Thanks for the food as usual RM...
No time to do justice to catching up on 400+ posts, so I did a real quick speed-read from which I glean the following responses:
Corin -- Glad your son only had a sprain, hope it heals quickly. That was a rather chilling way in which you "matter of factly" stated that the game was postponed on account of "rain, snipers, etc...". Lord have mercy! What times we are living in!?!
Scott from the Left Coast -- Dude! You have got to rethink the Windy Elf gig! Think of all the fodder for the elf bash crowd. You'll be subjecting yourself to endless ridicule. Come down to earth and be a dwarf, or at least a man... ;^)
2Jedismom -- What a fabulously beautiful bathroom remodel! What a transformation! Do you make house calls? You could start a new career as a remodeling designer or something. Your partying exploits reminded me of some of my own episodes in the past (vodka in one hand, OJ in the other, etc...). I guess I haven't shared with you all that I am a "recovering alcoholic" so......no no no no I don't drink/smoke it no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor, No thank you please it only makes me sneeze, and then it makes it hard to find the door.... I am officially substance free for 21 years now. I guess that will make me a party pooper if I can make it to entmoot, but that is still a big if for me right now....
JenB, Overtaxed, Corin Stormhands, Bear -- I cannot justify the time required to participate in NaNoWriMo this time around, but will be very interested to follow your progress. It was amusing to me that you all have themes that relate to other time dimensions, cross-reality portals, etc... These should be very fun to read! Good luck!
And now my Elf Bash Personal Complaining Whine of the Month: I may not be posting much in the next few weeks, and I have composed the following as my explanation why:
Nassssty elvish auditors arriving today and staying for 2 full weeks. Girly men in green suits bringing their 5000 watt klieg lights into our nice, tidy halls of stone. Shining bright lights everywhere…. Poking around into every nook and cranny; lording it over us with their bureaucratic maze of pronouncements, regulations, and rulings (as numerous as the leaves in their filthy forests). Digging everywhere, making mountains out of mole hills, messing up our beautiful caves…. Trying to find our secret special steel for axes, our super-secret hidden armory, our super-de-duper secret hordes of treasure. (heh heh heh - not a chance they will ever find that!). Social engineering elitists who think they know better than we do how to run and organize our mining operations, our caving methodology and architecture. Superior snoots making our lives miserable, while all the while we have to smile and say things like, “Thank you for pointing that out, your highness”, “Yes, we made a mess of it there, didn’t we?, “How would you suggest that we rectify the problem, your gloriousness?”, “If there’s anything else we can get for you, don’t hesitate to ask”, “Well, you see, the way the system was originally setup constrained us from doing things in an absolutely perfect manner, your graciousness”, “Well, if you would be so kind as to provide us with a spreadsheet like that, we would be ever so happy to destroy the one we took 4 months to build, hone, and fine tune so that it works infinitely better than your oversimplified piece of junk, but if that’s the way you want to see it, your supremity…”, “Ever so sorry to interrupt your deliberations, your eminences, but we are sorry to report we cannot locate the details pertaining to that extremely rare and unusual variance of $2.83 in the account that normally averages in the $60,000,000.00 to $90,000,000.00 range. We will, as punishment, gratefully endure your subtly haughty and ridiculing sideways glances and smirks of superiority….” And so on….and so on, etc. etc…..
So this is what I am putting up with for the next two weeks, and then it will be time for another month-end close…. Time to seriously contemplate a career change...
Have a great day, All! Will check in when I can....
Sounds more like Saruman's people are messing with you than elves. Elves aren't much into social engineering as they don't even care much about the doings of mortals.
Too far down the river to turn back now. I would be the greatest Dwarf in history however, being 6 foot 2!
Windy elf it is to be (don't all the dwarves consider them interminable gas bags anyway)?
You are right about all auditors being elves: The Internal Auditor at my office, is going to the party as Arwen. That's proof right there.
And tomorrow I find out if my job is part of the budget cuts...(at least I'd have time to finish the windows...)
This too shall pass!
I think more than a few of us will be abstaining of drinking any pints...except maybe the dregs of a pint of Hagen-Daz or something, eh? LOL
I don't remember when I actually quit drinking...around the time my husband did, I guess...around 11 years ago. I told him "We'll be party people or parent people, but we're not going to be both...just so you know..." He quit immediately and has never picked up another drink since.
After knowing me for the time you have, you can probably tell that moderation is not really in my vocabulary! LOL (I did see the Movie 19 times in the cinema...not counting the times it was at the cheap cinema!) Same with this. I never drank "a little". But surprisingly, it was very easy for me to give up.
I think when I was single and aimless, I was in a kind of self-destruct mode. Then I got married and started looking forward to having a family with the future that I always had hoped for and I just quit. Left that behavior on the side of the road and never looked back except now and then to wonder "What was I thinking???"