Y’all are on your own, because we are having a little shindig here to celebrate Jill of the Ill’s (we call them the Ill’s because they are married and their names are Bill and Jill) passed her exam to become a licensed physical therapist. Congrats, Dr. Jill!
So the gang is all here, and I made some crab cakes and ribeyes, we had a spicy corn/pepper dish and some spicy rice, as well as some anchovy bread and a big bowl of guacamole. We’re a little thin on the vegetables, but we needed protein and carbs for all the wine and champagne that is about to happen.
What are you all up to?
Nicole
Scrubbing the tub after the toddler had his first floater.
shortstop
Anchovy bread? I will give you $10,000 (of Mitt’s money) for that recipe. YUM!
John Cole
@Nicole: ‘Spose we might as well shut down this thread right now.
David Koch
How much does she charge for a happy ending?
joeyess
Holy Fucking Zombie Bieber. Sean Hannity has just proven to the world that not only is he a giant asshat that makes too much money, he’s a giant asshat that makes too much money and has the artistic taste of your run-of-the-mill Branson tourist.
The jagoff paid nearly $300k for this piece of shit.
the Conster (f/k/a Cat Lady)
@Nicole:
Just saw Bridesmaids. Toilet humor never gets old.
joeyess
@Nicole:
“All children, freshly bathed and relieved of all obvious confections…….. are still sticky.”
-Fran Lebowitz
Polish the Guillotines
Oakland A’s Opening Night 2.0. Will be watching from the comfort of my couch and reflecting on the glorious beat-down the Sharks put on the Kings last night.
chopper
cooked a Jewish metric shit-ton for a Seder.
scav
Symbolic seder as I’m feeling in need of something springish and full of ritual Earlier I read two bits about St. Mary of Egypt (not Magdalene) who wandered about the dessert with no clothes and had quite the backstory. I mean, how can one resist a book with the title of Harlots of the Desert? I’ll go stare at some cherry blossoms tomorrow and count it as Zen. Anything Anything to restore at least a little faith in the planet.
Citizen_X
@joeyess: Ewww. That is far grosser than Nicole’s toddler and his floater.
Comrade Mary
Pulling together supper: roast Yukon gold and sweet potatoes with olive oil and rosemary; fried catfish rolled in breadcrumbs, parsley and Parmesan; and tender wax and green beans with butter and garlic.
joeyess
@Citizen_X: it’s true.
Narcissus
That doesn’t even look like Obama.
jeffreyw
First BLT of the year. Could not wait for garden fresh tomatoes.
scav
@scav: Make that the St. Mary who wandered about the Dessert (et cetera) before she wandered about the Desert. And I’ve not even done anything unfortunate to Elijah’s glass yet, let alone my multiple own.
MattR
Congrats to Dr Jill. My sister got her license about a year ago.
Linnaeus
I am:
1. Drinking whiskey.
2. Applying for jobs at my local large state university.
3. Preparing for my culturally-recognized entry into midlife this weekend.
Jane2
@Nicole: They don’t call it Good Friday for nothing….it’s a day of suffering, and you have all the win in this thread!
Nicole
@John Cole: I only share the most important milestones.
beltane
@joeyess: We could fund a Democratic superpac just by covertly producing and selling lurid kitsch like that to the wingnut faithful. Right-wingers’ love of all that is ugly and vulgar is like a mineral deposit waiting to be exploited for all it’s worth.
RossInDetroit
Went to the Chaldean restaurant for spinach pies, grape leaves and those amazing spicy radish and cabbage pickles. Gonna watch Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and chill.
suzanne
Congrats, Dr. Jill!
My sympathies to Nicole. My toddler has thus far blessedly refrained from floater-izing the bathtub. She’s also never done that thing wherein they shit while you are in the process of wiping off the previous shit. The previous kid did plenty of that, though. I can’t wait until I make this one ashamed of her bodily functions.
I am convinced that I failed that test (ARE Building Systems) last week. Next week, I’ll start studying for the next one. OI. I’m too old for this shit.
Suffern ACE
When the Let’s Go guide recommends hiring armed guards at the police station, are they warning me not to go, or warning me off hiring goons at the youth hostel?
joeyess
@beltane: that’s a hell of an idea.
trollhattan
@Nicole:
Dear lord, and here I am getting ready to throw a marinated tri-tip on the egg. Think I’ll skip dinner and go directly to drinking.
joeyess
I’m eating and all of this floater talk is putting me off my admittedly horrible food. I’ll be back in another thread.
burnspbesq
I’m tempted to blow off the low-carb diet for one night and go cook up a big pot of spinach-cheese tortellini and bury them in pesto sauce. Fish and steamed veggies just isn’t doing it for me tonight.
dmsilev
Spent an amusing and fulfilling lunch hour trawling through the just-released 1940 census data looking for ancestors. Did pretty well, too, found 2 grandparents (maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather), three great-grandparents, and several great aunts/uncles. My grandmother earned the princely income of $390 as an “operator” in a curtain factory (read: she ran a sewing machine).
the Conster (f/k/a Cat Lady)
Google ad for Prince Edward Island mussels. Not what you want to associate with baby floaters, I’d think.
schrodinger's cat
@burnspbesq: Why are you on a low carb diet?
burnspbesq
@schrodinger’s cat:
Because it’s really helping me keep my blood sugar under control.
Linnaeus
@dmsilev:
Found out my maternal grandfather worked on a reforestation project under the National Youth Administration in 1940. Yay New Deal!
Suffern ACE
I’m trying to be positive. There were three innings today where the Brewers didn’t give up a run and a few of the cardinals’ starters were held to one hit. That’s something to build on. But it was kind of like the first floater of the season. A kind of a milestone that would be worth celebrating if so many more weren’t expected in the coming year.
schrodinger's cat
@burnspbesq: Can you at least eat complex carbs? How about bulgur or brown rice?
schrodinger's cat
I had brown rice pasta with veggies (tomatoes, cauliflower, red pepper) and pan seared tilapia for dinner it was good. BTW my father-in-law who had a massive heart attack about a week ago is doing much better.
Pavonis
I’m still trying to figure out how the Supreme Court PPACA vote went based on small specks of information. Here’s a excerpt from an interview with Justice Kagan on Tuesday,
and
Would Kagan as a strong supporter of PPACA really say something like that if the Court had just struck down Health Care Reform on petty partisan grounds just four days earlier? I don’t think so but I can’t be totally sure.
mainmati
Visiting in-laws in Central Jersey for Easter and just went to Hillbilly Hall, a venerable spot in Hopewell for working class folks and Stevie Ray Vaughan type music and surprisingly decent food with a really tacky restaurant decor circa 1950. Full moon to boot. Woo-hoo.
burnspbesq
@schrodinger’s cat:
Good to hear!
Cain
I think I’m going to drink some scotch and I have to work this weekend, followed by a business trip to China.
I got a new job as well. Moving from doing IT to working on real projects.. hence I have to go on business trips with remote developers. Good times.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Polish the Guillotines: Looking forward to the A’s game too. Ryane Clowe was a bad, bad man last night in the Sharks game, heh heh. Any time the Sharks are playing the Kings, it can be amusing to look at Wil Wheaton’s twitter feed.
mainmati
@Linnaeus: My father did the same thing but under the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in MA from 1938-41. I suspect we’re not the same age if it was your grandfather :).
Linnaeus
@mainmati:
No, probably not. :)
dmsilev
@Linnaeus:
I believe you mean “Yay Communist Socialist Radical Environmental Movement!”
Just to update things to the proper modern idiom, of course.
schrodinger's cat
@burnspbesq: Thanks, a couple of times last week, we thought that we had lost him. He is still in the ICU though. If he continues his recovery, he should be out of the ICU early next week.
Tommy D
Ah, looking south across the Sierra foothills just at the Pacific time sunset. It’s just all very fine.
burnspbesq
@schrodinger’s cat:
Fabrice Muamba is up and walking around, and his heart wouldn’t beat on its own for 42 minutes. People are a lot tougher than we normally give them credit for.
Mike E
I’m celebrating Opening Day II by making BBQ chicken (pecan wood smoked) and drinking PBRs and sweet tea. It’s what I do.
Delia
Here is why lawyers acquire a bad reputation;
George Zimmerman’s new attorney invokes shaken-baby-syndrome defense.
Elmo
Had a lovely afternoon walking through Middleburg VA with two dogs and partner, ending with early supper in an outdoor cafe. The weather was perfection. Bless you, early spring!
Now she’s asleep next to me, and my recent attack of poison ivy has reawakened and I’m miserable. Damn you, early spring!
(seriously I get poison ivy like nobody’s business. Nothing helps but scalding hot water, to deplete the histamines for a few hours. Steroids? It is to laff.)
rikyrah
anyone else watch Scandal?
how about Grimm?
Ben Cisco (mobile)
Mrs. Cisco and I celebrated our 25th this week, and grandnephew LittleMan is coming down for a week. Also, a rite of passage into midlife – colonoscopy. No, it will not be televised.
Michael Bersin
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r) outed herself as a birther at a town hall in Sedalia, Missouri yesterday:
Vicky Hartzler (r) at Sedalia Town Hall meeting 4/5/2012
Skepticat
@Elmo: @Elmo:
Tecnu Extreme medicated scrub and Ivy-Dry cream conquer even poisonwood and manchineel (poison ivy’s big, very vicious brothers) here in the Bahamas (though I have to buy both products in the States).
S. cerevisiae
Congratulations to Jack Conolly of the University of Minnesota-Duluth on winning the Hobey Baker award! That is the college hockey equivalent of the Heisman.
Mike E
ESPN blows…botched play at 1st wFat Albert and they cut short the replay that would’ve shown if the runner was really safe or not. Oh well.
My buddy is in the ‘Burg watchin the Phightins tomorrow and Sunday, so I expect to get live updates and phone pics here in Mayberry.
Tommy D
@Ben Cisco (mobile):
Actually, it is televised privately. If yr not completely zoned by the sedative, it’s kind of like a personal Discovery Channel show. Good luck.
Tommy D
@Ben Cisco (mobile):
Actually, it is televised, but privately. Ask the doc to turn the monitor so you can see too. If yr not completely zoned by the sedative, it’s kind of like a personal Discovery Channel show. Good luck.
burnspbesq
@Delia:
Chill. If you were the defendant, you would want your lawyer to raise every defense that was arguably supported by the facts and the law. Which is all Zimmerman’s lawyer is doing.
The American jury is the greatest bullshit detector ever devised by man. They’ll get it right.
Steeplejack
Night shift checking in. Just got back to the man-cave from dog-sitting the brother’s sighthounds and then having dinner with him (takeout Thai, excellent). He’s on call this weekend (doctor) and his partner is out of town, so he’s grumpy.
Nothing much planned this weekend. The weather in NoVa is beautiful, if you don’t mind choking on the pollen, so I hope to get outside a good bit. Will now have a drink, catch up on Balloon Juice and maybe watch something from the DVR.
WereBear
Just had a weird trackpad thing happen with the Chromebook; mouse stuck in one place, keys seem okay (nothing stuck down) I rebooted a few times, and it’s back.
I’m going to assume it was fighting off a virus, because everyone else I know is doing that.
The MIL with her new Chromebook has explored a few websites. This is a breakthrough! Having an eight year old to tutor her helps, bless his bright little brain.
John Cole
@Ben Cisco (mobile): Congrats!
Steeplejack
@joeyess:
He’ll probably write it off as a business expense.
Mnemosyne
@Elmo:
If it’s the histamines, would Benadryl help?
Out here on the left coast, we got let out of work early, so I rode my bike down to the mall and picked a couple of things up at Sephora. Here at home, Annie and Charlotte are working together to try and gnaw into the bag of these that I bought last night. They claim to be for both cats and dogs, which makes sense, since they’re just freeze-dried chunks of fish with nothing added.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Don’t everybody look at once, but there’s an epic ragegasm in progress in the next thread over. We might have to call some EMTs before this is over.
Cain
watch@rikyrah:
I was an extra on Grimm! Cool stuff!
General Stuck
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
Oh, that’s just mclaren blowing off some steam. Always happens at the end of a lunar cycle. Nothing to howl at, except the dark empty space, and Balloon Juice.
Steeplejack
@rikyrah:
I am hanging in with Grimm and enjoying it, although it hasn’t worked out all the kinks. Haven’t seen tonight’s episode yet; it’s waiting on the DVR.
I am really enjoying Person of Interest, which has worked out the kinks and is really rolling now.
Hillary Rettig
Can someone give me some cat-advice? I am dogsitting and while we were taking our last walk (10:30 pm) a little stray kitten ran right up to us. I think she’s only a few months old, and her attitude is all “Will you be my mother?” She’s a real love bug and wants basically infinite attention.
So I’m here with a kitten, no litterbox, etc. I’ve never had a cat! What should I do tonight? I would keep her but my roommate is really allergic. Also, the elderly dog is not pleased.
And what should I do tomorrow? I have a few people I can call tomorrow but if they can’t take her, who should I call? I don’t want to send her to a kill shelter.
Please advise!
btw, when my housemate returns I’ll get a picture, but in case anyone in the Boston area wants a cat, she’s really pretty – charcoal and white, with socks.
Elmo
@Mnemosyne:
Prescription strength Benadryl. Tried that. Nothin. Prescription cream. No joy. Prednisone. Nada.
I am dooooooomed.
David Koch
@Hillary Rettig: email Anne laurie ([email protected]) and she will do a front page post on options and adoptions.
Hillary Rettig
@David Koch: will do!
Mnemosyne
@Elmo:
One time, my mom had an allergic reaction so bad that they had to put her on a Benadryl drip in the ER.
That is not how you want to spend Christmas Day, believe me.
Mnemosyne
@Hillary Rettig:
Litter box-wise, you should be able to run to the grocery store (or even 7/11) and get at least a small bag of litter. If they don’t have any official litter boxes, any plastic box will do as long as the sides are short enough for her to hop in and out.
Heck, if you’re desperate enough, you can even fill a plastic box with shredded paper and see if she’ll use it. When G found Charlotte and her sister Olive, Charlotte was willing to use a box filled with shredded paper. Olive, on the other hand, waited until we got her to our apartment where we had a REAL litter box with REAL litter in it. None of this shredded paper BS for her.
Brad
@Ben Cisco (mobile):
The colonoscopy will be no re-run brothers;
The colonoscopy will be live.
Hillary Rettig
@Mnemosyne: Thank you – do cats automatically know how to use a litterbox?
Mnemosyne
@Hillary Rettig:
They generally learn it from their mothers at a fairly young age, so if she’s a couple of months old, you should be fine.
I did have a kitten once who had to watch the other cat to learn how to use the litterbox, but it turned out that the person who had given her to me had gotten the litters mixed up and she was much younger than she thought. (Plus I think her cats went outdoors, so the kitten was puzzled by this whole “box of clay chips inside the house” concept.)
Hillary Rettig
Thank you! Next question – she’s been all over my furniture. Do you think I have fleas? :-/ She’s not scratching.
Cacti
Took the day off to spend with my son. It was a gorgeous afternoon and we went skating in the park.
Until I fell and broke my elbow.
At least I scored some Vicodin for my troubles. :-(
SatanicPanic
Drankin!
burnspbesq
@Brad:
The colonoscopy will not put a tiger in your tank, a giant in your toilet bowl, or a dove in your bedroom.