Posted on 10/06/2018 2:02:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Dry I can do. Warm - the building manager needs to stop making this floor a space for storing beef.
That’s why we have coats.
Sally keeps bringing home “lunchables” equivalents from Starbucks “because they’d just go to waste, and think of the homeless people!” Only we don’t have any homeless people right to hand, so the brothers are eating them.
She went to school in her pajamas this morning because she hasn’t done laundry for two weeks.
Nice of Sally to think of the homeless. The Bowery Mission has arrangements with lots of food places in NYC to collect any foods that would otherwise be thrown away so they can serve the homeless.
People in NYC do things in their pajamas all the time, now. I don’t know about classes, and I don’t think they go to work, but grabbing a bagel and coffee, walking the dog, people in pajamas all the time.
What did socialists use before candles?
Electricity
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Heh, I knew it!
I’ll suggest she talk to her manager about a more useful disposition of the lunchable-type-things. Also various pastries. Maybe the Missionaries of the Poor or the Spanish Charitable Committee could get them to the needy before they spoil.
On the other, they’re not going to waste here ...
I noticed that. I was looking for their roster info and it just isn't there. Found more info on the repository of all knowledge (a.k.a. Wikipedia) than from the website..
Looks like you get a decent ride - 45 miles or so. Since the closest I ever got to Durango was Denver on the company's dime I doubt I'll make it out there now that I am officially a seasoned citizen enjoying my retirement and paltry pension.. ;-)
Of course if I should get struck by lightning twice I'll know I'm about to win the lotto and I can dream them. (But I think that you have to buy a ticket to win - seems someone mentioned that minor item.)
Have seen it before...never fails to get guffaws.
;)
Buying a ticket doesn't actually improve your odds of winning by much.
Congratulations to Vlad!!
Laundry day is done, since I just put clean sheets on the bed. I could have done it earlier but I was (am) more concerned about getting into the old emails and retrieving as many as possible before they are deleted.
Lots of things I missed when Hotmail went to Outlook, but was too preoccupied to realized the changeover was why I was no longer getting emails from some people. I don’t know why I thought I wouldn’t be getting any more mail...but I did, and now, I need to retrieve as many as I can that are of interest to me, since its obviously a valid email account.
Chuck came over to inform me that I’ll be getting a new fridge tomorrow, and that makes me immensely happy! Now I can make ice cubes instead of buying so much bottled water! YAY!
When I cleaned the birdcage today, I moved it into the kitchen. I didn’t realize when I moved in that the cage was in line with the room air conditioner, and the one thing that will kill the little wuzzers is a draft. So they are out of the line of the breeze from the A/C.
My friend, Sharon dropped by this morning to see how I was. She said about a third of the Ward was out yesterday, so I guess I was in good company. I’m glad she didn’t stay because my voice was beginning to fail.
LOL! Sally reminds me so much of my own daughter! “If your laundry isn’t in the hamper by Monday morning, don’t bother bringing it to me once the washer starts because it ain’t happening. I’m only washing once a week, ‘cuz all y’all ain’t payin’ me enough to do it more often!”
And guess who comes thumping out of her room when she hears the washer filling...?
The Brothers are always starving so Sally is doing them a service. ;o]
In Vegas, the folks that wear their pajamas on the bus and into the stores usually have their hair in rollers, and have slippers on their feet. Those folks are called “Walmartians!”
Last time I went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park I took a picture of a bobcat.
So what happened next in the tale?
Did the Caddis fly Xagthrath get irritated at suddenly being in a sauna?
Kathleen bought a stuffed bobcat at the Museum of York County, SC, last Friday.
Sounds like you’ve had a useful day and you’ll have a useful tomorrow as well. I need to make up a forestry quiz for Friday and email it to the team leader. But first, tea.
This bobcat had a special enclosure and was next to the caterpillar.
Thanks for the reminder. I have the next piece in my head. I’ll try to get it in the UT before we move (and before tomorrow, but that’s another hope).
What kind of caterpillar?
The Xagthrath tried to figure out what to do. With the heat and the fan it was losing its grip on the outer layers of clothing. If the heat got all the way down it would die. It had nearly died once, long ago, outside in the sun, before it found the tunnels.
It considered jumping the biped, but it wasn’t sure the biped wouldn’t follow and it didn’t see anywhere to go once it was out in the open room. There was nothing there but bright light. No sign of any water it could use to maintain its temperature.
It was running out of time. It had to figure out where to go. Then it remembered the quadruped and looked behind the machines. There it was, a big hole.
I saw something come shooting out from beneath the pile. It actually looked like some kind of throw rug, but it was moving fast, behind the washing machines. It was going back in the direction the rat had come from.
I tried to follow, but there wasn’t much room back there. I grabbed a flashlight and shone it into the dark canyon. I could just see a bit of rug disappear into a hole, probably the one the rat had come through.
Decision time. Should I try to move the machines to follow the thing? Did it really matter if it was down there, somewhere, under the city eating rats? It wasn’t threatening me or the residents of my building any more.
I decided it didn’t. I decided I could live with it being out there as long as it wasn’t in here. I turned to pick up the now dry pile of clothes.
But somehow, in the back of my mind, I was sure I hadn’t seen the last of that thing.
THE END
For now.
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