Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[GraceKrispy]

Iʻm looking at all the info online about my upcoming 20th *gasp* high school reuinion, and I am looking at the snippets of their lives and feeling, uh, sort of inferior. Shouldnʻt I be a brain surgeon by now? Or, at the very least, an aeronautical engineer??

(note to self: stop paying attention to the very few people with impressive jobs and pay more attention to the other 98%)

(and, just for the record, I am at least possibly-almost-a-year younger than most of my peers. Lest you think me very old. YIKES-- 20 years???)

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by nomesque

Wow. Impressive restraint! I just tend to... well... go for it. Then apologise to all the offended people later.

If you ever, on these pages, hear about the infamous yvanleterrible "I'm sorry...", that is what it's all about, the infernal joke. It's like coming next to someone and slapping them behind the head and saying "I'm sorry..."

I think that if you're not worth a joke you're not worth anything.

[Slite]

Originally Posted by nomesque

Wow. Impressive restraint! I just tend to... well... go for it. Then apologise to all the offended people later.

Well, thats what I usually do, but I had a "be nice day".... And it was the third time I was able to use that exact wording in a reply, so that sort of played into it as well

[vivaldirules]

I'm reading through the past 24 hours of posts in this thread. What a great way to start the day. Enjoy!

[Sweetpea]

I gave up on that...

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I gave up on that...

Hey! No cheating... you HAVE to read all new posts in the "So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?" thread... It's a decree from Queen Z, or possibly Adrian, but I'm certain it's one of the amendments to the Pinwheelean constitution. Along with not using clotted cream with the trebuchet's

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i'm listening to some interviews i recorded of my grandmother .......

Originally Posted by TallNHairyDave

Thinking about going to bed....

Originally Posted by nomesque

Gotta love writing software manuals while fictional characters dance intriguing scenarios in your head...

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Eating crumpets with lashings of butter, drinking tea, considering going to bed early (but secretly knowing I won't)

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Craving crumpets with lashings of butter...

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Did you ring, Your Majesty?

Originally Posted by Verencat

A Billy??? I want a Billy!!!

Originally Posted by montsnmags

PS. bikini? Why? there's no guests around, so it's FREE THE GOOGLY BITS! time

Originally Posted by Slite

Must...restrain....self....

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

Shouldn't I be a brain surgeon by now? Or, at the very least, an aeronautical engineer??

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

I think that if you're not worth a joke you're not worth anything.

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I gave up on that...

What? And give up on all of that??

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

What? And give up on all of that??

yes.

And to answer Slite's remark: I founded my own democracy!

[Wetdogeared]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

What? And give up on all of that??

Now that you've given a summary, there is even less incentive, for those that didn't, to go back and read all of the new post on the "What are you doing right now" thread.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Verencat

Wow, what a great thing to have done! I have always wanted to record the stories my grandfather tells me, but just don't know how to ask. His life would make such a great book!
Your grandmother seems to have been very lucky to have made it through the war, and she looks like a really strong woman, a model to follow.

oh yes, she's infernally strong-willed. which is what makes her impossible to live with, and also paradoxically (one of) the reasons i love her.

you should *definitely* do the same with your grandfather. i was a little nervous about it myself, but she's so used to me asking questions and wanting to hear the stories that it wasn't really too difficult. i'll treasure these recordings forever, it's really amazing to have them, listening to her voice telling the stories... luckily, it's very easy to get her started. just take out an old photo album, and ask her, "so who's that ? and when was the picture taken ?" and she's off, and she'll go from one story to the next with no interruption (and sometimes in the middle of one story, she's already on to the next one). in the recordings, almost the only thing you hear me saying is occasionally "and then what happened ?" on the other hand, getting the details straight is like pulling teeth ; she's notorious for using the same pronoun to refer to 6 different people in the same sentence. and when i tried to get her to spell people's names for me or give me a name of a place, half the time she would just say "oh, forget it, you don't need that." (the rest of the what you hear me saying is "how do you spell that ?" and more frequently, "just tell me for god's sake !" )

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Speaking of, seeing as it's hit 33C, but the pool's only 20C, I'll think I'll slip into the 36C spa to warm up so that later I can get out and cool off. I'll have a ZCD as well, so that later/earlier on after the sensations wears off my brain will feel somewhat normal.

Cheers,
Marc
PS. bikini? Why? there's no guests around, so it's FREE THE GOOGLY BITS! time

see ? SEE ??? this is what i mean.

Originally Posted by Slite

So many MANY ways to abuse that post...

Must...restrain....self....

Originally Posted by nomesque

Wow. Impressive restraint! I just tend to... well... go for it. Then apologise to all the offended people later.

i'm impressed by his restraint too. or maybe suspicious. :

BTW, I bought a breadmaker a couple of months ago. Hot darn, I never realised what I was missing! The thing makes gorgeous huge loaves which people LOVE. Which I love, and I've never been a huge fan of bread. I add linseed sunflower and almond meal, and quinoa flour, and chickpea flour, and nuts and fruit and spices.... *droooool*

arg ! stop it !!! i'm really starting to want one !!!!

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

Iʻm looking at all the info online about my upcoming 20th *gasp* high school reuinion, and I am looking at the snippets of their lives and feeling, uh, sort of inferior. Shouldnʻt I be a brain surgeon by now? Or, at the very least, an aeronautical engineer??

(note to self: stop paying attention to the very few people with impressive jobs and pay more attention to the other 98%)

(and, just for the record, I am at least possibly-almost-a-year younger than most of my peers. Lest you think me very old. YIKES-- 20 years???)

hee ! here's a little tip : just don't stay in touch with anyone from your school years at all (well, maybe a select few). no insecurity if you've no idea what they're up to !

Originally Posted by Slite

Hey! No cheating... you HAVE to read all new posts in the "So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?" thread... It's a decree from Queen Z, or possibly Adrian, but I'm certain it's one of the amendments to the Pinwheelean constitution. Along with not using clotted cream with the trebuchet's

he's right about that.

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

What? And give up on all of that??

...and that's why.

[Sweetpea]

But, there aren't enough hours in a day to completely read up on this thread!

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

But, there aren't enough hours in a day to completely read up on this thread!

pfft... excuses excuses... now go read all the posts!

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Slite

pfft... excuses excuses... now go read all the posts!

No, I refuse!


and you can't make me

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

and you can't make me

be careful what you say... he might take that as a challenge.

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

But, there aren't enough hours in a day to completely read up on this thread!

Thread tools: convert to text. Then load onto reader (OPUS!), head for hammock with iced tea and funny hats. Lay back and read all posts in thread until you nod off into dream land. Before you know it you'll be having crumpets with lashings of butter while ogling Marc's goggies and googlies. "Hours in a day" simply does not compute.