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Verencat · 07-12-2009, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Booking tickets now!

Any special order?

*Please note that all guests are expected to do their share of painting, because yes, I'm not done yet, I'm a slacker.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 07-12-2009, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Verencat

Any special order?

*Please note that all guests are expected to do their share of painting, because yes, I'm not done yet, I'm a slacker.

Vegetarian anything for me, anything for the yeti (he specialises in painting ceilings due to his height)

Verencat · 07-12-2009, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Verencat

So I mark down your reservation for Friday or Saturday night?

Right now: watching Zoolander for the hundreth time. I don't think I'll ever stop laughing at the freak gazoline fight accident and the subsequent "ugooggoly"! Can't wait for "Merman, dad, merman!" and "What's that, a center for ants?". Ooh, and also the David Bowie scene...

So it's a Ben Stiller/Owen Wilson special on MovieTime, bacause Starsky and Hutch is starting. I just don't think I can watch that one though, not patient enough...

yvanleterrible · 07-12-2009, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Vegetarian anything for me, anything for the yeti (he specialises in painting ceilings due to his height)

...sticks his head in a paint bucket, stands up and walks in circles...

ShortNCuddlyAm · 07-12-2009, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

...sticks his head in a paint bucket, stands up and walks in circles...

yvanleterrible · 07-13-2009, 06:40 AM

You reassure me, I felt I was presuming on your sense of humo(u)r.

pshrynk · 07-13-2009, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Trying to build a new lamp for the bedroom. My keyless chuck appears to be frozen, and that is making me nuts!! I wonder if I can find my old plug in drill somewhere?? Or, if I even still have it??

Arrrrrgh!!

I hate keyless chucks for that and the opposite reason (they won't stay clamped). Unfortunately, they are all you can buy these days, pretty much... If they ever start putting the damnedable things on drill presses we will knkow that Western civilization as we know it is at an end.

RickyMaveety · 07-13-2009, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

My favorite films that I've watched in the past year from Netflix:

Once
Les enfants du paradis
Pi: Faith in Chaos
The Namesake
Amelie
Cold Mountain
Paths of Glory
Brokeback Mountain
The Science of Sleep
The Great Dictator
City Lights
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Proof
Life is Beautiful
Shakespeare in Love
The Red Violin
Westside Story
My Neighbor Totoro

I can't recommend these enough, although Pi is a bit off the wall. Next in my queue are Black Orpheus and Lawrence of Arabia.

I watched "The Red Violin" last night!! I really enjoyed it. Most of what is on your list are either on my list of favorite films, or on my list of soon to be seen coming from Netflix.

While I was watching the film I was checking out the lamp, which I finished yesterday afternoon. I finally did get the chuck unstuck (I'm back to wearing my splint -- it helped to have my wrist a little more stable).

It was so hot out there in the garage. 105-110 I would guess. So, the drill motor kept overheating, and the wood got so hot it actually started charring. All I needed to make was a circle of wood about 1/4 inch thick or so. The mouth on the jug was too big for a bottle adapter, so I needed to make something to wrap around the adapter so it would fit. It took me five tries to get something that would actually work.

Then, as luck would have it, the first bulb I put in (new out of the package) was bad, and I kept thinking I had wired it incorrectly. It was just so hot. I am so not doing anything outside today.

Oh, photo of lamp attached. That's a scene from "The Red Violin" on the TV.

krisk · 07-13-2009, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Verencat

Celebrating the planned arrival of a brand new refrigerator on Wednesday!

I'll be able to buy milk! Eggs! Orange juice! Butter! Vedgetables! Ice cream! I'll be able to make batches of spaghetti sauce, and soups, and purées, and pies, and all sorts of good food I usually have in store!

It's going to be the end of two pretty long fridge-less weeks! :triplesalto:

N.B.: As of Wednesday afternoon, if you're looking for me, you'll be able to find me behind the oven, I'll be cooking for two days straight! Oh, and if anyone wants to come over for dinner around the end of the week, I'll be happy to feed everyone!

I know the feeling! I forgot to say that I finally got one 2 weeks ago! coming from an environment of 2 fridges, and 2 freezers, to a small hotel sized fridge not even good enough to keep milk good... *argh*! I immediately made spaghetti and 2 different soups, just 'cause I could!

badgoodDeb · 07-13-2009, 03:42 PM

Nifty lamp Ricky -- is that from a milk jug? Or am I not seeing it right?

Verencat · 07-13-2009, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by krisk

I know the feeling! I forgot to say that I finally got one 2 weeks ago! coming from an environment of 2 fridges, and 2 freezers, to a small hotel sized fridge not even good enough to keep milk good... *argh*! I immediately made spaghetti and 2 different soups, just 'cause I could!

Oh I can't wait for that! I'm writing down menu after menu after menu of things I can make and freeze, and of salads (salads!). What did you eat? I'm almost entirely fed by canned soups, bread and peanut butter (or Nutella, yum) and coucous.

RickyMaveety · 07-13-2009, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Nifty lamp Ricky -- is that from a milk jug? Or am I not seeing it right?

I think the light makes it look more cream colored at the top ... it's just one of those "little brown jugs" that you see sometimes. All dark brown glazed ceramic.

I kept trying to find a use for it, and finally decided just to make a lamp out of it. Would have been really easy, if they had made an adapter the right size.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 07-13-2009, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

You reassure me, I felt I was presuming on your sense of humo(u)r.

It's the sort of joke the yeti makes about himself, especially when his hair needs cutting (it tends to grow upwards, brush like)

badgoodDeb · 07-13-2009, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

It's the sort of joke the yeti makes about himself, especially when his hair needs cutting (it tends to grow upwards, brush like)

That's quite an image!!

Ricky -- ah yes, "little brown jug". I couldn't think of that name. It's great! I'd have looked for a cork to make the bulb fit (though I might not have succeeded).

zelda_pinwheel · 07-13-2009, 05:02 PM

aw.

i completely forgot that Groupe F was doing a fireworks show tonight in St. Denis. they're brilliant and i was sort of thinking of going. then again, since i hate going to St. Denis (it's a city in the near suburbs, but it takes me at least 3/4 hour to get there), maybe subconsciously i "deliberately" forgot.

now i can hear the explosions in the distance and i wish i were there.

i hope they'll do a show at la villette in september again, but 2 shows in 3 months seems like a lot to hope for.

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zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	aw. i completely forgot that Groupe F was doing a fireworks show tonight in St. Denis. they're brilliant and i was sort of thinking of going. then again, since i hate going to St. Denis (it's a city in the near suburbs, but it takes me at least 3/4 hour to get there), maybe subconsciously i "deliberately" forgot. now i can hear the explosions in the distance and i wish i were there. i hope they'll do a show at la villette in september again, but 2 shows in 3 months seems like a lot to hope for.