Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 716

GeoffC · 01-19-2010, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by omk3

It's Etgar Keret's "The Nimrod Flip-Out". It's a (rather small) collection of short stories, some of them very short, so I had many convenient places to stop without feeling guilty.

It's now finished (at last!) and I'm trying my luck at converting to epub. So much I have to learn, and so much else I need to be doing right now... I'll probably give it a rest for today..

But it's actually fun doing something completely useless

it's nothing useless, just another of life's great learning cycles ....

kazbates · 01-19-2010, 03:54 PM

I'm anxiously waiting for word from the realtor as to whether or not Shannon got the townhouse she put a bid on. It's in a great location, just the right size, only a couple of years old, and most importantly (at least to her parents

) has a security system and it's own garage. There are a lot of homes going for foreclosure in our area, so she would get this one for a great price. We spent the day Sunday looking at a lot of the available house in our area and some of them were completely trashed. Thankfully we were able to find a few that were really well maintained and one in particular that was perfect for her. It seems amazing to me that she's only 22 years old and buying her first house.

I'm so proud of her.

Katti's Cat · 01-19-2010, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by kazbates

I'm anxiously waiting for word from the realtor as to whether or not Shannon got the townhouse she put a bid on.

I'm so proud of her.

Crossing my fingers for Shannon. Good Luck & great that she gets into the market at an early age.

Katti's Cat · 01-19-2010, 04:17 PM

Having my 3rd coffee and still ignore OH

phenomshel · 01-19-2010, 04:21 PM

Working on discussion posts for this week's classes. I am loving this Microeconomics class professor, he participates and asks questions that are guaranteed to get responses. These discussion boards for online classes are so much easier when someone gives you something to write about!

vivaldirules · 01-19-2010, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Katti's Cat

Having my 3rd coffee and still ignore OH

Still ignoring Ohio?? Is this the thread about.......oh, never mind.

Katti's Cat · 01-19-2010, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Still ignoring Ohio?? Is this the thread about.......oh, never mind.

thanks for the idea - I'll call him Ohio in future.

omk3 · 01-19-2010, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

it's nothing useless, just another of life's great learning cycles ....

How true! I'm reading now about xhtml and css! Fascinating stuff!

ShortNCuddlyAm · 01-19-2010, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by omk3

How true! I'm reading now about xhtml and css! Fascinating stuff!

You've just reminded me I need to brush up my AD scripting skills (don't ask me why that reminded me...)

Moejoe · 01-19-2010, 09:23 PM

Writing this:

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She wrote terrible poems about how life was terrible and how terrible it would be for everyone if she weren’t alive anymore. One of those poems she called, with no irony, “Terrible”. She wrote one act plays that were given three acts and only one character; a thinly-disguised version of herself who she named Emily Sylvia Beatrice. Most of the plays ended with suicides of one form or another and soliloquoys by young girls, who standing upon the stage would talk of their inspiration; the thinly-disguised versions of Beatrice who had died within the plays. They would have been post-modern, but Beatrice hadn’t taken that module of her English class at that point.

I love it when I write a full story in under an hour

happy_terd · 01-19-2010, 10:13 PM

Forcing the kids to do their chores.

montsnmags · 01-19-2010, 10:43 PM

Scanning my mother's old slides. Odd to see your father at half your age and your mother at less than that and as a mother as a teen. Also, Malaysia.

Cheers,
Marc

Verencat · 01-19-2010, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by kazbates

I'm anxiously waiting for word from the realtor as to whether or not Shannon got the townhouse she put a bid on. (...)
I'm so proud of her.

Oh, that is just wonderful! I'm so proud of her too! A house!

I'm so happy! Give her a hug for me, I'm too busy crossing my fingers for her!

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

Writing this:

I love it when I write a full story in under an hour

Hey, we love the same things!

Right now trying to convince the cats to catnap a little - I find it so distressing when they chase each other at night, it makes me restless and...well, paranoid. Yesterday night they played a lot, so when I got to bed, I got to a point where I was sure I heard human-made noises in the corridor, so I got up, lit all the lamps in the appartment, then attacked a door, thinking that behind it was a killer/torturer/alien. I pushed so violently against the wall that books fell down from the shelf to the floor, making me even more nervous, so I finally succeded in turning the lights off at 3am.

I'd rather have a peaceful and early night today.

Moejoe · 01-19-2010, 11:59 PM

Now designing cover for story

(but no evil murderers or cats outside my door like Verencat. Not that there were any evil murderers

)

happy_terd · 01-20-2010, 09:24 AM

prepping myself to enter my cold garage to let the dog back outside on her runner. She is an old dog that cannot take the night air anymore.

01-19-2010, 11:59 PM	#10739
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	Now designing cover for story (but no evil murderers or cats outside my door like Verencat. Not that there were any evil murderers ) Attached Thumbnails

01-19-2010, 03:54 PM	#10727
kazbates Wizard Posts: 2,627 Karma: 406616 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Northern Virginia Device: SurfacePro, SurfaceBook 2	I'm anxiously waiting for word from the realtor as to whether or not Shannon got the townhouse she put a bid on. It's in a great location, just the right size, only a couple of years old, and most importantly (at least to her parents ) has a security system and it's own garage. There are a lot of homes going for foreclosure in our area, so she would get this one for a great price. We spent the day Sunday looking at a lot of the available house in our area and some of them were completely trashed. Thankfully we were able to find a few that were really well maintained and one in particular that was perfect for her. It seems amazing to me that she's only 22 years old and buying her first house. I'm so proud of her.

01-19-2010, 04:17 PM	#10729
Katti's Cat Wizard Posts: 2,259 Karma: 175640 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Brisbane Australia Device: Sony PRS-600	Having my 3rd coffee and still ignore OH

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phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	Working on discussion posts for this week's classes. I am loving this Microeconomics class professor, he participates and asks questions that are guaranteed to get responses. These discussion boards for online classes are so much easier when someone gives you something to write about!

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happy_terd Banned Posts: 13,045 Karma: 10105011 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Finally made it to Walmart. Device: PRS 420	Forcing the kids to do their chores.

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montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Scanning my mother's old slides. Odd to see your father at half your age and your mother at less than that and as a mother as a teen. Also, Malaysia. Cheers, Marc

01-20-2010, 09:24 AM	#10740
happy_terd Banned Posts: 13,045 Karma: 10105011 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Finally made it to Walmart. Device: PRS 420	prepping myself to enter my cold garage to let the dog back outside on her runner. She is an old dog that cannot take the night air anymore.