Posted on 06/28/2010 12:43:57 PM PDT by DagonofAlbion
Fanks!
If I pray, my prayers will be answered. There are no time limits, so I need to pray and wait. It’s what I do.
Er...TT...
Were I a guy, I’d be under the hood of my truck in a heartbeat. But I ain’t.
I buy parts at junkyards because I can’t afford the stuff from the factory.
FYI: I had some awesome brothers who taught me what to listen for, how to fix things, and NOT to take the first repair guy at his word.
Hiya! Hope all’s well with you and it’s been good things keeping you occupied beyond these environs. I’ve considered moving, a time or three, though I dread the very idea; just in books I’ve more than 3,000 items. Including the LEGO — it’s gotta be a million or more!
So, I’ve been in my “starter house” for eighteen years, now; just accumulatin’ away. Oddly, the economy’s gone so far south, if I sold today, after I’d paid off the remaining mortgage I’d net just about what I bought it for last Century, which — in today’s dollars — is little more than a middling downpayment on anything that would constitute “moving up.”
It all’s startin’ to give the term “starter house” a different flavor; sort of like “the house where you live out your temporal existence prior to entrance into your eternal dwelling.” At least I won’t have to pack.
You can live in your car, but you can’t drive your house!
Speaking of moving, shouldn’t the UT have moved? Not that I mind ... if we stay here long enough, I might find the Topic or Bill’s iPod.
I dreamed that Frank told me where it was, but I can’t remember what he said.
!!!
That stinks.
It’s not a big deal. I only buy a pair of shoes about every six years.
It’s not a big deal. I only buy a pair of shoes about every six years.
I had to invest in a replacement pair of boots to take over duty from my “finally gave up the ghost Rocky pattern 1950” boots.
$180!!!!
*dies*
At least they’re whole leather with steel toes non-conductive.
Kitty looks truly peeved.
Cats don’t really care for angel-food cake. In my experience.
Ah, yes.
They seem to act as if it is a deathly insult.
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You'll probably find it [Bill's iPod] in the junk drawer or inside the computer desk in the sunroom or something. Or maybe Shannon [the calico cat] stole it. One never knows. She does things like that. I remember she had my lighter when I came to visit, and was mad at me when I took it out from under the bed where she'd hidden it. Perhaps she's morphed into a superior breed like Agnes [the late calico cat]. She's probably building a rocket ship or something behind the sofa.
Bored still. I got food poisoning, but have recovered. I knew I should have gotten ramen from Guam. I'm living off of handfuls of potato chips, bread and butter, and diet soda now. It's like being in college again, except I'm almost out of chips. Also the sodas are cold. Can't wait to get back to Seattle so I can eat Greek food every night, again. Plus there was supposed to be a Thai food restaurant opening downtown, run by real Thai people. Also a hat store and another comic book place.
I made it rain so we don't have to do flight ops. [She can do this.] The weather, other than the part I fixed, has become predictable and fairly pleasant. In the mornings it's partly cloudy with 8-foot swells, with the East-West trade winds blowing right in our faces at twelve knots or so. Starting at 1400 sharp are 10-foot seas with periods of sun and a good-sized squall every half-hour or so. At nine pm we have small thunderstorms and slightly higher seas until about 6:30 am, when it calms down again. The same weather every day. It's an interesting phenomenon. I think it has something to do with the trade winds.
We keep jumping forward an hour or so every day. We jump a day pretty soon, I think. Pretty sure we're doing Tuesday twice. This doesn't strike me as a very interesting day to do more than once, but ah well. There's supposed to be a pig roast for Coast Guard day ... that's the one we're doing over twice, so I don't know if there will be two pig roasts or what. I lost several games of bingo, mostly because I kept falling asleep. There's orange soda and something called 'milk tea' in the machine on the messdeck. Still out of new books, and I finished Space Marines [the tv series "Space: Above and Beyond" starring the incredibly gorgeous James Morrison] and Season 1 of the Venture Brothers, so I'm now playing through the new Oblivion expansion pack (I found a Gamestop in Guam at the mall, so fortunately I have some new games.)
I got a Star Wars game, but it needed some patches installed and I haven't tried to make it work yet. The expansion pack, however, is pretty good. Maybe it will have a better ending than the original game, where you finish it and go "that's it?" Although there will be some plot resolution as to who becomes Emperor in the expansion, I think. At least, that seems to be what it's building up to. I don't care for Steampunk [a literary and artistic aesthetic style] much, myself. Overdone. Also, it reminds me of the Tattooine scenes in Star Wars. I like historical styles better.
I may get some new shoes in Hawaii. I need a pair of boots that aren't falling apart, and maybe some running shoes. The ones I have aren't the same after jungle hiking up the mudslide on Borneo. Not much call for sandals in Seattle, so I won't bother with those. I can borrow some of yours for the beach [we have the same shoe size, and so does Elen], maybe, or just go barefoot if I don't have to go anywhere. Also I need to get Bill something in Hawaii. I haven't found anything that he'd want, except for some decorative samurai swords in Thailand, but those are hard to ship. I'll send a box when we get back to Seattle, so I don't have to try and get things through the airport.
I saw "Inception" in Guam. It was okay. It reminded me of the alternate-universe episodes of "Stargate SG1," but without Jack O'Neill to laugh at. The people I went with kept claiming that it was really confusing and hard to understand, etc., but I had no trouble keeping up with what was going on, even at midnight. Maybe it's hard for people to understand if they haven't seen all the seasons of Stargate. Also we watched the "Star Trek" remake, which I really liked. It was more fun than the old one. Better fights.
The UT will move as soon as sion gets back from his class reunion. It seems there’s no coverage there for what he needs to make the move.
Or something.
OH, that’s right, he’s away. It’s okay. I’m not ready for next month yet.
I’m not ready for much of anything. Weepy again today. I think the truck has something to do with it. But that’s OK. I’ll live.
Visualize yourself on a nice Coast Guard cutter in the Pacific, with the incredibly gorgeous James Morrison, some Steampunk accessories, and Thai food.
I’ll get over it. It’s just one more thing in a lost list of things since May, and I’m not dead, yet, so I’m thinking I’ll survive. I may not look like much when I’m done, but I’ll survive. It’s just a little difficult to concentrate.
lost list => LONG list
GRRRrrrr!
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