I just renewed the other day. I mean, C’MON! Seven bucks? That’s the cost of a cheap lunch out. ex, my man, it’s a drop in the bucket, even if you decide not to post much. So, what brought this on, if I may ask?
gene, your posts remind me of a winner in a breath-holding contest. You don’t post till the middle of the week and then it’s WOOOSSSHHHH!!! But I like that! (Even if I do feel a tad light-headed after.)
swampy, you’re gettin’ a Dell, Dude! <snerk>
So, liss, but did you like Sin City? I think it’s cool that Bruce Willis has been doing really edgy movies lately.
The pink paint is now starting to look decidedly ORANGE. What’s up with that? Do I have haunted paint? Can I sue?
I thought about not re-upping Ex, but I did anyway. Seven anna half clams? Yeah, I can do that. But if they try to soak me for double-digit donations, well… they’d better not! (I mean, they should pay me! Who drags in all these lurkers and stuff?)
I re-upped Ex. I thought long and hard about it, but in the end I felt it was worth the seven odd dollars it cost me. The MMP is one of my favorite places to be and I enjoy this board immensely. Oh, I go to the Pit (definitely not the same), Cafe Society and Great Debates, but mainly I post read and post here.
So, I hope you re-up Ex. We would miss you if you didn’t.
I saw Sin City this weekend, and I appear to be in the minority, because I didn’t like it at all. I’ve heard lots of glowing reviews for it. However, it’s not the kind of movie I’d usually be real excited about - I just went because a group of people were going, and because it’s visually different than anything else out there.
I haven’t renewed yet, but I will. I just keep forgetting.
I don’t have to worry about the re-upping business for another 10 months or so, so I’m good for now, if anyone cares.
It has been absolutely gorgeous here, but that means yardwork tonight before it storms. Good news is that the tulips we bought at the zoo sale last year are coming up very nicely, which makes the missus happy. If the missus is happy, then generally all is well. Our magnolia bush has 4 blooms on it this spring, so around the outside of the house, things will be smelling all magnolialy for a few days, and that’s a very good thing, because I get hung up on smells. It’s not that the house smells bad or anything, it’s just bricks and other stuff, but magnolias smell purty.
Swampy- Can you please explain that whole educational purposes thing to my wife, she never seemed to understand that. Not saying that I ever used those educational outlets or anything, lest someone get the wrong impression of me.
Theodore I thought about waiting until my was due, but I read Ed Zotti’s sticky about renewing. If we renew now, it’ll add the year to our accounts, and it looks like it will be most likely half of what we’d have to pay later on in the year.
But then again, I just might be a softy for the hard sell. Heck, I bought a bunch of “No Solicitor” signs from a door-to-door salesman.
I’ve reupped. That’s the weirdest-looking word. I thought about it, and then decided, well, I generally only read Great Debates and the Pit, and only post if there’s something I have a cite for, so I stay out of firefights. And I really like MPSIMS and IMHO, and I’d miss all you guys a lot. And (this is a lot of 'and’s) Mr. Lissar wouldn’t be able to grouch about strange men flirting with me online. He’s miss that. He’s in training to become a grouchy senior citizen curmudgeon. At 25.
It’s very self-sacrifing of me, I think, considering I had to pay in Canadian dollars! So that’s like a billion bucks!!
I am now going to go get packing tape, because Mr. Lissar didn’t get any. Then I will tape up and send boxes to scout and Bumba. Ex, Lazy American Husband, will you renew if I sned you chocolate chip chocolate sanwich cookies like I’m sending scout?
I’ve been to jail today! Well, not exactly jail, but kinda sorta jail. I was at a transitional center. A transitional center is where folks who have been in prison sometime go just before they get out of prison. So, it’s less like prison, more like jail and you get to go out and do stuff, like look for a job. So, it’s sorta like sittin’ in that little space outside of jail on the jail space on a Monopoly board. You’re kinda waitin’ your turn to throw the dice so you can move on. Cept they lock the doors at night and stuff and there’s chain link fence with barbed wire on top of it out back. I was there to meet with some of the “residents” as they are called. I’m helping a group of em find jobs. See, my job is never ever boring.
Also, I threw a crazy person out of the front building at work about half an hour ago. I told him if he came back we’d have to call the po-lice. He was making threats (sorta) to a staff member. Apparently I look real mean cause I get called to do stuff like this a lot. Did I tell y’all about the staff person that was fired but refused to leave and told everybody that nobody here could fire her? That was a hoot. The po-lice did have to escort her out of the building. The other most fun thing that ever happened here was when a former staff person dropped her purse and a pistol went off in it. I still don’t understand how that happened but I was here when it happened and heard the pistol go off and saw the bullet hole in the concrete wall. She didn’t work here anymore after that. Like I said, it’s never boring here. Scary as all heck sometimes, but never boring.
-swampbear (crazy person said he was coming back to hit me with his shoe! :eek: )
Man, everybody’s gettin’ packages and goodies from each other!
I would send something, but, lessee what do we have out here: Smoked Salmon, Smoked Salmon, and Smoked Salmon. Oh, I have a Trader Joes or two out here, but they’re everywhere. There is a winery or two or three up here, but…they’re everywhere too.
Is he related to the Russion guy who kept slapping his shoe on the podium or dais, way back in the mists of time?
My job is rather mundane, nothing really exciting happens. This is probably a good thing. Oh, I hear about the nut jobs that show up here at work, but fortunately I do not have contact with them. I do work at a hospital so there are bound to be a couple crazies, now and then.
I’m hungry, but I’m holding off on lunch for another 45 minutes or so. Yesterday I was a bad girl and didn’t eat my standard salad; I had a cheeseburger and onion rings. Our dining facility has really good onion rings. For dinner I made burritos with all the fixin’s and these fixin’s MUST include sour cream. So, I probably gained 5 pounds from all the bad food I ate yesterday.
Today I’ll have to be a good girl and eat salad again.
You beat me to it, swampy. Did you know when Kruzchev visited Disneyland, they wouldn’t let him ride the space ship ride? Talk about your paranoia. They were afraid he’d come away with some top secret info on the mouse, or sommit. Which reminds me…checkin’ out google’s new maps toy, I was able to zoom right in the the VAB and launch pads over at KSC but for some reason, Disney World is all pixeled out. Makes ya kinda wonder what kinda secrets there are at the mouse house. :eek:
Also, now you be careful bein’ all big and burly and takin’ on whackadoodles. Some are armed with more deadly weapons than shoes.
BSMF is a HUGE smoked salmon fiend. That’s why he loves to go to Point Loma Seafood. If there’s anything you miss from San Diego, we can do a package swap.
No, Trader Joe’s is not everywhere. They are not in Canada. It makes me sad.
I am very very tired today. You know why? Because of the movie. Every time I started to drift off I would get a mental image of the Yellow Bastard (apparently that’s what he’s called) when he appears in Bruce Willis’ jail cell, and it freaked me out so badly I didn’t fall asleep until when Mr. Lissar came to bed at 5 a.m. Also, Elijah Wood is flipping scary. Aagh. A Doper has nominated him for Third Creepiest Man Alive, right after Christopher Walken and Gary Oldman. I agree.
I can’t say I enjoyed the movie either, scout. It was very interesting, but I’d certainly never see it again. I’m not a dark film noir kind of girl. And I’m exhausted, ad I keep expecting the Yellow Bastard to be behind me, or someone to shoot me.
Also, Canada Post charges an arm and a leg to ship things. I feel self-righteously aggrieved, but the parcels are out. They’ll arrive in quite a while, because Canada Post sucks. So sayeth Best Friend. Apparently the US Post is fast, which is something I can’t comprehend.
Well, see, it’s like visual learning. Seeing stuff that you think would make something better and being able to study it to understand all the nuances so that it can be adapted to one’s own personal needs. Another way to put that is, “OOH! That looks like it’d be fun, I wanna do that!”
Puggy don’t worry. There’s always backup. I’ve been at this for years. I’ve even had to disarm somebody before. I really do have a fun job sometimes. The google map thing doesn’t recognize my home address. Obviously I live in Nowhere!
Taters guess what! I finally made my travel arrangements! I’ll be coming into Seattle on May 14th, which is Saturday. Afternoon even. I’ll be staying for four nights at the Warwick Hotel which is, as I understand, a cool hotel near lots of fun stuff in Seattle. The good part of this is, I’ll have Saturday afternoon/evening and all day Sunday to hang out, so maybe that’d be a good time frame for dinner and/or stuff? Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I’ll be at the Doubletree Hotel by SeaTac airport. I go home on Saturday the 21st. We’ll talk more in email when I get my new puter. As I understand it, where I’ll be first is the really good place for seafood and other good restaurants and stuff in Seattle. Also the Space Needle. I wanna see the Space Needle cause I’ve never seen it cept in pictures before. I need to do some googling and stuff about Seattle. I’m excited!
Rue and Swampy, although it must be dry, it must maintain just a modicum of dampness for the uh…flavor.
Yay! Swampy has made his travel arrangements! The first hotel is within walking distance to many cool places. I highly recommend the Pike Place Market, it’s cool, with lots of cools stuff. The Space Needle is neat too. I haven’t been in years. There’s a restaurant on top that revolves so you can see the all directions.
Pioneer Square is very cool with lots of cools bars and such. There is a really cool blues place I want to go to there as well. I, admittedly, haven’t been to any of these places in many, many eons. The only place I’ve gone to in Seattle recently is to Safeco Field to watch the Mariners. That is a beautiful baseball stadium. I’ll contact my Seattle-ite (well, now Kirkland) friend and find out the coolest and neatest places to go while in the Emerald City.
As far as Sea-Tac goes, well, that’s kinda strip mall hell and right by the airport.
I look forward to hearing from you Swampy .
