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

Sorry about that.

I'm wide awake, some people can sleep at work on nights, but I can't. I should try and start to reset my circaidian rythm.

I don't want to say the Q word as it's bad luck. But I've spent the last two hours doing some paperwork and am now reading a magazine.

dont ask me how you managed it Z but your post reminded me thet i didnt take my meds.

>> autumny

autumnal?

Laptop still broken. Posting this from older, less completely broken laptop. Will drive down to nearest certified repair place tomorrow to try to fix it.

did you throw it at one of those Sedona women, Irv?!

A friend's daughter played in a battle of the bands today. She's quite a good drummer. Her bandmate seems to think hes the re=incarnation of Kurt Cobain, writing whiny songs about bad love and how outsider he is. All about getting out of a stifling town (which, I'll admit, isn't horrid)...I so want to give him some of the pre-grunge music I have from the mid-80s to remind him that really, no, the whole punk-into-grunge thing is done...

She, on the other hand, wrote a great song about the Persephone myth, entitled "Pomegranate Seeds".

Just had a patient and another one on the way. I'll get the other Doctor to see that one... usually we're both busy.

The tourist season is rubbish this year going by the number of admissions we're having.

Mornin All

There was a strange, yellow coloured thing in the sky this morning. Anybody know what it was?

I could be wrong, but I *think* it might be something they call the...um...moon? No, that's not right. Um, the soon? Nah. Gosh...








oh wait. The SUN. That's what it is! At least, that's what I've heard.

Hmm, maybe. I've got something in my car called Sun Glasses but the box is covered in cobwebs. I thought you had to put them on to see the err Sun?

>>And then in the Old Town there is a superb science fiction bookshop the name of which escapes me.>>

That'd be the Science Fiction Bokhandeln - or the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Bookstore of Stockholm, Sweden as they've chosen to call it in English. Defintely worth a visit if you're ever in Stockholm:

http://www.sfbok.se/div/english.htm

The coldest weather I've ever been outdoors in was -25ºC (-13ºF) which might not sound that bad, but then there was a full-grown snowstorm raging as well. My cheeks got frost-bitten when the humidity in my breath froze to ice on my skin...

I remember sun - we hade one day of it last week, but now everything is grey, grey, grey!

We had quite a bit better weather than forecasted over the weekend. Nice

>i have never understood the difference between baseball and rounders
One of my colleagues once got us closer to trouble than recommended when saying the same thing rahter loud in a bar in the US while a (apparently) rather important baseball game was on. * at the memory of the lack of humour in the responses in the bar*

Having worked out the rules of baseball by playing Wii fit, there are differences. In baseball the batter has to hit the ball between 45 degrees to the left and 45 deg to the right (hence the markings on the field), or it counts as a strike (three strikes and you're out). In rounders we usually played that if you hit the ball goes behind you when you hit it you're only allowed to run to first base.

Other than that the main differences are in scoring, when the team is out, and how many goes each team gets. And given that there doesn't seem to be a generally accepted set of rules for rounders (though no doubt there are competition rules) these don't particularly set baseball apart.

[Sol]

A welcome day off, having helped to work a beer festival over the weekend. Jolly good fun but quite tiring by the end.
I don't think I'll be wanting to drink much beer or cider this week.

There is the Sun *points to post above Phil's.*


Good to have you back Sol, how is The Star settling in to the new pad?

Funny somebody mentioning the temperature at which your nasal hair freezes - was watching the climate change debate program with the Scottish geologist who gets to go to all sorts of funky places last night and he went to the ice core storage place in the US to do a piece to camera. It is maintianed at -35 and in the middle of his bit he suddenly announced that the membranes in his nose had frozen. This isn't something I have every really thought about before and then two mentions in the same day!

Upon reading that back I can see that my lack of being able to recall *any* person or places names, or specific details of anything, has become critical.

And have just realised that I forgot to send off the cheques for T'Boy's swimming lessons or tumbletots classes for this term so now waiting to hear if they still have a place for us. Bad, bad disorganised mummy.

I have no idea how those women do it who act as surrogates for others - being pregnant totally disrupts everything in my life and much as I'd love to say I could do something that selfless, I just couldn't.

There were other things I was going to comment on from the backlog but I've forgotten them

Post 2253 is the only place the Sun has risen here so far, for another 30 or so minutes anyway.

once, when my offspring were small, i was driving them to the babysitter's early one morning.. Offspring R said "mommy what's that bright thing in the sky?"... to this day, she swears it was something other than the sun she was referring to, but.. i dunno... i couldnt see anything else. We've had to stop teasing her about it.

[Irv]

Bright and sunny here, a little crisp perhaps, and everything is soaking wet from last night's protracted rain. I wonder if the central heating will be installed before it gets cold?

Harbingers of autumn: the butter is getting harder and the crickets are chirping more slowly...

Mr. Nerd does that, too. He is originally from an extremely foggy coastal village a bit more than halfway between where we live now and Amy P's. So when we step out into a bright sunny day, he puts on a act about the bright glowing object in the sky and the evil rays emanating therefrom, with loud protestations of "Aaaargh, it's a UFO!" and "It's not natural, I tell you!"
The looks we get...