He is currently sitting on his blankey, after a delicious lunch and a chilly prowl outdoors, having a little bath.
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02.18.06 - 3:21 pm | #
Minus seven windchill in Bland Rapids, Michigan. 7 degrees F.
Vicki |
02.18.06 - 3:22 pm | #
I should go take some photographs but it's too cold out.
fourlegsgood |
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02.18.06 - 3:22 pm | #
I officially dub this the "fuck it's cold" thread.
Vicki |
02.18.06 - 3:22 pm | #
Speaking of birthdays, we have three birthday parties to attend tomorrow, so I better turn off the computer and go buy presents...
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02.18.06 - 3:22 pm | #
Minus seven windchill in Bland Rapids, Michigan. 7 degrees F.
Not nearly that cold here.
But I did a photoshoot on the roof in pretty chilly weather yesterday, with no gloves on.... and my sore throat is back.
fourlegsgood |
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02.18.06 - 3:23 pm | #
Finally made it above zero!! Minnesota roolz!
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02.18.06 - 3:25 pm | #
As much as I hate to praise the ACLU, my principles demand it when they stand by their principles. While they deserve the criticism they recieve in many of their hypocritical stances, one must recognize when they do what their stated principles are.
-13 here yesterday, windchill was like -40. Today we're at a balmy 6. I live where humans shouldn't, but I still love it.
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02.18.06 - 3:29 pm | #
and the Canada geese headed north overhead this morning, clanking and hawing in their V formation
Mrs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari
;ten minutes from here the geese don't go anywhere in winter. they just shit and eat and fly around looking for stuff.
earl: drugged mallard |
02.18.06 - 3:34 pm | #
I need to get a bit of all that cleaning frenzy. My vacuum cleaner looks fossilized. I'm not sure where it is, actually. Maybe therapy would help?
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02.18.06 - 3:34 pm | #
Current Conditions:
Temp: 27°
Dew Point: 23°
Humidity: 85%
Wind: North 15 mph
Visibility: 5.0 miles
Pressure: 30.51 in.
Sky: Overcast
Wind Chill: 15°
aeon_flux |
02.18.06 - 3:35 pm | #
Back to my cleaning spree.
Have fun, y'all!
Vick
that is so 'pre' 9-11
earl: drugged mallard |
02.18.06 - 3:35 pm | #
Maybe therapy would help?
Free Universal Maid Service would help more.
plantsman |
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02.18.06 - 3:36 pm | #
Mmm ... pretzels.
masculine_monica_nyc
that too is so 'pre' 9-11
earl: drugged mallard |
02.18.06 - 3:36 pm | #
How come geese can shit SO MUCH?
plantsman |
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02.18.06 - 3:36 pm | #
I apologize for this open thread.
Nim, ham hock of liberty |
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02.18.06 - 3:37 pm | #
Free Universal Maid Service would help more.
How I wish. Is it possible that there is a fixed total amount of cleaning in one life, and once you reach that amount you can't clean any more?
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.18.06 - 3:37 pm | #
"It's colder than a witch's tit!"
Most witches I've met are quite warm in their chestal areas, actually.
Pere Ubu |
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02.18.06 - 3:38 pm | #
One of my mom's few vulgarisms, which I adore:
"It's colder than a witch's tit!"
plantsman | Homepage | 02.18.06 - 3:32 pm | #
my mom says my dad fell in love with her because she said that on their first date, when she climbed on the back of his motorcycle.
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02.18.06 - 3:38 pm | #
Is it possible that there is a fixed total amount of cleaning in one life, and once you reach that amount you can't clean any more?
Soitenly not provable by me.
plantsman |
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02.18.06 - 3:38 pm | #
How I wish. Is it possible that there is a fixed total amount of cleaning in one life, and once you reach that amount you can't clean any more?
Now, is one *obliged* to reach that amount? 'Cuz that's really not how I want to spend my retirement.
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02.18.06 - 3:39 pm | #
Vicki --
I ran this morning from ca 4:45 to 5:30
It was cold!
A day visit Saturday 11 March ought to work -- how many of you? What time of day? Would you like to eat with the monks? Would you like to go out to eat? Which meal(s)?
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02.18.06 - 3:39 pm | #
Most witches I've met are quite warm in their chestal areas, actually.
Pere Ubu
is that 'chestal' sort of a 'cavital' area?
earl: drugged mallard |
02.18.06 - 3:40 pm | #
...wha? Chores? Bills to be paid?
My elaborate plot to win the lottery hasn't worked yet: I buy used tickets because the chances of winning are only slightly less than with a new ticket.
Darryl Pearce |
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02.18.06 - 3:40 pm | #
Maybe I used up my cleaning quota in my *previous* life?
Eli |
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02.18.06 - 3:40 pm | #
If she popped open a beer (a rarity), she'd start getting giggly before she even had a taste.
plantsman |
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02.18.06 - 3:41 pm | #
43 °F / 6 °C
Overcast
Windchill: 35 °F / 2 °C
Humidity: 81%
Dew Point: 37 °F / 3 °C
Wind: 16 mph / 26 km/h from the North
Pressure: 30.32 in / 1027 hPa
Visibility: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV: 2 out of 16
Clouds: Overcast 1000 ft / 304 m
(Above Ground Level)
It's the upper chestal area right below the neckal region.
Pere Ubu |
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02.18.06 - 3:42 pm | #
conroe texas is a lot warmer than here.
earl: drugged mallard |
02.18.06 - 3:42 pm | #
Maybe I used up my cleaning quota in my *previous* life?
No, there is one for each life. You will be wheeling around in you chair, picking up fluff from the carpets as an old and sage Eli.
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.18.06 - 3:43 pm | #
It's the upper chestal area right below the neckal region.
Pere Ubu
ah, higher than the 'kidnal' region...
earl: drugged mallard |
02.18.06 - 3:43 pm | #
wter au poivre?
"I wanna go to Miaaaaaaaaaami!"
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02.18.06 - 3:44 pm | #
I apologize for this blogwhore.
To paraphrase Mae West: "When you're good you're very, very good; and when you're bad, you're better!"
plantsman |
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02.18.06 - 3:44 pm | #
Echidne! The goat-posting Goddess!
I just felt like typing that (it reads pretty funny too).
Darryl Pearce |
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02.18.06 - 3:44 pm | #
I hate temperatures In Centigrade!
plantsman |
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02.18.06 - 3:45 pm | #
why don't they have any sports teams called 'the Centigrades' or 'the Fahrenheits'....
earl: drugged mallard |
02.18.06 - 3:46 pm | #
Echidne! The goat-posting Goddess!
I'm getting there, slowly. Thanks for noticing, Darryl Pierce.
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.18.06 - 3:46 pm | #
I hate temperatures In Centigrade!
I hate baking with the American measures. Like how much is a teaspoon? Whose teaspoon? I have three different sizes.
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.18.06 - 3:47 pm | #
...good afternoon. Back to chores and bill-paying (and lottery-ticket purchasing).
Hmm...?
I must buy lotter tickets because I'm a lottery ticket buyer.
Nim, this is for Jen: Val called and said the hospital in Denver called her. Andy's CAT scan was negative.
Apparently, he may be prone to seizures in high altitudes...
Now, if we can just get the other six kids through the day without breaking a leg or anything, and get them all home safe and sound tomorrow, this little *excellent* adventure will be over!
*Sigh.
Prior, regarding the 11th, I'll talk to Nim and Jen, and see what works.
Of course we'd like to dine with you, either out or at the monastery! Would your brothers like us, or are we (me in particular) too hedonistic for Abbey Road?
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02.18.06 - 3:47 pm | #
Its a piece on how we went to war. As they just broke to commericial, I didn't realize this was the first pre emptive war in US history.
Andy |
02.18.06 - 3:49 pm | #
I have a set of stainless measuring spoons that have metric equivalents etched into the inside bottom of the spoons, and metric cooking freaks me out!
plantsman |
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02.18.06 - 3:49 pm | #
Now they have the flight suit photo op.
Andy |
02.18.06 - 3:50 pm | #
It's 27 here right now.
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02.18.06 - 3:50 pm | #
Vicki --
Well, meals at the monastery are non-talking meals -- the reader reads aloud while we eat (currently we are reading a biography of Roald Dahl who wrote short stories when I was a child & children's stories after I stopped reading children's stories -- he seems to have been a rather nasty piece of work, IMHO)
Prior Aelred |
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02.18.06 - 3:52 pm | #
That day's Tweety was priceless, cuz B-1 Bob Dornan was going on and on about W's masculine
"package." Was 2 die..................
plantsman |
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02.18.06 - 3:53 pm | #
It's winter.
It's suppose to be cold.
I freak out when it's 60 in the middle of January.
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02.18.06 - 3:54 pm | #
My elaborate plot to win the lottery hasn't worked yet: I buy used tickets because the chances of winning are only slightly less than with a new ticket.
This cracked me up. And I'm still going to buy a ticket. What the hell. Dreamin' costs a dollar.
Echidne- I just went to your blog to look for goats. The Olympics bore the hell out of me, so I never even noticed that women don't jump. I thought it was the stupidest thing I ever saw till I scrolled down to the post on the Italian supreme court ruling on molesting bad girls. What the fucking fuck? Been a long time since I felt we as Americans could look down on another country, but I'm looking down at the Italians today.
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02.18.06 - 3:58 pm | #
plantsman!
Just so you know - I just now started baking a chicken in a sauce made up primarily of Macayo's enchilada roja sauce....
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02.18.06 - 4:01 pm | #
Vicki --
I've got to go do a Novice Conference now -- (& there are fresh sheets) -- try to catch you later (or you could, like, E- MAIL -- which would be easy to do if SOMEBODY hadn't vanished the e-mail addresses when he was fiddling with gravatars -- just sayin')
Prior Aelred |
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02.18.06 - 4:02 pm | #
Echidne- I just went to your blog to look for goats. The Olympics bore the hell out of me, so I never even noticed that women don't jump. I thought it was the stupidest thing I ever saw till I scrolled down to the post on the Italian supreme court ruling on molesting bad girls. What the fucking fuck? Been a long time since I felt we as Americans could look down on another country, but I'm looking down at the Italians today.
Yes, the Italian court is famous for bad judgements. Did you like the goat?
Echidne of the snakes |
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02.18.06 - 4:07 pm | #
"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike."
Albert Einstein
"Calculate what man knows, and it cannot compare to what he does not know."
Chuang Tzu
[Einstein and Buddha, The Parallel Sayings, page 56]
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02.18.06 - 4:14 pm | #
I wonder who thought of hte idea to make a sport with skiing and shooting a rifle. I wonder how Cheney would do at the biathlon.
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02.18.06 - 4:15 pm | #
I wonder who thought of hte idea to make a sport with skiing and shooting a rifle. I wonder how Cheney would do at the biathlon.
I believe the Finns, in the Second World War, fighting the Nazis.
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02.18.06 - 4:26 pm | #
You know, Prior, I wonder whether I mightnt be a good fit at the Priory as Priory Housekeeper.... Assuming Arthur could come with me.
Cleaning up after people is something I do pretty much all the time anyway. Having somebody read me biographies while I work would be a very pleasant thing.
I mean, assuming no particular adherence to Piskyness were a requirement.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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02.18.06 - 4:33 pm | #
Well, it's official. The mainstream media, with the New York Times jumping on board today, have cued the sympathy violins for Mad Dog Cheney. And many in the press have concluded FuddGate a dead issue. Forget about the fact of multiple discrepancies in people's telling of the incident. And still there is no one asking this crucial question: Would Cheney have reported this incident at all if ol' Harry had actually bitten the bullet. Read Mad Dog's transcript with FrankenHume; again and again, Cheney references the fact that he wanted to be absolutely sure that Harry was out of the woods, so to speak, before contacting the press. He used the word "accurate," in reference to info he was receiving from Whittington's doctors, around 8 or 9 times. Logically, one could draw such potential conclusions from the incident and Cheney's statements; it at least warrants a follow up from the national media. But no one will touch it.
It's clear that the Congress isn't serious about the rule of law -- they're sweeping the NSA matter under the rug.
The State proclamation efforts are picking up steam. Here is a link you can use to start discussions in the blogosphere, at your local government meetings, the media, and with state officials:
The RNC cannot bury a state proclamation in committee
It only takes one proclamation from one state to force a vote on impeachment
The RNC membership believes it does not have to vote on impeachment; when the RNC leadership realizes they have to commit – up or down – you’ll see more defections to vote for impeachment.
The RNC members in Congress will know they have to vote to assert the rule of law, or they will have a major problem back home: Why despite the glaring problems/violations did they choose not to find facts?
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