Just to prove that I am the best child, I called my mother yesterday (the Saturday before) to wish her Happy Mother's Day. I checked the time in Australia and it was two minutes after midnight in Sydney, so it was already Sunday there. We laughed and talked in Aussie accents and made up goofy lines like, "Good day, mate! Happy Mate-er's Day!
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When I discover that people are or want to be like me, I teLL them, "Ah, its a CURSE." And when they ask for more details, I say, "see, yoU aRe aS E." where E is Ernest.
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I am busy writing lyrics for "Where Are You Rainstorm?" to the tune "Where Are You Christmas?" from the movie 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'. But my screenplay is titled 'How The Grinch Stole Spring'.
Meanwhile, about a fourth of Fritch TX burns down from a wildfire about a dozen miles west of me.
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Silliness reigns.
I get a call from my wife.
"Can you come and get me?"
(Me): "Where are you at?" (Confused)
"At work."
"I am at work, too." (Same building, well, almost the same building)
"Oh!"
Laughter on her end of the communication channel.
Oh, the semi-elderly.
I hang up and start singing our friend Angela's song, "Gonna Make Me Lose My Mind"
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I post this in Facebook: I think I am getting new socks today. Yea!
After posting this status two of my young female friends who work at our building argue in the comments about which one of them gets to deliver the package to my office. Several interesting comments comparing their beauty and intelligence. They are sisters. In the end I let each of them deliver the package while the other one isn't there.
It greatly delays me actually getting to wear the socks, but I have plenty of toe socks for my Vibrams.
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Your refrigerator can appear magical at 3:40 AM.
I open the door and when I look down there appears to be a yogurt container floating in mid-air.
Then I realize it is on a clear glass plate that is really a lid for a casserole dish upside down.
The lid is sticking way out over the shelf front more than halfway. It is being held in place cantilevered by a container of uncooked hashbrown potatoes.
At this point I stop investigating The Magic Phenomenon and close the door and I supress the thought of wondering how aLL those things got in those positions.
All this was possible because I open a disturbing e-mail at 2:00 AM letting me know how incompetent the Epson people are at handling shipments, now multiple instances of "overnight" deliveries taking a week or not even arriving at aLL, and now my story with Epson warranty service gets longer and stranger. I am thinking my next printer will be a Canon, but a "cannon" would be nice about now, too.
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I want an IGNORE ALL GAME INVITATIONS option in Facebook.
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When I discover that people are or want to be like me, I teLL them, "Ah, its a CURSE." And when they ask for more details, I say, "see, yoU aRe aS E." where E is Ernest.
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I am busy writing lyrics for "Where Are You Rainstorm?" to the tune "Where Are You Christmas?" from the movie 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'. But my screenplay is titled 'How The Grinch Stole Spring'.
Meanwhile, about a fourth of Fritch TX burns down from a wildfire about a dozen miles west of me.
-----
Silliness reigns.
I get a call from my wife.
"Can you come and get me?"
(Me): "Where are you at?" (Confused)
"At work."
"I am at work, too." (Same building, well, almost the same building)
"Oh!"
Laughter on her end of the communication channel.
Oh, the semi-elderly.
I hang up and start singing our friend Angela's song, "Gonna Make Me Lose My Mind"
-----
I post this in Facebook: I think I am getting new socks today. Yea!
After posting this status two of my young female friends who work at our building argue in the comments about which one of them gets to deliver the package to my office. Several interesting comments comparing their beauty and intelligence. They are sisters. In the end I let each of them deliver the package while the other one isn't there.
It greatly delays me actually getting to wear the socks, but I have plenty of toe socks for my Vibrams.
-----
Your refrigerator can appear magical at 3:40 AM.
I open the door and when I look down there appears to be a yogurt container floating in mid-air.
Then I realize it is on a clear glass plate that is really a lid for a casserole dish upside down.
The lid is sticking way out over the shelf front more than halfway. It is being held in place cantilevered by a container of uncooked hashbrown potatoes.
At this point I stop investigating The Magic Phenomenon and close the door and I supress the thought of wondering how aLL those things got in those positions.
All this was possible because I open a disturbing e-mail at 2:00 AM letting me know how incompetent the Epson people are at handling shipments, now multiple instances of "overnight" deliveries taking a week or not even arriving at aLL, and now my story with Epson warranty service gets longer and stranger. I am thinking my next printer will be a Canon, but a "cannon" would be nice about now, too.
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I want an IGNORE ALL GAME INVITATIONS option in Facebook.
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That rather leapt about from subject to subject so I will focus on two important issues.
I hope your printer issues are sorted soon. Complain to head office it pays to go to the top.
IGNORE ALL GAME INVITATIONS option in Facebook . . . Is a very good option.
But, I want to know more about the uncooked hash brown potato cantilevering issue.
Excuse me - what is your mother doing in Australia?
Rob: sometimes my blog posts are about one particular story or incident, and other times they are a collection of short blobs of thought and or tiny incidents. The ones that are collections wiLL have "-----" demarcations.
fmcgmccllc: I so rarely get to use the word cantilever in conversation. I wiLL try that the neXt to I go to Amarillo and my wife is being bad in a silly way, I will tell her that I am going to take her to The Pavillion (loony bin) and ask the guy at the front desk, "Can't I leave her with you?" Of course my wife has absolutely no idea what a cantilever is so I will need to have a diagram already prepared, perhaps some Rube Goldberg drawings.
Badger: I just used Australia as an excuse to be able to call my mother to wish her Happy Mother's Day, while it was just barely Sunday in Australia by two minutes after midnight in Sydney, it was still Saturday in Texas and Oklahoma. I told my mother about you moving to Indiana, she thinks it is pretty cool that I have friends all around the globe through blogging.
I tried something interestingly different at The Salt Grass restaurant yesterday, a fondue called Seafood Fondeaux. It went well with a shot of Drambuie.
Description: Crawfish, shrimp & mushrooms sautéed in a cream sauce, then baked with romano & jack cheese.
OK now i get it. I am a bit slow sometimes.
My slowtimes are slowly becoming moretimes instead of sometimes.
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