There are the ones due to sleep dep, when you can't concentrate on anything (like I am RIGHT NOW), and the ones where you're super-focused on some other matter. Like the time during finals week when I locked my keys in my car twice.
Sweet lumpy minion, you're the only one that understands. Probably 'cause I haven't sucked the brain out of you yet.
Glory ,'Potential'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Jan 17, 2006 9:34:58 am PST #807 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Fred Pete - Jan 17, 2006 9:35:42 am PST #808 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Fred Pete, how many days was your trip?
did you drink lots of frothy type concoctions that included rum?
14 days, 10 islands (Eleuthera, Tortola, St. Maarten/Martin, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Bonaire, Curacao).
Drank a fair amount of fruit punch -- my medication doesn't go well with regular alcohol. With a strong sun and highs in the low 80s most days, liquids were necessary.
Betsy HP - Jan 17, 2006 9:37:18 am PST #809 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
My brain is all scattered and flubblewucket today; I just lost focus in the middle of reading an E-mail. I'm seeing the doctor at 5 to ask "Why the hell am I so tired all the time?". Also to be mentioned: wild eyesight fluctuations, being too hot all the time.
Kat - Jan 17, 2006 9:38:56 am PST #810 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
oooh! that sounds like fun. I'd love to dive in Bonaire. one day.
Kathy A - Jan 17, 2006 9:39:17 am PST #811 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My mom's on a shorter version of that cruise right now, Fred.
Before she left, I told her the line that Stephen Colbert had on his first ep back after the holidays: "I spent these holy days (not holidays!) on a pilgramage to honor my favorite saints. St. Maartin, St. Croix, St. Kitts, and the little known St. Bahamas."
Emily - Jan 17, 2006 9:40:31 am PST #812 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Argh. Not. Buying. Things. No matter how pretty or how much on sale or that I know exactly what I'd do with them.
Jessica - Jan 17, 2006 9:42:10 am PST #813 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
the little known St. Bahamas."
Loved this!
"Barbados was a saint?" "No, John, but he was a pretty good guy."
Jesse - Jan 17, 2006 10:14:44 am PST #814 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm getting my haircut after work today and I'm ready for a change. What do people think of this [link]
I like that cut a lot, but it does kind of remind me of the cut I had a bit ago that I was always afraid looked like Carol Brady, on the mullet side of things.
I don't enjoy doing work very much. Maybe instead of getting a job after I graduate, I can just...not.
Betsy HP - Jan 17, 2006 10:17:15 am PST #815 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I realize I am a bad bad person, but this story does make me giggle.
Two Cambridge University students "let their college down" by sending a hamster through the post, a court heard today.
Michael Taylor, prosecuting on behalf of the RSPCA, said the manageress, Josephine Rusby, recognised the pair because they had been in a week earlier and had tried to buy a hamster, but they had been refused on that occasion because they were drunk.
When asked why he gave a false name and address when purchasing the hamster, Jordan said: "Because I thought it would be a bit suspicious posting a hamster if I got caught.
Damn those hamster yobbos! (Note: the hamster was found before it got hurt.)
tommyrot - Jan 17, 2006 10:18:58 am PST #816 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So I've been hanging out on this other board... for people who collect and restore old police cars. We've figured out that the car I just bought has to be an ex-police car (or was at least sold to some government agency with the LTD "police" package), as that's the only way it could have the factory engine it does.
Here are some pictures: [link]