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Old 12-27-2006, 09:46 PM
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Oh, MAN. HOW DID I LET THAT HAPPEN?

Uh. Here is some stuff about Batman to distract attention from my humiliating faux pas!
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Old 12-27-2006, 10:08 PM
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Old 12-28-2006, 03:33 AM
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I hit the jackpot. A new book by the Dalai Lama. Heehee.

How to See Yourself As You Really Are

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Old 12-28-2006, 06:00 PM
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Miscellany: The giant tree in front of my house is pretty much finished dropping its leaves, but I didn't realize it would do an encore performance. Now it's dropping these turd-shaped, soft, yellowish-green cone things. By the bushelful. The Li'l Puppet loves them, and always has to pick up one of the "worms" and treat it as a pet. I, however, am considerably less enamored of them. They dump all over the driveway, the lawn, and the street in front of my house. When I sweep them up, they leave a chalky yellow residue behind. Blech. I packed the compost/yard waste bin to nearly bursting with this stuff.

Yet, for all my bitching, I find sweeping up leaves & whatever these things are to be somewhat therapeutic. There's something calming about cleaning up this particular mess, even though I know there will be another mess tomorrow. Maybe there's something in that yellow chalky powder. No, I'm not going to experiment with it. Sweeping is enough. I guess I'm getting old. :broom:
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Old 12-28-2006, 07:11 PM
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Oo! Stuff about Batman. :distract:
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Old 12-29-2006, 01:41 AM
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I just noticed something.

Plant Woman and I have very similar avatars.

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Old 12-29-2006, 01:58 AM
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Miscellany: The giant tree in front of my house is pretty much finished dropping its leaves, but I didn't realize it would do an encore performance. Now it's dropping these turd-shaped, soft, yellowish-green cone things. By the bushelful. The Li'l Puppet loves them, and always has to pick up one of the "worms" and treat it as a pet. I, however, am considerably less enamored of them. They dump all over the driveway, the lawn, and the street in front of my house. When I sweep them up, they leave a chalky yellow residue behind. Blech. I packed the compost/yard waste bin to nearly bursting with this stuff.

Yet, for all my bitching, I find sweeping up leaves & whatever these things are to be somewhat therapeutic. There's something calming about cleaning up this particular mess, even though I know there will be another mess tomorrow. Maybe there's something in that yellow chalky powder. No, I'm not going to experiment with it. Sweeping is enough. I guess I'm getting old. :broom:
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If so, they're probably "catkins"...unisex reproductive organs...and the yellow powder? Pollen. You're cleaning up tree spooge.
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Old 12-29-2006, 03:35 AM
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I need to replace my medicine bag. I took it off today before I got in the shower, and noticed there is a small hole on the back, where the leather has rubbed off.

Hmmm...I have to go do some research on the proceedure. LOL.
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Old 12-30-2006, 10:01 PM
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The LM just got a new cell phone because his old one was all wrecked up and because of how much of a good mom I am. (I found him an unlocked Motorola Pebl so he can still use his way out of contract AT&T wireless SIM card.)

Anyway, what's the first thing he does? Bananaphone ringtone is what.
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Old 12-31-2006, 01:35 AM
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You lost me after 'cell phone'
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Old 12-31-2006, 05:24 AM
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Oh, yeah? Well, you lost ME at "medicine bag" before.

I thought you meant, like, one of those old timey things that doctors carry in the movies.
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Old 12-31-2006, 05:55 AM
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I can't see your legs, qb! :giggle:
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Old 12-31-2006, 08:05 AM
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I just discovered something. If you highlight a word, then click on either the bold, italic or underline function, it automatically does it to the word you've highlighted. I never knew that.
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Old 12-31-2006, 08:08 AM
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Oh, yeah? Well, you lost ME at "medicine bag" before.

I thought you meant, like, one of those old timey things that doctors carry in the movies.
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The LM just got a new cell phone because his old one was all wrecked up and because of how much of a good mom I am. (I found him an unlocked Motorola Pebl so he can still use his way out of contract AT&T wireless SIM card.)

Anyway, what's the first thing he does? Bananaphone ringtone is what.



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I need to replace my medicine bag. I took it off today before I got in the shower, and noticed there is a small hole on the back, where the leather has rubbed off.

Hmmm...I have to go do some research on the proceedure. LOL.
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If so, they're probably "catkins"...unisex reproductive organs...and the yellow powder? Pollen. You're cleaning up tree spooge.
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I can't see your legs, qb! :giggle:

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Old 12-31-2006, 08:45 AM
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He he... Fun. :aww:
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Old 01-05-2007, 05:40 PM
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Where the heck did all these muppets come from all of a sudden?


I have the day off. I was planning on going to run errands, since my library books were due back today. I figured I'd fill up my work vehicle and hit an ATM so I have walking around money. So, I think, well, if I'm going out, I have to get the gifts out of the trunk, wrap them, box them, mail them.

It seemed like a lot of work. So, I renewed my books online and stayed in my sweats. It's my day off, and I'm taking it. LOL.

I was going through a little box of stuff, and came across my Gram's thimble. It gave me a sharp pain of missing in my chest for a second.


I think I may be the last person in Delaware without a cell phone. And it suits me fine. I am actually toying with the idea of having my phone turned off all together.
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Old 01-05-2007, 06:14 PM
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Where the heck did all these muppets come from all of a sudden?
No... the question is more like, why don't you have a Muppetar yet? Well?! :glare:
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Where the heck did all these muppets come from all of a sudden?
No... the question is more like, why don't you have a Muppetar yet? Well?! :glare:
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Old 01-05-2007, 06:44 PM
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I found this:

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/

Kind of frighenting, actually.
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If so, they're probably "catkins"...unisex reproductive organs...and the yellow powder? Pollen. You're cleaning up tree spooge.
Yup, those are them. I actually don't clean up the spooge, I'll let the rain wash that away. I'm just sweeping up the genitals.
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Old 01-05-2007, 06:56 PM
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I think I may be the last person in Delaware without a cell phone. And it suits me fine. I am actually toying with the idea of having my phone turned off all together.
Wow. I didn't know you were from Delaware. I'm totally racist against Delaware!

I don't understand the anti-cell phone thing much. I don't like talking on the phone at all, cell or otherwise, but I like telephones as machines, and I like knowing I have access to them, just in case.

I pay $7 a month for my cell service, and almost nobody has my number, but I like having the option. Like when my landline was down for days and days, I needed it for talking to clients. And when Maturin insists on driving to work in blizzards, I will make him take it just so I know he can call me from whatever ditch he ends up lying in.
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So my new office is like being in a greenhouse. Huge windows and the wall facing the hallway is entirely glass, including the door.

It's been unseasonably warm and sunny as of late and the sunlight turns this place into a sauna. They "fixed" the thermostat so that the AC will blow. It blows alright.

Right on top of me. Because they've squeezed two people into this office and I'm sitting right under the vent.

So, there's this gentle, but annoying, breeze blowing on me. And it's getting a little chilly.
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Old 01-05-2007, 07:25 PM
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I understand the need for cell phones.

Fortunately for me, I don't have any need for one.

Some people, though, clutch to them, as though it's their only hope of being recognized as a person. LOL. "Oh, please, someone call me!"

Everyone has seen that type and knows what I mean. The guy in front of you at the light, frantically reaching across his body with his left hand because he's got his phone plastered to his right ear, and heaven forbid he put it down and shift into first gear.

The person in aisle six, asking the all knowing guru on the other end "Should I get the brown one or the green one?" Well all know this is what they're saying, because they're talking very loudly. It's to be expected, though. If you aren't intelligent enough to make a decision on your own in the grocery store, surely you can't be expected to be coutreous of the 'real people' around you.

Some folks I feel kind of bad for. I saw a guy, 5:30am, in Dunkin Donuts, buying a couple dozen donuts, a couple of those boxes o' coffee. Tie already loosened up, sleeves rolled and sweat already showing. And, of course, with a cell phone stuck to the side of his head, already talking business.

I couldn't imagine having someone invade my privacy where ever I was at the time. At home, yes, I have a phone. At work, ditto. But, when I am in my car, or hiking, or out at the store, or where ever, that is my own personal time. It offends me that someone can just show up, uninvited, where ever I happen to be. Ugh.

And let's face it. With some people, they may as well put a nipple on their cell phone and be done with it.
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Old 01-05-2007, 07:53 PM
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Meh. I have a cell phone but hardly anyone calls me on it. I use it to surf the Internet, to record oral memos to myself, and to write my shopping list. Oh, I also use it to calculate tips.
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oral memos.. :giggles:
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