I do not know what happened to me today as it hasn't happened yet. All I know is that I'm going to work in an hour.

Working on Saturdays ought to be illegal.

there was a thread for "whats going to happen to you tomorrow", but who knows what happened to that?

but the "happened" bit is just for guidance, you must have noticed by now we don't obey the rules?

bravus....better than a long walk on a short pier....(sorry, had to do it)

i'm up at the unseasonably hour of 6:15AM today because my 1.5 year old dog decided that this week would be a good one to start peeing on my living room rug.....

he does it with a flourish, as he runs into my bedroom, stands up on his back legs leaning on my bed, and paws my arm to wake me up.....

as if I'd be impressed......

now i'm wide awake (yet exhausted - 4 hours of sleep) and i've already walked around the streets of manhattan at the crack of dawn....(p.s. if you've never done it, DO IT - it's cool when there are almost no people out (except for the drunks and crazies))

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Originally posted by mcdermott:
bravus....better than a long walk on a short pier....(sorry, had to do it)

i'm up at the unseasonable hour of 6:15AM today because my 1.5 year old dog decided that this week would be a good one to start peeing on my living room rug.....

he does it with a flourish, as he runs into my bedroom, stands up on his back legs leaning on my bed, and paws my arm to wake me up.....

as if I'd be impressed......

now i'm wide awake (yet exhausted - 4 hours of sleep) and i've already walked around the streets of manhattan at the crack of dawn....(p.s. if you've never done it, DO IT - it's cool when there are almost no people out (except for the drunks and crazies))

My day was busy, got up early and took in this cell phone to computer cord I had bought that didn't work because Verizon are a bunch of bastards. (Bastards with good service, but bastards nonetheless.)

I then visited a friend Trip at his job and had to cut that visit short as a former coworker of mine (and a current coworker of Trip's) came over and started to bore us both out of our minds.

I then took my commute, bougth my dinner and had a fun 12 hour shift. Fun because the doughnuts I had with dinner made my stomach push the eject button, if you catch my meaning. And now I'm home and hoping the ejection is done so I can get some sleep. Bleh.

Between the torrential rain, thunder and lightning and being buzzed by the Trooping of the Colour fly past it's like a warzone here.

Can't remember his name, but the famous social editor of Vanity Fair, who would arrive at the office looking dishevelled at noon, and if anyone asked how he was, would reply "It's too early to tell."

From Toby Young's book, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.

Ah well. It's too early to tell, but I'm sure we'll all survive our disasters. I've come to a friend's house to spend the day on the computer, basically doing damage control so I can get out of this situation without looking too terribly bad. So I'm procrastinating like mad, that's what's happening today. And now there's a cat trying to walk on the keyboard. It's only got three legs, but Tripod really gets around.

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Originally posted by Kradlum:
Between the torrential rain, thunder and lightning and being buzzed by the Trooping of the Colour fly past it's like a warzone here.

hope your getting pictures of the warzone

just about to head out, taking parents to lunch.

Nothing to see through the rain and low cloud. I wouldn't want to be flying in close formation in this weather.

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Originally posted by InfinityCircuit:
Limulus:

Isn't it awesome?!

Though it looks like you were Olympic-style fencing, and I do a vaguely historical, two-people-meet-in-the-street-and-duel style.

Both are fun.

I have friends who are into fencing.
One does the "artistic" thing which from the description sounds like it's a kind of movie stunt work in costumes (perhaps the "vaguely historical" thing you're refering to).
The other did "ancient fencing" with a sword and a dagger, I think it is closer to real sword fighting.
Anyway, the olympic style doesn't allow me to use classic techniques (see picture) so I think it's not very efficient
It's fun for a sports thing, but I would not do it on a regular basis.
It was a "Newbies Tournament" for people who didn't know about fencing.

Hey limulus, feel like coming to Paris the weekend of the 7th & 8th of july? I posted a thread but it's been knocked back to page 2 already.

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Originally posted by Wanderer:
Hey limulus, feel like coming to Paris the weekend of the 7th & 8th of july? I posted a thread but it's been knocked back to page 2 already.

I replied
Right now, I'd say I can't. But if there's an opportunity, I'll use your thread to tell you.

reasonably early in the morning, there's been this awful caterwauling outside which i put down to the gamg of black cockatoos that have been in our area the last week or so.

problem is, their scaring the sweetjeebs out of the cockatiels. they keep taking fright and banging round the aviary.

well they're bloody big and black and even the sound of their beaks on the bark is echoing round the backyard.

I've never seen a black one...they're beautiful!

they're from a different mold than the sulphur crested, and they're even bigger. different shaped beaks and stuff. and the noise they make is like the most monstrous squeaky hinge or maybe a seriously unwell cat.

cockatiels are actually more from their branch of the family.

and i can't recall ever having seen em in sydney before this mob showed up. maybe the rains.

Hey Misty! Y'all got some serious-exotic yardbirds down yonder!

Okay. More what I did today. Got my remote (as in, in the bush hills and mountains of Wyoming) internets accesses fully installed and configuratered.

It's EVDO and out here it's only a good solid 4 times dialup speed. Download = 140kbps Upload= 84kbps... but that's damn handy out on my sites. I'm sending this from 20 miles south of Evanston, in the hills where I can't even get one bar on my cell phone.

EVDO is basically dual-band cellular PCS.

So here's my setup.

This is the in-truck gear. A EVDO PC card poked into a special Lynksys Router and a 3 watt dual-band amp. That little antenna is just for wifi, in and a reasonable distance from the Trogdor FuckThePlanet gas hog.



The yellow things the box is sitting on are those little memory-foam squeeze balls, cut in half and stuck on the bottom o there with velcro. Instant state-of-the-art shock absorbtion. w00t!

This is the pig. The fuel hog.



That's a high-gain dual-band antenna on top. With that and the amp, I get full, glorious signal in far-fringe areas where my pocket phone continually jumps from one bar to lost signal.

I snapped these pics before I left town this evening.

I've got an office set up inside the pig and I'll grab some shots of that one of these days while I'm waiting on some mouthbreather to open a fucking valve downstream.

Today was the last day of my vacation. Got up early and went down to the flea market. Wanted to get some replacement sunglasses. Turns out they quit making them. Like hornrimmed nerd glasses with mirror lenses and clear plastic arms that show the wire inside. Oh well shit happens , so I settled for mirrored silver aviator glasses instead. A very distant second choice. Ran into some old friends that I used to hang with back in the day. The flea mrk. was my income for 4 and one half years. It is a tough row to hoe. Also picked up an extra copy of Neuromancer in paperback and a casette tape of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Got an adequate sunburn and finished my day by changing the oil in my little truck.

The dark spot on the back of the seat is lake mud off my sons' float tubes or their flippers from the last time they took the hog fishing.

It was that.

The last time they took the hog fishing. The very last time.

They've both got sports cars and I bought them an inverter so they can run an air pump to inflate their float tubes.