friday night, and i am snowed in at work for the night
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Good luck. My step-dad and his wife just came back from his cabin up in Ely, MN a week or so back. Apparently they just missed the snow. Up there they routinely have a couple of feet on the ground for most of the winter.
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delete this;Oh, in Ely, eh? My family used to go on vacation up there, we'd go fishing on Veteran's Lake.
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code-frog wrote:
would need to have been raised by rebel Ninja's to pull it all off..
I don't know... having seen a ... rooster fight once, I think a chicken doesn't need training. You might want something that is completely unassociated with violence... like turtles... ;P _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Oh, in Ely, eh? My family used to go on vacation up there, we'd go fishing on Veteran's Lake.
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: Bought a House! Judah Himango
My step-dad's mentioned Fall Lake; IIRC, his property is on one edge of it.
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yep, its true. down here in Cornwall, England, somewhere where "snow" means 3 flakes that melt the instant they land we have had the first snow of the year. so much snow that the local roads are impassible :~ i tried to drive home a few hours ago. when i found myself going sideways i got the idea that this was not all that safe :wtf: at least i was lucky, i was able to get the car back to the office, so i know i am parked somewhere safe. several other people had to abandon their cars upto a mile away and walk back, because there was no way they could drive up any of the local hills. so for the first time i will be doing an all nighter :zzz: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
I'm in Helston and there's about an inch of snow here - the roads were pretty slushy when I drove home around 4:45 but not too bad. It's much worse on Bodmin Moor. Hope it clears up soon or you'll be doing an all-weekender! Steve. Asynes yw brassa ages kwilkynyow.
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That was why the smiley. :) I had the first editions back when they were released while I was in college. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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That was why the smiley. :) I had the first editions back when they were released while I was in college. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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delete this;:-D though yours is more fitting... they'd be worth a fortune now... if it were not for a couple of marriages that terminated their existance.... I preferred Aztec Ace anyhow, not as collectable, but more enjoying, and more ... adult story. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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yep, its true. down here in Cornwall, England, somewhere where "snow" means 3 flakes that melt the instant they land we have had the first snow of the year. so much snow that the local roads are impassible :~ i tried to drive home a few hours ago. when i found myself going sideways i got the idea that this was not all that safe :wtf: at least i was lucky, i was able to get the car back to the office, so i know i am parked somewhere safe. several other people had to abandon their cars upto a mile away and walk back, because there was no way they could drive up any of the local hills. so for the first time i will be doing an all nighter :zzz: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Ouch! My sympathies hun. I saw it on the news tonight and it looked pretty grim. I hope your night isn't too uncomfortable. :rose: Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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feline_dracoform wrote:
so much snow that the local roads are impassible
Cool - did you get any photos? :-) On a different note, you do realize that using feline in your nick would imply that you are a woman, don't you? For some reason feline is always taken as a feminine thing!
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
For some reason feline is always taken as a feminine thing!
This is probably from Egyptology, where cats were used as symbols of deities, most often 'Bast'/'Bastet' which was female http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_animals.html[^] .. "Cats seem to have been domesticated during the Middle Kingdom from the wild cats in the Delta or the Western Desert. There were two main species indigenous to Egypt - the jungle cat and the African wild cat. Cats were both pets and symbols of cat deities, such as Bast". ..." In early times Bast (written as 'Bastet' by scribes in later times to emphasise that the 't' was to be pronounced) was a goddess with the head of a lion or a desert sand-cat and was regarded as mother of Maahes, a lion-headed god, and wife to Ptah. She was usually depicted as a cat, or as a woman with the head of a cat or lion" otoh, I think you'd find the symbology of cats in South America to be non-gender biased, but I'd have to read up more ... 'g'
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I'm in Helston and there's about an inch of snow here - the roads were pretty slushy when I drove home around 4:45 but not too bad. It's much worse on Bodmin Moor. Hope it clears up soon or you'll be doing an all-weekender! Steve. Asynes yw brassa ages kwilkynyow.
Bodmin moor you say... did i mention that i work in Bodmin? :| i considered making a run for it about 10pm, but the way the water on the cars outside the office was all frozen solid sort of suggested this could be a little fatal :wtf: on the "plus" side i am currently trying to find a workaround for a pile of steaming code someone left us at 3am. well, i think this on the plus side. zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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feline_dracoform wrote:
so much snow that the local roads are impassible
Cool - did you get any photos? :-) On a different note, you do realize that using feline in your nick would imply that you are a woman, don't you? For some reason feline is always taken as a feminine thing!
photos, someone took a few photo's here which i am waiting to get my hands on, and i rang home to make sure they took some photos. i could not do a lot about this myself since my digital camera was at home :| i will try to plan this better next time ;) as for "feline" and female, its nearly 3am, so if this gets a little "odd" that might be why ;) what makes someone male or female? is it simply their external plumbing? or is it something deeper? most people who know me well only know me online, so my plumbing arangements dont really matter :) having watched humans for years (its a cat thing ;) ) i have noticed that quite a lot of men can be fairly accurately described by the basic male steriotypes. females tend to be less easily sumarised, but they do tend to follow certain basic patterns. how often have you heard men say that they simply do not understand women? just about every man i have ever met, who has expressed an opinion on the subject would agree with this statement. yet why is this? in broad terms women make perfect sense, certainly as much sense as men do. of course you can only expect so much sense from a species without tails, but they do try hard ;) so if we accept for the moment the working theory that i am male, then i am a male who does not conform to the steriotypes of the average male (which proves nothing more than i am not average), and i am someone who understands women, at least most of the time. if we instead consider the working theory that i am a female, then we conclude that i am a lesbian. i did once point this out, and when informed that i did not have the key thing lesbians have. in my defence i pointed out that i did (think phones on silent mode). i am not sure if my argument was accepted or not in the final analysis, but it certainly was not simply dismissed :-D zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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yep, its true. down here in Cornwall, England, somewhere where "snow" means 3 flakes that melt the instant they land we have had the first snow of the year. so much snow that the local roads are impassible :~ i tried to drive home a few hours ago. when i found myself going sideways i got the idea that this was not all that safe :wtf: at least i was lucky, i was able to get the car back to the office, so i know i am parked somewhere safe. several other people had to abandon their cars upto a mile away and walk back, because there was no way they could drive up any of the local hills. so for the first time i will be doing an all nighter :zzz: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
we were feeling a bit cooped up, and also wanted to see how the roads were clearing, if at all, so we went for a nice little walk off to see one of the "abandoned" cars. i.e. someone got the car as close to use as he could, before being stopped by the weather. the roads are fairly clear, but it is well cold out there. however it is the way the slush and compacted snow is turning into sheets of what looks just like ice that is a little off putting :~ i have decided that driving home in the pitch black over these rather uncertain road surfaces, especially when a lot of the journey is through narrow country lanes is not a good plan. we may yet watch that film "the day after tommorow", depending on how the day goes. zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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we were feeling a bit cooped up, and also wanted to see how the roads were clearing, if at all, so we went for a nice little walk off to see one of the "abandoned" cars. i.e. someone got the car as close to use as he could, before being stopped by the weather. the roads are fairly clear, but it is well cold out there. however it is the way the slush and compacted snow is turning into sheets of what looks just like ice that is a little off putting :~ i have decided that driving home in the pitch black over these rather uncertain road surfaces, especially when a lot of the journey is through narrow country lanes is not a good plan. we may yet watch that film "the day after tommorow", depending on how the day goes. zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
So how is it this morning, did you manage to get home? You made the right choice not going back on the ice. Some people locally tried that when the remains of yesterday's snow froze overnight here and judging from the abandoned cars up on the curbs and in the hedge on the way to the supermarket this morning they underestimated how hard it is to control your car on it.
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photos, someone took a few photo's here which i am waiting to get my hands on, and i rang home to make sure they took some photos. i could not do a lot about this myself since my digital camera was at home :| i will try to plan this better next time ;) as for "feline" and female, its nearly 3am, so if this gets a little "odd" that might be why ;) what makes someone male or female? is it simply their external plumbing? or is it something deeper? most people who know me well only know me online, so my plumbing arangements dont really matter :) having watched humans for years (its a cat thing ;) ) i have noticed that quite a lot of men can be fairly accurately described by the basic male steriotypes. females tend to be less easily sumarised, but they do tend to follow certain basic patterns. how often have you heard men say that they simply do not understand women? just about every man i have ever met, who has expressed an opinion on the subject would agree with this statement. yet why is this? in broad terms women make perfect sense, certainly as much sense as men do. of course you can only expect so much sense from a species without tails, but they do try hard ;) so if we accept for the moment the working theory that i am male, then i am a male who does not conform to the steriotypes of the average male (which proves nothing more than i am not average), and i am someone who understands women, at least most of the time. if we instead consider the working theory that i am a female, then we conclude that i am a lesbian. i did once point this out, and when informed that i did not have the key thing lesbians have. in my defence i pointed out that i did (think phones on silent mode). i am not sure if my argument was accepted or not in the final analysis, but it certainly was not simply dismissed :-D zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Wow - that is a 3 AM post alright!
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Bodmin moor you say... did i mention that i work in Bodmin? :| i considered making a run for it about 10pm, but the way the water on the cars outside the office was all frozen solid sort of suggested this could be a little fatal :wtf: on the "plus" side i am currently trying to find a workaround for a pile of steaming code someone left us at 3am. well, i think this on the plus side. zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Good ol' Bodmin...not my favourite place thanks to a certain car dealership...but I digress. The snow had gone from here by midnight, but around Falmouth it was much worse. A friend of a friend took 5 hours to get out of Truro and down to the Lizard. It doesn't reflect well on the UK when in the Balkans they have 9" of snow and just get on with it. :( Hope you managed to find a workaround so the night wasn't wasted! Asynes yw brassa ages kwilkynyow.
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Shog9 wrote:
Not to forget: Mcavity! And of course, the devious Kathmandu...
Yeah, cats can be guys - Macavity, Tom and Garfield are all really cool guy-cats. But humans are cat-like only when they are women!
what about BLACK CATS nish?
"But your mind is very complex, very tricky. It makes simple things complicated. -- that's its work. And for centuries it has been trained for only one thing: to make things so complicated that your life becomes impossible."- Osho
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