Fashion coordination for the young. That’s somehow heartening. When’s the boat race happening? Or did it?
Congrats to Mr. Lissar on the blue belt. My thirteen year old niece has one of those too. She’s been taken karate since she was six. I used to love to tell people if they didn’t stop picking on me I was sending my six year old niece over to kick their butt.
FCM good on you! I gave away a bunch of dishes and stuff to a local organization that assists women overcoming alcohol and drug dependency. One of the steps there is moving into an apartment building run by the organization and the women need everything from furniture, to dishes, to linens. I tend more toward giving good useable stuff away myself.
I give away lots of clothes. Between me and The Princess[sup]TM[/sup], we buy a lot of clothes and then get tired of them. We don’t even have to call for pickup anymore, the charitable organizations just call on a regular basis to see if we’ve got anything for them.
Mr. Anachi has also found that placing old furniture or appliances or whatever on the curb brings out the “secondhand fairies” every time. Everything has magically disappered within a day.
I remember getting a badge for outside cooking when I was in the girl scouts back in the stone age. Only we went to a picnic ground in the middle of winter with about a foot of snow on the ground and cooked hot dogs and beans on a for-real fire.
I tried Karate lessons once but I am just too much of a klutz. The instructor refunded my money out of guilt…so big congrats to mr. lissar.
Puggy we call em the trash fairies around here. I can put anything out at the road the night before trash pickup day and it magically disappears overnight! My last piece of trash fairy refuse was an outdoor table whose glass top had shattered. Heck, the trash fairy didn’t even wait til dark for that little jewel. It was gone within 10 minutes after I put it out. My trash fairy even likes cardboard boxes.
So, did you have to invent fire before you had your cookout?
Y’all remember when I went to Indiannoplace 2 weeks ago to finish some academic work? I said I got an A for my project class, but the technical communications outcome was officially unknown?
I just got a call from the TCM program head. They’re awarding me the credit!
It looks like I won’t get my degree with the December grads, but my record will show that I completed everything, and I can use it in January. And my final GPA is 3.12; not bad for someone working full time and dealing with invalid spouses, teenagers, layoffs, job hunting, dead parents, mortgages, etc.
Congratulations Vunderbob! That is quite an accomplishment. I admire people that do everything you’ve just accomplished. It says a lot for your drive, determination and focus.
I’ll tip a cold one to you tonight when I go home.
It did. A coupla weeks ago. And as exciting as the whole thing was, we lost handily. We had “sail problems” in that, when Soupo blew through the Official Straw (they gave out straws so no one brought their own “ringer straw” and made things unfair) his sail would spin around his mast and his boat wouldn’t go nowhere. We sorta fixed things by jamming the sail down the mast so it stuck, but he was way behind by then. But his boat looked spiffy. Not as spiffy as the best looking boat which got a prize though. But the spiffiest prize-winning boat had more trouble that Soupo’s. To make it extra spiffy, they changed out their sail from the Official Supplied Sail to some sparkly stuff. It made the boat too top-heavy and it kept flipping over in the raingutter.
On the way home Soupo said he had fun and now he has ideas to make his boat go faster next time. (Joy.) Then the metal piece that keeps his boat upright (as long as you don’t use a really heavy sail) fell off. Good thing that didn’t happen in the heat of the race. That would have been terrible!
First: WOOHOO!!! VUNDERBOB!!!
Awww, I’m sorry Soupo didn’t win. Course now y’all got all winter to perfect his pinebox derby entry. I say go for the dual exhaust and the spoiler. That’ll make it way cool.
Puggy that wasn’t my mama’s fur I was hangin’ off of. ACBG just happens to be really hairy is all. Bet he’d like to know I said that outloud!
“Why, anybody can have a brain. That’s a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven’t got: a diploma.”
I’m sitting here at work getting more and more bleery-eyed. I’m helping the big boss work on an RFP from Canerda. We are on section 1.11 and it’s already up to 22 pages. I hate gov’ment work. Do they really need to know how many pencils we will need? (just kidding…it only seems like it). I think this is gonna be one of those Fridays where I’m gonna be chasin’ down the Fed Ex truck.
It’s one o’clock in the morning - do you know where your children are? Since I don’t have any children, at least that’s off my mind.
Yay Bob! Ya know, funny thing about the name Bob - it’s spelled the same backwards as forwards. Think about it…
Hope y’all are going to have nice weekends. I’ve got planned some baking & shopping - two of my favorite things. Not baking while shopping, though - the extension cord for the Easy Bake oven is easy to trip over.
W00t, Bob. You’re all cool and educated and stuff now. Good for you. Really, I’m very impressed- you’ve worked hard and I’m so glad that you’re getting your degree.
scout and lightingtool, in case you’re reading this, I love you.
