Arthur and Kevin's Nellorat's Friends
Saturday, July 4, 2009
3:02PM - Too funny
So I'm sitting here waiting for the chicken soup to be done, catching up with DW and Usenet, and suddenly I hear this loud clicking sound. I look around and can't figure out what it is, so I go back to my goofing off. And the sound comes again. It's irregular, and MUCH louder than the little click that lets me know the oven is switching on and off. A few minutes later, it's driving me crazy, so I ask ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
someotherguy to help me investigate the sound. He looks around for a while and solves the mystery.
Spartacus is *hiccuping*.
The guinea pig has the hiccups, probably brought on by the massive quantities of raw carrot he just ate, and it's freakin' hilarious.
4:05PM
The last time I had a litter of kittens was in 1982 (No, Ms. Lucy Fur is NOT expecting). I remembered something just now. :-) There were six of the kits, and they loved to get into the kitchen wastebasket. To keep them out of it, I bought one of those "step on little foot thingy and lid opens" ones. That solved the problem for a few days, until the little monsters figured out that if half of them stood on the pedal, the lid would open and the other three would drag whatever-it-was out onto the floor, and then all six could feast. :-)
5:05PM
I found a GST return had snuck into my account in the past couple days. I was wondering why my budget wasn't balancing well.
I keep getting surprised by money. I like this. The world can keep this up for a bit, if it likes. I don't mind at all.
1:17PM - Unsent letters- the pet store edition
Dear Grooming Department,
Red White and Blueberry scented dog shampoo and cologne?
Seriously?
Only an additional $12 with the purchase of a dog grooming appointment.
I hope your favorite slicker brush is eaten by a Rottweiler.
Love,
Me
Dear Loud Snide Lady In The Parking Lot,
Yes, I'm very interested to know you would never use one of those collars on your dog. Because almost nothing interests me more than the opinions of random strangers about my treatment of my dog.
Please note that those collars do not have spikes inside, do not choke the puppy or otherwise harm her and do not prevent her from eating, drinking or biting the hell out of your ankle. Which my little dog is far too friendly to do and which I generally regard as a a good thing.
Next, I would be willing to bet you have an older dog or a smaller dog, because the head collar is really useful to owners of younger, energetic dogs. Pulling hard at the leash is bad for their throats and necks.
Further, I am almost dead certain you do not have a chronic medical condition which can be seriously affected by an enthusiastic large puppy pulling at her leash and your arm.
Finally- making loud snide remarks about strangers is not just rude, it's stupid. For all our sakes please just shut up or learn to use your indoor voice.
Even less then no love,
Me
Dear Person walking with the loud snide lady,
Life it too short to spend time with people who make you turn funny colors and roll your eyes apologetically at strangers. Just something for you to consider.
Love,
Me
Dear Molly,
It's a head collar, not a device created by the Inquistors. It is not hurting you in the slightest.
We will both like taking walks more when neither your neck nor my shoulder feel like they are on fire. So knock off the 'Gollum tied with elven rope' carrying on and just wear it, okay? You already forget it's on you for whole minutes at a time.
Love,
Me
PS I am going to mention it now so it won't come as a complete surprise- we bought you a seat belt harness too. It will also not hurt you and no amount of carrying on is going to get us to take it off. This is because we are big meanie heads who don't want you to get hurt in the car. Deal.
amused3:21PM
I'm having a bag of vegetables for dinner (I frequently do this -- I'm not very good at eating up leftover veggies that I've stashed in the fridge, so I'll eat the whole batch of them at one meal and double up on the protein and/or carbs at another one). The particular assortment I'm munching on was a frozen steam-in-bag concoction of snow peas, water chestnuts, pearl onions, peppers, slivered bamboo shoots, and baby corn. The baby corn made me think of Tom Hanks in the movie "Big"
What are some food items that immediately bring a specific movie or episode of a TV show to mind?
12:55PM
Stay up late: Check
Sleep in: Check
Shop for food: Check
Put chicken soup on to cook: Check
Put food in the oven for dinner: Check
Still to do:
Finish chicken soup and take some to ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aquenigmatic
Make cole slaw to go with the pulled-pork sandwiches for dinner
Clean the kitchen
Have a talk with the kid about school and chores
Get some magazine work done (cover artist, if you don't send me a byline by next weekend, you're gonna be "anonymous". ;-)
RELAX and read my books
Play some music and get "Desert Moon" out of my head
2:39PM - Rat's posting the blues again
I heartily recommend the one under the cut, "Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl" sung by Bessie Smith, but the image used by the person who put the vid together is arguably racist, so I've popped it behind a cut. I think it's the only copy on YouTube, but if anyone has a different source, I'd be happy to swap it out.
( Read more... )
At any rate, the song is magnificently sleazy. Enjoy!
1:37PM - Best Lyrics Heard This Week
"She creeps me out. She crept me back in again."
-- Jay Reatard
11:32AM - Is Blue My Color?
Originally published at Five Acres with a View. You can comment here or there.
1:49PM - This just in
Jewish Composer rats really love spicy Thai fud.
1:10PM - A question for which I don't have an answer
Asked in email:
Is there a summary of all the reasons why O'Neill colonies wouldn't
work?
12:49PM - RIP Khen
Ken Moore's obit at Legacy.com. Oddly, omits any mention of his ex-wife, Lou.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tennes
(Sorry for the lack of linking, LJ doesn't play nice with Opera, and didn't like my attempts at HTML.)
Ken called me up after Jack died. I can still hear his distinctive drawl saying "I don't mind telling you, I cried last night after I got the news." Well, Ken, a lot of us are crying now. (Although there's a number of us who'd like to shake you and scream at you for not taking better care of yourself.)
The most sound sleeper I ever met. I imagine they had to take a pulse to make sure he was dead.
9:15AM - Still surprising
I had a lovely breakfast on the patio this morning: scrambled eggs with cream cheese and kale, followed by canteloupe. Now I'm sewing.
I'm still surprised at how much of sewing a garment does not involve actually sewing pieces of fabric together. Prep time is enormous and finishing as you go also takes up a lot of time.
Prep time includes choosing and buying a pattern, appropriate fabric, and notions like thread, zippers, bias binding and interfacing; washing or pretreating the materials in the way that you want to clean the finished garment (I like to make machine washable stuff so mostly that means a trip through the washer and dryer for the fabric and a warm-water dip and drip-dry for the interfacing); tracing off the pattern pieces and making any fit adjustments; ironing the fabric; laying out the fabric and pattern pieces with weights and cutting them out; fusing the interfacing and cutting out those pieces.
Sewing seams is really the least of it! There's pinning seams together, sometimes basting, and then after you sew them you must iron them open or to one side, and finish the seams somehow so the raw fabric edges don't ravel. Don't forget clipping thread ends and stray threads, too. It's a fun and challenging hobby.
And in the end I have a finished garment, to wear with pleasure, compliments, and pride. I finding sewing for myself very rewarding.
12:25PM - Shooting banks -- whoot
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )
12:10PM - Tough little rover
She hasn't posted in over 5 years. I suspect she won't post again. But on this day 12 years ago, 4 July 1997, pathfindress landed on Mars and the Sojurner rover began its exploration of the red planet. Designed for a one month mission lifetime, she set the standard for over achievement continued by later Mars rovers, operating until 27 Sep 1997. At that point the mission controllers at JPL lost contact with her, and she's only been heard from via livejournal since then.
12:01PM - I these guys
I need to do a Tivo record for Mitchell & Webb, who I have never encountered before today but hit two different posts linked to You Tube videos from them, both of which I love.
The first, via debgeisler
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sleepy10:52AM - I Have Boots!
I'm not sure is anyone remembers, but the wonderful fatshionista ekatarina sent me a pair of boots. Since I didn't want to wear them with my thrifting outfit , I tried on the faboo boots wearing a little dress that I only wear around the house since I don't wear sexy dresses a lot of the time (Mainly since my style is more Victorian/(future!)Librarian).
( And so I wore boots . Lots of arm, boob, and thigh showing. )
Have a wonderful fourth, Americans( USA!USA!). Also, have a nice weekend, the rest of the world(Yay World!)
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