Welcome back P-C!

lori, your dryer is outside?!!

yep. No room in the house, so it's sitting outside the back door on the patio. I made my own 220v extension cord with the heavy-duty conduit and junction boxes, and we plug it in when we need it. And have it covered with a boat tarp cover when not in use. It usually doesn't rain often enough to keep us from having clean dry clothes.

Look, it's Polter-Cow! Yay! Welcome back!

Suniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil!

I just had the best dream. I dreamed that Nilly came back for a visit. She got to meet my entire family. the only bad part about my dream - no caffine. so I was treating the 20 or 30 people that were there to Peet's. ( dream me was feeling extra generous). I woke up and started thinking how much fun it would be to have Nilly and my house walk her down to the coffee shop, go to movies at the silent film museum, and then have a picnic by the canal. good thoughts.

now I see that Polter-Cow is back. yay!

quester, I haven't had a chance to watch the MI-5 ep yet, but I have seen the Spooks, and in a day or two would be more than happy to tell you what you lost.

Welcome back, P-C!

I am not skipping, but I am skimming. And I should be asleep, so I claim no responsibility for any content apparently posted from me for the next, say, hour or so.

Huh. I haven't had migraines since my code cave days, but I did finally correlate my earaches to the air pressure changes driving up and down to town, and to our location in AZ. There's a particular place along the highway near Snowflake that I always seem to get one kicked in. Odd.

So how long is this weather system supposed to hang around? 'Cause it's seriously interfering with my potential work schedule.

Also? I watched my Tivo'd Alias. I thought it was okay, I liked the fighty-fight stuff. I was clearly missing a good bit, but I think I followed pretty well. But you know why I can't watch spy shows? 'Cause I can't stand all the sneaking around. Sneaking around creeps me right the freak out. And spies sneak a lot.

But anyway, I think I'll try it for a while, since it is on right after Lost and all. But I feel sad and mistrustful about the board JJ mistrust. Too bad for Lost. However, I am capable of watching a show for wigs and/or for pretty. So suppose it'll be alright.

billytea! Why does wearing an eyepatch need an orange?

Hi Cass! It's a quote from my younger brother, and the reasoning is because he would surely have become a scurvy sea-dog. Yarr.

I was listening to Boom Crash Opera earlier today and I thought of you.

This reminds me, last night my youngest brother and I stayed up last night watching old episodes of Countdown (a now-defunct Australian music program), from 1980 and 1981. So odd, listening to Molly Meldrum tout the first albums by INXS and Men At Work on a par with other bands that disappeared without trace. We had a fine time mocking early 80s fashions mercilessly.

Oh, and I saw an interview with Kate Bush about the song Babooshka. She looked and sounded like she was still a teenager. (Until they played the video clip, of course, it being number 1 that week. Number 2 was Leo Sayer's More Than I Can Say; I actually remember the two of them fighting it out for the top spot, swapping places a couple of times over a few weeks.)

I just saw a fascinating play. I Am My Own Wife is about Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transvestite who survived the Nazis and Communist East Germany while keeping a furniture museum and a gay nightclub in her house. I love it when I know absolutely nothing about a show before I see it.

I remember a play about a someone else who survived the Nazis by crossing dressing, but it was by Manfred Karge.

Oh, and I saw an interview with Kate Bush about the song Babooshka. She looked and sounded like she was still a teenager.

I think she would have been all of 20, maybe 22.

Hi sunil!

and hi Billytea!