Spring has done sprung here in Florida. New growth, flowers and yard-sales are springing up everywhere. It’s hot as hell already (85F) and sunny. I bought a bread-machine at a yard-sale Saturday. I repotted almost all of my patio plants, until I ran out of potting soil. I cleaned my patio, too, but not as well as it needs. Maybe next weekend for that. I trimmed dead leaves, cut back what needed cuttin’, planted one plant in the yard, and generally got my hands good and dirty. It felt awesome!
It’s on purpose. I live cheaply so I’ve saved up enough to live for a few years, and ultimately would rather be able to make things that I want to make than things other people want me to make. In general, I tend to feel like I could make stuff that would make more money (if I just had the time to do it. 
Which now I do.)
sproingggggg
Hello kiddies. In honor of spring, I have a couple of pictures for you! I went to the Capital District Flower and Garden Show last weekend, here’s pics:
Also, I wanted to show off my new hair color:
Compared to:
Last Summer (At the Ren-MMP-Dope-fest)
It’s warm weather here, too, thankfully! Although a bit rainy.
More later, if I can. Hello to all!
Howdy everybody. I had myself a nice springy weekend. On Saturday I did (bum bum bummmmm) our taxes (which is kind of a spring ritual if you think about it). Wasn’t too bad this year. Now I have to spend the next few weeks freaking out about them - wondering if I forgot something, hoping I don’t get audited (not that I lied, I just don’t want to deal with it), and all the other tax related trauma that might happen.
On Sunday the wife and I went out for a bike ride down to the beach and hung out at the dog beach to watch all the pups running around in the ocean. Beautiful day, and lots of nice doggies. Hard to beat that. At some point the wife and I will actually get a dog, but for now we have to get our doggie fix by watching everybody else’s dogs play in the water.
Fun Fact: Whippets (I think that’s what they’re called) are really freakin fast.
Dang, almost the end of page one already?
I’m dong the last of the interviews today, but the last one - that just left - could complicate things.
She’s fairly qualified, not stand out in a crowd qualified, but she could do the job.
The problem is that she’s a very very pretty little 24 year old latin woman.
“Hi honey, have you met my new secretary, C?”
“yes dear, have you met my lawyer??”
:rolleyes:
nava take care of yourself, 'k?
mika: That’s a good color on you. Me, I prefer my usual salt 'n pepper. 
Yay spring! I can actually go outside without being completely miserable. I even spent the entire weekend without a coat, it was exciting. I really don’t have much else to say, other than to point out that hamsters are really cute.
Oh, and a few fortunes from Chinese last week:
It is time to look for new friends
(which is humorous enough on its own when you are at lunch with a group of Applied Mathematics grad students)
and
A friend will seek reconciliation
<snerk>
Let me tell you how out of it I am this morning.
Between answering the phone and doing whatever other work there is to be done this morning, I was surfing the Dope (natch). I popped into a few threads, posted a message or two, and then started to wonder, “Hey, where’s the MMP? Has it dropped off the first page? For shame!” But the second page didn’t have any MMP on it either! Something was quite amiss here. I comb the first page again.
And then I realize.
I’m in GQ.
:smack:
A blond, senior, Monday moment to be sure. In my defense though, getting up early the first day back to work after a week of leisure and feeling groggy to the point of being thoroughly unable to properly gauge the grade of the floor isn’t exactly a walk in the park, y’know. Plus, there are scattered thunderstorms wandering about outside, and it’s gloomy which adds to the brain funk – in spite of the coffee.
I also became addicted to a game called Armadillo Run that I found last week. Physics games are fun. Engineering puzzle games are fun. The two together are irresistible.
These are too perfect!
It is time to look for new friends
<in bed!>
A friend will seek reconciliation
<in BED!>
Haha!
I went to a Chinese restaurant a few weeks ago with someone. His fortune cookie said something like, “You will seek new opportunities.” We found the adding of “in bed” to that just too funny.
I like the new hair color! Also, I just wanted to say that my goal in life has been to grow my hair long enough to put it up the way yours is done in the RenFest pic. 
I may achieve that goal this year if I can resist the urge to chop it off in the summer as is my wont.
Mindfield, your looking for the MMP in GQ anecdote made me giggle. Don’t worry, it’s just Monday. 
Took a long time, Coffee, m’dear. And i too have to resist the temptation, though at 2 feet long the temptation is easily brushed away. But it does get hot. However in the winter it keeps my neck nice and warm.
I love the way they do hair at the Ren Faire. That will be my "treat’ again when I go this year. I wonder if the girls would be interested in going again?
When/Where does it take place? The last time I was at a Ren Faire was when I was 8, back in Atlanta. I remember riding a camel. 
Last year, Mika, Twinkie and I (and my roommate, of course) all met for a day at the faire in Sterling Forest, NY. I’m definitely up for a repeat this year. Maybe it won’t be so danged hot. And maybe this year a two-year-old won’t try to steal my purse.
Camel???
The camel thing threw me, too. Camels? At a Ren Faire? I mean that’s not even remotely authentic…like someone just had a spare camel and brought it along.
Ok, I’m up for a repeat. I’ve got twinks’ e-mail around here somewhere, I’ll try to e-mail her as she’s not around much. And your roomate is more than welcome.
Upon a little thought, I would have to ask why someone would have a spare camel. :hairy eyeball:
At my local faire (Bristol) it’s done by a trio of ladies going under the name Twisted Sisters. They do some traveling on the faire circuit, and have added a venue recently, IIRC, though I can’t remember which one.
I love getting my hair braided there. Last year it was JUST BARELY long enough to braid and took a bajillion pins to keep it in place, but this year my hair is genuinely braidable, so I’m looking forward to something a little more complex.
On edit: We have camels too. And elephants. And briefly, last season, a tiger :dubious:
And roast turkey legs are authentic?
I don’t have any real response to this! But a camel just seems so…odd. And smelly.
Anaamika, lovely new color! I’ve always been a big fan of red hair. The braid for the RenFaire is beautiful, too!
Ah, RenFaires. I adore them to no end. I don’t think we’ll have another one in the area until late this summer though. 
'Tis a shame. One can never get enough cheesy Olde-Fashione Renaissance/Medieval goodness.
So, I have just recently come to the realization that I am an awful person. (Either that, or I just passed some rite of passage into the college mindset…) Last night, I accidentally left my Anthropology textbook at Ali’s apartment (an hour away from campus), and realized on the way back that I had to answer some questions from the book for class today. Thankfully I had the questions themselves with me, so instead of forcing Ali to drive back and get the book, I did what any surviving college student would do–searched the answers on Wikipedia. 
Something tells me this methodology isn’t going to work too wonderfully in the workforce, but for academia it has, and hopefully will, always serve me well. 
And on a closing note–oh my goodness, it is GORGEOUS today! 75 Amerikan degrees of fantastic sunny euphoria. (Sadly, those temperatures are probably going to be disappearing in a couple days, so I’m just going to enjoy them while they’re here!)
It’s a bit warmer here in central Texas. It’s really humid, though, by my Arizona standards. I fear the summer will kill me. The summer and I no longer get along since the Army started making me go outside.