Swampy - will your virtue last until the next round of nekkid bacon fryin’? Honestly, it’s about as genuine as my best friend’s innocent look.
Rosie - how are you feeling today? Glad to hear you survived the pincushion day!
How’s everyone else who’s got The Sick?
My virtue is being besmirched! :eek: Bacon frying was not involved in the latest loss of my virtue, but nekkidness was involved. 
Good morning all!
Nice work, rigsy. it’s bad enough to be locked out by yourself; to be locked out with toddlers would make me all :eek: 
:mad: :smack: at myself.
Oh, and it was very mature of you not to laugh at Mom until you left her, Nava.
Astronaut lady obviously has something seriously wrong with her. I feel sorry for her kids.
Where’s Drae?
Oh…and Ex stopped by? It’s a miracle! welby and Ex in the same MMP.
I’m sleepy. It’s snowy. I have to go to work. Lots of schools still closed although we don’t have that much snow and it’s not as cold as it was the last couple days. It’s -16 furrin degrees, feels like -22, (AKA 3 and -7 Amurrkin). Almost tropical.
Off to prepare for work.
GT
One of the few things I really liked about the game Oblivion:
“go find hips ‘at guy ‘oo’s hips besmirchin’ my name an’, an’, an’ you tell 'im he’s gotta stop, I can do my besmirching On. My. Own! HICP”
(quoted from memory)
swampy has virtue to besmirch?
I’m glad hHze and rigs got snow.
Quazi, are you coming in this weekend?
Oh interesting times!
I don’t like weeks beginning with interesting times. I’ve [del]made a couple of screwups[/del] experienced technical difficulties at work and spent a couple days wondering if I would be going into work next day to get my arse kicked. Fortunately I’m still counted as new so I guess they are letting things go a little more than they would for the other ‘competent professionals’ I work with. Phew!
And in other news my train broke down. :girly crying smilie: Actually it didn’t really, truly breakdown but it did give me problems for a while. I frantically thought through all the possible symptoms and fixes I’d been taught but I couldn’t come up with anything. There’s possibly nothing worse than being stuck in a tunnel having strange things happen and all your feeble little mind can come up with is ‘hmmmm, that’s odd’. Thanks brain. :rolleyes:
So I got as far as yesterday and read about a cool light show in the London Metro. Apparently somebody is lighting up a whole bunch of London landmarks for a few nights. Sounds like something I want to go see and take photos of. So did I make **ANY ** note of what it was called or when and where it was?
le sigh.
I’m up and dressed and just about out the door. I feel pretty good. But that’s the solumedral. I am going to call my doc today to yell at him for not faxing over the orders until 11am, and to find out when I can expect to feel the effects of the drug.
I forgot to say. Someone threw up on my train and then didn’t bother telling anyone. So I was driving around with a stinky train. I got sent on a detour and had to reverse. Then when I walked through it I found lumps all over the place. Like the exorcist but in purple for some reason. So that involved another detour to get it cleaned.
People! If you throw up on public transport then please tell someone! I promise we won’t be cross, we’ll just be able to get the train cleaned faster. Sheesh.
(I’m betting it still smelled better than that cheese though).
zz maybe somebody ate some of that cheese and puked on your train. Seems to me that’d be the natural reaction of eating that cheese. Heck, maybe from even being in the same room with it. :shudder:
-swampbear (virtue regenerator)
“That cheese” spent 12hrs in my kitchen and didn’t affect me in the slightest. Guess I must just have a tough constitution.
ZZ, I once nearly caught a train from the NEC after the Good Food Show but someone had thrown up in one of the carriages so they stopped the train, took the offending carriage off and then sent the rest of the train on it’s way.
The puked on bit was in the middle car so it would have taken ages to uncouple and put back together. I was near a depot so it was actually faster just to go in and get it mopped.
I’m strangely taken with the idea of turning that cheese into mac & cheese. Have you tried cooking with it yet?
Cooking with that abomination would mean actually :shudder: touching it! :eek:
You don’t have gloves and tongs in your country? How quaint. 
The Story So Far:
I suspected it would happen. It just didn’t happen the way I thought it would. As some (one? Anyone? Bueller?) of you may remember, the company next door to us, who make springs and other things out of stamped, molded or extruded metals, has had a bout with a disgruntled employee/angry competitor/dissatisfied customer wherein said entity has derived much glee from smashing out the side windows 3 times in the last year and a half. After the second attempt the company installed a camera in a totally useless place that not only couldn’t see the windows, but was placed above a light that would have ended up throwing the camera’s gain control into hyperdrive and allowing it to see absolutely nothing beyond the light. Naturally, it didn’t work and the windows were smashed a third time. Said company has now installed as many as 8 cameras – three within 20 feet of the victimized windows – around the building. The windows have survived.
This company, however, has two buildings; one right next to us, which is about 1/3rd our size, and is really just an outbuilding of their larger factory floor right across the street from us, which is probably twice our size. That building has remained unharmed by the company’s personal window terrorist and this does not possess the security detail their smaller building does. That’s about to change. As of this morning, four street-facing windows – two on each end – of their main building across the street have been broken out and have been covered up with plywood.
I don’t know what this company did to this guy, but he’s really got it in for this company. He obviously doesn’t want to go too far in his vandalism though, and has at least restrained himself to being the Prince of Pane.
In other news I missed my stop this morning. On an express bus. See, every day for more than the last year and a half I’ve been only one of a few people who got off at that stop so I’ve become accustomed to just getting off with everyone else, one of whom would pull the stop request cord. This morning I realized, a bit too late, that no one had pulled it because no one else was getting off. Doh! I had to ask Mr. Bus Driver (not our Bus Guy) really nicely to let me off a couple of stops hence, because his next scheduled stop was a good mile off yet. This meant I had to walk back to my intended destination in what’s still the bitter, blustery cold of the morning. Not a good way to start the morning. I knew I should have waited for the non-express bus which was only a few minutes behind. It lets me off one stop closer to where I actually need to be than the Express does, it just takes a bit longer – a concession I’m perfectly willing to make in weather such as this. Except I’m retarded, apparently.
Zellie - If there’s one thing I have appreciated with being new, it’s that I could get away with stupid mistakes I knew were my own dumb fault. As long as I worked to stop making those mistakes I found I could be forgiven for such boneheaded acts as I would have been reamed for if I were a veteran.
Swampy - Bacon frying can potentially involve the loss of a little more than virtue, especially if nekkidness is involved. It may also make it more difficult to lose your virtue on subsequent occasions once you’ve found it again.
Magic - You bring up an interesting question. How would you know when that cheese has gone off? It can’t possibly get greener. I am assuming of course that bacteria would still eat the stuff, and that may well be a flawed premise.
swamps, it was meatloaf nite at the Anachis last nite, too! And, and, it was sleepover night as well! Okay, so it’s always sleepover nite here. Grump. Grump.
fcm, those are some awesome wheels! I am le tres envious!
zz you are a card! (But the pukey train story??? Bleh!)
mindy, how’s that return going?
No snow signs are working quite well. How’re the ones I sent you, swampy? We should be at a balmy seventy degrees Murkin by noon today.
I see where just north of where I grew up in upstate New York got about five feet of snow. Just not fit for humans, I tells ya!
Work to do. Back later.
Tupug
Re the light show in London…just go above ground and walk around–you’re bound to see something… (joke on size of London for our non-travellers here).
Gloves and tongs? Nothing less than a HazMat suit would do for That Cheese. I wonder if BooFae is still friends with the person she gave it to? I would sever all ties, meself. 
15 cm of snow does NOT snow one in. 5 meters of the stuff, might (poncy Limey wusses…come where there is REAL snow).
Off to forage for food–and then make pork roast in the crockpot. Yep, tis another crockpot day–Mother Nature apparently regretting her warmth of 12 yesterday and has sent us back down to 3 with a negative windchill. But the snow is right purty!
HazeNut --you want to compare lit-crit? So is it Korean vs English/American? How about how Korean’s handle English classics? I’m sure their interpretation is a bit different, no? How about (if any) English’s treatment of Korean classics? Something like that. Be sure to narrow your scope–you need a manageable topic. <channelling your mother right there>
The cheese isn’t actually mine - I only saw it in the supermarket and picked it up for a friend of mine who’s a complete chocaholic. She says she’s going to make cheesecake with it at the weekend.
I’m just trying not to picture a nekkid swampy attempting to fry that cheese with a HazMat apron and a pair of extra-long tongs.
Rigs - the recipient of said cheese is still speaking to me today, I’m not sure that’ll be the case after she’s tried cooking with it. Her boyfriend may decide he never wants to hear my name mentioned ever again though, he’s the one who’s got to eat it!
And as far as snow’s concerned - it only takes a quarter of an inch of the stuff to make the transport system grind to a halt. That’s enough for me! I’ll take a day at home doing something useful like studying instead of trekking the 20 miles into work and taking all day about it. By the time I got here, it would be time to go home again.
Wait, Swampy’s getting nekkid again?? What’re we gonna do with you, boy?
Not much going on yet. I’m getting caffeinated. But the first pot I made went all over the counter! It’s no fun to clean up a whole pot of spilled coffee with no caffeine in your system.
I think I’ll take the dogs to the park after a while. We’ve had 4 whole days of dry weather, and it’s supposed to get up to 70° today! It’s gorgeous out.
:eek: First, I don’t fry cheese. Second, the only proper way to handle that cheese would be the use of robotics in a sealed up nuclear waste contamination chamber. It should never come in human contact. :shudder:
Puggy the “No Snow” signs are workin’ great. It’ll be almost 70 here today, too. I wish it’d start stayin’ that way and get warmer but I know we’ll have some more cold before all’s said and done. Anyways, by March I should be able to go outside early in the morning without a sweatshirt and sweatpants on. YAY!
Happy snowy day, everyone. We have about an inch of fluffy white stuff – so light it’s blowing off the trees and looks like it’s still snowing even though the sky is a clear, cloudless blue. Everyone’s happy except Papa Tigs, who drove the SUV to work this morning – because it’s got better traction, obviously, than the little Toyota – only to discover when he got out on the wet, salt-covered highway that the line to the windshield washers was apparently blocked and they wouldn’t work. So he had to pull over every mile or two and wipe off the windshield so he could see. :eek: He is not a happy camper, obviously. Here’s hoping the roads are dry by the time he comes home tonight!
The local media is having a feeding frenzy over the crazy astronaut – she grew up in one of the local suburbs and regularly appears at schools around here. Something tells me she won’t be doing that any more.
I realized this morning that when Young Tiger was a kid, I definitely would have bought that cheese for him. And he would have eaten it. In front of his sister, while she screamed in horror. He was a very dependable little brother that way.
I guess I should go do something constructive now that I’m fairly caffeinated.