Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

I mentioned out loud, "She's a large one" in regards to Beatrice, and Chris looked over and said, "What is that?" I told him it was a spider and he said, "In New Guinea, maybe!!" I replied that I thought Pooh was in NC and so now he thinks you have miniature windows. I can't convince him that Beatrice is really that big, LOL.

Thanks for the Stella ambush pictures!

That's why I included the feeder in all pics - for a size reference.

We have some quite large spiders native to NC - a few years back a nursery web spider took up residence on our front porch - her body was 4" long, and her leg span over 6" - we had to terminate her - she had an egg sac and was very aggressive - challenging anyone trying to climb the steps onto the porch.

[Rumpelteazer]

Looking for a not too expensive electric travel kettle. I just noticed that the hostel makes no mention of one available in the rooms. There is a kitchen available for guests but it's only open until 10pm.

[badgoodDeb]

Agenda item #1: Never visit North Carolina. Especially never visit anywhere near Pooh.

KK: sharing space in one's koi pond -- that Does sound like a challenging concept! Let us know what you finally figure out!

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

Ok, with all of the strange things I've done, this has got to be probably in the top 10. Not daring, not scary, just kind of. ... odd.

I co-moderate the face book page for our little town and the south county around it. The prime goal for this page is to share events, buy, sell, trade, looking for work, found animals and so on. So last night this kid (youngman) put out a query for anyone that might have a koi pond that wasn't being used, it seems his pond had developed a leak and he's waiting on parts to fix it. I told him I'd love to help, I certainly have a pond but it's almost a half acre and I had no idea how he would get them again. So we tossed ideas back and forth; he thought putting them in a net might work, I thought they would get tangled, i thought maybe getting a play pen and putting

Sorry, everything locked up on me.

To make a long story short, I was supposed to be pond sitting 4 koi but 3 died because he couldn't keep them
Aerated enough. So he brought the lone survivor over and I now have a 15 year old probably 30 pound koi. The pond is close to a half acre, should I get him buddies?

[Rumpelteazer]

I've just found my stash of UK plugs, so I've cut off the plug of a Dutch power strip and I'm about to put a UK plug on it. That will make it a lot easier next week to get things charged without resorting to using various converter plugs (also my experience of hotel rooms is that they often have only a couple of power outlets).

I did this when studying in England. At first my fellow Dutch students laughed at me but after a couple of weeks I earned a bit on the side to make these for other foreign students .

Those, however were were strips with 10 outlets, which is too big for a holiday. I did make one for travel but I can't find it. It probably ended up in a box last year during the clean up after the fire.

[phenomshel]

Shivering. It got down in the 40's last night (Fahrenheit) and despite socks and a sweater, I'm cold. It's just the contrast - once I get moving I'll warm up. Today is my "early" day at the library.

[Rumpelteazer]

When I was planning a trip to the UK B.E. (Before Ereading) I always spend a lot of time making lists of the books I wanted to buy, because they're a lot cheaper in the UK than in the Netherlands.

Now I panic if I have not only enough books on my Kindle but if I have the right ones. Up until I leave I keep adding books because you never know what you're in the mood for.

I also made sure I have money on my credit card to buy ebooks if necessary .

[badgoodDeb]

Um. I have 47 index pages of books (mostly free ones). Times about 10 books per page. Ok, maybe many of those aren't good, but SOME are. I've also got a "collection" of 10 index pages (times 10 books) of books I've actually paid for and WANT to read. No, wait -- that's the "current" collection. I have no idea how many books are in my "paid-real-money" collection.
I've ALWAYS got plenty to read!!

Oh, and this is at least my 4th kindle. On each of the other three, I had similar huge numbers of books, which I did NOT carry onto the new kindle. (The free ones; the paid ones I DID bring along.)

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Um. I have 47 index pages of books (mostly free ones). Times about 10 books per page. Ok, maybe many of those aren't good, but SOME are. I've also got a "collection" of 10 index pages (times 10 books) of books I've actually paid for and WANT to read. No, wait -- that's the "current" collection. I have no idea how many books are in my "paid-real-money" collection.
I've ALWAYS got plenty to read!!

Oh, and this is at least my 4th kindle. On each of the other three, I had similar huge numbers of books, which I did NOT carry onto the new kindle. (The free ones; the paid ones I DID bring along.)

I read on an Android tablet. Books are stored on a microSD card, and placed there by Calibre. I just had a problem where the eBook app lost track of what I had, and only recently opened books were showing in the list.

The developer thought the update routine that maintains its database might be dying with an out-of-memory condition, because of the sheer number of books. It actually looks like a corrupted database file was the culprit - I uninstalled the app and re-installed, redoing the config and specifying where eBooks lived, and it rebuilt its database and all is well.

Since storage is on a 32GB external card, I see no reason not to have everything on it, but "everything" at this point is thousands of volumes.
______
Dennis

[WT Sharpe]

Trying to catch up on MobileRead. It's been a very busy day for me. Took my son to his doctor's appointment, when to the grocery store, cut the grass in the fenced-in area with the push mower, washed the dishes, cut the grass in the larger area of our yard and the traffic circle with the riding mower, and banned two spammers. Well, actually just one spammer pretending to be two people.

The good thing about cutting the grass is that I got to listen to some more in an audiobook I'm reading while I was doing it. Audiobooks make mowing the lawn a pleasure. Of course, I have to wear ear muffs over my ear buds to muffle the sound of the mowers, but that's a small price to pay.

[Stitchawl]

Watching rainbows dance around my walls again! I have a faceted crystal hanging in my window, but the sun only rises at the correct angle twice a year for 2-3 months each time. It would seem that the 'Autumn' sun's angle has finally reached the point where the crystal can capture its rays and project them onto my wall. Welcome back, Roy G. Biv!


Stitchawl

[WT Sharpe]

And the mystery of Stitchhenge is solved!

[poohbear_nc]

OK - some photos of Stella taken tonight - you can see that she can't quite fit within a standard couch cushion ....

... and she gets bored easily
[no - she doesn't have a cleft palate - that's pigment on her hard palate - she also has a beauty mark on her lower lip]

[Stitchawl]

Sharpening my swords... or, at least, the modern equivalent of that task; tightening the electrical connections, adjusting the tension, and testing them, tightening the handles, sanding out nicks in the edges of the blades, and polishing the guards.


Stitchawl

[Bilbo1967]

Just got back from taking my eldest son to a university open day (Salford). Really interesting and quite life affirming to see so many young enthusiastic people just starting out in their independent lives.

I wish I was 18 again (but knew what I know now!).