I have a first edition of Monster at the End of this Book. My DH gave it to me for a birthday present last year.
You all gonna be here when I wake up?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Sparky1 - Dec 10, 2009 3:25:40 am PST #24170 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
msbelle - Dec 10, 2009 4:10:14 am PST #24171 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I used to read at least 2 books a month and they were mostly mid-heft. Now, well this year maybe I've read 5 and the last 2 I finished were mysteries. I never get more than an hour at a time to read though. Am just about to finish Graceland about a boy in Nigeria in the early 80s.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 10, 2009 4:15:07 am PST #24172 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I used to read like meara. And then I discovered fanfiction, which has replaced most of my reading time, and I don't have to carry a book, just my phone. Of course, I seriously need some new fandoms because I feel like I have read ALL THE FIC IN THE WORLD.
sarameg - Dec 10, 2009 4:19:49 am PST #24173 of 30001
Totally had a revelation about why we don't have those automated scooper trash trucks that Noah loves so much: alleys. There simply isn't clearance in most of them for that sort of thing.
That's about all I got this morning.
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2009 4:24:37 am PST #24174 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Woman who'd been secretly living in NYC apartment captured on hidden camera
This gentleman couldn't figure out why food was going missing in his high-storey NYC apartment. His girlfriend denied taking it. So he set up a hidden camera to see what was happening, and shortly thereafter, he saw a strange woman creep out of a deep storage crawlspace over the kitchen, let herself down onto the kitchen table and help herself to his pantry. He phoned the police (he was in the apartment), and they told him after investigating that they believed the woman had been secretly living in his apartment for weeks.
I hate it when that happens.
Jessica - Dec 10, 2009 4:25:34 am PST #24175 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I read a lot more before I had kids, mainly because I used to stay up much later. Now that I'm waking up at 6:30 in the morning, staying up until 2 reading is no longer as good an idea as it used to be.
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2009 4:34:03 am PST #24176 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh dear. This from My First Fail is especially fail-eriffic: Every Parent’s Nightmare.
Jessica - Dec 10, 2009 4:34:31 am PST #24177 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The most surprising thing about that story to me is that anyone in Manhattan has enough extra storage space for an adult to sleep in and isn't already renting it out on Craigslist.
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2009 4:35:15 am PST #24178 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah. Maybe the whole thing's just a Craigslist rental gone bad.
sarameg - Dec 10, 2009 4:40:22 am PST #24179 of 30001
Back when my eldest aunts were 6, 4 and 2, they had just moved into the mostly finished farmhouse. One day, they discovered a paintcan and proceded to dump it down the stairs and landing so that they were slipperier to go down on pillows.
Which is why that flight of stairs was always painted, rather than natural wood as was planned.
My uncle always told us this story whenever we visited.