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[Backstory: A couple years ago, knowing that I really wanted and couldn't afford a recliner, sogwife got me an excellent recliner on Freecycle. Yesterday, stonebender bought me a piano, out of the blue, which I've always wanted but couldn't afford.]

Me, to sogwife: It's so cool. The two big-ticket items I always wanted and figured I couldn't ever afford, I now have -- a recliner and a piano.

Her: Aww.

someotherguy: Now all we have to do is combine the two.

sogwife: Hmm. We could probably do that.

someotherguy: Because then you can make Eine Reclinah Nachtmusik.

Me: I *hate* you. :-)



My apologies for inflicting it on you. It just was too putrid funny to keep to ourselves. :-)

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someotherguy works for his brother Jeff, who is awesome in many of the same ways, albeit a Libertarian. ;-) Anyway, they have the funnest conversations, many of which I hear only one side of.

Today, Jeff called while someotherguy was out and left this message, in falsetto, to the tune of that disco song: "Call me / on the line / call me, call me when you get back in."

So someotherguy called him back just now, and this is the side of the conversation I hear, in a fake deep voice reminiscent of Joey Tribiani playing a beat cop:

"Yes, this is Captain Smalls from the Funky Patrol, and I'm calling because we have an unconfirmed report of a Disco Inferno in your neighborhood?"

"Wait. Serene is laughing so hard she can't move her mouse properly."

[Me: "No, I'm just trying to decide whether or not to blog this."]

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Paraphrasing a conversation I had with someone in email today:

Them (in a public notice): Wanna participate in this GLBT event, blah blah gay, blah blah gay, blah blah gay activists...

Me (in public): What about bi and trans activists? Why use the full acronym and then go on and on about gay this and gay that?

Them (privately from here on in): It's just a shortcut. Sorry you were offended. So, you wanna participate?

Me: Well, it is one keystroke more to type GLBT than gay, but it's an important thing to be inclusive.

Them: But more importantly, wanna participate?

Me (and here I'm quoting): "No, thanks. I'm not confident that I would be listened to, or that you're a good person to work with, because you don't respond well to constructive criticism, or to calls for diversity."

Them (and god, I would totally quote it if it weren't skeevy to quote PVT EMAIL): Well, hope you'll change your mind. And you're totally off base on the diversity thing. Hey, I notice your last name [editor's note: it's Vannoy, and it's Dutch in origin]. Are you Filipino or Vietnamese? Because one of our members is Filipino, and he rocks.






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I got my new piano, delivered by the Costanzas (not really, but wow). I am all a-squee. I called stonebender and played him "our song", badly, but with great joy. Yay!