Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[happy_terd]

In Vegas you can do anything you can afford.

[Dylrob]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

I know of a nice 50 dollar all you can eat seafood buffet.

I might try that at some point. However I was thinking someplace more familiar and mundane to start. Like IHOP, Denny's, or Carl's Jr. Maybe Canter's Deli. Places I haven't had the opportunity to enjoy since being dragged to this hole in Northern Nevada.

Well I have some time to decide.

[Crusader]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

And the relationship?

Aaah! I see. You use the lawnmower to file the papers under "Recycling".

Well, it was just a comment on the manual lawnmower followed by what I'm doing, but since you bring it up... that's actually a pretty good idea. At least if they are mulch they won't be able to replicate!

[thinkpad]

Originally Posted by beppe

Last year I got a robot.

A robot lawn-mower, now we're talking. I've heard about those little buggers but never seen one in action.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by recluse

I figure you can get milk from anything. Take soy milk. I didn't even know soy beans had nipples!

That's udderly silly....

[beppe]

Originally Posted by thinkpadx

A robot lawn-mower, now we're talking. I've heard about those little buggers but never seen one in action.

you can see an image of my robot.

[montsnmags]

Today, I bought a new 27" iMac. The Loved One is inheriting the 24", having had to return the Macbook to his ex-employer. Which is the point...that, ructions that have been rumbling for some months, causing and intensifying enormous stress, have reached conclusion and closure. This is good, if merely personal, news. Things have changed. Some "culture shock"-like symptoms will be experienced, but a new, regularly-scheduled program will be commenced shortly.

Also, I got rid of the last piece of lawn a year or so ago. Best gardening I ever did.

Cheers,
Marc

[Patricia]

Good luck to the Loved One in whatever he does next, Marc.

I too have just bought a new computer: a Lenovo Thinkpad. It is quite possibly the ugliest computer I've ever owned, but is much more powerful than my current ageing laptop.

[Libby Cone]

I spent all day yesterday putting book #2 into Smashwords format. Then I tried to market it. There was one site that insisted I use HTML code; that was fun...

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Today, I bought a new 27" iMac. The Loved One is inheriting the 24", having had to return the Macbook to his ex-employer. Which is the point...that, ructions that have been rumbling for some months, causing and intensifying enormous stress, have reached conclusion and closure. This is good, if merely personal, news. Things have changed. Some "culture shock"-like symptoms will be experienced, but a new, regularly-scheduled program will be commenced shortly.

Sounds like good news!

[Wetdogeared]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Today, I bought a new 27" iMac. The Loved One is inheriting the 24", having had to return the Macbook to his ex-employer. Which is the point...that, ructions that have been rumbling for some months, causing and intensifying enormous stress, have reached conclusion and closure. This is good, if merely personal, news. Things have changed. Some "culture shock"-like symptoms will be experienced, but a new, regularly-scheduled program will be commenced shortly.

Also, I got rid of the last piece of lawn a year or so ago. Best gardening I ever did.

Cheers,
Marc

The relief from stress sounds fantastic for both of you. Hopefully some of that wasted energy can go into dealing with the '"culture shock"-like symptoms' during the transition period to whatever choices the two of you have made in how to go forward with your lives. Sounds like good news to me too.

I wish we had a small bit of lawn. The dog won't "go" on anything but grass.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Today, I bought a new 27" iMac. The Loved One is inheriting the 24", having had to return the Macbook to his ex-employer. Which is the point...that, ructions that have been rumbling for some months, causing and intensifying enormous stress, have reached conclusion and closure. This is good, if merely personal, news. Things have changed. Some "culture shock"-like symptoms will be experienced, but a new, regularly-scheduled program will be commenced shortly.

Also, I got rid of the last piece of lawn a year or so ago. Best gardening I ever did.

Cheers,
Marc

Good deal! I should replace my lawn with astroturf!

[thinkpad]

Originally Posted by Patricia

I too have just bought a new computer: a Lenovo Thinkpad. It is quite possibly the ugliest computer I've ever owned, but is much more powerful than my current ageing laptop.

Good luck with your new Thinkpad. I love the Thinkpad brand when it comes to consistency, they all look the same with their sleek black business look, and it's quite hard to find sturdier laptop builds. So far my Thinkpad laptops have not let me down.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

How big is your yard? We have a 1/4 acrea lot on which we use a lawn tractor, but we have a small fenced-in area around the deck and pool on which we use a small gas mower. At one time I was thinking of getting a manual mower for that. Are today's push mowers as hard to push as I remember from the one I pushed over 50 years ago as a child?

Not large at all - or I would have surrendered and opted for an electric or battery-powered model.
If you keep them well oiled (WD-40 is your friend) and the blades sharp, they are not hard to push over plain grass. The challenging areas contain tough-leaved weeds or crab grass - but just get a running start before you hit them.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Good deal! I should replace my lawn with astroturf!

I have also replaced barren areas of lawn with "decorative" pine bark chips and edging - the soil is so poor I gave up trying to get new grass to grow.
[We also have commando squirrels that promptly dig up EVERYTHING that is planted. Areas of cultivated dirt seem to trigger unstoppable digging responses in the little b*****ds.]