For the uninitiated, every post must contain the phrase "my hill".
Edited for clarity
re-opening the Pleasure Dome on my hill
Enjoy the Coleridge/Frankie goes to Hollywood (delete as applicable), NoName.
Jumping up and down on my hill to check it's less earthquake-prone than my previous hill.
Spening a whole afternoon with models on my hill...
Now chilling, as my feet hurt from walking all afternoon with them...
Just to be sure, something like saying that I was going minding MY way distractedly, tripped on a rock, hit my head and while on the floor I saw a HILL, works?
Enjoying a beautiful Autumn day on my hill.
Missing the Q on My Hill.
wondering where the time goes on my hill - afraid there must be a time leak into some other hill
Quote from: NoName on September 26, 2006, 12:05:14 PM
Edit: the words my hill should be the phrase my hill as pointed out by a duff post below. With thanks to anon1mato >:(
Hey, I was just asking, you know... no need to :smite: me...
(Oh My...) ...hill.
;D
Home from spending the day at Grand Lake, which is not my hill at all. And, I did not even get within 10' of the water's edge ... :'(
pouring water on flame wars on my hill
On my hill, I'm hoping that Qwerty will come here,
I suppose as bouncy hairy things go, he wasn't too annoying. ;)
Thinking you can even miss toothache when it stops, on my hill.
Enjoying a quiet evening with the puppy dogs on my hill.
Looked through a cd of scanned photos of my relatives, which was sent to my parents on their diamond wedding, on my hill. It covered from pretty much the dawn of photography through to the current day.
I can now conclusively say (as I always suspected), that the 1970s had the weirdest hair styles of the last century and a half.
Just about 30 minutes until I've got to get ready to head to classes on My Hill. In the mean time, I'll bother ya'll. ;D
Duke
Still feeling like I've just had a beautiful dream, although the models are gone from my hill...
It's calm and plesant on My Hill, just the way I like it.
Duke
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on September 29, 2006, 02:04:58 AM
Still feeling like I've just had a beautiful dream, although the models are gone from my hill...
Ah, but it would have been so easy to have been lured into a shallow, superficial life of sex and drugs and endless parties. You have had such a lucky escape sibling. Now you can get back to weeding the monastery vegetable garden.
Chuckling under my breath, on my hill.
fighting moths on my hill
Quote from: beagle on September 29, 2006, 12:15:57 PM
Ah, but it would have been so easy to have been lured into a shallow, superficial life of sex and drugs and endless parties. You have had such a lucky escape sibling. Now you can get back to weeding the monastery vegetable garden.
Chuckling under my breath, on my hill.
Yes, I still cry at night, when I think of that life...
(Did I say that aloud?, Ooooops)
I mean, I'm happy this didn't happen on my hill of course...
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
It's getting early on My Hill........ Somehow.
Duke
My Hill is next to the high school football field (American football for all you *furners*). The team went to 4 - 1 last night, which is a great improvement over last years' 1 - 9 season.
both cats are asleep on my hill. My fat & sassy female cat is snoring softly*
If I pet the gray (male) he'll start-awake with a "brrrt?" - so I won't until I'm ready to head to bed (soon).
All else is cool and quiet. Nice.
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* ever hear a small cat snore? It took me some time to recognize that was what she was doing, as the pitch was high, and the timbre was fast. But, considering her head is about the volume of a baseball, it makes sense. But, I know she's sleeping well, if she's deep-sleep enough to snore. Happy cat!
torn between sleep and essay writing on my hill; if I do the essay and dont sleep, I'll not get to college tomorrow; if I don't do the essay and sleep, I'll make it to college (probably) but I won't have done any course work. The mutual exclusivity does not need much analysis to realize I am in an impossible bind on my hill.
Still no errors in the error log on my hill! :D
Pancakes and ham on my hill!
My Hill snuggles up to Grey's Hill and sniffs deeply.
<font=Homer>Arrrggghhttthhh, Ham </font> ::drools::
Wanting the forbidden (dietician and allergist, not religion) ham on My Hill, and going to eat a turkey sammich. :'(
Bummer, DD! Ham is half the reason I'm not a vegetarian.
Gloating over my lack of school until noon on my hill. My home distric has a teacher by-back day today, but the other school district here doesn't, so I still have to go to my off-campus classes
Having stress with my parents on my hill...
sleeping for England on my hill
Hot, today on My Hill. Working at McDonalds trying to get their new A/C system installed, before the interference gets too extreme.
Busy day on My Hill, bein' politically active.
Had lunch with the next Congressman for my district...one of the very few people that I think i'd ever trust to actually be a good politician, because he didn't really want to be one, but he felt it's his duty.
Feeling lucky on My Hill, that i'll have someone in Washington DC that I not only like, but respect. That's one thing that's been missing for so long.
Back from Traffic Court, today on My Hill.
Was surprised - got an efficient, amimable Judge. Was out of there within 90 minutes.
Unfortunately, he also was all business, and was not interested in listening to ANYthing - take what the city offered or plead not guilty & take your chances in actual court.
So, not being entirely dim, I plead guilty & took my lumps, WITHOUT getting a chance to 'splain.
Oh well. At least it was quick!
drowing in paperwork on my hill
Contemplating starting a "what are you eating?" thread while preparing to leave for a study group on my hill.
Cookin' an' cleanin' on My Hill
Slept for two and a half hour on my hill...
Went to sleep at around 7 am and has been waken up by my mother at 9:30 for no obvious reason...
Now trying to get over my hang over and tiredness...
On my hill
Fun stuff. I hate it when people wake me up.
Ranting about my idiotic government teacher on my hill. I leave campus for other classes around noon, and he wants me in there to get what I missed recently at lunch (which starts AFTER I leave) or after chool, but he leaves before I get out. >:(
Watched a cool movie on My Hill tonight.
16 Blocks, with Bruce Willis.
Some action, but mostly character development.
Worth a rental fee, at least.
Just got home from Oktoberfest on my hill. The Germans really know how to party, and eat, and drink, and eat, and drink.
Did I mention that they really know how to drink? Great beer! (hiccup).
Stupid STUPID stupid "state" fair near to My Hill.
Makes for needless TRAFFIC JAMS, due to STUPIDITY of folk who THINK they know how to drive, but do not really ...
Makes it rough for legimate person trying to make a LIVING, to get to next paying customer ... they oughta MOVE the "state" fair outsid'a town, is what they ought t'do. Not really an official "state" fair anyways--tha's only'n oklahomerCITY.
Stupid traffic.
Absolutely gorgeous and huge harvest moon on my hill. If you have clear skies, go outside and take a gander, just gorgeous.
Last day of the "state" fair on My Hill ... Yaaay! Traffic will return to normal, now.
I, too saw the huge moon, Vita. VERY cool.
(Have you noticed, that in the last few years, you can see a faint reflection of the "dark" part of the moon? [new moon?] When I was a kid, the dark moon was completely black. Nowadays, there are apparently enough lighted cities on Earth, that it glows faintly, if you're in a dark enough location. Interesting: light "pollution")
Having nightmares or day-mares this morning on my hill about mentally ill Kim Jong-Il and nuclear annihilation.
my son decided to make My Hill his hill, by overtaking the glorious mountains that My Hill is at the foot. Little does he know that in 6 months those mountains will no longer be his nor mine but her's.
I weep at the foot of My Hill.
(just trying to make up for lost time)
Playing in the the dirt on My hill. Planting my lovely chocolate mint in another pot.
Fixed the starter on my truck, on My Hill. It starts a whole lot better, now.
Imagine that?
Sleeping 12-18 hours a day on My Hill.
No particular reason, but it feels good.
today on My Hill, i was attacked by chimps who stole my sneakers
Havin' lunch on My Hill.
Was at our favorite little cafe near My Hill when there was a gas leak in the kitchen, and everybody had to evacuate.
Now perched at the top of My Hill watching for the Fire Department to leave...
(Our little Hills around here are 'homefolksy' enough that they said "We'll catch ya later on the tickets, OK?" and everybody said that'd be fine.)
Back to the Grand Lake cabin, today on My Hill.
Again, with the NO FISHING, NO BOATING -- just work, work, work.
But, we got alot done ...
being.
really.
damn...
tired....... OMH.
Well, Sib Q...you ARE older, you know.
We old folks need our rest. ;)
Is it a tag tired or a cake stupor, or both??
Trying to practice serenity on My Hill.
today on my hill, the chimps returned my sneakers and they (the sneakers) looked better than before. i think the chimps where cobbler gnomes.
cancelling the panic about necrotic skin on my hill
Much medical rejoicing on My Hill.
Fighting with bureaucracy on my hill...
And losing the battle...
I fought the desk, and the desk won. ;D
Smothered in Schnauzers on My Hill...again.
We're having our regular Mom Has Snacks session, because the new protien supplements they sent me to sample are VERY meat-smelling. (I'm on an advisory board for a company that's trying to find decent protien supplements for the corn, wheat and egg allergic.) That they taste like cardboard is not encouraging. But the dogs like them.
Nice.
Preparing to head off to my interview at Starbucks next to my Hill.
Crossing all fingers, toes and dog paws for Grey's interview to go well, and for a good schedule at Starbucks, with lots of good tippers!!
My Hill recognizes the need for good tippers in the service industry, because even though Starbucks pay fairly well (very well for a service industry job), the tip money is always a tangible reward for a job WELL done.
Are tips still taxed? I still don't understand how something like that passed and who was the :censored: that proposed it. >:(
I don't like taxes on tips on my hill.
Thanks for the hopes, Chatty! :D I have another one tomorrow at the one I'd prefeer to work at as well.
I dunno if they're still taxed.
He kept me waiting for about 20 minutes, the jerk. This is, of course, after standing me up because he misjudged when he would get back, and after not calling me after he missed the interview.
Spent the evening being a smart-ass at my religious education classes. Decided a good pro-life protest would feature pregnant women yelling, "You'll never de-fetus!"
Yes, tips are taxed.
In a bout of insanity, the gub'mint decided it can estimate how much your tips should be--based on the restaurant or bar's total sales and the number of servers working, and they count that with the 'minimum wage' of the $2.13 an hour that the employer MUST pay, so that you at least make minimum wage.
So, there's all this idiotic bookeeping and you're supposed to report all tips, and if they're on a credit card, they're counted automatically...
Wanna make a waitperson really happy? Put 10% on the card, and the rest of the tip in cash. They have PROOF that the tip was 10% and the cash doesn't have to be reported or taxed. That way, the government is covered, and the waitstaffer is actually rewarded for a job well done. (I just studied with my niece for her TABC bartender and servers certification, and there were hints and tips for maximizing tips written in the booklet in pencil.)
Oh, better go for the job with the person with some sense of time. Bosses with a bad sense of time don't relaize how much time you actually spend accomplishing all the 'sidework' that any server (even a barista) has. Tables don't wipe themselves, napkin holders don't fill themselves, and all too often people end up doing all that off the clock if the boss staffs badly. (Good bosses help out. Bad bosses wonder why you're having to do stuff after your shift, even if they short-staffed the entire shift.)
Can ya guess what I did for a living in college?? (And can I get you some more coffee?) On the bright side, when I actually had to run a restaurant later on, I knew what NOT to do.
All concentration of good wishes on job #2, without bad boss. On my hill... ;)
Being very tired on my hill...
Haven't slept all night, and it doesn't seem to change very soon...
today on My Hill, i caught one of the dastardly monkey/cobbler gnomes and it turns out that it was only Shelia from accounting playing a practical joke. which doesn't seem very practical to me.
But are the shoes in better shape??
That's good. ;)
Today is a sad day on My Hill.
Being thankful for a quiet spot in the trees.
Thinking about what alcohol I will buy on my hill for this evening's Chuck Norris Film Evening that will happen on a friend's hill...
(for the record - you watch a Chuck Norris movie, and everytime he does a roundhouse kick you drink, which is basicallt the only way you can survive a CN movie...)
Cooking dinner on My Hill.
It's a "cheat" that I boosted.
generic hamburger helper (stroganoff). Brown 1/2 as much meat, but add large onion to browning meat.
Substitute powdered milk & coffee-creamer (non-dairy). Otherwise, pretty much as package.
At end, dollop cottage cheese on top, let sit till this melts (substitute for sour cream)
Pretty good, considering!
(too embarrassed to post over on the recipe thread - 'waaaay too mundane as compared to the complex (but delicious-sounding) fare over there)
Likewise rounding up some dinner on My Hill.... rice and whatever can be scuttled together with limited veg and some tofu (probably hotpot...).
Then going to get pirate regalia for Halloween!
Same here...rice and whatever, with lots of garlic and onions.
(Universal recipe, meat plus heat equals food, add garlic and onions and it's GOOD food. With the protien requirements of our little gloup, we MUST have the meat, preferably local, un-hormoned, not feedlotted. Yeah, we can get that.)
Probably gonna bone out a pork roast to go with it.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on October 24, 2006, 01:23:41 AM
Same here...rice and whatever, with lots of garlic and onions.
Heh, that's our staple food (plus some hot peppers). If the cupboards are really bare, (fried) rice with lots of garlic and onions ain't too bad by itself.
Gonna make a simple tuna dish, tonight on my hill.
Have a taste for tuna fish, for some reason.
The cats will be curling around my ankles *mow* *mow* *mow* *mow* until I set the bowl of the tuna-drainings down. Then, it's *slurp* *slurp* *slurp* until the bowl is bone dry.
Funny thing: I tried two separate bowls, but found they did NOT get along. BUT, if I put into ONE bowl, they both get what they want of it. Go figure! Separate bowls: can't get along. Sharing bowl, peace!
There's GOTTA be a lesson in there somewhere or other ;)
A good one. When each has their own, they'll fight to protect it, but also try to get some of what the other has. When we share, we all get a share of what's there, good or bad, and can be content.
That or there's a lesson on the inherant selfishness of cats... if there's only one bowl, you're best to keep quiet and lap faster!
On my hill you will find the great NOMIS... joe e ;)
checking the toadfish site for like, twice in a month! yaaaaay and rejoicement.
I'll get the email updates set up PROPER now... they were going to my old email (bleaugk)
~Qwerty
On My Hill, i'm happy to see Sib Q here!!
And i'm considering never opening an e-mail from another doctor again. Ever.
My Hill is going on a medical information strike.
Welcome back, Sibling Chatty! Welcome Sibling Q!
Hope all is well for both of you, your your respective Hills.
Got a new cell phone on My Hill, today - connections are so cool. This one was given to me by my work-partner, who it was given to him by one of our best clients (too old - go figure! hardly 6 mo old, but he has to have the latest). It's one of those new-fangeled Moto Razor ones - worth well over $200US. So. Since I was saving to get a new one anyway, I spent that on a new earpiece instead - spent more that I should'a, but .. sometimes, ya just gotta splurge on yourself.
So- testing out my new headset on my new (to me) phone on My Hill.
Workin' on me cutlass and pegleg on my Hill
Slaving away in a digital darkroom, on our Vacation Photos on my hill.
I've posted a few...
munchin on foodstuffs, anticpiating watching Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight on my UU youth groups overnighter!
and the power went out about an hour ago at the church.
mwa ha haaa!!!!
~Qwerty
waiting to set my clock back on my hill
Being just kinda freaked out generally on My Hill.
I've tried being calm and sensible for years. Come Thursday, i'm turning over a new leaf, and will become a bizook, tweaked out weirdo. Oh, wait. Been there, done that, took too much energy.
Back to 'normal' if you call this normal, on My Hill.
Quote from: NoName on October 29, 2006, 01:33:29 AM
waiting to set my clock back on my hill
Now, all my clocks are automatic: my cell's clock is set by the cell-phone company. My PC has Atomic Clock applet, which sets it by the US Naval Atomic Clock.
My wall clocks are radio-controlled, from the US Time Broadcast signal.
Only in my truck, do I need to manually set the thing.
Living in an Auto-Time Zone on My Hill.
Can you come reset the clock in my kitchen?? I HATE that clock. I've tried to reset it for YEARS, and it doesn't ever reset for me.
The one in the stupid van isn't much better.
Hating to change clocks is just a part of the reason to dislike Daylight Wasting Time. It made sense when there were farmers as most of the workforce, it doesn't now.
Trying to figure out how to slap the entire US Government for foisting this on us, on My Hill.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on October 29, 2006, 04:38:16 AM
Can you come reset the clock in my kitchen?? I HATE that clock. I've tried to reset it for YEARS, and it doesn't ever reset for me.
Years ago, Mom used to set the timer on her oven for exactly 1 hour, and then run around and unplug the various electric clocks - some, she removed the battery.
Then, when the timer went off, she'd run around and plug them all back in, or re-install the battery.
Is your kitchen clock a battery or electric? <grin>
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on October 29, 2006, 04:38:16 AM
The one in the stupid van isn't much better.
Hating to change clocks is just a part of the reason to dislike Daylight Wasting Time. It made sense when there were farmers as most of the workforce, it doesn't now.
Trying to figure out how to slap the entire US Government for foisting this on us, on My Hill.
I agree, on My Hill, I usually leave the bedroom clock-radio (not automatic) as-is. I don't use it much for a clock anyway (use my cell, which is always right there).
Same for my truck's clock - until at some point, at a traffic light that is particularly long, I'll reset the darn thing.
Not enjoying the STUPID time-change on My Hill. (I agree with Chatty - it's a dumb idea. Put it one way or the other,
and leave it! )
realizing I have to set my clocks back on my hill...
'
yet the two in my room, two digital alarm clocks, don't get set BACKWORDS, it MUST be set forward an entire 23 hours.
ugh. I have to hit the button 23 times, twice.
~Qwerty
Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on October 29, 2006, 09:53:09 PM
realizing I have to set my clocks back on my hill...
'
yet the two in my room, two digital alarm clocks, don't get set BACKWORDS, it MUST be set forward an entire 23 hours.
ugh. I have to hit the button 23 times, twice.
~Qwerty
Try unplugging it, and see what the darn thing defaults to. Then, about an hour or so after that default time (usually 12:00 am or 12:00 pm) unplug the thing, wait, and plug it back. Then, its a relatively few clicks to set.
On My Hill. :P
thats actually kind of genius....
Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on October 30, 2006, 08:03:54 PM
thats actually kind of genius....
Accidental one, if so!
Discovered quite by accident, when I went to change my clock (similar to yours) I had to pull the cord to get at the controls. It was loose, and came undone.
When I plugged it back in, I realized it was going to be MUCH FASTER than what I had been prepared to do. Remembered that trick for future reference.
On my hill
My favorite clock while I was in college was part of a set of stuff...a wastebasket, deskpad and clock that were all emblazoned with the recently indicted and resigned Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. The ONLY way to set the clock was to sit with it, waiting until the proper moment to put the battery in, so that the time would be accurate.
This was all stuff that was going to be distributed an a College Republican convention where the person that I married (10 years later) was a planning official. The indictment and resignation made them eliminate the 10 'gift sets' for the leadership, and I managed to score one by fancy footwork, and threats and intimidation...
The ten that were sent to Texas were the only ones ever sent out. All the rest were destroyed. They tried to get the ten back, but it was too late. That all was among the stuff I lost in a flood.
Wishing I still had my Spiro T. Agnew Trash Can on My Hill.
Well *my* Hill is decorated wonderfully with pumpkins and dead guys on my front porch that we've dubbed 'Lumpy'. :D
My Hill is filled with speculations as to whether pesticides are linked to autism, hang-overs (not on my part, since I don't drink, and I didn't eat THAT much sugar:)) and a lack of sleep.
Suddenly freezing my fingers off on My Hill.
Some Lawyer must have opened his heart somewhere nearby. :P
Went out w/out my hat on My Hill, today. Went to "service" one of those old furnaces that are so old, that the only thing you can do to service it is, carefully open it up, and see if it's actually working. Try not to touch anything (lest it break). Confirm the pilot light is lit, and stays lit during operation. Check that the flames are more or less blowing where they ought (and not where they shouldn't). Sniff a vent nearest the output for the scent of flue-gasses (rough-and-ready test of the integrity of the heat exchanger). Button it back up, and hope it lasts until spring.
*sigh* don't folk realize they could do these things themselves, and save $$? On really, really old furnaces - the real test is "does it make heat? Yes? Good! It's working ..."
And then: GO BUY A CARBON-MONOXIDE DETECTOR---NOW! Much more important than a smoke detector, for any fuel-fired furnace. (which is NOT to say you don't need a smoke detector, too! You do!)
Contemplating dragging out the heaters on My Hill. I think i'll just depend on my blankies for another week or three.
Chilly evening on My Hill.
Hiding things in plain sight on My Hill.
Oh, and speaking of... I owe Toluous a pun explanation. It has to do with his former LPWB clues (early on)..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms_of_Korea
Three that became two, which I'd have an advantage at guessing.
The pun was on the word 'one'; the South Korean unit of currency is the 'wan'. Better puns can be made on the Vietnamese unit of currency.
raining, finally on My Hill. Forcast was for Sunday evening, but it came in early.
But, surprising, it did not come with uber-cold temps, it's 62F outside according to my remote thermometer.
But, with this rain (and we need about a 100 inches more) we're trying to catch up on the missing moisture of 2006. It's one of those slow rains that you can't really hear, unles you're out in it.
Nice. :)
Quaking in my boots on my hill.
Beautiful, huge, full moon tonight on my hill, and clears skies! Yay!
Being courted by an interesting young man on MY HILL. Hmmm
Having a slow day at My Hill.
Laundry and naps, cake for me and Snausages for my dogboy...lazy days are good.
Enjoying the vista of the clouds wafting over the many Hills, on my Hill.
today i was released from the gnome prison. cramped place. all walls no windows. weird noises....the took me in for knowing too much....they tried electric shock therapy but only had a 9 volt battery...the fools..........today on my hill i know freedom
decided I needed Pizza on My Hill. So, feeling a bit like sib Chatty, I ordered it delivered, instead of going and getting it.
I ordered a large - eat 1/2 & have the other tomorrow. Yaaay!
Mazzio's original crust supreme
Getting used to new environment on my hill...
New town, new school, new people...
Needing a beer on my hill...
Worrying about christmas presents on my hill
You and me both NoName... Nov is a month where we get an extra paycheque that's going to it. But heat's going up what with winter. Grr.. :)
But hey, MY HILL's all warm and toasty. We have food, furry creatures, warm clean clothing to wear, and friends. Who'm I to complain?
Quote from: NoName on November 15, 2006, 12:23:55 AM
Worrying about christmas presents on my hill
Isn't it terrible...the pressure is on already. To make matters worse my colleague sais he has finished his Xmas shopping! The sooner the Pirates do away with Santa the better! On my Hill.
needing matchsticks on my hill but have got shot of Freud
The times are a changin' on My Hill.... :-[
Duke
Hi Duke on your hill. Building another wretched hospital on my hill. How many do I need?
Allrighty. I've officially had enough of this. My Hill's turning into another 'where are they now' forum.
(rolls up sleeves)
I claim unreserved ownership. This is MY HILL! Mineminemine! And I'll egg anybody who says different. My mutant chickens are armed/egged and dangerous!
Oooh! In that case, I'll have scrambled eggs on My Hill. Mutant scrambled eggs. And Ham. But, first, I need to get my 1970's vintage sunglasses -- you know, the ones with the dark green lenses. Like the ones that Dorthy and friends were given when they went into the City of Oz.
Mmmmm! Emerald-colored Scrambled Eggs and Ham. Thanks, Sam--err Tansy!
My hill is being watched. But what's to see?
Duke
Mutant scrambled eggs is it? Oho!
"Would you like them with a nuclear glow?
Would you like them with a 'fro?
Would you eat them from a can?
Do you know what's *in* that ham?"
Edit:
*ahem* MY HILL
I LIKE it, I LIKE it, Tans-I-am!
I LIKE it in a can,
I LIKE it in a pan,
I will EAT it off the stove,
I will EAT it on the roam,
I don't care what's in that Ham-
'cause I LIKE it Tans-I-am!
(hee hee. With apologies to Dr Seuss, who must now be enjoying a Hill of his own somewhere beyond Whoville)
As for My Hill -- I'm now feeling a little green :mrgreen:
The eggs in the mess hall look green sometimes... :-\
The mess hall on this hill, anyway.
Duke
Still out of town, so My Hill's at home...cooking my fingers off on My Friend's Hill, though. (Pie crust, I gotta make more piecrusts...how many kinds of pie can one meal use??)
Okay, just today, tomorrow, and four hours on Wednesday before I'm off, before I'm traveling, going home... ;D
Duke
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on November 20, 2006, 07:38:52 AM
Still out of town, so My Hill's at home...cooking my fingers off on My Friend's Hill, though. (Pie crust, I gotta make more piecrusts...how many kinds of pie can one meal use??)
Mmmmm--- pie-crust. Me mam used to bake pies, when we wus wee ones, back in the day.
There were always leftover bits, "trimmings" as it were, and she'd lay those on a cookie sheet, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake until lightly brown. To a wee-one, heaven! Warm just out of the oven ...
Reminiscing of days long gone, on My Hill.
Around noon, on Wednesday, I get to return to my home-hill! It's far superior to this hill....
Duke
MY HILL (mineminemine) has lice. Grrr... So the evening consisted of Nix and combing. Mind you, two happy children getting their hair brushed into sleepiness while we watched Willow was nice...
wondering how I can possibly still be awake on my hill; thinking about getting a brain transplant; lost Herr Professor Nathaniel Winter-Wartson's phone number and directory enquiries are being most unhelpful; hoping someone on another hill can semaphore his number to me.
Everything is mellow on My Hill....Relax....
Duke
Quote from: Sibling Kephra (Tansy) on November 21, 2006, 03:24:51 AM
MY HILL (mineminemine) has lice. Grrr... So the evening consisted of Nix and combing. Mind you, two happy children getting their hair brushed into sleepiness while we watched Willow was nice...
Now THAT is an example of Mother's Unconditional Love, if EVER I heard it! :D
Not sleepy on My Hill. Listening to the DIY channel on cable. They are rebuilding a kitchen in someone's home, just now. Didn't learn anything new, unfortunately. :(
May go read a book & try to get some sleep ...
Everything is under control on my hill.
Well, almost.......
Duke
I've finally more or less settled on my new hill...
Soon, I'll finish everything I have to do to make this new hill my home... (basically get an internet connection at home)...
I'm safe on my hill. Safe and alone....
Duke
Home again on My Hill. At least until whatever silly time in the AM we have to leave for Houston so I can get shot.
Having lots of Spencer and Mommy time on My Hill.
Currently reading Andrew Sullivan's blog on my hill. Quite an interesting fellow.
destroying the planet printing my essay out on my hill
Having plans for a lazy day on My Hill.
YAY!!YAY!! Lazy day!!
We had pancakes for dinner on MY HILL. It was a lazy day... there were naps involved.
Starting a new job tomorrow. :D
Yay on new job! Hope it's a satisfying one, and has good working conditions and co-workers!!
Preparing for tomorrows Annual Festive Celebration on My Hill.
(It's Big Dead Cow Festival Day, the Sunday after Thanksgiving...also known as Dan's birthday party, and the reason we came to Somerville in the first place. Steak and cake!! YUM!!)
Tomorrow is the Last Day of a nice 4 day Do Nothing period, on My Hill.
Been a while since I'd had one of those. :D
I DID get plenty of tryptophan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan), though. :)
Sib Chatty's celebration does sound like fun, though-- who can resist pie and cow?* (heh)
____________________
* Pie and Cow - actually, it sort of sounds like a new cartoon, or the name of some alternative-wanna-be band, now that I've said it several times ... ::)
AS long as it's not cowpies...
No cowpies on My Hill--although there's a round-up going on in my side yard. Not cattle, deer. One of the deer that lives inside our town limits was wandering toward the highway, so the local cop and one of the county guys (and the county EMS coordinator, the brother of the local cop) are out trying to get it back into a safer area. Two cars and a guy on a horse, just joined by the mayor on his Harley.
Sometimes this place is almost surreal.
OH, it's got a fawn with it!!
Like I said, surreal.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on November 26, 2006, 04:44:50 AM
AS long as it's not cowpies...
No cowpies on My Hill--although there's a round-up going on in my side yard. Not cattle, deer. One of the deer that lives inside our town limits was wandering toward the highway, so the local cop and one of the county guys (and the county EMS coordinator, the brother of the local cop) are out trying to get it back into a safer area. Two cars and a guy on a horse, just joined by the mayor on his Harley.
Sometimes this place is almost surreal.
OH, it's got a fawn with it!!
Like I said, surreal.
Bambi? (on my hill) ;D ;D
cancelling tomorrow on my hill; too windy
We had one of those days last week. Blew the stupid van all over the road. Dodge Gran Caravan with 4 people and 2 wheelchairs in it, and almost blown into the ditch!!
Tired of being the driver on My hill.
morning insomnia on my hill; very rare and peculiar
Took nap 8:30pm. Something or other woke me up 'round 11:30pm-- now can't sleep on My Hill.
*sigh*
New HVAC being installed today on My Hill. The old unit is 12 years old, has never worked properly in the upstairs bedrooms, and has been failing rgularly for the past two years. (I'll never understand why builders install one unit for a two story house, with only one return... ::))
We're putting in two separate systems (one for each level). :D
Quote from: Quasimodo (The Meromorph) on December 05, 2006, 03:19:01 PM
New HVAC being installed today on My Hill. The old unit is 12 years old, has never worked properly in the upstairs bedrooms, and has been failing rgularly for the past two years. (I'll never understand why builders install one unit for a two story house, with only one return... ::))
We're putting in two separate systems (one for each level). :D
Having installed quite a number of 2-level split units now, I would add that you should seriously consider a door or other air-barrier between the upstairs and the down.
Allowing them to mix, usually results in the downstairs doing all the heating, and the upstairs doing all the cooling.
And, with a 2-unit system, I seriously doubt either is up to the job.
Thus, a simple door at the top (or bottom) of the stairs can work miracles ... especially if everyone sleeps upstairs, and you have a nifty programmable thermostat on each. Less heat daytime upstairs, more daytime heat downstairs, and vice-versa when everyone's upstairs asleep.
You can save enough on your fuel bills (be it electric, gas, coal, wood or hamsters-in-a-wheel) using this method to easily pay for a programmable one in one heating season. And, come cooling time, it's money in your pocket! ;D
xxxxx
Installing a HVAC in a house that currently only has a window-unit and a floor-furnace.
Everything from scratch! On my Hill.
For whatever reason, we get virtually no interchange between the levels now. So I don't anticipate that problem. We've extensive experience of split systems in the vacation houses we usually rent.. They seem to work fine even with 4 or 5 degree differences on the two levels (It's the standard set-up in that area.)
We actually have three levels (the bonus room [500 sq feet with 16 foot ceiling] is kind of a half level between the other two on one end) the only return was on the lower level (with the thermostat). Neither of the other two levels were properly served. The old unit was 4 ton.
Bob,
We'll have a 2 ton unit serving the bottom level and a 2 1/2 ton unit serving the other two, with a return on both of the other levels and the new thermostat on one of the levels (we haven't decided which yet and will trust the advice of our HVAC guy [who is very good]). Both thermostats are programmable, and there will only occasionally be a 1 degree difference in temps on the thermostats (I require one degree higher for two hours on the lower level while I shower and dry in the mornings :))
The 4 ton unit cannot (does not) bring either of the other two level up or down to spec temperature, so I know neither of the new units could possibly do the job on its own. So the thermostat on the other system will cause that system to do it. I am confident that the scenario you envisage cannot happen, particularly not with virtually identical settings on both thermostats. There were commonly 8 or more degrees difference between the levels with the old system.
Expecting much better results and lower bills (going from 10 SEER to 13 SEER) on My Hill.
Good for you! The 10-to-13 will make a difference, especially the A/C (which are electricity-hogs, no matter what ::) )
Another thing is your filters-- that is one of the most overlooked, but easiest to control things people (don't) do. But, if your guy is good, he will likely have given you a speech about that. :D
Programmable thermo are really cool, and I wouldn't have it any other way, actually. Especially in summer, where 1 degree warmer has a noticeable affect on the bill. ::)
Good luck! Sounds like you've thought through things pretty well.
xxxxxx
Going to bed, now, on My Hill.
Trying to figure out what to write in my paper in Philosophy on my hill.
I have no idea what to write. And what about.
on my hill...
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on December 06, 2006, 09:39:22 AM
Trying to figure out what to write in my paper in Philosophy on my hill.
I have no idea what to write. And what about.
on my hill...
As a writer once advised to anyone wanting to write-- write what you know.
As true for philosophy as any other subject ;D
About to drink morning coffee... *ding* there, it's ready! On My Hill.
So, it's to be a paper on the philosophy of alcohol? I'd like to read that. ;D
Too lazy, today, on My Hill.
NEED to go over and finish, but am too pooped to climb around on attic-beams, just now.
Maybe later-- (but it'll mean I'll be working Saturday... *bleah* )
My sympathy,
There's a lot of work installing a new (heat pump) attic system. My guy's lucky to the extent that we already had most of the attic 'floored' with plywood, and the supply side was already there, all he has to do on the supply side is cut and tie into the existing supply duct (which comes up a chase in the corner of the house) and he can use the (now empty) chase to feed the connections to the outside unit. But he still has had to do the return side from scratch and pull a new electrical supply (from the other end of the house), and install a rather large air handler etc. unit in the attic. That's taken him most of two days. Tomorrow he has to remove the huge old gas/electric package unit, and install a new smaller gas/electric package unit and the outside unit for the new heat pump on the (huge) existing pad.
First day mostly prep work, today installing the air handler, tomorrow is all outside. :o
Watching some one else do heavy work, on My Hill. :D
Well, I took the day off-- m'back was hurting from all the bending over ys't'dy.
So, I just goofed-off. On My Hill.
Tamarra's gonna' be a b**ch, tho-- :D
Smokin' a roast beast on My HIll
Got internet installed on my hill (finally, it took them quite long)...
And it's way too early on my hill...
Free rum and sammiches today on My Hill! ;D
(but I think ye need to have eggnog with the rum)
thinking of ways to get to Aggie's hill in order to snatch some free rum (don't care about the sammiches, sorry, although they're probably tasty) on my hill
Quote from: Agujjim on December 11, 2006, 12:26:11 AM
Smokin' a roast beast on My HIll
Old Joke:
How do ya get it to stay rolled up in them little bitty papers??
Signed,
Old Joker
Late, late on My Hill (after midnight, but still not sleepy - pahh)
Maybe some warm co-co.
Just watched The Carol of the Old Ones (Cthulhu-Carol) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg) on YouTube. Nice harmony. ::)
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 12, 2006, 06:11:15 AM
Old Joke:
How do ya get it to stay rolled up in them little bitty papers??
Signed,
Old Joker
New Answer: Forget the papers.. use a big pipe (see also The Vent).
I stopped smoking salmon, though.... all that fish oil is hard on the lungs.
Hee!! Fish oil...yup!!
Oh, for the YouTubers...It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Swato would enjoy this one, too!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFo4jbqe_2Y&NR
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 13, 2006, 10:31:05 PM
Hee!! Fish oil...yup!!
Oh, for the YouTubers...It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Swato would enjoy this one, too!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFo4jbqe_2Y&NR
Yes!
Been running around too much, on My Hill Feel like I'm STILL burning my candles at both ends, and someone is trying to light the middle ...
(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/candlebothends.gif)
:pillar:
watching Gorillaz documentaries on my hill... I'm on a bit of a craze...
~Qwerty
So happy to see Q here that i'll give him half of My Hill to stay and play!!
Duuude, I miss youuuuu... :toadfish: :istad: :toadfish: :istad: :toadfish: :rockon: :-*
and I'll give him half of mine and we can call him Qwerty Two Hills; cursing Sky News on my hill, wailing for decent news; laughing at hotel manager saying "our guests are all content with Sky News" as if I am not a guest; remembering every time I've been in a shop and been told there's no call for that size.....
Back home to My Hill from being at the hospital with the Mom again.
It's 5 AM. I learned last night at 9:45 PM that I can no longer lift my mother from the floor if she falls. And I hurt from trying to do so. :taz:
ActivOn? (Apply directly where it hurts!)
Sorry.
Waiting for school to start again, even if I haven't done my homework, and hoping to get to sleep soon.
Balancing on the only inch of mattress left intact on my bed on my hill; the rest being rotted away; hoping friends on other hills will hear the thump when this bit gives way.
Ridiculously warm on my hill, it is supposed to hit 70 degrees today (F). I heard a rep from NOAA say this morning on the news that El Nino is to blame and that we are going to have very mild temps right through spring.
My spring bulbs are all up and as I live in the heart of orchard country, the fruit growers are all in a panic.
The local ski slope has no snow, even too warm to make snow, and they have laid off many people.
Sitting here on My Hill wishing that shipping to Griffin's Hill wasn't so dear.
In the barn on My Hill is a fully adjustable electric hospital bed (with extra matress, as there was a delivery error and two were received) that was delivered to someone that went from hospital to full-time invalid care 3 weeks later BUT the "system" wouldn't take the bed back.
And when it's time for me to go into that sort of bed, they'll be delivering a new one, as there's no extant warrany on this one (that I can access, only the original recipient can). I have the availability of a $2K electric wheelchair in the same manner. Gotta have someone else's Medicare number to get a new battery...the old battery literally died of old age sitting in a spare room for 2 years, no charger, no use made of the chair. BUT, they'll pay for a brand new one for me when I need it. ::) ::) ::) My tax dollars at work. I'd send you that as well...were the cost not so prohibitive.
Temps here from the low 50's during the day to the low 30's at night, Vita. I think we're getting what winter there is to be had.
Tired and grumpy on My Hill. What else is new?
:balloon: :balloon: :balloon: airlifting beds all around the hills... ;D ;D ;D
Risking another 6 months on the edge of my bed on my hill (July sales when Dip. ends :D :D ). Reckon if I just pile clean sheets on top without disturbing it, maybe it will last - I may reach the ceiling but that seems like it might be fun.
Battery????? If I was speaking to my son, and if he was still making batteries for space craft...... :'(
Diploma coursework desperation on my hill; I seem to still have the Christmas break mentality.
Inspecting the carpet on my hill and wondering if all the brown bits are mouse droppings or chocolate from my pain au chocolat.
Ask the mouses. They'd know for sure.
Trying to figure schedules for the next week on My Hill. We have 2 people, three cars, and the way things are working out, I will have to catch a ride to the Post Office for two days in a row to pick up the mail.
And now I have to drive another 50 mile round trip to pick up someone that should have been picked up from dialysis already.
AARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH...
noticing that my hill. (and quite a few other hills) are unsettlingly dusty on my hill.
is that some kind of a pun or oxymoron? maybe just an english oddity.
'cause like, dust settles. but this dust is unsettling. Iunno.
but yes, doing that on my hill.
Thinking I need to find the vaccuum, on My Hill, and in My House, too.
There seem to be chunks of dog cookies on the floor under my feet...
Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! It's Spring Cleaning urges on My Hill!!
MUST RESIST!! :pirate: :pirate: :pirate:
Post Spring-Term Snoozing on My Hill. Spring-Cleaning is not a word I recognise.
Rainstorms on My Hill.
Not going to risk taking the Badly Behaving Van to Taylor for a funeral. Dan will have to express my condolences.
Arrgh, RAIN. More rain.
Still bad Yukness feeling on My Hill. My Hill needs a servant. Several. With own quarters. And appropriate appreciation. No slaves on My Hill. (topical). (when is the no-servant bill being heard?)
Whiteout blizzard on My Hill.
absolutely nondescript weather.
I thought it was going to rain earlier, but it warmed up
blandly contrasted on my hill
~Qwerty
Lovely weather on my hill, about 60*F right now, with tatters of clouds and plenty of sun.
the doggy returneth from the doggy daycare at my hill, and there eth much rejoicings.
~Qwerty
Nothing stirs on My Hill.
The doggy misseth his Daddy on my Hill, and since Daddy's stuck in Tyler with no transmission operating on THAT car...the doggy will have to suck it up and eat his dinner even though it was Mommy that got it for him.
Doggy Dinner Difficulties on My Hill.
Still snowing upward on My Hill.
Dreary day!
scary purple boxes on My Hill and stupid HTML puzzles.
DOG BATH time on My Hill!
OK, dog shower. I stood him on a bath chair and used the shower massage on him.
My Hill is currently flooded, and smells of a combo of dog shampoo and Elizabeth Taylor's Poison bath gel, both of which were in purple tubes...
I re-fill shampoo bottles with different brands, likely causing much confusion for Sibling Chatty if she were to wash her dog on My Hill. ;D
freshly washed and cropped on my hill
really not fresh and in need of a good crop, although I'll only fix one of the two on my hill.
~Qwerty
strange evil smells drifting across my hill appearing to come from the Qwerty hill
Cyberpower 450 watt UPS now protecting my computer on my hill.
Anticipating the Return Of The Big Green Van on My Hill.
Cooking on my hill.
I'm going to work later, so I had to wake up early to fix my lunch.
Still anticipating the Return of the Big Green Van on My hill...
600 new words now exist on my hill out of a required 3,000
WOndering if I can leave the school's hill, and go back to my own.
Hoping Kanola's next school hill challenges her, and gives her plenty of debate opportunities, so that when time comes to go onward, they're waiting with a big debate scholarship to help with the costs.
Remembering waiting for scholarship news on My Hill back in the Dark Ages---and chewing off all my fingernails.
Sorta glad I'm 54 now, on My Hill.
Glued to local election results on My Hill.
Hoping it won't snow like it did yesterday on My Hill.
Wishing for some of that snow to cool down My Hill.
down to 19c for next few days; grinning silently about aircon being installed in bedroom this coming week; still cold nights now but rapidly approaching hot nights on My Hill.
Forecasted to be 21 C today; currently at 17 and sunny.
And it's ALWAYS hot nights in my apartment. :P
Highs at 88-91F, lows barely down to 69F and 98% humidity. I have a heat rash on my heat rash...already. We may not make it until July without AC.
My Hill is frickin' HOT!!!
A family celebration was mysteriously and unusually truly enjoyable on my hill; exhaustion was merely a by-product.
My hill is overcast, which is not usual for June around here. Makes me sleepy.
All the text books and files have been put away on my hill for a summer dedicated to Other Stuff.
Tidying up tears of militant neglect on my hill. I had no idea my family had stored so much crap in this house...
my hill is having a very relaxed sunday morn-oh, it's 2pm....
My Hill is oppressively humid in a Floridian way.
my hill is nicely air conditioned, but sadly is in need of mowing.
Mowing My Hill will be impossible until it cools down.
The things that need doing on My Hill grows exponentially.
My Hill is in need of having several walls painted....I just don't want to do it. :-\
My Hill will soon be immersed in a thunderstorm.
I made friends with a B-tard on my hill.... this disturbs me.
I have a long night of work ahead of me (and a long weekend behind me) on my hill.
no work tommrow on my hill... but the day after that I do, and it's almost 1 am here....
sleeeeeeeeps on my hill.
Preparation for conversion from Win98 to WinXP is almost obliterating My Hill.
You're still using 98? ohh... XP is much better... once you've converted, it'll be much smoother.
I mean, my god, 98? I used that when I was in kindergarden.
sheesh.
oh. um... apparently, making fun of griffins old computer on my hill :(
But Q, remember that XP has much more hardware requirements than 98 and if you haven't upgraded hardware it could be extremely painful to run it (a friend of ours has an old PC and it is painfully slow even with 2K).
Still dealing with back log work on my hill.
My hardware is not the issue - it was bought to last and it has (apart from a small fire a year ago) - it's way above XP spec even now...... {tho not Vista naturally} - the issue is TIME
Still carrying out endless preparations for upgrade on My Hill.
Then 2k/XP will prove much more relaxing than 98.
I am still having to create floppies with SATA drives in my hill. :-\
just shooting off Shameless (http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/94078) plugs (http://toadfishmonastery.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=32&topic=860.0) this way and that on my hill
scandisk enters its second day on My Hill
*Enjoying* the great(ly humid) outdoors again in my hill.
20 hour sleepovers are done on my hill. (more specifically, my friends hill)
Celebrations on My Hill as XP takes over the desktop; letting dust settle before cranking up the artillery.
Enjoying the Security Center? ;) I certainly enjoy it on my hill!
Enjoying the Security Centre glowing red with anger at refusal to activate it on ring-fenced internet free zone on My Hill ;)
There's a lot of chaos going on right now in this forum around My Hill.
I just finished Half-Life 1 on Gordon Freemam-I mean, my hill.
Still stuck on an elevator in Half-Life I on My Hill, but the parallel printer has been removed to temporary storage prior to the arrival of a new dishwasher as part of the complex Shunting of Stuff-in-a-confined-Space rationalisation exercise initiated by upgrading to XP. ;)
My HL1 game doesn't run in Ubuntu. I should install XP for a dual boot but I don't wanna.
I'm tired of installations on my hill.
seriously, which elevator?
you should try to start over from the beginning, and use this walkthrough (http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/walkthroughs/halflifewalk.htm) if ever you get stuck again.
also, theres probably a versino of HL 1 for Ubuntu made by someone. might be technically illegal, but I doubt they're going to find out/press charges, especially if you've already bought the game.
trying to finish 2/3 of a math packet that's due wednesday and that I had 2 and a half months to finish. XD
Oi, which hill are you on? You forgot to say.
I don't know which elevator and I cannot remember if I am supposed to be getting on or off it; all I remember is I got stuck, a long time ago ;)
Knocking myself out with sleeping pills for a Special Collection at crack of dawn tomorrow on My Hill.
aught. on the hill of doom-that's-right-around-the-corner-waiting-for-you-oh-no-wait-it's-eating-your-face
yeah, Schools tommorow.
but Griffin, just re-start the game. I mean, if you care... I'd care.
if there's water and electricity to kill you, find a vent, and find the power switch to turn it off. if you've been fighting any humans, you're going up, and when you get off, you should be above ground.
those are the two elevators that come to mind. excluding any desolate shafts.
I shall restart one day but it was fighting humans and, yes I remember going up, so presumably I can't get off. LOL.
Meanwhile, the Special Collection - the council said they'd be impatient unco-operative guys but they were charming and helfpful - has cleaned me out on My Hill and I can get half a vehicle in my garage.
hmm, first day of school wasn't so bad.
but, I am Stirring up trouble (http://toadfishmonastery.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=32&topic=880.0) on my hill.
Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on September 04, 2007, 08:37:58 PM
hmm, first day of school wasn't so bad.
It's a trick! Run away now!
They give you a small book to read about a boy, a girl and their pet dog. "Not too bad", you think. But they're hiding thousands more books in the cupboard that came from, and they get harder, and harder. Run away!
Machine-gunning seals on my hill.
Wasn't it about a little pet goat?
Dealing with T-SQL queries on my hill.
select joketext from jokes
where subject='chicken'
and object='road'
order by stupidity
Waiting for results on my hill.
Redirecting strange information about a chicken, addressed to wrong hill, on My Hill. Including some spent printer cartridges for good measure.
Listening to the Katamari Damacy soundtrack on my hill.
it's quite soothing/epileptic.
and YES that sentence makes sense.
March of the new machines continues on My Hill.
I love Katamari Damacy. Best. Game. EVAR.
I have recently returned to my Hill from a nearby Starbucks hill, where I started today. I am pleased. My hill, is unfortunately in need of mowing.
I hate mowing my hill. it's so.... bleargh. I don't want a yard. I'd rather live in entirely building, or have it be foresty.
Or be so gorramn rich I can buy myself a robot to do it for me :P
I hope my hill reference counted on my hill
Stomach churning following violent migraine stops sleep on My Hill.
Aww, poor Griffin. :(
Hope you feel better!
My Hill is also clear of smoke for today. We have two wild fires up in the mountains, and the smoke was all over the place this morning. I am hoping there will be more smoke so I can avoiding mowing tomorrow.
Sending healing karma your way Watson.... I hate those migranes.
just chatting with peoples on my hill...
(anyone know if Greece is still on fire?)
karma has arrived on My Hill although much sleeping is now needed, but hopefully not during the final part of Last Night of the Proms
Last Night of the Proms observed on My Hill; of course, we have to sing Land of Hope and Glory louder every year to convince ourselves.
Making bread cake on my hill :D :D
Feeling existential on my hill.
but maybe it's just the coldplay.
plan to install modem drivers on My Hill averted by nice surprise unexpected visitor - much better way to spend a Sunday
planning to go to the in-gathering and water communion at mah churchz hill in two and heif hours.
Homework time on my hill! Ewww...maaaaaath
ancient parallel printer banished to garage by unexpected visitor on My Hill
Doing laundry on My Hill, and considering the positive nature of the nudist lifestyle--if someone will invent comfortable disposable sheets and towels.
HATE the dryer on My Hill
;)THE LAND OF NOMIS is alive and well on my hill... ;)
predicting very zombie-like behaviour today oh my hill
Afterglow! Welcome back!
Having breakfast on my hill.
The sun is a little brighter,
The birds sing a little sweeter,
My smile is a little broader,
on my hill.
Afterglow is back! :woot:
time for chick'n 'n biz'kitz on my hill.
and no, they aren't limp.
Hi Afterglow, nice to see you.
March of the machines still progressing on My Hill; today, the longest Xp upgrade in history achieved a download needed to do downloads; maybe allowing ten minutes a day is holding things up, but I run out of energy after that. The wretched PC is lucky to get any of my attention at all, frankly. ;)
yearning for a good baseline on my hill.
need to prepare for some hunting and gathering on my hill
learning about the renaissance... again, on my hill.
You too?
Reading about the renaissance on my hill
well this is more grueling as it's high school textbook, and it's the EXACT. SAME. CHAPTER from last year.
oh goodie. review .... on my hill.
today was cancelled on My Hill
due to lack of interest?
trying to memorize THE ELEMENTS on my hill
due to sleep
managed to open some postal backlog tonight but life is really at a standstill on My Hill
Is it a matter of suspense? :o
Procrastinating in my hill (have soooo much to do....).
bleargh. same here. on my hill
perhaps an imaginary friend could re-animate My Hill
or a necromancer.
my Ankh arrived today, but alas, the back is not painted or anything, so it's rather horrendous, unless put up on a wall.
All's I want is something to carry about with me.
I just superglued my lipstick to my nightdress on My Hill; accidents will happen.
well at least you won't lose it at night.
debating wether to do history notes or guitar hero on my hill
Gathering will to work at this time on my hill.
I don't really want to go to work just yet. I shouldn't be working today--I have a two o'clock class and am scheduled for 1-5pm.
I didn't notice until too late.
Grr.
Not wanting to go hunt down my uniform on my hill.
Thinking more than usual (which for me means a lot) about everything on my hill.
Fixing someone else's f*&% up on my hill >:(
dreading more homework on my hill
(actually it's just Spanish and Chem, so not so bad)
saliva glands packed up in my head on my hill
Well obviously you need frequent kisses, then... :-*
introducing extra kissing rituals on my hill ;D :D ;D
Getting ready to go to my sister in law's place in my hill.
putting off homework due yesterday on my hill... *looks around*
Bored on my hill
frazzled on my hill especially after downloading 88 updates to XP and finding all my favourite buttons missing from IE 7.
Are you still using IE? Firefox! Firefox!
:mrgreen:
Promoting the revolution :goatflag: on my hill.
Firefox is soooooo much better. Less of a memory hog and so many more fun things.
Editing photos from my trip on my hill. Horribly grainy, but the colors are mostly right.
Calculating lumens on my hill
Also encouraging Firefox on My Hill.
(Innernet Exploder is almost as unstable as my Mother...)
Going to eat some ice cream on My Hill.
indulging in fantasy that My Hill's tax return is completed on My Hill
Done mine ;D . Owed them money :'( .
Sticking with IE7 on my hill (used to have to test stuff on IE, Safari, Mozilla, Firefox (before they merged) and Opera in my last job. Enjoying only needing to know one browser...).
just browsing on my hill
commanding my printer from bed at last on My Hill
(a project that has taken 6 months); march of the machines completed for this summer on My Hill.
bells ring out all over My Hill as Tax Return hits the post box
Dinning out for my son's b-day on my hill.
Trying to entice an old dog to eat his new dinner on My Hill.
wishing there was a rule that people cannot paint their front doors a sickly light green colour on My Hill...... what are they doing on MY Hill anyway?
Having preteens at home on my hill.
Weird and noisy plumbing problems on my hill. One sewer man and two plumbers express bafflement. Some of them several times...
Hoping you sauteed them lightly with a nice sauce, Zono. They start getting tough heading into the teen years, you know...
Oh, you meant hosting them not dining on them!!
:halo:
Slightly red-faced on my hill!
:ROFL:
Eating them?! I don't know where they have been!
A bit tired on my hill
junk clearing hits all time low on My Hill - exclusion zone may have to be imposed
still doing algebra on my hill
Picking up some of my son's friends.
on My Hill, looking for Sibling Zono's hill which disappeared
I'm here.
And so are my son's friends playing Halo 3, on my hill.
sitting in the prevarification hut on My Hill
Cursing my ineptitude on My Hill.
(I am no longer capable of carrying out a full bag of trash on My Hill. This bodes no good ability for my surviving another month without Dan on My Hill with me!)
sending extra trash bags to Chatty's Hill as fear of running out when only able to carry them half full means cupboards overfllowing with stocks of traditional black sacks on My Hill; pondering on the global effect of decline in neigbourly assistance in taking full sacks out as population density of senile citizens rockets in the Western World
Contemplating trading transportation to the grocery store for help with carrying out trash with neighbor across the street, as she doesn't drive or have a car...but IS young and capable!
Working this out on My Hill!
back to school on My Hill.....
Enjoying a day of no homework on my hill, and contemplating where to plant my spice bush.
Preparing to go to Harker Heights on My Hill, and taking Spencer with me.
Realizing that I will have about the same amount of 'luggage' as my dog, once I pack up both his dinner dishes, his waterbowl, his assorted treats [seven different kinds, two 'kinds' have assorted flavors] and meds and his toys. Big Crivens, little Crivens, the assorted Taste Like critters....Chicken, Bacon, Hamburger, Horsemeat and Deviled Crab, and our rope toy [tuggywuggy] and the Velvet Tuggyhearts.
OK, he may have MORE luggage...
My Hill's going to move to Laurel's Hill for a couple of weeks!
some activity on My Hill today; just as well, as there hasn't been any at all lately
having an anthropology club yard sale on my hill today. proceedes will go to fund a speaker on campus this spring (Oh please let it be Napoloeon Chagnon) and to buy as many copies of "On the Origin of Species" as we can to hand out on campus (sort of like when then Gideons come with the little Bibles). Yes we are a fun group on my hill.
Sleepy lying on the floor on my hill. I miss my bed.
homework insists on being done on My Hill
sunny and very autumnish for Calgary (i.e. the leaves are yellow and on the trees; usually they just go brown and fall off. Started in late August this year...).
continuing experiments with being-way-behind-on-homework, for the benefit of humankind, on My Hill
Dan home on My Hill. :woot: :woot: :woot:
Trying to adjust to the problems presented by the seeming long-term damage to my left knee...which was damaged while trying to walk down Someone Else's Hill!!
We'll be homebodying at Our Hill for a while...
Glad Dan's home on that hill.
Son and partner's flat has become an electric/water hazard so staying on My Hill, except they have just returned there at 4 am in the morning, to get an early start, which has left a bit of confusion behind on My Hill (I wasn't keeping them awake, honest).
Using powerful telescope on My Hill, sees MB back on his hill and waves.
Pondering a future action on My Hill...
I have this friend that's about to become a Grandmother...
I have a hand crocheted baby cap and two (different sizes, same yarn and pattern) tiny sweaters (cardigans?) made from organically grown and colored 100% cotton yarn that I want to send ahead of time. Do I get the Son and DIL's address and send them direct, or do I send them to the future Gran and let her pass them on? :D I'm thinking that a 'send directly' might freak out the sort of--strange--prospective parents.
(My crocheting person is also doing a baby afghan in a very intricate pattern with counted block/row stuff that made my head hurt to look at the pattern, but it's gorgeous. This pattern is one she's done on commission for a number of very wealthy and influential clients, and she's very proud of having designed it herself!)
So, on My Hill, we're thinking we need to ask Future Gran...
Oh Griffin?? :mrgreen:
Sitting on My Hill touched by the kindness of folk on other Hills and looking at the air raid shelters built to protect My Hill after once giving out a certain phone number for emergency contact during medical crisis. ;)
it's Poliakoff Night on My Hill
started laying in the Brandy Butter on My Hill; all for me as no one else seems to be inhabiting any other hills; I guess that means I won this game :taz:
My Hill NEEDS a mailing address for SOME HILL in your general future grandchild's area.
The coverlet that is being made is such a pretty pattern that there's already a waiting list for the one after it...It's actually larger than a presentation blanket, more a crib/youth bed coverlet that would be beautiful over a solid cover duvet. Alphabet blocks and toys...But in the mean time, there are the sweaters and cap...
Laurel's having WAY too much fun designing this pattern. All her wealthy ladies have gotten a look at the pattern and want photos of it when it's done. (One's already ordered for a General's grandchild that's not even conceived yet. They live near Fort Hood...)
Oh, and you don't get to win if you don't e-mail me a mailing address... :P
organisation on My Hill is sadly lacking..... normal levels of service may resume... anything to win the game !
I'm about to leave My Hill and go to my mothers hill for a week while she and her hubby goes on vacation abroad. This means that I will share hill with Sir Jumpalot II, our red fuzzy monster.
Shoes on the hat-rack!!!
Cleaning out the office on My Hill. Shall be moving to another Hill a little further away next week.
Quote from: Agujjim on November 15, 2007, 06:28:49 PM
Cleaning out the office on My Hill. Shall be moving to another Hill a little further away next week.
:woot: :woot: :woot: :woot:
New Hill is good! :YaY:
LOL, they're moving to a BRAND NEW hill a couple of weeks after that, so I won't get comfortable.
Waiting for the allergy vaccine to do its thing on my son on my hill.
Puttering around the (indoor) garden and fish pond on My Hill.
Looking for the temper I lost on My Hill
Staging rehearsal on my hill.
Bringing my friend Da Soozinator home from a 5 day hospital stay, on My Hill. (And doing her laundry and fetching soup and Gatorade and Sprite.)
advising on web cams for Great-Grandparents as an invited intermediary re. Christmas presents on My Hill and wondering if Grandma's who are not so Great get the same privileges. ::)
Trying to organize My Hill.
What is all this stuff, and WHY is it stacked on My Hill?
It isn't. It's all stacked on My Hill. At least, there is stuff all over My Hill, mostly from the mammoth battle I have had getting my cell phone to work as a modem for my PC. Never in the history of womankind have there been so many cables and dongles and flashing lights and weird codes known only to techinical support people who probably reside in Panama.
We have 7 computer carcasses of varying ages on our Hill. Several with the original Pentium processors in... One has an ancient tape back-up drive, but also has a CD-RW, a couple of other up-to-date things, Firewire (useful for certain videocameras) and a ton of memory.
The girl across the street's ex-boyfriend left this stuff with her, and he's recently become a guest of the state of Kansas for 15-to-life... Dan put together one working computer for her and she's happy. He gets to salvage stuff from the rest, so he's happy. I get to walk around it all...but Dan's happy so I am, too!
Anybody need a five and a quarter floppy drive? Or three? :ROFL: :ROFL:
My Hill would seem to bear a marked resemblence to Chatty's Hill. I still have a working PC with 5.25 floppy drive but I cut up all the 5.25 floppies and donated them to the Great Toadfish in the Sky-Water. I probably have every sort of cable ever known on planet My Hills too. Nevertheless, I never have what I actually need. My Hill operates under Murphy's Laws (http://roso.epfl.ch/dm/murphy.html).
8 of 10 Hill's operate under Murphy's Laws... ;)
I have a SO with a cold so bad he won't show up at my hill, and it was nearly 2 weeks since I last saw him. :(
Also, my hill has connection problems with the Monastery Hill :-\
There is a 2 gig harddrive (remember when 2 gigs was HUGE?) on the sofa on My Hill. It is currently in use as a pillow for a dog person. However, the assorted screws, bolts, nuts and fasteners all over the floor indicate that said dog person has been playing in his Daddy's piles o stuff.
My Hill needs a big magnet. ::)
Ourr Hill is undergoing Dan's occasional need to do computer stuff, AND tomorrow, we're getting 2 new (to us) monitors!!
Woo Hoo! No more 13" monitor that is jumpy, gray overcast and makes fizzy noises!!
And best of all, he'll have a complete Linux box soon, and can play with it instead of splitting Linux with my Windoze on this hard drive.
Happy computer times on My Hill.
Oooh! What's he running?
I have a RedHat and an Ubuntu. I like the Ubuntu better.
Currently, relaxing on my hill after work and the end of term. Dodging various requests to clean.
Washing winter clothes on My Hill. Last winters.
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 16, 2007, 12:44:03 AM
Oooh! What's he running?
I have a RedHat and an Ubuntu. I like the Ubuntu better.
Currently, relaxing on my hill after work and the end of term. Dodging various requests to clean.
Running Unbutu, wants to run Debian also.
Very nice.
Dark now on my hill
The faulty engine on My Hill turned out to be a broken exhaust. There may yet be life after car trouble, but delivery of Christmas presents will be delayed and the bank balance will still suffer.
WOOT! Dan got paid today instead of next week, on Our Hill.
Gasoline and groceries!!
Oh, crud, that means going shopping on My Hill... ::)
packing day on My Hill, but the cases need unpacking first from the summer trip; never do today what you can put off til tomorrow
I've invented winter and summer cases on My Hill and now only the fake breast, nail varnish, and pumping mechanisms still need packing. I need a snooze before attempting that. Considering turning My Hill into wall to wall suitcases for rapid get aways.
My hill is foggy and cold. Miserable tule fog.
Fog on My Hill too but it is clearing by morning. Sometimes it's a wise woman delays travelling to the last minute. Wiser still the woman who has new de-icer spray, blankets, water, apples, and a uriwell (http://www.biorelief.com/uriwell_personal_toilet_b.htm).
Freezing and windy on my hill--not normally this cold or windy.
Rained today on My Hill, interrupting my 24 hour Sleep-a-thon. (The resident canine person doesn't like rain, and he complained to Mommy about it raining...as if Mommy could stop it.)
Hoping to continue with less rain and more sleeping...on My Hill.
there's a new flamingo on My Hill
3 a.m. no parties tonight nothng to do except watch the really fit, really really fit, young man clean the gym equipment on My Hill
5 a.m. and the really fit young man cleaning the gym equipment wanes to the point where watching Howard's End on DVD may prove a better way of passing time on My Hill, but it rather depends on the End (sic).
Just got back to my hill from seeing Juno, which is as good as they say it is. A tad vulgar, but hiiiilarious.
If I may inquire, how do you define vulgar?
Installing ubuntu 7.10 on my father in law's laptop on my hill.
after mixed experience with 3G - it does not like downloading pictures - celebrating return of broadband to My Hill.
sunny on my hill- but with a freezing cold wind blowing, tonight on my hill the forcast is for temps in the teens
the hypothesis that going to sleep at a normal time results in the followinf day starting at 3 a.m. has been re-evalulated and data increasingly supports it; it wouldn't matter so much if the newspaper boy could be more accomodating on My Hill.
Nice. I'd be happy if I could go to bed at a normal time to begin with, instead of 2am. :P
But, alas, I have no doubt it'll be 2am before I get to sleep on my hill.
My Hill has been invaded by the flu bug.
All residents of My Hill (except the canine one) are suffering from this invasion.
Just to add insult to injury, my fantabulous new "big and visible" monitor died. I am stuck with a fuzzy 13" that won't even display full screen.
All in all, life is teh suxx0r on meh hillz... :'(
more technological changes on My Hill due to the DVD player/VCR scrunching every tape fed to it disaster escalation; panic and total inability to exist post mechanical demise averted by ordering new machine online at 2 a.m. and it arriving the very next morning; puzzlement at why other more urgent and important things in life cannot be resolved like this. One step closer to eventual tape free zone on My Hill.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on December 31, 2007, 01:43:38 AM
If I may inquire, how do you define vulgar?
Installing ubuntu 7.10 on my father in law's laptop on my hill.
Oh, mostly vulgar language, which I think we could have done without.
Just got back from class on my hill-two days a week from 9:30am-8:40pm. I am well pleased.
I'm leaving My Hill!
I have started the move from My Hill to my SO's Hill and mt mothers Hill. It feels sad even though I know I really need this change, I liked My Hill :(.
In spite of my by-line, I finally got it right, for a particular customer, after the third electric motor.
On my hill.
But, now, it's right...
(it seems that sometimes, you CAN'T trust the color of the wires.... *bleah* )
Going to survive teh flu on My Hill.
There were doubts... :Zzzz:
Good. I may not survive my diploma on My Hill.
Lazy Sunday on My Hill.
Nice.
After all the 10-hour days of late, it's a nice change.
But, tomorrow, it's nose to the wheel, crack o'the whip, feet to the ground, makin' that effort, huffin' and puffin' up the hill, tryin' to make rent.
You know.
Life at it
usual pace... ::)
_________________________
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on January 11, 2008, 07:21:26 AM
Going to survive teh flu on My Hill.
There were doubts... :Zzzz:
GOOD!
I have some AEP executives that are seriously in need of some Smitin' :censored:
(seriously, hope you're up and about Real Soon. Good Thoughts your way...!!)
gagging on a very stale croissant that was bought fresh only yesterday on My Hill.
14-hour Sunday (seems to be the usual this week) on My Hill.
And the freakin' rig blew hydraulic fluid AGAIN today.
Dang, Ag. Who has the rig? (And what kind is it?)
Oh, heck, it's been years since I was up on that stuff, never mind. (Dad was SCR guy for huge rigs and their computer stuff, world-wide. I'm the one that used to have to 'translate' on phone calls if he couldn't hear well. Which he couldn't. Because he wouldn't wear his hearing aids. I got so accustomed to what the problems were and how to handle them that I could take a call and give my opinion as I was explaining it to Daddy, and he'd say "What did you wake me up for, they can just listen to you.)
So, are the fluid valves computer checked? Manufacturer errors...damn, which manufacturer...were giving false readings leading to blowouts back in '95 in a North Sea application. Then, in Abu Dhabi, there was the rig with the microscopic crack in a joiner sleeve that blew every time it approached 70% of pressure. The sleeve didn't crack more, it allowed the joiner to blow.
Ya know, if I could clear this excess useless info out of my head, I would have a LOT less congestion in me tiny brainpan...on My Multi-insanity Hill...
This was a little track-mounted soil sampling rig (6" solid stem auger); we are drilling a whole 6 meters deep. Apparently it used to be a truck-mounted rig, now it's just a Frankenrig.
We blew out hydraulic fluid from two different failures on two consecutive sites. We were supposed to be finished up on today's site on Friday... now we are cleaning things up AGAIN. ::)
The rig is going home as soon as it's patched up enough to get mobile again.
repeating attempt to eat stale croissant; am a glutton for punishment on My Hill.
Put it in the microwave with a damp teatowel over it.
5 seconds, wait, then 5 seconds.
THEN try it.
I'm the queen of Microwave Revivalism. Hmmm, new religion!!
Trying out the idea of Faith Based :microwave: on My Hill.
the damp tea towel didn't taste too good on My Hill
Don't eat the tea towel... ::)
Next time, try setting a cup of water next to the croissant...or, do what I used to do, put water in a plate, put the perforated insert (ceramic) from a chilled butter dish on it (to hold the pastry out of the water but allow the steam) and nuke slightly.
Next time, try some jam on the tea towel. Does nothing for the texture, but improves the flavor greatly.
Cooking tips for the terminally lazy on My Hill
there's a toaster on My Hill with a croissant heating attachment which is fine when the croissant isn't filled with chocolate...... I need to move to a Hill where chocolate does not melt unless I want it to in order to realise my perfect life conditions.
France has lovely hills for chocolate croissants.
Let's take both our hills and go there. 8)
Nother 10 hour day on My Hill.
*sigh* good to be home.
Also good to see sib Chatty in Good Spirits!
(hey, maybe those *good thoughts* do actually work..... or, could it be Chatty has an 18 out of 20 constitution? <grin> )
Heh...Chatty has The Little Green Pills (a very strong antihistamine) and is sleeping 18-20 hours a day, thus is coherent (as close as I get) when awake, and well rested enough to not care! Also, sufficient amounts of Octreotide Acetate for Subcutaneous Injection to Do a Shot when needed.
Maxed out my Medicare Drug Benefit DoNut Hole Thingy, so no more co-pays for a couple months!! I can afford all my meds on My Hill.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on January 16, 2008, 02:45:03 AM
Nother 10 hour day on My Hill.
:ROFL:
I'll see your ten and raise you another
four 6..... ;D :P
Quote from: Agujjim on January 16, 2008, 04:53:39 AM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on January 16, 2008, 02:45:03 AM
Nother 10 hour day on My Hill.
:ROFL:
I'll see your ten and raise you another 4..... ;D :P
Fair 'nough.
Ta'morrow, I get a break-- only a few things I _must_ do.
On my hill, of course.
Glad to see you're doing better, though, Chatty-- medis are nice, when they work. Yes? Yes!
yet another 4 a.m. false dawn on my hill
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on January 16, 2008, 05:05:09 AM
Fair 'nough.
Ta'morrow, I get a break-- only a few things I _must_ do.
On my hill, of course.
Lucky. I think I might get a day off on My Hill on Wednesday. But not tomorrow....
Should be a good paycheque this time around though as I'll have racked up about a month's worth of overtime by the time this field stint is done. Also have backup coming in tomorrow - the days won't be shorter but we might actually keep up with the work.
There are two types of weather that are capable of putting me in a foul mood--cloudy, gloomy, windless days and fog. Both we present on my Hill today. It was about as bad when I was driving home this evening as it was this morning as I went to school--about a 1/4 mile visibility at best. Never cleared up or burned off.
Ugh.
I'll trade you for the arctic winds on My Hill. Sunny, but CHILLY. Great weather to be not be outside in nitrile gloves.
I might trade you. I miss the sun and wind on my Hill.
Weather in the daytime has been great on my hill, but rather nippy at night.
as long as the floods dont reach the hospital on My Hill I will not care what the weather is like ;D
Cloudy and overcast on My Hill, but it was shot day, so out we went!
Now I have a sore backside, but I feel better...
Life's a trade-off on My Hill!
Got lots of busy-work done on My Hill, today. A classroom now can enjoy the cold weather (they have heat, now-- imagine that, such a modern idea..). The occupants will likely enjoy the warmer conditions as well, I imagine.
Tomorrow, I must trek to somewhere south of Norman, OK, which is south of our state's capital, Oklahoma City.
It's 2 hours to OKC, and I am clueless how much farther than that.
It's at least 6 hours work, and then we get to drive home....
*bleah*
I keep imagining Don Henly's "If Dirt were Dollars, we'd all be in the Black". I think he was talking about political dirt (or at least, gossip), but it also applies to plain ole' garden-variety dirt.
You know, the kind that grinds into your knees, gets under your fingernails, invades the corner of your eye (at just the inopportune time, when your hands are very septic and you DARE NOT rub your eye) and always manages to accumulate at the back of your bathroom sink faucet handles.... you know, that crevice you just can't get your scrubbie into very well....
Oh, and gathers under your gas pedal in your car, in spite of your expensive floor mat, and weekly vacuuming.
And is _always_ found on that last piece of candy you just dropped onto your freshly scrubbed kitchen floor that may _look_ clean enough, but there was this microscopic unseen dirt that magically jumps onto that last dropped piece, which you don't notice until you're about to pop it into your mouth-- too late, as you chew, you feel the grit between your teeth and your eyes _finally_ get through to your brain, "DIRT!" but it's too late... *CRUNCH*
THAT kind of dirt.
If it were _dollars_ we'd ALL be in the black.
*sigh*
But WHAT would we do for fun in the meantime?
On schedule to surpass 200-hours-worked-on-consecutive-days-since-a-day-off tomorrow on my Hill. Yay! (?)
Been there. Done that. Lost my tiny mind, and damn near collapsed of exhaustion.
Don't do that, 'K??
Worried about you on My Hill.
Nah, I actually got more than 7 hours of sleep last night, so it's OK - field work isn't too exhausting if the sleep hours are reasonable because it's moderately physical and not very mental. And I WILL pull the fatigue card at any time necessary - if they want to yammer on about how important safety is, I'm holding them to it. There's too many long drives involved to risk working tired. Should be in for a stretch of office work after this I hope.
Can't wait to go home to My Hill on Wednesday, though. ;)
Just bought my last text book for the semester on my Hill. Procrastinating about my homework, though. Need to do my reader-response and my math homework.
Killed another rig on My Hill.
:censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored:
Don't ask me how... Nodwells are used in Antarctica, but somehow we snapped an axle ???:
(http://www.kimjack.com/nodwell-03.jpg)
(not our rig, but similar. I wasn't driving.)
Tomorrow they are sending me a track-mounted Bobcat rig. I'm going to see if we can burn it down... ::)
Worrying about Griffin, on my hill.
Same as Mero.
Wish I had pressed her for more contact info...
only just notcied people on other hils worrying about me on My Hill; the jungle drums need a tune up on My Hill; other than that, normal service on MY Hill resumed and my bedtime lull me to sleep TV recorded program of choice tonight is how Red Ken controls London; it ought to act fast.
Long day, on My Hill.
Once again, my conservative tendency to preserve old things has born fruit.
My mother's old recently updated computer was _not_ parted out as is my usual want. No, I preserved the old hard drive image on an old useless (to me) smallish drive (only 3gig or so, but roomy enough for the task). I tossed it and the remainder of her old PC in the corner of the closet, never to be used again....
Or, so I thought. The other day, an old former customer (from the early 90s) calls and wants to purchase a copy of our old DOS based software. We need a new anti-piracy key. Out comes the old box of parts that used to be my mom's old PC. Put back together. Purchase a KVM switch and an extra power cable. Hook everything up, and viola! it works, just as it was when it was retired. Make key for old customer.
Happy Joy Joy on My Hill. Sometimes saving "junk" is profitable. :) :) :)
First REAL day(s) off since Jan. 6 start NOW on my Hill. I've had to do work every other day, and most of them were well over 8 hours.
:wine:
chucks a few bottles over in general direction of Aggie's hill from My Hill
Now dodging headhunters (and catching bottles) on My Hill.
another chunk of case study written today on My Hill; now I just have to write another 800 words, remove about 800 other words, rewrite another 750 words, find apt quotations and remove enough words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is feeling a little overwhelming; could even say My Hill is bogged down.
Suffering from a sudden wave of nostalgia on My Hill.
I miss Denver. From there, remember bits and pieces of it (mostly surroundings) and found my old house on Google Maps. Used to live across the road from Fort Logan national cemetery. Will hopefully being going home two summers from now to visit.
Unseasonably warm on My Hill. (global climate change, anyone?)
Waiting on a return phone call, so I can maybe pay some obligations back. Darn voice mail, anyway. ::)
Meanwhile, I worked on my computer some more. Turns out the reason why the latest driver didn't work on my cheapie SATA card, was because the driver was too new. Had I updated the BIOS on that stupid card (why, I ask?) it would've been okay. Found an old driver, and now all is Okay.
Except that the drive I was intending to replace died completely. Alas-- too soon to transfer the files it had to the replacement one.
The dreaded "clicking of death"-- no warning, this time, it just up and quit.
*bleah*
When is silicon going to replace spinning metal? I was promised a replacement for spinning metal before now....where is it?
And flying cars? It's the Next Century, and WHERE are the Flying Cars? I was promised Flying Cars by now....
Think about most of the drivers on the road.
They have enough trouble ON the road...imagine them being able to fly. :aargh:
Flying cars should only be made available to those that can safely use them...like US!! (OK, me only until they finally change my pain meds. When they do, I stop driving for at least 6 weeks, then assess the problems.)
Contemplating the mortality of my mobility on My Hill.
If I lose mobility on My Hill the world will end; the world's close enough to ending for anything to tip the balance on My Hill. Of course, nothing that a danish wouldn't fix though !
Good pastry can set the world aright.
Just to clarify, good pastry can set the world aright on Chatty's Hill as well as My Hill.
Phew ! Chatty, I've just saved you from all kinds of attacks ;)
ignoring everything on My Hill and indulging in some good murder mysteries on TV with chocolate cheesecake ;D ;D ;D
Junkyard Wars is being re-shown on the Science Channel, on My Hill.
I've set my recorder to record and keep'em all. I'll be making DVD's of these treasures, soon.
Happiness is finding Joy in little things (in this case, a very little thing) :)
daily chortles of joy on MY Hill with the ability to record nearly every channel at the same time; My Hill is TV heaven; the best films are always on at odd times.
Celebrating a slightly delayed weekend on My Hill. I'd rather stay an hour late than look at those chummerbucketing reports over the weekend.
Now I have Beer. And maybe mango margaritas later....
accumulating clobber is obliterating My Hill faster than I can accomodate it; volunteers needed from other hills needed to help kill off all postal workers and delivery personages.
Studiously avoiding writing tedious essay on My Hill
studiously taking the oath to write essay (chunk of) tomorrow on My Hill; unfortunately this is a regular oath
Working office OT on My Hill to smack some reports out.
Volunteering for any arse-kicking duties needed on other hills, having subdued MY Hill to an exceptionally well behaved small sandy mound for the moment.
Extreme Evil is its own reward. :mrgreen:
Can't Sleep on My Hill (at the moment)
I'll likely resort to some Chemical Aid, shortly. *bleah*
I shouldn't be so prejudiced against chemicals.... but I am.
I suppose it comes from a childhood of enforced partaking of chemicals to try to get a handle on the many MANY allergies I had then.
I should compare my health requirements with others, and their much-needed and appreciated specialized chemical-intake, and be Thankful.
I try, I really do. :P
Heh. I gotz chemicals on My Hill that would put you to sleep for a week.
Me? Awake 39 hours now, no sleep!!
Pain, the ultimate anti-sleep.
busy writing complaints letters on My Hill - I knew that essay oath wasn't going to work
Beautiful day on my Hill! Sunny, with blue skies criss-crossed with jet trails, and cool. It's nearing one pm, and there's still dew on the green, green grass. Daffodils are bloomin' and it's perfect!
Spring always makes My Hill the best place to be.
Ditto on My Hill, except it's still winter and nothing is green or blooming (it's 13 C, though, and beautiful, I just skivved off to the park for a walk).
Hope the nice weather holds for a while; in Calgary, April snow showers bring May blizzards. We always get a major snowfall in the 'spring'. Our seasons are Winter, Chinook, More Winter, Still Winter, Stampede, Almost Winter and Winter. ::) It's Chinook right now which is almost as good as Stampede, because there are less drunks in cowboy hats. Last year there was one day that I couldn't figure out what looked so strange about the outdoors - then I realized it was because there was green stuff growing on the trees. :P
rassenfrassen Flatlands....
Big thunderstorm over my hill. Raining like crazy, with lots of wind. Missy is curled up on my bed staying nice and dry.
Blogging on my Hill. I also write for Government Dirt now.
Little thing (http://governmentdirt.com/bush-nicks-california-national-guard-equipment) on Bush taking national guard stuff.
Darn it, SP, now I'm gonna have to read that website.... :mrgreen:
Blustery day, on My Hill. Taking the day off (mostly), worked long on Saturday instead.
Cats're still asleep on the bed---it's that sort of day.
No sunshine.
Nothing much on Cat TV (out the windows), as outdoor critters have gone to ground due to the rain and wind.
So, they're sleeping in.
Can't blam'em, slept in myself until a while ago, when hunger woke me up... :O
languishing on My Hill
Gonna go vote soon on My Hill.
Listening to the women sing on my rehearsal, I mean, on My Hil.
:mrgreen: You WILL have to! Either that or Dingbots, my other site.
Dark on my Hill. Home finally, after a long day at work (Ok, it was only four hours, but it felt like much longer).
And I smell like coffee!
On My Hill, I am currently pondering the magical effect of calling the doctor for an appointment. AFter a careful assessment of all the various problems, I called my gastroenteralagist for a Next Available, and the stomach pains, burning, and pain in the "submucosal lipomas in the descending colon area" ALL stopped.
Dead. Not a twinge.
Whassup wif dat? on My Hill??
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on March 04, 2008, 03:51:47 AM
On My Hill, I am currently pondering the magical effect of calling the doctor for an appointment. AFter a careful assessment of all the various problems, I called my gastroenteralagist for a Next Available, and the stomach pains, burning, and pain in the "submucosal lipomas in the descending colon area" ALL stopped.
Dead. Not a twinge.
Whassup wif dat? on My Hill??
Clearly, they [the symptoms] are Afraid.....they are Very, Very Afraid.
It seems that, sometimes, the very threat of Attention is Enough.
I'm happy your symptoms are not present, though. Hope they stay away until 5 seconds before the specialist walks in the room to see you... :)
Hah! Went into see a doctor on My Hill about the shoulder pain/strain I was having, and getting addicted to ibuprofen for....
The pain was fine that day, even though I went without the NSAIDs in an attempt to get a good flare-up going. :P
With the limited ouch-factor, we came up with a diagnosis of a strained trapezius - sounds about right and a relief because I thought it was related to a bit of tendinitis/bursitis I had last summer. I never know if I can trust my doctor because he is so calm and blase' about it that I suspect he's either a total genius or completely inept. I just can't decide which one (and getting a new doctor in this city is more hassle than it's worth at this point).
Had one hell of a headache on My Hill that day, though. I don't take OTC painkillers ever - if it's bad enough for pain medication, it's bad enough for prescription. I was in for the anti-inflammatory bit.
neuralgia in the tip of my ear on My Hill
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 13, 2008, 09:50:13 PM
another chunk of case study written today on My Hill; now I just have to write another 800 words, remove about 800 other words, rewrite another 750 words, find apt quotations and remove enough words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is feeling a little overwhelming; could even say My Hill is bogged down.
replace the first 800 above with 400 and you get a picture of My Hill after today's small effort
oh you prefer me to spell it out?
another chunk of case study written today on My Hill; now I just have to write another 400 words, remove about 800 other words, rewrite another 750 words, find apt quotations and remove enough words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is feeling a little overwhelming; could even say My Hill is just very very very slightly less bogged down than last time I wrote this paragraph
Quote from: Griffin NoName on March 04, 2008, 09:58:48 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 13, 2008, 09:50:13 PM
another chunk of case study written today on My Hill; now I just have to write another 800 words, remove about 800 other words, rewrite another 750 words, find apt quotations and remove enough words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is feeling a little overwhelming; could even say My Hill is bogged down.
replace the first 800 above with 400 and you get a picture of My Hill after today's small effort
oh you prefer me to spell it out?
another chunk of case study written today on My Hill; now I just have to write another 400 words, remove about 800 other words, rewrite another 750 words, find apt quotations and remove enough words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is feeling a little overwhelming; could even say My Hill is just very very very slightly less bogged down than last time I wrote this paragraph
Here's a hug for ya: :glommp:
Your conundrum reminds me of my computer programming days.
The ONLY way I could get through it, was to NOT look at the "big picture"-- I would totally ignore it, actually. ::)
I would pick an arbitrary piece of it, and work on
that. Then, I'd pick another, and so on.
Eventually, I'd come to the end of the tiny pieces.... *sigh*
In other news, I went to the eye examiner for my Final 6 month post- LASIC exam on My Hill.
I now have 20-15 vision for middle and far. Near is about 20-50 or so, and 1+ corrective lenses work for most things (like my computer screen's display). I keep some 2+ for reading in bed, as the book's apt to be closer.
Saying YAY for good results on My Hill.
Working where I did in the eyecare industry, I generally saw the people who had the NOT successful surgery results.
Getting ready to go to the precinct convention/caucuses on My Hill, and pissed as hell that Hillary filed a freakin' lawsuit about the way they're done. Does she have morons for advisers?? Wanna piss a Texan off? come in and tell 'em that something they've been doing that's WORKED for years is worth you filin' a frivolous lawsuit about.
Goin' to participate a really interesting show tonight!! My Hill's about hyped!! :woohoo:
another bad night on My Hill
:hug:
:pat: :pat: :pat: :partyglass: ?
:-*
from My Hill
alcohol is beyond me on My Hill; I cannot even drown it all; hell, I can't even contemplate The Admiral Benbow; what mean designer made me in an image where alcohol makes everything ten times worse? I want new genes on My Hill.
:pat:
Quote from: Griffin NoName on March 04, 2008, 09:58:48 PM
another chunk of case study written today on My Hill; now I just have to write another 400 words, remove about 800 other words, rewrite another 750 words, find apt quotations and remove enough words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is feeling a little overwhelming; could even say My Hill is just very very very slightly less bogged down than last time I wrote this paragraph
another two chunks of case study written on My Hill and
255 words removed; now I just have to write another
100 words, remove about another
1025 other words, rewrite another 750 words, find apt quotations and remove enough further words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is still feeling overwhelming; but could say My Hill is just very very very slightly less bogged down than last time I wrote that it was very very slightly less bogged down
however, handing it in on Monday as I thought might be possible is not going to happen
The journey of ten thousand words begins with a single keystroke...
Can you set up a random phrase generator with all the instructors favorite catchphrases and just let it go?
I would do that, but then I'm badly behaved.
Truth in advertising on My Hill.
No, but I could buy an essay off the web. However, the secret of My Hill is to make oneself ill complying with irrational and stupid requests like having to be honest and meet targets. This odd psychological disease is not well described in the literature. It is under-diagnosed and it is believed accurate death reporting wiould show up the pattern clearly.
Meanwhile in other news: a two hour sleep has broken out on My Hill. This is thought unlikley to re-balance the books.
Returning to the scene of Yesterday's "last day". ::)
Turns out that there was insufficient adjustment in the fan speed pulley, and we had to have another one ordered. Install today.
Turnover to the new owners of that place is tomorrow. Riiiiiight. But at least it won't be because of anything _we_ [my partner and I] are responsible for.
(had to come back to the "big" city, Tulsa, for the new part. Bad thing about uber-small town construction sites. Nothing out of the ordinary.)
I wouldn't mind all that much, except it snowed in the meantime, and we'll have to drive through it now.
Not looking forward to driving on slick streets On My Hill.
Got friends coming round to dinner on My Hill. Cooking is commencing. Tomorrow, leaving My Hill, and returning to My Parent's Hill for the rest of the week. Hooray! Back to civilisation! Away from the West Midlands! Hooray!
Thought I'd finally lost my main PC last night, on My Hill.
Main monitor went black, and would not come back from "sleep".
So, I jiggled the signal cords and *ooops!* I smelled the magic smoke!*
Oh No!
It seems that I had not fastened my video card down properly... now the stupid PC won't boot at all.
Power off for the night, and forget about it.
This morning (day off) I looked at it again, and tried re-boot. PC hung in the black screen (on my 2nd monitor-- main one was still out at this point), not even so much as a *beep*.
Alas. It could be the motherboard. But, it could also be the Video card (fortunately, it's my backup-- I never did get around to re-installing my main video board.... soo).
I reinstalled my main video card, and began checking cables. Found the problem with the main monitor-- power cord had come loose (Doh!)
Hit the power switch. Viola! It works! I had my monitor (signal) cables backwards, so the screen's orientations were "off". A quick swap fixed that, too.
I'm back up and running.
For now. :) ::)
________________________
* All and I do mean all electronics are made with magic smoke. It is the last ingredient they put into those tiny chips, and it Makes Them Go. The smoke must not, repeat must not be allowed to escape, or else the electronics in question Will Not Work. Anyone with experience in electronics know this, even if they refuse to divulge the secret. And, yes, Magic Smoke has a distinctive smell, too.
failure to attend supervision on My Hill as too tired to cope with high winds and rain and the fear of being blown over outweighed my zeal; frantically calculating how the lost minutes** will affect those needed to obtain the vital piece of paper I am chasing; pondering whether The G-ds are against me sending this weather
**need X hours supervision for Y client hours or one disappears in a puff of smoke. The "lost" supervision is cannot be rescheduled, it is lost for ever
Quote from: Griffin NoName on March 07, 2008, 02:01:53 AM
another two chunks of case study written on My Hill and 255 words removed; now I just have to write another 100 words, remove about another 1025 other words, rewrite another 750 words, find apt quotations and remove enough further words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is still feeling overwhelming; but could say My Hill is just very very very slightly less bogged down than last time I wrote that it was very very slightly less bogged down
540 words removed from case study and 400 rewritten; have to write another
100 words, remove about another
500 other words, rewrite another 350 words, find apt quotations and remove enough further words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is still feeling overwhelming; but My Hill is experiencing strong winds and rain rather than being bogged down
If you all are bored with news of My Hill, think how bored I am ;)
In other news, we are on FLood Watch, but this is a bit pointless as we are on flood watch about 50% of the year so I doubt anyone takes any notice.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on March 11, 2008, 06:27:48 PM
540 words removed from case study and 400 rewritten; have to write another 100 words, remove about another 500 other words, rewrite another 350 words, find apt quotations and remove enough further words to insert them and do the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; My Hill is still feeling overwhelming; but My Hill is experiencing strong winds and rain rather than being bogged down
If you all are bored with news of My Hill, think how bored I am ;)
The case study first draft minus conclusion has been polished and printed out on My Hill; now I must find apt quotations and remove enough further words to insert them and the conclusion and add the bibliogrpahy, then check it meets all the targets; I cannot believe I have been working on this wretched thing since October; more amazing is that it reads like a comprehensive piece of work rather than a lot of unconnected bits of drivel which is how it was writen; I am happier with it than I thought I'd be; My Hill being a mountainous area, response to this happiness is being swamped by fear that when submitted the whole thing will be thrown back and I will be told to start all over again with another case to write up instead......... if Life throws shit one gets to believe shit will arrive..... and 50p has been added to the tax on spirits in the budget today.
:catroll:
Home unexpectedly early, on My Hill.
I expected to put in another 10-12 hour day, but Fate Intervened.
Yaaay! :woohoo:
Sometimes Fate can be kind.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on March 12, 2008, 11:05:09 PM
Sometimes Fate can be kind.
we try to watch out for that on My Hill to balance the books ;)
sometimes it means turning over every stone to see what's underneath ;D
My Hill is amazingly much more tolerable physically than it has been.
I'm feeling much better!! Evidently almost bleeding out from an ulcer isn't good for you... :stupid:
:goldfish: <---How my brain works now.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty[snip]
:goldfish: <---How my brain works now.
It looks like a fishous circle...
Amorphously grumpy on My Hill.
No particular reason, and I doubt it'll last, but for now I'm indulging in looking very much like my avatar, with more hair.
On My Hill it is sunny and moderately warm--the first day of spring after a horrendous snow and it has put me in a good mood.
Metta.
Quote from: Agujjim on March 13, 2008, 06:08:54 AM
Amorphously grumpy on My Hill.
No particular reason, and I doubt it'll last, but for now I'm indulging in looking very much like my avatar, with more hair.
Sometimes, being grumpy
is the reason we get up in the morning!
On the other hand, a [hug] for you anyway. (feeling "huggy" a bit-- I'm certain it will wear off soon...meanwhile, you get a hug whether or not you wanted it. ::) ) :glomp: :glomp:
In other news, slow day on My Hill. Nice.
The case study second draft with quotations and bibliography but minus conclusion, and 300 words too many, rolled off the laptop today.
The quotes are all pretty rubbish due to my determination to only use books I'd never bothered with before to make the overall Diploma bibliography stupendously longer. Well one has to keep oneself amused somehow. This is the fourth and most boring case study of them all.
I'm nearly dead on My Hill.
Tired on My Hill, but not sick and...
Today, for the second day in a row, I have gone out and about (driven to a town 30 miles away, where there's an about to go out to)--and am NOT is screaming agony, nor am I dropping from exhaustion.
YAY!! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :yippee:
I feel better, I look better...and my hematocrit is back to normal levels. Evidently the bleeding large amounts into your stomach isn't good for you. :dontknow: :goldfish: I think I'm glad I got that fixed.
sounds like bleeding is off my list of things to do on My Hill when bored ;) glad for you
Quote from: Griffin NoName on March 14, 2008, 03:39:35 AM
sounds like bleeding is off my list of things to do on My Hill when bored ;) glad for you
Making a list on My Hill, to remind myself, as well as Griffin to NOT have gastro bleeding for entertainment (or any other reasons). :hug:
can I suggest,
do not sign up for a Diploma with a dodgy failing college even if the examining board has credibilty
MY Hill needs excavating for buried bodies now :ROFL:
::makes note to self::
Got it. No dodgy diploma hoarders needed.
My Hill is near a Junior College and a major university. I plan to NEVER attend either. (If I'm well enough to go to school, I'm well enough to work, and I lose my medical coverage. Even one course. Duh...like an hour in a class room 3 times a week is equal to 40 hours a week or more working.)
Pot smoke is creeping under the door to my Hill. Must go open the window. :puke:
Urgh, that stuff smells ickified.
The hotel doesn't care? Sounds like a call to the front desk to me.
Heading bedways on My Hill.
You think they would. And this whole section of hall reeks, so it's not hard to pin-point, but as long as there's no complaints, they don't seem to care.
I don't care, now that my room cleared out, and no more is drifting under the crack.
Telling scrib to wet towels and block the stench(put under door crack), thinking about Tibet (China fixin ta hammer them), waiting for the sun to rise(clouds do not help), and wishing each and everyone of you a lovely day---On My Hill.
day of sleep on My Hill
Day of travel on mine.
My Hill is already too busy, anh then it was invaded by friends from Louisiana, passin' through.
Need nap. No can do. :'(
:bed: inna car.
Back on My Hill, after visiting The Parent's Hill back home. I really wish I was back there.
Trying to get internet connection for my laptop on My Hill
:hitPC:
Installing Visual Studio on a new laptop. This could take some time on my hill...
Possibly as long as installing sound manipulation software on My Hill when the software being installed is corrupt and stops even the web browser working.......... wipes out all the good sleep having a computer...... I is cross.
Home again to My Hill.
Shot some-- did pretty lousy at skeet-- 1 in 5 was typical for me. OTOH, my shoulder's totally not sore, so I've got the holding it firmly thing down. Now, I need to work on tracking and leading the clay 'bird'.
At the end, I got to shoot my new 9mm pistol some more. At about 50 feet, I put'em all within a hand's spread (6" or so). Not bad, for such a short barrel, and a smallish gun. (have smallish hands, so to easily and smoothly work all the controls, I need a smallish gun.) Recoil was barely noticeable, I'm happy to note-- expected more, because the gun's lighter than most. Getting used to the sights-- will do some silhouettes (small steel targets, at various ranges, with small bases--a hit knocks'em over-- nice instant feedback) with it next.
Hotelling it Up North en route to Way Up North tomorrow. Hoping to see the aurora borealis sometime (and maybe some Dust? ;))
SO you aren't on YOUR HILL :mrgreen: throwing missiles at the previous post from My Hill.
Well, how can I be? I'm in the flatlands..... ;)
Heading to bed on My Prairie.
giggling insanely on My Hill
Being very procrastinatory on My Hill-- I really ought to get out and get some stuff done-- but I'm waiting for clearer skies than presently.
Rain would totally trash the paint.... and it keeps on sprinkling-- sorta.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Quote from: Griffin NoName on March 17, 2008, 05:19:13 PM
giggling insanely on My Hill
You've certainly earned an insane giggle or three... indulge!
Waiting to start a rehearsal on my (flat) hill.
Home again on My Hill.
I like My Hill.
Still up North on My Hill.
It's cold enough to get frostbite (-21 C in the morning). Didn't get frostbite, but I do I have a very mild sunburn. I've been keeping sunscreen on, it helps a bit.
at last a day on My Hill where I can choose what I want to spend time on !
Grant me patience on My Hill, I've still got about 24 hours to go before I have such choice.
make believe time on My Hill; make believe I am asleep ;)
Duvet day! Done sweet Fanny Adams bar watching DVD's, and drinking tea. Wonderful.
A feast for the eyes - an Emporer's terracotta army* today; I am persuaded I really must start building my burial mansion on My Hill but what will I need to take with me?
dunno why they put them all in the reading room at the BM; they can only read Chinese
Generally speaking, if you don't need a saw and shovel you probably won't need anything else.
I think they generally put Commie stuff in the BM Reading Room. Karl Marx, Chinese loans, Goat.
Insulting Goat on My Hill.
Interesting conundrum. If you put a goat in a reading room, with only the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and the world's favourite human being, Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugashvili, and no food, which books would be turned into manure first?
And would the order of consumption change if it was a Goat?
Posing philosophical questions on My Hill.
A hot friggin' Easter day on my Hill.
Ok, not nearly as hot as it will be in a few weeks, but after months of 40 degree weather, 80*F is boiling.
Urgh.
It's snowing here in Tennesse, on my hill.
It's cool in Texas, on My Hill.
Would love to see snow again someday, but My Hill's geographical location pretty much assures it won't happen.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on March 24, 2008, 03:58:36 AM
It's cool in Texas, on My Hill.
Would love to see snow again someday, but My Hill's geographical location pretty much assures it won't happen.
On the other hand, if Global Climate Change has any validity, part of the general warming trend, is an increase in extreme weather-- colder winters in some parts, including snow heretofore unheard of.
Too cool for End-of-March, on My Hill--furnace just came on for cryin' out loud.
Soon, though, it'll be the A/C... soon.
snow everywhere but none on My Hill; amazing what congestion charging can achieve
Got some new snow on My Hill (back on My Home Hill, if a pile of concrete counts as a hill ::) ).
Good excuse to stay indoors most of the day, even though it's only -6 with the windchill.
still working on my phasing out videos project on My Hill
I have internet on my laptop on My Hill!
:yippee:
My hill is rejoicing that our beloved sibling is better connected to us... :D
Anticipating warm lap syndrome on Darlica's hill; meanwhile only one video remains to be watched on My Hill = happiness
Nah, on My Hill I have a tray pillow. It's very good for laptops and writing/drawing in bed. ;D
Home from shopping for food on the Other Hill-- spent too much by 200%.
Alas, the rising fuel prices are affecting everything from eggs to cheese to peanut butter.
You've done a Heckuva Job Bushie! Thanks!
So, I"ve put away my overpriced human-fuel into My Hill.
Now I'm consoling myself in the peace and quiet of the Monastery.
*aaaaaaaaahhhhh* I don't care if there ARE squidlings, I'm soaking my tired feet in the Monastery's moat.
(we do have a moat, yes? And the water I see 'round the place is intentional and not leakage from some other place? )
Breezy sunset here on my Hill.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on March 27, 2008, 02:01:24 AM
*aaaaaaaaahhhhh* I don't care if there ARE squidlings, I'm soaking my tired feet in the Monastery's moat.
(we do have a moat, yes? And the water I see 'round the place is intentional and not leakage from some other place? )
Y'know there's a hotspring out back, eh?
S'posed to be cleaning up on my hill. Eating instead.
Oh, I found a picture of this thread:
(http://joyful-ep.jp/assistant-blog/Maribhet/uploaded_images/CHOCOLATE-HILLS-BOHOL-781988.jpg)
*sigh*
Your picture immediately reminded me of a nice day at the Beach.... except all the people were green....
*sigh*
have a tray pillow on My Hill too and in summer I still get a hot lap :ROFL:
discovered another unwatched video on My Hill
Labour Day on My Hill !!!!!!!!!!!
:woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot:
:eeksign: :eeksign: :eeksign: :eeksign: :eeksign: :eeksign:
:aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh:
:contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions: :contractions:
sore throat, fever, and an un-missable class tomorrow on My Hill; on the plus side, heard the baby crying down the phone, little fussy new bornish cries ;D
Having a taxing time on My Hill. :P
lol@aggie
having a painful night on My Hill :( but at least I don't have a baby to look after as well ;)
Sleepless on My Hill
Just finished the "unpublished" first novel by RAH, "For Us, the Living"
Apparently, he wrote it in 1939, tried to get it published, failed and back-burnered it.
A copy was found not long ago, and it was published for him.
Interesting.
If you're a Heinlein fan, you'll see the seeds of nearly all his major novels in it, at the least, all his major themes are expressed or at least, mentioned.
As a stand-alone? Not so much-- minimal characterization. Ending? Typical Heinlein. But, reading it is akin to a romp through his major and minor stories and themes over the lifetime of his work.
A must-read for all Heinlein's fans.
Bob, you can post your thoughts about read books here: http://toadfishmonastery.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=32&topic=1219.0 (http://toadfishmonastery.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=32&topic=1219.0)
The big book thread. :)
disappearance of two rooms beneath utter overfill almost complete on My Hill; can someone tell me how to locate even a small piece of bed to lay on?
posessions: seek and destroy, seek and destroy :dalek:
Started the day on My Hill with SLEET!
Frozen, hard water, fallin' on my poor Spencer's head as he was walkins this morning!! Marble to golf-ball sized.
Talk about confusing the poor boy. Then the thundermonsters started in, so Mommy got it some prime dog-holding time. It was easier when he weighed 26 pounds instead of 33...
Someone seems to have totally spoiled this dog ROTTEN on My Hill. (Musta been his Dad.)
Was going to install a gas line to my new (used) gas stove. OUT with the Electric Burn-a-meal Delux.
So, I crawled under my house, over under the kitchen, to take measurements.
Was muddy.
Too muddy.
Hmmm.
Looking over towards the bathroom, what did I spy with my little eye?
A broken drainpipe.
Bleah.
Gas stove still not installed.
Must wait for dirt to dry out, then I can fix the busted drain, THEN I can put in the gaspipe.
Muddy crawlspace on My Hill.
*bleah*
woken up too early on a small corner of the bed on My Hill
Pleasantly melancholy on my Hill.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on April 05, 2008, 02:35:58 AM
Someone seems to have totally spoiled this dog ROTTEN on My Hill. (Musta been his Dad.)
It's the reason most of us keep dogs, to have someone to spoil...
A million things to do on My Hill but not enough strength to do even one.
Contemplating, on My Hill, exactly when it was that I lost control of my total mind.
I just fed Spencer half of my Poptart. NOT just the corners, HALF of it. Why? He looked hungry and I was distracted. Hungry, as in "I've had my knee-helping snacks, my breakfast Doggie Bacon, my vitamin snacks and a couple of Extra-vitamin, vet-approved MarroBones and 3 LivaSnaps. Feed me more."
Contemplating getting the other Poptart from the package...and the loss of the last vestiges of my sanity, on My Hill.
Back on My Hill again, after a lovely week in Perthshire.
been asleep on My Hill all evening; now it's night and time to be awake; cursing My Hill
half way through April and finally got one of the two web systems I run on the server, that got moved, back working properly and fully and totally again since the move in February; time for a well-earned rest on My Hill where outstanding diploma client hours stands at 12.
Listening to the motorcycles all around My Hill. It's the motorcycle guy festival-thingy we have here every year, out at the lake.
Also, reveling in the extremely courteous behaviour of the motorcycle guys, with their wives, and especially with me, while going into any public place. Doors held open, car door opened for me, cane set into back seat... Lovely manners!
However, sad that I'm too 'fragile' to go for a ride anymore. Hatin' on bein' sick, on My Hill.
next time I wake up on My Hill it will be the day of my last college supervision
Happydance for Griffin on My Hill!!
:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :hug:
next time I wake up on My Hill, it will be the day of my last placement supervision
Yaaaay for Grif!
Currently enjoying a night off on my Hill. No work and I have all day tomorrow to brush up on my ethics for my philosophy final on Thursday.
Scribble, you always seem eminently ethical to me !!
got a migraine on My Hill; over-excited about the ending of an era.
Home, after 12 hour day.
*bleah*
On the other hand, I made a nice lady VERY happy by accomidating her needs, and showing up at 5:30 pm -- 30 min after my usual quittin' time. Finished roughly 9pm. Was a buger, actually. Previous installer had crystilized the fittings with improper technique, which required a major junkyard engineering to correct. Crystilized fittings won't braze, but turn to butter when you heat them enough to melt the brazing metal, so you can't just pull'em out-- too soft. So you must cut them off cold, and hope there's enough left to fit over what's left.
As I said, junkyard engineering fix, but it's working, now. And, it ought to last another year-- maybe two, which was the stated goal
(new homeowner, and she failed to get enough loan to include some needed repairs. Why do people do that? Why not assume something major is wrong with a used house, and get a coupla thousand extra for just such events? You can bank it in a CD, until that event surfaces. In a coupla-three years, if nothing shows-- you can pay down the principle, if you like. People is stupid, methinks.....)
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on May 15, 2008, 04:47:25 AMI made a nice lady VERY happy by accomidating her needs, and showing up at 5:30 pm -- 30 min after my usual quittin' time. Finished roughly 9pm. Was a buger, actually.
:ROFL: Acknowledging I have a dirty mind on My Hill. :mrgreen:
Quote from: Agujjim on May 15, 2008, 10:44:52 PM
:ROFL: Acknowledging I have a dirty mind on My Hill. :mrgreen:
I tol' you that you and I think WAY too much alike, didn't I??
We do. :mua:
dawn dawns on the day of the scene of my last valient effort to precure the often-seemingly unattainable which has been playing out seemingly unendably on My Hill
Lazy Friday on My Hill.
Nice. Yesterday was too hectic, but we got done what we needed to got done.
A chainsaw is a really cool tool for making holes in 1" (2.5 cm) waferboard-- cuts quickly, is more than neat enough, and viola, you are done in minutes instead of hours (with making the hole, that is).
We've tried many various and asundry tools, but a chainsaw with a new chain is the best tool.
Okay, to be specific, it's a new McDonald's building. The rough framework, including waferboard sheathing is all in place. On the (more or less) flat roof, they used 1" (2.5cm) thick 10' x 4' panels laid over the engineered trusses. (those trusses are a work of art: engineered lumber with metal tubing making up the triangle-pattern. Whole thing held together with high-tech press-rivets. _exactly_ as strong and heavy as required for the task, and no more-- zero waste)
Anyway, in the past, we'd have drilled location holes up from underneath (we still do that, come to think of it) and then used a circular saw or a jig saw or a saws-all to connect the "dots" (holes) together.
Since waferboard is made of lumber scrap-- basically-- it often contains bits of metal in it, bits of sand, bits of----non-wood.*
So, using conventional tools, you'll always see occasional sparks when you cut it-- and carbide blades are a must. But, it's slow.
Then, one bright day, my partner and I both hit upon using a chainsaw---really cool. Sure, it pretty much wipes out the chain by the end of the task (2 really huge holes, 1 medium-sized hole, 3 medium-small holes and 1 small hole) but it's quick. A chain costs roughly $20. I can be resharpened a couple of times, before it's trash (that waferboard is really hard on tools-- did I mention that?)
But it takes in one relatively normal day what would have taken 2 or part of the third day, using conventional saws. Even WITH carbide blades--- and those are not cheap, either.
Chainsaws.
They're not just for cutting down trees anymore. :mrgreen:
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* Waferboard or chippboard is pretty cool, actually. It has a bad rep as "cheap" but it's actually much stronger than "pure" wood, and some grades are much stronger than traditional plywood, too. It is made in huge hydraulic presses which smash the wood-bits together under thousands of pounds per inch of pressure. There's glue in the mix, too--okay, resin if you want the technical term. It's heat-hardened resin, so that at the end, the resin is very hard. It has random-oriented pieces of paper-thin wood chips, laid over each other everywhich way. This makes it strong in any dimension.
But, the end result is a sheet any size you specify (you can special-order 20 foot long, 8 foot wide sheets of this stuff, I'm told. Rarely done, though-- too hard to ship). Typical delivered sizes are 8x10, 4x8, and 4x10, with the last two the most common. (that would be 2.4 x 3 meters, 1.2x2.4 meters and 1.2x3 meters respectively).
It comes in many different thicknesses, from about 1/4" (6mm) (uncommon) to 3/8 (10mm) to 1/2 (13mm) (common) to 3/4 (20mm) (very common) to the 1" size McD's uses most (2.54cm).
There's a variation on chippboard, called OSB or Oriented Strand Board. This stuff is made the same basic way, except the wood is not shaved into paper thin chips, but is crushed into long strands or "strings", like very long, extra-extra thick toothpicks--sorta. These strands are laid lengthwise into the press, with the occasional short strand naturally going across from side-to-side. But, most strands are lengthwise in the press. Then the whole is injected with resin, and squeezed and heated, like waferboard.
OSB is nearly always for dimensional lumber, 2x4's and such. I comes from 1/2" (13mm) up to 8-10 inches thick (25cm) or more, and as long as the customer specifies. Very tough stuff, very hard on tools, too. But, it is much stronger than "natural" wood, and pound-for-pound, stronger than the steel it often replaces. And, it takes nails, screws and wood-glue just fine. And, since it IS basically wood, it expands and contracts along with the REST of the wood framing components.
Interesting factoids. We've been discussing what to use to make a fold-down (piano hinged) bath seat for the tub. I can't stand and shower and wash hair and do all the reaching needed without tiring, and it's really embarrassing to pass out in the shower. (We will not discuss the toll on faces that hit the water taps.)
The design is rudimentary at the moment, and it'll all be polyurethaned to within an inch of it's life, so we may consider some of the OSB. Then again it might not matter. Depends on if Medicare will catch it's snap and provide a bathseat for me, or if the process will turn into a 'wait forever' deal, because I really don't have a forever to wait...
Bein' freaked out a bit medically, on My Hill.
Bath stool ?
Cold in be dose od My Hill. Snuffle.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 16, 2008, 10:45:31 PM
Interesting factoids. We've been discussing what to use to make a fold-down (piano hinged) bath seat for the tub. I can't stand and shower and wash hair and do all the reaching needed without tiring, and it's really embarrassing to pass out in the shower. (We will not discuss the toll on faces that hit the water taps.)
The design is rudimentary at the moment, and it'll all be polyurethaned to within an inch of it's life, so we may consider some of the OSB. Then again it might not matter. Depends on if Medicare will catch it's snap and provide a bathseat for me, or if the process will turn into a 'wait forever' deal, because I really don't have a forever to wait...
Bein' freaked out a bit medically, on My Hill.
Want a "quick and dirty" bathseat? Go to the outdoor furniture section of WallyWorld or local home center, and look for some of those plastic chairs. Look for one without arms, for easy access into and out of.
Find one small enough for the leg to fit within the tub, or else large enough for 2 legs in, and 2 legs out.
Another possible "quicky" is 1/2 of a barrell, with a board across the top for a seat. Be sure to drill a hole in the bottom of the barrel to let excess water out, back into the tub.
But, the plastic chair or plastic bench-chair would be lightweight, for easy removal.
Old and oddly shaped tub.
Tried the plastic chair. It skidded because of the odd tub. The only 'bathstools' on the market around here are the ones people get Medicare or insurance to pay for, and I am NOT paying $139 for a small metal and plastic 4 legged stool, when an actual bath bench is $149 and that's what I need. (Tub transfer bench.)
It's got to be fairly high for a stool, or adjustable, because I literally do not bend in places the human body should bend, and getting up from a low seat is difficult. I'll be damned if I'm going to have to start having help in and out of the tub...
Meh. May be a moot point. I just looked at an e-mailed copy of my 'bad photo' from yesterday's ultrasound. Talk about ug-leeee....
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 17, 2008, 04:14:53 AM
Old and oddly shaped tub.
Tried the plastic chair. It skidded because of the odd tub. The only 'bathstools' on the market around here are the ones people get Medicare or insurance to pay for, and I am NOT paying $139 for a small metal and plastic 4 legged stool, when an actual bath bench is $149 and that's what I need. (Tub transfer bench.)
It's got to be fairly high for a stool, or adjustable, because I literally do not bend in places the human body should bend, and getting up from a low seat is difficult. I'll be damned if I'm going to have to start having help in and out of the tub...
Meh. May be a moot point. I just looked at an e-mailed copy of my 'bad photo' from yesterday's ultrasound. Talk about ug-leeee....
Old freestanding clawfoot tub?
What about a simple board across the rims? Could be built-up so that it sits high enough for your comfort. Wrap the whole thing in heavy sheet plastic like for painting drop-cloths. Staple to bottom, and it ought to last for years and years. The plastic would make it smooth, to facilitate sliding onto and off of, for a wheelchair person. (I know you're not that, but it would work)
Could make a simple hollow box, too, if you need more than 4-6 inches of height. That would keep the weight low. Add some handles on the sides/front/back for easy movement.
To keep the whole thing from sliding around the tub, some parts could go down into the tub itself, with some parts resting on the rim-- that would "lock" it into place.
I could draw a pic if you like, with measurements....
Actually, the hinged, drop down will be easier for me. We're going to pad the bottom of the falling side with high denisty foam, so that I can just let it drop, no 'lowering gently' or attaching needed, then Dan can put it out of the way when he doesn't need it.
We are operating an the principle that I will need it for some years to come...
He's drawn it out, spec'd the lumber 3 different ways, figured the weight load (both for me and for a friend that may visit) and is looking at 'little stuff' on line. Oh, and he'll be adding grab bars at the same time.
The walls, interior walls, are very sturdy, so attaching it to 'something substantial' isn't a problem. (Interior bathroom walls are 1.5 x 7 inch hand milled planks, not pine like most of the house, but, we think possibly cypress.)
Our house was built sturdily. VERY sturdily. The couple that built it were related to the people that milled the wood, and brought it here on mule-drawn wagons. It's all 1 inch or 1.5 in thick 7 inch wide planks, because that's what the guy milled...take it or leave it. (The original dining room chandelier weighed 300 plus pounds, and put no strain on the ceiling.)
The other house in town built of the same lumber, but smaller, just changed hands for 4 times what I paid for mine, and with a 1/3 acre lot instead of the 2/3 acre we have. OH, and it needs more work than mine.
A fairly lazy day on my Hill. Spent a bit of time dragging my sisters around town, but other then that.
My Hill is oddly devoid of official work ! it's official rest week on My Hill
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 18, 2008, 02:03:11 AM
Actually, the hinged, drop down will be easier for me. We're going to pad the bottom of the falling side with high denisty foam, so that I can just let it drop, no 'lowering gently' or attaching needed, then Dan can put it out of the way when he doesn't need it.
We are operating an the principle that I will need it for some years to come...
Sounds like you've got it covered. :mrgreen: I strongly suggest stainless steel hardware, including the hinges, though. The moist environment of the bathroom will rust galvinized metal pretty quickly, and "brass" these days is rarely solid brass, but usually plated--and pretty thinly, too. But, solid brass, if you can find it, is usually cheaper than SS.
As for controlling the drop, there are a coupla' ways to do that, too, 'sides a whopping fat cushion. :mrgreen: A door-closer mechanism would work-- just mount it such that when the board is down, the arm is in the "door closed" position. A simpler solution might be to have a steel or brass rod mounted on a hinge on the wall, and fixed to the corner of the board (nearest the wall, to be out of the way). The mounting-point to the board would be a sliding fixture, with adjustable friction. Thus, as the board is pulled down, the corner slides along the rod with friction, slowing it's descent. And, when the board is flipped up, the rod holds it up with friction, too.
Or, you can use a folding shelf support, suitable for a writing table or a lid support (http://www.hardwareandtools.com/icat/lidsupports/) which has adjustable friction to control the lowering of the seat.
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Lazy Day, on My Hill. Watching
The Fearless Vampire Killers, what I recorded the other night from TCM
My Hill is windy and rainy, I wonder where the spring went...
Waiting for appointments for tests on My Hill. NOT doing it patiently.
had a small glass of wine celebrating with NED on My Hill, so now have commeth the self-inflicted migraine
nursing damaged back on My Hill, while studiously avoiding doing my essay.
Looking for the really, supremely super big heating pad on my hill--- a friend needs it for a beat up back.
Will absolutely have to break down and turn on the airconditioning on my hill today-- it's hot y'all.
I had to cave in about 10 days ago with the AC. It's simply too hot and too humid to stand. I have it at ~80F which uses less energy, still I'm already preparing myself for the next bill on My Hill.
Quote from: anthrobabe on May 21, 2008, 06:56:35 PM
Looking for the really, supremely super big heating pad on my hill--- a friend needs it for a beat up back.
Will absolutely have to break down and turn on the airconditioning on my hill today-- it's hot y'all.
Perhaps 2 or 3 small/cheap ones instead? And a really REALLY heavy extension cord with 3 outlets? ;D
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Well, I'm posting this on my Main Box, which is sorta-up and running.
I need to re-install Windoze, to optimize it fully, as it's got a mish-mash of mixed drivers from the old MB and the new. And, it my attempt to clean things up in Device Manager, I apparently dumped something I needed....which did not auto-reinstall. *bleah*.
Fortunately, I've a spare drive I can bare-metal and re-initialize Windoze from CD. *double-bleah* 20 hours of hurry-up-and-wait. Only about 2-3 hours of actual insert-CD-to-first Windoze screen, but the rest is all those dang updates.... one of these days, I'm gonna slipstream a new XP cd with most updates included. One of these days. When I get a Round Tuit.
But, the specs so far:
MSI Mainboard, with 5 SATA ports, 1 PATA port and 12 USB ports, 1kb, 1mouse port. No parallel/serial ports. Yaaay! (I had to buy a USB-to-printer adapter. Cool.)
2048gig 533 RAM running in Dual Channel mode
2.66 intel pentium 4? 64 bit Something like that, socket 775
Raedon Sapphire HD3870 pci express video card, w/512meg ram
320gig SATA system drive
500gig SATA storage drive
Main display is HP W2007 wide screen flat panel (20" diagonal) running at 1680 x 1050
Second display is Acer X163W wide screen flat panel (16" diagonal, turned 90 degrees) running at 768 x 1366
What else? Keyboard is Microsuck 4000 ergo keyboard (black in color)
Mouse is trackball, Microsuck optical trackball (no longer available-- rat-b~stards!)
Now, I must temporary install a small 120gig SATA drive, install windoze on that, re-install the main sys drive, copy/save anything of import that's on it, then "migrate" the windoze install to the big drive, then restore important/saved files.
What Fun on My Hill.
That is a project for tomorrow or later... !
Going to be waiting for the 'lectric bill just like Zono on my hill.
sigh air conditioning turned on on my hill.
But I did find an electric blanket-- that will do for a giant heating pad for now.
Worrying about Chatty on My Hill.
spent yet another day trying to source travel options on My Hill
Quote from: Agujjim on May 22, 2008, 08:56:32 PM
Worrying about Chatty on My Hill.
The same on My Hill.
Quote from: Darlica on May 22, 2008, 10:23:25 PM
Quote from: Agujjim on May 22, 2008, 08:56:32 PM
Worrying about Chatty on My Hill.
The same on My Hill.
Me, three, and I AM Chatty.
The thing to remember is that carcinoid COMPLETELY changes the 'endgame'.
A large pancreaticc tumor is NORMALLY pretty much a 'final innings' thing. A large pancreatic carcinoid tumor MAY be 'just another weird surgery'. Or not.
Ya pay yer money, ya takes yer chances. I'm trying to set up sending everything to Louisiana so that when I go there, it's a check in, have surgery within a couple of days, then get well enough to travel home deal.
Doctors Boudreaux and Wang do LOTS of 'impossible' surgeries. They know what the body can tolerate, they don't 'over-do'. Dr Woltering is The Man, along with Dr. Warner in New York.
http://www.advancesinoncology.com/webcast_transcript.asp?f=glands_hormones&c=gh_carcinoidup&b=aio
Dr. Anthony works with Dr. Woltering, but Woltering is more aggressive with surgery.
This is the team.
http://www.ochsner.org/page.cfm?id=1141
We're counting on them to fix it. If I'm gonna have a new tumor deal every 7 years, OK, lets get this one done. (1994, 2001, 2008) That'll give me until 2015 before I have to get serious about this crap again!
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 23, 2008, 03:04:56 AM
We're counting on them to fix it. If I'm gonna have a new tumor deal every 7 years, OK, lets get this one done. (1994, 2001, 2008) That'll give me until 2015 before I have to get serious about this crap again!
Sounds like the devil made a tough deal with you !!
Quote from: Griffin NoName on May 23, 2008, 01:19:16 PM
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 23, 2008, 03:04:56 AM
We're counting on them to fix it. If I'm gonna have a new tumor deal every 7 years, OK, lets get this one done. (1994, 2001, 2008) That'll give me until 2015 before I have to get serious about this crap again!
Sounds like the devil made a tough deal with you !!
She can take 'him' anyday--- and she truly isn't even evil.
Good that the doctors know their stuff and are trusted, I am sure that helps you, being able to trust the doctors.
Simply being one with the universe on my hill today.
provisioning for massive trip on My Hill
Freaking out, again, on My Hill.
squirting anti-freakin spray on Chatty's Hill from the anti-freakin tower on My Hill
Recovering from a nasty summer cold on my Hill. Blegh. Also enjoying the cool, murky sort of day. We don't get these very often.
Griffin's spray works!!
Sleeping and not freaking on My Hill.
Doc Woltering is waitin' for my testing and info, and they're ready to move as soon as I can get an appointment. I'll be doing that Tuesday, as Monday is a holiday, and getting the orders for everything he wants tested and done before I get there.
Wishing that I was going to the New Orleans area for fun, not surgery, but I NEEDS da surgery!!
dreaming I can teach people to fly on My Hill
What's your technique?
I just taught myself a few new dream-flying skills the other night (one of the few times I've realized I was in a dream, so I decided to go flying - I learned how to 'tread air' to stay up instead of relying on glides as normal. Similar to sculling in water).
Reviewing franchise agreements on My Hill.
Quote from: Agujjim on May 26, 2008, 01:46:49 AM
What's your technique?
I just taught myself a few new dream-flying skills the other night (one of the few times I've realized I was in a dream, so I decided to go flying - I learned how to 'tread air' to stay up instead of relying on glides as normal. Similar to sculling in water).
Hey! That's the technique I've been teaching people on My Hill!
My mental transceiver seems to be tuned into Sibling wavelengths lately on My Hill. Must've picked up on those lessons somehow.
I'm glad my mind is wandering effectively, because it's not being very useful around here lately (too much doing, not enough getting done).
Can sympathise with that one; I have been doing a lot of being on My Hill; I remember being (sic) told to be a human being instead of a human doing, but did they mean doing being ?because it is certainly taking a lot of energy doing the being here right now. Gaaaaaaaaaar!
The voices in my head are talking to other people too... :mrgreen:
Freaky-Deaky weird, but that's OK. I usually am. :woot:
My Hill's just a good place to be now. (They know I'm weird, but they like me anyway.)
Warm, sitting on my chair in my room. It's raining on my Hill. Pleasantly cool, so my window's open.
I love this weather.
And I think approximately half the reason we <3 you, Chatty, is your particular brand of kookiness.
Storming intermittently. Internet connection is up and down like a hooker's underwear, on my hill.
This is the fourth attempt to post this message...
Wanting to go to sleep early but confounded by the sun above the horizon on My Hill (despite the time being appropriate). I can't recall the last time I've gone to bed when there's been any glimmer of daylight left - it's inevitably been hours after sunset.
Doing dance to apease the Sun Gods on My Hill
Back in the build-a-computer for Today, on My Hill.
*bleah*
At my recommendation, my friend purchased a replacement motherboard from Computer Geeks (normally, I love these guys).
The package arrived in plain box, with JUST the motherboard in bubble-wrap. No cables, do driver-disc, no back-plate, no nothin'.
It's an odd manufacturer, too, and I had to GOOGLE to even find it's website. And, of COURSE, no USA presence-- Europe or "globally" only. So, it's via satellite or underwater fibre-optic cable, at dial-up speeds. Well, maybe really, really good dial-up: I see the latest download is trundling along at 27 kb/second. Still, I'm used to 10 times that or more.
The ASRock (the brand) website is terrible-- impossible to navigate to other than the very VERY latest product. And, obviously, this is an older 'board.... so, it's back to GOOGLE to actually navigate their site! Idiocy!
*sigh*
It really DOES pay to research motherboard purchases.... and look for at least 10 reviews first. Read the bad ones first, to see what issue(s) if any. Ofttimes the "issue" is just stupidity on the part of the reviewer, but not always. Then, I read the middle reviews-- these are usually the most thoughtful and informative. I may scan the "glowing" reviews, but usually these are just junk-- either written by a product-rep or by a complete idiot that is clueless. Filled with real "useful" things like, "best ever" and "wonderful!" and "It actually caused World Peace, when I installed it!" and other nonsense.
Lots of Hurry Up and Wait, on My Hill.
ASRock is a cheap brand, still if you get the box it will have a driver CD. If you are buying hardware I recommend Newegg (http://www.newegg.com), the products are freely reviewed making easy to distinguish the dudes from the good products, and usually you get pictures with the contents of the box.
Lazy afternoon on my hill.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on May 31, 2008, 09:03:16 PM
ASRock is a cheap brand, still if you get the box it will have a driver CD. If you are buying hardware I recommend Newegg (http://www.newegg.com), the products are freely reviewed making easy to distinguish the dudes from the good products, and usually you get pictures with the contents of the box.
Lazy afternoon on my hill.
Yeah, I usually get stuff from Newegg. But, my friend was looking for a cheap direct-replacement of his existing system. Cheap was the operative word, here, and he got exactly that. ::)
The problem is, that
my time is
not cheap, and it's gonna cost him more time in both the short and long run.... and, yes, I expect to be paid for my time-- sure, at a discount, but. ;D
Instead of just steak or lobster-- I think I'm gonna order steak AND lobster! ;D (my usual price for this is a nice dinner....)
Still beating on PC's on My Hill.
But I only now just discovered a really cool thing about my HP 20" widescreen: I'd purchased an after-market stand for it, VESA, and it rotates!
So, I'm looking at a portrait image of the website-- the width was/is wasted in most views, but super-long height? Too cool.
All it takes is a couplea mouse-clicks on my ATI icon....
I have 2 of these stands, super-cool. Less than $40us and they adjust height, tilt and rotation. The base is a "lazy susan" so they can rotate easily (a feature I never use). Very cool.
Returning from a long absence, I think it's only fair that for a while this be my hill.
Woah. What a thunderstorm we just had. Golf ball size hail and bigger. Lots of it. Ouch.
Five 'till noon on my hill. Cool and quiet, which is nice. Smoggy, though. Days like this can make me forget I live in a valley.
Floridian summer weather - hot and humid over here on my hill.
Texas weather. Same as Florida.
Time for my nap on My Hill. :mrgreen:
Ick. Cleaning my bathroom on my hill.
*bleah*
Lightning storm blew out my nice shiny new Video card in my computer --- back on the laptop.
Double-bleah, on my hill.... I'm NEVER gonna get my main box fixed at this rate...
...fortunately, I think it's still within the warranty period, and I'll try for an RMA, from NewEgg.... gotta remember to do that, tomorrow.
Get a UPS and a high efficiency peak voltage protector. That and buy decent power supplies, that tends to be the major culprit on videocard deaths.
Reading some Naruto manga on my hill.
Power went out last night. Got woken up by my UPS beeping frantically on my hill.
Funny now that I use a laptop and the UPS only supplies power to the hard drive I have hooked up for backups. (Other stuff is just hooked up to a normal surge protector.)
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on June 02, 2008, 04:11:41 AM
Get a UPS and a high efficiency peak voltage protector. That and buy decent power supplies, that tends to be the major culprit on videocard deaths.
Reading some Naruto manga on my hill.
My PS is high-dollar already, and it came through fine.
I suppose I ought to re-invest in a UPS. Sadly, I've yet to see one that lasts more than a year or so-- even the high-$$ ones fail within a year.
Perhaps I ought to invest in a Brick Wall (http://www.brickwall.com/).... these are supposed to last forever.
Back on my Laptop on My Hill-- which means no E-mail for now.
Doing too many things at once on my hill.
Trying to explain a "Neuron Specific Enolase" level that needs to be drawn to a lab tech that doesn't understand WHY anybody would want one...
Being frustrated with STOOPID PEOPLE on My Hill.
Where's that Rat with my sign??
Quote from: Aphos on May 26, 2008, 03:13:08 PM
(http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/images/pearls21467100080526.gif)
Edit: Why does this remind me of Chatty? ???
Quote from: Aphos on May 27, 2008, 04:41:09 PM
(http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/images/pearls2073355080527.gif)
That is brilliant. I want a sign like that on my hill.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on June 02, 2008, 07:18:27 PM
Perhaps I ought to invest in a Brick Wall (http://www.brickwall.com/).... these are supposed to last forever.
Holy cow! Those things are expensive!
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About to play some classic Doom with upgraded graphics on My Hill
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on June 03, 2008, 03:01:27 AM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on June 02, 2008, 07:18:27 PM
Perhaps I ought to invest in a Brick Wall (http://www.brickwall.com/).... these are supposed to last forever.
Holy cow! Those things are expensive!
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About to play some classic Doom with upgraded graphics on My Hill
Cheaper than paying for a new video card. If you consider the cost of down-time, it's even as cheap or cheaper than a premium power supply.
I suppose I'll order one, when I get some mad-$$.
Missing my main computer on My Hill.
I have some form of the many identical-looking ones here (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?Section_Id=76), and it's served me well for a pretty long time now - can't remember precisely, so long enough for me to have forgotten.
Power doesn't turn off for long whiles very often here, but it does tend to flicker frequently, and it's saved me during those flickers many times. On my hill.
Quote from: Alpaca on June 03, 2008, 04:43:37 AM
I have some form of the many identical-looking ones here (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?Section_Id=76), and it's served me well for a pretty long time now - can't remember precisely, so long enough for me to have forgotten.
Power doesn't turn off for long whiles very often here, but it does tend to flicker frequently, and it's saved me during those flickers many times. On my hill.
I've used those. If they are more than a year old, regardless of the initial cost, they are pretty much a power-strip. No longer actively suppressing any surges....
ANY sacrificial "surge" suppressor is only good for roughly a year or so...
I used to religiously replace mine, every 6 months. I've got out of the habit.
But, the video card was brand new, and covered under DOA rules, so I'm likely to only be out postage...
...on my hill.
The great thing is that the Verizon box in the garage isn't surge-protected at all, and it supplies both internet and television to the house.
I know next to nothing about power-related issues. Is there any reason to suspect that my Belkin Box will ever cease to function as at least an effective battery backup?
On my hill?
I want one of these signs my self, sans rat, I can do the smashing myself... ;D
My UPS' tend to last 2 or 3 years. I suspect the quality of the main electric power in Bob's area is far worse than ours (and that's saying something).
Actually waiting for a cheap new UPS (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16842117005) on My Hill.
I don't know what power will be like in a few months when I move into a dorm on my hill.
And what it'll be like when a fellow resident decides that he can power something that draws the same as the Large Hadron Collider from a wall socket.
Quote from: AlpacaAnd what it'll be like when a fellow resident decides that he can power something that draws the same as the Large Hadron Collider from a wall socket.
If memory serves, that's quite OK.
The Dorm Police are only interested in nabbing those cooking Ramen noodles on a little hot plate...
[EDIT] Not using excessive energy, on my hill. [/EDIT]
True. I brought in power tools and lumber to build a 'storage loft' above my dorm room bed...saws, drills, a sander, etc.
No problem.
An old fashioned pre-microwave popcorn popper?? HORRORS!!
You could iron clothes for hours on end, but use that iron to make a grilled cheese sandwich, and you were in the dorm director's office in no time flat... THAT one they couldn't make stick.
That's stupid.
I'm already angry that Freshmen are required to have University housing and, even worse, a University meal plan. Together, those are $10K or so, which is absolutely ridiculous. It's understandable that I live on campus the first year, make friends, take a look around, figure out a better way to live. But $4000 worth of food for two school semesters? What!? (And I'm sure the cuisine will be sub-par.) If my parents gave me $4000 in cash for food, I could probably buy myself a very nice computer at the end of the year and still have a much healthier diet than my meal plan will allow me to.
Quote from: Alpaca on June 05, 2008, 04:06:26 PM
I'm already angry that Freshmen are required to have University housing and, even worse, a University meal plan. Together, those are $10K or so, which is absolutely ridiculous. It's understandable that I live on campus the first year, make friends, take a look around, figure out a better way to live. But $4000 worth of food for two school semesters? What!? (And I'm sure the cuisine will be sub-par.) If my parents gave me $4000 in cash for food, I could probably buy myself a very nice computer at the end of the year and still have a much healthier diet than my meal plan will allow me to.
I never had that issue - I lived at home for the three years I went to OUC, and had a kitchen the year I lived in residence at SAIT (rez was a tiny self-contained 4-bedroom apartment, I think your dorms there are something different).
I don't think I could put up with a meal plan - I'd be inventing some extreme dietary restrictions that they could NOT work around I think.
And heck yeah, $4000 a year will buy plenty of healthy food for a starving student.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on June 04, 2008, 05:13:03 AM
You could iron clothes for hours on end, but use that iron to make a grilled cheese sandwich, and you were in the dorm director's office in no time flat... THAT one they couldn't make stick.
How about waxing skis? ;D
I had the opposite issue in rez - no iron (unlike one of my roommates, I didn't ask to borrow another roomie's clothes iron for waxing). Instead of cooking with an iron, I managed to wax with the bottom of a cast-iron pan.
Are you allowed coffeemakers? You can cook quite a few things in a coffeemaker - I've done it on a few occasions in hotels. A rice cooker is even more versatile, but it's not 'dual use'.
Quote from: Agujjim on June 05, 2008, 04:47:55 PM
Are you allowed coffeemakers? You can cook quite a few things in a coffeemaker - I've done it on a few occasions in hotels. A rice cooker is even more versatile, but it's not 'dual use'.
Very proud moment - last spring break, school-sponsored trip to Italy. The food was "Italian" American tourist food, and entirely inedible. So my friend and I went out, bought a cheap coffee percolator (old-timey kind, not modern drip coffee maker), took it apart as best we could to get rid of extraneous elements, bought some pasta, some tomatoes, and some cheese. Cooked pasta, in it, made tomato sauce in it, had the most awesome dinner ever inside our hotel room.
Haven't used a percolator for cooking, but it would perfect for pasta I suspect.
What was with the bad food? Were you trapped at the hotel for meal times? That'd be a real bummer in Italy.
When I went to Japan on a school trip in my senior year, we did homestays - my homestay mom ran her own cooking school, so needless to say, I ate well. ^^
On the Thailand leg of the trip (5 days) we stayed mostly in a small-scale beach 'hotel' (on Koh Samui), and the food was pretty good/authentic. But I think we could have eaten elsewhere if we wanted.
Yeah. We weren't in Rome that night, but in some small middle of nowhere in a purely touristy hotel, and the only option they gave us was dinner in the hotel that night, so we got resourceful...
In Rome, on the other hand, we ditched the tour group and explored on our own, which was awesome.
Sounds like it would be ridiculously cool. -is jealous-
Quite day on my hill. First day off since Friday, which is nice. Means I'll be able to deal with the hordes of recently released school children and their frustrated parents without killing them for making my store messy or being rude*.
*Any of the younger Toadfish who may consider joining the ranks of 'Bucks should know that it's pretty exhausting if you aren't naturally perky. I'm not, so I tire out at about four days straight of work.
Disgusted by all the people on other hills who have topic drifted in my absence from my hill
:mrgreen:
Re: Using UPS instead of surge suppressors.....Not A Good Idea.
UPS's are expressly designed to supply mains power in absentia. They typically have little or no conditioning, in and of themselves.
Ignore the "warranty" on the package label-- cashing in on those is impossible (I've actually tried-- no juice).
ANY typical sub-$100US power conditioner is effectively used up by 6 months, and entirely by 1 year out--- it's just a power-strip by then.
Regardless of any pretty little LED lights indicating otherwise. I've examined the circuitry on many of those, in curiosity, and I've even rebuilt a number with new MOV's (http://www.answers.com/topic/varistor?cat=technology). (the actual "working" suppressor part-- similar to a fuse.)
The only difference between the super-cheap ones and the expensive ones is two-fold. The number and size of the MOV's and the absence of RF interference modules*.
The more expensive ones have multiple MOV's to absorb power-surges. The real cheap ones typically have only 3-- one between each of the power "legs" and ground**. These are only good for a SINGLE surge-- and then they are Done.
I'm looking at bypassing the MOV thing entirely.... with this (http://brickwall.thomasnet.com/item/standard-surge-protectors/two-outlet-surge-protectors/pw2r15?&seo=110), on My Hill***
At $180US, it's completely MOV-free. It uses actual serious electrical chokes and other Mystical Weavels to condition the electrical mains-- something only an Electrical Engineer can appreciate. :mrgreen:
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* RF is radio-frequency-- that 1,000 megawatt AM radio station right next door imposes considerable noise on your electrical mains. But. RF is one of the EASIEST things to filter-out, and your basic computer power supply, which is SWITCHING (no heavy transformers) does this automatically. An unneeded extra expense-- something else to break on your surge suppressor.
** The importance of GOOD GROUNDS. If your electrical outlet does NOT have a good ground-- I mean a GOOD ground-- it is basically worthless. Even the very high-$ ones, DEPEND on shunting the surges through an MOV to the ground. If that ground is MISSING or POOR-- the surge back-feeds into your PC, making a bad situation WORSE.
THREE PRONG CORDS ARE A MUST. In many commercial shops, the require a SEPARATE, ISOLATED ground wire for their computer rooms. I wired just such a thing in my previous house-- I suppose I ought to set up one in this one, too....
*** See, Griffin? Back On Topic!
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on June 07, 2008, 11:08:20 PM
The only difference between the super-cheap ones and the expensive ones is two-fold.
That's a great sentence on your hill; admiring it from My Hill.
Currently I have a one outlet Belkin surge protector on the wall, attached to a UPS that goes to a (supposedly) surge protected power strip. Same setting 3 times (main computer, home theatre, and main room TV/DVD/VCR/Speakers).
I'm crossing my fingers it works when needed.
Or quite possibly I'm just deluding myself that those things will protect the stuff attached on My Hill.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on June 08, 2008, 05:22:48 PM
Currently I have a one outlet Belkin surge protector on the wall, attached to a UPS that goes to a (supposedly) surge protected power strip. Same setting 3 times (main computer, home theatre, and main room TV/DVD/VCR/Speakers).
I'm crossing my fingers it works when needed.
Or quite possibly I'm just deluding myself that those things will protect the stuff attached on My Hill.
Put a surge strip/thingy between the UPS and the mains. Replace it faithfully every 6 to 12 months. You'll be fine.
Still on My Laptop Hill-- too lazy on Sunday to Do Something. ;D
At My auxiliary Hill in the Killeen area, to go have my O'scan. Soon to be radioactive AGAIN, on This Hill
Waving at Chatty from My Hill
Bring lemonade to our radioactive Chatty from my Hill.
Preparing for (possibly) two more days of rain on this hill island...
We ain't flooded yet, but so am I.... and we've had rain like we had snow last month on My Hill.
Calgary doesn't generally have weather this consistently precipitous.... I am hoping / expecting (and probably will be regretting) a scorching hot summer - also rare here.
Back at My Home Hill, not glowing in the dark anymore.
Getting my act together to get to Louisiana, pending a car...that works.
Rain on again, off again on My Hill.
These are the April Showers we had when I was a kid....only now they come in June.
Global Warming, doncha know?
August will also be wet, but September and October will be dry, dry, dry. No Traditional Jack-O-Lanterns Allowed (firehazard).
Settling in after a 17 hour workday on My Hill. Or a northern version thereof - I can still see the last traces of the sunset and it's past midnight.
Hazy on my Hill today. Couple for forest fires up in the mountains and it's all drifting down here to visit. Trees less than fifty feet away have a slight smoky haze.
A friend is visiting for the evening on My Hill. A simple pleasure not experienced for many months.
:) Good for you. Enjoy your evening!
It officially looks like my Hill has fog. But it's not fog, it's smoke.
Pants Day on my Hill.
There are people lined up to watch for the parade, so no walking around without pants this morning. :P
It's laundry day on My Hill, approximately 12 machines to wash and dry between 1 pm and 7:30 pm.
Also it rains, no that's not the right phrase, it pours down, like every little putti, cherub and angel in heavens had at least five pints of beer too much yesterday!
It's been Tummy Bug Weekend on My Hill followed by Migraine Monday.
We're having an invasion on My Hill, and I want all the people to GO AWAY!! I don't have a guest room for a reason, family...
My Hill is going to be crowded. Damn.
Smary, humid and hot. Hot like 108*F.
On my hill.
I have birds on my shoulder, I mean on My Hill. We got two cockatiels this week and they want attention all the time.
Reviewing my paystub for the upcoming paycheque on My Hill.
They gots my overtime processed in time for this pay period - yay!
What this actually means is that I effectively get paid out the entire gross amount I earned for overtime, and the entire gross amount of my semimonthly pay goes to the government for tax and deductions. :P
Stomach problems (of every kind) and cystitis flairing, with associated sleep disruption (as if it weren't capable of disrupting itself anyway) on My Hill.
Patiently waiting to the zero hour to switch to a new server for my job, on My Hill. Everything seems to work on test mode but we won't know until some real transactions are made.
:sheep: (where is the nail biting emo?)
Victim of the world's oldest joke (last night) on My Hill.
Quote from: Agujjim on August 01, 2008, 06:36:23 PM
Victim of the world's oldest joke (last night) on My Hill.
They secretly switched your bride for her sister? ::)
Planning to spend tomorrow relaxing (after a week and a half of solid stress, I deserve it) and shopping for wedding presents on my Hill.
Absolutely lovely new daughter-in-law on My Hill ;D whose husband has been very kind to me in the last few days during health problems.
Name-day on My Hill!
My mum and I share this this name-day, I made us a chocolate/raspberry cake.
Been in hospital on My Hill. At least, I think it was on My Hill. My discharge notes say low grade chest infection. Patchyness base of left lung, wcc 14.7 with neutrophillia and CRP 38. I asked my psych. what this all meant. He says I have pneumonia. Learn something new every day. I didn't know pneumonia was a low grade infection. I've always found people get quite worked up about pneumonia on My Hill. Must be softies ;)
Quote from: Griffin NoName on August 03, 2008, 01:39:25 AM
Been in hospital on My Hill. At least, I think it was on My Hill. My discharge notes say low grade chest infection. Patchyness base of left lung, wcc 14.7 with neutrophillia and CRP 38. I asked my psych. what this all meant. He says I have pneumonia. Learn something new every day. I didn't know pneumonia was a low grade infection. I've always found people get quite worked up about pneumonia on My Hill. Must be softies ;)
Lungs are supposed to be sterile.
"pneumonia" literally means "lung infection" and that's pretty much it.
It can be viral or bacterial or other-- all classed as "pneumonia".
"double pneumonia" simply means an infection in both lungs...
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on August 03, 2008, 02:13:06 AM
It can be viral or bacterial or other-- all classed as "pneumonia".
They seem to believe anti-biotic will kill it so presume it is bacterial.
And in any case, what are you doing on My Hill Bob?
Quote from: Griffin NoName on August 03, 2008, 02:46:06 PM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on August 03, 2008, 02:13:06 AM
It can be viral or bacterial or other-- all classed as "pneumonia".
They seem to believe anti-biotic will kill it so presume it is bacterial.
And in any case, what are you doing on My Hill Bob?
'ave an 'eadache that won't quit. Not enough to actually medicate, though.
Perhaps some Tea on My Hill.
'cept that I'm overly hot* thermo says it's 88 degrees F. That's what, 35C or so?
It's not too humid, the window unit is helping with that, else I'd just shove the damn thing out onto the ground...
I think I'll go read. And some nice tepid tea. Maybe iced.
*A/C's busted, waiting on STUPID landlord's actions-- I don't fix window units; they are essentially disposable items anyway, and no provision TO fix'em
Aww, poor cranky Bob. Can't imagine OK is comfortable without an AC.
Survived my friends' wedding on not-their-Hill. Kind of awkward. Kind of a mess. Desperately needed someone to whip them all into order (the family behind us made me homicidal, but I refrained out of respect for the bride and groom. And I didn't want to stain my skirt). Survived another encounter with a hookah bar after the wedding--that stuff, while fairly pleasant initially, makes me kind of sick.
Currently enjoying my time off before work on my Hill.
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on August 04, 2008, 10:22:08 PM
Aww, poor cranky Bob. Can't imagine OK is comfortable without an AC.
It ain't. >:(
I suppose it's a case of the cobbler's kids being barefoot.... ::)
Window A/C units are made as cheaply as possible-- no provision for repair, really. There are methods, but this unit is so on-it's-last-legs that the repair would be worth more than the unit itself.
Unfortunately, I'm a bit shy on cash at present, so I can't complain to my landlord-- he would naturally insist on me paying rent, first.... (imagine that).
No worries, though-- I'll have the cash in a day or five, and I'll insist then, on a replacement--- AND insist that he assist me in installing the darn thing-- they are heavy!
(If only I could count on my roommate.... *sigh*)
Still hot on My Hill-- but I've got three (3) fans blowing directly on me, and it's not impossible...
(one thing I've plenty of is the makings for any number of fans. Old furnace blowers fitted out with power-cords and baffles make excellent fans.....total cost is usually zero, if I salvage the power cord from a dead power tool...anyone want one? ;D Shipping would likely be more than it'd be worth, though.... <heh> )
You may want to try my ultra AC unit ;)
In the Alfa 0.2 version instead of using ziplock bags you can use used soda/beer cans. Try to flat the cans on the sides (to make something like a parallelepiped, fill them with water, place them in the fridge and pull them while solid. Then you place them in front of your fan, make a duct if you like, and enjoy the cooling for as long as the ice melts (I guess around 30 mins). If you have enough cans and space on your freezer you can rotate them for longer results. ;)
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About to read my daily dose of webcomics on My Hill.
I'm seriously considering cooking up a swamp cooler, just to see how well it works (or not).
I've fans aplenty, as I said. All I need is a small-ish water pump.....and a bucket and some nozzles.
Bucket? Got.
Nozzles? I think I might use a couple from those DIY sprinkler/irrigation systems. The tubing is cheap enough, the fittings too.
Most expensive part will be the pump. A pond/fountain pump? Hmmm. I seem to recall having one of those around here somewhere or other...
....I must stop at the Home Center on the way home.
Alas... it's 6:00pm on My Hill.
It's cooled off enough, that I'm off to replace a fan motor on a piece-of-crap rooftop unit.
I hates working on old junk-- the landlord refuses to replace it (even though it's literally an electrical hazard) and the renter won't spend the $$ either.
Stupid laws in OK allow the landlord to foist off costs like this onto commercial renters and get away with it.
If the renter does elect for replacement, the landlord can easily turn around and hike his rent! Zero protection.
AND the Landlord can get a "capitol improvement" credit, too.... under the guise of improved "green" laws, because all new A/C units must meet the new, more strict standards of efficiency.
It's a racket, I tells ya: be a slumlord landlord in Tulsa. You can strike it rich, if you work the system right....
MY Hill is an utter mess.
Friends of the family on My Hill. The mother of our friend was making some traditional food and we have a nice box with goodies to go. :D
Well, a follow-up on the piece-of-crap rooftop unit.
The fan was replaced.
Then, the power-supply (transformer). Then the contactor/relay.
Still tripping fuses, but no short evident.
More checking-- it would run, then not-run, then run again.
Finally, I decided to check the freon. I let some out, to purge the air from my hoses-- and *WHEW* Nerve Gas Odor! Whenever FREON gets "cooked" by electricity or other high heat, it transforms into a nasty-smelling substance that vets tell me is akin to nerve gas. (not quite as deadly, but dangerous enough) Note that the temperatures must be very, very hot-- several thousands of degrees or more. Otherwise, FREON is so inert that it's commonly used for medical inhalers (no, really-- check the labels on asthma inhalers. Most use FREON propellant).
Anyway, I had my cause for this whole fuss: a blown compressor. It was obviously shorting out, but only occasionally. (happens once in a great while..)
So, all my hard work really was in vain: the damn thing was shot to begin with-- there's no replacing a compressor that old. The unit MUST be replaced at that point; it's akin to dropping a new engine into a rusty car with bald tires, a bad tranny and broken windows. You COULD, but should you? Answer: only if your labor AND cost of the engine is FREE.
Home, today, on My Hill. Nice.
That sucks.
Home from work and enjoying my final hours before school starts up again (although I don't have to *actually* be anywhere before 1pm).
Last fairly pleasant day on my Hill Post
Bad night on My Hill. New Ban the The Bad Nights medication works well but not consistently. I suppose that would be asking for the Moon.
Megga Disaster on My Hill; fan on laptop broken; I may be gone some time; I cannot function without my laptop; no need to send out search parties; I shall be in the isolation cave on My Hill.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on August 25, 2008, 04:14:30 PM
Megga Disaster on My Hill; fan on laptop broken; I may be gone some time; I cannot function without my laptop; no need to send out search parties; I shall be in the isolation cave on My Hill.
Hook up a shop vacuum to the outlet port. Turn on shop vac. Enjoy!
If you don't like the noise, purchase one of those ceiling fan controllers, and wire it into the shop vac, to slow it down by about 1/2.
Or you could buy something like this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834998465) or this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834981007).
That second one looks nifty!!
I love stuff with USB ports. No crawling around to plug thing in...unlike with the Frankenputer.
Frankenputer's monitor is acting badly...can't imagine why. Same monitor I've had for 8 or 9 years.
I almost had to slap it during the convention coverage.
We've been watching the convention on My Hill.
Terribly sleepy on my hill. Wanting to make a coffee run, but I am in class (anthropology, actually. ;)) and therefore cannot scoot to the nearest decent coffee place. DX
Caffeine pills were always considered a must-have for post-secondary education on My Hill due to the portability and 'instant kick' factor (if taken sublingually, provided one can stand the taste). For studying purposes, they're MUCH more effective at maintaining functional alertness when combined with good-quality ginseng powder or extract.
Mind you, I got hooked on coffee because I was accustomed to using caffeine rather than getting hooked on caffeine because I was accustomed to drinking coffee. Pills are still cheaper, more portable, easier to measure/divide dosage and IMO have less potential health consequences, but I like the taste of coffee, so I only keep pills around for long drives now. ;)
Green tea pwns both in terms of health benefits though, is cheap, and is practical to make by the cup if one can scam a source of hot water. The downside is that the caffeine levels are too low to give you that initial kick, but it makes a great maintenance dose after that first cup of coffee.
Pure caffeine crystals are very nice but are somewhat of a pain to prepare and difficult to dose.
I IZ CAFFEINE JUNKIE....
I'm told, that in some parts of the world, people directly eat roasted coffee beans. You can even get them covered in chocolate.
I've never tried it myself, but I'm told it's akin to drinking strong coffee.
Mild chest-based allergies, today on My Hill.
Rare afternoon off-- am going back to bed, shortly-- to rest up. Feel like I've been hammered on by a sadistic Swedish masseuse*.
* in other words-- by a professional.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on August 26, 2008, 08:02:33 PM
I'm told, that in some parts of the world, people directly eat roasted coffee beans. You can even get them covered in chocolate.
I've never tried it myself, but I'm told it's akin to drinking strong coffee.
Ayuh, the chocolate ones are GOOD (but expensive), and I'll nibble beans on occasion (especially if tasting bulk coffee prior to purchase).
We had a bag on hand (chocos) one New Year's Eve when I was still working as a cook. I think I must have eaten at least a 1/2 lb to myself and was FLYYYYYING...... (helped keep up with the busyness).
Looks like I may need a new motherboard on My Hill. Motherboard? Hell, I need a whole new family on My Hill.
For the laptop? It sure will be cheaper to buy a new one.
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Goofing with work to do on My Hill
I think I could stand straight coffee beans if they were coated in chocolate--we sell chocolate-covered espresso beans at work, actually, but I haven't tried them (and must avoid chocolate :'()
I've had Redline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redline_(drink)) recommended to me (and they sell it on my college campus) as a good way to stay awake and alert, but I'm a bit wary of it. I tend to drink a cup of coffee and an oj or something else with vitamin c, as I'm totally out of it without said vitamin (even with the coffee). I also find that I like Vitamin Water.
Getting ready to brave the heat in the name of coffee on my Hill. The nearest decent coffee place is only about a block away, but its friggin' hot!
Holy crap! They sell beverages with yohimbine in them?!
Scary-ass list of ingredients in that (besides the sucralose). Way too many indoles for it to be on the open market, IMHO.
Where can I get some on My Hill? :mrgreen:
Agree on the Vit C - I'm a huge fan - even if I piss most of it away it's good all around (meh, or a great placebo).
I'd also recommend B complex - B50 or B100 (just refers to the amount of each B vitamin in mg), if you are not already taking them. Probably the most significant positive effect on energy of any daily vitamin I've tried, and pretty harmless in moderation.
For energy drinks, I stick to Beaver Buzz, but don't use them except for fieldwork for the most part. Lots of B vitamins and caffeine.
Even new motherboards fail on My Hill. I want a new fatherboard so I can make my own baby boards on My Hill.
Stretching shoes on My Hill.
Quote from: Agujjim on August 28, 2008, 12:13:56 AM
Holy crap! They sell beverages with yohimbine in them?!
Scary-ass list of ingredients in that (besides the sucralose). Way too many indoles for it to be on the open market, IMHO.
Where can I get some on My Hill? :mrgreen:
Agree on the Vit C - I'm a huge fan - even if I piss most of it away it's good all around (meh, or a great placebo).
I'd also recommend B complex - B50 or B100 (just refers to the amount of each B vitamin in mg), if you are not already taking them. Probably the most significant positive effect on energy of any daily vitamin I've tried, and pretty harmless in moderation.
For energy drinks, I stick to Beaver Buzz, but don't use them except for fieldwork for the most part. Lots of B vitamins and caffeine.
I already search for B vitamins when I buy energy drinks. :mrgreen: VitaminWater is pretty good about putting Bs in their stuff.
As for redline, I can totally ship you some. :D
Currently re-downloading all my music on my hill, since I deleted all of it this afternoon.
My Hill is HELLA dusty.
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on September 04, 2008, 04:38:00 AM
As for redline, I can totally ship you some. :D
Currently re-downloading all my music on my hill, since I deleted all of it this afternoon.
It's apparently available here, in sports nutrition shops on My Hill. But thank you for the offer!
(shipping beverages gets expensive)
Aggie! you should get into the chat room. Like I am, on my hill.
Ach, sorry Q... had gone to bed on My Hill.
Aaaagh. Have to try to muster up energy to work, on My Hill. Was out sick yesterday-- but weather was lovely-- nice an crisp, if wet. High was 67deg F
Realized how geeky I am during Physics on my hill when we continued writing on these posters with a similar color, but clearly different pen. I said it was like the Washington Monument and it went right over everyone else's heads. Ah well
Glad to hear you're studying a proper subject. Lost track of it on my hill.
back to work, today on My Hill. Still weak, but better. Coffee helped.
Aaaaaah....coffee.....
It's High School. The humanities are required, and it's practically impossible to not take a fine arts class.
still sleeping like it's summer on my hill, just about twelve hours earlier though.
Jetlag?
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Bad weather on My Hill, tropical storm Hanna is literally in front of the FL peninsula.
More stupidity arriving at My Hill : spending life sentence in Department of Adminstrating Life gets wearing and wearying and I am already worn and wearied : where is the escape hatch?
Sleep schedule up the whazzooo.
However, I did reorganize/clean up my desktop, and started using Google Chrome and Google Desktop on my hill. I feel so clean!
You might want to read up on the workround to the Chrome carpet bomb vulnerability (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114078&intsrc=news_ts_head) if you want to keep the desktop clean.
Scaring Qwerty on my hill.
Easy enough. It's in beta right now though, so they'll probably going to fix more things for chrome.
Althougb with google, you can never tell. Gmail and most of their "products" are forever in BETA so that everyone can beta test for free, when in fact they are simply getting free content.
Just took the dog for like a 40 minute walk on my hill.
Think I might swap over to Chrome when they get that sort of thing patched (and if they have add-ons--I pretty much have to have those).
Still downloading music on my hill. And then I shall go wile the afternoon away and set-up my weekend. :)
Yeah, I forgot about the Add-ons until someone pointed it out, and I guess I *might* miss StumbleUpon, but upon further reflection, this way I don't waste time stumbling. If I really want to though, I still have Firefox.
But as many free things as google does, it's still a Company, so they'll want to make their product better. Especially if they want to encourage change in other browsers.
Liking the idea of either intentionally creating something better, or choosing the lesser in order to make the best better on my hill.
I use them all the time--for facebook (Boost), research (Jetpack), blogging (Scribefire), and other things, too. And I <3 BetterGmail, though that just skins gmail.
Last confused on my hill Post
Yeah, Add-ons are the kind of thing that if I have nothing to do and remember about, I'll look them up, but for the most part I don't use.
Realizing how simmilar this is to the "Qwerty is..." on facebook... on my hill.
I'm using chrome for gmail and the unwrapped monastery for speed, but everything else is Firefox, just AddBlock is enough to keep me on the mozilla camp. And the other is the ability of FF3 to scale websites (including pictures), that's the feature that sold me on FF3.
I have work and no desire to do it on My Hill
My Hill has been hit by an Admiinistrative Carpert Bomb; why does Nato ignore government red tape terrorism?
My hill is getting semi-torrential rains and some kind of wind maybe?
Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on September 06, 2008, 12:35:23 AM
But as many free things as google does, it's still a Company, so they'll want to make their product better. Especially if they want to encourage change in other browsers.
They'll be pushing like mad for it to be the browser of choice for downloadable pay-as-you-go applications and Cloud computing. Superficially that's very attractive, until you remember that having all your applications and data under someone elses bureaucratic control was the reason Windows stole market share from the mainframe/mini IBM and DECs of this world in the first place. And your average company computer department, sluggish and incompetent though it may have been, wasn't a third party searching through your data for interesting nuggets.
In the short term I reckon the difficulty of upgrading/maintaining Chrome (or Firefox) across a big organisation with no Active Directory support will weigh against it in big enterprises, but eventually if it's stable and can combine stable ,cheap, downloadable apps with local data then it could make big inroads. The home market might be easier to crack.
The lack of support for mouse gestures and URL aliases sent me back to IE7 Pro, and that's another problem Google face; if they add everybody's favourite feature to win converts then the browser will get as complex as Firefox/IE.
One smart thing they've done (as I understand it) is compartmentalize exception handling so as to pin the blame on exactly what crashed. IE should do the same. With IE7 and just IE7 Pro add-in it has never crashed for me, but people who fill the browser with rubbish add-ins tend to blame the browser when things go wrong.
Pontificating on industry trends on my hill
Quote from: beagle on September 06, 2008, 09:03:53 PM
snip...The lack of support for mouse gestures and URL aliases sent me back to IE7 Pro..../snip
When I had a free-standing mouse (until Microsoft ate the damn thing again), I had absolutely no problem with mouse gestures. Always worked.
Currently avoiding studying on my Hill.
Home, again on My Hill.
Fixed a compressor today, by replacing it. Had to re-do one connection, got in a hurry and burned a hole in the copper tube. (which had to be excised and replaced with a short piece of non-holy tubing... adding approximately 1 hour... *sigh* )
Working excellently when I was done. Cool house = happy customers.
Now, I'm enjoying some re-hydration.
Accounts don't do themselves on My Hill :(
Dealing with a bounced email mystery on My Hill
sipping on caffienated soda on my hill, yes still somehow planning on hitting the sack soonish.
Long day.
Lots of minor cuts on m'fingers-- working with sheet metal.
Hates sheet metals, we does. We hates it. We would rather pound our fingers with hammers, we hates it so....
...but it's what I had to do, today.
Now, where's My Precious got to?
.....on my hill...
Sympathizing wif Bob's fingers regarding the sheet metalses.
We hates what we found of it in the garage, we do, precious, on my hill.
Had a double tall latte on my hill after a coke, and I'm damn tired still. Ugh, and I have to pull an all nighter.
Last week I kept staying up longer than I normally do, but this time I slept from 3pm-1:30am, which makes me happy.
but it means most of my time will be spent reading the SCARLET letter on my hill!
Utter, gratuitous, JOY.
I actually ended up enjoying that book. Enough I'd read it again, anyway. It's like Grapes of Wrath--really, really depressing but has a mysteriously addicting ending.
All right, I might have enjoyed GoW because I know the county south of mine banned it. ;D Too many ideas them e-legals that's literate might see. What's nauseating is that that my county makes theirs look liberal
Not a huge Steinbeck fan...in fact, I assiduously avoided Steinbeck whenever I was able to do so. Not my cupatea.
I misspent my youth reading the likes of Robert Heinlein, Iaasic Asimov, Author C Clarke, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverburg, Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton....to just name a few off the top of my head.
Aaaah, childhood reading favorites.
To be sure, I also read all of Beverly Cleary's stuff as well....and all of the Black Beauty series, and some Jack London... got to have a well rounded reading schedule, you know.
Ought to be going to bed on My Hill, but too keyed up.... *bleah*
Another 3 hour night on My Hill.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 26, 2008, 07:33:46 AM
Another 3 hour night on My Hill.
I'm so sorry.
I could recommend some very boring reading material..... perhaps a recent speech of Bush? No, that would just either make you go, "WTF?" or just get you riled up or somethin'
Hmmm.
Perhaps some warm milk?
How about
thoughts of warm milk, sent your way.....
Sending Thoughts of sleepiness to Griffin on My Hill. (who knows? Maybe some will rub off back to me....? )
Thoughts of sleepiness reached My Hill and laid me out until 15:45 pm - not much day left on My Hill.
Needing some sleepiness on My Hill.
One hour per night does NOT cut it.
:( I'm sorry, Chatty.
Upper 80's, humid, cloudy, and still (mostly) on my hill. :) Makes me kind of happy, and I want a cup of sweet tea, a screened-patio, and a swing bench when I go outside.
just sugaring up and checking on websites on my hill before hitting the sack. Maybe work on some music first.
Where's that old thread of mine...
~Qwerty
Violin lesson for my son on My Hill
Rain! Rain on my Hill! :mrgreen: I love the rain and we don't get nearly enough.
Zero hours night's sleep returns to My Hill; seriously dislike deja vue.
Standing on my hill waiting for the concert to start.
Listening to Eric Cartman and Karma fight it out.... South Park's episode where Cartman inherits $1mill, buys an amusement park for his own exclusive use, discovers there's more to owning a park than riding it.... Karma. Meanwhile, Kyle looses his faith because of what he perceives Cartman (an ~sshole's ~sshole) to be getting ahead....
.... one of the more philosophical SP episodes on My Hill.
We Are Rolling - Martin, Medesk & Wood
now it's Whistling Dave - Scooter
EDIT::
Damn it Bob!
~Qwerty in a quantum state of threads. (oh my hill)
Eat raspberry ice cream and enjoying the gorgeous, gorgeous day on my hill. Lower 80*s and sunny.
Nearly dawn on My Hill; again.
Processing dreams on my hill.
I dream *way* too much
Bemoaning the loss of a great moon shot. It was shining red on my hill last night. Possibly the only benefits of forest fires.
Contemplating sleep on my hill
wouldn't be the first time...
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on October 18, 2008, 04:53:00 AM
It was shining red on my hill last night.
A sign of the apocalypse! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Being masochistic and listening to economic news on Marketplace (http://marketplace.publicradio.org/) on My Hill.
figuring out what to do next.
On a borrowed computer on My Hill.
Laptop hosed.
Main PC hosed.
Too d~mn lazy to fix either of 'em at present.... sometimes I hate Micro$oft Micro$uck Macro$uck.
Marco$uck?
dodging bullets on my hill. may need to shower.
sleepless as ever on My Hill - no wonder I get tired
waiting for the clock to get different on my hill.
Avoiding researching my primate project before going to the zoo tomorrow.
Gonna take pictures of da monkeys on mah hill.
Played a bunch of Tekken on my hill today, my left thumb no longer functions as advertised.
same old, same old, on My Hill
went back down to the PS2 to play more tekken last night on my hill, but this time it decided not to work. Will investigate further today on my hill.
anyone here know what my mother's voice of doom is all about here on My Hill? seem to have lost my technical documentation book.
you mean, there are voices of mothers that AREN'T "doom"?
just got off TF2 on my hill only to realize it's time for my clans practice... great. :P
Sorting through about a dozen orangutan pictures on my hill.
Is that a scathing review of the quality of a dating agency's males, or proof you've gone further back and across than anyone else ever has on the family genealogy tree stuff?
putting of school work on my hill.
I've got some I put off doing thirty years ago. After a decade or two they stop hassling you for it. And start hassling you for donations instead.
doing the schoolwork on my hill... completely unrelated to Beagles comment. :P
searching for gainful employment on My Hill
Best of luck, Pachy.
Quote from: beagle on October 26, 2008, 08:59:02 AM
Is that a scathing review of the quality of a dating agency's males, or proof you've gone further back and across than anyone else ever has on the family genealogy tree stuff?
Mm, not quite either. I like orangutans and about as far back as we know is fairly well out of the trees. But just barely.
Got a schedule for the next month or so settled. :D
Gaining searchful unemployment my hill on?
...just watched Appaloosa on the local cinemas hill. Viggo makes a great western.
Quote from: Pachyderm on October 26, 2008, 10:15:22 PM
searching for gainful employment on My Hill
I imagine you've tried all the distilleries? By the way, you're still sent to Coventry according to your profile. It makes the security services job easier if you keep it up to date.
Anyone know why the mother's voice of doom had totally disappeared by yesterday on My Hill, or why Beagle thinks he can post here not on His Hill?
Why do dogs pee on the carpet?
In other news, receiving college info in my gmail on my hill.
avoiding dog's pee on Q's Hill, have restocked caffeine supplies on My Hill
Quote from: Griffin NoName on October 27, 2008, 02:17:32 PM
Anyone know why the mother's voice of doom had totally disappeared by yesterday on My Hill, or why Beagle thinks he can post here not on His Hill?
Using the awesome power and authority foolishly granted to me on my hill. Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven, and all that.
Gauleiter Beagle, the records have been duly amended on My Hill.
Good. Don't let it happen again.
Abusing power on my Hill (what else is it good for?)
Avoiding more monkey research on my hill.
Stoned on cold medicine on my hill (alka seltzer plus original flavor of all things)-- I have a swivel chair to play with also
don't you mean, better to reign on my hill than serve in heaven?
I get nervous about high places, after last time. Even on my hill.
The Hills are alive with the sound of music...on my hill.
introducing ban on Julie Andrew's fans ascending My Hill politically inspired on My Hill
Plotting World Domination on My Hill.
Redrawing maps to have My Hill extend over Your Hill.
Bwaaa-haaa-haa!!
Practicing Bowie-ism on my hill aided by Pandora.
RE: pachyderm, didn't we, at TOP at least, used to have massive battles? Like, the entire thread was just one thread.
EDIT:: and by thread I mean war...
Oh, I'm not going to actually invade. That would be rude.
I just enjoy the plotting. And the rubbing hands together, saying "Excellent" in a sinister fashion.
Watching them install the rubber walls on My Hill.
Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on October 28, 2008, 06:44:19 PM
Practicing Bowie-ism on my hill aided by Pandora.
What era? ???
Drinking eggwhites and plotting to raid the soil coolers in my parking space on My Hill.
Quote from: Agujjim on October 29, 2008, 02:43:46 AMWhat era? ???
Yeah, that's why I need to figure it out. We have a best of bowie album somewhere around, but I can't find it.
the only ones I really know are Space Oddity, Ziggy Stardust, Changes, and Pressure. just heard suffragette city on Pandora though. Oh, and Magic Dance, but that almost doesn't count.
it's mostly inspired by this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2L98gobTQ)
Explaining stuff on my hill.
Sitting in the lovely school library (because I have annexed it, despite the ten-mile stretch between my central hill and this one) reading the next chapter for history. And plotting.
vacant plot on My Hill - that is, I would be plotting but I've come over all vacuous
Giggling over inter-language puns on My Hill (see signature).
;D Very good.
There used to be an advert on telly over here, with an American walking in a Scottish glen, wearing a massive fur headpiece. He came up to the camera, and said" When I told my friends I was going to Auchtermuchty, they said wear the fox hat."
Giggling about puns on My Hill as well.
Aye, Kevin Bloody Wilson has recycled that one. I think one could conjure up quite a list of Vulpes puns. ;)
Quaffing albumen and fruit on My Hill.
discovering old music and watching tasteless Youtube -too tasteless even for here - on My Hill.
everything has been blurred for days and I've been wondering if it is meds side effects or rapidly and sinister deteriorating vision................. but today I noticed one of the little thingies that props ones spectacles on one's nose had disappeared (ie. one there and one not there) so I fashioned one with blue tack and hey presto, My Hill is no longer a blur.
Is sunny on my hill and I rather be outside minding the garden than sitting inside working...
It's messy on My Hill and I'd rather it weren't but I am not doing anything about it ;)
Extreme weather warning (floods) just issued by the police on My Hill; we never have extreme weather warnings and never by the police; how confusing; are they alerting burglars not to go out this afternoon?
Sleep completely screwed up yet again on My Hill.
Butterflies in my stomach...
Tomorrow is the first real day at the new job on My Hill.
You'll be ok, Darlica. :) And good luck.
Currently sulking on my hill. I was drinking a little last night and absinthe makes me slur (even though I was only a little buzzed), and I was talking to a cute guy and I think I may have screwed things up. We'll see.
Good Luck both of you. Clapton guitar playing has me in ecstacy on My Hill.
Getting ready for my morning drive on My Hill
another all night awake on My Hill, but useful for shifting ancient junk from filing cabinet to rubbish bin
I am off to sleep in the overnight lodging rooms on my hill, since I have a terribly early turn tomorrow morning, delivering 1450 tons of woodchips to a power plant south of Stockholm. Mmm... nice pine aroma...almost like having a Wunderbaum air freshener in the cab of your loco.
Severely and successfully curtailing stimulant abuse on My Hill, despite working what's shaping up to be an 80-hour week.
Also sympathizing with Lindorm from my hotel room, although I suspect he has to be up even earlier than I do (5:00). And somewhat envious of the woodchips - we hauled 2800 tonnes of impacted soils this week, which does not smell quite as nice (however, I wasn't driving the trucks).
L'ingOL @ my accomodations on My Hill. And having dinner in the Jacuzzi (only room available ::)).
Spending the day,
Slinging hay,
On My Hill
A few boring [work] tasks on My Hill I should've take care a while ago... :(
Have been lying in state on sofa in front of fireplace: kleenexes, remote, dog, cat, and ginger ale within arm's reach, all day.
:sneeze:
Poor Pieces...
I hope you get better soon. :hug:
Christmas shopping on my (and L's) hill.
Life dull on My Hill.
Baking time on My Hill!
Traditional Saffron buns. :D
Collapsing time, since I started working at 04:30 this morning.
Fortunately enough, there is a soft and cuddly hill of washed-but-as-yet-unfolded and unsorted laundry to collapse on.
mmmm.....
There are fireworks on my hill.
Next to nothing happening on my hill. :)
Still awaiting the invasion of hillbillies that will reach my hill any day now
Tragic opera on My Hill.
On my Hill I have mostly been wearing a furrow between my bedroom and the bathroom. Still, I cooked it, so it's my fault...
Sending medication to Pachy's hill. No sleep on My Hill.
Sending soothing vibes to Griffin's hill...
Celebratory CHEESECAKE on my hill. :meal:
Travelling on a (wi-fi equipped) bus on My Hill.
Putting off quote mining on My Hill.
Waiting for babies to wake up on my son's hill on my hill.
Being happy with (finally!) post broken-pipe, three-week-restoration on my hill. :)
Been skyping babies on my hill. Limited interaction, mostly hours of watching crying or feeding. Still, it tends to help me believe i do have some relatives even if they dont live in the right place (from my point of view).
Another sleepless night on My Hill.
Enjoying the first day off of the new year on my hill. :)
Sore left arm on My Hill. Just got the flu shot.
Usual misery on My Hill.
A bit cluttered on my hill... moving back in will do that to a place.
hello Q on your hill, my hill needs cleaning
Have fun, Qwerty. There's some gardening to do on my hill, after a little cataloguing.
Slowly suffocating under stress and motivation paralyzation.
Sending oxygen to Q's hill from my hill, which has been semi-cleaned ready to receive tiny grandchildren
Staying up too late on my hill. O.o
Wishing you were here on my hill.
Had a glorious day on My Hill with the grandchildren.
Hoping the sleeping tablets work on My Hill.
Sending lots of sleep well thoughts from my hill to your hill
This month on my hill, I have mostly been evicting badgers.
My hill looks like it will soon be surrounded by water, except for one road out. If it gets really bad, that will also be closed. :mrgreen:
EDIT: Then it'll be my island.
Living i darkness on My Hill due to a migraine like headache that is on it's second day now.
I'm looking very funny right now as I'm wearing sunglasses in a dark room in order to be able to look at the screen... ::)
But I'm bored to death with sitting in the dark doing nothing so what's the alternative? :-\
Sorry to hear that, Darli! Hope it passes soon. :big_hug:
Sending healing to Darlica's Hill from My Hill, while trying to stay awake.
Thank you!
I actually think the vibes are working.
I'm feeling a bit better now. :)
Get well soon on your hill, Darlica. Is there nothing available for you to take? :(
I've been playing with my new phone on my hill.
Actually I was on mobile phone duty on my hill until a moment ago. I bought a nice and big smartphone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note) for my wife and I was cutting a screen protector for that phone and ended up doing mine, my son's and my wife's old phone that now goes to my mother.
mmmm nice phone..... quote wiki= users look ungainly when holding it against their faces while conversing
how time flies, just a few years ago this phone would have been regarded as tiny.
Drooling over Ultrabook (http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/sponsors-of-tomorrow/ultrabook.html?dfaid=1&crtvid=50701865;) but can't think of a good reason to buy one - also wondering if it folds down flat when used as tablet -can't tell from their videos, which seem to be more about the females than the technology.
Failing to sleep on My Hill.
The light is back on on My Hill!
:)
Sleep now 8 a..m. to 18:00 p.m. on My Hill
I finally got some proper photo editing and drawing programs on the computer on my My Hill. :)
I was just almost Witnessed To, ZOMG!!11one! on my hill.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I declined the Little Red Bible Study Book with, "I'll pass, thank you."
I had to say it twice, at which She blanched and gasped, "Did you say you're agnostic?"
He tried to pull her off my porch and leave, as I shook my head, smiled, and said, "No, I said, 'I'll pass, thank you'."
I still heard them *not* leaving, so I cracked the door after about ten seconds and She was still hissing, "She *said* she's an agnostic! I'm sure I heard that!"
*closes door, laughs to self, then bitterly regrets not claiming to be CoS*
Slept from 6 am to 22:00 pm on My Hill. Unpleasant.
Quote from: pieces o nine on February 03, 2013, 09:47:13 PM
*closes door, laughs to self, then bitterly regrets not claiming to be CoS*[/size]
I keep LaVey's little black Bible on my shelf next to a couple of versions of the Xian one, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Bhagavad-Gita, some Buddhist literature (I'm lacking a Tanakh I suppose) and a smattering of more modern religious and philosophical writings. It's a pity that nobody has stopped by to talk about God yet. I'd cook them some spaghetti and have quite a chat. :mrgreen:
:daz:
I must remember to put an image of His Noodliness up at work. My co-chef's aligned with the CoS (not formally practicing, but keeps a copy of LaVey about. The pentagram tattoo on his left hand and the SINNER tattoo in Old English lettering across his throat make it somewhat easy to guess), but most of the crew's just generally godless. No reason not to make Pastafarianism the official religion... we
are a pasta place for the most part. Loose morals? Oh, we've got
that covered, don't you worry. :mrgreen:
There's a reason that I used to lay claim to the title of False Prophet of the FSM with some authority; I've been slinging spaghetti in the shadow of a beer factory since I got my driver's license. For that matter, said co-chef was married to a stripper and still DJs at the local strip club - he's currently working on putting on a Ladies' Night (as a promoter) at the club, proof that the Stripper Factory churns out both genders. ;)
This is my hill, and I have the lions to keep it that way.
Quote from: Aggie on February 05, 2013, 02:21:28 AMI keep LaVey's little black Bible on my shelf next to a couple of versions of the Xian one, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Bhagavad-Gita, some Buddhist literature (I'm lacking a Tanakh I suppose) and a smattering of more modern religious and philosophical writings. It's a pity that nobody has stopped by to talk about God yet. I'd cook them some spaghetti and have quite a chat. :mrgreen:
My dad used to stack copies of their church newspaper next to the door until there were enough to put in a recycling bag. He *claimed* it was so he could offer copies of
The West Nebraska Register to any JW's who might stop by his Hill, offering copies of
The Watchtower.Aggie, sounds like you have a great Hill, over all. :)
Quote from: pieces o nine on February 06, 2013, 01:12:30 AM
Aggie, sounds like you have a great Hill, over all. :)
Our province claimed to be the Best Place on Earth until recently (they dropped this rather unhumble slogan about a year ago):
(http://thetyee.cachefly.net/Mediacheck/2011/10/03/bc-best-place-on-earth.jpg)
I believe that's an overstatement, but it's not too far off in terms of personal liberty. We have a reputation with the rest of Canada as being weird, unfriendly*, and godless
(and stoned) but it goes hand-in-hand with a do-as-thou-shalt attitude and a widespread commitment to living a pleasant lifestyle surrounded by people with similar interests.
*standoffish and cliquey is perhaps more accurate; I'd say we tend to be quite loyal and have long-lasting friendships, but are less welcoming to strangers than some folks. Perhaps our openness to alternative faith-paths has something to do with a previous decades-long slogan for the province, telling us it was 'supernatural':
(http://travel.britishcolumbiagolf.org/wp-content/plugins/sam-images/ad-super-natural-bc.png)
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Eating a proper breakfast of porridge and fruit on my Hill, instead of yesterday's chocolate-cake-and-bacon fiasco. :mrgreen:
Apathetic on My Hill. Staring at Aggie's Hill.
Trying to solve a mystery on My Hill.
Sending Watson to Zono's Hill from My Hill.
I hope Watson is fully versed in TCP/IP
On Your Hill, or My Hill?
From your hill to mine.
Sending bottle of TCP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_(antiseptic)) to Zono's Hill from My Hill.
If only the server sending the odd packets could be sterilized that way on My Hill...
I am thinking on My Hill that it actually probably could be, if you poured enough over it.
My Hill is shut for at least 12 weeks.
Due to events beyond my control, My Hill is self isolating.