Alpaca, And Camel, And Musk Ox, And Yak, And Algae! Oh My! – A Fibrous MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Holy Frijoles. That’s some serious freakin’ snow out there. Lion? Ain’t no lion. That’s a giant mutant marmoset tearing through the city wondering where we’re hiding the big plantains, and he isn’t brooking any shenanigans.

Ick. Not looking forward to being outside after work, but I have a few errands to run so I don’t have much choice. At least it isn’t terribly cold, though. That would complete the suckage.

Spats - I think “leaving one’s cheese out in the wind” may be supplanting “frosts my wiener” in my vocabulary, now. Or perhaps “dangles my cheese in the breeze.”

Mmm. Cheese.

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OK, I’m home the dog is walked, and coffee is brewing. Looks like it may rain/storm here, may get a chance to test my UPS out. Maggie has a stalker in the neighborhood. One of the neighbors has a Siamese cat that follows us around on our walk. It doesn’t get close, it just…follows. I hope it isn’t psyching itself up to go Wild Kingdom on the beagle.

Dots, I am piling on with everyone else. Help out, but don’t get stuck being a full time nanny. Unfinished basement? I hope it’s not like the one in The People under the Stairs. :eek:

Hi BionicTiger!. anesthesia will do that to you.

zelie, you want horror? Chitlins.

MBG, do you need lawyers, guns and money yet? If so we could do a Dopefest/prison break.

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zellie I live to inform. Behold, turtle cheesecake. It’s very rich and the food at Bridget’s is so filling I don’t have room for dessert. After all, gotta have some beerverages to wash down that Cajun/Creole cookin’.

The horrible terrible tstorms and pestilence didn’t happen. One little tstorm was all, but some places got it bad. Enterprise, AL got hit by a tornado that destroyed part of the high school. I’m not sure of all the details but there were several deaths and some kids missing still. :eek:

BionicTigs enjoy the good drugs. Are you hearin’ bionic noises when you walk yet? :smiley:

I had some good Mexican for lunch today. YUM!

MBG you need bail money yet? I like the idea of a dopefest/prison break. It’d be like the jakest dopefest ever!

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Dopefest/prison break? Sounds like an excellent idea! I’ll bet there’s never been one of those before. :smiley:

It’s been raining, but we didn’t really get any thunder this afternoon, which is good. Almost all of our snow is gone; this is the first day I haven’t worn boots in weeks and weeks.

gotti - you’re nice because, well, you’e a nice person.

Glad you’re home and getting better, BionicOne.

Very cool to hear of your continued happiness, Ellen.

Just had some sketties and am contemplating further sustenance.

Back later…

GT

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Holy hell in a Hot Pocket. We got let out an hour and a half early from work – and I used up every second of that extra time getting home, and then some. It’s miserable out there, with a capital Holy Crap. Blasting winds and enough snow to bury a body. (Er, not that I know anything about that, I swear!)

I am staying right the hell home tonight.

doggio - Ew. Ugh. Ick. I had no idea what chitlins (or chitterlings or shitthings) were 'til you posted that. Now I wish I didn’t. Ick!

swampy - On the other hand, that Turtle cheesecake looks amazing.

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The tornado sirens have sounded here - and so far 8 kids have been found dead in the school in Enterprise, AL. Such a shame - I feel so bad for their parents.

I hope the tornadoes go away but that it continues to rain through the night - I sleep better in the rain. Well, when it is raining outside and I am inside.

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Tigs - I cannot imagine being awake for my surgery. Knock me out, then fill me with morphine, I say.

Smokey is making a pest of herself. I am trying to enjy my lovely subgum wonton soup, but she will not let me. She insists on demanding her share. Greedy little kitty.

I haven’t told you about my forays into yarndom, have I?
In the mid-80s, I was a major Doctor Who (Tom Baker) fan. So I wrote to the International Fan Club and got the scarf pattern. It is only about 16 feet long (when he left the show, his was almost 30 feet - the prop and/or costume people added rows everytime he was through shooting for the day) but it’s very useful in a strong wind, because I can wrap it around myself a few times.
In the early 90s, I decided to knit something while watching TV instead of noshing. I sat down in front of The Cosby Show and started casting on. A few minutes later, I had 200 stitches on the needle, and I figured that was enough so I started knitting from there. Several weeks later, I had a TV afghan, which I finished with one row of double-crochets on the sides, and 2 rows on the ends.
I also knitted a baby afghan for my friend when she was pregnant with her boy.
But I can only perl. And only from left needle to right needle.

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Rosie does your tv appreciate the afghan you knitted for it?

gotti what kind of “present” did DH get after dinner last night? :wink:

Now for tonight’s restaurant review…

Tonight I started with the gumbo, which I had Tuesday night and have already described the numiness whereof. My main course was the shrimp stew. Again, tres num! At first I thought, what could be the diff between stew and etouffe since both involve a roux to thicken. Well, the difference is, shrimp stew is really thick like a beef stew. Interesting. It was served over rice and just full of shrimp. I swear there had to be a good fifteen to eighteen nice medium sized shrimp in that bowl of stew! I had hoped to be able to try the bread puddin’ which is served with a rum raisin sauce (drool) but I was very full and could not eat dessert once again. I did however have three beerverages to wash it all down. It’s not quite as spicy as I would have thought but still good. I didn’t add any hot sauce cause it didn’t seem like the right thing to do. Once again, Bridget’s momma came through with a winner! I feel like I have eaten like royalty all three nights. BTW, I’ve been regaling ACBG with rave reviews of my dinner each night. He told me I was just M-E-A-N! :smiley:

The rain really cooled things off here. The temp dropped from around 80 degrees Amurrkin to the mid 50’s within an hour after that front came through. Supposed to be low 40’s tonight and around 70 tomorrow, which will be nice.

Ok, off to do some work. I have to draft a report about stuff to leave with these folks tomorrow afternoon, with the final to follow in a couple weeks when I make it all nice and purty.

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I forgot to tell y’all sump’n. I met somebody with Michael Scott hair today. To my credit and because of my oh so jakey professionalness, I did not giggle or <snerk>. It was hard though. :smiley:

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I am suitably horrified at chitlins though they sound remarkably similar to the tripe that Grandmother Zelerton used to eat. And **Swampy ** I’m incredibly dissapointed that turtle cheesecake contains no actual turtles.

**Anyrose ** I always wanted a Doctor Who scarf but I’m not tall enough (and can’t knit).

Tonight I met a darling little puppy as I left work. He seemed very friendly and ignored his owners requests to ‘COME!’ in favour of inspecting me. Unfortunately I had to more or less toe him away from me cos I was coming out of a superspecialsecret traindriver’s gate and I was worried he’d dart through and get on the track. I can only hope he didn’t take it personally cos he was a cutie. :frowning:

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Yes. Yes, it does. :stuck_out_tongue: :slight_smile:

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Here I am–talking to you cordless!

(5 points to the MMPer who gets the reference). I am in a very nice Holiday Inn Express, and I just got out of the hot tub. I plan on collasping soon, but wanted to see if the wireless connection actually worked. It does!

I had the best on campus day today–Reference. We talked the ethics of librarians and the reference interview all day, then went to the lib to answer research and answer questions. It was alot of fun (if you’re a librarian!). I am very tired, though-I got up at 0500…Off to sleep now!

Congrats on getting home, staying sober going out, staying in, anniversaries etc. See you on Sunday!

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Thanks for the help with the knitting, now to ask a really dumb question - how do I knit this lifeline in?

My total knee replacements stay for approximately 4-5 days only, just enough time to ween them off the IV and get them limping around. Problems start when the patients don’t plan for things like grocery shopping - “you mean I can’t drive with this new knee that I can barely bend, let alone carry heavy groceries into the house?” sigh

In other news, it snowed 1ft here today, I made a snow fort.

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Well damn. I didn’t get to kill who I was gonna, but later in the day I had good reason to kill someone, and alas, the slob was nowhere in sight.

But I got him good and fired, or rather he got himself good and fired.

Short version: BigStupidBusDriverGuy, is at a high school, and as kids are loading, a gust of wind hits the bus door, blowing out a hinge pin which is needed for the electric door to work. BSBDG manages to get the door to close, HE THINKS, but since the pin is a necessary part of the door assembly, the door won’t STAY closed.

QUIZ: You are BSBDG. Do you, (A) Decide you ain’t driving a bus full of kids 2 miles down a rural highway in a bus that doesn’t have a door that will perform the essential function of STAYING FRICKING CLOSED??? This would require you to call your office on the radio, say “send a replacement bus, I broke mine”.

OR

(B) Drive the bus, down a 2 lane highway, at 50 mph with the door flapping in the breeze like a…like a…oh I dunno, like something, which analogously flaps in the breeze.

Hint: Pick (B) and you get your old, bald-headed, gap-toothed ass fired.

I can’t actually fire him, as he works for a contractor that runs some routes for us, but I got him banished, and that’ll get him canned.

I have found that my afternoon trips to the gym to abuse myself (hey. not like that) in the gym for an hour or two, really does get the stress-killing endorphins working. So, I’m in a better mood now, also thanks to some killer Pork Almond Ding, and a chilled beerverage.

Speaking of the gym, I’ve also developed a crush. New trainer-type girl there. She’s probably all of 22-23, thin-athletic, in a really thin, zero-body-fat kinda way. (This is how guys my age euphemistically say "nice butt. No, incredible butt) Wears ONLY spandex, not flashy or all made up, just simple pulled back skinny-athletic-spandexy person blond hair, and the BIGGEST smile ever. Smiles with her whole face and when she laughs at my stupid-old-bald guy, “not really flirting because oh yeah married and also fear of being laughed AT and not with” jokes, she touches my arm, or rests her hand on my shoulder to talk to me.

So, if, in the next few weeks, I run off with someone half my age, and that only eats greens and negative-fat foods, and I start talking about getting all buff and shopping for male ‘enhancement’ remedies (not like I need that, it’s for a friend), then her name’s Audrey.

Yeah, Audrey, like in Hepburn, she of whom I had possibly the steamiest dream I ever had in my life (that I can remember). (And, no I haven’t told her of the dream, I’ll save it for the honeymoon)

And by the way, back in the 80’s, who was naming their kids “Audrey”? My future in-laws, that’s who.

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Hi all! Glad to see you’re doing okay, BionicTigs (lol good new nick, btw!).

I’ve got the DSL working, but only when I’m on the phone! I’m on tech support w/Earthlink now. Halfway there, I guess, eh?

Tomorrow is Friday YAY!

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QD, here’s a description of how to run a lifeline. If you don’t have anyone near you to help, you can also check out KnittingHelp, which has free instructional videos for just about every knitting technique you’ll ever need, in English and Continental.

Yay, **BionicTigs **is back! :cue theme music: Better, stronger, faster!

Dot, I can totally understand wanting to get out of your parent’s house, but I don’t think going to school, working, and then coming home to take care of somebody else’s baby is the best way to go about it. Your friend’s family is under a tremendous amount of stress right now as it is, and it would be very easy for you to become the scapegoat.

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Morning. We are under a tornado watch here. Judging by what happened to Ala. and Ga. last night, we might get some really bad weather here. This is my weekend to work, so it will be a TGIM next week.

Mork, zelie, chitlins smell horrid when cooked. A downstairs neighbor made the once, and I had to flee to a bar for several hours.

Off to work!

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If she likes blood and constantly says ‘Feed me!’, be very afraid…

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That would only be if she’s an Audrey II.

Up and caffienating. Soon I’ll take the few minutes it takes for my natural studly manly beauty to shine through ( :stuck_out_tongue: Bobbio) and get stuff all packed up cause when I finish bein’ all consultative like this afternoon Ima head for da swampcave.

Later y’all!

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Snakes please report in so we can know you’re ok. There was some awful weather in and around Columbus/Phenix City last night. I know the power went out for a lot of folks, so maybe she’s one of 'em? Just let us know if you’re ok.

Some of the storms were near where I live but not where I live.

Snakes, you ok?