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Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh
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I'm assuming I'm probably OK once I'm south of Vermont...I hope so!
Oh joy!
Pollen.
;-)
dank u
Did somebody say compound?
It ought to be spring by then. In PA we didn't often get snow after mid-March.
Morning, all. I'm still tired.
I'm still tired, too. And trying to figure out why the Macs on campus hate several of the HP printers. It's a very frustrating problem since it doesn't happen with all printers or all the time.
We arrived about 9:15, had some breakfast at Grand Central then went on over to Central Park for the 'Gates' exhibit. It is an interesting sight, but I'm just glad it wasn't taxpayer funded. This artist, Christo, paid for it all himself. It's successive orange goal pasts, for lack of a better analogy, with orange-saffron drapes hanging off them spaced about 20' feet apart along most of the walkways in the lower park. It is sort of a pretty sight, watching the drapes billowing in the breeze, though. I got some pictures, but haven't loaded them on the computer, yet. We did the loop from 5th and 59th up around the lower part of the park up to 72nd St. and found the Balto statue. That's the dog who represents the sled dog team that helped bring meds to Nome AK. It was depicted in the movie "Balto".
After that, we walked back down to where we started, then crossed the street to F A O Schwartz. That's a fun store, but GAK! is it expensive. Clare wanted some invisible playing cards
which were probably the cheapest thing in the store, so I got her and Joseph a set. They're clear, except for the markings that denote each card. Clare chose a blue-silver color combo, and got a red-black set for Joseph. We saw a scaled down red Ferrari, that cost $50,000!!! I'm sure some folks with more money than sense will buy it for their little darlin child. Either that or the scaled down Mercedes sedan.
We left there and walked down to Ground Zero. It is entirely enclosed in heavly steel mesh since they're fixing to start re-construction. The ramp that was built to haul debris out is still there. They'll use it for the re-building. The hugh cross that was what was left of two I-Beams crossing each other that they pulled out of the rubble is still there on a concrete base. Got some pics of that, too.
I don't know how much we walked, should have brought my pedometer along! We ended up coming home on the early train cause it was getting cold, and we were tired. We're planning to go back later in the Spring when it warms up! It was only $33 round trip on the peak time from Waterbury to NYC, and it was only a two hour drive to Waterbury from here. Sure saved a lot of driving time and parking hassle!!
I was exhausted when we got back and the joints between my legs and hips were aching. I took some Advil, hit the sack, and was asleep within a minute of my head hitting the pillow! Boy do I need more exercise! I feel much better this morning after a full nine hours of sleep, though!
*grinning*
I thought you would appreciate the location.
10 posts out was my limit in the "old days"... I usually liked to wait a bit and sneak in at the last second, though. I had a little extra time this morning since I didn't have to drive Rose in to work, checked the thread, saw it was there, and figured it wouldn't last until I got to work, so I went for it.
Hadn't had a good spam in ages, it seemed. Some folks even forgot what they looked like....
Rose was going back to bed when I left, BTW, but I'll pass along your "get wells" when I talk to her later, if she doesn't see them herself before then.
Corin, regarding your recurring respiratory distress... have you thought about consulting an allergist?
Macs is eeevil.
Yeah, I think that's what I need to do. I used to get bronchitis once a season. If this heads that way, this is the third time this year. Something has to be triggering it.
They don't play nice with others, in any case.
Ooh, thanks for the report! I was gonna ask you about it!
Shh, don't let the Mac cultists hear you...
The ones here want to buy new printers, because obviously HP printers are garbage - they intermittantly error out and won't print and it's NOT acceptable. Not at ALL.
Doesn't happen with PCs, but that's just coincidence.
Grrr...if I could solve this, I could leave this place feeling like a heroine. It's a 79.00FE error, which according to Google can mean just about ANYTHING. And it doesn't happen every time, so troubleshooting it is really hard.
When it DOES happen, the queue has to be cleared from the server side, and then the printer has to be reset. Which means...if it happens when we aren't here to clear the queue, people get royally upset.
I read about that musical in Newsweak on the train home! Gina and I were thinking we might surprise the girls and not tell them what we're going to see, and take them to it. They love Holy Grail and would love the musical, I'm sure.
Hank Azaria, who plays Lancelot and a couple of other parts, recited whole blocks of the material upon first meeting Idle and the producers, and when Idle asked him how he knew it, Azaria told him he had been 'off book', as in, knowing all the dialogue of the movie, since he was 12. I'm sure that made Eric Idle feel old! LOL!
Is the place next door for sale?
Wouldn't that be wonderful? My mom gets all in a snit if someone parks on the street in front of her house and all I dream of is having children free-ranging in and out of my house.
Both boys want lots of kids. :-)
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