What Are Ya Havin’?
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BYOB
Nosh on the table.
Nosh on the table.
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Park your workday faces at the door please
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
What’s the what?
Yeah! Company! Anybody around?
What am I – chopped liver? 😉
I thought you were an amphibian hallucination brought on by the fever. My mistake.
No doubt it’s the frog costume. I thought it was slimming.
Reminds me of the BNL song If I had a Million Dollars.
I’d buy you a green dress, but not a real green dress that’s cruel.
That’s a great song and I will traipse over to iTunes and snap it up right now.
It takes a truly stunning redhead to carry of a real green dress.
Oh, in what I hope were lucid moments today, I wrote and posted the beginning of Family Man’s Backstory. Be sure to read it in order, starting with the Overview.
Special guest appearances by two mystery BTer’s.
The beginnings of the FAmily Man backstory is fantastic!
Thanks. I guess it was coherent then. I’ll write more later, if I get an energy boost.
It is fabulous!!!! I cannot wait to see the enxt installment!!!
I’ve got it largely mapped out so I’ll sneak piece in here and there when I can. BTW, the site has an RSS feed if you’re interested.
The ‘what’ here is the smoke haze covering much of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. There are no fires threatening our place, but there are 20 burning throughout Tasmania, as five huge ones in Victoria that have started to meet up. The Victorian fires are predicted to eventually cover one fifth of the state and take as much as a month to burn out.
Climate change? What climate change?
What started the fires? Lightning?
Some fires have been started by lightening, most are attributed to “carelessness” and, thankfully, only a few have been started by arson.
Arson is a BIG problem in Australia, and Tasmania in particular. Criminal punishment here is very lax, perhaps as a backlash against Australia’s convict beginnings. As a recent newspaper article pointed out, child murder, even where the child was repeatedly and horrifically harmed before being killed, draws about a five year term on average. Arson is still view legally as “misbehaving,” as opposed to reckless disregard for human life, which it it.
Consequently, it’s still considered good fun by the antisocial young male crowd.
I’ve been meaning to ask if you were in danger from the fires. Glad to hear that you and yours are safe.
So sorry about the fires!!! Stay safe!!!!
Or, how “grey was my valley.”
I am so afraid of fire it is pathetic.
Having grown up in So. Cal., which burns up every summer, I’m down right paranoid about fire.
I had an extra 3000 gallons of water (we only have tank water) delivered Tuesday, just-in-case.
Our house (from where I took the above photo) has a good clearing around it, so it’s very defendable.
Thank you for sharing your view, keres. Frankly, your immediate environs seem very, very lovely — may they remain so. May you & all your neighbors, of all species, remain safe!
We’re doing our best. You know you live on an island when you have to make multiple trips to the feed merchants to get all your supplies because on any given day they are out of half their stock – because all of their sons are in the volunteer fire brigade.
Only thirteen houses have been lost statewide thus far. Which, given the size of the fires and Tasmania’s limited resources, is very impressive.
Today is warm and very windy. I’m sure nothing good will come of that combination.
Are the animals rattled by the smoke smell?
Thankfully, no. My horses used to freak.
I wish you the best, keres. I’m sorry I can’t do more.
Well wishes are a fine addition to tennis balls (to stop-up the drains in the rain gutters, so you can fill the gutters with water to put out any embers that land on the roof), a rope mop, goggles and particulate masks. All of which are in our fire-fighting kit.
I’d guess an eagle-eyed vigilance is a good part of your supply, too.
How are the winds currently? Pretty volatile?
Tasmania is a place where people are often o’er quick to quip, “don’t like the weather, wait a minute.” But only because it’s true. The winds that hit the isle are known as the “Roaring 40’s” (we’re in the degrees 40-42 south of the equator) which haven’t hit land since Patagonia. So, volatile ain’t the half of it.
They’re not livestock-flying-by winds at the moment, but the trees are more leaning than swaying. Luna’s looking pretty windswept as well.
The worst fires are to the east of us, and are being blown seaward. Good for us, bad for the coastal towns.
Here’s hoping for continual miracles.
Hi Folks!!!!! Teach I never got an email from you.
I’ll send it again. Glad you made it to the lounge.
Okay, I will wait for it or you can send it to refinish69 @ austin.rr.com.
Turns out I was sending to yahoo.com. Big DUH!
I’m sorry you’re not feeling well, Teach. I guess it’s just your turn.
Obviously, sometimes it’s best to heed that ‘body language’.
😉
Hope you can shake it quickly.
Thanks, ww. Resting today seemed to help.
Good. Be sure to get as much rest as you need.
ROTFLMAO!!!! I got it and have already replied. I am sorry you are not feeling well. Sending Warm Thoughts of Love & Healing!!!!!
Thanks, RF. Got your message. That story will take time to develop. I did manage to post another part of FM’s story.
I have to tell you that I thought you were sending an email about the response I posted in the other dairy. LOL I have never given a rating lower than a 4 until the other day and I was a little upset. LOL
I knew you were angry, and rightfully so, but you handled it well. I just happened to see your name in recent comments when I was thinking of the plot line, etc. Then I read the other comments and saw why you were upset.
LOL Okay. To be honest I was upset about that comment all day after I saw it. I just hate that type of crap from anyone. It always makes me wonder if I am called those type of terms when I am not around or worse. I guess maybe I should do a dairy about it but I am scared my anger would get the better of me. LOL
Link? I want to beat up whoever said mean things.
NO!!! I would rather not even remember it if I could.
I’m sure you don’t like to see those kind of comments here, that’s understandable. You have to put up with crap like that all over the place, why do you have to see it at a place you choose to come to? But you must also realize that that comment came from ignorance and anger aimed at a Conservative religious person, and so the commenter incorrectly thought that any insult was considered fair game. You don’t have to worry about what we say when you’re not around. We usually make fun of you in a completely respectfully manner.
I know but sometimes it just hits the wrong way. I will say that after my comment that dairy died a very sudden death with no more comments. LOL
someday when I am in a telling mood I will share my story of how I handled some prejudice in my family. Hell maybe that is how I will start the dairy and then explain why people get so dang upset. LOL
Write it when you’re ready.
Hey, Froggy! I’ve meaning to tell you that the Moxie Bar is my favorite Lounge. Where’d you get the picture?
I think it comes free with the froggybottom suit. 😉
My grandmother (b. 1904 – d. 2003) used to tell me stories from her days at the “Tap Rooms” in Philadelphia in the 20’s and 30’s. I use to test her about hanging out in saloons, and she would get indignant. Apparently Tap Rooms serve food and so were classier. This from the 5′ 2″ woman who showed me how to hold five mugs of beer in one hand without spilling a drop.
I left out the bit that the picture reminded me of her stories, even though it probably pre-dates her by a generation or so.
Was she German? 🙂
Need you ask? Her family was from Alsace-Lorraine, so they were German or French depending who had overrun it that decade.
Smart lady and a damn good waitress. LOL
She wasn’t a waitress. She just wanted five beers.
LOL Even better. I can see a 5’2 drunkard running around back in the day. What am I saying… I have been partying with a few in years gone by.
I’d second that ‘Favorite Lounge’ vote.
However, I can’t seem to locate Ernest Borgnine & his waving loofah.
Don’t even get me started on Ernest Borgnine, WW!
I’m sure he’d be flattered by your memory, Luscious One. Watch out.
One of my sisters (can’t remember which one) said one of my babies (can’t remember which one) looked like Ernest Borgnine. You don’t tell a mother with postpartum depression that her baby is ugly.
Ernest Borgnine is the Gerber baby. He was a beautiful baby but I do wonder what the hell happened as he grew up. LOL
Get out! Is he really? That’s depressing.
Yeppers.
So: stands to reason that a baby resembling Ernest Borgnine would grow to be beautiful.
Me, I was a cute baby. ‘What happened’ indeed.
ROTFLMAO!!!! My brother was a butt ugly kid and stunning as a teenager and young adult.
My personal theory is the cuter you are as a kid the homlier you are as an adult. Think of all those cute TV kids who are weird looking now.
For what’s it worth, he was a great womanizer in Hollywood. Apparently at conception the higher powers realized they had made a terrible error with his face and they compensated for their error somewhat lower on his anatomy. Or so the story goes.
hung like a mule from what they say. LOL
Aren’t mules sterile?
okay a stallion then. LOL
Reproduction wasn’t the issue.
Proof that God is benevolent.
Humphrey Bogart was the Gerber baby.
His mother was a commercial painter and used him for the image.
oops. LOL I knew it was one fo the ugly ones from that time period. LOL
Appears I was caught out by an urban legend.
The Gerber baby is a girl.
It’s a picture from a newspaper of a taken after the passage of prohibition but before it actually started to show what bars were going to be like — it’s a Salvation Army “saloon”.
I thought that was Carry A. Nation behind the bar. You gotta love a woman with her own hatchet.
Well I have two regular axes, three mauls, and a carpenter axe — does that mean you adore me? 😉
Note to self: don’t get AndiF mad at me.
jim’s still alive
Yeah, but he’s skinny and quick.
He’s old and arthritic — he couldn’t outrun hopey.
No wonder he’s always on wheels.
or skates (or the big, comfy chair).
We keep hearing about Jim, but he’s been awfully quiet lately. I wondered why he didn’t apply for the open Superintendent job here in Detroit.
There aren’t enough drugs in the universe to get jim to take an adminstration job.
Not to worry, we already have 4 stunningly awful candidates, including one fool who was fired from the job 10 years ago.
Glad to hear Jim isn’t under the wood pile. LOL
Apparently so.
It sounds so wrong to say it, but I do have a thing for a well made blade. The fulcrum and the lever (a blade is a fulcrum) epitomize the very essence of tools and the source of human civilization. Every other tool is just one or the other with an advanced degree.
How’s that for an especially keres-like post?
Let’s all say it together: NERD.
Never Enough Relevant Details
Keres, keres, keres! This is exactly why you play such a major part in the FM Backstory.
You never cease to amaze me with your knowledge!!!
I think you’ve just articulated a reason why I truly love chopping wood, why it’s so satisfying. It seems fundamentally natural to me.
Nation, in her later years.
My Gram would spot her the hatchet and still knock the meddlin’ ole biddy senseless. Banning liquor! Insane!
It should be noted, that prior to prohibition the average American man was consuming massive amounts of alcohol. Probably about four times as much as today. Work was grueling and beer was cheap, and men spent their paychecks at the pub.
It was ruinous to working families.
I now live where women were the first to get the vote in any western country. The men that voted to extend the vote to women did so solely because they hoped that women would vote for prohibition (NZ women got the vote a few months later and for the same reason). But prohibition here never happened here, and the result is that this is still a society which encourages the massive consumption of alcohol. A survey in NZ of university students (there as here, the drinking age is 18) found that nearly one in three had been seriously assulted while drinking or by someone who had been drinking in the six months before the survey. Auto accidents, sexual assults, all increase exponentially with increases in drinking and decreases in age.
Prohibition, IMHO, has gotten a bad name, precisely because it put a brake on a whole host of destructive behaviours that we no longer primarily associate with drinking, because Americans, as a nation, no longer drink like that.
Australians, to a frightening degree, still do.
I should say, in fairness to my Gram, that I’m slightly exaggerating her fondness for booze. I have two cousins and two uncles who have messed up their lives with alcohol. I rarely drink as a result. But I doubt that a gov’t ban is the answer. Look at the interminable War on Drugs.
I am sure you were. Most of the men in my family have had or do have a problem with booze. I am lucky that I know I have an addictive personality so have always been really careful excpet for one 6 month period in my life many years ago.
I’d say you’re brilliantly lucky, refinish.
(I speak as one who was neither lucky nor careful.)
I don’t agree with most government bans on most things. But while it may not have been the best thing, it may, at the time, have been the only thing to get people to change their ways.
I just don’t think we are very good at putting the past in context, and as a result always think we’ve “evolved” since “those days.”
Besides, without prohibition where would jazz has gotten such as fomenting forum? And where would have papa Kennedy have gotten all his money to fund his sons’ political careers? 😉
she looks like she need a drink and a good…..
Why, thank you, keres.
😉
(Disclaimer: in no way do I compare my adventurous spirit with that of aforementioned hatcheteer.)
Literally – you gotta love her or she’ll hack you to death.
That whirring sound you hear is my Grandmother spinning in her grave. Her favorite grandson consigning her to a GD Holy Roller soda shop! Sorry, Gram. I need to pay attention to details, like you always told me.
You can just forget I told you — ’cause it’s still a great picture.
Visited the Getty with some friends today, haunting museums is a good pastime for CTS sufferers. Took a few photos, not too many, save the hands. The “Icons from Sinai” exhibit is amazing.
http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/
(Hope this is small. I shrank it; looks right on photo bucket but still large here.)
I love museums of all flavors and types so it sounds like a lovely way to spend your day.
Yup, they went all out here. A must see if you are ever in LA. LOL!
Not too likely as L.A. is very high on my list of places to avoid.
Amen Sistah. And I was born there.
I am sure you had a wonderful time!!! I love museums myself and need to get to the ones here in Austin.
Nice about the Getty that I can almost get there and back without getting caught up in world’s worst traffic snarls. Almost….
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