Oo, but going to the Olympics is always fun!
I am STARVING and need to go find a lunch quick. Or I'll never get to work. (Oh wait! I spent the morning getting admin work done. Yay for my lack of total slacking!)
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
'Potential'
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.
Burrell - Jan 07, 2010 9:34:48 am PST #29897 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Gudanov - Jan 07, 2010 9:49:28 am PST #29898 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
For the heck of it I Googled my open source project 'Giplet' that I haven't done anything with in years. It has had several new versions and features and been translated into French and German. Kinda cool, though it's now more a product of others.
Connie Neil - Jan 07, 2010 9:53:10 am PST #29899 of 30001
brillig
When the Olympics were here in Salt Lake, we didn't go to any events, but it was wonderful fun to see everyone who was visiting. Hubby was having lunch in his favorite Chinese buffet place and ended up playing tour guide for the Lithuanian hockey team (the hockey practice place was just down the road). He ended up helping out a lot of large, young, Slavic people and their coaches. Apparently they found a largish, friendly, Slavic-looking local who could find his way around Germanic languages very comforting.
And riding the train in Salt Lake was great fun, listening to all the different nationalities.
Then there was the Great Beer Riot from the last Sunday night. Hubby had been invited to the Germany pavilion--an odd story involving a science fiction convention at Brigham Young University, an elevator ride with the Bavarian Trade Minister, and the unexpected presence of Dick Cheney--and at the end of the night the Germans ran out of beer.
megan walker - Jan 07, 2010 9:57:05 am PST #29900 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
And riding the train in Salt Lake was great fun, listening to all the different nationalities.
I didn't go to any games, but being in Paris for the '98 World Cup was amazing. The atmosphere was just so invigorating. Of course, it was summer.
SuziQ - Jan 07, 2010 9:58:01 am PST #29901 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
It is beautiful outside. Bright blue skies. And yet I know it is only 13 degrees out there. I think I'm going to give up on the working from home, at least for now, and take a nap. First I need to find some pain meds for my head.
tommyrot - Jan 07, 2010 10:04:28 am PST #29902 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.
So has the Great Chicago Snowpocalypse of Not!Aught Ten turned into a bust? Or is this just a break in the storm?
Vortex - Jan 07, 2010 10:08:20 am PST #29903 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
and at the end of the night the Germans ran out of beer.
Oh, the humanity!
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2010 10:08:59 am PST #29904 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've still got snow up here, tom.
tommyrot - Jan 07, 2010 10:09:24 am PST #29905 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.
We're getting light snow at the moment.
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2010 10:11:41 am PST #29906 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
According to the Tribune, the snow is never going to be a big deluge, just a constant light snow all the way through noon tomorrow, adding up to 6-12 inches (depending on where you're at). As of 1:00, Northbrook (just east of me) has had 4.5 inches already.