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20656. Ms. No - 12/3/2006 8:44:30 PM No worries, I was being somewhat tasteless myself, but all in good fun. ;->
We don't get snow here -- or only once about every 80 years or something. It's not that cold in the daytime but I'll be glad when they get the heat going. It's in the low 30's at night and the only really warm place to be is in bed or standing next to the oven. 20657. alistairConnor - 12/3/2006 11:44:21 PM Still unseasonally warm here. Just as well, because I have a dysfunctional relationship with firewood.
I've been meaning to buy some since, well, last winter. By the time I got around to prospecting a couple of months ago, it was hard to find any that was reasonably priced and deliverable to the back o' beyond where I live. Finally got it delivered yesterday, 15 cubic metres (about 10 tons), and...
it's green. Less than a year old, and unburnable.
Still had to put it away -- it was dumped in front of the vehicle access -- so I spent all day doing that, making neat stacks by the hedge, for next year. Found a guy who lives only a few miles away, he has large quantities of firewood, cheaper than the other stuff and old enough to burn... Really nice guy too. A peasant farmer, who, in his late forties, decided to become an actor. It's what he always really wanted to do. He was going to tow a load of wood around this afternoon, but one of the headlights on his tractor is broken so it'll wait till next weekend. That's ok, now I feel secure about my heating needs. 20658. alistairConnor - 12/3/2006 11:45:31 PM I also bought my snow tyres yesterday, so it can let rip now. I hope it does, me and the girls want to go skiing after Christmas. 20659. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/4/2006 12:18:57 AM Nice story, Alistair–I can relate–and as Byron said . . .
"When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. 20660. Magoseph - 12/5/2006 12:23:29 AM Ali, check out Mote Fiction. Great read! 20661. judithathome - 12/5/2006 12:59:08 AM A cannibal was walking through the jungle and came upon a restaurant opened by a fellow cannibal.
Feeling hungry, he sat down and looked over the menu ...
Broiled Missionary: $10.00
Fried Explorer: $15.00
Baked Politician: $100.00.
The cannibal called the waiter over and asked, "Why such a price difference for the politician?"
The cook replied, "Have you ever tried to clean one?" 20662. Macnas - 12/5/2006 10:50:13 AM Howdy do all.
Begob, only 20 days 'till Christmas and not a child in the house washed! 20663. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/5/2006 5:56:22 PM I'm going to my local mall to try this . . .
20664. Ms. No - 12/5/2006 6:33:52 PM Hiya Mac!
Can't you just send them out in the yard and let them run around while you spray 'em with a hose? 20665. Macnas - 12/5/2006 6:42:40 PM Social services say no. 20666. robertjayb - 12/7/2006 5:37:41 PM Note this day that lives in infamy.
Consider the wisdom of preemptive war.
20667. Magoseph - 12/8/2006 12:21:03 PM Wonk, it's hell to work at realigning one's skeleton--I'm in pain and trying not to take the doc's evil pills. If I do take them, I become a raving maniac. 20668. judithathome - 12/9/2006 9:31:03 PM Good lord but I have fallen into the holiday madness that is shopping for young children! I decided to get this little girl we know a Crayola Cutter for Christmas...don't ask; it's a "must have" gadget for the short set.
Already been to 5 different stores and called various others and everyone is sold out. So my last resort: eBay! I got it for $10 more than it would have been if it had been in stock locally and added to that is the insulting $10 shipping fee.
I feel like it was worth it, to NOT have to go runnning all over town searching for it in vain. 20669. wonkers2 - 12/9/2006 11:20:23 PM Mago, I know what you mean. Try hard to do it without surgery. From what I've heard, back surgery often doesn't work very well. And of course comes with risks. 20670. Magoseph - 12/10/2006 12:29:07 AM I feel like it was worth it, to NOT have to go running all over town searching for it in vain.
Certainly it is, especially with the Saturday traffic. I wish I could have grocery delivered. We need here one of those services that runs errands for you, and that is not too far in the future, I hear through the grapevine.
20671. Magoseph - 12/10/2006 12:30:13 AM Wonk, everything I did in the past was wrong and now before I do anything, I have to think how to do it. Now I know why Rush Limbaugh became addicted and that is because he was too fat and lazy to undergo rehab, I bet.
By the way, I wrote to you on your site and I even sent you an e-mail.
20672. wonkers2 - 12/10/2006 5:41:18 AM Sometimes it takes a while for the emails to come through. 20673. jexster - 12/10/2006 7:57:59 PM For the TimesSelect Yachtsman who has everything...Just saw on Channel Four...very kewl
Find out which barbarian tribe you came from at
FamilyTreeDNA 20674. arkymalarky - 12/10/2006 8:11:22 PM That's neat. 20675. Magoseph - 12/11/2006 1:27:31 PM Yes, I sent the link to my sons--I bet they'll use it.
Wonk, my shoes were elevated three-eighth of and inch. Doc said that my intensive jogging may be the cause of my back pain, not necessarily the fact that I carried a forty-pound bag.
So, Arky, you'll have more time to post after the holidays, right?
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