The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...

The Freeper Hobbit Hole ^

[RosieCotton]

Now *that* would be fun-in-a-box. :-)

Heh...it would be. Though...I use Mozilla part time. So I'd not appreciate it. ;-) Unless I was warned, of course! Then it'd be a riot.

[Ramius]

yikes. duty calls. back in a bit.

[2Jedismom]

I gotta sign off too...Steve'll be home soon.

See you all in the morning.

[Ramius]

False alarm. Yeesh.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

< /channeling Heinlein >

I didn't read much Heinlein much when I was young, so when I think of life in a Mars colony, I tend to channel Bradbury (shudder).

[Corin Stormhands]

I actually drank some in Amsterdam.

Sigh, the Tanzania trip is flying thru Amsterdam.

There is still hope...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

[SuziQ]

Clare's troop is selling them, if you don't mind paying some extra for shipping. They'd be $3.50 a box, plus shipping. ;o)

[SuziQ]

Glad you got that task behind you, Rosie! It oughta be smooth sailing from now on!

[Corin Stormhands]

's ok. I'm better now.

The following took place between the hours of 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

- On muh way home, wife calls, says we shouldn't give up on Jr. going to Brazil just yet. She thinks he needs nurturin'. I think he needs his @$$ kicked. We have to wait for some final results about school, and he's got to show some initiative. To be quite honest, I don't think I'll see it.

- Got home and wife says "downstairs toilet has been running since I got home." She tried to stop it and broke the float ball off. I was gonna go out and get a new piece. So I cut the water supply off to stop it runnin' and discovered it's leaking in the back. Fortunately, we got a nayber who does plumbing on the side. He's coming tomorrow morning to fix that and the leaky kitchen faucet. (I could but he can be done by the time I figger out the parts. I know my limitations.)

- Went upstairs to change and checked on Nana. She said "I've been bad." She wanted to change the sheets on her bed (it's a hospital bed), so she raised it up and couldn't get it back down. The instructions don't make sense and I thought she'd messed it up for good, but I went back up (after I posted) and figgered it out.

- On top of all that, I feel like crap. But I'm okay.

< / whine>

[ExGeeEye]

sowwy

[ExGeeEye]

I don't think I read much Bradbury. Seems to me he's pretty much a downer, tho that might just be the Fahrenheit 451 talking.

[SuziQ]

That sounds like that farm you've been wanting, 2J. Just remember, you seem to have powerful friends in High Places. Just look how fast you got your Beetle!!

[RosieCotton]

Not your fault! ;-) My computer seems to need a swift kick in the pants. I'm cleanin' it up a bit before bed...

[Corin Stormhands]

I don't think I read much Bradbury.

"The Veldt" is one of my favorite Bradbury stories.

The "original" holodeck.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Yeah, he's a downer all right. A lot of what he writes is flat-out horror, of the quiet, disturbing kind. But it's all classic stuff. I can recommend The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man as good places to start.

The day the shuttle Columbia went down, I kept thinking of Bradbury's short story "Kaleidoscope", which appears in The Illustrated Man. Read it and you'll know why.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

"The Veldt" is also in The Illustrated Man... first story, in fact. Amazon has an excerpt....

[JenB]

Send anything you want! Just don't hold me liable for it.

The church choir started tonight, so I went. It was fun. Not entirely sure it's worth driving 40 minutes to practice for an hour, but choir is something I've missed.

[JenB]

Ouch, Heinlein's Mars Colony was a much more pleasant - and less weird - place than Bradbury's. But if I'm thinking space colony, it's either Luna City, or Ganymede.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Yeah, Bradbury has a way of writing about how things might go *wrong*... with space travel, with robots, with just about anything SF.