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Carruthers 04-16-2010 10:35 AM

I've just seen the first House Martin of the year. A week later than last year but at least I've seen one. What will probably happen now is that there won't be anymore for weeks. I shall try to dismiss that pessimistic thought from my mind and look forward to the return of the Swallows and those real masters of the air, Swifts. :)

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

DanaC 04-16-2010 10:36 AM

Oh that's just fucking bizarre. I was playing with Pilau bout fifteen minutes ago and when he found the toy I'd hidden, I shouted "Callooh! Callay!"

It's not somethng I would normally say...

Shawnee123 04-16-2010 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Carruthers (Post 649393)
I've just seen the first House Martin of the year. A week later than last year but at least I've seen one. What will probably happen now is that there won't be anymore for weeks. I shall try to dismiss that pessimistic thought from my mind and look forward to the return of the Swallows and those real masters of the air, Swifts. :)

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

I read that as "first House Martian." :p:

Trilby 04-16-2010 10:51 AM

My brain is slowly coming back online.

yay.

DanaC 04-16-2010 10:51 AM

Hurrah!

Carruthers 04-16-2010 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 649395)
I read that as "first House Martian." :p:

No, they're not in the least bit unusual around here. In fact, I would go so far as to say that most of the local populace come from the outer reaches of the galaxy. Well, let's put it this way, few seem to be of 'this world'.:eyebrow:

Shawnee123 04-16-2010 11:10 AM

My people, then. ;)

Carruthers 04-16-2010 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 649394)
Oh that's just fucking bizarre. I was playing with Pilau bout fifteen minutes ago and when he found the toy I'd hidden, I shouted "Callooh! Callay!"

It's not somethng I would normally say...

Ah, you see, those waves of genius must have hurtled down the M1 when I needed inspiration.:thumb:

limey 04-16-2010 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 649399)
My brain is slowly coming back online.

yay.

Yay!

Cloud 04-20-2010 01:02 PM

The new perfume I got, "Gluttony":

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Thick, sugared and bloated with sweetness. Dark chocolate, vanilla, buttercream, and hops with pralines, hazelnut, toffee and caramel.
from Black Phoenix Alchemy lab (outlets in Gomorrah, Port Royale, Tombstone, Arkham, Vieux Carre, Brooklyn and LA)

http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/welcome.html

kerosene 04-20-2010 03:26 PM

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HLJ I am glad to hear you guys were able to fix the CO problem. Sorry you can't work from home, anymore, though. Husband lost his job, so he is constantly "working from home."

This is what is making me happy today. We have to find a cheaper place to live, now that our income is significantly less. This is what we have found:

glatt 04-20-2010 03:44 PM

Hey, that looks pretty cool. I'd LOVE to have a barn. And look at all that space for the kids to run around. When the leaves come in, it will look downright gorgeous.

You could certainly plant a garden.

classicman 04-20-2010 04:56 PM

Wonderful! Looks so peaceful there.

DanaC 04-20-2010 04:56 PM

Awesome barn! I like!

squirell nutkin 04-20-2010 06:15 PM

Was able to sing a 19 note range today during my voice lesson. Hit the upper notes w/o the teacher kicking me in the nuts this time.

TheMercenary 04-20-2010 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 648331)
There's a big female elk wandering around the back yard. I haven't seen them here for a few months.

I would so shoot that, it could feed your family for 6 months.

kerosene 04-20-2010 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 650357)

You could certainly plant a garden.

I most certainly will!

Cloud 04-20-2010 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin (Post 650404)
Was able to sing a 19 note range today during my voice lesson. Hit the upper notes w/o the teacher kicking me in the nuts this time.

mee may ma mo mooooo!

squirell nutkin 04-20-2010 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 648840)
I think I succeeded in getting a shitty person fired today. Seems like a bitchy thing to be happy about but...fuck you. I'm tired of working with shitty, lazyass people.
I don't know why it takes so much work to get rid of TEMP agents. Anyway, I hope I won this time. :P

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 649009)
There are some consulting firms I could look into, but I don't know if I'm disciplined enough. Some days it's just so tempting.

Careful or that bitch, MTP, will fire your ass.:p:

HungLikeJesus 04-20-2010 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 650413)
I would so shoot that, it could feed your family for 6 months.

Probably longer than that - I'd be eating it by myself. Elk cows weigh about 500 lb.

HungLikeJesus 04-20-2010 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by case (Post 650350)
HLJ I am glad to hear you guys were able to fix the CO problem. Sorry you can't work from home, anymore, though. Husband lost his job, so he is constantly "working from home."

This is what is making me happy today. We have to find a cheaper place to live, now that our income is significantly less. This is what we have found:

That's a cool house Case. I wonder if it's haunted?

I'm sorry to hear about the income loss.

skysidhe 04-20-2010 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 649008)
No, sorry. I'm starting a new job Monday. I think they're going to want me to come to the office. No more work-from-home for me, either.

I find adding easier than subtracting; to subtract 9 from 20, just add one and subtract 10.

lol

and congrats on the new job

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Originally Posted by case (Post 650350)

This is what is making me happy today. We have to find a cheaper place to live, now that our income is significantly less. This is what we have found:

Nice! I hope you get it.

morethanpretty 04-21-2010 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin (Post 650447)
Careful or that bitch, MTP, will fire your ass.:p:

I don't see the connect at all.

I wish I could fire people, the fucking idiot is still here. Getting the same pay I do, only doing 1% of the amount of work, and doing it wrong. I'm more than frustrated. I am usually a really nice person, but if being a bitch is what is needed, than I will be.

Really lucky the repair man found the CO leak HLJ, that's scary! Good luck at the new job.

squirell nutkin 04-21-2010 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 650466)
Probably longer than that - I'd be eating it by myself. Elk cows weigh about 500 lb.

Just think how long it would last if you were a vegetarian.

squirell nutkin 04-21-2010 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 648840)
I think I succeeded in getting a shitty person fired today. Seems like a bitchy thing to be happy about but...fuck you. I'm tired of working with shitty, lazyass people.
I don't know why it takes so much work to get rid of TEMP agents. Anyway, I hope I won this time. :P

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 649009)
There are some consulting firms I could look into, but I don't know if I'm disciplined enough. Some days it's just so temping.

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 650502)
I don't see the connect at all.

I wish I could fire people, the fucking idiot is still here. Getting the same pay I do, only doing 1% of the amount of work, and doing it wrong. I'm more than frustrated. I am usually a really nice person, but if being a bitch is what is needed, than I will be.

Sorry about your having to deal with a goldbricking a-hole. I connected the dots in bold. I think my humor has a lot to do with words and intentional mis-reading of them. I suspect it is due to some Irish blood.

I had a brilliant scheme for getting a cow-orker fired but it was so devious and potentially ruinous to the person I couldn't bring myself to do it.

morethanpretty 04-21-2010 12:57 AM

Oh, sorry I took it wrongly. Just easily riled today I guess.:o

HungLikeJesus 04-21-2010 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin (Post 650505)
Just think how long it would last if you were a vegetarian.

As I said in another thread, if you are what you eat then I am a vegetarian.


And thanks, MTP.

squirell nutkin 04-21-2010 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 650523)
As I said in another thread, if you are what you eat then I am a vegetarian.


And thanks, MTP.

At least an herbivore...

jinx 04-21-2010 05:45 PM

Got mah Jeep back!

http://is7.itookthisonmyphone.com/m/..._568x426r0.jpg

glatt 04-21-2010 06:29 PM

Yay!

jinx 04-21-2010 07:25 PM

Thanks! I'm so happy.... it's been so long (I put 3k miles on the Extortion) it's like getting it new all over again!
Of course it's all rainy and shitty out so I can't just hang out and fawn all over it... any more....

lumberjim 04-21-2010 07:44 PM

looking at it....something is different.

took me a second, but it's the antenna! the fuckers put a stock antenna on it!

time to install the new mini i got jinx for xmas!

classicman 04-21-2010 07:57 PM

Woo Hoo - Great to hear! Take that baby out and go muddin'!

DanaC 04-21-2010 09:05 PM

Har! The Jinxmobile is back in business!

ZenGum 04-22-2010 11:06 PM

Yay! Can you go and knock down some trees with it, or run over a few baby seals? You've got months of eco-vandalism to catch up on ;) .

skysidhe 04-22-2010 11:16 PM

Yay for you jinx! It looks like you got some real nice tires and wheels too. Well they look nice to me anyway. Meaty

Bruce 9012 04-23-2010 12:17 AM

Nice, have seen the before. Please be nice to the squirrels. i really like them for the diseased little beggers they are...At least the city ones.

HungLikeJesus 04-23-2010 12:21 AM

We're expecting snow tomorrow - somewhere between 6 and 15 inches.

xoxoxoBruce 04-23-2010 12:24 AM

Tell you wife to spray the shovel with PAM, it'll make it easier for her. :haha:

HungLikeJesus 04-23-2010 12:30 AM

Even better: I'll just spray the driveway with Teflon.

kerosene 04-23-2010 12:37 AM

Did you get your pavement already?

xoxoxoBruce 04-23-2010 12:37 AM

Oww, that sounds like fuuuuuuuun. :D

kerosene 04-23-2010 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 650467)
That's a cool house Case. I wonder if it's haunted?

I'm sorry to hear about the income loss.

It might be...the older part was built in 1907 (for you Brits out there, that's like something being built in the 1700s in Brit years. We just don't have old houses like you guys do.) The inside has been completely remodeled and it is huge. Bigger than where we live now, and cheaper! What a deal.

No worries about the income...we are minimizing expenses and working hard on our cleaning business.

Bruce 9012 04-23-2010 12:43 AM

Or just make the whole driveway out of black box material. No matter how inebriated you are you will always find It.

HungLikeJesus 04-23-2010 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by case (Post 651003)
Did you get your pavement already?

Yes, they came in last Friday and did the whole thing in about four hours, including excavation. They used 94 tons of asphalt.

I'm interested to see if the snow melts better than when we just had dirt.

xoxoxoBruce 04-23-2010 01:31 AM

Holy Shit.:eek:

ZenGum 04-23-2010 02:28 AM

94 tons???

Indeed, holy shit.

HungLikeJesus 04-23-2010 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 651014)
94 tons???

Indeed, holy shit.

That explains the smell.

Sundae 04-26-2010 12:43 PM

We have a pirate theme in school at the moment.
I spent the afternoon helping to make (and sometimes sneakily making) pirate cutlasses.

I only took over when a child was getting upset. The rest of the time I was just lending a hand. Gutted that this didn't leave me enough time to make my own though!

xoxoxoBruce 04-26-2010 04:19 PM

Making weapons? IN SCHOOL!? :eek:

monster 04-26-2010 06:34 PM

beest is outside right now teaching kids to make rockets :eek: :lol:

HungLikeJesus 04-26-2010 07:55 PM

Hey SG, I guess I've been gone a while. I didn't know you were back in school.

TheMercenary 04-26-2010 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 651733)
beest is outside right now teaching kids to make rockets :eek: :lol:

Rockets are cool. :thumb:

Sundae 04-27-2010 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 651747)
Hey SG, I guess I've been gone a while. I didn't know you were back in school.

I volunteer two days a week at a local school. I'm in Year 2, which is 6-7 year olds. I'm motivated because being a Teaching Assistant is something I was interested in anyway and I wanted to try it out, but mostly because they have all this cool stuff!

We have FOUR live chicks in the classroom right now.
So cute.

Me and the chicks I mean.

This arvo I am mostly making my own cutlass (if it's any good I will take a picture for you) and I'm planning on putting in an extra day this week. I'll go in tomorrow to make up for the day I missed before Easter. And to show off my cutlass.

Bruce - if'n it's made of card and foil it's acceptable even in this country. I think. I'm a white female, I reckon I'll get away with it....

DanaC 04-27-2010 08:31 AM

a white female who is at least partially responsible for an earthquake though ...

CzinZumerzet 04-27-2010 10:33 AM

Deep joy! Walking through the park with my cousin's great-grand daughter aged two, talking duck (quackery) and squirrel and plucking tiny fistfulls of blossom from the cherry and almond trees. And the sun has shone and shone and - yes - shone.

Life is so good on days like these.:biggrin:

lumberjim 04-27-2010 01:16 PM

dig that, cz.


my daughter just called me up and played me the riff from 'glycerine' (that my son taught her) over the speaker phone. Nice.

Pie 04-28-2010 01:18 PM

One really sweet strawberry.

Shawnee123 04-30-2010 11:40 AM

To counteract what is really pissing me off today, I made an appointment for a one hour massage using the gift card I got last November for my birthday.

They better have a slobber bucket!

Sundae 04-30-2010 02:34 PM

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Only 2 chicks now.
The lady who supplied the eggs (a parent of a child in the class) only had one hatchling.
So we "donated" the two yellow chicks back - they need to socialise in order to be happy and healthy.

These are our two remaining.
They seem to get cuter the older they get!


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