Yesterday at chicken camp Twilight came up. The conversation went something like this:
[Obligatory Forks-proximity/vampire joke]
[commentary]
Me: [technical correction of Twilight-vampires' capabilities]
[discussion of reading it]
Me: "So my friend recommended I read it for the characterization and it was some good strong characterization."
Her: "WTF, all the characters are so unrealistic, almost cardboard, I mean, OMG BELLA!!! No girls are like that!!!!"
Me: "...um, actually, me at 14? I *was* Bella."
Her: "OMG I'm so sorry."

I feel more sorry for anyone who has to play shrink to a Bella, because that can't be easy.

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I was referred to Collins Endodontics (http://www.collinsendo.com/) for a root canal. Anyone had work done there? That trip to the dentist for the referral was my first time ever, and given the nature of root canals, I'm terrified to go somewhere that won't do a good job with the least amount of pain possible :(

On that note, I also don't have insurance, so my wallet will be raped along with my tooth pulp. If possible, I'd love to save some money and still be comfortable with wherever I end up going to have drills shoved into the open cavities of my tooth, so..

does anyone have any experience with the San Antonio dental school? I didn't see one in Austin, unless I just missed it? Is it worth the extra $$$ to go to a reputable private practice, or will advanced dentistry students do an adequate job?


TIA!

Friday the 27th featured a lot of testing and not much Twitter content; that was because I was all up in Support/Suggestions/Docs sorts of stuff.

Saturday the 28th was mostly taken with feeling miserable. This led to sleeping most of the day.

Sunday the 29th I spent a good deal of time summing up my life so far. My clock started doing weird things.

By Monday the 30th I had got on a fanfiction kick. Then note_to_cat hit the spotlight, and someone pointed out the flood. I got into bailing mode. My poor cousin discovered that someone had defaced his car. :( I called my parents.

And so we enter December.

December 01, Tuesday: I did not win NaNo this year. Not even close. Comm volume stayed high. I have yet to fully articulate my thoughts about Twilight (mostly, I don't like it, though I like the characterization a lot) and the last group of people I should talk to about it without fully articulated thoughts are thoughtful people who I like and respect who also like it, particularly given that I neither like nor respect the phenomenon it's become. Then I started hallucinating my phone's ringtone.

Wednesday, I wound up with a job interview. Unfortunately, the job interview I showed up for was ... not the job they were hiring for. When someone advertises in Craigslist for customer service jobs, in the customer service section, one specifies the job environment if one is not in a sort of indoor type location. It was in fact an outdoor type of job. (They later emailed back saying lolno, which was what the interviewer and I agreed upon.)

And that brings us up to the thing where I found myself heading merrily off with my aunt.


Next up, more sleep for me, and more about chicken camp.

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In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Sunday, 0600: Someone in #lj_s earwormed me with Tenacious D. TEAMWORK.
• Sunday, 0603: @MaudHughes No. (Don't bother to reply; you're blocked. Those things cause spammy behavior. Don't use those 'get followers' scams.)
• Sunday, 0605: @semanticist My head is now trying to rewrite "common people" into "lizard people" and it's stuck on "I want to sleep with lizard people"
• Sunday, 0608: @tajasel They are. (I put some disambiguation into the Common Jargon page a week or two ago, since there was so much snark around Open Beta)
• Sunday, 0609: I WANT TO SLEEP WITH LIZARD PEOPLE
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My beautiful dachshund has a serious case of assbreath. '

Right now its somewhere in between hot garbage and decomposing roadkill.

While I understand that this is a typical issue with the breed, I know having their teeth professionally cleaned helps a lot. So I come to you Austincommunity, to ask for suggestions (hopefully based on experience) for names of people or places that you believe are best suited for this kind of work. Price ranges wold definitely be awesome.

Thanks in advance!

Alas, I have a broken window in my house. Anyone have a glass company or handyman they particularly recommend, or should I just hit up the yellow pages?

Does Austin have a complaints choir? I've looked around but I can't find any information on us ever having one.

If you've never heard of it, here is the original and here is Chicago's. They've been organized worldwide and I'm shocked Austin has never participated in it - we're a musical bunch AND we sure as hell like to complain.

If there isn't a choir already, I'd kind of like to get a group together and organize one. Is anyone on here interested? In addition to singers, we'd need a director, musicians, and general complainers to contribute.

Are there any places that make 'em around here?

(note, they are not milkshakes!)

Hola folks

I need a computer monitor - if anyone on here has an old junker lying around threatening to end up in a landfill let me know! Id be willing to pay a reasonable price.

I'm looking for electronic parts, specifically a 3300uF 35V capacitor. It's a large capacitor, so Fry's doesn't carry it. We found it online, but given that we need it to fix my hot tub's circuit board (and I want it fixed YESTERDAY), we're trying to source it locally first. Any ideas?

Thanks!

My friend R and I went to the City Theatre (Austin) on Thursday night for a Neil Simon play. We didn't enjoy the play that much, but the acting was pretty awesome. We saw almost everything our acting instructor had taught us at work in their performance; so she wasn't lying! :-) For those of you who don't know - heck, I haven't been posting much - I took a six-week acting class (that's one evening per week, three hours, pretty standard for an acting class, it seems) through the State Theatre in October-November. It was challenging, and definitely pushed me outside my comfort zone. It seems there are many different methods for teaching acting, and our instructor's was closest to the Meisner technique. Not sure if I'll take another acting class in the immediate future, though a number of friends and acquaintances have experience with improv, and I wouldn't mind trying that. Having just been to music camp, I am also considering doing something musical, but am going to take my time considering my options (voice lessons? recorder?).

I've decided that on New Year's Day (or around NY's sometime) I want to reread my own LJ. Sometimes when I read even relatively recent posts of mine, they don't sound familiar. Perhaps this means I don't have a well-defined style or something (maybe you can tell me) or that I'm filtering in some way. Well, of course we all filter - to not have appropriate filters means a good deal of social sloppiness, and even when we try things can still be tough. Anyway, I am hoping that the rereading will help ground me and round out my perspective on life, by reminding me of some of the things I've been thinking about (at least those I bothered to, or felt compelled enough to, write about)!

Oh, back to the theatre for just a bit: people can be so rude! About halfway through the first act (about 30 minutes into the play), a man entered the theatre. He reeked of tobacco so strongly that I could smell him before he even got to the row he wished to enter, which happened to be behind us, and he had to climb over several people to sit down, which he did directly behind me and R. It felt like he was hovering over us, because the rows are quite close together, and he had a mighty guffaw of a laugh. A girl to my left (there was one empty seat between us) was doing a fierce leg jiggle (which later I couldn't even emulate, it was so intense!) which shook our entire row of interconnected chairs so distractingly that I finally looked over at her and asked her to stop (she'd been doing it almost non-stop for several minutes at that point). I really think she didn't know she was doing it; she was just excited and into the play, and taking us along for the ride (but then we were not able to get into the play at all - the jiggling was rattling our bones)! She stopped, but later, after the intermission, she briefly broke into it again, and then must have become aware because she ceased almost immediately. A few months back I was at an early music concert, and a girl behind me was rustling around in her purse; I thought for sure that she'd stop once she found what she needed in there, but no, she must have been doing some sort of purse cleaning or rearranging or multitasking, because it didn't stop. This woman continued her activity for several entire pieces (an aria, a sonata of several movements...); why come to a concert if you're not going to pay attention to the music? I was especially dismayed because Jenifer Thyssen was performing, and you just *can't* do that during one of her (awesome) performances. Sacrilege, I tell you!

December's here, and for all the ferocity of the summer (about which I complained bitterly), we are now having an amazing fall. It has been not-too-hot for a month or so now, and this past week has been truly COLD. I've loved it.

My latest fuel efficiency calculation: 40.7 mpg. This is slightly lower than my best (~43 mpg), which I attribute to the fact that some of the driving on this tank (and last, which had a similar mpg calc) did not include the luxury of time, i.e. no hypermiling: for more than a few days I was on call and driving to and from the hospital, and part of the trip (flat, and in the dark) was back from the music camp in Palestine.

Last week I picked up my CSA share. I am finding it overwhelming to pick up any more frequently than every three weeks. The farm hasn't complained, so I will keep doing that... The box's contents: spinach, chard, fennel (1 bulb), kohlrabi (3), butternut (1 sm-med), unidentified salad greens, unidentified bunch greens (dandelion?), 1 bunch radishes (I traded all my hot peppers for a second bunch which someone head left in the trade box), a few sweet peppers. Only after I removed the greens from the radishes did I read that the greens should be left on until the radishes are used. For carrots, the greens should be removed asap, and the carrots stored topless. But with radishes, it's the other way around. The radishes still taste okay (they're the milder, white, almost creamy radishes - yum!) but they are a little soft on the outside after a few days sans greens; I can see that it would've been better to leave the greens on.

Tonight is the first rehearsal for a bellydance performance I'll be participating in in January (1/22/10). I'm looking forward to the challenge and the group performance process!

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Saturday, 0010: @semanticist @elysianmusings yo I've made @gameboyguy13 a full maintainer he be pokin' at shit, ask him what he's up to and lo he shall chat
• Saturday, 0030: http://www.fredflare.com/customer/product.php?productid=4767&cat=254 the ironic hipster coffee cup (mine has white sleeve)
• Saturday, 0052: todo: suggest freeze type that is only none in reply to Nth commenter, *whole* thread not frozen (if the thread got awesome after flamey)
• Saturday, 0108: http://community.livejournal.com/note_to_cat/3043967.html this would probably be more hilarious if I were actually conversant with Dr. Who.
• Saturday, 1228: Piper is really impatient and rather inevitably flappy. she is getting better, but gets bored easily.
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So, I have 40 some odd days until my wedding and my hair girl isn't calling me back. I'm in the minor freaking out mode, and I'm asking for help. Do you lovely ladies, or gents that know lovely ladies, have a great hair girl? This isn't just for the wedding, it's a change for good.

Some specifications: North of the river to south Round Rock is good. Must not have a long ass wait list right now. Good with wavy hair that can do whatever I want. Colour is a good thing,not pink or blue, just normal run of the mill.

Ideally I'm looking for someone to consult with now to do my hair in January. My style is really simple and plain, nothing complex for the wedding or ever.

Thanks, y'all, it is appreciated!

We drove through a snowstorm and came through to sunshine in Alabama where I had dinner at the Waffle House learning how to throw the Alabama hand signs taught by the decidedly hard-core waittresses.

Tomorrow, we'll be in New Orleans and will end up near Houston at the end of the day. Thinking of staying at the Joie de Vivre Hostel...has anyone been there? Anyone care to give any reviews of the places they stayed in the area?

It'll be good to be back in Nawlins...it's one of my favourite cities in America.

• 15:41 touch down in PDX the land of free wifi! woot! I'll be back in Austin on monday layover in SFO... #
• 15:45 :-) @SwapnilTalekar well i'm sure @adafruit set it up so that you can change what they say #

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I always see girls in Austin wearing the cutest dresses, but I have a hell of a time finding anything! Occasionally I'll hit a good patch at Buffalo Exchange and find a couple things I like, but not lately. Stores I know about don't seem to be able to keep the styles I like in stock.

I like sun dresses and retro, shirtwaist dresses mostly, but it doesn't need to be actual vintage. Really I like anything kind of quirky that fits close in the torso, then fans out into a fuller skirt.

I don't really care if the place is costlier- I'd rather have a couple expensive dresses that I really like than a bunch of cheap ones. Where are people finding this stuff?

Hey Guys,

My Mom has been complaining to me that she hasn't eaten any good barbacoa for a long time. But when I asked her where she's tried it, it turns out she hadn't tried any places.She assumed anywhere she went wouldn't have it fresh/traditional/whatever. So, where do you people go for barbacoa around here? Preferably south.

When I was growing up every year we would go somewhere and all the kids would get to pick out a flat, "gold" engravable ornament. They came in all kinds of shapes like reindeer, Christmas tree, angel, etc. and we would get our name and the year on them. They were really cheap, no more than a couple of dollars. I know WalMart had them as recently as two years ago because I got one then, but I went today and they didn't have anything like it and the lady at the jewelry counter didn't know what I was talking about.

Any ideas for where to find these? I'm sure Things Remembered has something like this, but I need cheap ones. THANKS!

Anyone know somewhere that still has advent calendars in stock (north of 6th)?

I've tried World Market, but all their locations are sold out.

Hello, Austin!

I am going to a themed party tonight and need to re-create the lightning bolt in the photo below (which you can click on to enlarge). I am thinking getting something from MAC is the best way to go, but if any of you usual make-up wearers have another place in mind with the right make-up I need at a great price, then by all means please do share.

Thank you ever so much!

so... you guys never fail me:
need to get my long hair trimmed and made less shaggy, more scooby. who can do it and not screw it up?
also need to get my favorite pair of boots resoled. last time i had some done, they screwed them up. felt like the shank was twisted. who does GOOD shoe / re booting :)?

thanks

I'd like to go out and socialize and dance but the only places I know are the 'tard bars on 6th street. Where's a place with booze, coffee, and smart people to talk to, with some music that knows its place and won't jump in the middle and strangle the conversation? Bonus points if folks regularly set-to in impromptu debates about all sorts of interesting topics with strangers. That'd be cool.

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Friday, 0105: I dropped my sandwich. Now one leg smells appealingly (or appallingly, take your pick) of mustard. The other one is still scraped from boat.
• Friday, 0113: so between yesterday and today I had maybe a half-hour of sleep. Now time to crash before camp in the morning!
• Friday, 0126: Amazingly, was not suspicious on sight of my sister's paramour as I thought I would be given that I trust no one.
• Friday, 0129: Dear hotel front desk, @zarhooie is not a phone sex operator despite calling at obscene hours and being all sexy. K?
• Friday, 0804: Discovered that the network sign in at the hotel needs to be periodically renewed and in IE. Not a happy camper that I took so long to fix
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Wednesday, went to an interview that I had thought was for an office job (possibly telemarketing). Turned out to have massive Craigslist fail and was in fact for a door-to-door outreach to existing customers; they'd listed it in Customer Service and hadn't mentioned the door-to-door part. Finished packing. Didn't sleep.

Got picked up by uncle and aunt. Hopped on plane with aunt. Napped a very little bit on the plane but then I was all wound up after they came through with the juice and dried cranberries. (Uncle said to return anything with prayers on it explaining that we're atheists. (I'm pagan, actually. (Fortunately this pronouncement didn't come into play as I don't think I got prayed at on my napkins or whatever.)))

Landed Seattle. Social ensued, in the form of Fairlight & Tay et al. Met Tay's consort, finally (they have been together some years). By this time I was not much good for anything and may in fact have completely stopped making sense, the 24 hours awake mark having been passed some time ago. Tay made me coffee with non-lactose milk; I had two cups. There was park and picnic AND PIE!!!, then Trader Joe's. At length there was car. [see tiferet93's profile if certain elements of this paragraph make you look at me in vague or not so vague alarm.]

Drove in the general direction of Sequim (pronounced Squim, btw), as narrated by Riddle. The best route included a ferry. This was about 1600hrs on Thursday, which marked 31+ hours awake. Thus the sudden explosion of Twitter and text messages re: my being ON A BOAT MOTHERFUCKER DON'T YOU EVER FORGET.

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We each get to work with 2 loaner chickens. The chickens are mostly rescues, and are mostly running unnamed. She is a middle-aged white leghorn who used to be a battery farm hen. She is fluffy and light and stuff. (She also looks like she has a bit of a wing injury from some of the staining on her feathers.) At first she was reluctant to be fed but she got over that; she's getting better about being held too. The second is a brown leghorn hen, who has beautiful layered golden stripey hackles. I have dubbed her "Piper", because I caught myself calling her "honey" (endearment, not name) and thinking she had honey-colored hair. (TOS fans, plz commence your ROTFLMAO now.)

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Had dinner with aunt at http://www.alderwoodbistro.com/ (trio of cheese & Wascally Wabbit (special) (shared); simple salad & pear & blue; chicken saltimbocca (shared); creme brulee (shared)).

I was falling half asleep three hours ago. If anything important happens, you know where to find me; if it's note_to_cat, look at the maintainers list for someone who is not me or a legacy personality fork of me.

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Tonight, the local Girl Scouts service unit held their annual Daddy-Daughter Dance.  I was supposed to take her, but for a variety of reasons beyond my control, we couldn't go.  So I was left scrambling to find a way to make it up to her.

I figured we'd start with a nice dinner out, someplace we ordinarily wouldn't be able to go.  I was already in my suit, since I didn't find out for sure we couldn't go to the dance until mid-afternoon, so I told her to go ahead and put on the dress she was going to wear tonight and be ready.  After some consultation with my friends, I decided to take her up to Shiki.  Of all the suggestions I offered her, a Japanese steakhouse with hibachi tables appealed to her most, and I'd been meaning to try this one for a while.

We had an absolute blast at dinner.  Our chef was a good one, energetic and entertaining, and chose Brianna as the one to trick with offering a bowl of fried rice on the end of his spatula, then flipping it back over his head to his other hand.  She was delighted, and we both ate ourselves almost into a stupor.  She had the shrimp, while I went for steak and calamari, and we even splurged on dessert: green tea ice cream for her, and tempura cheesecake for me.  One more bite and she would have had to roll me out to the car.  I couldn't even eat the wafer-thin mint she offered me.

Next we swung by the house to take pictures.  I was trying to include as much as I could from our original plans, and if we were both dressed up, we needed to document the occasion.  Unfortunately, I couldn't lay my hands on my tripod, so I had to make due with setting the camera on a table and taking a seated shot of us.  She loved it, though, and that's all that mattered.

After that, we went walkabout (drive-about, technically, since it's way too cold for someone with my thin Southern blood to walk outdoors right now) to check out some Christmas lights.  We drove around the rich neighborhood of Nichols Hills and enjoyed the light shows the residents had paid people to put up for them.  As impressive as some of those were, they paled in comparison before the grandeur of the lights Chesapeake Oil put on all the trees around their offices between Western and Classen south of 63rd.  They were bright enough I probably didn't need my headlights, much less any of the street lights.  As we drove away from them, Brianna announced from the back seat: "I just can't stop smiling.  I don't remember the last time this happened."

Clearly, I had done well beyond my wildest dreams.  I had hoped to try and come close to making it up to her for not taking her to the dance, and here she was in such a state of joy over our evening together.  It doesn't get better than that.

After totally knocking one out of the park with the lights, I took her on back to her mother's house, and drove up to Sean's for a nightcap.  This turned out to be a perfect way to end the evening, spending some time chatting with the staff while enjoying their hospitality.  I even got to take some time to discuss their need for a Facebook page with one of waitresses, and will be going back next week to see what I can do to help out with that.  Networking at its finest, and a way to help my favorite restaurant and pub get even more exposure.

All in all, a more perfect night than I could have hoped for.

In West Virginia, heart of the Kissing Cousins part of the country. Had I the time, I would have visited the Hollywood Cemetery. This place is beautiful, but in a way that makes me sad.

As a side note, one of my Vietnam wedding images placed in the 2009 Image International Photo Contest and I scored about a grand's worth of prizes.

This probably goes without saying, but please bring your furry friends inside tonight. Under about 40 degrees, it is miserable and potentially dangerous for them to be outside, even in a dog house. Garages get mighty cold too, so if that's your only option, please put a heater in there with them!

It's snowing up in the Wells Branch area! Anyone else seen any? Have you stocked up on toliet paper and canned goods for the dreaded Doom Storm 2009? :P

Watch out for frozen roads and drive safe Austinites.

Just a heads-up to everybody, there's a new local diner open 24 hours, and it's called 24 Diner. It's at 6th and Lamar, adjacent to Waterloo Records, where the Waterloo Ice House used to be.

This place has fantastic food, great service, and even an exceptional wine list. Here's a review from The Daily Texan about 24 Diner's opening night a few days ago:

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/life-arts/24-diner-opens-doors-to-fame-success-1.2111096

Special Screening of Serenity:

Come join us on Sunday, December 6th at 12:30pm at the Village Alamo
Drafthouse Theater for a special screening of Serenity.
All proceeds from this event will go to the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage
Center, which is
our beloved Shepherd Book's charity organization. More information
about the Center can be found at: http://www.wootencenter.org/
Tickets are $6.75 and they are available on the Alamo web-site:
http://www.originalalamo.com/default.aspx?l=3&d=12/6/2009
We hope to see you there!

Okay, so TiVo Customer Support has been less than helpful with this matter, so I was wondering if anyone else could offer suggestions.

My TiVo's last successful connection was on 11/18. Ever since that date, I've been getting an S03 error. The phone connection is fine, but the error comes up when it tries to load the data. I've been able to get to 23% loaded, 47%, 63%, and this morning was 74%. Still, no luck on a successful load.

I've done two KickStart 57 loads, neither of them cleared the problem. I've cleared the thumbs and recs, which was suggested online, but no luck. I've also done a Kickstart 54 last night, doing the short test, the long test, and finally the overnight test. ALL these tests passed. The TiVo customer support person online yesterday said that it should have cleared the problem, but the last ditch effort was to Clear and Delete everything (Wishlists, Season Passes, etc) and return it to Factory Settings.

1) Is there any other tests, attempts, etc that I can do before doing a Clear and Delete that might help solve the problem?

2) Will the Clear and Delete force me to set the entire TiVo up again (contact TiVo to ensure service to this unit, set up channels, etc)?

3) What are my options if Clear and Delete don't work? Anything short of buying a new unit? (And will TiVo give me a price reduction on a new unit if I'm forced with that being my only option)?

Any thoughts you can share, feel free. I'm at my wit's in with frustration at this point :/

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Thursday, 0001: Memorable Limyaael's Fantasy Rants Entries, to-read, via tamtrible. http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=limyaael&keyword=Limyaael%27s+Fantasy+Rants&filter=all
• Thursday, 0124: @gameboyguy13 I lost the fucking game. >_<
• Thursday, 0126: todo: poke at the Community Management Wiki (god this is meta, how many services am I using here?) http://communitymgt.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Management_Wiki
• Thursday, 0128: @skud So I bookmarked it in Delicious, starting the note with 'todo', knowing it will export to Twitter & Hiveminder will grab it.
• Thursday, 0130: @semanticist It normally does not get that. People ask for lj-cuts and warnings on tearjerkers.
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Background: I'm a canvasser. One of the guys who talks to people and raises funds for a nonprofit.

We did First Thursday today. Fun! Cold! Long!

We were waiting to come back, at the bus stop. And the Baptist Assholes Union had set up on both sides of a street corner. There was a man in a black jacket and cowboy hat hollering about YOU ARE GOING TO HELL. There were guys on either side with giant banners all about SALVATION DAMNATION. We were standing over there at the bus stop grumbling about it, "I wanna go argue with those guys."
And everyone always says that. Some people do argue with 'em. But I did something new, and I dunno why I never did it before. I zipped up my coat so I wasn't representing my organization, went to the corner across from the man in black, and started counter-preaching.

I mean, I was surrounded by BAU members, no doubt. Everywhere, must've been twenty of them. But my job is to be on stage in front of a not-necessarily-supportive audience all day. I can handle those chumps. And my job is to engage every person walking down a sidewalk and get 'em involved. I'm six times as good as some no-account amateur in a stupid black hat.

So while he was there yelling about damnation and hate, I set up.

"Jesus is all about love, and he wants you to have a good time!"
"Love your brother and give money to homeless people, that's the message!"
"Don't worry about all that hell and hate, Jesus wants you to party and have fun! Water to wine, guys!"
"Jesus wants you, personally, to be nice to people and enjoy the wonderful world around you!"
"Jesus loves you, straight or gay, christian or atheist! He's glad you're getting creative! Do what makes you happy!"
"Jesus wants you to stop worrying so much about possessions, and just love your brother!"

And EVERY PERSON LOVED ME. It was great. They'd walk past his hostility, and then they'd see me catch their eye and tense up for another burst of hate, and then I'd belt out at em at the top of my lungs
"JESUS LOVES YOU AND WANTS YOU TO GIVE ME A HIGH FIVE"
And they would!

Yay!

Oh lawd the BAU did harass me. The old man pushed one of the kids- like high school at the most, maybe 15- over to me, saying "This man is homeless, will you give him money like you say?"
And I knew he wasn't homeless. But fuck you, you gonna call me out? Without one second of hesitation I reached in my wallet and grabbed the only bill I had- a ten- and gave it to the kid.
JR said later, "You just paid for ten dollars worth of those bullshit pamphlets." I said, "Hell no, I paid for that fifteen year old kid to see that his church is bullshit and I'm not."
Don't I spend every day telling people that ten dollars is a pittance to spend making the world a better place? Put my money where my mouth is. I did AmeriCorps, you dumb bastards. I don't NEED money. And if trying to con somebody out of charity money is how you work in Jesus' name, I think you have some thinking to do.
They tried to do it twice. These self-declared holy rollers did not regret stealing money.

This one guy, a young man, maybe 24, very well kempt and dressed. Was standing next to me saying things like "Jesus doesn't love, he's violent," "You're just telling people to go out and sin," "What if what makes me happy is murdering people?" "The core of Jesus' message is salvation and hell!" "You're a false prophet!" "Can we stone him? Where are the stones?" Violent-spirited bloody-minded little turd.

Shit, son, I'm a canvasser. I know how to give a snappy rebuttal until the traffic shows back up and then disregard your ass to spread the good word.

I think that ten minutes of fucking with those people was the most beautiful and artful canvassing I've ever done. Confident, passionate, extemporaneous, improvised and free, getting high fives and support from every passerby, right there in the teeth of the lion. Those people needed twenty of them to be a presence. Amateurs. I fill a street with my voice. I am an army of one.

And when I left, they shut up. Nobody was talking, once I walked away. They were standing around muttering to each other, but, unbelievably (seriously I can hardly believe it) the dumb bastards were shut up.

Good. Fuck you and your hate. I don't know if there's a Jesus or a God but if either one of them is a hate machine they can eat seven dicks. Me, I come not to bring a sword, but to bring peace.

Life is amazing.

Is anyone aware of any closures (all day or early closures) for schools, roads, businesses, etc tomorrow?

The only thing I've seen thus far is Lake Travis ISD having early closures. If you find anything else, throw it down here.

• 01:30 oof only swinging by FOSS.in but they want the full 1000 rupees to enter + @alaw - So I'm out front if you want to say hi! #
• 03:23 woot got to meet @bjlkeman in real life and see @bluesmoon and chat w @russnelson and made a new friend @joelagnel #

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Hello people... On Halloween, a little cat followed me into my house and never left. And now she is in heat because I totally forgot about such things since my cats have always been adopted from shelters and have come all fixed and such, so I need her fixed fast. Anyway, I have an appointment for her to get fixed on Saturday with Emancipet. Although today at work, a co-worker said her vet said all kinds of scary stuff about low cost clinics and while I am fairly certain the vet was just trying not to lose business and scare my co-worker, I am still a little scared. Anyone have their animal spayed/ nuetered by them? Is Little Stray Cat safe in their hands?

Also... because I forgot about the whole heat thing she was allowed out a few days ago. Does anyone know if they stop exhibiting the heat behavior once they get knocked up?

My tenant just moved out on the 1st, so it's move in ready.
1/1 in a quiet complex, near 1st and Barton Springs. Pool, Laundry Room, big walk in closet, wood floors in living room, recently updated flooring in the rest. Gas cooking, cheap bills, gas and water paid and our last tenant never had an electric bill over $36.
Here is the listing for more info:
http://austin.craigslist.org/apa/1493376599.html
We can show it Sat. morning if you're interested.

Probably the most persuasive argument I've ever heard for same-sex marriage.

Very well-spoken.

"People stand up there before god and man even in Senator Diaz's church, they swear to love honor and obey, they don't mean a word of it. So if there's anything wrong with the sanctity of marriage in America, it comes from those of us who have the privilege and the right and have abused it for decades."

I'm doing a terrible job at googling for an answer.. so here I am to bug you guys!

I live off Congress between William Cannon and Stassney. Is it just me or was there a helicopter circling the area around 1:30-1:45ish last night? It was keeping me awake and had me wondering what the hell was going on.

If anyone has any idea or crazy theories, I'd love to hear either. ;D

I am looking for movers for a local move (McNeil/Parmer to Lamplight/Metric).

I have mostly the normal things for moving except that I have a 52" LCD TV.
Suggestions on a good company? I've used Two Men and a Truck before and was not extremely happy with the results?
What has your experience been?