Oh, UHF - hello old friend.

Badgers?

I want to go to Spatula City!

Hehehe I just read that in Montreal, Eggnog is called "Lait De Poule" - that is, Hen's Milk !

Wheel!

Of!

Fish!!!

Al tweeted a wheel of fish pic today, which is what inspired my evening viewing.

Stupid! You're so Stuuupiiiiiid!

Hehehehehehe I like Red Snapper

Brought up on home made eggnog, the store bought variety never tasted right, then I found out this interesting tidbit:

My mom says she uses a minimum of 12 raw egg yolks - salmonella be damned

Hurry up and get your creepy baby doll while you still can. The Anne Geddes store in DTD Anaheim is closing next month.

It's about time! Maybe after DCA, they can work on DtD...

Aww, we walked by it just the other day and were reminiscing about the horrifying dead baby Christmas snow whirlwind from its first year.

After weighing all of my options for tonight, I have decided to just go to a friend's house and hang out and watch movies all night. just the 2 of us. I really wanted to go out of town, but I can't justify the cost of gas. I was also invitied to a few different local venues where different friend's bands are playing, but that got ruled out because I won't drink and drive tonight. Oh well, should still be fun and it is better than staying home alone.

What are you talking about? A summertime favorite at family BBQs is Devilled Eggnog. My mom makes hers with pickle relish, but she always makes a "virgin" batch for me.

Hate pickles.

Musings on 2010. I came to terms with the fact that as painful as it was to discover I am more of a dog person. The long happy flirtation with felines began many years ago. As the years drew on, I still felt a void in my life. A void I tried to fill with many things, but in the end it was a void that was only filled with the love of a pug or two.

Sadly, I have been I've been over the legal long beach pet limit for some time. After a disagreement over parking with the neighbor I believe they reported my 'illegal harboring'. I need to find homes immediately for 11 beatiful kitties. Though it will hurt in the short term I will find joy in placing them in lovin homes and will mop my tears in the folds of my sweet thurston. Please let me know which cats you would like to adopt. I only have until jan 7 to comply.

Oh, Lisa- I'm so sorry! I wish, wish, wish I could! We have the room, but we're too far away, and Haku had put Samwise close to the edge as it is! Big hugs- I know how hard this must be for you. :(

I'd take one if we could.

Oh no! So sad to hear. We just don't have the room. After getting a new kitten for my birthday, we're up to 2 dogs and a cat.

Ugh, screw your neighbor. Sorry to hear that. I hope you can find great homes for them. Will you be able to keep any of the cats?

I'm with you on pickles. Not a fan, and I really can't see them in eggnog.

Ugh. Hate arguing with the neigbors. I'm sure your kitties will adjust and be fine in their new homes. Sorry you have to give them up, but dogs are great! (as you know!)

oh NA so sorry. We're allergic here. I hope you can find wonderful homes for them.

My goal for 2011: make sure to lock my phone with LoT logged in when around friends a party.

I can't BELIEVE no one wants to take ANY of my kitties. There are only 10,000!

I also can't believe that SOMEONE :cough: Erik/Greg :cough:hijacked my iPhone, typed something that DIDN'T have one single typo in it, and that you all believed "me". I would move to Montana before getting rid of my cats.

Kudos to Andris (who arrived at 4 am this morning) for wanting to register on LoT as Long Beach Animal Control.

You all suck. :)

"Wait, Erik, you have the same ring as me?"

Actually, there are two misspellings and three capitalization errors.

Slowly, the clarity appears!

Lol! I thought evil zombies had taken over our Lisa! I was right!!! :D

(I'm gonna hunt down those bastards for making me worry all night.....)

Hey, I just wanted to post something crude about NA's vagina in the words and gameplay forum. The cat-astrophy post was all Nirvanaman's idea.

And I think CP said something about wanting to start a rumor.

OMG. It's the red longjohns of 2011. I'm glad I scrolled down, because I was seriously about to call Ken at work and see what we could do. :p

oh good.

Wow. I fell for it, and wondered what the hell was happening to my universe! (I would have taken several, though.) Glad to see all is right with the world.

In the immortal words of CP: we should start a rumor.

Btw it took a long time to type and edit that whole thing on the iPhone.

Ooooo... You guys are evil! :snap:

I'll take them, but you have to wrap them carefully because Australia Post is notoriously rough on parcels.

Eh. You get used to it.

For the record, I had nothing to do with it, and I didn't say shyt. :p

Its only a rumor that you didn't have any part in this.

Yoda likes pancakes.

:cakes:

Hummm, This post was made at 1:12am on January 1st 2011. Interesting.

That's east coast time. It was 10:12PM our time.

Damn!

Lol, Moonie! Good find!

Cm'on! you really think GD and NM aren't going to pay attention to details?

The elevator tried to keep me from getting to my office this morning.

I think I found "Future" Kevy -

oh good grief. That needs spoiler tags for work.

Future?

Yes: I shaved my beard a while back.

Relax, other than life sustaining medications, there is nothing terribly vital to be forgotten.

what about her Hello Kitty wristwatch?

Not vital.

The last two watches I've worn on a daily basis are "automatics" - they wind themselves simply by the momentum of wearing them. I doubt I'll ever go back to a watch with batteries.

I don't want a self-winding (or solar powered) watch because then I'd wear the same watch for the rest of my life. The death of a battery is my trigger to treat myself to a new watch.

I'm clumsy enough that my trigger is when the crystal is scratched up enough that I'd need to send it in to get it replaced. I think at this point I keep wearing a watch mostly because if I didn't, judging by the abuse my watch faces take, I'd shatter my wrist without one.

I can never keep a wristwatch running for more than a month or so. It doesn't matter if it's a wind-up, battery powered, or self-winding - digital or analog. They all just stop on me. Must be my magnetic personality...

Might I suggest...

They still make that? That was one of my favorite watches EVER.

It has been years since I've worn a watch. Sometimes I miss it for aesthetic reasons, but timekeeping never seems to be an issue.

So, I had a near brush with disaster today. Seems I get to fill out the 450 ethics form this year, and among the items you're required to disclose are any future job offers you've accepted.

O.O

Then I read the fine print and discovered it was only *non-federal* offers, that one has to disclose.

This form is reviewed by my supervisor and my supervisor's supervisor, and I didn't want this to be how I gave notice. Surprise!

So.... I'm on a plane. Flying across the country. Six hours. It has WiFi. I'm bored. Hi. I can get Hulu, sorta. The trail mix was nasty. I brought a sandwich. It's dark. I think it's cloudy. My GPS does not work in here. I have a row all to myself. I think I'll run an IP scan of the local LAN and see if there is anything interesting around me. I had a coke. Just a small one. I'm saving the sandwich for later. Rhapsody to-go now has a cache option. I'm listening to Sugarland. Before that was Meatloaf. Before that was Shock treatment - Little black dress. Ohh bump! Why can't I sleep on planes? Up next: "I see you driving down town with the girl I love and I'm like....
A light! I guess it's not cloudy after all. Although I guess it could be partly cloudy. I think I'll go find a flight tracker and see where in the hell I am.


Edited to add: I'm over North Dakota. That explains the lack of lights.

What are you doing now? :D

LOL! It's like a little peek into Moonie's stream of conscious when he flies.

Montana! Uncle kracker - Smile. Facebooking with Headliner, typing. The sandwich met it's demise, or higher purpose depending on your own philosophical bent. Working on work (just a little). Gaga - Bad romance. Err, I have no idea how that got into the rotation.....

Where are you going?

Elton John - If it wasn't for bad. Seattle, then south towards Olympia, visit my dad. Sunday on to Texas. Visit mom-in-law. In short a maintenance trip.

I'm getting a bit excited over my upcoming trip to Phoenix.

WARMS! Here I come!!!

Make sure you have all of your documents with you to prove you are a citizen.

So, I'm single again. I broke up with Chuck who I have been seeing since August. He's not going to settle here in Hawai`i and I'm not moving around the country again while his job relocates him constantly... Anyway, I'm doing fine.
:)

Gemini Cricket - waaaaaa!


And, um, since August??! I didn't know it had been that long. Hadn't you fallen deeply in love with him in those 5 months - enough to follow him to the ends of Southern California? I mean, er, ends of the Earth? :p

Looks like I have a funeral to go to tomorrow. But it's an hour and a half away, eesh. Someone who worked for my dad when I was growing up. 92 years old... kind of amazing, really.

I don't think I could have lived in DeFuniak Springs, FL. I think this is where he will likely settle down.

Well, someone's got to put the fun in DeFuniak.

So....IF we were going to Hawaii, which island and where should we stay?

What do you like to do? My default answer is Kauai.

Depends on what you want. Excitement/nightlife you go to Oahu (a bit like San Diego though, IMHO). Wanna go super slow and just lounge on your hotel's beach, you go to Kauai. Want the best of both worlds you hit Maui.

I should say, I say Kauai but default because it is, in my opinion, the prettiest of the islands I've been to. I don't think I ever spent any time on a beach there, whenever I was there it was for school projects and I was in the company of locals with specific work to do.

So it may really suck as a tourist.

To be fair, I didn't mention the Big Island. There's probably a lot going there, but the only time I visited it we were at a hotel in the middle of miles of lava, so didn't get to see the nice side.

I haven't been there since 1971, but I thought Kauai was beautiful, the road to Hana on Maui incredible, the volcanos and lava fields of Hawaii amazing and didn't care much for Oahu. I'm not much of a beach person, though.

The miles of lava are the nice side (or at least, the side I liked best).

Ditto.

Madz can give you tips on Maui for cheap. She went with her dad and they ate at Costco :rolleyes:

If you want to get chased by a pimp E and I can recommend you take a stroll through the International Marketplace at 3am.

That's where I got kicked by a marine. But it was only 1am so there may be a shift change.

I think a new TiVo is in our future - this one has been acting up something fierce. New TiVo XL + Lifetime = $750.00. Ouch

The one that has Brad on it is good !

Are you factoring in the discount for current Lifetime subscribers?

haha - looking on one of Maddies friends facebook. She lists employer as "Mother" Chores, April 2001 to present

While we're fans of the hot dog combo as much as the next couple, I think we have something more...luxurious...in mind.

TIVO XL $449 + Lifetime $199 = $649

True: I was looking from our TiVo HD, which I pay month-to-month. $649 if we upgrade our old (unused) TiVo Series 2.

It just kills me that our TiVo HD is giving us so much trouble after just 2-1/2 years.

*sigh*

I almost made it home. I was on the plane when they ran out of de-icing goo at the Charlotte airport and sent us back to the gate. So now I'm stuck in Charlotte for the night with no clear plan for tomorrow. Still I have a fine 2-Star room for the night which is more than some.

OK tomorrow, bring it! I'll be ready for you whatever may come.

I am SO not looking forward to my trip to Des Moines next month

Better they ran out of deicing goo than gas!

Happy 1-11-11!

You'd think the party for 1-11-11 would be bigger than the party for 1-1-11 was. There's a whole extra 1!

But no, at this rate of celebratory decline all that'll happen for 11-11-11 is everybody gets an off brand sparkler.

But the government has made 11-11-11 a holiday, just like they did for 1-1-11! So we get to party on 11-11-11!

I'm totally going to party today like it's 11-11-11.

Wow, an official government holiday and still all we're going to get is an off-brand sparkler? That sucks.

Eleventy!!!!1111!!!1!

Perhaps we should have an Eleventy Eleven Eleven Party!

I keep thinking iSm's posts are by JWBear because of the hunkalicious avatar he has. If I were JW, I'd sue.

:D

My signature doesn't give it away?!

Ha ha. I have sigs turned off.
:)

FINALLY got my 2010 bonus check (we usually get it in mid-December). It disgusts me how how much is deducted by the frickin' government :mad:

And on a different topic, I was having a discussion with someone about how to properly endorse a check. I was amused how this site contradicts itself.

It amuses me the conflicting information out there on this topic - mainly in terms of the order of these three items (shown how I have always endorsed a check):

1. "For Deposit Only"
2. (my checking account #)
3. (My signature)

I think I have found sites which list just about every possible sequence of the above three items.

There... Now you'll be really confused!

Ooh... this could get interesting...

As some of you know, I work in the printing business and we do a fair amount of Direct Mail Marketing. Occasionally, I like to remind everyone that there is a National Do Not Mail list (much like the national Do Not Call registry) that is maintained by the DMA (Direct Marketers Association). Unlike the Do Not Call list, the Do Not Mail list is maintained and used by respond mailers (such as us) voluntarily and is offered as a tool to individuals who want to control the amount of mail they receive and what kind of solicitations you receive (no, you cannot use this to stop bills from coming in :)).

If you would like to place your name on the Do Not Mail list, you can register at https://www.dmachoice.org

If it makes you feel any better, if the government weren't deducting that, the supply/demand model of economics holds that the check would be for less. So the net result is not as much of a decrease of money in your pocket as you think it is (the difference being contingent how elastic/inelastic your profession's salary curve is).

Don't care - want more money

At least you get a bonus.

Back from the WDW half marathon just in time for Snowmaggedon: Upstate NY edition. I don't have much food at home, so I guess it will be chocolate and cookies until further notice.

I could live with chocolate and cookies, make that hot chocolate, during a snow storm! I'm glad you made it home alright, it looks like many are stuck in airports again.

True. But trust me: I earn it. It's like the guys who work in the bomb disposal unit getting hazard pay.

So, had to momentarily turn off the Alex stylesheet and go back to default. How the heck do you guys tolerate all the visual chaos? Makes me feel like the Tim Robbins character in Noise.

Listening to my favorite recording of Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto is just like being in heaven to me. At least it's making the workplace tolerable today.

Turning of sigs pretty much does enough for me to tolerate.

^ And here I thought your sig was "Submit to Quotes."

Kevy's doing it, too. I have no idea why, but I'm not changing my avatar. :cool:

I generally keep my avatar around for months and months at a time, and I really like this one. Apparently, um, others do, too. I guess there's something more to the copycats than that, but it's going right over my head.

I condone this shenaniganery.

"Alex Stylesheet" Interesting. A very different look. I think I'll try it for awhile.

No pants is definitely the style for the rest of the day.

My mom can barely turn on or answer her cell phone let alone use it. My mom called me from her cell phone. I answer, heart racing, thinking something is seriously wrong.

Nope. Nothing wrong. The power went out so she walked int her bedroom, past the plugged in phone to pick up the cell phone, back into the living room to call me. Because their cordless phones don't work.

A new kitten showed in my yard today before dawn. I heard a commotion outside my window and opened the window but couldn't see much. I heard a little cry that wasn't like any of my animals so I went out to investigate. It is the cutest little thing but my outdoor cats want to kill it. I've locked it in the garage and started putting up signs but the darn wind keeps bowing them away.

It is an adorable kitten with very unusual stripping and a huge motor. I'm sure someone is missing it and hopefully I can find them!!

Oh - little kitty kitty. I hope you find your home soon. I've always been a cat person but it's been a good 17 years since I had a cat. Since my husband got one from the local animal shelter for me for my bday, the cat thing has really taken over. Amazing how quickly I can become attached to my little fur baby.

Just a passing report that I am periodically getting a very slow response when trying to open this thread, not happening with any others and not happening every time.

I was figuring on shutting it down at 10K posts. If it starts to get worse before then, I'll do something sooner.

Jeez, the next one's gonna have 6 o's and 6 periods......

Oh, just sent him over here. :D

I'm not sure how Chris would feel about that;)

The boss left this morning for a two week + vacation to South America. It is like a little vacation for all of us!

So today I was demoted.

Annoyingly, it took three and a half months for me to engineer it.

I'm getting the same delay Alex is when opening this thread.

And Alex, congrats on the demotion!

Thanks, I don't actually consider it a demotion (and from a corporate hierarchy point of view it is a lateral move) but from a business person's perspective it is definitely a step backwards.

But I've advanced to a point along this chain where I really do know I don't want to advance any farther and while I'm good at my job I don't really care about my job. So I've put myself back onto a track where I know I'll be able to say "if my boss leaves I want his job, and then when his boss leaves I'll want that one too."

Well just in case you need it, may I suggest you think about http://rim.jobs? (work safe)

I know it is work safe, I've been teasing my contacts at RIM since someone tweeted that yesterday.

But it is a delicate line. I have to be very certain they know what a rimjob is before I do it because I don't want to have to explain it. Unsurprisingly pretty much everybody at RIM is very much aware of it.

I know just what you mean. Mine just got back from South Africa.

A job at RIM? Huh. I don't think I've ever seen rats boarding a sinking ship.

An 839 MB upload at 48 KB/s is going to take a while.

Boy, do we need a better internet connection!

Go find an antique 56K modem and get dialup. It'll be faster.

Well, in their defense, its actually just a reserved domain that auto links you to http://www.rim.com/careers/

So they were just covering their butts

rimshot for Kevy

So to speak...

Check out their openings...

I hear you've got to be a real ass kisser to get those jobs.

Do you know the difference between an ass kisser and a brown noser?

New TiVo XL ordered.

TiVo comes in extra large?

VG2DLM !!! :snap:

Surprisingly, that URL no longer displays or links to anything... :D

TiVo Premiere has 45 hours HD capacity (320 Gigabyte Drive); the Premiere XL has 150 hours of HD capacity (1 TB drive). I haven't looked into expansion capabilities through the SATA port (which I did on my HD TiVo)

As I suspected, you can plug in an external 1 TB drive (although it has to be the Western Digital My Book AV DVR Expander). This will give you 300 HD hours or 2,700 standard def hours capacity.

Our phones here at the office went down last Friday at about 2:30 and are still down. Found out that due to the rain and a car hitting something, a main trunk line is down because it was flooded. Apparently, it is a 3600 twisted pair (3600 phone line) segment. AT&T has been working around the clock through the weekend - I spoke with the guys working on it last night (if you see the right lane of eastbound MacArthur closed between Bristol and Main - now you know what it is about).

Yesterday went out and bought a Go Phone for $30.00 and are having our phones forwarded to it. I also set up an eFax number (along with a dummy GMail account) to cover faxes. We sent out a broadcast email Monday morning to all of our contacts Friday morning.

Hopefully everything is back up later today or tomorrow at the latest.

Oddly, we still have internet, even though our fax line (which is the carrier line for our DSL) is down.

So much fun :(

Guess your boss didn't want anybody to call while he's in South America. Limits the trouble you can get into.

Whoo hoo, we are screaming now...

New posting method
 

Really, ya'll have been busy since I last looked!

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No - there are only 19 new posts. You slacking by not reading old posts.

Actually, read the New Post Method? thread for more info.

Kinda like today's Google image:

Continuing my train of thought in another thread:

People use "literally" too much.

I literally heard someone use the word "literally" like 500 times.

See? Sounds irritating doesn't it?

And the phrase, "it is what it is"... way too much.

I don't mind "like" and "uh" or "um" because I use them.
:D

I like the Alex quote.

Somebody shipped me something I bought on eBay using USPS's Flat Rate Priority Mail service. They put the items in a Small Flat Rate Box and then put the box in a Flat Rate Envelope. In order to save $0.25.

Wow...

What's weird is if you search for the terms "down", "pretty", and "honey" and put Alex as the user, you get two posts as a result.

Well, it is ignoring "down" as a common word, so it is just pretty and honey that appear in two posts by me.

I love a "well, DUH!" answer. As found on answers.yahoo.com:

So, anything exciting happen in the last couple of weeks?

I'm curious about the 1/10000th of an inch part. I wonder how tall he thinks a stack of 10,000 credit cards would be.

We finally settled the question of free will. You don't have any so stop resisting.

Good to know. Sounds like you've been productive. ;)

My life got surreal...

That should come as no surrprise

I became completely addicted to the show "Supernatural" and now the lines between reality and fantasy have been permanently blurred in my brain.

I love Supernatural!

Although, I'm not as pleased with the way the brothers' relationship has gone these past two seasons. But it's still good.

Are you watching it on DVD? Which season? (Not witch season, btw. ;) )

Tori got us into Supernatural- I love, love, love the show!


Speaking of Tori, we asked her what she wanted to do for her 16 birthday. After several days of careful consideration, she finally told me tonight: She wants to spend it in Disneyland, with her LoT family. (No undue influence or pressure on my part, whatsoever. I do think she has ESP, however). Sooooo- looks like a late June 16th b-day Swanking!!! :D Eric is going to try and stay healthy so he can actually come down there this time. Yayyy!



Oh, yeah- her b-day is on June 22nd. We'll probably come down on the 20th and leave the 24th.

I may even be able to go on TOT without holding on to my boobs by that time.

I thought Chris said you had your heart set on a G-cup? (Lol- is there even such a thing? ) You wouldn't have to hold them- the parabolic effect would make them float!!:D

Lisa might not be holding them but someone probably will be.

ME, ME... PICK ME!!!

We now have two See n Says - one that's new and one that's old school. The old one sounds exactly like the voice on the Disneyland Railroad...aka Thurl Ravenscroft. I can't find anything to corroborate.

In case you don't remember...

Why you asking me? They're Lisa's boobs.

Anyone want to buy a fixer-upper? It's just around the corner from us; and such a bargain!

As long as SOMEONE says yes, I get to grab them

LOL. On my pug board someone asked a question about K cups (Keurig) and I could only think of bra sizes.

Here's what I think. Same guy, slightly faster playback on the new See n Say, causing the increase in pitch. I think they used different takes for some of the animals, but the inflection is identical on a few, making me think it's the same recording, just played faster. And, I'm pretty sure it's not Thurl.

This makes me think.

We feed our kids all this info about farms and farm animals, as there's a sort of traditional precedent that makes us link up children's education and farms. But really, doesn't that come from the days when lots of children were growing up ON farms, and it was only natural they should first be taught about their environment? "But kids LIKE farms," the culture at large responds. Hmm... do they like farms because they genuinely are interested in farming, or because it's what we've been teaching them about and producing toys for all this time? If we were to replace farm themes in early childhood toys, what WOULD we replace them with?

Fun to muse on. Not particularly useful, but fun to think about.

Actually, the video is just showing two relatively similar versions. My new one is totally different, digital instead of analog, new voice, extra animals, and a quiz and song space.

There are lots of "zoo" and "safari" animal toys, as well as "woodland creatures" and "pets". No need to buy farm related stuff.

Is it just me or does CP's current avatar look like the stork just sh¡t the baby out?

I find farming to be a socially important topic to enforce. It's becoming more and more obvious that the level of abstraction between us and the source of our food has unintended and undesirable consequences. We need to continue SOME attempt to keep the idea that where our food comes from is a real, tangible place with life in the social milieu.

Close. More like birthed the baby.

China Illinois

You have your interpretation, I have mine

Either way it must have been quite an unpleasant shock.

Is that version any less preposterous?

Not that I have "issues" with the stork legend, it just seems kind of funny to me to compare a silly myth to a silly illustration.


I meant this to be lighthearted and fear people are going to take great umbrage with my comments. I hope this is taken in the jovial manner in which it was written.

Who delivers baby storks?

Oh, you silly man!

Everyone knows there's no such thing as storks.

Waaa...

mousepod just ruined another cherished belief


Next you're gonna tell me there's no Easter Bunny

Well, there's definitely a tooth fairy. I've seen photographic evidence. :eek:

this?

So-my son Braden enlisted in the Navy today. Ships out in October-we are crazy proud of him. :)

It's a myth

Cool. That will be excellent for him!

You guys did click the link, right? If you want you can skip to 2:35 (though I highly recommend the whole thing).

Why click on the link when it is so much easier to espouse uniformed decisions based on my own ignorance?

Tulle fog sucks.

Tulle fog sucks.

Apparently it sucks so bad, it needed to be said twice

Be careful out there!

So, the next stage of the home theatre update was completed tonight. Put in the new TiVo over the weekend and moved the old one to the bedroom.

And then found out that not all programs can be transferred from the old one to the new one: copy protected programs are a no go.

So moved the old one back to the livingroom tonight... sigh

And why the hell do we have three DVD players in the livingroom?!? Well, one is the 400 disk carousel (with no HDMI), one is a DVD recorder which isn't even hooked up (again, not HDMI), and the Blue Ray.

I think it is time for a tear-down and rebuild...

We're home from a wonderful - and much delayed - weekend away. This was SUPPOSED to be the trip we took at Thanksgiving. We almost didn't make it this time either. But, we went and breathed and played in snow, and cuddled with puglets and spent time with my Bro and SIL, and went exploring on mountain roads, and saw things I've never seen before - and one I don't want to see again.

The cats are happy, the house is here, and reality begins again tomorrow. And, oh what a reality it is. Boo.

Congratulations!

Don't know about your part of the world, but out here that are farms where you can kill and butcher your own cow.

I prefer my cow to not look like a cow by the time it enters my possession.

Tell him congratulations from us !!

So... I would like this to be my next keyboard.

Wow. I made the front page of Drudge.

I had a lot of trouble getting home tonight. I'm worried for Mrs. Moonie who is still out in it trying to get home.

I thought I recognized your work.

This is not good. The road Mrs. Moonie is on has been closed. It's looking like she will have to spend the night in her car.

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

--Noel Coward

How scary!

From reading about other incidents people do indeed get stuck sleeping in their cars.

We keep earthquake kits in our cars. Do people with massive snow keep blizzard kits (with blankets and warm clothing?)

Spend the night in the car? In a blizzard? Not on my bucket list! I hope she can get home - or get somewhere warm.

Yikes. I hope Mrs. Moonie gets home safely. My grandma always made us keep a blanket and water in our car for just such emergencies.

I suppose it's too late to put a plug in for the car emergency kit we bought at Costco several years back. $15, it included a ton of stuff, most relevantly an emergency blanket.

Thinking warm thoughts for Ms. Moonie :(

Yikes! Sending her lots of warm thoughts for the night! :(

That's scary! Hope everything turns out OK.

Yikes - sending warms thoughts to Mrs Moonliner.

I'm sending her some of our summer. (and the emergency blanket sounds like a good idea.)

*sigh*

Well that was one for the record books. Mrs. Moonie was trapped in her car pretty much all night. She finally made it home about 5:30am. She did OK, she had a blanket and a hybrid car that let her idle more than the gas guzzlers around her.

Note to self: Upgrade "blizzard" kit to include large tin can.

Oh that sounds unfortunate. Glad she's home now.

Glad to hear she is safe!

Moonie, glad to hear she made it through the night okay and home safely. Yikes!

Yes - so glad she is safe.

Happy that Mrs. Moonie made it home!

Yay! Glad Mrs. Moonie is home, ok.

I'm on Boing Boing today. I made an Xtranormal movie about my old days as a greeter at The Great Movie Ride, my brother submitted it, and this morning Cory Doctorow posted it. What a world.

That was you? It was hilarious!

Just watched your xtranormal, flippy. I'm confused, though. Isn't it a show? And when does it start?

Love it!

Well ain't you to cool for school. Well done I say, well done :snap:

Moonie, I'm so glad to hear the Mrs. is home. A large coffee can sounds like a good addition if one plans on being in the car for several long and cold hours.

Flippy, brilliant as always. But, please explain.....is this a movie?

I just visited this attraction on Sunday! I think I can clarify for you: They took classic movies and added a slow loop.

It would be perfect for loopy (Lupey)!

It seems weird to think that soon, Kodak - the company that seems synonymous with film and photography - may no longer be in the film and photography business.

I am in the printing business and they still have a huge presence here, particularly with their high-speed ink-jet technology (they have an ink-jet printing press as well as high-speed ink-jet heads for attaching on to web printing presses - we use this technology on some of our larger mailing projects). It just seems weird that they may no longer make film.

I'm glad Mrs Moonie is safe.

Coming in late to the Mrs. Moonie business. Whew, I'm glad I arrived when it was safely over.


Kevy ... what's film?

Today, one of my clients was talking about the snowstorm and how people were stranded in their cars overnight- I just said "Uhm, yeah- a friend's wife was one of them!" Glad she's okay, Moonie!


On a side note- WTG TORI!!!!!:snap::D:snap:

I just got caught up about Mrs. Moonie. Holy mackerel! Glad she's ok.

Great job Tori! :)

Does your hometown have a theme song. Mine does. And it's not that great but it's ours. KSUE used to play it every single morning when I was a kid.

Great job Tori!


We have to wait for Zach's scores.

Yes, and sad. My father worked for Kodak his entire career. It was a huge employer in the Rochester area.

We just got back from two hour massages. I feel like Jello. I will sleep well tonight.

Flippy, visible mojo for your awesomeness! Both for appearing on BB, and for making that very, very funny xtranormal flick.

I don't normally share here the bits of Victoriana that I come across, but this was a particularly interesting one about "poison green" I thought you guys might enjoy. (Toxic pigments used in green dyes until the early 20th century that poisoned tons of people)

http://www.popularscience.co.uk/features/feat17.htm

Thanks for the interesting read. The fact that it was in ladies dresses was interesting. I wonder what the other colors were made from?!

The prospect of winds at my back matching my normal cruising speed for my morning ride = yay! The prospect of winds in my face matching my normal cruising speed for my evening ride home = less than yay! The prospect of gusts strong enough to knock me off = hell no, I'm driving.

It was dead calm in Brea this morning: not even a slight breeze.

The drive in to work was a different story.

I stepped out this morning, to find a patio chair blocking the front door. There were all kinds of wheeled trashcans doing zombie walks around the neighborhood. A lady at the bus stop nearly got blown into the street.

You aren't looking for a new nanny by any chance are you?

Not even a breeze here.

I love being blown all over the road while driving. It's the best thing ever!


Not.

Dear wind:

Go away now. Kthxbai.

Love,

My sinuses.

It was blustery here in GG this morning. The wind was blowing through the cracks around one of the doors at work; making an eerie moaning sound.

Still no wind here.

Try Beano.

Do they make doggy beano?

Grrrrr!

It's below freezing here today.

All the slushy snow that was melting yesterday has re-frozen into sheets of ice. Makes it hard to walk anywhere.

So he's a 19 year old teenager, not a 19 year old octogenarian? :rolleyes:

How insensitive of you. He's actually 32 years old and has a congenital disease that stopped all physical and mental maturation at the age of 15, so he's been a teenager for the last 19 years.

Have some freaking respect, prick.

Why do I keep seeing this stupid thing? Is it really that big of a deal to turn an old sat-dish into a solar oven? The only interesting bit is that he burned the thing up along with his moms storage shed by leaving it inside uncovered. Genius.

I know, right! (both me being an insensitive prick ;) and the complete ho-humness of technology that's been around for years)

Men! (sheesh)

Well, night 3 of T's sleep training is taking (oh, hey, took - I hear CP emerging from the nursery) is going less efficiently than nights 1 and 2. But at least that means 45 minutes of general kvetching rather than horrible wailing. But it does mean CP is imprisoned in the room for 45 minutes.

So... After we went to bed last night I'm laying there just starting to fall asleep, when from the other side of the bed I hear "Puddi, puddi! Puddi, puddi!"

I live with Satan.

Ear Puddi !!

How much hard, fibrous tissue could a Marmota monax throw if a Marmota monax could toss hard, fibrous tissue?

Sooo... Jason and I are inching ever closer to getting his surgery scheduled. He's currently in La La Land and I am sitting in the waiting room waiting for him to get out of a colonoscopy.

Fun times.

Chris and I both have so much going on and neither of us can even begin to put it into writing. He needs all of the good vibes, strength and support you can send his way.

Done. And for you as well.

Dad's surgery is the 15th. Let me know if you need me out there and I'll figure it out.

I don't know what to think any more. We just got some not-awesome news from the GI doc. I need to get off this good news/bad news roller coaster.

Maybe the only way to come to terms with being dealt a sh*tty hand is to take it one day at a time. I don't have any control over what's happening right now, and torturing myself with any sort of fiction that I do is doing no one any good. All I can do is be the best I can be every day: for me, for him, for my friends, and for my family.

Right?

Right?

Right.

Right!


Good thoughts for all you lovely people going through such sh.t right now.

Hang in there Erica.

Hang in there, Erica!

Ditto, Erica. One day at a time. Here's hoping one day will be good day that lasts forever.


And Ditto C.P.'s thoughts of good for all the wonderful peeps going thru decidedly unwonderful times right now. The stuff of sad cheese. :(

Erica, my mantras lately have been "it's beyond my control", "One day at a time", "Laugh in the face of adversity" and "FUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!". I'm not sure any of them are keeping me sane, but I'm not sure I started out sane in the first place.

Oh, and I keep accusing people of stealing my crystal ball.

Add me to the list of people with sick parents. My Dad just got out of hospital after several days because his platelet count was at 25,000. The recommended minimum/maximum for platelets is 150,000 - 450,000. The did a CAT Scan of his spleen and bone marrow biopsy.

Weee

Please get it back.


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I think the past 5 weeks have been harder/more draining/more stressful than being unemployed.

My heart goes out to you all, been there; I know there is not a thing I can say, but if anyone needs anything . . . I would not be the least put out if you just wanted to swear at someone for an hour or two.

Mooooooooooooom. Someone turned the sooooo thread into the vent thread!

Sooooo.....

What are you going to do about it :confused:

Sending thoughts, prayers, mojo, juju, hoodoo, voodoo, and all around good vibes to those going through nasty crap right now. *hugs*

Start up a conversation about bacon. That can derail just about anything....

Bacon.

Bacon?

Yes, bacon.

beer can.

Bacon cooked over a beer can heated with a Bic lighter.

So now it's a venting bacon Soooooooo ... thread.

All threads are evolving into a universal (not necessarily Universal) cosmic thread.

Fixed it for you.

Soooo.... my husband's old (as of a month ago) boss just left a voice mail saying they had made a mistake in letting him go and to please call him back to discuss.

:) :) :)

Awesome news! Hope it works out!

Yaaay Betty's Husband !!

He starts Monday. yay!

Whew - Congratulations Betty!

So, I gave the hospital orders not to use a feeding tube on my mother. It's odd that I have an option to starve my mother to death, but I can't just give her morphine.

Also, instead of spending time with my mother today I've been chasing down Medi-cal so I can get her approved for Hospice care. Perhaps she'll live long enough to use it.

Your strength is the best gift your mother could ever hope for.

Yeah, you have to get her out of the hospital and into hospice for All The Morphine You Can Eat, basically.

It was a godsend for my mom, and the hospice people were terrific. She was under there care for about 2 months, I think. But it was a much better way to reach the end than being under medical care.


All my best, Chris.

Hopefully he told them about the job offer he had for much more money.

That's what I would have done.

Playing chicken with a job offer when you have nothing better on the table is a very dangerous thing to do and will often backfire. Especially in this economy.

I got my permit!!! I am so happy! :D

Depends on how you play it.

Congratulations! Now, your mom's nightmares begin!

Congratulations!!!!!!!

Congrats Tori.

My daughter can't seem to get through the online testing to get her permit.

And I am so happy that you have your permit in Washington!

Congratulations!

Context is everything.

Congratulations Tori!

Man, I was looking for this stuff in the Vent thread, and hadn't been reading the So... thread.

Erica, my thoughts and love are with you and J. Lisa and Chris, my heart goes out to you, and it reminds me all too much of my experience with my mother. I'm here for anything you need, even just dropping off dinners at your doorstep while you're out. Kevin, I have lots of experience with a parent with low platelets - please let me know if you want to talk. Everyone, I wish you nothing but strength and peace in these difficult situations.

Feel like a knight who slayed the dragon today. I know there are many more difficult battles ahead, but it's nice to finally have a win.

Today was almost a good day. It had lots of small victories at least.

You're my pube shirt!

Hurray for small victories!

I was thinking about calling you and got this from my Dad:Good news!

YAY!!!!!!

Today must be a good day! YAY for Kevybabydad.

Is this the typo to end all typos or is there an in joke I'm not getting here? Because I'm LOLing all over the place on that quote!

Its a 30 Rock reference.

I had my hopes up for epic typo.

Yay for KevyDad! Yay for dragon-slaying knights!

I figured out a new overlay for the Tower of Terror at DCA -
"The Charlie Sheen Experience!"
With a tagline of "How many times can you go down?"

That tagline could work for the "Lindsay Lohan Experience" as well.

I'm gearing up for a meeting that may end in bloodshed.

So of course, I'm wearing all white.

I'll be fine :evil:

,,,and still keep shooting up?

Theo was bitten at playgroup today. Didn't break skin but damn close.

There's this kid who is oddly aggressive for no reason. He'll be playing fine for ages and suddenly shove kids over, or grab toys with force, or bite. Mom makes him apologize, sits him out for a few minutes, then lets him back in. He always deals with the aftermath in a very calm manner, hugging the poor tortured child and going right back to playing. In other words, no consequences.

There were purple dents in Theo's finger for ages afterward, and then I had to deal with her apologizing to me and NOT tell her to take her f'd up child home. It really sucks because I actually like this mom a lot, it's not like she's a monster herself. She's just too forgiving of her child's aggression.

I think I'll bring it up at the next board meeting. If this happens again to Theo I'm going to tell her to her face that she needs to take her kid home when he does these things, if not to teach him a lesson, then as protection for the other children.

Time for boxing lessons.

Boxing will just get your ass kicked in a street fight. I'd recommend krav maga.

Yes, but for a toddler on a play date it is probably not to exhibit ethnic stereotypes so early.

VAM.

I have a vague memory of someone teaching their kid not to bite other kids by biting him herself. I'm sure that worked out well.:rolleyes:

In cuter news, Orion pushes the home button on the iPhone to light it up, then holds it at the side of his head (not quite by his ear), and says something that sounds like "how-wow."

In doggy daycare, you send the dog home and, if they do it again, you don't ask them back.

A kid bit me in kindergarten, so I shoved him off the top of the slide.

They don't mess with you when you make 'em bleed.

Well, Jason is getting his anesthesia, and we're on like Donkey Kong.

Seriously... I hope this goes well.

Fingers crossed.

Just curious, did he/she bite you on top of the slide or did you just wait for the opportune moment extract your revenge?

I once lost out on a penmanship medal I thought should be mine so I drowned the winner in a lake during a school picnic.

Makes sense. Sounds like the right thing to do.

So Alex is Rhoda Penmark... that explains a lot.

Seems like the kid needs a serenade from my favorite TV dad. (Seriously, if you aren't watching this show, you should be.)

I suppose you could slather his arms in bitter apple to discourage future biting, lol. (not really)

The bite happened earlier in the day.
He landed facedown next to the slide, and when he got up, there was blood on his forehead and the palms of his hands.

He actually thought it was pretty cool, and started getting in trouble for purposefully jumping from the side of the slide.

We've kept in touch through the years, and he is a stuntman; specializing in high falls and fighting.

That's a nice outcome. I went on to kill the handyman.

I think I know how this story ends.

Damn. The Universe is a very odd place.

My 12 year old long haired son (several inches past his shoulders and is mistaken for a girl frequently as a result long) got a hair cut. What a good looking kid hidden under all that hair!

The butler did it.

This explains the "why" of the haircut: "and is mistaken for a girl frequently as a result" ;)

I'm on an 80s music kick tonight.

Lots of Berlin, Missing Persons, and Lene Lovich.

Here's a before and after:

Was there enough for Locks of Love?

No - there might have been but it apparently got shorter in stages. He went from going to get a flat top to maybe just a trim instead and eventually ended up with that. (glad my husband took him as I don't have patience for that sort of thing.)

My neice has donated her beautiful long red hair several times and my friend did the same when our mutual friend came down with breast cancer. It seems like a great organization.

So who's the girl?

Usually when a guy makes a change like that there's a girl behind it somewhere.

Now to get him to change his shirt.

Looked Waaaaaaaay better long.








:evil:


BTW: Did you know the name Robert means "Bright & Shining With Fame"?

I'm sorry, I gotta say, the old haircut is so girly that when you see the pics together it makes his current pic look girly. Burn the old photos! ;)

Like the new hair lots.

You know what would be cool as heck, if you're willing to go there, would be to let him bleach it out.

I think he is going to be nothing but trouble when he hits college : )

It's effing COLD out this morning!

It's exquisitely WARM out today!

My fingers didn't hurt at all on my ride in, it can't be that cold.

It's raining a lot this morning and yet I managed to get all the way to work (which includes a 1 mile walk) without ever getting wet. Timed it well.

I like the fact that I have "smile and nod" buddies (i.e., people I see every day biking the opposite direction, just long enough to exchange a smile and a nod). I especially like the fact that, by now, they must think of me as, "That nutjob who never wears long sleeves or long pants, even when it's near freezing."

exactly my thinking. I think the new cut looks great.

mine was twice that length at one time. got it cut the day before I got married....so yeah, there was definitely a female in the mix.

the flat top would have looked good too though. Ive wanted one forever, but theyre too much maintainence to keep em right.

well done


one would hope so. :cool:

Wow Alex, this car really likes you
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Thanks! Now I'm picturing you cycling naked... :rolleyes:







MMMmmmmmmmmm...




Oh, and I saw my neighbour today on a itty bitty hybrid scooter-Razr thing (gasoline powered) with the tiniest seat you've ever seen. He's a big boy. I thought "Buddy, don't cough or you'll slide down the seat support pipe."

After several nights of not being able to sleep well due to stress and anxiety, i decided a little prescriptive pharmacological assist was in order last night and i got a full eight hours last nigt - yeah. I have my usually sluggish hangover feeling, but otherwise I am feeling much better.

Amazing what a good night's sleep can do for you!

It's true about the sleep. Glad you finally got some - even if you needed help.

Fixed it for you. :D


(and I don't care what Heath thinks - it's a safe and effective drug when used as directed.)

The topic of "hair" from a few posts back reminded me of this new slang/urban dictionary term of "Biebians": "Lesbians who look like Justin Bieber."

A Google search of "Biebians" may come up with amusing links like:
http://lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com

Ouch. sorry to hear that. How are you feeling today?

Only took 9.5 hours to do the 3.5 hour drive to Reno last night. So the weekend is off to a good start (and I'm not being sarcastic).

Who's got the best wife in the world? I do!

Watching the news early this morning there was mention of the upcoming Space Shuttle flight in the context of it being one of the last. I mentioned I'd always wanted to see one. She said "So why don't you go?" After I picked my jaw up off the floor I thought "Why not?" Fly down Wednesday back on Thursday, one night cheap hotel, option to wait it out over the weekend if need be...

Yeah, I can do this!

So I'm booked for one Shuttle Launch trip. Everyone please send good vibes to NASA to get this sucker off on time!

Going skiing?

JEALOUS!

eta: of Moonie (as I realize there were a couple more posts on the next page that made my jealousy target ambiguous)

You're gonna love it, Moonliner!

Wow, that's great!!
We were considering doing this, back in November. But the date kept moving around that it made a trip from California way too hard to plan. I'll live vicariously thorugh you! We expect a trip report with pictures you know!

But of course! I just hope I beat the odds and get to see a launch.

I'm flying down Wednesday night, I have a room booked next Universal, A tour that includes a bus trip out to the causeway (the best viewing spot for the public) and I'm back out Thursday night. I'm doing my best to allow for a 1 or 2 day delay but anything longer than that and I'm toast.

Very cool!

No, just a random weekend road trip. Underestimated the storm a bit and the planned timing for everything got shot to hell so it ended up just being a 1,142 two-day drive to nowhere and then back.

But Lani and I enjoy just driving so it was all ok. And the jinxedness of it all (a 2-hours-to-go-1-mile traffic accident near Cisco Gap, a call to AAA the next morning, getting everywhere interesting just after they closed, learning that Death Valley after dark isn't all that different than Kansas, etc.) just gets chalked up to adventuring.

Plus, now I can say I've slept at the Wills Fargo Motel in Baker (favorite room feature? The wall lamp about 18" above the right side pillow on the bed).

So I totally like, like this message. It's like too bad it's like a parody or something.

*sigh*

Here we go again.....

Weather forecast for the DC metropolitan region

Sunday: For Monday - Light Rain with a wintry mix

This Morning: Up to 2 inches of snow

Noon: Up to 5 inches of snow

Currently: Up to 8 inches of snow

I can't wait for the evening news.... :(

Well, if it helps, Gary Braun said last Thursday on Tony Kornheiser's radio show that up to a foot of snow was possible on Monday (he said that it probably would be rain but that it would be just right on the edge of cold enough that a little bit colder than modeled and it would be a lot of snow).

So, as usual, the sports radio show ends up being the reliable source of information.

While getting over to the eastern side of the Sierras proved to be something of a cluster****, the views once over there were well worth the trip. Ah, the magical power of snow, for it can even make Reno look pretty.

I'm going to guess Carson City or Gardnerville?

Somewhere between Lee Vining and Mammoth.

Ahh I was a little too far north. I think I made something like 20 trips up/down 395 in a two year time span, all kinds of weather. It's still a more preferable drive over the 5. Now I need to do it and take a little more time to enjoy the scenery.

So pretty, Alex! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Eastern Sierras. Just the way they jut out of the landscape is incredible. And, yes, there are only 2 sure ways to get over the Sierras in winter - 80 and 58. I think 80 is not even a sure thing at times.

BRRRRRRR!

(not related to the above conversation, I'm just cold. Supposed to get just a few degrees above freezing by 6am)

We have at most an inch of snow on the ground this morning. Now I don't know who to trust.

5 years
9 months
5 days

<<sigh>>

I'm on a VERY long journey.

Of course, it's pretty easy to get to the Eastern side of the Sierras from L.A. ;)

Is that your locker combination?

No. The key to my (eventual) freedom.

Thread closed due to size - please continue in the new Sooooo...... thread.

But, I can still post here.

You all are poopooheads.