Have a "great weekend"
 

I'm totally serious. I really want you to.

TGIF, man.
Thank God It's Friday.

It was only two days ago that it was Humpday, but now it's Friday. Sweet.

Have a great weekend.

Uh-oh. Is something terrible going to happen to us on Monday? Should I be prepared to whip up some tears? Or just wish you a great weekend, too? :)

Thank you Flint. I'll try. It's nice of you to think of me.

you're not the boss of me.

Thank God It's Flintday!

I am at work til Sunday am, but hey the tropical storm off the coast of Savannah is dampening most plans but the weather looks good for a motorcycle ride Sunday.

Yeah, right thanks.
Really.

Are you done with your droughting, then?

It has improved, but unless that beast moves in and hits us I doubt it. We have 2 ponds in our neighborhood that are down a good 2 - 3 feet. Right now we are just getting rain bands intermittently, but it rained like hell yesterday. Atlanta is the part of the state that really needs it and is in a critical water shortage. They can do with nothing less than a cat 1 storm dump to fix their problem. It ain't going to happen.

My capacity for great weekends was lost in 9/11. Insensitive fuck.

I expect that I will in all likelihood not have a great weekend. But I won't hold you responsible for it.

Why would you do that? I've decided I'm holding Flint personally responsible for all the crap I don't like in my life.

~This out of context quote is brought to you by Miller Lite. Tastes great, Less filling.

Weekend's about over. How was everyone's weekend? :-)

Not bad.

Have a great Monday, everyone!

good. Older daughter was at girl scout camp, so much less sibling conflict.

not bad - got a lot done around the house. How bout you?

Great weekend
Shitty Monday morning

All went wrong early hours
Honestly don't know what to do.

To be honest, it wasn't as bad as I was fearing it would be. I'm not going to hold my breath that it'll hold out for the rest of the week, though.

I did have a great weekend. :)

I spent the weekend distributing my kids around the country. I miss them already, but I get Lil'Griff back tonight.

My weekend was spent in the unique hell of a household preparing to host a baby shower in the coming week (on Wednesday). Her: "OK, we need to trime the hedges..." Me: "Nobody's going to come to the shower and judge our hedges... we have plenty of other stuff that needs doing." Her: "Yeah, and we're going to do all of that PLUS TRIM THE HEDGES!!"

SD, take your time trimming the hedges; commune with nature; relax; it might take you longer than expected.

Shoot, I thought "trim the hedges" was a euphemism.

You know what makes for an awesome Sunday morning? Coming back into the living room where you left your toddler playing to discover the front door wide open.

We knew he could pull the handle down, but that's why we left the door constantly locked. As it turns out, he can now unlock the deadbolt, by standing on the very tip of his toes like a ballerina on pointe. We already knew from experience that the child-safety products designed for handled doors don't work in the slightest. So after his escapade in the driveway, we had to make an immediate trip to Home Depot to buy a new handle set, one which had an actual knob on the inside, just so we could then use a child-safety item made for knobs, which actually work.

$1 for the little plastic knob guard... $125 for the new exterior lock set. That's coming out of his college fund, dammit.

You're thinking of:

I lol'd at that, heh heh.

What you do, see, is when you go to sell the house, mark it up $200 and add to the description that it has "upgraded toddler proof doors" :rolleyes:

or duct tape really soft mittens on his hands. his hand will just slip around while trying to unlock and open doors. and as an added bonus you'll get to laugh hysterically at the child's agony.

(wwaaaaayy) back in the day, we had cats. As a joke, we mittened their paws with tissue held on with rubber bands. Hysterical! Watching them try to step out of the "mittens" as they moon-walked backward, shaking each lifted paw in turn... omg...

Yes, I am easily amused.

I love that trick. It's almost as much fun as sticking two cats into a sleeping friend's sleeping bag and zipping it all the way up before pounding on pots and pans screaming at the top of your lungs. aaaah, good times.

Fucking hell. As if.

He sounds like Young Master Dallas. We put in an extra security chain six feet up on the front door.

Have a great WEEK, Flint. REALLY. ALL week. NOT just the off days. Find money. Have a really filthy wet dream. Get a great parking spot, make all the green lights, and stop the gas pump on exactly $50 on the first try. I'm pulling for you.

Oh BTW, once he noticed the knob guard had seams, it took him literally ten seconds to pull the halves apart. So let's just make that a running total, and add the cost of a tube of superglue.

I figure we're going to need it on there for several more years anyway, and we can always cut it off with big wire cutters or something when we're ready.

Couldn't you just put a security chain on the door, out of his reach?

Out of reach is the key - whatever you do - even a simple slide lock, just put it at the top of the door.

Only problem with a slide bolt or chain is that when Mr. Clod comes home, Clodfobble will have to go open the door for him when he rings the doorbell.

An additional deadbolt up high would do the trick though. It could be opened from the outside with a key. They aren't that hard to install if you buy a drilling alignment kit.

Do they sell a kid's version of those electronic collars that keep dogs from leaving the yard?


Bzzzzt.

'Xactly. Plus, with anything that allows the door to open a few inches before stopping, it just means I'll be walking over all day to shut the door again and again.

The other thing is, we have a metal door. (Painted black, and it faces the afternoon sun. Don't touch that sucker in the summer...) Wouldn't we need more special drilling equipment for that?

Probably. I think they normally come pre-drilled.

My final suggestion is to replace the current deadbolt you have with one that uses a key on the inside instead of a lever, and you hang that key inside on a nail by the door up high. Depending on your set-up, that may or may not be possible.

thats the best idea yet glatt - the only thing that concerns me about a keyed exit is in the case of an emergency like a fire or whatever at night.

Well, if minifob is in bed, you can take the key off the hook from beside the door and actually put it in the door (on the inside) so you can open it quickly in an emergency. You only need to remove the key and hang it on the hook/nail when the little guy is in the room.

You can get knobs that will take a coin instead, but I know a mom whose child with autism figured out how to jimmie those. :)

and after she yelled at him, Lil Lookout busted her in the chops. it was an ugly incident.

you said 'knobs'

Hope everyone who hasn't already taken Friday off has a good long Labor Day weekend. Relaxing or eventful, lazy or project-filled. See you Tuesday!!!

We just had our bank holiday last monday. Was nice to have a 3 day weekend. :)

Re: Clod's door issue.

Steven King has a solution. Read "Misery". [/eeeevvviiiillllllllllllllll]

Lovely weekend so far thanks.
Got up late(ish)
Cleaned room, changed bedding, went food shopping
Came in here for t'internet... Hely on my desk and door open to let in the breeze (security gate locked, so I'm safe and so is the building!)

Back to the pub in a little while and I'll have the Diz cat to play with, then laze about reading until it's time for my shift.
Work on a Saturday - meh, I need the money.

Sunday will be another lie-in and then work and then relax.
Although I am stressed about the temporary nature of my accommodation it's stress and argument free. It's a lovely place to live.