11/2/04 icq w/A

[evile]

 

2614icq w/A

 

• 2 Nov. 11:48 am

   

  evile: happy tuesday :)
  SkyeDS: mornin :)
  evile: I was glad to read in your LJ that you had a good weekend :)
  SkyeDS: perfectly perfect weekend
  evile: awesome. I'm glad.
  SkyeDS: sineater is making noises about TG in Austin
  SkyeDS: but he doesn't sound certain yet
  evile: I imagine [aunt L] will be wanting a headcount soonish. Last she
  talked to rubber_pig, they will be coming and rubber_pig is bringing turkey for
  the children.
  SkyeDS: I think it may be easier to start eating differently after
  Christmas
  evile: *nod*
  SkyeDS: with regard to whole hog anyway, some of the things in this
  new system are implementable anytime regardless
  SkyeDS: but it's even more stringent than Zone
  evile: *nod*
  SkyeDS: and definitely does not allow for lasagne lol
  evile: nope.
  evile: I have made lasagne with sliced zucchini instead of
  noodles...wasn't too bad.
  SkyeDS: squash should work as well as zuch no?
  evile: *nod*
  evile: Last one I did was 'wetter' than a regular lasagne. If I did
  it again, I'd probably leave off the foil and bake a little longer to
  let some of the water cook out.
  SkyeDS: had to reboot
  evile: ick.
  evile: LJ's 'memories' are a little funky. I'm having trouble
  deleting stuff out of memories once I put them in there
  SkyeDS: kick it, kill it, shoot it in the face with a bazooka?
  evile: no tellin.
  evile: even when I delete the entry itself, it still listed in the
  memories, but when you click on it, it says 'no such entry'. argh.
  evile: oh well.
  evile: and...now it's gone. WTf.
  evile: Y'all have any plans for sineater's actual b-day?
  SkyeDS: as usual he isn't inclined to talk about it
  evile: oh. ok then.
  SkyeDS: so if he doesn't, I reckon I'll do what I usually do, take
  him and his son out for dinner and then wherever he wants to go for
  present shopping
  evile: *nod*
  SkyeDS: we went to Johnny Carino's last year, it was quite nice
  evile: I've been there.
  SkyeDS: haven't been to Bellagio in a while
  SkyeDS: also would like to try TinTinnio
  evile: I've never been to Bellagio. TinTinNio is good.
  SkyeDS: no point in asking him where he wants to go or what kind of
  food he wants, because he won't have an answer for that either
  evile: hm.
  evile: I have no idea what to give him or do for him. I guess if he's
  interested in the bellydance show Friday at Casa de Luz, It could be
  my treat :)
  evile: Thursday is Fajita night, but it's also Sweetie's VW club, so
  that's what Tom will be doing.
  SkyeDS: best suggestion I can make is email him and ask him
  evile: *nod*
  evile: I just wanted to make sure you didn't have anything set in
  stone, so I would not be stepping on your toes.

2615Re: icq w/A

 

 

2 Nov. 2:03 pm

 

 

SkyeDS: bk
evile: nice lunch?
SkyeDS: was inadvisable but yes actually quite so
evile: well, good, then. I guess.
SkyeDS: met someone there with whom I have only had superficially
polite conversation online
SkyeDS: I made a point of going somewhere close to the office and
letting everyone know where I was going
evile: *nod*
evile: I'd be happy to be your 'safe call' if you ever need one.
SkyeDS: he was very nice and interesting and a gentleman, and it was
lovely to eat lunch with company away from my desk
evile: *nod* yeah, always nice to get out of the office.
SkyeDS: oh yeah, I meant to tell you yesterday I was going out today
and then you weren't online because you weren't at work
evile: *nod* yeah. I needed a day off.
evile: does he have an LJ :P
SkyeDS: I need to tell Hugh shortly that i"m taking Friday 11-19 off
SkyeDS: I don't know I didn't ask him, I will if he's back online
later today
evile: What's going on the weekend of the 19th?
SkyeDS: another trip to BorderKeep
evile: Oh, cool :)
SkyeDS: they're having a 4 day event, and I"d like to make 3 days and
not a day and a half
SkyeDS: Canton = 180 miles. Seawinds = 225 miles. BorderKeep = 200
miles
evile: *nod* that would be cool.
SkyeDS: and I don't know why, but the last two always seem like they
are so much further away than Canton
evile: yeah.
SkyeDS: Garriott bought Bryn Gwlad huge acreage between the mountain
and the river
evile: Maggiemaepisces has funny/appalling "Garriott the brat" stories from his
early days in SCA
SkyeDS: and then built a whole renfair, including full size wood
castle, full size wood ship, whole hamlet full of wood buildings
SkyeDS: and a small Globe theater.
evile: must be nice.
SkyeDS: but then they don't have enough porta potties
SkyeDS: and they don't have them cleaned all weekend long
SkyeDS: what the fuck is with that?
SkyeDS: it isn't like they don't have the money
SkyeDS: this is the first time I've seen Richard since I collaborated
on Ultima Pagan
SkyeDS: and he is a brat.
SkyeDS: he likes to steal ideas from people without permission or
giving credit where it is due.
evile: I saw him at Canterbury faire in Waterloo park, a few years
ago, but we didn't talk
SkyeDS: didn't talk to him this weekend either
SkyeDS: he was nattily and impeccably and expensively garbed of course
evile: *nod*
evile: I heard he's married now.
SkyeDS: I saw this bumper sticker a while back "If the Gods had meant
for me to vote They would have given me candidates"
SkyeDS: he is.
evile: what's his wife like?
SkyeDS: I didn't get a very close look at her because I was in the
mezzanine looking down
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: but she appears to be pretty with long dark hair
evile: He was after my friend Monica for awhile, but that girl
doesn't just have issues,she's got the whole subscription.
SkyeDS: rofl
evile: OTOH, she is beautiful, creative, and wildly intelligent, so a
lot of people fall for her. It was funny to watch, back in the day.
SkyeDS: they reopened a closed Order that was established for
previous Barons & Baronnesses of Bryn Gwlad, inducted him (he has
never ruled, to my knowledge anyway) and then closed it again
evile: hm. Ok then.
SkyeDS: it would be easy to say that he bought his way in
SkyeDS: but then, how many people, with the kind of money he has,
that he made himself, fruits of his own labor
SkyeDS: be as generous with it as he has?
SkyeDS: of course, his motives may or may not be selfless. he's not
above self aggrandizement
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: a whole lot of us had a whole lot of fun enjoying the fruits
of his labor so
evile: I think the main problem with people is that they are still
stuck in some feudal frame of mind on some level, and expect wealthy
people to actually be morally superior. Which isn't and never has
been true....
SkyeDS: well, way I see it, yes, he bought his way in. so what.
evile: yup
SkyeDS: we all give what we've got to give. and in his instance,
that's money.
evile: it's a game, and if you can afford more toys, more power to ya.
SkyeDS: I think people are jealous
SkyeDS: they want to punish the rich because they aren't rich
SkyeDS: and they all want to be
evile: *nod*
evile: probably a large percentage of anything nasty anybody says
about soemone else can be attributed to jealousy.
SkyeDS: I don't know exactly what to call it when yes, someone has
something you'd like to have, and you think, I"d like to have that
SkyeDS: but you aren't jealous and there's no grudge or ill will or
covetousness
SkyeDS: it isn't like you want theirs.
evile: *nod*
evile: 'appreciation' maybe?
SkyeDS: nods
evile: I re-met a person on Friday who would be a romantic interest
if I was poly. Another big yummy Celt, of course. :P
SkyeDS: yummy like mouser yummy?
evile: no, like Sweetie yummy
SkyeDS: yummy like Gabriel Byrne Celtic Gaelic yummy
evile: no, gabriel byrne is too skinny.
SkyeDS: you could negotiate. give him you and some yummy woman you
pick out for his birthday and then you get him and other yummy from
Friday on yours :P
evile: heh.
evile: I'd met him twice before, and he didn't remember me, so I
don't think there's an interest on his side.
evile: I dont' think of myself as being hideous, but apparently I'm
exceptionally plain and forgettable.
SkyeDS: hardly.
evile: I'd rather be hideous & have people remember me than all of
these cool people meeting me several times, wowing me, and then
going "who were you again?"
SkyeDS: maybe they just aren't good at names.
SkyeDS: I'm not either
SkyeDS: I have a good memory for faces
evile: nobody remembers either my face or my name. Oh well. I should
join the CIA and become an operative.
SkyeDS: I wanted to. I had the chance in college but my first
husband/then fiancee told me not to, so I didn't.
evile: yup.
evile: check out his interest list. if I were a free woman, he'd be
just the ticket:
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=therealgalen
SkyeDS: I'm tryin to figure out how Marc got that LOTR to paste right
to his journal
SkyeDS: the cut and paste on that site doesn't work like quizilla and
all the others
evile: He probably uses some funky program to update his LJ
SkyeDS: oh well, I fixed it.
evile: Tolkein doesn't have any female characters that are very
interesting to me. too one dimentional compared to his male
characters.
SkyeDS: I d on't know that I strike me as Galadriel but I guess I'm
more that than Arwen
SkyeDS: and I don't know what other female characters were possibles
evile: bingo.
SkyeDS: I would like to be Polgara, from the Eddings Belgariad series.
evile: never read it, as far as I know.
SkyeDS: is it Friday yet? <sighs, wistfully>
evile: I wish :)
SkyeDS: "hot" and "hottie" are not really in my vocabulary.
SkyeDS: but I think Bill Hicks was attractive physically
SkyeDS: so sue me
evile: heh
evile: He sort of looks like a chubby Andy Kaufman to me. Which is
cute, but not in a 'take to bed' kind of way. More like "put it in a
cage and watch it run on a wheel" way.
SkyeDS: his take on Jimi Hendrix and Tiffany is beyond too funny
SkyeDS: although I guess all black makes many people more attractive
than they would be otherwise, maybe
evile: I occasionally have him pop up on my Launchcast. Bill Hicks
followed by "wind beneath my wings" is quite the brain-popper
SkyeDS: I could not FIND Hicks on launchcast!
evile: I'm a paid user, that could be the diff?
SkyeDS: probably
SkyeDS: and I haven't listened to LC since like February - no sound
card, no speakers at work
evile: *nod* probably not worth the $ to you, then :) Definitely
worth it to me, has kept my sanity intact. As much as possible, anyway
SkyeDS: I was going to hook the laptop up to the network, it has
soundcard and speakers
SkyeDS: but Hugh took it and hasn't brought it back
evile: darn.
evile: Yahoo web messenger totally does not work! argh.
SkyeDS: :|
evile: Oh well. Like I need any more distractions from my job,
anyway.
evile: I was going to add therealgalen to my yahoo friends chatty
listy thing. But, since it doesn't work for me most of the time,
anyway, why bother, I guess.
SkyeDS: aw no picture
evile: no picture who/where/what?
SkyeDS: of the real galen
evile: Oh.
evile: I was going to see if I could find some pictures from Erinlefey &
Pace's handfasting party. he and his wife were there.
evile: hm. No luck. Oh well.
evile: here's his wife. the ample beauty website is not work safe,
btw. Just found that out the bad way.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ample/
SkyeDS: lol oops
evile: she's exquisite, I could develop quite a stupid little crush
if I wasn' careful.
SkyeDS: you have always had good taste :)
evile: Yeah, but I'm so dumb when I get crushes. It's annoying.
evile: I'm so good at making conversation and being charming and even
flirting...as long as the other person isn't anyone I'm really
interested in. That is the biggest useless talent I've ever seen in
my life...
SkyeDS: it's not useless, it's social grace
SkyeDS: I"m sure it makes people feel good about themselves, which is
a nice thing to do
SkyeDS: I can't flirt harmlessly anymore
evile: Maybe just out of practice? :)
SkyeDS: everyone knows I have an "open marriage," most of them don't
know the difference between a closed triad and swinging
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: and so everything I say is taken seriously
SkyeDS: and half the time I'm not even flirting on purpose, and what
I say is construed as flirting
evile: yeah well.
evile: I've had a few moments like that too, and I'm totally hetero
mono these days and anyone who meets me knows that.
evile: And people *still* get the wrong idea. I figure it's their
problem, not mine.
evile: Heck, even if I was a free woman, I wouldn't open my legs for
every person I smiled at or had a nice conversation with...I just
don't think that universe exists, ya know? As much as some people
seem to think it does
SkyeDS: the reactions I get are almost completely predictable now.
SkyeDS: "does he know?"
evile: ugh.
SkyeDS: this AFTER they have been told the history of how we came to
this point. Which is, I gave him permission to pursue others many,
many years before I did it myself.
SkyeDS: AND, sonar0m lives with us half the time, as did kaleon
SkyeDS: and "you have an open marriage, so you must sleep with
whomever asks you, whenever you're asked (you must never say no to
anybody ever)"
evile: heck, even if you wanted to cheat & sneak around, it would be
difficult under those circumstances :P
SkyeDS: so I have a pat response now.
SkyeDS: "Yes. I'm bi, pagan, poly, sex positive and frisky. No I
won't fuck you. Go play in traffic, there's a good boy."
evile: good for you.
evile: What did your lunch date think of all this?
SkyeDS: well, I know he's fascinated by the cleavage in the catwoman
pictures
SkyeDS: and he didn't take his eyes off my mouth all lunch time
SkyeDS: but he was still a perfect gentleman so that didn't bother me
overly much
SkyeDS: he's married, and not openly so. So rather harmless.
evile: not openly married? not openly poly?
SkyeDS: not openly married, not poly in any way at all
evile: what does 'openly married' mean?
SkyeDS: open marriage
evile: so..does not have an open marriage?
SkyeDS: what they used to call poly
evile: so what was he interested in doing with you if his marriage is
monogamous?
SkyeDS: well, if he's interested in anything but conversation he
hasn't said anything about it.
evile: Ok, I guess that works :)
SkyeDS: as long as he is entertaining lunch conversation, cool
SkyeDS: the minute he isn't, he can take a hike
SkyeDS: and/or I'll let sineater shoot him in the face with a bazooka
evile: *nod*
evile: well, time for me to take a hike.
SkyeDS: damn, tis late, so tis
SkyeDS: wind to your wings :)
evile: *hugs*

SkyeDS: nah
evile: oh. I should get a card to send to Liz. Her bday is Thursday,
too. oops.
evile: You know, this sheenaqotj person is someone who seems like
she'd be interesting to know, but I think I've met her once in RL and
she wasn't.
SkyeDS: she's a friend of my friend siodhe's
evile: I have several friends in common, also.
SkyeDS: yep think she's a friend of a friend of sineater's too
SkyeDS: think I'm gonna go grab some lunch, bbiab
evile: OK