I hope he had pasted, .......unlike when you started to do it to me.

Pasted?

:roflmao:
That was suppose to be passed, which is still the wrong word for PAST.

(see what having dirt shoveled onto your face does to you)

You clod! :)

giggle.... *snort*.....clod :roflmao:

I had to continue the dirt theme.

Is that dirt on drugs ... you know ... potting soil? :spin:

not funny at all gg

Sorry for you and your family's loss Lilith.

My cervix is trying to kill me.

Thanks BiBi his service was lovely.

Finally got my backyard mowed yesterday and even cleaned up the first batch of leaves that are just starting to fall. :) Harbinger of what is soon to come. :(

Did you rake them int a big pile, then jump in?

So many leaves, so few explosives.

It's a slow day.

No pile ... no jumping in ... the lawn mower ate them and stuck them in a bag. :(

Darn, as a kid I remember how much fun we had jumping in piles of leaves or just hearing them crunch as we walked along a leaf covered path. Those were the good ol' days!

So, just rake the explosives into a big pile, and jump into that. For extra excitement, include blasting caps in the pile.

A week ago we had a power outage that ended up taking most of the day to fix. This morning, we had another (result of a heavy rain storm) but fortunately power was back in in about three hours.

Tomorrow is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

And they're extending it to the entire weekend, since it's on a Saturday.

Are it?

Arrrg! Shiver me timbers. It'll be a short walk on the gangplank ... Red Beard done broke da' board, me laddies.

Well, I hopefully got the algae problem in my fish tank under control. Turns out there was a lot of crap in the canister filter. I also managed to wash the dog, and clean the bathroom. I still have some laundry to take care of and make the bed.

Burning leaves! :D
I remember the smell of burning leaves in the air when everyone raked their tiny city lot leaves into the red brick street and burned them. Now outlawed many years ago. :( That smell is one of those neck snapping triggers to see where it's coming from for me. Every time I see one of those 'scented candle' booths in the store I look to see if someone has come up with that scent. Not yet! :tear:

People still burn leaves in my neighborhood.

You're lucky, Lilith ... one of life's pleasures preserved. ;)

I prefer the smell of burning cedar myself.

Aromatic woods-cedar, pine, etc-are toxic to reptiles. Bad thing to sue as substrate.

I'd probably go with your suggestion of rolled oats as substrate for a lizard.

Visited out friend at the hospice yesterday for a couple of hours. She was in good spirits and the day was beautiful. The folks moved her bed out into a beautifully landscaped area so she could enjoy the sun and fresh air. Wish I could magically make everything better, but, I'm just glad for the time we get to share with her and her husband now.

STO would have been 43 today.

Yeow, forgot he was so much younger than me.

I think today will be a bit nicer than the past couple. They were rather chilly and windy.

By the way, if you want to see a good movie ... Matt Damon is terrific in Martian!! :thumbs:

I have to echo the note about The Martian. Great stuff, even with the stupidity near the end. (Wont' g into detail. No spoilers here.)

The Martian is a rollicking good fairy tale, well worth the dollars. It's a big screen movie, it will suffer on the small screen.

And I"m told the 3-D version is slightly better, although if you have a problem with 3-D stuff, you won't miss anything on the 2-D screen.

I think we're going to see PAN this weekend. I wonder if in live action it'll be as good as the recent Cinderella was. They did a fantastic job on it. I'll let you know what we think of it.

About to take off to help run another s/f con. This time, it's Capclave ( http://www.capclave.org/capclave/capclave15/ ), and I get to coordinate the con suite.

Hope you have a great time!

Not a great time for equipment: my girlfriend's car broke down (fortunately, she was at home at the time, so at least she's not stuck somewhere), my wife's scooter broke down, so she's having trouble getting around the con, and I managed to loose my favorite hat. All of these are recoverable, of course, but irritating in the meantime, until the situation is rectified.

Off to work soon to help complete the project deployment into production.

Yesterday was beautiful and I got a lot done outside and today is suppose to be good, too, so maybe I'll make more progress. I hope anyway.

Oh, BTW, Pan was very good. Kind of a prequel ... showing how the Peter Pan, Capt. Hook and all the others got their start. Interesting take on an old children's story.

Busy summer outdoors. Now to finish the last of summer's chores and unwind with an adult beverage by the woodstove.