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10236. Magoseph - 7/9/2004 5:46:38 PM Good morning, Ulgine, it was fun to follow you from one thread to the other while doing the nytimes crossword puzzle. 10237. Ulgine Barrows - 7/9/2004 6:05:57 PM Good morn, Magoseph, another sleepless night, here.
Yesterday I got a huge-ass retaining wall installed for $100 bucks. It was the deal of July!
Buildings are going up a block over. Excavators with bobcats. Huge limestone rocks to be ahuled off at some expense. I struck a deal.
The neighborhood kids were enchanted with the earth mover, and the operator's skill. 10238. Magoseph - 7/9/2004 6:29:02 PM That's great, sweetie, sometimes we win something here and there. That reminds me that the township will have our driveway repaved because the satinary district's trucks had to back in and out of it while fixing the sewer lines on the other side of the road. Too much rain this spring got us a rejuvenated driveway. 10239. neato - 7/9/2004 6:57:52 PM Alistair, Mago, my partner thinks he's a bit of a linguist. He said "escagacer" means to go around annoying snails. 10240. Magoseph - 7/9/2004 6:59:28 PM Poppies 10241. Magoseph - 7/9/2004 7:04:58 PM Neato, that's interesting. The term means to annoy now. However, it could come from old Provençal. Maybe the escargots were called escagaces in ancient times. I'll have to check on that point. 10242. Magoseph - 7/9/2004 7:10:08 PM It is also spelled "escagasser". One of the old aunts in the family may be able to tell me more about this word. Vraiment, je ne sais pas pourqoi ce mot m'escagace. 10243. neato - 7/9/2004 7:12:22 PM He was jesting - because of the word having a bit of snail in it (as well as annoy) 10244. Magoseph - 7/9/2004 8:03:09 PM pourqoi=pourquoi, darn it!
Oh, really, he was kidding? Tell him it's not nice to have you kid a humorless person. 10245. judithathome - 7/10/2004 6:46:55 AM With the roofers coming on Tuesday, and all the noise they will make, I fear my little old dog will go bananas. So I'm telling him he's going to day camp. I'll deliver him to the kennel and have his shot that is due given him and have them bathe and dip him and then trim his nails. I'll pick him up around 5pm and he'll be rested and miss all the hoopla of the shingles being nailed on and the old roof being tossed onto the ground.
In fact, if I didn't need to be here, I think I might go off to a day camp and miss all the clatter, myself. 10246. OhioSTOPAS - 7/10/2004 9:32:43 PM Hello, everyone! The Ohios are back from our Boston-Connecticut-New York road trip. I'm glad to be home, and my sore butt is glad to be out of the car. (You know you're out of shape when your BUTT is out of shape . . .)
So did I miss anything? Is Kerry ever going to pick a VP?
10247. PelleNilsson - 7/11/2004 12:40:23 AM What kind of car do you have Ohio? One with metal seats? 10248. OhioSTOPAS - 7/11/2004 1:18:42 AM Ha! You'd think so, watching me creak out of the car after a long drive. But it's just a Saturn "VUE" (a somewhat compact SUV). 10249. Magoseph - 7/11/2004 2:24:36 AM How was your trip, Ohio? If you took pictures, can we see them in Escapes? 10250. OhioSTOPAS - 7/11/2004 9:14:49 AM Magoseph: We visited my son (grad student in Boston), daughter (college student in New York, working this summer) and my mother (in Connecticut). The touristing highlights were watching the July 4 fireworks from the banks of the Charles River and taking a boat ride to the Boston harbor islands. We also saw "Assassins" in New York, an odd, original musical that we enjoyed very much.
But now, back in boring Ohio! 10251. Macnas - 7/11/2004 4:48:04 PM Boring?....but..you have Cleveland! 10252. Absensia - 7/11/2004 10:50:12 PM Morning all. There is a ball of fire in the sky today and the sky is blue, not white and gray! Forecasters claim it's going to be 85f/29c...what's with that?
Ms. No, have you moved yet? 10253. Magoseph - 7/12/2004 1:48:21 AM Hello, Ohio, Mac, Abs, and everyone.. Have you ever spilled a beverage on your keyboard? Have you ever done that twice? Saturday morning, I had to replace my keyboard with one on another machine. It was fine until this morning when I suddenly found myself again with coffee dripping onto my legs and this time, very keyboardless, a state, which I equate with not having a car available at all times. 10254. judithathome - 7/12/2004 2:28:52 AM You need one of those tip-free mugs, the ones with the fat bottoms.
Did your keyboard crackle and smoke when the coffee hit? They always do in the movies. 10255. Magoseph - 7/12/2004 2:46:48 AM No, Juds, both keyboards died without a peep. Where do you find those mugs with flat bottoms?
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