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

Hi there....it took a bit of lookin' but I found you. I've been away for a while..., I've been on a leave of absence from work since Oct 15, Mom passed away Oct 25...I fell and twisted my ankle day before she passed...did the thing on crutches...Mom was at home and went quietly during the night, I'm thankful for that, but I must say, she was quite her difficult self right up to the end...my bathroom ceiling fell down from a leak above, all the same day..now my whole bathroom is being ripped out to be replaced...what a mess....but Ohhh...ahhhh....I'm still alive......yeah

drop me a line to let me know what I've been missing...
Barb

Az
It's a boy cat. But it's not my fault that we can't agree! I though Pepperoni was a good name but apparently not.
Barb
*Drops line* Bugger.
about your mother, I'm sorry. Is your ankle better yet?

Hey there "Mal" is it?....thanks for asking....my foot is better I guess, but it still kind of hurts if I'm standing too long....Life's a crazy ride, let me tell you.....and it's nice to have someone to yak to while you're driving...

az.....so what's this about "Pepperoni"?????

oh geez...my birdies want to go to sleep.....night night time....I'll check in again...

Barb

Barb
It's Mal now, yeah. I got bored of Fnord, see.
My stepfather twisted his ankle years ago, and it still hurts occasionally. Bad luck

howdy,

I just posted this with Chai, thought you might be interested as well.


http://books.guardian.co.uk/games/haiku/0,5917,124810,00.html




az

Nice link, az, cheers!
(Definitly my favourite:
"Don't ban tobacco
We'll have nothing left to smoke
With our cannabis")

I liked that one too!

Re: the Roadkill thing. Just please don't do that again, okay? Just ask first, that's all.

az

ps
am not angry . . . not even a little . . .

It just went wrong. I gave it, and then he said "is she okay with it?", at which point I remembered that you got catty about things like that, but by the time I'd finished checking, he'd added you. Won't happen again.

Catty??? Do you know what that means? I'm not catty at all. Okay, occasionally I might get a bit snippety or even persnickety . . . but never catty.

What are your Christmas plans?



az

Is "persnickety" even a word?
Christmas plans, hmm. Scrape together enough money to get five pound presents for everyone I know. Watch a lot, and I mean a WHOLE LOT, of television. Eat far too many sweets. Feel ill. Maybe go to a party or three.
You?

Yes persnickety is a word! Look it up. At the same time you look up catty to find out what that actually means.

My neighbour Eric dropped off his VCR this morning that plays both American and Eurpean videos. So I can watch some of my favourite Christmas stuff that I have on tapes that I brought from Canada.

I won't watch television.

But I will watch films and stuff.

No parties. No dinners. No sweets (don't like sweets).

Just me and cats and - I hope! - a bottle of cava for Christmas Day (will have to see how my Visa card credit is holding out . . .)

Hmmmm. . . not terribly ho ho ho sounding, is it?



az

Poor, lonely az...
But at least you've got a) cats and b) videos, eh? I'll be in a house packed with five screaming siblings.

Remember when I sent you the photos and they got returned? Well, I just sent you a Christmas e-card and *that* got returned too!

So I was just about to give you heck for not clearing out your hotmail account enough when I realized that I had been sending stuff to 'antichristteen' .

Gosh, talk about yer freudian slip!



az

just finished watching Donnie Darko . . . it was okay

Okay? OKAY? No taste whatsoever!
Can it be? Am I an antichrist in your mind? Well, I never. Prepare to burn in Hell...

my flat is so chilly that doesn't actually sound like a bad idea . . .



az

You could burn your computer for heat...

Well, *I* thought it was a good idea. See? No problems! Except - OW! MY EYES!!

dvd film mid-way intermission

hey, didn't you like the christmas card???



az

Well, in the sense that it crashed my mentally abnormal computer, causing it to flash ultra-bright light into my optical nerve suddenlt, before I'd even SEEN it - no.