Well, where are you, now?
I am in an uncomfortable chair in a laboratory in Buffalo, NY.
I am also in a state of mild bliss. How about you?
I am also in a chair. My chair is actually semi-comfortable (though the back of it is semi-broken)
I am a easy day's sail northeast of Kat, near Toronto on the shores of mighty Lake Ontario.
I am also at the point in a waning caffeine-induced high when one starts to feel philosophical, though that will pass with my next cup of coffee.
Lying on a small bed in a small bungalow in a small town in the fairly large Cambridgeshire fens, thinking I'd better go to sleep soon as I've got to get up at 5AM.
Likewise lying in bed in London, where I have been all day.
Now don't go concluding anything odd about the Brits.
Sitting at the computer in front of my bedroom window. As I glance out the window, I can see the setting sun and the branches from the large hemlock tree that is very close to the house. I just saw a squirrel, gathering nuts already for the upcoming winter. There is a cardinal in the tree also. I'm listening to the NBC Nightly News as I type.
OOh, they are playing the Clinton/Wallace faux news interview as I type.
At my little desk in my chair, where I no longer hate to be!!
(Yesterday, I lay in bed all day and read a book. YAY!!)
I'm covered in Schnauzies, and have Precinct 301 to call tomorrow to make sure people are registered to vote, so i'm leaning to pronounce names like Giessenschlagh and Drgac. I'm happy.
Sitting at my #2 computer chair (I like to switch'em out from time to time. #1 is in the laundry room).
I'm currently listening to South Park - one of the earliest episodes, the one where Kyle's little brother was taken by aliens, and Cartman has an 80-foot alien antenna dish in his neither parts, which he refuses to admit exists. Good Stuff!
Tomorrow, early, I'm going out to Grand Lake* to work on a cabin's A/C renovation. The lake is beautiful this time of year - too bad I won't have time to get any boating in - If I had a boat.
* Grand Lake is in Oklahoma, which is in middle of the USofA. It's just north of Texas, if that helps... ;D
How close to Texoma? ;D
I'm sitting at my amazingly cluttered desk, in a fairly comfortable task chair, listening to my husband scream at the TV (football game.)
I can feel my feet swelling. Been here to long fighting the challenge of "Log In". Think I'll go to bed and read.
I am sitting at my computer desk, in my little computer room...yes I have a room just for computers...listening to Al Stewart and reading the forums, in a small town just west of Tulsa, OK.
I'll be in OKC October 5th. Let me know if anybody wants to hang out.
MB
Quote from: Vita Curator on September 25, 2006, 11:36:20 PM
... There is a cardinal in the tree also....
Definite Monty Python moment there. Hadn't heard of a bird called a Cardinal until I just looked it up. Thank goodness it wasn't Cardinal Fang.
Amazing coincidence. Everyone seems to be near a computer.
Amazing. I am home, putting off going in to work until after the honey is done with her early morning class.
I'm mostly in a state of exhaustion.
My current location is 44°49'14" of northern latitude; 20°27'44" of eastern longitude...
I am in Miami Beach
(Chained to) a desk for 12 hours every day since Saturday.
At least until this Saturday if all goes well....
You guys won't believe this, but I, too, am at a computer. Mine is located somewhere outside the greater Washington DC area, up in the piedmont where I hope it's safe.
Autumn is coming on here and the dogwood trees have begun to turn red, all the better to hide the cardinals.
Hi all. Back at the computer again in front of my bedroom window in a rural area in Penn's Woods not too far from Harrisburg. I cannot see the cardinal today Beagle (who is Cardinal Fang?).
Listening to the local news, many people in Harrisburg today protesting for and against proposed gun control legislation. What a passionate debate they are having, the newscaster just said that it appears that most of the legislators are "scared to touch it". Oh well, that is for another thread, eh?
Beautiful autumn day today, mornings are already quite chilly though. Some of the trees are just beginning to turn.
Quote from: Vita Curator on September 26, 2006, 11:10:35 PM
(who is Cardinal Fang?)
It's so sad when a person doesn't have a proper grounding in Monty Python. ;D
Cardinal Fang was part of the Spanish Inquisition:
(http://www.montypythonpages.com/pictures/gilliam_redbig_sm.jpg)
Watch out for the...
soft cushions!!!
Isn't that Terry Guilliam?
(no one expects the Spanish Inq...)
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on September 27, 2006, 12:03:04 AM
Quote from: Vita Curator on September 26, 2006, 11:10:35 PM
(who is Cardinal Fang?)
It's so sad when a person doesn't have a proper grounding in Monty Python. ;D
Cardinal Fang was part of the Spanish Inquisition:
(http://www.montypythonpages.com/pictures/gilliam_redbig_sm.jpg)
Watch out for the... soft cushions!!!
Hmm, he looks a bit deranged. Sadly, my Monty Pythonese is sorely lacking, I have only seen a few skits/sketches. What a deprived life I have led. I shall have to hit the library and borrow some Python DVD's! ;)
Quote from: MentalBlock996 on September 26, 2006, 03:41:12 AM
How close to Texoma? ;D
As I recall, Texoma is in the southern part of the state.
Grand Lake, on the other hand, is in the north-east part of the state, about 2/3 way between Tulsa and the state line to Arkansas. Or, if you have Google Earth, it's aprox 36°30'19.42"N by 94°57'23.95"W or so.
I've been at work every day for the last seventeen days, and today I'm having a day off. This afternoon I might try and actually watch the DVD of Spartacus that I bought about a month ago.
Quote from: The Black Spot on September 27, 2006, 11:41:50 AM
I've been at work every day for the last seventeen days, and today I'm having a day off. This afternoon I might try and actually watch the DVD of Spartacus that I bought about a month ago.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr you sure you're not me? Oh, wait. I took Saturday off.....
Day off? What is that? Some kind of paralell universe thingy?
Yeah. It's like Easter, it only comes once a year and you never know when it's coming until right before it happens.
As it turns out, I am on a small volcanic island (but it thinks it's Big) in the middle of the Pacific ocean, sitting on a chair in a building halfway up a volcano. And that's normal for me.
Earthquake(not kidding!)!
Duke
Like the majority of the other users, I appear to be sitting in front of a computer. The computer itself is located a few kilometers outside of Frankfurt, near the Taunus hills (called "mountains" by the natives). I'm listening to old Alan Parsons Project songs, I'm bored, but happy. Have a nice day.
In front of a terribly messy desk, in a comfy chair, and procratinting about writing my debate case. Listening to Team Glaxay, a silly American Anime show.
In a comparably comfy chair in front of my uncomfortably slow computer in my office in the Technical Chemistry building of the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, Europe, the West, planet Earth, system Sol, unfashionable Orion spiral arm of milky way galaxy, somewhere in a universe that bred both Paris Hilton and GWB and is therefore to be considered hostile.
At home, again. Thinking about what I want to eat for breakfast on Saturday.
At home, on a cold Saturday morning, sipping freshly ground French Roast ambrosia. Ahh.
had a Whataburger with a chocolate malt ... at least that is what I asked for ...
What I got was a plain choco-shake. Disappointment!
Why is it, that some folk do not care one whit about the job they are being paid to do?
I know it's only fast food, but the young-person who made my "malt" obviously did not care about the quality of their work, or that their name was on it, and it was a bad product.
Back in the day, when I did my time in fast-food, I did care about the results -- within the materials I was given, I st rived to at least match the customer's expectations. My name was on the results, as well as the restruants'.
*sigh*
I drank it anyway ...
WhataBurger has that problem...
The HQ chews 'em out, but some franchizes SAY they're giving you a malt if they use a half-teaspoon of it. You and I BOTH know it takes more than that. ::)
If you're ever in Refugio, Texas...THEY make a malt with MALT in it at that WhataBurger. (Family member owns it. LOTS of malt in the malts...by command of Da Boss...)
No WhataBurger here. I miss WhataBurger.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on October 09, 2006, 01:55:03 AM
WhataBurger has that problem...
The HQ chews 'em out, but some franchizes SAY they're giving you a malt if they use a half-teaspoon of it. You and I BOTH know it takes more than that. ::)
If you're ever in Refugio, Texas...THEY make a malt with MALT in it at that WhataBurger. (Family member owns it. LOTS of malt in the malts...by command of Da Boss...)
No WhataBurger here. I miss WhataBurger.
Personally, I put much of the blame on McD's, who only serve "shakes".
Not really a big fan of milk-and-icecream. I can make a better one at home, with better ingredients (add a teaspoon of real vanilla extract to chocolate ones. Add tablespoon to the "plain" vanilla ones. Add some strawberry preserves to the strawberry ones. Blend with hand blender).
When I was a laddie, in the 4th grade, we lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota (the dairy state, according to them at the time). There was an Ice Cream parlor-type-store called "Bridgemans". They only used the finest ingredients, and they made a real chocolate malt. Heavenly! And their vanilla malt had real vanilla extract, not the imitation kind. Their ice cream was made with lots and lots of milk-fat. I haven't had a Bridgemans ice-cream for nearly 40 years, but I still remember it well ...
Ah! Bridgemanns!
They invented the Knickerbocker Glory, and the Lallapalooza Shake, and the Patty Melt - a true Patty Melt has wheat on one side, rye on the other, and Swiss cheese on the rye side and cheddar on the wheat side!
Heh...I'd blame McD's for ruining almost ANY "fast food" by focusing on fast and leaving out the food.
I once presided over a Patty Melt war that included the Original, the rye only option, and the wheat only option. Finally I put down the spatula, turned off the stove and told em' to get me when they had decided... Wheat only?? What's up wif dat?? And it's a PATTY melt, not a bread melt...ya melt the Swill on the mean and the American into the bread, but on top of the grilled onions.
Least that's how my Aunt Jean taught me.
At home, in the Sault. Drinkin' a beer. Thinking about Samhain tomorrow... That scroll of the dead's a killer one for me this year.
at my computer, in my house, waiting for someone to get on MSN.... posting here... listening to weird al....
procrastinating on Biology homework....
I need to post here when I'm actually somewhere insteresting.
~Qwerty
at work doing nothing at all.
Tansy. do you pronounce it samhain or sow..win....
anyhoo not being rude just wondering.......reading that kinda takes me back high school and november coming fire.......it's true youth is wasted on the young
I'm sitting here in a quite comfortable chair, with the laptop on a table beside me, in front of my fireplace, with a bottle of (excellent!) Riesling wine. I just sent to Berlin the work of 3 weeks and I'm taking a break now, which explains why I happen to be in a good mood.
Soon leaving for a (photo) lecture on Tibet.
Was looking for a special topic in scientific literature database.
The first two interesting hits were Japanese, the next Chinese, 4+5 were Russian (none of those languages I can say to be able to understand, although I can read kyrillic).
Quote from: rumblemonk on November 06, 2006, 07:41:54 PM
at work doing nothing at all.
Tansy. do you pronounce it samhain or sow..win....
anyhoo not being rude just wondering.......reading that kinda takes me back high school and november coming fire.......it's true youth is wasted on the young
It's pronouned "Sow-in". :)
I've just finished a cleaning fit. Waiting for my quiche to be cooked. Lookin' good in my yoga pants, grey teeshirt and hair in a bun. :D
Sitting at my desk at work.
I think I'm in the wrong time zone.... ???
Back to work.
I'm at my computer, wishing, waiting, thinking, listening to Coldplay. I'm in a Coldplay kind of mood.
Duke
Back home again after being in Accdent and Emergency (A&E) all night and on the medical ward most of today, getting ready to watch Casualty (i.e. A&E) on TV - like I can't get enough of it :)
Back to my room after a little walk: I went to the field and watched the stars while listening to Tchaikovsky. It was fun.
Duke
just woke up, checking the forums for once when I should be getting ready to go to church.
ah well.
At this point, there is a fifty-fifty chance of me going to breakfast. But it's still early, 9:30... ;D
Duke
at this point, theres a 75-25 chance of me going to bed. but it's still early, 2:03.
and I hae a spanish project tommorow I have to do a majority of work on.
why am I posting here?
*rumages off*
~Qwerty
Taking a break from baking at My Friend's House.
8 cakes, four pies and about 9 dozen big dinner rolls down, only 12 or so pies to go.
5 pans of cornbread and the prepped and diced makings for dressing for the turkey population. (That's bread, and onion/celery/bell pepper ready to sautee and the butter to sautee it in measured into the Zip-Lock Baggies.)
Orange-Cranberry Sauce made.
What am I forgetting????
I'm here, but I cannot stay, for there are things that must be done, tasks begging to be completed....
Duke
you're telling me. I have a spanish project due wednesday I need to work the hell on.
but first, I require food.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on November 20, 2006, 08:02:17 AM
Taking a break from baking at My Friend's House.
8 cakes, four pies and about 9 dozen big dinner rolls down, only 12 or so pies to go.
5 pans of cornbread and the prepped and diced makings for dressing for the turkey population. (That's bread, and onion/celery/bell pepper ready to sautee and the butter to sautee it in measured into the Zip-Lock Baggies.)
Orange-Cranberry Sauce made.
What am I forgetting????
I can't imagine what - you've got me drooling all over the place, just from your brief descriptions! :drool:
Stuart's retired military.
When he was active duty, he'd get a bunch of the older guys with family here near Ft. Hood to split gate guard duty with him, and that way they could be with family part of the day and guard the gates the other part. Our group always went for 'late shift' and had TG dinner at 4:30 or so, so that the folks with kids could do noon. They've also always done the "come here don't be alone" thing with anybody...
Laurel had surgery last month. Laurel's a fair cook but not a baker (as if I am). We now have a 7 year tradition of feeding the gate guards (yeah, they could eat at the mess hall, but--bleagh) plus whoever shows up. The whole tradition is over 15 years duration.
And I have to go to MD Anderson for my chemo shot Wednesday, which means going home tomorrow. Today, I made and froze squash casserole, sweet taters with 'stuff' (no mushmellers--ick), the ubiquitous green bean casserole, and scalloped 15 pounds of potatoes.
I've made 4 cheese balls the size of Dallas, a couple of hot veggie dips, a couple hundred cocktail meatballs and a curry dip for fresh veggies. The hams are ready for the ovens, and the turkey batallion is prepared for frying and smoking.
The Army lends us a field oven big enough to bake a Volkswagon.
On Thursday, they'll feed 45-60 people. I'll be at Mama's, feeding 7 if I make it to the store...
Tradition!! (cue Fiddler theme)
Report from the front.
They fed 78 people.
They had enough everything, and one Spec 7 wants to marry me, even if i'm old enough to be his Mama...and he's never seen me, just ate my cooking!! (He ate half a pumpkin pie by himself, and was thrilled because it wasn't the canned pie filling kind. I'd MADE it, from real pumpkin, with fresh cream and eggs, and grated the nutmeg and all that stuff.)
7 people want my buttermilk pie recipe...
The Big Guy CO for the gate guards (some full-bird colonel person) hung out and hinted for an invite out to the house. He was told NO UNIFORM, and in their house, he's NOT an officer, even to his own guys. No "Sir" no saluting. He waited until all the meals were served, packed, sent, etc, and then helped with the dishes (and ate the last cup and a half of the orange cranberry relish, with a spoon.)
He and the E7 are considering dueling for my hand...Dan said no. ;D