Today I'm gonna...

[Asherdan]

Today I found out the day & time for my Grammas funeral. She passed while we were enroute from Orlando. Saw her on the Fourth as planned so no regrets.

HaHa, ain't life grand. Tired o' dis chit, I telly youse.

[theinevitable]

so.

I don't want to say it.

But, my first thought was "wait... keg beer comes in different types?"

It was roughly equivalent to realizing that, say... I don't know. Insert something here that you should have known, and would have if you'd ever pondered it... but you hadn't.

[smick]

But, my first thought was "wait... keg beer comes in different types?"

It's understandable.   Keg rhymes with egg, and there's nothing but the same yellow and white stuff in every single one of those.

[AugustWest]

Today I found out the day & time for my Grammas funeral. She passed while we were enroute from Orlando. Saw her on the Fourth as planned so no regrets.

HaHa, ain't life grand. Tired o' dis chit, I telly youse.

Condolences.  Sucks to lose Grandparents.

[Turbo Ninja]

Today I'm gonna see if our ancient Windows ME Gateway still works.  The GF is away on business and took our laptop with her, and I can't handle being severed from the Internet for three days.  I can't remember the last time the Gateway was even powered up - 2005? - but I guess I'm glad we kept it.

[Asherdan]

I've been real glad I've kept old machinery around in the past as well. The house has two towers and a laptop on network, plus my work laptop when necessary. I have a '98 vintage tower and a '99 laptop stored that I pull out every now and then to spin up for functionality checks in case of dire disaster and/or internet jonesing. I don't think I've ever really tossed hardware, shit, and an Atari 800XL is still on the shelf.

[linnea]

I've been real glad I've kept old machinery around in the past as well. The house has two towers and a laptop on network, plus my work laptop when necessary. I have a '98 vintage tower and a '99 laptop stored that I pull out every now and then to spin up for functionality checks in case of dire disaster and/or internet jonesing. I don't think I've ever really tossed hardware, shit, and an Atari 800XL is still on the shelf.

Ash, please tell me that you don't live in one of those houses with newspapers up to the ceiling. On a tangentially related note, my aunt had a husband who hoarded 50,000 rounds of ammunition in his trailer because he was convinced that the government was going to make ammo sales illegal some day. Moral of the story: emergency personnel called to any incident at that house, just hang back and wait for it to blow.

[Asherdan]

Ash, please tell me that you don't live in one of those houses with newspapers up to the ceiling.

Nah, I'm pretty picky about what I keep and Spouse is almost as picky. The Salvation Army loves it when I show up with a truck. The rescue folks have no need to fear either, I only keep 2 types of powder (2lbs. of each max), ~100 each of LR and LP primers and ~100 loaded cartridges around at any given time. I tend to shoot it up as soon as I load it up. I've got a separate secure cabinet for powder, primers and equipment cause even 2 lbs. of Reloder 7 going up could be a little too exciting.

OT: Today I am looking forward to the company softball game in which I will watch engineers try to fake athleticism.

[side_show]

Today I woke up, read a bit of a book by a local author
I fell back asleep
I read a little more of the book
I got up and read my emails and new posts on TOUMB
I ate a healthy lunch
I walked to the walk-in clinic, got my prescription for refills
I walked to the pharmacy and dropped the prescription off to be filled
I went to the art gallery with my free pass.
I checked out a series of historical paintings of my area
I checked out the gallery collection of paintings from the 1400-1500's
I checked out an exhibit of paintings of the human form organized chronologically from the 1600 thru now
I entered an area of the gallery where you make your own art and made an art card so deeply emotional that I welled up entitled "I'm still in love with him even though he broke my heart," then hung it on the wall.
I wandred through an exhibit of Canadian pottery and ceramics which was pretty boring... on the wall was a quote from someone "The hammer is a potter's bestfriend."  I thought of an angry potter smashing something and this pleased me.
I checked out the exhibit I'd gone to see by Royal Art Lodge - a series called "Where is here?" which was hundreds of tiny 5 x 5 inch paintings with lots of text on them.  One of them, called "Peas and Carrots" - which was of an old man with the aforementioned vegetables caught in his beard - gave me a good laugh. 
I checked out a weird installation exhibit of photocopies of about a hundred life-sized line drawings of babies, and participated in an interactive portion of the installation that invited me to colour in my own photo copy of a face labelled lonely, which I coloured to be a target and labelled "IT"S NOT THAT BAD."  Just after finishing this up I went on to another part of the same installation that included "welcome mats" that were embellished with statements about home that people from all over had sent to the artist that were scattered all over the floor, along with a pile of blocks I really wanted to knock over... but I wasn't sure if this part of the exhibit was still interactive.  I was about to knock them over when this bell rang.  I got excited that it was part of the exhibit, but it was actually an announcement that the gallery was closing.
I walked home.
The SO was there when I got home, so I asked him about his day while he prepaired to barbecue some bison burgers.
I ate two bison burgers with my SO.
Then we watched a documentary about ferret owners on PBS that was equal parts cute and off-putting with little hints of humour and sadness.
Then I watched Video on Trial.
Then I came up here and read more of my emails and posts here.
Soon I will eat animal crackers, probably share them with my cat.
Then I will feed my puffer giraffe.
Then I will get into bed and read my book 'til I fall asleep.

All in all, a pretty good day.

[RMJ12345]

Today I'm not gonna wear pantyhose to my Barnes & Noble gig, per some very unclear instructions from my manager, to whom innocuous black cloth ##### in the style of jeans are the same as jeans.

Hope I don't get fired!

[smick]

Are... are you going to wear anything else?   I... (mercy!)... I don't understand.

[KeithHernandez]

Wednesday I went to work and got really, really drunk and etc.


Thursday I am trying to finish Catch-22 so I can return it to the library and going to bed somewhat early as I have a college appointment thing to do.

[Doc]

Today my vitamin D assay still isn't working and my boss is on holiday for 2 weeks from monday so he's stressing over it.
Too many variables that are beyond my control, I'd only just started whittling down the ones that I could control.

[CortJstr]

Today I'm going to our annual mandatory sexual harassment and diversity training. Last year somebody asked why we have one of these every single year, when none of our friends or relatives have these annually at their jobs. The HR person said we're "required" to have the trainings every year. Then somebody asked who requires it, and the HR person suddenly had to leave the room.

[wombat]

Smells has a puffer giraffe?!