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I think Mean Old Man just might write for Prairie Home Companion.

It's the extremely well-placed "potato salad" that made me think of it.

Naaa.. If it were PHC, it would have clearly stated "Potato Salad with Egg", or "German-style Potato Salad". However, it also could have been ludafisk, that was swept off the table.

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limbojim said: are you still into jazz? If so I'll post a link to my former father-inlaw, a jazz pianist.

By all means.

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misty said: i.. i think just the writing of mine (well a quarter of it anyway if that's where i leave it) is what i needed from the exercise. . . i'm not sure whether it suits a cribbs note style format.

I think that's what I enjoyed about it. Helped me to take some quite painful situations and take them less seriously. Reduce them to a sentence or two.

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misty also said: . . .was surprised to find how rich the vein of shame is.

Wow! Sounds juicy. Even more reason to finish and post! (Or at least email me a copy when done.)

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Originally posted by Black Jacque:
(One was a very thin, Volvo wagon driving, Vegan with a 6-year old girl (Sasha). The other was inapporpriately dressed, over-eager, and with female pattern baldness.

Gulp. Stay strong, brother.

Another day of customer service. me: "sorry sir, you can't come in here". him: "why not? I've got money". he pulls out large wad of money. me: "because sir, you have wet your pants. you are a walking biohazard sir". him: apparently ignoring the wet and obvious, "that's not right". me:"that's right sir there's nothing right about it. ( I key up radio ) Available sargent to the front doors". .........Now in Missouri the casinos have moats around them. MOATS. Already this year six wrongo's have drowned in those usefull and practical moats. I have wanted an alligator pit for two years now, but I will settle for a good deep moat...............Quote:" By all means"-sloane635....My ex-father in law. A large imposing man when I was but a skinny kid. We used to sneak reefers out of his sock drawer...http://bigfootjazz.com/bigfoot-bob.htm Bob Dogan.

8am. bored already. i guess yesterday must have been more of a holiday here than i thought. though there are always companies that do so much business down south that staying open makes no sense. there was an accident on the way home last night, which killed traffic, but after that it was clear. but traffic this morning made up for that

hmm link didn't take. http://bigfootjazz.com/bigfoot-bob.htm

Just finished Neuromancer: a game by Interplay thanks to that silicon gomi Shangri-La that is the Underdogs. Two hemispheres way up!

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Originally posted by Splitcoil:
Hey! You were visited by French hobbits, it seems.

I wasn't aware that they are called hobbits, if they are French.

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Originally posted by remotepush:
we had a may bank holiday on the 7th, was GB wide, this second one is mainly english. similarly in august, there are two, but we really only get the one in scotland. we make up for it at christmas/new year, where we get the extra days.

Didn't you get a bank holiday yesterday? You should have done.

We only get 1 August bank holiday - Scotland gets the August bank holiday earlier in the month. According to Scottish Statutory Holidays you don't get Easter Monday off, but you do get St Andrew's Day off from this year, and you should have had yesterday off too. So the Scots get 1 more day off than the English.

I bid on and won an original page from V for Vendetta last night (pg 63 of the DC hardback), this time the original David Lloyd inks rather than the blue lines and Siobhan Dodds colours. It was $15 more than I was going to bid, but I'm pleased I now have an example of the inks.

i don't think we get st.andrew's day, and i'm reasonably sure we did get easter monday. though not sure where the list of days i have actually is.

but every company i have worked for has been different, balancing the may/august days to whatever suits them.

still bored. and still struggling with icebergs.

I think the St Andrew's day one is new from this year. The UK government is still deciding whether to have a new bank holiday in England, to bring us closer into line with Europe, and if so, what should it be for.

yeah, seems likely to be october. seems to be a lot of discussion about making it a day to promote voluntary work. though to me it seems to defeat the purpose of being off work if you are going to spend the day working at something you don't know instead.

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Originally posted by remotepush:
yeah, seems likely to be october. seems to be a lot of discussion about making it a day to promote voluntary work. though to me it seems to defeat the purpose of being off work if you are going to spend the day working at something you don't know instead.

Given that both May bank holidays were wash-outs this year you'd think they might give us something in mid-summer

I went to Walmart and spent money like a drunken sailor. Saw this little thingie and had to buy it. Kinda fun.

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Originally posted by Kradlum:
Given that both May bank holidays were wash-outs this year you'd think they might give us something in mid-summer

i guess the theory is thats when people take summer holidays anyway.

had to laugh sunday night, there were obviously a load of events on for the students. must have been a beach party, because loads of folk had on hawaiian shirts, and there was one guy with a giant inflatable lobster, all in the pouring rain.

Drew the curtains in the lounge this morning and the curtain rail came off the wall.

I've just broken a tooth on my lunchtime sandwich. The earliest I can get to see my local NHS dentist is August.

Ever get those days where you wish you'd stayed in bed?

Chris H

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memento picture with my brothers.
by the way, both of them were quite taken by the mamsel Arkan!

alright striv I give up, where are you holding the camera?

went into the wilds of north Tampa for a party this weekend. the party was ok I guess. Drunk ex-ravers that the girlfriend was friends with. Turns out the ravers that didn't die, wind up in prison or a hospital for the rest of their lives became cable installers and medical transcriptionists and the like.

I expected more from them I guess.

Had to go to the liquor store (being the only sober person there) just to break the monotony. Liquor store next to a couple of strip mall "clubs" UUUggghhhhh....

think white trash and home perm kits. Outfits bought at shops that advertise for clubwear/dancewear in xl sizes. I saw a guy in a zoot suit for shits sake.

Yesterday, I took a ride on a steam-powered "historic railroad". They quoted "55 gallons of water per mile" for their locomotive.

I was dissappointed that the store which could sell me stone-ground cornmeal (by water power) was closed when I got there.

Today, I'm making lots of phone calls, and trying to figure out why the Dow Jones Industrial Average is still going up, even though my personal local economy is making a slow spiral down the toilet.

editengine: I about died reading your post. How I miss America.

Today, I laid down some tracks at home for a song I wrote while I was on vacation in the U.S. I had gone home and spent a lot of time with my mom (seemingly impossible once I look back at it). Anyway, she told me about my dad (translation: I poked and prodded for information.). She never talks about him and finally, when she did, she started crying. It didn't help that we were at his gravesite with flowers. But it got her remembering, especially about the days when he was battling cancer.

So I wrote a song. About her, really. Who says time heals all wounds? That's a bunch of horseshit.