The only problem with repealing today is that I am going to be just as tired in a redo.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
Sue - Nov 15, 2005 9:16:37 am PST #4305 of 10006
hip deep in pie
Fred Pete - Nov 15, 2005 9:17:21 am PST #4306 of 10006
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm more than half through today. Tomorrow is car tune-up, so I leave work early (and cost of tune-up is covered by warranty).
Can I take a make-up repeal on Thursday?
Eddie - Nov 15, 2005 9:20:56 am PST #4307 of 10006
Your tag here.
SO repealing today.
I read this as "Significant Other repealing today." and thought that that was an unusual way to describe a relationship breakup.
Dana - Nov 15, 2005 9:23:33 am PST #4308 of 10006
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Can I take a make-up repeal on Thursday?
Sure. We're not inflexible.
Jessica - Nov 15, 2005 9:30:27 am PST #4309 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Can we just skip today, instead of repealing? I don't like the idea of a redo either.
Betsy HP - Nov 15, 2005 9:31:19 am PST #4310 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
No, you can have my SO when you pry him from my cold dead fingers. (Poor SO.)
Kathy A - Nov 15, 2005 9:32:21 am PST #4311 of 10006
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm out of here early, too, so I can pick up my NEW CAR!! Of course, I'll be crying when my first new car payment is due, so the excitement is going to be short-lived.
I did get a very nice '06 Civic, with a moonroof and everything, so I'm pretty happy with the deal. (Smartest thing I did was walk into the dealership with a financing offer from LendingTree, which the dealer ended up matching and cutting the cost of the car by a grand to get it to the approved loan amount. Considering that the Civics are selling like mad, deals on them are few and far between.)
Cass - Nov 15, 2005 9:36:11 am PST #4312 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I loved my Civic unreasonably, especially the moonroof. Congratulations on the new car and the deal.
Today was a choice between no pain and no brain. Am dumb now.
Happy Birthday, sumi!
TomW - Nov 15, 2005 9:37:21 am PST #4313 of 10006
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Winkles are mussels, so a winkle picker is something pointy enough to pry open a mussel.
Not quite. A winkle-picker is even metaphorically pointier than that. A winkle (short for periwinkle) is smaller than a mussel and lacks the convenient pryability of the mussel's bivalves.
Which is a long way of saying that the pointiness required to pick out the winkle is pointy to the pointy extreme. I think that was my point.
tommyrot - Nov 15, 2005 9:43:23 am PST #4314 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For aviation geeks - Boeing has decided to go ahead with a larger version of the 747, rather than see 747 production end. The new version will still be smaller than the new Airbus A380, but the new 747 will be more fuel-efficient from a passenger-mile (the cost to carry one passenger one mile) standpoint. For decades, the 747 has had the lowest passenger-mile cost, but the new A380 will beat the current 747 in that criteria.
The A380 did end up overweight, which will hurt its passenger-mile performance.
Boeing's site: [link]
A news site - note the pretty curved wings of the new 747: [link]