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Posts archive for: 17 July, 2009
  • Another person who should be banned from swimming in the gene pool?

    In the news this morning (and this actually made national headlines), a man in the neighbouring state of Vermont, stopped at a traffic light. In the lane next to him, was a state trooper. The state policeman glances over at the man in the car...and spies a glass of beer sitting on the hood (bonnet) of the car.

    He pulled over the man and gave him a breathalizer test...yup, the berk was drunk as a skunk, and arrested for DWI (driving while intoxicated)---

    ---but no word on whether he was charged with the open container law, which allows authorities to bust someone with an open container of alcohol inside their car...but if the open container is ON the car, does the law still apply? Drink driver's lawyer may find a loophole, with that one.

    Idiot. :))

    OK people, if you insist on being a drink driver, here's a hint: leave the beer behind in the bar, yeah?

  • Weird

    You know, every night, after midnight sometime, the whole room here shakes back and forth. What the???

    The other day, I was sitting on the loo, and it began shaking back and forth. This has been going on for months, now.

    Another tenant says he thinks it's the rotten plumbing, that it's the pipes every time someone flushes. Dunno', it rocks me and my computer desk back and forth. Very disconcerting!

    Someone else suggested that maybe someone's got a washing machine going through the spin cycle--but there's no washer-dryer hookups in the building, except in the cellar, and that's kept locked.

    Yet another person made the dry comment that the people below me might be going at it like bunnies in heat. I'm not hearing any passionate sounds from below, so no, don't think so...but I suppose anything's possible.

    The bricks are coming away from my balcony wall, and my floor in here is dished--my corner shelf is against the corner of one wall, and leans decidedly to the right. God help me if there ever is a strong earthquake, the cats and I'd be dead meat, in here.

  • Just another meme before bedtime

    1. Do you have a tattoo...?? if so What and where is it??
    And, if not do you have a secret desire to have one?

    No tattoo, no desire for a tattoo.

    2. You have been offered a free botox treatment...where do you have them put it?

    Up some brainless arrogant bigoted anti-environmental Republican gun-john's bollocks, would quite be nice, I think.

    3. Do you have a good luck charm? what is it?

    Actually, no, I don't. I used to have a worn out old coin I found as a teen, that I used to carry around, but I'm not sure it was for luck, so much as delight in finding it (it was an 1880's British farthing or something like that). I don't have anything at the moment, I really don't believe in that stuff...it's just silly.

    4. Do you believe any object is bad luck?

    No, not really. Tho' my late mum always swore that sapphire rings were unlucky for her. I'm not sure why. I will say that the first day I wore my sapphire ring I'd gotten as a gift for my birthday (I sold it a few years ago, to help pay funeral expenses), I did get my very first (and only) parking ticket. So, maybe mum wasn't so off, who knows? :)) :))

    5. The bath water is running, the phone is ringing, the dog is barking and there is someone at the door.....what do you do?

    Turn the music up so I can't hear the knocking, let the answering machine get it, tell the dog to shut up and enjoy a hot soak. Sod them all. :)

    6. Your best friend from high school just popped in from out of town. do you offer them a place to stay or suggest a hotel?

    My apartment can barely accomodate me and three cats, I'd offer to help the find a nice and/or reasonably priced hotel/motel.

    7. Have you ever seen a ghost?

    Yes. (No, really, I have)

    8. Getting to know you: Are you a hat person? What kind of hat(s) do you wear, if you do wear them? Answer this last question in detail, please.

    I'm not quite as much of a hat person, as I used to be. Mostly if I do wear a hat now, it's more often a baseball cap (cos' I live in the city now, and I'd look ridiculous in my cowboy hat--well, except when the annual rodeo is in town--and, I don't particularly like my present straw cowboy hat, and it doesn't fit well).

    Often I wore hats to keep my uncut and hairdo defying hair out of my eyes. Or, I wore them to keep off the rain/snow/sun. Or, sometimes because that defined who I was/am.

    I grew up wearing either felt or straw cowboy hats--mostly authentic one's, but sometimes I had "dude" one's made of denim, leather, or some other non-traditional material. Cowboy hats actually have dozens of brim styles and creases, and are mostly made of beaver felt in grades 2X to 6X--the higher the number, the more expensive (and waterproof) the hat. Some cowboy hats are made of wool felt, but they are mostly what is sold to "dudes" and children.

    I've had hats of every colour, over the years: black, silverbelly, brown, grey, burgundy, navy blue, tan, chocolate and forest green. The most common colours were silverbelly, brown and black.

    Each hat "crease" is distinct, and has it's own regional origins and name(s). Some hats were named after movie cowboys or the characters they played--such as the "Gus," named after the character in the TV series, Lonesome Dove, or the Tom Mix crease, named after the famous early film cowboy.

    Since I was about 14, I've taken US size 6 7/8. These are my top three preferred brim and crease styles, hats 3, 4 and 5 are my idea of the perfect hat, but the others would suit me, just as well.

    Pinch front crease:

    Montana (or "Gus") crease:

    Montana peak (*or peaked or north peak) crease:

  • Mini-holiday, next week

    I get an unscheduled mini-break next week, thanks for training I have to do to accomodate the new client at work. Because I'll be working a full day shift Mon. and Tuesday, that means I work one hour less on Wednesday, and get Thursday, Friday, Sat., Sunday and half of Monday, off. Whoo-hoo! My first holiday since....jeez, 2004. Whoa. Guess I'm overdue.

    I won't be going anywhere of course, had my big day out on Sunday already. But, it'll be nice to kick back and relax, maybe get some of the more drudgy cleaning jobs that I've been stuidously avoiding, out of the way. I'm not sure what's growing in one corner of my shower stall, but I hope it won't bite me. :))

    Wow, first I get three days off last weekend May, Three days off first weekend July, now this...I'm gonna' get spoiled!

    And, in two week's time, I go back to (at least for now) a regular five day work week--with weekends off! Wow! Very cool. I've not had a schedule like that since...at least a year.

    Jeez, I won't know what to do with myself, if this keeps up. I'm gonna end up feeling like I have a normal life. :))

  • Whatever

    I'm tired as hell, tonight. A thought occured to me. If I disappeared tomorrow, would anyone even notice?

    Reality? Very probably not. It'd likely be days, maybe even a week or two...or three, before anyone would take notice. That's not good, is it?

    Don't mind me. As I just wrote, I'm only tired.

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