| Chestnuts! |
[12 Nov 2009|12:31am] |
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Is it too late for Chestnuts? I've been hoping I could forage for some around P-town but I've heard chestnut season may have passed me by. Anyone seen any chestnuts on the ground lately?
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[12 Nov 2009|02:23am] |
Dear guest staying here,
I am sorry the ATM doesn't seem to want to take your debit card, but I cannot use it to give you cash. It is against hotel policy. What's that, you're a high level Priority Club member and you are best friends with the GM? Good for you, but that still won't make me go against hotel policy. What, you're going to talk to the GM and my Front Desk manager tomorrow? Great, I'm sure they'll point out to you that it is indeed against hotel policy and there are no exceptions even for pompous wind bags like yourself.
Sincerely,
Nightauditguy
Note: I did point out a few nearby ATMs he could use
Note2: Only way a guest can get cash back is if the guest paid in cash and there's enough left over for a refund
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| Possible tremor in Milwaukie, anywhere else feel shaking? |
[11 Nov 2009|10:16pm] |
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About fifteen-twenty minutes ago, I was sitting here at my desk and felt it shaking. The hutch part of the desk was also visibly shaking and creaking a little. This happened twice in about a ten minute period, and my boyfriend who was in the other room at the time also said he felt shaking when he was sitting at his desk. We're in Milwaukie and on the third floor of an apt. building. In the past, we've felt minor shaking from possible tremors, (there was one last week) but the one instance tonight really shook the desk and now I'm cursing living in this crappy building. Did anyone else experience anything? It wasn't just a truck rumbling by, either, I know that much.
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[11 Nov 2009|10:18pm] |
Hi guys,
I have a dress diary going over at my journal for my bathing corset. Check it out if you're interested.
I know not a whole heck of a lot of people have worked with Past Patterns' Edwardian Corset and I can only find like 3 photo examples of the finished product and I'd like to see more. If you have any will you please give me the link or post them?
I admit I am not exactly sure what makes an s-curve curve! I've drafted plenty of hour-glass shaped corsets but never something like this with slanty pieces and gussets, which is why I went with a commercial pattern instead. But I'm almost positive I'm going to want more of an s-curve where it counts and I'm not sure where to make that happen...does one simply take in the waist at the side-back area? What about the side area? I know many corset makers who favor taking the majority of the reduction from the side waist.
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| Virginia Woolf, Orlando |
[11 Nov 2009|09:13pm] |
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What woman would not have kindled to see what Orlando saw then burning in the snow — for all about the looking glass were snowy lawns, and she was like a fire, a burning bush, and the candle flames about her head were silver leaves; or again, the glass was green water, and she a mermaid, slung with pearls, a siren in a cave, singing so that oarsmen leant from their boats and fell down, down to embrace her; so dark, so bright, so hard, so soft, was she, so astonishingly seductive that it was a thousand pities that there was no one there to put it in plain English, and say outright "Damn it Madam, you are loveliness incarnate," which was the truth.
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| Somhairle MacGille-Iain: Curaidhean (Heroes) |
[11 Nov 2009|08:45pm] |
His hour came with the shells,
with the notched iron splinters,
in the smoke and flame,
in the shaking and terror of the battlefield.
Word came to him in the bullet shower
that he should be a hero briskly,
and he was that while he lasted,
but it wasn't much time he got.
He kept his guns to the tanks,
bucking with tearing crashing screech,
until he himself got, about the stomach,
that biff that put him to the ground,
mouth down in sand and gravel,
without a chirp from his ugly high-pitched voice.
No cross or medal was put to his
chest or to his name or to his family;
there were not many of his troop alive,
and if there were their word would not be strong.
And at any rate, if a battle post stands,
many are knocked down because of him,
not expecting fame, not wanting a medal
or any froth from the mouth of the field of slaughter.
I saw a great warrior of England,
a poor manikin on whom no eye would rest;
no Alasdair of Glen Garry;
and he took a little weeping to my eyes.
( Thainig uair-sin lis na sligean )
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| 1 second hand suck, 1 observed |
[11 Nov 2009|11:15pm] |
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This first suck is a 2nd hand told suck. It was told to me by a friend of mine who also happens to work in the same grocery store I do. I was working that day as well, but this happened to her on the other side of the store in her department, the Appy department ( known in other grocery stores as the deli department ).
She was in doing a bit of shopping for herself, not on shift that hour, and was ordering something from Appy ( I think she said it was some kind of sliced deli meat. She didn't say exactly. ^^; ).
She spots two kids starting to POUND on the glass display case. Yes, the glass is kind of thick, but it's still GLASS and it's still fragile. If you pound and smack on the glass as hard these kids were, the risk of that glass cracking and shattering is VERY high.
( Tossed behind the LJ cut. Kinda long )
Please, please, parents, pay attention to what your kids are doing! We do our best to keep little ones in the corner of our eye, but we can NOT babysit them for you because you think something else is far more important to look at than watching your kids. We are NOT their guardians, that is YOUR job as a mother or father or "responsible" adult.
~~Bee
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[12 Nov 2009|09:04am] |
" Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. God Himself was pulled after us into the vortex we made when we fell, or so the story goes. And while He was on earth He mended families. He gave Lazarus back to his mother, and to the centurion he gave his daughter again. He even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail. Yet this was no more than tinkering. Being man He felt the pull of death, and being God He must have wondered more than we do what it would be like. He is known to have walked upon water, but He was not born to drown. And when He did die it was sad - such a young man, so full of promise, and His mother wept and His friends could not believe the loss, and the story spread everywhere and the mourning would not be comforted, until He was so sharply lacked and so powerfully remember that his friends felt Him beside them as they walked along the road, and saw someone cooking fish on the shore and knew it to be Him, and sat down to supper with Him, all wounded as He was.There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming, habitual fondness, not having meant to keep us waiting long."
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping.
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| Donations for Marysville |
[11 Nov 2009|07:46pm] |
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I just saw on the Dutch Bros. Facebook page that the Dutch Bros. on 67th and Foster is collecting school supplies for Marysville. From now until the 27th. Not sure exactly what they're looking for but I assume general school supplies and class decorating materials are a definite. I know Dollar Tree has a pretty extensive school supply section-so a good, cheap way to give back. Oh and while you are @ DB have a Pumpkin Spice Latte! Sooo good.
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[11 Nov 2009|10:41pm] |
Out of my mouth is coming, at some
distance from me, a thin gnawing sound
which you could confuse with prayer except that
praying is not constrained.
Or is it, Lord?
Maybe it's more like being strangled
than I once thought. Maybe it's
a gasp for air, prayer.
Did those men at Pentecost
want flames to shoot out of their heads?
Did they ask to be tossed
on the ground, gabbling like holy poultry,
eyeballs bulging?
As mine are, as mine are.
There is only one prayer; it is not
the knees in the clean nightgown
on the hooked rug.
I want this, I want that.
Oh far beyond.
Call it Please. Call it Mercy.
Call it Not yet, not yet,
as Heaven threatens to explode
inwards in fire and shredded flesh, and the angels caw.
--Margaret Atwood, "Half-Hanged Mary"
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| Mother/Son Dance |
[11 Nov 2009|10:22pm] |
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What is your Mother/Son dance song? This is one of the many tasks I gave my FH to do 8 months ago and now I realize that he just has no clue what song to dance to with his mother. I appreciate any suggestions!
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| a WTF from yesterday |
[11 Nov 2009|09:57pm] |
I work in a call center.
Yesterday, this cute old man called in, I do what he needs done, and tell him who to call for the stuff I can't do. At the end of the call, he said, "Happy Marine Birthday Day!" So I figure he was/is a Marine and say, "Oh, yeah! You too!"
Then is where it got weird.
OM=old man
me=me
OM: "Do you know any Marines?"
me: "Yeah, my dad was a Marine."
OM: "I used to fly planes for them!"
me: "Oh wow, that's really cool!"
OM: "Yep, then I had a Vietnam baby!"
me: *wondering what to say to this, does he mean Vietnamese? what?* "Oh...I see..."
OM: "He was born exactly 9 months and 1 day after I got home from Vietnam!"
me: "Oh, oh, I get it, haha, yeah, good for you."
OM: "Yeah, I was good while I was over there. I didn't do anything that would've got me in trouble with the Mrs."
me: *laugh*
Then he proceeds to tell me how his tadpoles were amazing swimmers and super potent.
So definitely not a suck, just a wtf that left me with a o.O look on my face afterwards.
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| The Overlords say you make too much money. |
[11 Nov 2009|06:26pm] |
http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/11/news/international/global_american_wages.breakingviews/index.htm?cnn=yes
Yes, they'll play on the guilt of our working class, comparing you to the poorest of the poor.
Not once suggesting the elite multi-nationalist investor carries any responsibility.
What makes this more transparent is read the bios on the authors.
Martin Hutchiinson - "Previously, he was an international merchant banker for 25 years working in London, New York and Zagreb. In Zagreb, he established the Croatian debt capital markets."
Edward Hadas - "Before becoming a journalist in 2004, he worked for 25 years as a financial analyst for various firms, including Morgan Stanley and Putnam Investments."
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[11 Nov 2009|06:33pm] |
Hi DP. I have another insurance question of the day. Your collective knowledge is impressive! Can anyone explain this to me?
I was in a car accident in March. The other party was completely at fault, also, they were driving a rental car. When my insurance company contacted them, the other party claimed it was my fault. I was told by my insurance agent that the claims would go to arbitration, where a neutral 3rd party would hear the explanations, and decide who was at fault.
Now today they called and told me that "car rental companies are not members of arbitration". They can only ask the company to provide an explanation of what happened. If they respond and insist that I am at fault, or do not respond at all, there is nothing more the insurance company can do.
My insurance agent told me that is the point at which they consider an attorney. But because the insurance company is only out $4400, it's probably not worth it to them. I am personally out my $500 deductible. They told my my only other option if the current claim fails is to take them to small claims court.
My questions are: Would it be worth it to take them to small claims court? Why are car rental companies exempt from arbitration? Do I have any other avenues available to me?
Basically, the lesson I take from this is: You can hit another car and get away with it if you are driving a rental car. Just take it back and tell them someone hit you, and you're golden!
If you read all that, thank you so much! I really do appreciate it.
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| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace |
[11 Nov 2009|08:25pm] |
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When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring stright ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
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| Free |
[11 Nov 2009|07:09pm] |
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Anyone want some free convict cichlids? I have a breeding pair and about 20 babies that are now about a little over a half inch long.
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| They Might Be Giants at the Crystal Ballroom |
[11 Nov 2009|06:05pm] |
This is very last minute, but I have a ticket to see They Might Be Giants tonight at the Crystal Ballroom that I'd like to unload. $20 makes it yours, but I need an answer in the next 30 minutes.
Reply here or email blueplasticstraw at yahoodotcom
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