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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
My most favorite trees are at Christmas Depot. They're beautiful, hand-made. But waaaaay out of my budget. And not on sale. *big pout*
I just bought a 9-foot arctic spruce at Tree Classics. Then I clicked on their sale bin and saw another one I liked better. Oh well. By the time I get finished decorating it, there won't be much tree to see.
I also looked at Tree Forest, The X Mas Shop, and Christmas Decorations & Gifts.
Suzi, do David's classes start Monday?
I was wondering if he'd decided what he's studying yet. I haven't. I'm hoping to make up my mind by Christmas. I have a Monday afternoon seminar class that should help. The first half of the semester, the professors come in in batches to talk about their research.
Plus, I'm taking classes with two professors I'm thinking I might like to work with, woohoo!
Not much to say, really... lost power to the data center at HQ for about a half hour. Lost everything. Turns out that the big liebert UPS system kicked the bucket and took everything down with it.
It actually could have been a whole lot worse. When we got power back, everything did come back up... so far we haven't found anything permanently damaged, but my fingers are crossed.
I wonder whether Bronner's, of Frankenmuth, Michigan, could help you with decorations. Famous as year-round Christmans shop.
Every time ours have to kick in we lose hardware (I'm not privy to details- just the "we're so sorry" emails). I'm always glad I'm just an end user and not sysadmin.
I have boxes of decorations ready to go. I hit the Michaels 50% sales. They're supposedly "after Christmas sales" but are always the week before Christmas. The stuff is too pricey otherwise.
I know whereof you speak.
Would it be exceedingly cool if we did a giant HH page, sort of a Christmas Card from all to all, and put in pics of trees, decor, family and friends etc?
Closer to Christmas, and for a few days afterward, obviously...
So what *do* you eat then? :)
OOPS is about right... hehehe... The really scary news from today though is that the liebert dudes were out to give it some trauma care... and they basically informed us that the whole unit is basically trashed. It cannot and will not successfully fail over to the battery (like, ever again), and it may not be worth fixing.
Sounds like we're getting a new UPS. Swell.
Mexican... Thai... Chinese... large hunks of meat... broccoli, peppers... pizza...
Ab-so-lute-ly.
Pepperoni is sometimes greasy, depending on the quality, I think.
Good evening.....
The swell part is who gets to move the old one out. Heh heh heh.
It won't sunset until September 13. Theoretically, a bill re-enabling it could be passed and signed before then. I don't consider it likely.
What I do see happening is the gun-grabbers finding a friendly judge who will declare the sunset provision unconstitutional. Of course, the expected (by the RATs) RAT sweep of all elected offices means they can pass whatever they want on January 21.
Realistically, even if the bill sunsets, I expect BATFE will arbitrarily deny import licenses anyway, just as they did under the klintons. I have my eye on some of the new H&K and Russian stuff, but don't expect them to ever be approved for import, even with Bush as president. Some people figure it's not worth fighting the "little" fights like this.
Bang! A rifle shot kicks up dust in front of the men.
CHILD'S VOICE: Hold it rah chair!
The front of the farm house shows only a harshly shaded front porch and a dark screen door.
The screen door swings open and a child emerges on to the porch and steps down into the sunlight, holding a gun almost bigger than he is. The grimy-faced boy, about eight years old, wears tattered overalls.
CHILD: You men from the bank?
PETE: You Wash's boy?
CHILD: Yassir! And Daddy tolt me I'm to shoot whosoever from the bank!
He pokes his rifle at the three men, who raise their hands.
DELMAR: Well, we ain't from no bank, young feller.
CHILD: Yassir! I'm also suppose to shoot folks servin' papers!
DELMAR: Well we ain't got no papers, neither.
CHILD: Yassir! I nicked the census man!
DELMAR: Now there's a good boy. Is your daddy about?
I'm game.
But we don't go overboard.
contrary to what buying a tree in august might suggest.
:)
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