Ellen, I did down load a template wizard, and I agree with you. That’s why I asked for “idiot-proof” - that wizard was very complicated. Computers are one of the very few reasons I wish I was younger - kids grow up now with them and are comfortable using them. I learned to type on a manual typewriter and my college didn’t even have a computer science major when I enrolled - they were in the process of installing the computer lab my freshman year. So I don’t know as much about computers as I would like to. If I ever get a job again, I will probably take some classes.
Since the hockey season hasn’t started yet, there’s not much to report. I’ve got a letter from the BC president, the list of the executive board members, a notice about the “Help the Hooch” river clean-up we participate in, and a list of upcoming events. I think that will do for the first newsletter and it will give me time to experiment before the next one is due.
It is supposed to be raining here, but I haven’t seen much yet. I wish it would - we need it.
I need to start looking over stuff to back for the trip to my sister-in-laws. We’re leaving Friday afternoon (to miss Atlanta traffic) and will return Sunday, so I don’t have to take much. Definitely have to take some sewing stuff and books for the ride. I will be in the back seat and have plans to bug Mr. SCL and my other SIL with “are we there yet” every few miles, starting about a block out of the driveway. I’m evil like that. Why don’t we have a smiley with horns?
Simply put Curse of Monkey Island is the best video game ever made. Great story, hilarious writing, entertaining gameplay, fantastic voice acting, its got it all. The Barbary Pirates alone make me want to go back and play through it again, I think I’ll reinstall it when I get home from work tonight.
Good mawnin’, good mawnin’, a new day is dawnin’! Well, maybe on the West Coast. Here in New Hampster it’s already done dawned. Oh well. I’m happy anyway, because even though I missed House last night I managed to watch it just now. I’m not supposed to say how, but whatever. Damned good episode, and an excellent followup to the season premiere. I love that show.
In a little less than an hour, I get to meet with a couple of professors to decide what classes I’ll be taking this term. Which will be good to know, I suppose. Then maybe more studying for the qualifying exam, the first half of which is tomorrow.
It’s looking like it will start raining here later this afternoon, rain off and on through tomorrow and into Friday morning, then clear up for the rest of palebunny’s visit, which is good since although the dogs love getting wet swimming, Rusty, at least, doesn’t appreciate wet stuff falling from the sky. Stoopid dog.
I’m doing a drive-by here myself, trying to get this stoopid transcript done so I can go watch Dancing with the Stars, which I recorded last night but have to clear out a hefty block of time to watch today so I can watch the elimination episode tonight. I’m not quite sure why I enjoy this show, since I don’t like ballroom dancing, don’t dance myself, and don’t even recognize most of the “stars,” but there you go. My entertainment choices don’t always make sense, even to me. Especially to me, actually.
I’ve never had a nickname, either. People have tried – my IRL name is Laura, and people naturally try to call me Laurie. I have always hated that, and a few years ago my mother filled me in on just why. Seems when I was little and we were living in India and had a lot of British friends, whenever someone would call me Laurie, I would pipe up, “I am not a truck!” Made perfect sense when I was 3 years old, still does today, actually. Even though I become more and more truck-like in girth as the years pass.
I’m back from the park. The dogpark was closed, do we just wandered around the ball field till it started raining. There is a traffic accident up the road from the apartment, and traffic is backed up a half a mile down the road. I’m doing some cleaning(well me and Robbie the Roomba).
I really really want a Roomba. Bailey would freak and never stop shaking. Especially if we put little cat ears on top of it. He would be absolutely certain that the Evil Mutant Cat was Coming For Him.
If this sounds callous, it is. After a certain amount (say, two years’ worth) of, “It’s okay, kitty, it’s just a couch. The couch is not going to hurt you. Calm down. That’s the floor. The floor is good for walking on. It will not jump up and bite you.” you give up, and find the terror insanely funny.
Especially since Quasi-Daughter’s Cat Hat (cute hat with little ears) gives him heart attacks. That’s really funny.
Threehunnert and four cases of freakin’ Easter aigs. Each case holds 48 aigs. If all these aigs were lined up on a railroad track and one train was coming east at 65 MPH and one train was coming west at 70 MPH, how much fun would it be to watch both trains flatten the freakin’ aigs?
Eighty-one boxes of the dang things are sitting outside. Well, under cover but not in enclosed walls, so outside like that. They are on the backside of the main building, so they can’t be seen by passersby. Still sometimes people drive through the driveway between our two buildings, although why, I have no idea. Maybe they’ll get stolen tonight. One can always dream. Daaay-ummm freakin’ aigs! Ya know, it’s really a good thing it’s not Easter right now cause I think I might just be given to snipin’ an aig hunt or sump’n given my present disposition toward Easter Aigs.
Ima do as little as possible the rest of the day. Matter of fact I foresee a bearless workplace in a couple hours, cause ahm tahred! Not tired. Tahred! There’s a difference. Like there’s a difference between naked and nekkid.
SCL too bad you don’t have Publisher. There’s some easy peasy to use newsletter formats on Publisher.
Everybody else howdy! Hope thing’s are goin’ good.
Too bad it ain’t cold at the ol’ Swampcave. You could light a fahr in the fahrplace. Or, you could have new tahrs put on your Stang. Mebbe flahrs for ACBG?
Ain’t got no fahrplace, cain’t laight me a fahr. Whut kind of kwar sangs Dahr Straits? Ah got me sumbody hared fer muh yard werk. ACBG don’t lak flahrs. (That’s true!) Muh 'Stang’s tahrs got plenty of tread. Mebbe Ah’ll just go to sleep at a decent ahr. Ah lak a stoam but ah hope ah don’t lose pawr. Ah’m kinda stanky and cud use me a shaer. Cud these git enny werse, I swar!
MamaT How about Arthur Brown, of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown? They did a song called “Fire”, and IIRC it has lots and lots of drums innit.
Puggy we had problems with a company Home Depot contracted to install our hardwood floors. I recommend going straight to them and complain as loudly, yet politely, as possible. Things turned out well for us that way.
Yes. Understand, well that’s a different question altogether.
I paid $2.25 a gallon for gas today at lunch. Freakin’ sweet! But has anyone else noticed a decrease in gas mileage since the US switched to the ethanol additives? Both my GF and I have noticed it, in both city and highway miles.
Ooh! I must remember Talk Like A Pirate Day! Having just read Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe for class-I’m up on pirate-y talk.
These eggs–are the as big as the old Leggs pantyhose containers? And why do you need so many? Can’t you just see some exec somewhere–talking to his family: “I made my money in metal eggs. Killed the competition with my consumer friendly packaging of a dozen per container. Put that damend Humpty outta business and then it was Easy street…”
Nothing to say , so good bye.
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That’s the dirty little secret behind gasohol. You lose about 10% of your mileage with it. :mad:
We’re buying a Shed. The monster we’re contemplating is a 12 x 16 ft monster, with shelves, a big barn-type door with a side person sized door and windows. We have narrowed the choices down to two. One is built by a company here in Virginia, and they’ll build on site, level the building, and, because of it’s size, arrange for all the permits to comply with the city zoning requirements. But what we don’t like is that it has internal studs 36" apart, and is about $500 more expensive than the other.
Which is all of the above in construction and leveling, but we arrange the permits and zoning compliance, and has the studs 24" apart.
Plus we’re getting estimates from various companies for a new roof, replacement siding (we’re looking for something that looks like cedar shakes), and gutters. Should be an expensive couple of weeks.