain even
Skye DreamSinger: as long as it isn't accompanied by wind or cold
bramblekite: yeah.
Skye DreamSinger: wind to your wings
bramblekite: you too *hugs*
Skye DreamSinger: HUGS :D

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