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Posted by emilylhauser on December 26, 2012
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/wednesday-open-thread-3/
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Captain_Button
/ December 26, 2012Bashing my head against my own business ignorance again.
anibundel
/ December 26, 2012Good News: http://anibundel.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/doctor-who-christmas-special-the-snowmen/
Bad News: http://anibundel.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/dan-stevens-to-leave-downton-abbey/
Better news: Les Mis was awesome.
Badder news: Mom drunkenly insulted Rob’s family at Christmas. So much so he still hasn’t said anything because he’s still processing how to handle it.
Nora Munro
/ December 26, 20121. Augh, I fell asleep before the Dr Who Christmas Special. (Nephews have a way of tiring you out). I take it that it was good?
2. Augh about the drunk insult thing. I’m focusing an “let this be resolved quickly and for the best” vibe in your general direction. Also, tea and cookies.
Gonzai55
/ December 26, 2012I hope to watch Dr Who tonight. Too exhausted/had to get up for work yesterday.
Rosiland Jordan
/ December 26, 2012Oh no. What did she say? If you don’t want to say, I understand.
anibundel
/ December 26, 2012Rob referred to his sister as being too busy for something. My mother laughed and said: “Busy?! But she doesn’t have a job! She does nothing all day!”
Oh, wrong thing to say, ma.
Captain_Button
/ December 26, 2012Open Zion’s website is usable but not properly working for me with IE8, at least with the restriction It puts on us here.
emilylhauser
/ December 26, 2012Anti-Semites.
Kate Cox (@KCoxDC)
/ December 26, 2012Christmas at home, as just the two of us plus cat, was one of the best days we’ve had in a very, very long time.
Today was rain and sleet and snow and an absolute *miserable* time to go run errands but the milk doesn’t buy itself, so.
Also dear Emily, if you could change your sidebar link back to my site and away from Kotaku, I’d appreciate it greatly.
emilylhauser
/ December 26, 2012Yes, right now, I’m so sorry it didn’t occur to me! (I’ve been very bad at sidebar maintenance for a few months now, actually…)
emilylhauser
/ December 26, 2012Aaaand… done!
Captain_Button
/ December 26, 2012Start rewatching and rereading the Crest of The Starsanime/manga/light novel space opera series. Not sure why because it is so badly done in many ways. The background is interesting, but it does far too much infodumping and way, way too much use of the constructed language of the Abh.
(Or maybe it is just the translation, which seems to vary from ok to awful.)
caoil
/ December 26, 2012Not sure if you saw it from the other day’s thread, Emily, but we now match – I got a ‘kill you with my brain’ shirt for xmas (amongst many, many other shirts)!
emilylhauser
/ December 26, 2012I DID SEE THAT. But I was looking at my phone in a moving car so I audibly squeed but did not express it in pixelated form! That makes me very, very happy – we are cross-border twinsies! : )
caoil
/ December 26, 2012Brunettes over 40 who wear glasses and sometimes matching shirts *high-five*!
emilylhauser
/ December 26, 2012Nora Munro
/ December 26, 2012Remarkably for my family, Christmas involved no hurt feelings, inadvertent insults, or genuine stinkers of presents. Also all the knitting got done without me having to sit up to midnight on Christmas Eve. (I got awesome books, including Mr Jefferson and the Giant Moose which I am looking forward to HUGELY).
Maman is still very sad about her purrbot, but appreciates all the comfort, and is already talking about going to the shelters after New Year’s to look for a new kitty “or maybe two who have to go together.”
Tenar Darell
/ December 26, 2012You guys give me kitty envy. Dang it, my allergies are too bad to have kitties. Not fair! *whine sniffle*
Tenar Darell
/ December 26, 2012Oh, and more virtual kitties please.
Kate Cox (@KCoxDC)
/ December 26, 2012Happy to oblige.
https://twitter.com/KCoxDC/status/283607054126567424/photo/1
Tenar Darell
/ December 26, 2012Aww!
Nora Munro
/ December 26, 2012Behold, I give you Princess Grumperella Doompaws
Gonzai55
/ December 26, 2012She looks very soft & fuzzy.
Nora Munro
/ December 26, 2012She is. She’s also very sweet and cuddly, though her practice of acupuncture/ -pressure leave something to be desired. She is a big kitty with large paws and you notice it when she stands on you.
Tenar Darell
/ December 26, 2012Very regal and iconic. I can see why she’s a Princess.
caoil
/ December 26, 2012Kitties a-plenty.
Tenar Darell
/ December 26, 2012Inner Lenny is content…. Heh http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=2JlVqfC8-UI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2JlVqfC8-UI
Gonzai55
/ December 26, 2012Christmas Eve went reasonably well, considering it snowed, a guest bailed due to the weather and the store gave us a frozen dinner (it was supposed to be refrigerated). Eventually the potatoes and gravy were thawed and things were mostly OK other than a few snarky remarks from my brother. (I told him if he was willing to go out, buy a tree, ship it to my house, put it up, decorate it, take it down after Christmas, take it to recycling and do that *every year*, then sure, we’d have a ‘real’ tree. There were no more comments about the tree.)
Christmas, however…the younger nephew was obsessed with building Lego sets and barely acknowledged anyone. The older one was obsessed with their latest game system (4th system, for those counting) and wouldn’t do anything else. I wound up reading the guidebook to my Kindle because everyone but the little guy was busy playing video games. My brother only acknowledged me to make openly snarky remarks (“people who have *real* jobs don’t work Christmas week”, etc) and finally at dinner, he launched several insults in quick succession at me, I snapped back, and he told me to leave. Then Mom was upset, because I was her ride home so if I left she felt she had to leave and she didn’t want to go, so his in-laws had to talk him into letting *our mother* stay. I doubt I’ll be invited back anytime soon and honestly, I don’t want to go. I’ve had enough crap from Mr 1%.
Kate Cox (@KCoxDC)
/ December 26, 2012“Real jobs”? Like, say, all of the white-collar executives I used to work with who had to go in between Christmas and New Year’s?
I’m sorry your brother appears to have a bad case of congenital asshole.
Gonzai55
/ December 26, 2012Yeah, a co-worker is married to a radiologist who had to work yesterday. I’d like him to tell her to her face she doesn’t have a real job.
anibundel
/ December 26, 2012I really don’t understand why you don’t dump your mother on him and leave them both behind.
emilylhauser
/ December 26, 2012I think there’s a house riding on the arrangement.
anibundel
/ December 26, 2012And that most people aren’t heartless when it comes t their parents.
Gonzai
/ December 26, 2012This. And it’s not my mother’s fault/someone has to watch out for her/my brother sure isn’t going to take care of her.
Nora Munro
/ December 26, 2012I guess “real jobs” don’t include being a technician in a medical diagnostics lab (like my uncle’s wife, who was actually working yesterday, in addition to the rest of this week).
efgoldman
/ December 26, 2012mrs efgoldman and I had dinner at her brother’s house. This is the same racist, alcoholic, gun-totin’ brother in law that i wouldn’t allow in my house for ~10 years.
There were just five of us: her brother and his wife, us, and my mother-in-law.
I don’t know whether its his age (now 60+) or surviving the cancer which is very rare, 100% fatal, and from which he was supposed to have died 18 months ago, but he has finally, mostly grown up. He only drank a glass or two of wine, and we had a lovely time.
Spiral-sliced ham and all the accessories, and more desserts on the table than any five human beings should contemplate at once.
mrs efgoldman made the requested lemon meringue pie, plus an apple pie that replaced the one left on the kitchen counter when we went to mom’s on Thanksgiving, plus mint M&M cookies, plus they already had carrot cake and truffles and fudge and brownies…
I’m too old for this shit….
emilylhauser
/ December 26, 2012Good lord, woman. I’m so sorry. I send you many pleasant meals with delightful and convivial conversations to make up for it.
Rosiland Jordan
/ December 26, 2012I guess those firefighters who were shot and killed on Xmas Eve in NY State didn’t have a real job either.
Hugs.
PaulW
/ December 26, 2012It’s BOXING DAY people! Time to do battle against the EVIL BOXES! Fight! Fight on, my brave Box Bashers!!!
Gonzai55
/ December 26, 2012No, no, in the US it’s “Return Sh*t” Day. (I made that up earlier today. ’cause all holidays are made up.)
Captain_Button
/ December 26, 2012A new Box:
PaulW
/ December 26, 2012YOU FIEND
Captain_Button
/ December 26, 2012Beware the Ph34rb0t:
http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/645
JHarper2
/ December 26, 2012Lovely Christmas Dinner last night. Two lovely friends of mine, had me, my mother, their mothers, and another friend for dinner. We had store bought Christmas pudding and it was wonderful, just like Christmas pud should be. The Turkey was pre-stuffed cook from frozen and was, as they always are, just the bomb. No risking salmonella during the three day defrost, no difficulty with making the stuffing, and best of all, they don’t get dry when cooked; all the meat was juicy. Also, there was Cranberry wine which I didn’t even know was a thing. The white, which was a beautiful shade of yellow gold was full flavoured, tart and dry.
Talked to a worker in dialysis this morning. She is originally a Roman and started the day for her family with tortellini soup and lasagne, then turkey with mashed potatoes and cabbage rolls and spring rolls, because that is how be roll in Saskatchewan, with cabbage and spring rolls.
Very cold this morning, temp didn’t poke above -30C until after noon. Car started even though I forgot to plug it in. Best of all, ever branch and twig on every tree was covered in a sparkling covering of frost crystals, glimmering in the bright sun. It was of such beauty to take the breath away
emilylhauser
/ December 26, 2012And an American finally asks:
WHAT THE HELL IS CHRISTMAS PUDDING?
(“just the bomb” – heh).
(Also – would it kill you to post a picture of the glimmering? Down here in Chicago, we have neither snow nor sun). (Ok, to make it worse, we have a dusting of snow – enough to remind us of what snow is, but not enough to actually be in any way pleasant).
JHarper2
/ December 26, 2012Emily, I posted a long reply with pictures of frosted trees and recipes and it disappeared! Maybe you can find it?
JHarper2
/ December 26, 2012…and this one shows up! Life is so unfair.
Pictures of frost on trees.
http://www.alaska-in-pictures.com/data/media/19/hoar-frost-on-trees._1970.jpg
JHarper2
/ December 26, 2012and one more.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me7n87rRhg1qj9t8z.jpg
JHarper2
/ December 26, 2012I will not repost the recipes, they are way too rich, even the non-suet versions which are allegedly low calorie
Tenar Darell
/ December 26, 2012I kind of want all of these as posters. I’ll settle for wallpaper for now.
http://weburbanist.com/2012/12/25/21-retro-travel-posters-feature-fantasy-sci-fi-destinations/2/
Kate Cox (@KCoxDC)
/ December 27, 2012I really, really want that Portal 2 “Space” one now. It’s just the right kind of clever that I could actually hang it up on my wall without feeling too awfully nerdy about it.
If I still want it that badly in February, I think I’ll treat myself to it for my birthday.
PaulW
/ December 26, 2012Quick blogging, if only to increase some traffic to my Wittylibrarian blog before my job interview this Friday… http://wittylibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/12/to-writers-looking-at-self-publishing.html
caoil
/ December 26, 2012A pretty piece of music for your Wednesday. I’ve never heard of this composer (Marini) but I like him now! Am spending my afternoon listening to all of Tafelmusik’s uploaded pieces.
efgoldman
/ December 26, 2012Check out the last open thread for a few more.
caoil
/ December 26, 2012Aw, the Canadian Brass! <3