As an aside... apparently there's a documentary called Helvetica. Yes, it's about the font. Now available on Netflix.

While it certainly has its place in history, this has to be the most boring font! Max Miedinger should be shot (if it weren't for the fact that he is already dead).

I actually like The Doors as a film. Top Gun, oh so uninteresting.

Nonono. Most interesting volleyball game ever!

I am not sure you'd say that if you saw the documentary (which, to be fair, I have not seen - but I read an excellent article [on Slate, maybe?] that thrilled me without any video footage.) Though I know your area of expertise, so perhaps the documentary would leave you cold.

You're all wrong - best/hottest Val Kilmer movie is "Top Secret!"

He is rather cute in that...except when he "sings" and dances. ;)

My comments are borne from my experience with bad typography. I might still be interested in the documentary, but I think the font is deadly fugly.

cough syrup with codeine puts me in a lovely stoned fog

:snap: :snap: for lovely stoned fogs!

If a girl named Cassidy was a lesbian, would she be a Butch Cassidy?

Kevy, your mind must be a very interesting place to live!! Where do you come up with this stuff?!

Not if she were a lipstick lesbian!

Please have sympathies for poor GusGus - she has to live with it.

My sympathies to GusGus but I understand what she goes through. Sadly my husband is the same way. I just don't know where you guys come up with this stuff!!

I'm snowed in for the second day- we got about 5 more inches of snow last night, and I can't even get out of the driveway without getting high centered.:rolleyes:

We probably won't get snowplows up here until late Thursday, and if we get hit again it's not going to happen until Saturday. I really hate snow.

See? When I was in VA, I dreamed of snow like this (like a kid wanting a snow day from school) and never got it. :(

I hated driving in the ice and sleet, so I can sympathize. But so long as you don't lose power, you can Wii with Tori!

But snow is pretty ;)

And being snowed in is a damn good reason to not go to work when you desperatley wanted to take a sick day and just couldnt bring yourself to call in well.

I love.... looking out the front window at 10pm after a snowfall and seeing it look almost like ten am. :blush:

It's days like today when I have to question my choices. I know I've done the right thing by moving over here, but I'm so f#@$ing over snow right now, it's unreal. After spending about an hour getting my car out on Monday (due to my forgetting how to manage snow that's been plowed up behind my car), I've decided to forget about doing anything today. I'm not in the mood to dig, though I suspect it will take half the time, now that I remember how to deal with it.

I guess last night to this morning, my town saw something like 7 or 8 inches. I'm guessing we've seen a bunch throughout the day, and tonight is supposed to give us a couple more inches. The snow outside is just around knee-deep.

My walk to the exercise room at the complex became futile after I kept dead-ending into snow plow walls. I gave up and turned back to the apartment. I feel pretty useless today.

Bleh.

Worst of all... it isn't even good snowball snow. :(

Sorry about all your snow issues. Do you live in a more secluded area? I know we're supposed to have another day of snow, then... ?

That's the worst news of all!

Hey E! I thought it didn't snow where you lived! :p

Hey, I never said it didn't snow!

On the other hand, it usually doesn't snow quite like this in the basin/valley/whatever. It generally sticks to the higher elevations.

Too much snow!

Bleh.

I am thinking of figuring out how I can ambush J with snowballs... but then I remember this is sucky snow.

Wow, I didn't expect I'd be flying to NY this month...

I didn't expect I'd be helping write a pamphlet on HIV awareness today.

What a very strange day it has been :)

I hate taggers... Why can't we just put a bounty on any and all of the useless bags of skin, dead or alive (point bonus for dead)?

Looks like I picked a bad day top stop sniffing glue.

Visible mojo Kevy, the man says I must spread the love around first.

I live in Eastern Washington, just across the Idaho border and close to Canada. (I think it's just over 100 miles, but I never go there). Anyway, it's mountainous and forested and I live in the burbs of a smallish city. I know I'm rambling, but I think I am going stir-crazy. I may have to drink tonight.:D

Doesn't the whole driving dynamic just suck rocks in the snow? We're on a steep hill, and in the middle of a snow belt, so it gets kind of crazy in the winter. I'm sorry you are being subjected to it, but look at the bright side: new kitteh!

WB -

Jeebuz, I'm glad I don't live in the hill action. I'm just feeling retarded because I haven't had to deal with this for such a long time. Living in Southern Cal can really spoil a girl.

On the plus side, when J & I came back from dinner tonight, we saw a snow plow going through our complex. On the downside, the plowed some more snow behind my Explorer, meaning that there's a bunch of work to do tomorrow.

Which brings up my next troubling subject:

I'm not so sure what's up with kitteh. I know he's been a little more nervous in this new setting after over a year of being in shelters, but he's been snippy and loving, which is a strange combination. I've attributed it to being nervous, but then today he started shaking his head. I noticed yesterday that something seemed up, but didn't give it any thought and figured it might be dirt from our shoes since he sometimes rolls on the mat just inside the door.

This evening when we came home, I realized he had a blob of old blood at the bottom of his outer ear. I'm not sure what's up, but the way he's acting, I'm calling the vet's office we adopted him out of. Hopefully they'll give us a break if its an infection since it's been only a day since we got him, but in either case, I'm not looking forward to driving in this snow. The morning news shows featured all the cars that had gone off the road due to the slippery conditions.

Oh, and last night I busted my ass while I was just trying to look at my car. I'm so sore tonight!

So yeah, I've got a drink in hand.

*sigh*

I'll be joining you in the drinkies department here in a sec.:cheers:

Eric is optimistically putting the garbage out. I hope they do come to get it- they will create a path for escape. It would be funny if one of those big rigs got stuck, though. The city would have to send plows to the rescue.


(Forgot to add that I hope kitty is doing alright! It could be allergies- he might be digging at his ears because the skin itches or something. Samwise is sweet/evil all the time, btw- he'll be gnawing your arm off one second and the next giving you a bath.)

I think Rose is gonna be really happy when she gets home.

You remembered to close the toilet cover, didn't you? Good Matt!;)

Ugh. Today I earned my paycheck, for sure. No drink needed, just a quiet home and a LoT check.

So...

For some reason our hardwood floors are becoming more and more slippery and we have no idea why. I think I may need to read some Murakami.

Well, if that's what keeps you from walking on them that just may work.

Hehe, there was one spot I kept slipping in on NYE, and it wasn't wet. Someone else confirmed for me that it was super slippery for seemingly no reason, so it wasn't just because the Tang punch was so good.

No, they are slippery in the living room by the dining room arch. But, they have started getting slippery in other parts of the house. It's odd. Thurston is having problems walking around.

Apparently, it was very slippery for Susan on NYE.

If it keeps spreading we'll have a slip and slide themed New Years

Maybe someone is sneaking into your house and secretly buffing your floors.

WE WON! A shutout!

The other team is in last place in their division but with the way we've been playing.... WE WON! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!

Bring a video camera and stick it on your dashboard. At least if something goes wrong you'll get some good YouTube fodder out of it.

Maybe your floors are sympathetically slippery to those of us stuck in the snow?

In the meanwhile, I'm hoping to call and get a chance to talk to the vet. My cat has a HUGE number of allergies that show up on his skin. I also have discovered that he is a bread thief. :) He's not exactly interested in his duck and green peas fancy-pants food he gets because of his allergies... he wants bread. So, I partly wonder if this could be a symptom of his allergies...

That's the spot! If you're walking into the dining room, it's the right side of the arch, right?

Johny Depp is the most beautiful man alive- that is all.

Thank you.

No arguments here.:D

My oldest son looked at the Sweeney Todd pics and said "that man is ridiculously pretty- even when they put him in crazy hair and makeup he is still good looking!"

I could wallpaper my visual world in Johnny Depp pics. :)

I thought I was the most beautiful man alive?

I'm hurt

You just wanted an excuse for that smiley. :)

then I'm guessing he hasnt seen him in 'The Libertine'

heh- true that.

I'm sorry, I don't agree. I don't find Depp attractive at all!

More Johnny for the rest of us, then :)

And you can have him!

Thank you!

Yeah, I've been saying that about Depp since the 21 Jump Street days. In recent years he's taken an acting turn where I've begun to find him enjoyable but I still don't really see what all the brouhaha about his physical attractiveness is. But then I didn't see it for Winona Ryder either so I guess I just don't swing in that direction.

Blue Diamond Lime & Chili almonds are really g-o-o-d

I like the Wasabi Almonds

I was torn, believe me. Next time! I also need to check out Trader Joe's next week to see if there are any yummy varieties to choose from there.

TJ's has some great carcked black pepper cashews! Mmmmmm.

I don't know if it is generally available in stores but we stopped by Tillamook Cheese Factory over Christmas and they had a black pepper cheddar that was really so very good.

I had to veer off since I can't figure out why anybody would eat almonds recreationally regardless of what is put on them.

Recreational almond eating... nice.

So, uh... What hobbies do you have? Oh, I eat almonds.

I'm a fan of almonds, but not nearly as much as I am a fan of cheese. I didn't see any Tillamook black pepper cheddar in the stores, and would have picked some up if I had. That sounds fantastic.

We went to the Blue Diamond plant in 8th grade for a field trip. Everyone ate a zillion of them. The 6 hour bus ride home wasn't fun.

Back on the snow tip: Another textbook of mine sold on Amazon, so in order to get it to Georgia by Monday/Tuesday, I decided it was best to go to the post office today, and not wait for J to come home to dig me out of the 2-3 feet of snow behind my car. (It got plowed into my car... grr!) Took me around 40 minutes this time, which I consider an achievement given how this was so much worse than it was the last time. I ended up needing help on the last push since there was so much ice from the melted snow/ice from the last snowfall.

I am getting all-weather tires for next season.

Bears, go fig! ;) Many of the "hot guys" pics you've posted totally turn me off....each to his own, which means me to my Johnny Depp. :snap:


So. At work today I was told that my job is being shifted from circulation to the admin dept. I'll be doing an amalgam of jobs, including handling the Welcome Desk scheduling and procedure, community room reservations, including all the tech stuff that needs to be set up for people that come in to use it, and some small tech stuff for the tech dept who's losing one of the FOUR people that do ALL the tech stuff for our building.

So yeah, I'm now a little dutch boy set to stick my finger in the dike. These are new tasks for our new building that have overwhelmed staff in other depts. I'll also be an assistant to our Director, Manager, and Admin Assistant for all kinds of data wrangling etc. Guess I shouldn't have done so well on those Excel doc assignments 2 years ago.

I'm trying to see the upside, that this will be new and exciting and different, that I'll be learning new things and in on the Admin stuff, but it's still a blow. I'm losing all the comfort I have in the dept I know, and I won't deal with the public, at least at first. I'm also losing my window with the lovely tree across the street. Cube farm for me. :(

I'm sure it'll be fine. I just have to get through the rest of today.

Well, in order of true preference:

Bacon
Cheese
Almonds

That said, I needed something to snack on (I'm stress eating) and almonds seemed to be the better option than a pound of bacon or a hunk of mozzarella with black truffles (no matter how totally delicious that is, in small doses) It is the lesser of many evils I could have reached for.

Of course, some home made cookies would be good too at this point!

India has unveiled a $2500 car. So what is the name of the company who produces it? Tata Motors.

Here in the States, when you say "Tata," it's not a car we picture! ;)

OMG come on over to my house. We could be kin.
I have cheese and triscuts, popcorn and almonds.
I'm also stress eating, and I want cookies.

Oh hey... whatever happened with the bleu cheese honey thing everyone was talking about. I never got my hands on any, and suspect I'll just have to make it on my own.

Blue cheese and truffle infused honey. Yum. Now I need to go to Bristol Farms.

I think you need to bring some of those to the parking lot in 3 weeks. No tailgating allowed. Ok, we won't use a tailgate! ;)

Tailgating does not imply blue cheese & honey so I think we'd be safe.

We're tailgating with class!

Well that was a given anyway :D

What you need to do is stock up on the "flat rate" envelopes and boxes. The envelopes are 60 cents more to mail then the standard shipping rate that Amazon gives you. You can print your shipping labels from home. No more going to the post office! I think you can even order the flat rate supplies to be delivered to your home for free.

I still wouldn't trust it - I'm not sure why, but sending something important out of an apartment complex mailbox in this weather doesn't seem wise, especially given the rinky dink operation that is this complex. Plus, I'd have to walk through said snow to get to the mailboxes, which is only slightly more appealing. My big issue is that if it wasn't the post office, it would be something else and I'd be digging my car out tomorrow. Plus, it was nice to force myself to drive in the skerry snow.. I guess.

But, yes, I do use the flat rate envelope, since it fits most books, gets there in 2-4 days and the price is right on it. It's actually the same amount of time that the "expedited" option is, and that's what the person chose, so I sent it the way I would have sent it, anyway. ;) Sneaky, sneaky! Profits!

You can schedule a carrier pick up on the website.

That's what I do. Easier all around (and by the time you buy an envelope, you're usually already over the difference in cost).

<Que Apu voice> "please do not scratch my Tatas!"

Yeah, I do believe Katiesue brought some of that to camp swank. I can honestly say that it was so good words simply cannot describe it. :snap: :snap:

wow...I'd almost forgotten about that

Soooo.. I scored at the Library today. Paid $3 and got :

- Ernest Hemingway Bio
- Winnie the Pooh
- The DiVinci Code
- Hemingway - By-lines
- Harry Potter#2
- Harry Potter #6

All in hardcover. :)

SCORE!!!

Quoted for posterity.

Why is the phone not ringing? It's sitting here, on vibrate, pointed at the window so it gets one bar. Why is the person I need to call me back ASAP not calling?

RING, DAMMIT!

I am sending phone ringing mojo into the ether for you.

Cool! I just heard a UFO while I was out walking the dogs...

It's an overcast drizzly night here and I was just heading out when I heard a sound something like a flock of owls hooting into an echo chamber filtered through a synthesizer. Obviously no earthly entity could make a sound like that.

Yes - and the other side as well - and about midway into the livingroom from the dining room - and the hallway outside the bedroom - and my side of the bed near the foot of the bed.

Elves are polishing our floors while we sleep - or it's Erica's sympathetic magic projecting her weather into our floorboards.

Are you sure you didn't wander by a Taco Bell?

Someone schedule a checkup for Moonie.

That and Hailey's Comet... there it goes...

I have acquired Wii Play.

If it's Thurston who's slipping around, I blame the cats. Or sunspots.

I'm sure you are off having fun with it now! It has some great games and is one of the few I play.

F***, I wasn't even there and I haven't forgotten about it!

I must figure out how I can get my hands on it. Bristol Farms? No Bristol Farms around here... or is there? I'll get back to you guys on that. I definitely know there's a Wild Oats in SLC somewhere.

So, this is why you hire professionals to take care of your dogs while you're away....

I'm only doing walks and feeding for Leo at night. The neighbor lets him out of the house in the morning and gives him food and water outside. I get there tonight and not only is the dead bolt locked, but the door knob is locked as well. I don't have a key for the door knob. I go the the neighbors house to see if they have a key. They don't. Apparently the guy who knew the specifics about the door decided he didn't want to let Leo out this morning and sent someone else over instead. They, in turn, locked everyone out of the house. First we broke into the gate to get to the back yard to see if the key would work on any of the back doors. They don't. Then he decided that we could remove a pane of glass in the French doors and unlock that door through the opening. So, he starts chipping away at the wood door. This isn't just glazing putty that he's removing, but actual wood that is part of the door. He completely destroys one whole panel of wood but he gets the glass out without breaking it.

How much is glass now a days? Wouldn't it have been smarter to just break the glass and call a window guy?

Anyways, it's not my dime and I'm just glad this is between neighbors and doesn't involve our company. I'd be interested to know how much it is going to cost my client and if it is more than hiring us to do 2 visits a day.

You can drive to Disneyland from Las Vegas, right? I mean, not like daily or anything, but you could realistically drive instead of fly?

It's like driving from Spokane to Seattle, only no Snoqualmie Pass. Gotta watch out for the bats, though.

What the hell? It's 2:30am and there is an info-mercial for Colon Cleaning -"The Almighty Cleanser." Apparently the question is "Is a clean colon the secret to health and vitality?"

How these people can keep a straight face thru this is beyond me. I wanna go to sleep but I'm learning a whole new vocabrulary...

Totally. It's between 3 and 6 hours, depending on how you drive :evil:

(I really do have a friend who did it in 3 hours once. Don't wanna think about how many laws he broke doing it. Typically takes 4 1/2)

Yup. Driving from OC to Vegas isn't horrible (if you don't leave on a Friday during rush hour). I do it a few times a year.

Though for anyone thinking of doing it, be aware that the CHP is upping their patrol on the flat, straight stretch of the 15 all the way out to State Line - looking for speeders, drunk drivers and people not wearing seat belts.

And a lot dryer, flatter and infinitely more boring. And if done during summer, a helluva lot hotter.

Amazon's got some Here. A bottle lasts a pretty long time. For Blue Cheese I usually get Shaft's brand but no reason any other wouldn't work.

And how does the honey relate to the bleu cheese, I missed the connection there.

Is the honey any less expensive at Bristol Farms? (Hahah, yeah right, right?)

No it's I think $15.99 at Bristol Farms (and a different brand than pictured but looks very similiar). You kind of mush up the blue cheese and drizzel the honey over it. So you don't use a ton of honey. I'd say I geat about 8-10 blocks of blue cheese per jar of honey.

The honey is sweet and the cheese is sharp somehow making a very yummy taste.

So it is going to be a totally non-productive day today. My good boss is leaving today for greener pastures. How much you wanna bet within 6 months I'll be moving along too? ;)

Found a better link - here's the brand of honey I've been getting Link

Their crackerthins are also very yummy.

Or, for a hundred bucks round trip, you could do this. :)

I did it and it was actually pretty cool. Free snacks and drinks, onboard bathroom and movies.

Oh wow, that looks really good. Okay, so basically you put the whole thing on crackers then. Mmmm....

Aw, neat! It snowed in Baghdad.

I was just briefly puzzled by the thought of a bus on crackers.

I hope it works out well for you, either way.

There is some interesting scenery along the way.

Ooh. With the price of gas these days this isn't a bad deal! Perhaps when we plan a Vegas swanking...

Did it in August. I am very very VERY glad our car had tinted windows.

a dangerous...dangerous thought



I am soo in! :D

We might even see a Car-B-Que along the way too!

I know NA is itching to go to Vegas.:evil:

Okay, I so have to do this:
http://www.dreamcmo.com/

edit: dammit, why do they tell us about this on company intranet and then tell us we're not eligible! :mad:

Let's see. 4 1/2 hours to Vegas or 4 1/2 hours to Yosemite. Hmmmm. Gee, that's a difficult decision.

3 1/2 hours to Vegas.

At least when I drive it.

So, I'm annoyed with Virgin America right now. I have a credit with them for my cancelled flight in October. I just booked a flight to LAX, they did not apply the credit, so now I call them, I'm on terminal hold, a really loud and awful ring in my ear to get to the agent, then I get a hang up, now back on terminal hold with really loud and annoying muzak again.......I hope the flight is better........

okay, all fixed. But the techno-pop was annoying.

VA is in my happy book right now. It's with them that I got a $128 1-way ticket to JFK.

Yeah, but how much is the return flight?

Would be the same price, but I'll be returning by car. The amazing part was getting the "deal" on a 1-way ticket. So often the sale prices are "each way, based on round-trip purchase".

New York to LA by Car???


ROAD TRIP!!! :D

If anyone is bored at work and need a good laugh --- :)

http://www.itvventures.com/shows/almighty-cleanse.asp

HAHAHAHAAAHAAAHAHHAHA OMG I'm laughing so hard I'm gonna sh*t!!!!

I have 7 classes left after this semester.

omg.

Oh how I wish I could go back to school. I loved living on loans :)

ok. I stopped at "Nation of Constipation"

figured it couldnt get any worse..and surely wasnt going to get any better
:rolleyes:

I wonder if Donald and Chloe are putting "Colon Cleansing Host" on their resume.

"Act well your part; there all the honor lies."
Alexander Pope

"There are no small parts. Just small actors.'
Stanislavski

And for an opposing view . . .

"Kablam!!"
George Reeves

I just wish they'd quit dancing around the vocab and just call it what it is. :) Out with the Fecal Matter and in with the Sh!t!

The gas for the return trip is more expensive than the plane ticket.

2,775 miles / 25 MPG * $3.00/gallon = $333.00

Now I wish I hadn't done that math.

well, she's moving, so the gas is being bought regardless.

I did it for my own curiosity mainly.

I got a tour of the warehouse today. My nose froze. Our plant manager had us walking through one of the rooms that is kept at zero and another that is kept at -20. brrrr!

Dang, and I thought our wherehouse was cold!

And i thought the stages were cold when we keep the lights off... I would not want to be there... at 59f im bundled up.... yet 60f im in t-shirt and shorts most of the time...

I was driving by a Papa Murphy's Pizza yesterday and on their marquee:

LARGE COWBOY $8.99

Made me smile, wish I'd had my camera.

I still can't shake this hideous post-holiday congestion, Sinus, chest, the whole shebang.

Blecch :hack hack:

BUT! Finally the farmer's market customers are back. Three weeks of three day weekends, plus getting rained out of two markets and a third shut down from wind, it's nice to see some positive cash flow again. Although, lesson learned, it really is a good idea to have a prudent reserve set aside. Which I didn't. Tomorrow (Sunday) I'm set up in Larchmont Village, come on by! Today, I think I'll finally see "Enchanted" and go walk around the Park for a couple hours.

Wonder if they have a Papa Murphy's in Hawaii? Yippee-ki-yay GC!

Grrrrrl Power
 

My daughter is reading The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

I am so happy. It's my book of books, my most favorite.

We just had Hagen-Daz's dark chocolate covered pomegranate ice cream bars. They are to die for!

I picked out new glasses today. Rhinestones!

YAY!!! I just signed up for farm-to-door weekly produce delivery. I'm so excited! It's been something I've wanted to do for quite a while now and finally did it today. Starting on Thursday, a box of seasonal fresh fruits and organic veggies will be delivered to our doorstep on a weekly basis. It also comes with recipe suggestions. I can't wait!

Sounds interesting. Have a link or any other info?

I showed property yesterday and will probably be writing an offer in the next couple days! :)

Thanks!

Bummer. Just Long Beach for now.

There are lots of those sorts of local produce subscription things. I did one for awhile before law school (best eggs ever). Probably one in your area as well. Google your area and "produce subscription" or "community sponsored agriculture".

Here's a web directory of CSA farms.

We did one some years back in SF. I was disappointed in that it was overly heavy on melons and corn smut, or huitlacoche, if you prefer. They also only gave you enough "produce for two" to get through the week if you had a crack habit.

Our neighbors have produce delivered and seem pretty happy. At least with their produce. So one of these days we might give it another shot.

Congrats!

I disagree - I don't think that the phrase "Cutting the Almond" is as funny at parties.

Seems to me there was once a girthy guy with a goatee who looked pretty woofy to bears....

Was that when you took me via laptop around your house ? :D

My sister belongs to a produce co-op in Tehachapi. She splits theirs with another family.

I have done absolutly nothing all weekend. Even The Boy seems to be enjoying our weekend of nothingness.
I did sleep a lot. Everyone around me is sick or has been sick. I am just wondering if my sleepiness comes from fighting the crud or if I using it as a defense mechanism.

Thank you!

Woofy indeed, though there is a limit to woofiness on my end. Happily, if he gets too woofy, he eats less and exercises ;)

Also, he doesn't wear those leather bondage outfits.

Go Woofies!! :D

You like leather bondage outfits? ;)

So just got a call from Verizon - they'll be here in 20 minutes, the next time I post I should be on FiOS!

(or dial up through T-Mobile - heh)

Pity...

Oh, I thought they were a football team! ;)

Not a bad idea - that would get certain gays watching football. The San Francisco Woofies? That makes me think of BASEketball:

One of my friends has a daughter who is turning 25 in a few weeks. This very sweet girl is mentally handicapped, with a maturation and intellectual level of about 7-9 years old. She always comes to Tori's parties and has a blast, so when her mom called me to invite us to her party in February we were happy to accept the invite. Well, seems her mom (actually, she is her step mom but has raised her since she was an infant and loves her dearly) decided that she deserved to have a real Princess party, so she's going all out. She's sending a limo to everyone's homes, and then we are going to the Davenport Hotel where about 25 of us will have a dinner party. Afterwards, my friend, her daughter, Tori and myself are planning on staying the night in the Safari Tower. All the girls are to dress up as princesses (we're getting them prom-style dresses, not the Disney kind- too big now!) and will have their hair and nails done. This is going to cost a small fortune, but my friend reasoned that her daughter never got to go to a Prom and will likely never get married, so she's going to do this up as Swankily as possible. The Davenport is a gorgeous hotel that recently went through a major refurbishment- we love to eat lunch there on special occasions. This is the first time we've stayed overnight since the remodel, though. At one time, it was considered the finest hotel in the U.S., and is still way up there on the list. Tori is beyond excited.:D

I think that sounds like a wonderful plan!
And twenty five is a great age for it! She's have a blast, be able to be sparkly with all her friends, and the younger girls will be able to doll up and be cool.

That sounds so fun! What are YOU wearing?

Very cool, WB! What a treat for everyone!

That sounds like a wonderful time WB!

That sounds great WB - can't wait to see photos of the girls dressed in their finest.

That made me smile! :D

Well, if you can, we must have pics of everyone in their princess drag, this is a fabulous idea. Major snaps for the step Mom for doing this. Sounds like total swanky fun!

Will you be wearing your traditional black? ;)

Lol- do they make black princess dresses? I still doubt I'd wear it- not a dressy kind of girl here. I'll try and find something; if I can't find anything I'll pull an Ellen (albeit a straight one) and wear a suit. I really can't stand dresses, and I can't wear heels anymore so this oughta be interesting. I could go totally camp and dress up like an opera singer.......nah. (I did do that for a murder mystery years ago- rented the dress from the local theater group. Very fun!)

Jan 12th was the third anniversary of this thread.

And how ironic it is... With that post you broke a tie with Kevy for most all time posts in this thread: 1,127.

It is also worthy of note that three people: BTD, Kevy and NA have all acheived looserdom status in just this thread alone.

Cooch has been mentioned in 1 post (ok, two now...).
Boobies in 6
Bacon in 101 posts
Drinking 103 (More than bacon!)
Disney 120 posts
Hair 122 posts
Cute 169


And in a flagrant disregard for Godwin's law, there has never been a mention of......

Hitler

(Can't break a law, now can we?) ;)

It is also worthy to note that Moonliner achieved loser status with just this post :D

You Nazi bastard!

And Kevy ties it up!

I bend them all the time, I just attempt to not break them.

And as I am fond of saying: it is not illegal if you don't get caught :D

"Nazi" in 4 posts

You're gonna have to work a heck of a lot harder to work yourself up from 24th place :p

And we have the go ahead run!

I've been called worse!

Oh.

In that case: Damn you too Bailykat!




Drat. I'm still 12 behind Bornieo.

I'm #15! WooHOO!!!

Kevy is the post leader in the bacon thread also. Figures.

Obviously I have nothing of relevance to say.

And at the other end of the spectrum the LoT'er with the most posts overall (799) but only ONE in Sooo.... Zap!

Stop padding your lead you post whore.

Ya know Moonie, there are a lot of very exciting and stimulating hobbies available today...

I'm just sayin'

We not interrupt this competitive posting section to announce:

I'm writing an offer!!!!! :)

But I have a hobby. I'm an amature statistician!

Woot Woot! That's great!



(but you are still in 6th place in the overall post count)

Ummmm.... NA has the most posts overall with 11,155. There are a lot of us with more than 799 posts (including you).

What Moonliner meant was, of the people with only 1 post in So..., Zappp has the highest overall post total (Moonie, if you ever want to get out of "amateur" status, you have to get better at enumerating you statistical categories).

Professional? *shudder* :eek:

And I cannot be held responsible for people that only read the first half of sentences.

To be fair, I read the entire sentence a few times and wasn't sure what you were getting at until GD said something about it. ;)

How is it you are obtaining this information?

I read the entire sentence, thankyousoverymuch! And I cannot be held responsible for people who write statements that can be interpreted incorrectly!

So there!

:p

JW - that's misinterperated! ;)

Please reference post # 17,176 of this thread for a detailed response to your inquiry.

Thanks.

Congratulatins Morri!

If you misinterpreted something incorrectly doesn’t it mean you got it right?

No.

Two wrongs don't make a right.


(I'm gaining on you Bornio!)

DAMN.

Figures. My client finds a property he likes and before we can even put pen to paper, it's gone into escrow with someone else. Meaning, of course, that it was already in negotiation when we looked at it yesterday.

DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN

Ps...

Oh, and this from someone that needs to be told what their own picks where in the football pool. :p

Bummer. But do keep an eye on it. In this market deals do fall apart.....

But three rights make a left!

I feel so non-competitive....

I'm late.

I'm trying to let you all get caught up with me in post count. ;)


WB, kudos to your friend! What a wonderful idea and it sounds like it will be a complete blast!!!! I'm excited for you. (But, I think you should wear a dress.)

Morri - that sucks! Keep looking.

Oh, and we have new Fios internet and I can't get my new email. hatehatehatehatehate. But, there's this cooking show on in HD and I want the kitchen.

Since Moonie didn't answer your question (typical!):

OUTSIDE of the thread (for example, looking at the list of threads in the "Lounge Lizard" category), click on the number of responses. That will give you a pop-up window with a list of al who have posted in that thread sorted by number of posts (most posts first).

Do you have a new email address? If so; will you share please?
I knew as soon as they got HD that more TV watching would commence.

Funny, we got HD, and less tv watching commenced...

I just have the TV on because it looks pretty and I can't figure out which remote will turn it off. ;)

For now, my linkline account still works but I think i might just migrate over to gmail (which is just mynamenospaces) The Verizon is firstMlast and it's dot net. M is the initial. It's working now, but the modem keeps needing to be reset.

I hate technology change. Which is odd because I generally love change.

So which preference are you?

All vegetables
All Fruit
More Vegetables than Fruit
More Fruit than Vegetables
50/50 vegetables and fruit

I will, of course, refrain from making any "All Fruit" jokes. :p

I think WB needs a very over the top fairy godmother type dress :)

That's probably about the only thing I could pull off, KS.

I knew it wouldn't take much effort...

There is this one too, but it is too large to post.

I've had a bad day.

I woke up vomiting (usual tummy issue), had my client ready to write a deal only to have it turn out to be off the market already, my boyfriend calls from work to complain that the chemicals are making him sick and wondering if he has to find a new line of work, and then while I'm on the phone with a friend helping them sort out all their life issues, my dad cals to apologize that he's not going to live long enough to see my children, or not much of them.

Well, I can't do much to help with the vomiting or chemicals but if you like I could send my kids out to visit your dad for a week. After that I can assure you that his desire to talk about grand kids will be greatly diminished.

Morrigoon, so sorry to hear of your compounded lousiness of a day. I hope you feel better (tummywise) and everything else sorts itself out, too. I'd opt for Moonie's suggestion about renting his kids. Could do wonders for everyone! ;)

I hate this time of the year. The holidays are over, it's depressing, and everything goes wrong at once. It sucks. I feel for you Goonie.

Well, I am looking at the calendar, next monday is the only holiday I get until Memorial Day weekend in May. That is very depressing!

I will savor this weekend, for sure. I've got Sweeney Todd and the Mary Blair exhibit on my calendar.

I consider this gap in the holidays as the perfect chance to schedule 'private' holidays for yourself. theyre IMO better than the regularly scheduled kind as they lend themselves well to YOUR schedule instead of the gigantic cluster-f*** public kind.

We have MLK day off then Presidents Day and then Memorial Day.

First time I've had MLK day off. I can't remember if we got Presidents day off in my old company.

We don't get MLK, but I think we get Presidents - basically works out to time off every other month.

My this board is moving slow today... I'm so bored!

I was busy this morning, which was good. Now 3 of my clients are actively looking at homes again, which makes me a happy Goon. Happier still once I get something into escrow. *sigh* But it's a start!

I just got home from a 10:00 Vet appointment that was supposed to be a quick recheck. It wasn't quick and required I take Thurston to an ophthalmologist on Culver City for further evaluation. I still don' know if he's going to be completely ok. But, he now looks like the Pixar Lamp.

:( Cataracts?

He got poked in the eye by an asparagus fern. He's got a gash in his cornea that goes 50% through his cornea. He's on the margin for surgery, but we're going to see how it heals first.

OMG!!! Poor Thurston! :(

(Still catching up on the rest of the thread...)

I thin k I'm going to go do creative retail therapy at Michael's and JoAnne's now.

I need a burgandy Sakura Glaze pen!!


And what pray tell is an asparagus fern?

A very poky plant

Gaaah! Healing energy to Thurston.

Not counting New Year's Day, the first holiday I get this year is Memorial Day.

So,

My ass still hurts.

Hasn't been this painful since that night with Nirvanaman...

is it just me, or are there a bunch of more intelligent sounding options to "shot dead" ?

the caption says: were.. killed? maybe? just something that doesnt sound quite so much like someome forgot to edit.

(says the woman with the poor spelling)

At the very least "gunned down" would have sounded better.

But remember they write to a 3rd grade level because that's what they think the average American can comprehend.

I did not take that into consideration... good point.


On another note... someone help me. I'm at work, and I cant post the picture, but I found directions for an edible Flying Spaghetti monster!

evilmadscientist.com

yeah, I'd eat it

Shot alive? I mean, the person was (presumable) alive when they were shot, so it would sound more accurate.

Similar to situations described as a "near miss". No, it was an ACTUAL miss: it was a near HIT.

Dammit. I hate creative blocks when I'm scrambling to get something done. :(

Shot dead is the most accurate. It tells you that the people were dead, and it tells you how they got dead. Anything else such as "gunned down," "homicide" or "murder" requires additional facts to which the news folks might not be formally privy.

You want to tear up something, get a reciprocating saw.

Scrooge - 1
Rotten Shed - 0

It wasn't even a contest. I must possess one of these.

you mean a sawzall? 773H yeah! love mine. cant believe I lived and worked as long as I did without one. there was a video floating around of a guy cutting a car in half with one. need to find that.

(whats even funnier is he gets into the front half and drives it away afterward)

:p

Yep... didn't know it by that name, but that's the tool.

pic?

More correct might be "shot to death".

i hate dumbing down my scripts for reading on the air... but it must be done since you do not know who is listening... and most people have at least the knowledge of elementary words... even when your reporting on the only college radio station in the area...

For the anal retentive like me, Sawzall is a brand name (put out by Milwaukee tool) of a tool known as a reciprocating saw.

If Sawzall wasn't the first reciprocating saw, it was the one that popularized it.

My Sawzall eats computer cases :D

I didn't know there were different types of Asparagus Ferns! This is the type that punched Thurston.

Does it make his pee smell funny?

He didn't eat it, silly. He got poked in the eye with it.

He's definitely your puppy :) Here's hoping for a speedy recovery for one swanky lil pug.

Yahoo! We won! Take that Dallas! :p

My dry-DSL is up and running. Take that Cox! :p

Tonight was a good night!

I like this one more - a girl with a power tool- yummy!

I came home last night with a Harbor Freight heat gun in one hand and some Sephora eyeshadow in the other. Does that make me yummy? I know it made me feel extra girly for some reason. ;)

OMG, poor little guy. Give him a hug from me!

Sending Thurston some fast healing mojo.

If you have HBO, catch Katie Morgan's episode about sex toys.

Charles was meowing in the dining room last night. I went out to investigate and saw both he and Aleister peering through the dining room blinds. I went to the kitchen door to look out and came face to face with a very large raccoon. He saw me and ran, but got stuck trying to fit through the wrought iron gate. Damn wildlife!

Sooo... You all laughed off my UFO ecnounter but who's laughing now?

Dozens of extremely credible hicks Texans have reported seeing a mile-long UFO hovering over Texas.

Wake up people! ET is looking for some prime real estate to settle down on.

I get to run the college radio station tomorrow without the manager...

the station is on the air... FCC controlled am radio air... until 2pm... i get to run it by myself 11 - 2.

That sounds like a lot of responsibility but also a lot of fun! I guess that means you have total control Bwaahaha!! Have fun with it. I'm sure it will be a blast!

and yet again, in this day and age of cameras in cell phones, cameras on every corner etc....no one got...even a horridly fuzzy photo of it.

way to go you buncha goobers

class tomorrow morning is canceled.. i might get to run the college radio station from 10am - 2pm EST. :)

I want to so change format.. but would get in trouble if i did tomorrow ;)

Maybe i will just play random random random stuff... with the legal station ID every hour of course ;)

Too bad I'm on eastern... otherwise you could enjoy the fun stuff if it went off... and know whos responsible.

I might post a direct link tonight...

if at all possible, just record the 4 hours and make it available to download.

it may not be live, but at least its recorded for posterity.

but yeah, just start out with "Welcome to random radio! where even WE dont know WTF we're gonna play!" and have at it

I am in a techno heaven right now. New toyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!! :D

We have that already... It's called Jack FM.

um... I'm not going to be on actually.. i will force the students hanging around to dj.. whatever i choose :evil:

and like i can make a 4 hour air check... besides, its better live.. i can edit live air checks

The Hitachi Magic Wand came in?

Don't be fooled - that station is as highly programmed and researched as any other corporate station

But it seems completely random, and I can't listen to it for more than 15 minutes without going "WTF?".

Whew! I found it. Safe at last.

Having had taken classes in radio programming, I can hear a lot of their clock (the hourly programming of what is played).

Their are a chain of stations across the country called "Jack" and a few called "Dave" (and I think a couple called "Jane"). I am not sure if they are all owned by one company, but they all have the same concept and probably use the same consultant.

There are also a bucket load of "Star" radio stations, "Kiss" (known as KIIS here in LA), "Magic", etc.

If I did, I sure as well wouldn't be able to post. ;)

Nah, my dad gave me a brand new photo/slide scanner and his 6-month-old all-in-one scanner/fax/copier/printer. I set some time aside today to set them up. They're schweeeeeeet. :D

All I got to play with are two brand new graphics cards, ah shucks :D

So, who's the travel agency for UFO's and why did they send them to Texas!!!!!

This morning I discovered that the distant sound of machine gun fire sounds just like the last gurgling moments of coffee brewing in a drip coffee maker - then again, maybe I just needed a cup.

I hear machine gun fire every day (we live two blocks away from an Army Support Training Center) so I'm going to have to say you just needed a cup.

To me it sounds more like a car driving over a rumble strip.

And it is amazing how quickly it just fades away into standard background noise.

Making party favors is fun. :D

What party, do I get a favo[u]r, and can I come [no comments, sheesh] please via the interweb ?

If I can get the wireless working, I'll try and Skype you in. (It's our Disney cruise party on the 26th.) :)

Disney's not sending us that many favors, so I'm trying to subsidize, which is more like outdoing Disney. ;)

you dont have a wired connection and a long cable? i can barely run skype wirelessly...

shameless plug..
if you want to listen to me run a radio station... we play pop... rock... and whatever i can find in the computer..
http://www.hawkradio.com/cgi-bin/radioevents.pl 11am - 2pm eastern! I am in charge... lol and might crash the station by pressing on the wrong button.

The office wires are all tacked to the walls, and I'm not pulling those down. ;)

We have a wireless router - just trying to get it running in time to Skype people in for the party.

I have no trouble running Skype wirelessly!

You know, David Cassidy was REALLY CUTE!

Why yes, yes he was and still isn't that bad. Actually I saw him last year when he played a casino at the beach. It was a blast watching his screaming fans with albums they'd had since the 70's! He was quite the showman and the audience was eating right out of his hands! It was a fun evening and I was able to get a great seat for walking up to the box office right before the show.

I think this semester may kill me.

If I die, I request that instead of a funeral you all go party in Vegas. Go dance on some bars or something ;).

Soooo....
 

BarTopDancer i can surely do that for you gladly even in fact. April can't get here soon enough. The best part now we are leaving on Thursday and coming home on Monday so ya more days in Sin City lmao...only 85 more days til Vegas.

3 weeks for me :p

Oh, oh.

Here comes the snow, rain, sleet, and cold all in one big bag of winter goodness.

We are expected to get at least a few inches starting in time for the eveing rush hour. You can watch it live on MoonieCam

username: bitter
pw: bacon08

Note: You will need to load a driver for the webcam so you can pan, zoom, etc...

Damn, damn, damn, we have not one teeney iota of admin rights to download at work. Now I'm bitter!:mad:

Bummer, and the snow is starting early....

Try:

Username: snowflake (with the same PW) and see if that works.

I setup that account without the pan/zoom rights so it may not need the driver.

Nope, just a little gray box where the image should be.

Thanks for trying! :cool:

Nice camera! Looks like the snow isn't sticking to the ground yet.

It's just starting to stick which according to the AM news was not supposed to happend for several hours yet.

It's really coming down now.

Dude! Thanks for the hookup, great cam! :snap: I love watching others suffer. ;)

Yes. It is.

It makes me wish I had spent more time in the fall cleaning out my garage so that I could actaully park there. :(

Here's a snapshot for those who can't access the camera.


Moonie, let me know if you want me to take this photo down. I don't mean to invade your privacy.

No worries mate. I've carefully placed the webcam where you cannot see anything more personal than the tippy top of the dining room chair it's currently attached to.

That was fun to play with! :D

Is it wrong that I'm complaining about being cold right now? :p

Yes. Yes it is.

Heh. I've never had others using the webcam before. It's fun fighting for control of where it's pointing. :)

Totally cool. It is the perfect way to experience snow: from far away. Although I must admit, we are pretty cold out here as well. Currently, it is a down-right chilly 57 :evil:

BTW: what would happen if more than one person tried to control the camera at once?

Apparently you get to slug it out. Left, no right, no left, I said up, no, etc..

Everyone sees the same view.

Many thanks! Purty Snow!

My old neighborhood is getting the same, and sleet and ice tonight. So I will not be missing the impending power outage! My kitties loved the snow!

Drive safely Moonie getting home!

Thanks Moonie! It's so pretty. Now I'm homesick.

Pretty!

How do you make something forget a password you've entered once you've checked to remember it?

Web Browser? Clear all cookies, passwords and such. and close your browser.

Or just change the PW.

In Firefox: Tools -> Options. Select the "Security" tab. Click "Show Passwords". Scroll through the list and find the site you want to forget the password to.

In IE: Toosl -> Internet Options. Select the "Content" tab. Click "AutoComplete". Click "Clear Passwords". I don't know if there's a way to only clear one site's as there is with Firefox.

Beautiful! But, I'm still cold.

Cold is relative.

I turned on my HeatDish. I'm now a bit toasty. :)

Gardeners have a way or ruining my serenity.

It's cold and I'm a little pissed that it started to snow (albeit just a tiny bit of snow) again. I found out from EH's friend who lives super-close by to where I'm living now that this amount of snow is highly unusual for the basin. The cold, on the other hand, is.

BRRR.

How's your kitty, E?

Ooh! Kitty is doing much better. I don't know if I posted anything about it, but he didn't have mites. He did have continuing problems with his allergies. A combination of ear cleaning solution, antibiotics, two amateur cat wrestlers and a diet of duck and peas and no more sneaked food seems to have him in good spirits. The ears are slowly getting less plugged.

Did I mention that he's a total bread fiend? I didn't figure it out until I woke up one morning to find him munching on it. Needless to say, stuff is more locked up - I just didn't think boring old bread would be an issue when Monsieur Markus gets a feast of duck and peas.

That reminds me that I need to find some cables and upload some pics of him. He is increasingly adorable, but I've been reminded how time-consuming pets can be. He's mostly time-consuming because he likes to hang out with people.

The problem: What happens when I get a job?

Well, I'll probably get a second cat. It's not all that much more work than just one cat, especially after Markus' health issues. Hopefully, they can be buddies and I'll be well on my way to having a Casa de Swank in Utah.

I can't wait to see pics of him! :)

Ooh, I can't wait to see pics, either.

Bread, not as odd as Tango liking raw broccoli and fritos and crackers. Then there was the evening she stole a fried won ton off my plate. Crunchy she likes, a lot!

I'd vote for getting a pal. I wish I could for Tango, she'd love a buddy, but the lease is 1 pet only, dammit.

How's Thurston doing?
 

While I am thinking about it....little cutie, he is.

Yeah, I'm wondering about Thurston, too...

Mon dieu... this crazy real estate market. Just found a listing for a condo with a garage in Orange for $174,000. W-T-F.

What part of Orange?

On La Veta, a couple blocks east of you. It's a 1-bedroom though.

Hmm, that's an interesting location. La Veta at point is a majorly busy area, and that'd be right on top of the HUGE hospital complex. Pretty undesirable.

not if youre looking to rent it out
small note
big rent
OPM in your pocket

Well yeah, of course it's undesirable (and yeah, I think it's close to St. Joseph's), I mean, it's at the absolute bottom bottom of the price range, but still... it's not in Santa Ana, either.

Note to security officers:

If you want to keep people out of the elevator for a two-hour span so that your visiting dignitary doesn't have to rub elbows with the proletariat, or ride along with explosive devices, you might want to think of a better "out-of-order" reason than "preventative maintenance."

The state of elevator repair services on campus is widely known. Elevators regularly sit inoperable for weeks at a time waiting for their turn in the repair cycle. The idea that you would be so caught up suddenly as to be into a preventative maintenance cycle is laughable.

You're not fooling anyone, you know.

Whoops! I also meant to add how there's something about him that reminded me of Dexter. He doesn't particularly look like Dex did, but there's something very loving in his eyes - I've noticed that at some point, I started calling him Pooks.

He seems to be responding to it, too, even though he's been called Markus for well over a year now.

Have you tried offering him turkey?

Markus is a good name... ;)

Our new Fios service is being installed as we type! :cool:

I'm now addicted to Bible Fight...

Holy carp... (intentional typo)... Is that blogged about typing thing even close to accurate? It says I type 142 wpm!

^^ Dear lord. I type right now (lots of errors cuz I am tired) 78 wpm (where it says "Speedtest")

Tried it on another site where I'm typing actual sentences instead of random words, and it's around 95 wpm.

In case anybody cares (besides Cherny and I), today is the 14th anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake.

13th Anniversary of the Kobe earthquake, too

Al Capone's birthday, too- and one more fun thing that happened on this date-

Jan 17 1961

President Eisenhower warns us of the evils of the "military industrial complex". Did we listen carefully enough?

Sadly, he's probably allergic.

The docs aren't sure what he's allergic to, so they took him off everything that's typically in catfood. (Thus, the actual fuss over his bread thievery - other than the fact that it was some damn good bread).

Markus is on a prescription limited ingredient diet of duck and peas. (Which he may develop an allergy to later... gah!)

So, I guess I could pick up some duck and say, "Pookie want ducky?"

I had to cut my nails... I can't type worth a crap.

We are getting new keyless locks on all of our doors. The locks use fingerprints to access the doors. My nails were too long to be able to read my fingerprint. *sigh*

I'm glad to hear Pookie2 is dong well! I can't wait to see pics of him.

Thurston is doing ok. His eye hasn't ruptured, so that's a good thing. He HATES his e-collar - even though I've decorated it with puffy stickers that spell out his name and additional puffy pirate stickers. I'm scaring Chris.

Get Well Soon Thurston, puffy stickers and all!

I have 3 computers using the wifi... 2 boxes and 1 laptop...

then you have the one box plugged into Ethernet with the router...

it likes to die once a day... and mom wont let me lock it down so people might be hopping on... at least it looks like it vis the logs sometimes.

I want fios... but its too expensive appearently...

Are you looking at the words per minute or the characters per minute? Misleadingly, characters per minute is the number at the top with words per minute hidden a bit on the left.

And I'd say it is a little fast since my speed is getting clocked in the mid-90s but in more official settings I've never gone reliably over 85 or so. Of course, that could be a product of not having to do any punctuation except the occasional apostrophe and by sticking to the most common words you are mostly sticking to the most common letters and that is what a QWERTY keyboard is designed to facilitate.

Yeah, the characters per minute was like in the 700's.

Wow, then even if it is a bit fast in its measurement you are extremely fast.

That or your system clock is slow so that the javascript is giving you extra time. But that seems unlikely.

I don't remember anyone discussing how well Pookie2 was hung...

We have our FiOS now! It only took them almost 5 hours to set it up. Oh, the joys of living in an old house! :rolleyes:

The internets gots faster now....

Poor Emmy. :(

Her spay appointment is tomorrow morning, so we had to lock her up in the bathroom tonight, away from food and water. (It was either that, or deprive everyone of food and water and they'd all freak out.)

She's sitting in there, howling, and it's breaking my heart. :(

Is she the one that when I was feeding the dragons for you a couple of weeks ago would follow me around and any time I stopped she "presented" herself to me?

Last night I got to pause live TV, and then fast forward through the commercials when I came back.

It was cool.

Welcome to the 21st century!

I'm so going to get a DVR next week. I can't handle it any more.

Of course, there may only be re-runs and lame reality shows for the next season and a half.....

One of many great investments I ever made for my wife. :)

did you also get tv... or is that not yet offered out there?

I so want and need faster internet..

Nice... I need a DVR but my HD of over the air I'm in the 20.5th century... not quite there... though i did get to play with an HD camera at the radio station today in between messing with the play list...

I am reading this post as I am setting up my new HD TiVo (It is currently downloading the setup data - TWC will be out tomorrow to install the cable cards). Kind of funny timing.

No! The pausing and fast forwarding wasn't a recorded show. It was just a show we were watching at it's regularly scheduled time. It was cool!!!

Love FiosTV! (Now, only if we watched TV.)

Sign of the times. When my kids see a commercial, they all yell 'Fast Forward!" in chorus. They don't know about live tv.

fingerprint locks? scary!

I wish I had your excuse, I simply can't type worth a crap, period. :D

Hahaha, that is scary. Thurston can read now? I didn't know that!

Yes, we got FiOS internet and cable. (We didn't get the phone service, as we decided to get rid of the land line. We never use it, and the only people who call us on it are telemarketers!)

I think I'm going to love having a DVR..... :cool:

Still black and white, eh?

It will come...it will come. :evil:

Congrats on the DVR coolness!

No.. in those terms we moved to color... but still watch black and white on the main TVs...

-looks for a way to pursuade parents DVR is something we need... along with HD satelite for 2 rooms-

Hey BTD
 

One week to go!

I just had a writer/director contact me who is interested in hiring me for a 2-day shoot for his short film. He's sending me the script. :eek:

:D

That's wicked awesome news, T!

Woot!

Yay! :snap: :D

Scab?

My favorite headline for the DGA agreement with the AMPTP so far -

From Jim Disney at Westcoaster.net :)

He probably wrote it himself, and probably is acting as director and producer, thus making him not scabby at all...

Looks like they, too, have a pretty awesome thread on bacon.

Bingo! ;)

Ohhh, this is all so mysterious and complex for us non-industry types.

But I'm glad DP can work with a clear conscience.

Great news, T!

Yeah - people are only scabbing if they are working directly with a member of the AMPTP.

w00t! bar review class canceled for tonight! I stand a chance of catching up!

On the Sooooo.... thread? That'd take much longer than an evening. ;)

So... I got a call back to come in for an interview this Monday!

*crosses fingers*

I can't believe I spent $22 on just four items at a supermarket today.

Well, okay, I can, because it was Bristol Farms.

Anyway, I was grazing the samples and one thing I tried I simply had to get - they had these flavored olive oils, very high quality: garlic (of course), red pepper, basil, and lemon. All of them very good... but the LEMON! Freaking amazing. Like dipping bread into lemon curd that happens to have the texture of olive oil. Okay, that doesn't make it sound appetizing, but trust me, it's amazing. $9/bottle, but I figure we spend that on alcohol at the supermarket, so why not spend that on a bottle of really fine olive oil that will only be used in small amounts anyway?

Congrats on the inverview, BE!

Good luck, E!!!

I have a garlic pepper pork roast in the crockpot. I love dinner that makes itself. :D

2 1/2 hours to go... I am SO tired right now, it's not even funny.

Congrats E!

Be careful Morri - Bristol Farms can be dangerous to the pocketbook, but oh so very yummy!

I should be extra stressed right now with catching up on work... but I'm not.
I be on Hawaiian time, I be.
:)

<---------And, yes, that's me when I was 5.

GC - you're so darned cute in that photo (and now of course).

Thanks. It's a cute photo, but now I look like my dad.
:D

Two proposals down, four more to go... (One of them is for a big ol' musical. And one of them is for a client you all know and love. I did a small project for them last year and they liked us so much that they invited us to give a big one a shot. Cross fingers, all.)

And my eye is now in a permanent state of twitch. I think it's tired. Staring so long at a computer screen will do that to you.

Taking advantage of the one thing that makes all this cold weather bearable, I'm off for a weekend of skiing. You all behave yourselves till I get back OK?

my toes are freezing and i really want some fries from DelTaco

My toes are freezing too, but that's normal up here. I have a splitting headache and thrive on stress. TGIF indeed.

The Ducks are 3rd in the league - 2nd in the Conference.

YAHOO!!!!!!!!!

I'm getting used to wearing pants again.
And shoes.

Bleh.

This desk has been getting progressively colder for the last hour. Or I'm getting even more tired than before.

Well, I'm torn between:

1) Glad to hear you're back on your meds.

2) Yeah, sometimes it seems like the cops have nothing better to do.

why is it that everytime i use the hairdryer, I end up with feathered Farrah bangs?

My toes are freezing.

But I am basking in the glow of my dinner, which was asparagus drizzled in lemon-infused olive oil and baguette dipped in same.

Oh. My. God.

So Alex is out this evening?

No, I had the asparagus before he got home :)

Did you save him any?

Yum, nothing like warmed over asparagus! :D

Not necessary, he hates the stuff :) (more for me!)

cool... hawkradio is still broadcasting online... and the dean told me we weren't when i left... lol

I had to lock up... and put it on automation for the weekend... fun.

if anything goes wrong.. im in trouble... good thing i didn't set it to shuffle through a certain playlist i made rescently...

Ya mean somewhere in Florida people aren't going to be treated to a steamy mix of the latest porn soundtracks? In a way, don't you think that's selfish? :p

Perhaps he intended to revive K-Bog, with a playlist that's all Poxy Boggards, all the time ;) Because we all know that what Georgia needs is to have The Ballad of Onan broadcast on AM radio ;)

That so gives me an idea - install a large stereo system in the back of my car and drive throughout the entire south, with it blaring loudly. :evil:

I'll also be sure to install bullet-proof windows. ;)

The South is just lucky my iTrip broadcasts so damn quietly. Because my iPod HAS The Ballad of Onan on it, and it will be played next week ;)