Tara ,'First Date'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I wish I had cheesecake. I will resist!
Actually, I figured out what might be the perfect afternoon non-snack earlier: A small coffee with one squirt of French Vanilla coffee, the rest decaf, half-n-half, and a little sugar. (Well, sweet-n-low.) Not too French Vanilla-y, not too sweet, not too caffinated, just right.
I can never remember all my questions at once -- traffic school mentioned, repeatedly, the idea of signalling the driver behind you by flashing your brake lights twice. Is there some magic way to do that without, oh, slowing down?
How much slow down are we talking about? Because most cars if you just tap the pedal won't apply any braking but will activate the lights. But you're still going to lose a bit of speed from letting off the accelerator.
tiki restaurant?
I have a yen to build a backyard tiki-shack.
You should! JZ has done our nerdhole with a tiki theme.
signed,
Regular Columnist With Tiki News
I went up to SF with Alibelle this weekend to have dinner with G&J
Ahem! I may be lurky this month, but I'm still here!
Meep. AND SPARKY1 AND HER DH, WHO ARE TEH AWESOME.
My cellphone ring is "Toreador." Which, when it rings, always earworms me with the Skipper singing "Neither a lender, nor a borrower be..." to the tune.
(closed captioning has recently shown me I've been pronouncing 'tsk' wrong. am chagrined)How were you pronouncing it and what did closed captioning show you re the correction.
If I'm talking about someone who tsked me, I pronounce it like, "He tissked me." If I am the tsker, it's akin to a tongue cluck, but it's not clucky sounding, it's almost more of a kiss sound, but it's made by forcefully pulling the tip of the tongue down from the roof of the mouth--right behind the front teeth.
We used to have a record of whale songs that I apparently loved to listen to when I was 5ish. And there was another of sounds from space (I have no idea. Lots of whishing and weird sorta melodic whines. Must have been some sort of adjusted frequency thing) that I was fascinated with at 3.
You know what happens when you lose touch with someone for years? Life. Good gawd. I live a very sedate one.
Timelies all!
I have no cell phone. One of my co-workers has some sort of classical piece as his ringtone, which wouldn't be so bad except he leaves the phone(with ringer on) on his desk when he goes to lunch and it's very loud. This led to one day when someone called his cell phone every.two.minutes while he was at lunch. I could hear it, and I'm on the other side of the room from him.
I was amused to find an earring in my dresser.(I thought I lost it a few days ago) Then again, it was a cat-shaped earring, so it's not surprising it ended up among my clothes.
But you're still going to lose a bit of speed from letting off the accelerator.
If someone behind me needs a warning, slowing down to give it to them (since most of the time the warning was "get further away from my rear end") seems a little dangerous.
Cindy -- the thing they CCed with "tsk" was more of a "st" sound. Was weird.