The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...

ecurbh

[ecurbh]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[JenB]

Hehehe....

Atkins does chocolate bars pretty well. I don't eat their other stuff. No reason to drink nasty milkshakes.... eat beef on Atkins...

[Corin Stormhands]

The problem is finding a week when I can borrow someone else's car to get around in.

Sorry, I read above that you hadn't gotten her insurance info. Check with your policy to see if you have a rental car provision. Then have your company check with hers. They should have to pay to provide you a car while yours is being repaired.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I'm convinced that life would be a lot simpler if we all just stuck to horses and buggies.

[JenB]

They do have a rental car provision but we're not sure yet that I'm allowed to drive the car! I'm still on Dad's policy (to have my own would be about half as much as my car payment, and they're willing) and as I'm not 25, I might not get to drive the rental... in which case I could be driving my mother's Beetle around for a week. Good thing I can drive a stick now.

Don't suppose Dad'll let me borrow his car...

[Professional Engineer]

Amish bumper sticker: Beware of Exhasut

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I tried that once too...kind of a cardboard/cement/cobweb taste to it, huh?

[2Jedismom]

Yeah, they oughta give you a rental car! I had a city dump truck back over me once, came clear up my hood of my car and the back end of it stopped just like 3 inches from my windowshield.

I was on my way home from a Republican Women's meeting and I had on a sweater dress and a pair of black stiletto heels...this was back in the early 80s. I remember jumping out of my car and stomping over to the driver (after stopping traffic in all directions to use as witnesses) and POUNDING on his door, yelling at him to "Get out! Get out!" He wouldn't get out! He had scared me terribly...had my car not caught up under his truck, his tailgate would have come right through my windshield.

Anyway, I was pretty mad, to say the least.

So I go to the rental place and they tell me, quite rationally, that the city would pay for the rental, but I had to pay the deposit which I would get back. Well, I would hear none of it. I told them to make the city pay the deposit and they tried to reason with me which was impossible at this point.

I said, "I'll just sit over there till you get this all worked out and I get my car." I went and sat down in a chair facing them. They kept talking on the phone and looking at me in this perplexed way...until finally they came up to me and said "They're bringing your car around."

"Thank you." I said.

[2Jedismom]

LOL Exactly!

[JenB]

Where's that box fan pic...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Would you still be able to even hook it up to a contemporary tv?

Oh, sure! I still have the old sliding switch boxes that the game hooked up to, and a lot of TVs still allow the spade-type VHF connectors. Or, I could get a converter to a cable-type connector...

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Just received an e-mail from the Trolls Up On High, stating that if classes are cancelled tomorrow due to the impending storm, staff are still expected to report to work.

So...it's not ok for the students to risk life and limb to come to school, but it's ok for staff?

If the roads are bad, and we choose to not report to work, we have to take the time as a vacation or sick day.

Beauty!

[2Jedismom]

Oh that's lovely.

[JenB]

What on earth is so important that you must risk yourself for?

I'm already fixed up if I have to work from home tomorrow. Won't be my most productive but I can do something useful...

[RosieCotton]

I'm convinced that life would be a lot simpler if we all just stuck to horses and buggies.

In some ways, maybe...but I don't gotta shovel van poo...and it only needs to be "fed" (quickly and easily) once a week or so.

[RosieCotton]

Our policy is very reasonable...if school is cancelled, only necessary personnel are required to report - mostly snow removal and security.

However, it takes a heck of a lot to cancel classes. That's why that one week late last semester (final exam week, even!) was amazing...two days of school being closed. That's almost unthinkable.

[JenB]

I'm surprised that my school closed this afternoon (they cancelled all classes after two). But we are on top of a high hill with a very steep long road down. There have been nasty accidents there before... Oh well, I wasn't going to class even if it was on, not after the collision.

Almost yelled "Van-sama!" while reading your remarks about your modern horse...

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Wow! You've got a knack for handling problems, tellyouwhut.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I just don't get it. If classes are cancelled, and most local businesses are closed, there is NO POINT in me being at work.

80% of my job can be done from my computer at home, and in most cases, I get more work done when I'm home sick than I do when I'm there!

I just don't get it...

[JenB]

Didja point this out to the higher-ups?

[JenB]

stupid day spam.