h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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[mags] caught up but with it being half term and the new beds needing assembly will say very little...


"Very little"

Ltp, that sounds an excellant idea, shove a foam tube in Mr Loud Voice and all is cured!

I am heading towards the carpet tile/ heavy underlay idea if it can be done not too expensively as hopefully only temporary.
I have often seen room size underlays in skips where presumably the person is converting to wooden floors. The thrown away underlays often seem in perfect condition as carpet gets the wear not underlay so would use a thrown away one as only, hopefully, a temporary thing that doesn't require expert fitting. Howver Sod's law clearly states that when you actually need an underlay to be in a skip there wil be none.

I think the Sporting Corner of the Atelier will require a little balancing once the cricket season gets going. Lancs 211 for 3 declared, Worcs 83 for 5, last wicket Smith 23, caught Jones, bowled Brown.

Morning all.

WA, I hate to say it: meet the new war, same as the old war. We (Americans) need to stand up and say NO.

I have 197 things to do today and absolutely no energy or ambition either one. I absolutely have to get this stupid Aladdin costume sorted out today. So that is top priority. I don't feel like an Aladdin. I would have made a much better Evil Queen.

And I still have stuff I moved out of my Doom Room into my bedroom a few weeks back during the golly gee whiz room moving project. This has turned my bedroom into the doom room and it is driving me crazy. I have to be ruthless and just throw most of it away. Ok. Middle of night, dark room, Hyp asleep and unaware of the mess, so what's the big deal, right? Even asleep I know it's there. And the cats rattle around in the boxes al night. Today is trash day. If I apply myself for even two hours this morning, I can get all of it to the curb and have a nice, tidy room come bedtime.

But first, I have to open two big boxes containing armchairs (also a left-over from the room moving project) and make sure I get the cardboard cut up and to the curb. When I moved the dining table out of the living room and back to the dining room I wound up with this empty nook. So I brought in some arm chairs from my screened in porch and threw some chair covers over them and stuck them in there as a temporary measure since company was on the way. I like the arrangement so much I decided to keep it. But I can't leave those old chairs in there, plus I need them on my porch. I use them a lot out there. So I hunted around until I could find a pair of arm chairs I could afford that would look okay in that little nook. Naturally, since I could afford them, they came unassembled. I'm afraid to open the boxes. Bet there are 9,000 pieces and the instructions are in Mandarin. Oh, and it will require a specialized tool that isn't included.

Right. Have to hop to it. The trash truck will be here in 2 1/2 hours.

He's not MY Bush! Anyway, Cheney is the one who is truly batsh** insane. His vehicle of choice when travelling around the nation's capital? A black Hummer with a gun mount on top. In the middle of a convoy of black cars full of secret servicemen, surgeons and spare body parts.

No, I made that last part up, about the body parts. But only because it sounded plausible.

Cheney only comes out at night. No one knows where his lair is during the day.

[Bagpuss]

Did we declare war while I was asleep? I remember hearing about 9/11 from some Salonistas in a chatroom before I turned on the news.

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I remember that day all too well Irv.

We haven't declared war. Bush has announced sanctions against Iran, unilaterally, and Cheney has been making speeches about how we'll come down on Iran if they persist in their pursuit of nuclear whatever. Given the current state of the armed forces thanks to the other surges, I presume he intends to send in his entire collection of G.I. Joe figures.

*Giving Bush and Cheney the Stink-Eye, because I live nearer Iran than they do and I AM NOT HAPPY*.

Day off work having sinuses. Sinuses are beastly. Grr.

Also, am allegedly writing essay (due in on Tuesday) and it seems to involve an awful lot of shuffling over to the kettle and, thanks to sinuses, tissues. Essays. Harrumph. Essays on IT, double and triple harrumph, because I am a literature graduate and trying to make email systems make sense was NOT my problem and oops, now I'm expected to have a coherent opinion. On email. Which I don't. I just write the things. In very elegant and correct grammar, I might add, and proper spelling. Perhaps I can opine at length about how signing a work email 'XXX kthnxbai' is Silly.

Does anyone else sometimes get the feeling we're in a remake of Duck Soup?

"To war, to war, to war we're going to go
Oh Hiddie Hiddie Hiddie Hiddie Hiddie Hiddie Ho!"

And also:

" The last man nearly ruined this place,
He didn't know what to do with it;
If you think this country's bad off now,
Just wait till I get through with it! "

It all sems a bit insane to me... It's been Opposite Day, every day, for the last six years. Whatever the good idea would have been, we're going to do the exact opposite. Economy suffering? Declare war! War not going so well? Declare another war! Sigh... I want my country back the way it was before it got all manky...

All that being said, it's a pleasant day, I'm listening to Leo Kottke, bombs aren't falling around me - I guess it could be worse.

Unilateral sanctions, eh? Yep, way to make the world safe from terrorists there, Bushy boy.

Lord help us from idiots. Would it be to much to file a class action suit against stupid people for creating a hostile environment?

No sleep, trying to stay off caffeine, and now this. I think I'll try going back to sleep and waking up next November after the general election.

And WA, I have to say, that post about cricket? I was completely lost! Now, baseball on the other hand...

[GDZ]

Cricket, baseball, I'm not too clear on either one.