'Shindig'
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.
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.
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.
oooh! that sounds like fun. I'd love to dive in Bonaire. one day.
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."
Argh. Not. Buying. Things. No matter how pretty or how much on sale or that I know exactly what I'd do with them.
the little known St. Bahamas."
Loved this!
"Barbados was a saint?" "No, John, but he was a pretty good guy."
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.
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.)
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]
Awww, it has a happy ending!
The animal was discovered by a postman, Robert Maher, as he was emptying a postbox in Market Square in Cambridge on June 22. It had chewed through the envelope, and its head was peeping out.
Mr Maher took the hamster to a vet in Cambridge, Patrick von Heimendahl, where it was found to be unharmed.
The hamster has since been adopted by Rachel Thompson, a nurse at Mr von Heimendahl's practice. She has given it the name First Class.