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[Felina]

Oh I have seen those before. I was actually thinking of my cat with a beard. It was amazing in my head.

[Lee]

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Nice photo.

[Lee]

Oops. I was playing and I thought I deleted it. Now I feel like an idiot. But am idiot who figured out how to post pictures!

BTW that's my cat, Goku. Now I'm going to slowly back away from this thread and act like nothing happened...

Seriously... Nothing to see here...

[Christa]

Nienna wrote: "Oops. I was playing and I thought I deleted it. Now I feel like an idiot. But am idiot who figured out how to post pictures!

BTW that's my cat, Goku. Now I'm going to slowly back away from this th..."

LOL It was very appropriate, though! My first thought was "Kitty is NOT amused by this bearding nonsense." :D

[Felina]

That's a pretty cat. Beautiful green eyes.

[DoodlePanda]

Nienna wrote: "Oops. I was playing and I thought I deleted it. Now I feel like an idiot. But am idiot who figured out how to post pictures!

BTW that's my cat, Goku. Now I'm going to slowly back away from this th..."

Lol! :D

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Nicki wrote: "Aww, what a beauty. I love his big mitted paws, they're just like my cat's were. I used to tickle her paws and she'd grab my finger and hang on. Took me a while to get it back. :D

We had dogs when..."

Yah, he is a lot more work than my cats were - but he's also less moody. :)

I want an all black standard poodle (to match Benji!) but hubby isn't having it. :(

[Lee]

Benji is soooo cute. He just like like a teddy bear to me.

[Lee]

Felina wrote: "That's a pretty cat. Beautiful green eyes."

He is :)

His eyes are green when he's happy, when he's unhappy or scared they turn a very light yellow.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Nienna wrote: "Benji is soooo cute. He just like like a teddy bear to me."

Me, too!

:-D

[Dawn, Dawnerys, Mother of Modding]

Pop quiz! Without googling the proper etiquette...

You get an invitation to a wedding in the mail. You are unable to make it. How do you proceed?

a) Do not send back RSVP card, that let's them know you aren't coming.
b) Send back RSVP card with 0 attending indicated.

[Becky]

B

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

What I know I should do: B

What I would probably end up doing by default (i.e. I would "mean" to mail it back, but repeatedly forget): A

[Mike (the Paladin)]

B.

Otherwise mayhem could ensue...

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

I vote for *b*

[HomeInMyShoes]

c.o.lleen ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "What I know I should do: B

What I would probably end up doing by default (i.e. I would "mean" to mail it back, but repeatedly forget): A"

That sounds like me.

[DoodlePanda]

B

[Dawn, Dawnerys, Mother of Modding]

Yep, so clearly b... Or so I thought.. Until over half of the invites I sent out didn't get returned by the cutoff. I'm talking 40 of 80 families. It's a 50/50 split right now as I laboriously contact each person to find out it they are coming so I can come up with our final count.... Half of them say oh yeah, I can come, didn't I send that back? No. The other half say no, I can't come, that's why I didn't send it back. It doesn't work that way!!

Don't people know what a hassle it is when they don't return the RSVP's? I do not have time to send out 40 emails or make 40 phone calls. I'm busy enough planning an extremely expensive party with free booze for you to enjoy. I need to know yes or no for sure, not maybe. It's a for real reception.. Plated dinners.. There is no maybe. Maybe is no. Get with it.

Annoying.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Dawn wrote: "Yep, so clearly b... Or so I thought.. Until over half of the invites I sent out didn't get returned by the cutoff. I'm talking 40 of 80 families. It's a 50/50 split right now as I laboriously cont..."

Oh yeah. RSVPs are a hell unto themselves.

:(

I did the same thing - and some people STILL didn't RSVP. Also, a lot of people who RSVP'd didn't show and others who didn't RSVP did show.

:(

[Dawn, Dawnerys, Mother of Modding]

I've heard that will happen. It's such bull shit. Don't people know or care how much stress that puts on the person who is dropping a ton of cash to show them a great time???

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Dawn wrote: "I've heard that will happen. It's such bull shit. Don't people know or care how much stress that puts on the person who is dropping a ton of cash to show them a great time???"

No, they don't care.

I had a cousin - after beating me down to invite his NEW GF - not show at all and not say a damn thing until I called him the day before. Why? He had to work, he says. Then he FB me and says that his GF was a bitch and made him not come cause she wanted to go somewhere else.

pffft.

[Laurel]

Off topic,

If anyone follows Diana Rowland, she's had to hire a Hollywood Lawyer to send a friendly "were you aware you were infringing upon my intellectual property?" to the CW and Rob Thomas (creator of Veronica Mars). Their new show iZombie (which I was very excited about) is in fact nothing like the graphic novel storyline. It's about a white haired girl who becomes a zombie, goes to work for a morgue to gain access to brains, then begins working with a coroner (and possibly the police) to solve crimes. Sound familiar?

I'm starting the iZombie series. I'd watch the heck out of that show, or a White Trash Zombie show. But if they're going to mash two properties together, the writers are owed their due.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Dawn wrote: "Yep, so clearly b... Or so I thought.. Until over half of the invites I sent out didn't get returned by the cutoff. I'm talking 40 of 80 families. It's a 50/50 split right now as I laboriously cont..."

The best solution is a small wedding. That was our plan. We had 19 people (including the Pastor and his wife) at the dinner table. :)

[Becky]

The best solution is a bouncer. Sit Bubba at the door and have him check people against the RSVP'd guestlist. Ain't on the list, you ain't gettin' in.

RSVP and don't show up? Send 'em a bill for their share of what you paid since they said they were going to come.

[Chris , cookie guilt]

I bet Don Corleone didn't have these RSVP problems when his daughter got married.

[Becky]

Chris wrote: "I bet Don Corleone didn't have these RSVP problems when his daughter got married."

True dat.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Laurel wrote: "Off topic,

If anyone follows Diana Rowland, she's had to hire a Hollywood Lawyer to send a friendly "were you aware you were infringing upon my intellectual property?" to the CW and Rob Thomas (c..."

That's the writer of the White Trash Zombie series? Wow, that's hardcore IP infringement.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Becky wrote: "The best solution is a bouncer. Sit Bubba at the door and have him check people against the RSVP'd guestlist. Ain't on the list, you ain't gettin' in.

RSVP and don't show up? Send 'em a bill for ..."

LOVe this idea. Esp Bubba.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Laurel wrote: "Off topic,

If anyone follows Diana Rowland, she's had to hire a Hollywood Lawyer to send a friendly "were you aware you were infringing upon my intellectual property?" to the CW and Rob Thomas (c..."


I'll be curious to see what comes of this. The girl in iZombie looks like she has white hair, and she does try and solve murders...

But the coroner's office and working with a detective stuff is definitely more White Trash Zombie.

[Laurel]

The CW show is also missing all the iZombie sidekick characters (ghost friend, spot). The more I read, the more it sounds like a White Trash Zombie property that happens to look more like the lead character from iZombie.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

But there's also the getting the person's memories from eating the brains, and the MC in the show is a medical student and not an alcholic deadbeat...

I'm not saying there's not some infringing going on, and I definitely thought of WTZ when I read the blurb - I'm just not sure it's enough to win a lawsuit... but, then, I'm also a bit sketchy on how the law works in these cases.

[Laurel]

True. I'm sad for Rowland. Both properties, actually. They're incredibly interesting and can stand on their own. I'm worried that a mash-up may be taking the quirky, uniqueness out of each and make it more like a darker, zombie police procedural.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Yeah. I just got iZombie out of the library, so I haven't read it yet - but I don't know why you'd cut the ghost friend and were-terrier. It's kinda what made me want to pick up the books.

[Laurel]

Goodness, I wish my library system had a better collection of graphic novels and manga!

I'll be watching the show when it starts (I think) in the fall. I'm so curious to see how it all plays out.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Laurel wrote: "Goodness, I wish my library system had a better collection of graphic novels and manga!"


So do I! I was shocked they had iZombie, tbh. I just checked if they have Chew, and they don't.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Laurel wrote: "Goodness, I wish my library system had a better collection of graphic novels and manga!

I'll be watching the show when it starts (I think) in the fall. I'm so curious to see how it all plays out."

Can you do inter-loans?

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

MrsJoseph wrote: "Can you do inter-loans? "

Yeah, I get almost everything through ILL, 'cause my actual local library is a total crap bar.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

c.o.lleen ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "Can you do inter-loans? "

Yeah, I get almost everything through ILL, 'cause my actual local library is a total crap bar."

Mine too! It's a nightmare, tbh. There are so few books that they are only arranged by Author name. No genre separation.

[Laurel]

Inter loan between around 15 - 20 libraries and the selection is still sparse.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

MrsJoseph wrote: "Mine too! It's a nightmare, tbh. There are so few books that they are only arranged by Author name. No genre separation. "

Mine isn't that bad, luckily. I think it's major issue is that it's just a small building, and it's close to a school so they have a lot of reference and history and biography stuff, so their fiction sections are pretty paltry.

For the longest time I never used the library at all 'cause I was sort of scared of ILL (this was back before you could do it all online), and my local never had anything.

Now I can get most stuff from the library, except self-pubs and GNs - I just have to wait for my hold to come through.

[HomeInMyShoes]

My library system has it.

Our system spans the entire province and they will even go and get stuff if it is not within the provincial system. Either through another library system or they even purchase sometimes. I haven't requested anything that hasn't been within the province though.

I don't read a lot of new stuff though which probably means my probability of being happy with the selection is higher. Sometimes it pays to be a good decade behind everyone.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Laurel wrote: "Inter loan between around 15 - 20 libraries and the selection is still sparse."

:(

We can do both inter-system and inter-state. Between the two I usually can find most stuff.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

c.o.lleen ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "Mine isn't that bad, luckily. I think it's major issue is that it's just a small building, and it's close to a school so they have a lot of reference and history and biography stuff, so their fiction sections are pretty paltry.

For the longest time I never used the library at all 'cause I was sort of scared of ILL (this was back before you could do it all online), and my local never had anything.

Now I can get most stuff from the library, except self-pubs and GNs - I just have to wait for my hold to come through. "

That's great. Our library near me is NOT tiny and it's about 1 year old. Obviously the dang thing was built based on criminal political behavior rather than library requirements. The majority of the library was given over to a bunch of meeting rooms...that cost money to use. :( And have of the single level where the books are housed is given over to kiddie stuff (books, games, etc). Very little is set up for Adult reading.

[Laurel]

Seeking wisdom,

I'm closing in on draft 1 of the first book I'm actually going to try and edit, second draft, third draft, etc. I have already taken steps to try and become more involved in my local writing community - go out to the local NaNoWriMo events, library author nights and so on. But are there other ways to find beta readers that are a) competent and b) not your close friends? I want to eventually find a writing group as well. I'm hoping the NaNo events will bring me success.

Wisdom?

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Laurel wrote: "Seeking wisdom,

I'm closing in on draft 1 of the first book I'm actually going to try and edit, second draft, third draft, etc. I have already taken steps to try and become more involved in my lo..."

I would try absolutewrite.com

There's a blog and they have a huge writer's board which is moderated. They seem welcome to new people and give advice. There's even a post that tells which pubs to avoid and things like that.

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/i...

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

So, I started reading iZombie today, and I wonder if maybe they dropped the ghost friend and were-terrier because it would seem too much like Being Human?

[Laurel]

Thanks Mrs. J, I'll try it!

[Laurel]

c.o.lleen ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "So, I started reading iZombie today, and I wonder if maybe they dropped the ghost friend and were-terrier because it would seem too much like Being Human?"

I've never seen Being Human. Good?

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Laurel wrote: "I've never seen Being Human. Good?"

I really liked the first couple seasons of the UK version, but didn't like it much after Aidan left.

I only watched the first season of the US version then bailed. Meh.

But it's a ghost, werewolf and vampire living together - so maybe they thought it would be too similar?