MW: Check your PMs. I live really close to there.

A SMALL?!?

And you SHARED?!?

You must just not care about those poor children. Because if DID care, both you and the hubby would have each ordered a large.

Random Quote of the Day

BtD, that is what is killing me. I don't get the tickets until I get there. :( I really hate not having tickets in my hand.

Eh, $6, that isn't bad. Heck, if the Hubster wants to splurge, I'll let HIM pay the premium. LOL If it works at the end of the evening, that would be nice. I would like to stay for as much of Linkin Park and I know he hates to stay till the end.

Morri, I'll go check my PM's..

If I had been able to ditch the hubbo, I would have gone through the drive-through and ordered an extra-grande. What no one sees you eat, you never ate.

I live by those words.

I'm currently reading Omnivore's Dilemna and just came across a little bit of consumer psychology that was discovered in the '60s.

Consumers will not buy two small orders of fries for $1.69 but they will buy one order of fries that is twice as big as the small for $1.69. Apparently we live by the rule that it if it comes in one bundle it isn't gluttony.

This discovery is what lead to the supersizing of McDonald's servings and Ray Kroc took a lot of convincing because he always said if they want twice as many fries just let them buy two orders. The guy who figured it started out in movie theaters and that is what lead to the supersizing of movie consessions (nobody would order a second 32 oz. bucket of popcorn bu they would buy an initial 64 oz. bucket).

If it's just a normal camera I'd bring it, I'm sure it'll be fine. I can't remember the last concert I went to that said no cameras. Kenny Chesney said no video, and all they did was stop you if they caught you taking video.


I live 2 miles from there

Same thing when a small whatever is $1.25, medium $1.50 and a large is $1.75 people will get the large for "only 50 cents more". "Would you like to upgrade to a [way more than you should eat] size for only 50 cents more?

Hey! The hotel I am staying at says it is two miles from the venue!! :D

I think I will prep my camera. It is small enough that I can sneak it in some where on my person if need be. But yeah, they freak you out thinking you can't take a camera and then they sell them inside! That happened last time and it is the same type of show.

By sharing one instead of each buying your own, you've stolen from needy children. Shameful. I suggest going back and having another.

You're on my internist's payroll, right?

Nothing boosts one's confidence in one's own mediocre soccer skills like seeing someone who has never played make an attempt. It's a good reminder that, forget about dribbling, defending, making good passes. The simple act of making contact on the ball with your foot is a skill.

<<sigh>> In the space of 24 hours, I received the "Microsoft/AOL will send you money if you forward this" email from 4 different relatives. Not one of them used BCC.

I just sent them all back email with a link to the Snopes page. I used Reply to All on all of them, so everyone will know what idiots they are.

so I noticed. :blush: played for the first time since Jr High not long ago. nothing on earth can make a relatively self confident adult feel more like a total spaz.

well...that or attempting to tango.

For some reason, my immediate family expanded their emails to my extended family network of nuts. Now I get 2-3 fraudulent emails daily about "a new way to rape" and "the flyer in the window carjacking scam" etc. I've forwarded them to snopes.com so many times that I think snopes should start paying me.
:D

GC's avatar makes me smile.

But his sig picture creeps me out (the dude on the right).

"I want that one!"

(not the guy... ew... it's just a quote)

"Yeah, I know."

That's why I wish places would just keep things available only in proper portion sizes, because I think it would resolve some of the obesity issues in the country (the ones that can be attributed to overeating). Sure, people would bitch about it, but hey, if it bothers them to order multiple servings, then they obviously know they shouldn't be eating that much anyway.

I think some of the "full feeling" is acquired by the sight of an empty plate/package. So, just make those plates/packages smaller.

I'd agree if it were McDonald's role in society to be my mother and try and make sure I only eat what is good for me. I don't really have a problem with them trying to sell as much of their food as they can get people to buy.

But McDonald's is not my mother. The government is.

Well, the pair of doves who live in the tree right outside my home office window are gonna be having babies soon....


Edit: Um, actually, I think they're just doing it for the enjoyment now.... time for round 3!

Heh.

Wait, are the baby doves one serving, or a half-serving?

:p

I'm thinking of setting some good nesting materials out on our patio for them - some dryer lint and such, because they're gonna need it.

They're so pretty and love to hear them coo! :)

Happy 08-08-08 everyone!!

You'll have to tell us what it sounds like... when doves cry....






[boooooo hissssssssssss :D :D :D]

OOoh. If you send an alphabassettgrrl quote to the Quotes area, it appears purple there too.
:)

Open the "G" drawer and file this under "Groovy"...
 

The placenta planting doesn't bug me. The all that tribe, all that clan, whatever aboriginal tribe that was bugs me.

It took me awhile, but I finally had my soul removed completed my "pre-admission education" and sent in my dues payment. Yesterday my bar card arrived. So, now I am officially a blood-sucking leech.

^^

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ;)

Congrats Ms. Prudey!

What do you call 1000 lawyers at the bot... oh, nevermind.

:p


Congrats !

Dear Morrigoon,

We Ashtrayans are sitting here trying to figure out your Avatar. So I'm going to start a quick contest.

Is it a:

• Condom Dispenser?
• CD-ROM Stack Printer?
• Coffee Machine?
• Xerox Photocopier?
• High-tech Mouse Cage?

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

You're joking, right?


Right?

Why would he be joking. He asked me first and I didn't know.

I know! I know!
It's a space aged pop tart!
:D






*Actually, I know what it really is. Haw haw!

A few folks around here need to hand in their Geek license. :p

It's a cartridge from the original Nintendo (the "blow me" being a reference to the fact that to get the system to read the cartridge one would often have to blow the dust off the contacts).

Someone on Yahoo IM the other day asked me what "ttyl" stood for. I felt internet cool for once. 'Cause I knew and someone else didn't. That rarely happens.
:D

*faints*

GD: It must be a generational thing

Nope!

I had every other games console except for Nintendo (Atari, Activision, Colecovision, Dick Smith Wizzard, and one I've forgotten the name of)

Stoat never had a gaming console.

Ergo, we never got to handle (or blow) said cartridge.

I have blown a few Atari's in my time, though. :D

This, dear friends, is a classic Nintendo NES system, and games:



Those of us born in the 70's (and perhaps early 80's) became gamers on this system. It's downright iconic for the 30-something crowd.

Incidentally, the avatar image was taken from a t-shirt site. Yes, you can get a t-shirt with that on it :)

Nope, Atari's the one. Nintendo.. meh. :p

I didn't say it was the first (hell, my brother had the Atari). But it was huge in its day

I was Atari too, never had a Nintendo until near the end of high school.

My bro had Atari and another system (probably a TI system or something), but I didn't have "my own" game system till Nintendo. So my early gaming was split between the NES and the Commodore 64

Then one day many years later I found out that you could get Boulderdash for the NES, bringing the two roads together at last! (though it's just not the same playing it w/out a joystick)

I started with classic pong and then we got an Atari 800.

I still have a C64, Amiga 3000 (with Kickstart 1.3/2.0/3.1 from HD- rev1.0 A3K) and a very rare Amiga 4000T with a PowerPC processor and Video Toaster (that box is actually headed to a technology museum in a few months).

My first system was a Super Nintendo...

(shameless plug)
in other news if you wanna see a few photos from My Family's Got Guts:
http://tinyurl.com/5jjf84

When I was a teen we didn't have video games. It was pinball! My best friend's dad owned a pinball arcade, and we'd go after hours and play all the games we wanted for free with the lights off and only the glow of the machines on. It was cool!

I do remember when the first few video game arrived (shortly before home gamming took off). Asteroids was my favorite. And then Miss Packman after that. But real pinball was still tops in my book!

The only gaming system I ever owned was Intellivision. I played a few games on that then got bored of sitting in front of the TV.

I still have a deck of cards

Attachment 626

Kilts are hot. So are the guys who wear them (NSFW)

I've worn a kilt before.

I don't think there are any pics.

But what was worn UNDER that kilt.....

A blue ribbon :D

sooo... this has to be the best on-ride photo ever!

Anyone ever wondered what their dollar was worth way back when ?

I was watching the WDW Opening TV show and there was an ad for a GAF camera with film & souvenir book for $30.00 (in 1971)

Using the above site: that would cost $160.29 today :cool:

This one happened at 4:19AM this morning, but it was only a 1.2 so it seems unlikely you felt it (unless you live right there).

The dogs woke me up at around that time, so maybe it was a heard of Goldens running about causing the shake.

It only took five different calls to tech support (three today but one was my fault since I accidently hung up waiting for the PC to reboot) but I have an internet connection that works again. I blamed my neighbors for taking up bandwidth downloading porn but it turned out that my four-year old modem was the culprit. Now I even have faster service for half the price. And the router works. The router works! I feel like taking a few Rocky-style victory laps.

:)

Dear Lindyhop,

Congratulations...this is a killer quote (if only I could submit it - can someone please do it for me).

:D :D :D :D :D

Hahaha...ROFL...ROFL.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

Everyone can add quotes. Just click the link "Submit to Quotes" next to the button.

Go ahead: give it a try!

I can't tell you how long I've wished for a Stoat note.

He can't ! Every time he tries it says "You do not have access..." :rolleyes:

...and I get the same message ! (see attached)

Tell him not to preview the message

Hmm... That's something an Admin will need to address.

Strange...

Unfortunately, I don't have the proper superpowers to fix this one. Will have to wait for the big guns to show up.

How strange, though.

Perhaps the Lashes don't have the proper Quote Visas. Check thier paperwork.....

:D ;)

Dear All,

Sooooo...we didn't tell you this earlier but the LashBear went to hospital today at 1:00pm to have surgery for the snapped tendon in his right arm.

This happened whilst lifting a 2 seater lounge last weekend. It wasn't the lounge that did it, as I can move it easily even as a Stoat - it was the way in which it was lifted.

Anyway, they swobbed him in yellow stuff that made him look like a Peking Bear (how topical - pardon the double pun) and after waiting 3 hours in pre-theatre, Bear was finally wheeled off for a 2 hour plus operation to re-attach the (whince) snapped bit.

I visited him tonight and he was quite groggy (and believe me, I wanted to be) and he said that all went well.

This particular needle pulling-thread only cost a gap (do you folks call it 'gap' when the medical fund doesn't cover the whole charge?) of $1000
b-pa-b-b-bucks.

That would be around 3 times the cost of the lounge that we wanted to move.

Soooooo...the moral of the story is, next time you want to move furniture, think twice, hire dude(s) to do it, or sell the sucker on eBay and let the buyer move it.

Jeez. Two requests for Tylenol in 24 hours. I think I'll buy shares.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

I did report this prolbem [sic] but it appears that the vBulletin software just doesn't like to let us Ozsters loose on the quote gig.

So to ensure equity, you folk are going to have to stop making quotable quotes.

Or perhaps you might consider an "Adopt A Quotee" program in which you volunteer to act as a proxy Quoter?

There'd be paperwork of course, but you folks are used to that. Come to think of it, so are we.

So how about it? Anyone willing to adopt LashStoat in the "Adopt A Quotee" program?

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

Best wishes for Lashbears speedy recovery!

Here's to a speedy recovery for our Lashbear.
:cheers:

"Lifting the lounge"? Is that what the kids are calling it these days? I thought that's why he had you, Stoat, so he didn't have to "lift" his own "lounge".

Hope for a speedy recovery!

Best Wishes to LB!!!!!!!

(and $1000? That's all???)

Oh, and yes, it is called a "gap" here too.

Best wishes for a quick recovery to LashBear! (ouch)

He's my couch potato. In this particluar case, the "Gap" is the Grand ($1k) Canyon.

So potato is all we'll be eating until we see yuz.

The ongoing saga of the little bunny on my block:

A little over a month ago, I noticed a particularly brave bunny who would hang out on my block as I walked by with the chihuahuas. He would let me get pretty close to him, so I initially thought he was an escaped pet. My neighbor Sean, who lives five doors down, told me that at one point, there were two rabbits, but now there was only one. The first one either ran away or was coyote food.

Every couple of days, I'd see the bunny, and I'd stop and check him out. At one point, he stuck around long enough for me to bring the dogs home and get Heather, who came outside and watched him eat right on the sidewalk near our house.

Last week, while walking the dogs, I saw another neighbor, who lives 4 houses from us. I asked her if she'd seen the bunny (who was sunning himself between two parked cars). She told me that she knew all about him. Apparently shortly before I first saw the rabbit, he (and his mother) were purchased at a local pet store by a family that live next to her (3 houses from us). The kids put the rabbits on their deck - I guess they didn't know that rabbits could jump. I guess they didn't make much of an effort to retrieve them, because the two rabbits started hanging out in Sean's backyard almost immediately. The remaining guy (named "Carrot", btw) is still hanging near Sean's toolshed.

I saw Sean Saturday and told him what I know. I asked him if he could catch Carrot. He told me that he probably could as Carrot lets him pet him. He said that he'd catch him and return him to the kids. I asked him if he could refrain from bringing him back to the crappy pet owners - I'd happily call the Pasadena animal shelter once he got him.

This morning I saw Carrot again, basking in the sunshine on the sidewalk.

To be continued...

Yes, feel better soon! ;)

Not sure Carrot will have much of a chance once put into the shelter system, maybe you could adopt him out privately?

2 weeks earlier and we would have taken him. :(

Best Wishes Lash!

I want a pic of Carrot. Wish we could have taken him in, even sight unseen.

I has a start date.


9/29

Guess I'd better move down before then, eh?

Get well soo, Lashbear!!

Best wishes towards a speedy recovery Lashbear! :cheers:

What?! And they did not provide you with pancakes, plum sauce and scallions? Harrumph!


Speedy recovery wishes for Lashbear! Hugs to you Stoat while Lash recovers.

Snowflake




Rule of thumb, lift with your knees!

Aww, Carrot! Sweet!

to be continued......hurry up, I want to read a happy ending! ;)

Does anyone know if an individual who has borrowed money from a sibling can claim the sibling as a creditor in their bankruptcy and essentially write the debt off?

(let's try to avoid the debate of lending money you can't afford to lose/lending money to family.)

Yes. In fact, you MUST list all money owed in a bankruptcy. This doesn't mean that the familly member couldn't still pay it back later once they get on their feet.

On the flip side, with a little documentation, you can claim a bad debt write-off on taxes for money loaned and not repayed.

Much love for a quick recovery! *hugs*

Woohoo!!!! :D

Woot Pru!

Carrot better not have ended up as Coyote food. I'm on a rant about irresponsible pet owners today and who knows what I might do.

Rabbit Rescue might be able to help, but a no-kill shelter is probably a better place for the little guy.

OR:

Bunny Bunch S.P.C.R., The, Chino
BunnyLuv Rabbit Resource Center, Van Nuys
House Rabbit Society Orange/Los Angeles Counties (HRS OC/LA)
PetSave Foundation, San Pedro
Rabbit & Pocket Pet Adoptions, Canoga Park
Rabbit Rescue, Downey
Second Chance for Rabbits, Norwalk
Zooh Corner Rabbit Rescue, Claremont
and Zooh Corner Rabbit Rescue

Or maybe he/she will find another bunny and make a rabbit habitat out of the area like they did in Leisure World. The problem got so bad that it had neighbor against neighbor pitted against each other in the should we treasure them or should we poison/kill them battle.

No one spoke up for the "trap them and eat them" contingent?

I volunteer to help smack 'em! :snap: It's why I stopped watching "Animal Cops" on Animal Planet - I started to hear about too much of that crap outside of television land, and realized it's sadly not that uncommon. (Or, at least appears to be.) What's even scarier - some of those people have or will have children. :eek:

I can't watch that show. I won't even watch the previews for it.

ditto. I dont need to be that enraged, cursing at the TV at the top of my lungs. its bad for my blood pressure and scares the crap out of my neighbors

well, here i am, zonked out of my brian on pain killers, and typing one (left) handed... looks like i will be doing all sorts of things oine handend fr a while ...... even 'lifting my lounge', GD :evil:

The one-winged bear has landed
 

well, here i am, zonked out of my brian on pain killers, and typing one (left) handed... looks like i will be doing all sorts of things oine handend fr a while ...... even 'lifting my lounge', GD :evil:

Hi Lashie! No more lounge lifting!

Ever try tossing off with the opposite hand? It's weird. It's like the usual hand knows how to please a guy, whereas the other hand needs schoolin'.
:D

tossing off? you mean like a salad?

tossing off? you mean like a salad?

Sure. Whatever floats your boat.
:D

Why does Lashbear suddenly have a stutter?

I was wondering the same thing

darn Di-gesic tablets.. hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe....

Frodo Poffer: do you have digesic in the usa ?

...and my internet was slow and i weny from quick replt to advanced which myust have posted twice. my baaaad. and yet i feel soooo good. la la laaaaa. Wheeeeeeeeee.

Apparently LB didn't learn the perils of PUI from LickyLumbo or scaeagles.

perils be buggred.. this is FUN :D

....just wait till i take my nrxt dise in 3 hiours time.

Yay!! Lash, I'm glad you still have the strength to type. ;) :)

Speaking of strength, I haven't been to the gym in months (mainly due to inconvenience), and I just came up with a solution that will not only help us cut back on expenses, but also literally save my butt:

I cancelled the gym, saving $45 per month, not to mention the gas to get there and back. I unpacked my unopened DDR with mat (Dance Dance Revolution) for our PS2 that I've had for over a year now. And, I'm going to use this month's gym fee budget to pick up a set of $40 free weights from Target (which also count as a business write-off, because the weights fit my camera crane). So, during the day, I can head to the living room, dance while having fun, and also use the weights for my strength training while seated at my desk when reviewing video clips. :) And, once the heat dies down, I'll go out for an afternoon walk on days I don't feel like DDR.

Then, after I have paying work coming in, and our heads are back above water and I save enough funds to sign back up at the gym, I'll use that to buy a Wii with Wii-Fit instead, thus increasing my options while still saving on gas and the monthly gym fee. :)

It's better for my body, my schedule, and our finances!

and i want to say that i love you guys to bits.. i cant wait t see you all in 7 months and 2 weeka time

Dear Lashbear

Keep posting

Love,
Kevin

According to FP, it's called Darvon or Darvoset here, and it's no wonder you're having a damn good time. ;)

Hoo-rah!!!

Cool! I've been using a set of hand weights at home myself. Haven't turned on our DDR in a while, though. Another good workout option is an exercise ball.

Oh, no wonder! Keep posting, Lash! :)

mairwy had a wittle wamb......

We luv you Lashy!!!

T - Wii Fit is good in theory but it's very hard to get the heart rate up consistently. Each activity is 1-3 minutes, if that then you pause between and have to select if you want to go on or not. I haven't used mine in months. I have to say that it has ended up like all the other at home exercise stuff I've bought over the years, though it fits well under the TV.

Regular vigorous sex burns calories

This is me posting to you.....
 

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Get well, Lashbear dear. The photo is, interesting...:eek:

I had a lot of different lists of things to do that I combined into one but when I looked at the new list today I read: freecy ole? maybe not.

While you ponder that here are some photos I took in Palm Springs last month.

Freecy ole is actually freecycle. Can't read my own writing.

Ooooo... Darvocet! Fun stuff!

My friend Emily and I went to Disneyland on Saturday. There was swing dancing going on that night. There was this one dancer who thought she was the sh!t, fancy Capizeo (sp?) shoes and everything. I was hoping lindyhop would have showed up and shown her a thing or two.
:D

We ate at the Ruby's over Coachella weekend

Hmmm. Good to know. Sounds like DDR will still come in handy then. Or, I could go dig out the classic NES and PowerPad with Track n' Field. :D It's not "exercise" if it's a game. ;)

Hehe. Right.

That's what Wii Fit tries to accomplish. Maybe with time it will have some upgrades and a better interface. It does get you off the couch though.

Wii boxing and tennis get your heart rate up and I'm hearing good things about WiiSki.

If you can get motivated an inexpensive exercise bike or treadmill may be of use.

Oh hell no. I hate cardio machines with a passion, especially bikes. If I'm gonna bike, I actually want it to go somewhere. ;)

I was totally thinking of WiiSki and Boxing though. Those I'd have fun with.

It's funny though - I have no problem lifting weights and love doing it. But, when it comes to cardio "routines"... bleh. I'll definitely need variety for that.

But, considering this will be the first time I've ever touched DDR, that should keep me happy for awhile. And, if I get bored with that, I'll break out the NES until the Wii becomes an affordable reality down the road. :)

to truly get the most of youy DDR game, havr FOP whip upa set of railings that you ban do somersaults and handstands from.....

I have a treadmill -- it holds up spare blankets...when it doesn't it gets dusty. But! I love, love, LOVE the DDR! A great way to work out and have fun. We sprung for the metal dance pads and the boy and I enjoy making the neighbors think an earthquake is happening by doing "advanced." hehe.

Hey, Lash! Are you feeling okay?;)

August 12: first signs of fall spotted. The sumac and maples are beginning to turn.

Right on schedule.

this is good news. maybe it will arrive before any real heat does

As they say, there are two seasons in the Midwest: winter and roadwork.

People say we don't have 4 seasons in CA.

Sure we do.

Fire
Flood/landslide
Earthquake
Riot

Yes and the hills aren't brown, they're golden!

And the air isn't smoggy, it's hazy!

I don't trust any air I can't taste.

And, this is the time if year I hate all of you people NOT in California.

What, we get fall, NA...

We just call it wildfire season.

It's a balmy 71 degrees at my house today, but this weekend we head for the mid to upper 90s again. Just in time for my sister to visit :evil:

It's been a sad day in pug land. One of the young pugs who've I've "known" since she was 5 days old, died due to a heart defect and another pug drowned in a pool. I'm just going to spend the day hugging Thurston.

Poor puggies! :( Ugh.

How funny... same here. Though it is toasting up and will be in the 90s, this is the first morning it wasn't in the 80s at 6:30am. It is the first time it's not going to be 100-ish in at least a month.

But, I thought to myself... Hmm.. Autumn!

The very best time of the year to visit Disneyland is early October, IMO. It's warm but not sweltering, no school children on vacation, and you've got your HM overlay.

Great

Our accountant just double clicked on a Zip file attachment in an email. "Well, it looked like it was from UPS" (the subject said it was about a UPS tracking number, but the email it was sent from is not in any way shape or form a UPS address).

So, we instantly unplugged her from the network and are running virus scans/cleans.

Oy people... when are we gonna learn???

Good grief. People are idiots sometimes.

Write out: Do NOT open any files with extensions - .bin, .exe, .zip (add more). And then tape it to all the monitors in the office.

OMG... Now my boss is going to hire a detective to hunt down the person who sent the email (femluyei@borgbjerg.com). Because he wants to find the person and sue them and send them in jail.

Good to see yuo are spending your time on worthwhile and productive tasks.

So much for your having a holiday bonus. It's now being spent on Inspector Clouseau's Search for the Great CyberTroll. ;)

Seriously, if a real-life endeavor sounds like it should be a "straight-to-video" movie, it's not that smart of an endeavor. ;)

My boss has fully admitted (and proven) that he is more than willing to cut off his nose to spite his face.

The part that is most annoying about this is that he has been unavailable too much lately and now he will have something else that will be a distraction from the business. :mad:

Well, if he's going to cut off his nose, he should wear a bib. He could permanently stain his tie...t-shirt...wife-beater...whatever he wears to work.

Tell him if this detective can find the guy to be sure to let the cyber crimes department of your local police force know. I'm sure they can use the help.

FBI actually (according to our IT guy).

It looks like Lashbear is who did it: we traced the origin IP address (123.243.171.223) to Australia. Although the domain (borgbjerg.com) is traced to Denmark.

Still hunting...

Ya, FBI is correct.

So what's he going do do? Fly around the world and kick his ass?

It can be a real life version of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?

And therein lies the reason for my current perturbedness

borgbjerg.com is some photographers site.

Chances are he/she is going to be more surprised than you when your bosses goons break into his flat with baseball bats....

Ps:

A google on the spammer email address turned up a hit at

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/


You might want to check them out.

Your boss probably doesn't get the concept of hackers hijacking innocent peoples' machines and addresses. I pity the random Dane who ends up on the receiving end of pointy-haired-boss's wrath.

Hummm..... Me thinks we have the makings of a great short story here.

Drowned? Had they not taught the pug how to swim to the steps?

Pugs aren't the best swimmers to start with (Thurston always wears a life jacket around pools), second he was a recent rescue and third he was at an unfamiliar house visiting friends not his own house. He shouldn't have been left unsupervised.

Thanks for reinforcing my point. ;)

So, who wants to write the screenplay for this tragic comedy?

The thing is, the likelihood of ever finding the guilty party is slim at best. I don't care if he wants to waste his money on this, I am just sick of the time lost on crap like this. He tried yelling at me today for something not getting done in a timely manner when it was HIM that caused the delay.

BTW: we had to wipe the affected computer and rebuild it.

the humanoids email got hit with 1100 spam emails today. Pfft.

Small update: it was the SmitFraud virus (or a variant thereof)

Also (in case anyone cares), the incident is reported to the ICCC web site (which is linked at the FBI web site).

I think the FBI should start making a big show of harassing the nimrods who open blatantly obvious viruses. Then maybe people would take the time to learn the difference.

Meh, even if I were serious, it wouldn't work.

Suddenly I'm thankful my co-workers freak out when a MS Office installer package runs.

This was just emailed to me:

APPLES & WINE

Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they sometimes take the apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who is brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.

Now men...men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the life out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

kevy: i dont send spam.... i eat it. :p

I was pulled for jury duty today. The good news is I live in a podunk town and no trial goes longer than an afternoon. I've never heard of sending the big cases away to be tried somewhere else! Ahh life in a tiny city. Someone probably pulled out an old lady's flower garden and is in big trouble!

In case you were wondering ...
 

I am cooking a corned beef even as we speak. The plan is reuben sandwiches for dinner.

I think Ive read this one little post like 5 times and it makes my mouth water every single time

I just learned three days ago why it is called corned beef and that it has nothing to do with corn.

Mmmmm...reuben. Of course, since I don't eat beef the key for me is a decent alternative meat and then good rye and sauerkraut.

Why do most men pick the low hanging fruit? It's not because they are afraid of falling. There are just more apples down low. A bushel full of apples can make one helluva snack.

True, Men are like fine wine but not for the reason you state. In order to fully appreciate our vintage, you need to pop our cork.

The apples at the top of the tree make themselves hard to get, convince themselves that this is a sign of just how desirable they are, and then whine when nobody wants to make the effort.

Mojo for Alex!

Here was expecting some wild revelation and the actual answer was, well... boring.

From Wikipedia

You may find it boring, I find it interesting. (And keep in mind that I have never in my life eaten corned beef so I had certain images in my head based on the name that weren't really accurate.)


Of course, there is also the fact that pretty much all beef eaten by Americans in this day and age is corned beef (here referring to the modern American meaning of the word corn).

Huh... so apparently being on the pill makes women make bad choices about men. Heh.

Alex: Good corned beef rocks, bad corned beef not so much. For your first try of it, I'd go with an actual corned beef entree, not a sandwich. More likely to get the good stuff that way.

There isn't likely to be a first try of it since I don't eat beef. So if they make good non-beef corned beef then I'll have some.

They do make some good non-beef pastrami so that usually suffices for reubens.

I just had to send an email to Ms. M's teacher explaining that the dog really did eat her homework.

There's never a dull moment in the swanie household. This is precisely why I started drinking after I had my 3rd kid.

:rolleyes:

Katella Deli has this sandwich which has both corned beef AND pastrami. THAT sandwich ROCKS!

Finding Kraftland is at 9:30 tonight. Looking forward to it... just need to figure out how to stay awake late enough! Not sure I dare risk a nap -- might not wake up in time.

Don't be on a lesbian when picking a mate?

New bunny has a name.

Lito (pronounce "Lee-toe"). Short for Lito Bunlito Frito.

You can ask, don't expect an explanation.

So, where'd the name Lito Bunlito Frito come from???

:D

Alright Bopper! :snap:

Kinda feels like you just jumped to light speed, with your next stop- the moon of Endore, huh? :D

I heard you gain weight working for the Mouse....wrong! Have gone down 1 size in 30 days!

Well, I have heard about the food they serve the CMs. That's enough to make one loose their apitite.

Urinary Tract Infection, please go away
Never come another day

Stand back! I'm about to double post.
 

I want Andy "Didya ever wonder" Rooney's job. So easy, so mindless, so overpaid.

Yes, but do you have the eyebrows for it?
Me thinks no.
:D

I wish I liked "real" coffee. Much cheaper. Available at the office for free. And even with 4 creamers and a diabetes-inducing load of sugar to half a cup of the stuff... still not great. And it's not like office buildings are putting in latte machines any time soon. Oh well, it's caffiene...

Try putting Ovaltine in your coffee. Poor man's Mocha.

Or Hershey's syrup.

You're right: it all comes down to the avuncular eyebrows because it sure ain't about what he says. Wouldn't you love to see Rooney show up with Divine-style eyebrows?

R Lee Ermy has the eyebrows for it.

The stairs at work have a rubber tread on them for traction. About a year ago the rubber along the edge of one of the steps started to show wear and was splitting, so facilities duct taped it. Since then, it's only gotten worse and about 1/2 of the steps had duct tape along the front edge. I was looking forward to the day that we had stairs coated entirely in duct tape. Alas, today a crew has come to completely replace the rubber tread. So disappointing.

There is a tear in the carpet near my office. Someone has put twp pieces of yellow "caution" tapeover it. They are held down with gobs of scotch tape. This amuses me for some reason.

You know you need more coffee when you fill your cup with cream and Ovaltine and forget to add the coffee.

Maybe you should tape an ad for new carpet to it? ;)

mmmmm.... Ovaltine!

Now THAT's good comedy!

LOL!

Sooo...

I'm off to Seattle and parts beyond. I'll see you all in a week. Be good.

I am SO exhausted. We were in the garage until 2am pulling and pricing stuff for the yard sale.

I still have more to pull today, and then head over to start setting up tables and signs tonight.

Busy, busy day.

That's pretty fast walking.

Still thinking of figuring out how to get stuff up to the sale. A trip to the ol' storage space is possibly on the schedule for Saturday morning, but probably too late to bring things, considering the real buyers show early.

Still...

I'm guessing that is supposed to read 2 a.m.

If you are just going to the storage unit on Saturday, it would be too late to make the effort worthwhile IMO

Kevy: Yeah, figured that. But my day Saturday has changed anyway... I'm now working - on my actual attraction the whole middle of the day tomorrow. So no storage spacing for me tomorrow.

So here's an interesting tidbit - the carribbean-flavored (?) iced tea I had at Sharky's today was nasty as tea. But I poured it out and filled the cup with Coke, and some of the flavor remained. It's AWESOME as flavored Coke!

Waiting for my new bed...

Between 3 and 6. Hopefully it's closer to 3. I suspect it'll be closer to 6 since that was the only time frame they had in my area today :(

** tastes like Pirates.

My 2 week quest for a good char-broiled burger has finally been successful! Zeke's BBQ, a bit pricey, but excellent! Big juicy burger, charred on the outside, and the mostest adorable surfer looking delivery boy that chatted me up during my meal. I may have to rent an apartment in Montrose just to order delivery food!
Anyhow, hot delivery boy or not, I'll return to Zeke's, already 1 of my 2 favorite BBQ places in L.A., for the burger. Join me, won't you?

This is way cool. Out of my price range and not the sort of thing I necessarily would seek out, but as a vintage item, pretty darn cool. (Make it '64 and we'll talk, hehe)

My Blazer may be getting a second life. I have a friend who can and will install a new converter for me. All it will cost me is the part itself, and he can get a good price on that, plus some cookies. He also wants to fix my broken door panel.

I love having good friends.

Cool MG! Yes, good friends are a blessing indeed!

So.....I'm having fun warping my son and my nephew. I turned them on to Stephen King for their reading pleasure. I even brought out my Cycle of the Werewolf for them to read.

Now I have to reread some of them to figure out which ones they are not old enough to read!

Quote:

Originally Posted by cirquelover (Post 233372) So.....I'm having fun warping my son and my nephew. I turned them on to Stephen King for their reading pleasure. I even brought out my Cycle of the Werewolf for them to read.

that's easy...

they're not old enough for:

• menstruating telekinetics
• Vampires
• Nukey-lar Disaster survival novels
• Psychics named Johnny
• Pyrokinetic Girls
• Beasties in a foggy supermarket
• rabid dogs
• re-animation of pets
• killer cars
• werewolves.. oops, too late...
• sewer clowns
• unhealthy napkin-weaving obsessions
• things that eat time
• psychotic literature fans
• psychotic authors
• psychotic shop-owners
• psychotic well-dumping wives
• psychotic B&D games gone wrong
• psychotic ‘little bald doctors’
• Rita Hayworth
• Paintings of women wearing rose madder gowns
• Small Nevada towns along highway 50
• Jails with mice
• Children whose first name starts with k
• Anything to do with little tall island
• a bottle of water, two Twinkies, a boiled egg, a sandwich, a large bottle of Surge, a poncho, a Game Boy, and a Walkman.
• Red fuzzy stuff
• Buicks with really large trunk capacity
• out-of-state cigarette tax stamps
• mobile phones with new ‘pulse’ feature
• sticky-beak novelist’s wives
• small china dolls found in buried treasure

ok, now seriously, get 'the eyes of the dragon' for them. :cool:

Well, it's a cold day in hell.

I've finally replaced my vintage computer with a sleek new Acer unit. (It's SHINY!) Goodbye Windows 98! I can now watch videos, upload photos, and I'm sure I'll be discovering more stuff I can do.

What I can't do is go to the bathroom, do housework, or read a book while waiting for pages to load.

I may also have time to read more than just this thread a few others. You may actually hear from me a little more often. With pictures!

Now to learn my way around Vista...

Here is my one tip for a (possible) major performance improvement in Vista: make sure that the Windows Aero Color Scheme is not in use.

(I have the Control Panels view set to "Classic View" - you may have to make some modifications to these steps.)

Go to Control Panels > Personalization > Windows Color and Appearance

Under "Color Scheme", choose anything besides "Windows Aero"

I am sure there are other ways to get to this and maybe somebody else has input on this topic, but I have found that turning off Windows Aero to have a huge (positive) impact on the performance of my machine.

Welcome to the 21st century, ozron!

Looks like I'm mostly recovered from a nasty round of food poisoning that hit late Saturday night. Yesterday was pure hell.

Ugh, what'd you eat?

Food poisoning is horrible, I hope you're feeling better!

I'm going to guess "poisoned food" - but that is just a guess.

We think it was mashed potatoes and gravy from Popeye's. And before anyone asks/suggests - no, I'm not suing. That would take up too much time that I don't have, and I didn't go to the hospital anyway. It could very well just have been my body that didn't agree with it, because I was overly dehydrated from the yard sale at the time I ate 'em. I certainly won't be eating there again for quite awhile though (probably a couple years at least).

But, yeah, I'm feeling much better and I think I can handle more than just crackers and broth now. Saturday night and yesterday were just obnoxious, but my honey was quite the trooper and took very good care of me. :)

I also recommend Cheerios as a particularly tummy-friendly food

http://www.snopes.com/photos/archite...pool.asp#photo

OK, now THAT is fracking cool!!!! :) :) World's largest swimming pool.

OMG that is so cool. Lets all go to Chile!

Duuuuuuuuude

There's an entire ocean to have fun with and they block access with a giant swimming pool?

Those darn Russians. ;)

Oh no! The Disney World is doomed!! How will the Disney Fan community handle a central Florida hurricane without being able to make jokes about it blowing away Mickey's hand? Will they be satisfied with his hat?

The above post = teh awesome.


Didn't a hurricane go through WDW last year? Or the year before? Maybe that's why Guest Relations quit taking written complaints. They were tired of explaining they can't control the weather.

The product is a little dumb (jammies for dogs?) but the photo is so freaking sweet I think it's giving me diabetes:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...ct_id=6487942e

Link says....no product found??

She had an extra "e" at the end of the link. Try this:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=6487942

T got a part in the school play!!!!!!!!

And one of her best friends got the lead!

There's no way my kid is going to sleep tonight. I don't think I've ever seen her so excited.

Congratulations T - good job!!

Tonight tonight tonight tonight!
Dave Dave Dave Dave!
Staples Staples Staples Staples!
Happy Happy Happy Happy!
:) :) :) :)

Hey GC,

Tell us how you really feel. :p

Note to home chefs out there:

Do not store peeled garlic cloves in a baggy in the veggie bin with your thin-skinned fruit.

My breakfast peach tastes awful. :(

Are you talking about the veggie bin in the fridge? Garlic shouldn't be stored in the fridge at all (it'll hasten its demise), let alone with flavor absorbers.

Walking the dogs this morning - came across our Carrot again. Apparently, he's not letting himself get caught by my neighbor.

Yeah, I'm an idiot. Can ya tell I only started cooking fresh foods again just a couple months ago?

Why do I wait until it is hot in the house to start cleaning?

On another note: I made a pretty good vegetarian dinner last night. It contained, sauteed onions and garlic, about 12 heirloom tomatoes, white beans, 2 bunches of fresh basil and a jar of pitted Kalamata olives topped with a bit of shredded parm. I was surprised just how wonderful it was.

I read that as topped with a bit of shredded spam and thought hmm that's not very vegitarian.

No problem, I generally don't know either. So if possible I just do whatever my mom did when I was a kid (though that turns out not to be best frequently) or just look it up for items I don't recall ever having in the house back then.

For garlic, you want to store it somewhere relatively cool and minimizing sunlight. Also, don't keep it in a sealed bag (I keep mine in the plastic bag from the store but with the top open) so they can breath.

Don't you need to refrigerate peeled garlic though?

I try to do what my mom did for produce storage but my fruit kept going bad. I talked to a produce guy at Henry's and he said the produce is picked earlier then it was when I was a kid, and the best way to store it is to not use paper towel in my fruit bowl (like my mom did, but now that I think about it our fruit bowl was wicker, mine is glass) and to only let one or two pieces ripen at a time and keep the rest in the fridge.

So far, so good.

I like [url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/dog-libman-dogs-2128876-first-people] this story because 1) the owner of the Shar-Pei that won 16 medals is my cousin and 2) said Shar-Pei's registered name is "Mikobi's Little Brick Schmidthouse". :D hahaha nice, Bobbie.

Note to self: remove garlic from fridge

FWIW, Costco has a little window-style a/c unit right now with a massive SCE rebate on it, out the door I think it's like $60.
That sounds delish! Of course, everything's better with bacon..... :evil: (or in this case, maybe some pancetta)

Unfortunately, those don't work with French windows - only sliders.

I'm starting to look like my avatar. My Hollywood dinner is at 7pm, and I'm already panicking about what to wear. :eek:

I suggest wearing clothes. Going naked is always dicey.

As was mentioned I was assuming whole bulbs/cloves. If they're peeled (I'm presuming this meant a jar bought that way) then they should be refrigerated.

Also, you'll find people recommending storing garlic in olive oil, which is a traditional method. But it also isn't particularly safe if you don't take a lot of care with it, it can grow botulism.

Unless I were auditioning for porn...

Actually, scratch that - my nakedness would land me a guaranteed spot on Discovery Channel's Whale Watchers Week. ;)

Mine is unpeeled. So I still appreciate the advice.

DP: I was wondering if that was tonight... good luck! :)

Don't know if this has been floating around for a while, but I like a couple of these.

5 hours and counting until the Dave Matthews concert.
Ticktockticktock...
:) :) :)

No AC for us in any other windows except the office. I can't even get a portable one as there is no place to vent it.

I went to Costco looking for one the other day but sadly, nothing is going to work. Plus, I just came out of the store feeling icky - but thin. Do you THINK there is a connection between weighing 500 pounds and buying super-sized boxes of taquitos and giant bags of malted milk balls?

This sounds very much like Pasta Puttanesca (minus the anchoives, red chilli flakes and capers). Of course, I do not put beans in Puttanesca, either.

What I am trying to say is, NA, what you made sounds utterly delicious.

[BUGS BUNNY]
Ummmmmmmmmmmm, could beeeeeeeeeeeee!
[/BUGS BUNNY]

But, isn't it nice to feel so lithe and thin?

Snowflake: got any other good uses for capers? I have a small jar of them. Trying to think of ways to use them beyond wine sauces for fish.

It is kind of low rent but beyond cooking with fish and putting on salads, I also include capers in tuna salad and egg salad.

Sounds yum!

Those are cool... thanks for sharing. (And no, I hadn't seen them.)

Something like this wouldn't work? Couldn't you run the vent out a window?

Chicken picata, or any basic lemony chicken dish.

Just added up my gross reciepts for the day....$1,313.00 dollars.

1313...made me think of Disneyland:)

So.....here I am. It's been awhile. Hi!

Yo, welcome back.

So... someone wanna explain bodybuilding to me? Their bodies are hideous, especially the women. Watching this thing on TLC about bodybuilders and I'm just completely repulsed by their veiny arms

Okay...best beer commercial, ever!

NSFW!

http://www.flabber.nl/archief/024762.php

It is. It doesn't happen too often.

I could, but what would be the purpose of keeping a window open with the AC running?

Set it up like in the picture.

ETA: Well crap: I just realized that I did not include the link. Let's try again.

.
That's something similiar to how I duct air from my hottest computer.

My windows are casement windows.

that couch chair pillow thing in the picture: I can't decide if I want it or I hate it or what... It looks so... comfy....

Did the concert go on as scheduled? I just heard a member of the band died today.

Geez, that's pretty immoral, promoting such profane, irresponsible behavior.

That beer could have spilled.

According to MSN it did with a replacement sax player. It sounds like they have been using a replacement since the sax player was hospitalized.

It's the Stay Puft Chair!

or the Munsters. [: )

ugh, can't sleep

Man, it sure did. It was intense. I'll post more soon. It was both sad and celebratory at the same time. Phenomenal concert.
:)

Bleary-eyed, but at work.

The periodic bouts of insomnia are growing more frequent. I've got to figure out a way to be productive if I am not going to sleep, might as well make good use of the time.

I am making cookies!

Well, no, I am sitting on my butt in front of the 'puter, but the cookies are started.

I made brownies. They just sounded good on a cold and rainy day.

Jeez...it looks like that unit would suck the entirety of Orange County into your living room through the window.

This would include stray dogs and cats, old McDonald wrappers, used blue double-ribbed condoms and the lady next door's cryshnan...cysthan...flowers.

I'd be cautious if I were you. Specially with white furniture and all.

I want the stay puffed marshmallow chair.

...but how on Earth do you keep a white chair clean? Surely after a few weeks it would look like kaka-dudie, given that folks eat, drink, puke and have relationships of an intimate nature on this type of furniture?

Nope...oyster gray is the lowest common denominator when it comes to human-use colour blending.

Eeeeeewwwwwwee.

It doesn't suck, it blows. That's the hot air vent hose.

Cookies are made and the dishes are washing. Now I need to take a shower and get ready to go out tonight.

The Boy is gonna be ticked when I don't pick him up from school today.

That's just an expre... oh, never mind

If the alternative is housework, I'm sure sleep will be forthcoming :)

A cold and rainy day sounds good...

I am glad you said it. That was where my mind went.

I got home from work, and while attempting to lay on the floor to greet my dearest Ethel, I was attacked by an ornamental iron kitty sculpture- resulting in an inch wide gouge in my leg and a couple spurts of blood. More than a bandaid, but not quite to stitches level injury.

Now Ethel is moping outside my door, sweet little thing.

Goodness Gracious! I do hope you're all right!

I've changed the bandage a couple times, but I'll be alright.

Cowboy Philosopher, Tattooed Professor, Pirate. Yeah. Me want. Just Sayin'

So driving home at the 5/710 interchange I saw a bilboard - a cloud covered sky with Words across the top left corner "Don't Believe in God?"
and in the lower right corner the rejoinder, "you are not alone."

Fine print along the bottom - atheistalliance.org

Oh hey, I bet I can get the image there:



It made me smile

Holy crap, Matt. Heal!

New carpet went in today! Just in the upstairs; we're putting laminate in the downstairs. Plus I got to hob-nob with a former professor and practicing trademark attorney this evening, and got introduced (finally) to the world of scotch.

But how's Ethel? I do hope you didn't dint her! :D

I just heard gun shots. I know, no big deal for some of you but I live in a town of 12,000 and there has only been one shooting that wasn't accidental in the last decade or more. Eek! I figure it won't do any good to call the police because I have no idea where it came from but I closed my back door!

That can be unnerving. Every so often I hear gunshots here. I know that it isn't anywhere near, but it still rattles me. My immediate neighborhood is safe, but la little more than a mile southeast things start to go downhill. What concerns me is the amount of home invasions that are taking place.

At least here in the LA area, our shootings are on purpose. ;)

...and frequent enough in SoCal in general to usually be able to identify the calibre and direction, as well as likely targets and suspects.

Unfortunatly, that's true.....

So - last christmas google sent it's adword advertisers a gift card for donorschoose.org. It's a way to get people together who need stuff - teachers in partiular - with those interested in giving.

I had no idea how much the gift card was for - and I tried getting my son's teacher last year to get a project going so I could put the card towards a project we could perhaps benefit from. She didn't (and that's fine becuase she was nothign but problems) and so I was left with the card here on my desk.

After de-cluttering my office yesterday I decided to just use it for *someone* and found a teacher that was close to her goal of having a subcription of Time for Kids (Time Magazine). Not knowing how much was on the gift card, I figured the $33 left to meet her goal and get the magazine was probably within range.

It was and I was able to be the final person so they could meet their goal. Turns out the card for was $100 (you go Google!) and I was able to put the remainder towards a project with another teacher who needed it for a proejct on the US Constitution - something everyone should learn about as much as they can, IMO.

This morning I got a wonderful email from the teacher whose goal I was able to complete (through the website) telling me how great it was going to be to have her kids get the magazine... how they are going through tough times with the school budget and she knows the parents are as well so it's hard for her to ask them to give for "extras".

Just made me feel so good to be able to do something - and Google really made it possible. I still have previous christmas gifts from google - little computer gadget usb things, etc - but this last gift was the best ever. I had no idea that I would get some good, warm, fuzzy feelings like that.

Hope they do it again this year.

Wat to go, Betty!

Awesome Betty!

I love Google.

My downstairs neighbor's cute little dog followed me barking and growling all the way to the back gate this morning. They seem to "walk" the dog by letting it outside to run around the patch of grass in the complex for a little while in the morning and a little while at night.:mad:

Is there a property manager you could talk to?

Alas, too true...

Here's the ornament that I nearly impaled my leg with - in the picture, you can see discoloration and a congealed bit of blood on the ear of the beast.
It now safely lives in the Nuclear Muffin Test Kitchen, where it will guard the Atomic Cookie Blast Furnace in perpetuity.

Holy shiznit... too bad this sucker doesn't have a reputation for holding up in the wind, or I'd totally replace my broken umbrella with this. Saw the same thing in the store today, marked down to twice the price of the online one.

Backyard canopy

My boxes of DVDs and Video games have begun to arrive!! It's like Christmas!

No, it's a condo complex with a lot of people complaining but no one really in charge. If I hadn't been trying to get to an early morning meeting I would have herded the dog back to their door which was wide open but with no one in sight. Then I could innocently ask, over the barking, did you know your dog is loose?

Ugh. Sorry, lindyhop...

By the way, I was wondering something. Will there ever be a swanking where we get to see lindyhop do the lindy hop or the shim sham at the Carnation Plaza at Disneyland? I'd love that to happen.
:)

I've been wondering that too! (And if it's the shim sham, I almost remember that one!) But I really wanna see lindyhop do the lindy hop.

I'm usually in Pasadena on Saturday nights because there's a better balance of leads and follows. But Pasadena is dark September 6 so I'll probably be at the Park.

The Shim Sham is a lot of fun. It always comes up during a band break when some people are dancing (to recorded music) but a lot are just hanging around waiting for the band to come back. Then the Shim Sham starts playing and everyone jumps up to dance the same steps and then we all go back to our separate corners again.

If you want to see lindyhop Lindy Hop if would help if you could scare up a few more leads. There's always more women...

I so love to watch the dances....let us know if you going to be there on the 6th. The Wolfpack would love to be in the audience!

Why are we ruling out watching you in Pasadena? Eh? :)

I wish I didn't live 50 miles away from all the fun stuff!

I have an extra boy for the night. He freaked a bit when he found out we had rats, but then he ended up carrying Smurf around the house.

They are currently playing the Wii and I am going to go make cookies (again).

So I was at Trader Joes and I saw Maddys beau. I so wanted to go over and say hi, ask when the wedding is, introduce myself to his parents. But I refrained. Maybe if she had been with me.

I have to keep up my rep as the most embarrasing parent ever :evil:

I've now got the Atomic Cookie Blast Furnace in our living room - so I can watch Blurays on the bigger screen, and surf the net on the medium screen. Today is fun.

I would like to see Gemini Cricket do the gemini cricket

I was in Trader Joe's and found my most favorite wine back in stock. Not quite the same.

If you drink enough, it could be. :)

BTD, If at any time you feel the need to embarass a child, I will lend you The Boy. Now that he is a puberty-stricken 11 year old, he is fun and easy to embarass.

For those of you that know him, he is now 5'6" and 150#s.

My 11 year old is also much easier to embarass now too! Oh my your son is tall and here I thought mine was growing up way to fast! Of course I'm probably the shortest Mom on the planet so he's almost caught up with me.

Thanks MG!

I also have two 16 y/os that I should practice up on.

[she says as their sister is away from the internetz]

10:30 on a Saturday night and I just arrived at the office.

I don't have to actually do anything until 3 a.m. but I figure it is better to drive in now and screw around until then than wait and drive in really tire.

Well, how did you get there withought Tires on your car? ;)



Sorry.:rolleyes:

Finally actually working and things immediately grind to a halt. This better not be as long a day as I suddenly fear it is going to be.

Jesus Criminy, are you all still asleep? WAKE UP!

Uh, what? Oh, good morning.

mmmm....

Mornin' Alex.

We dropped our daughter off at college on Friday.

She told me not to even think about putting my sewing machine in her room. Do I listen or do I ignore?

/yawn. morning.

Do you want her to ever move back home?

When I went to college, mum tossed out everything I left in "my" room and then rented it out. Oh, and neglected to mention it to me until I came home for Thanksgiving and had to sleep on the couch.

So I say sure, go ahead with the sewing machine.

Sundays are boring. Or maybe I'm just boring.

Halfway through my freshman year of college, my parents moved. Without telling me.

True story.

ozron and Moonliner, okay if I envelop you in a Chanel No 5-scented hug? ((((ozron and Moonliner))))

It won't happen because there just aren't any opportunities here for her. We do want her to visit and it is her room until she doesn't need it any more.

I think the sewing machine will stay where it is. Thanks for the input, everyone. Most appreciated.

Either that or be prepared to move it back out, but I'd suggest waiting until she's done with college. My mom left *my room* alone until we were sure I wasn't coming back (and they remodeled the kitchen eliminating my moms sewing space). It's a sense of security, knowing you have a room still.

Morning Alex. (In my defense, I was up until 3 am.)

There's breaking news on that front which I'm still trying to process. I went to the dance last night and found out the church where they've been holding classes and dances for 20 years or more is not renewing the lease with PBDA. So the last dance there is next Saturday. The church got a new pastor last year who apparently was not happy that all these non-church events were taking up so much time in the building. They stopped letting us use it on Sunday afternoons and now they don't want us at all.

Contigency plans are already in place. Saturday night dances will now be at another church in Old Pasadena. They had the Halloween dance there last year and I didn't like it that much. Parking was great: there's a parking garage right next door and they validate but the hall was kind of awkward. The biggest problem was the lights. The spotlight on the stage also shone right in your eyes if you were dancing in front of the stage (which is usually the best place to dance). And the house lights took forever to turn on or turn off so they had to leave the dance floor with the lights down all evening. Mostly it didn't feel like home but I guess we have to make it our new home now. I've been going to the other place for nine years now so I do feel like I'm getting kicked out of my home.

It's short notice but next Saturday (the 30th) is supposed to be Disney-themed. Everyone is supposed to wear their ears and other Disney logo wear and they'll probably have some Disney trivia questions during the breaks. And Erin (one of the sisters who run PBDA) will play some of her Disney swing songs during the band breaks. (Erin's a big Disney fan. When she teaches a class on Mickey's birthday she asks everyone to wear their ears to class.)

oh wouldst that it were so

so far...

-kitchen cleaning...well sorta. tidying anyway so people dont trip over stuff
-1.5 loads of laundry (to be continued)
-6 emails
-8 texts
-jumpstarted my truck from sitting too long
-(nearly) dropped an engine on my foot from about 3 feet in the air. good thing my ninja like reflexes got me out of the way (actually it rather abruptly PUSHED me out of the way as it fell)
-solo unload of my truck (offloading said engine and accessories)
-played automobile roulette moving the cars around in the yard so I can get to the gate.
-repair the gate. :rolleyes: (oops)

..and it's only 1pm

still to come...
-move a giant chair out of storage to its new owners pad
-groceries
-blah
-blah
-blah

so, a wee bit of weekend boredom would be welcome at this point

:D

Woke up at 10am
Changed my sheets.
Linen load in the laundry
ate lunch
did dishes
still in my jammies and enjoying the last day I have to not have to worry about homework for the next 16 weeks.

I wanted a boring day. Instead my car decided to act up. Actually it started last night when I was driving home from Pasadena. When I stopped at a red light or stop sign it would nearly stall. After driving on the freeway it was no longer close to stalling because it was revving so fast. This morning it seemed fine at first but when I tried driving more than a mile it started stalling out again. I managed to get it to Firestone where they'll look at it tomorrow. A similar thing happened last year and the dealer fixed a bunch of things that came up on the computer. It's a 2001 Saturn with 150,000 miles and I wanted to drive it into the ground. Maybe I have already.

Do I have to go to sleep for it to switch from Saturday to Sunday?

Very active Sunday but still exceedingly boring for most of it.

Naps are good.

The Terracotta Warrior exhibit at the Bowers is really interesting.

I can't nap, I wake up feeling like complete ****. I did fall asleep for about 30 minutes but woke up with a headache and a mildly nauseated feeling that took an hour to pass.

I'm just now getting some energy. Not that I'm going to do anything.

That's how I always feel after a nap. Ergo, I forgo naps. I haven't napped since I was three.

I just washed and seeded about 4 pounds of assorted hot peppers. :D

A bit later tonight, they'll get oven roasted and then bagged and frozen.

I found they make fresh salsa taste phenomenal and freeze/thaw very well in almost no time. So, I'm going to make up large batches at a time so they're handy.

I love me some spicy! :snap:

Just applied for a last-minute quick editing gig on a professional photography promo for tomorrow afternoon. Here's to hoping I get a phone call in the morning!

Naps do that to me too. I wake up feeling more groggy than when I started.

I am so glad The Boy is not ADHD. Yes, he can get hyped, but nothing like my friend's son (the one who spent the night). I ended up taking him home less than an hour after he woke up yesterday. He went from snore to 100 instantly. He wouldn't leave the Girls alone, which really bothered me since he has a tendancy to be rough with animals. He kept taunting Pooh and then trying to pet Pooh. I had to put a clamp on the backdoor to keep him from trying to pet him.

I know The Boy has a listening issue, but he seemed almost perfect compared to the other kid.

A river drawdown is the big buzz up here in Wisconsin's Nort' Woods. It had to be done to repair a seawall upstream from a paper mill. A whole lot of stuff from the logging industry was uncovered for the first time in many years. While some fished out old bits of crockery, bottles, etc., from the muddy river bottom, others helped the fish. There was more fish kill than anyone would have wanted (mostly young'uns) but less than had been predicted.

I'll bet there were some old logs that had been submerged for a very long time. I would love to get my hands on those to make some furniture out of. I have seen the wood from long-submerged logs and it is beautiful.

It would be interesting if they got enough to make a little exhibit of what was found. I think some of the most interesting stuff can be the everyday items rather than the big showy treasure etc.

Too bad about the fish, but it's good that it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be. What did people do with the fish, scoop them up in buckets and take them behind the dam?

Cool website! Have you made any furniture before? My mother used to do woodworking when we were kids, and made my bed and my sister's bed. Nothing fancy though.

You mean this?

http://golosangeles.about.com/b/2008...ers-museum.htm

Art and warriors at the same time? My little beating heart is in heaven!

I didn't know we had art museums in OC. Sweet! My sincerest thanks!

There a lots of good museums in OC, Bowers and OCMA being at the top of the list.

The only knock I have against the Terracotta Warriors exhibit is that I don't think they did a good job of portraying the sense of scale. It wasn't until the very end of the exhibit where they had a large print of one of the National Geographic images showing the army in place that you got any idea of how truly massive it was. It does a great job of showing the detailed artistry, but it misses the mark on driving home that this isn't just detailed artistry, but detailed artistry on an unmatched and almost unimaginable scale.

Actually, one more knock against it is that the layout created a massive bottleneck at the start of the exhibit. Really poor planning.

Just applied for another assistant editor position - they need 3 people, and consider it "entry level".

Now, watch they say that I'm "over-qualified". :rolleyes:

Heck, I'll make their friggin coffee at this point. Seriously.

Sending good energy!

That's too bad, but I still want to see it. :) I have long considered getting a degree in Museum Studies, because the idea of being involved with exhibits - especially of an historical nature, is just mind blowingly cool to me. And warrior stuff= the best of all. I love art and armor. LOVE IT.

do you folks know if this is a touring show like the dead sea scrolls? I looked around briefly and couldnt see any info on the display coming down here to SD.

I'd really like to see those

Oh, how lovely!