miscellany -- just some stuff

Eye Declare!! -- a couple of weeks ago i had a sty in my left eye. it went away, and now i have one in my right eye. what a beating.

Size Matters -- tonight my bro brought me my sister’s old 27-in TV, so now i actually get to watch a real-sized screen. hooray!!!!

SarahK Knows Joes -- i make awesome sloppy joes. i can’t take credit, though, i got the recipe here a couple of years ago and have used it ever since. try the recipe, really, you’ll be saying Man-what?

Bladder Up!! -- i was on the phone with my dad earlier, and he was dehydrated, so i told him to drink a bunch of Gatorade; he said he’d been drinking a lot of Mountain Dew all day, and i told him that that wouldn’t do much to hydrate him, would just run right through. so he told me he hasn’t peed much today... glad we got that out in the open. thanks, Spidade.

Purr-fect -- Minerva is the coolest cat (not to take anything from Nicole, but she’s kind of picky). she gets all cuddly and while she’s snuggling with me, she lets me clip her claws, both front paws in one sitting, excellent! she doesn’t even fight me, just purrs. it really makes her tendency for diving at my fringe belt and hanging from my legs less painful.

speaking of bladders, i've gotta pee. ta!

Comments

[krakatoa]

I learned a lot of things in High School. Biology. French (with a southern accent no less). Trigonometry. How to run the perfect wide receiver route.

Most of that has pretty much left my head.

My history teacher however, Mr. C., taught me something that's always stuck with me. He said to the class one day "If you got it, flaunt it".

Oh that Mr. C. Always full of humility. hehehe

My tv is 56 inch HDTV.

I think you've got me on the sloppy joe thing though!

[sarahk]

wow, for a while i was wondering where you were going with all that! :P

hey, my sloppy joes are so good that i don't have any right to be humble about them!

and i might be envious of that 56 HD, but i'm just happy to be out of the 19s, so congratulations on your big tv.

[krakatoa]

"hey, my sloppy joes are so good that i don't have any right to be humble about them!"

hehehe... that's the spirit!! Flaunt it!

The bad thing about the huge tv is that moving it is a pain in the [pinky toe]. Amazingly enough, I have no shortage of volunteers willing to keep it at their house for as long as I need. I am suspicious though... they never seem to be interested in storing my furniture as well. Could it be they are only interested in my TV?

[sarahk]

"Could it be they are only interested in my TV?"

um, perhaps. say, speaking of your TV, if you need me to store it for you, just let me know. not the furniture, though. don't have room for anything except the TV. i'm nice like that. ;)

[krakatoa]

hehehe

I'll add you to the waiting list. ;)

"pain in the [pinky toe]" -- come to think of it, yeah, that too!

[Jeffrey Collins]

hey, no fair! don't you know that all silly conversations are supposed to involve me to?

btw, i'd be glad to store the tv for you.

[krakatoa]

Hi Jeffrey. Actualy, no, I didn't know that you were to be paged for all silly conversations. I haven't read the rules yet. :P

I suppose what I could do is set up a rotation schedule for fostering my tv. Maybe have it change residences every month.

[krakatoa]

Totally off topic, but considering the topic was off topic anyway...

I see you have the Cold Mountain soundtrack featured over there ------------------->

I've never in my life known anyone famous, so this is the closest I come to name-dropping. I've shared a bottle of potato vodka in a tin cup around a campfire with Riley Baugus. Did you know he also made some of the instruments you saw in the movie?

He's a great guy, and an amazing musician. If you ever want to have just an incredibly good time with a lot of really good people, go to a fiddler's convention sometime (one of the big ones) and set up camp and MINGLE. Truly some of my fondest memories were made while dating a musician who played in various old time bands. On top of meeting so many cool and talented people, she also happened to be a massage therapist! Good times, good times.

Sadly, I haven't seen the movie yet. I missed it when it was in the theater, and will have to wait to see it on my 56 inch hdtv. :P

[sarahk]

boys, boys! no need to fight over my silliness, there's plenty of it to go around! just ask Spidade and Bikermommy, i really do come by it honestly and in great measure...

um, Jeffrey, i don't think it's fair for you to usurp my offer to store the TV; i and only i should be considered here, since the size of my 2 TVs that were stolen from me add up to 59 inches, and this would almost make up for that. :P btw, i've noticed that i've converted you to a sparse capitalizer; i'm so proud i might cry. :'-)

Krakatoa, i figured that you meant "pinky toe", so i changed it for you. ;)

the CD was a gift from a great friend, and i haven't actually seen Cold Mountain, though the soundtrack totally rocks. i've wanted to see it, but my movie-watching over the last year has become practically nonexistent.

fiddlers convention sounds like a blast; most musically-inclined people are tons of fun (i'm a soprano).

i don't date my massage therapist, since i like boys and all, but i do adore her! i keep telling her i'm going to steal her and take her with me when i move.

[krakatoa]

Let me suggest another movie and it's soundtrack. Songcatcher.

The music is first rate, and the movie is too. It is truly a Beautiful movie, in every way.

"fiddlers convention sounds like a blast; most musically-inclined people are tons of fun (i'm a soprano)."

First, I think it's hilarious that you break the rules of capitalization, but follow the rules of punctuation! A semi-colon no less!! lol

Second, and accepting the implication that you are tons of fun ;), do you think most musicians are tons o fun because they are musicians, or is it rather that people who are tons o fun are driven to be musicians?

[Jeffrey Collins]

well, if you're suuuuuure you have enough silliness.

actually, i'm trying to reach a total lack of capitalization. at least when talking to you.

i withdraw my offer regarding the tv on the grounds that i value my pinky toe and don't want sarah mad at me.

[sarahk]

krakatoa -- never heard of Songcatcher, I'll have to check it out.

if there's one thing i can't abide, it's punctuation or grammar errors. capitalization, however, is just another way for the Man to keep us down, and the Shift key is a waste of my time. ;)

as to your fun musician people or fun people musicians question, the answer is yes.

jeffrey, i appreciate the effort, you're so sweet. and the withdrawal tells me that you are a smart man.