The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

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Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Didja ever see the movie Songwriter?

No, never have... what's it about?

[Professional Engineer]

1894? My you've aged VEY well.

[Wneighbor]

What do college presidents do, anyway? Nothing useful, surely...

That is unless it's using up taxpayer money for ridiculous purposes. Or making policy to make it much more difficult on college personnel. oh, like you said, nothing useful.

[RosieCotton]

From what you and Bear have said, I don't think I have an infection...just sore sinuses. My nose still worst, for one! Probably just dry air...which is a relief.

I'm going to crank up the humidifier a bit higher than usual and see if just being in a nice slightly humid place will help. It's horribly dry at work.

[RosieCotton]

Heh...

Though actually, the current president actually isn't so bad. She's really worked on trying to make the college more successful and more a part of the community, which isn't a bad thing. She does expect a lot of our department, but she usually thanks us for everything, too - sends messages out to the whole campus to let them know what we're doing behind the scenes. Kinda nice!

[RosieCotton]

Worst should be works.

I dunno if that qualifies as a Freudian slip or no.

[My back yard]

ecchhh. If you do take a expectorant, careful not to mix it with antihistimine. That is what is good about the saline spray, you can do that with whatever medicine you take too.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

and I often gets pieces of what looks like blood vessel.

Oh yeah... when I get that, it's usually a sign that the infection is just about done, and it's just the congestion left to clear up.

Sinutab has a combination thinner/decongestant too... pseudoephedrine (sudafed) with something else. Really opens me up when my nose is especially stuffy.

[RosieCotton]

What with all this talk of blood and green goo and blood vessel chunks...I'm sure people are very happy I started this subject!

Maybe I'll just end up with a 2J style nosebleed and then feel all better.

[Wneighbor]

No, never have... what's it about?

It's about these two Songwriters, Doc and Blackie, played by Willie and Kris Kristofferson. Doc gets into a lousy contract with a Yankee promoter and has to get even. I think you might have to be from Texas to love this movie. Added to that I spent *way* too much time hanging out in the music scene down in Austin.... too much is too true.

There are several concert scenes in the movie. They called in lots of people in Austin to go in one Saturday to be the audience. I was there. That was a pretty fun time.

Opening monologue is spoken by Kris and goes like this:

Doc’s got him a real healthy imagination which cost him a couple of wives and most of our money before leading him to the stunning conclusion that songwriting was making somebody a whole lot of bucks, since it obviously wasn’t us, it had to be them. He immediately quit the road forever to be a mogul , leaving it me and the boys out here to be the keepers of the flame. Doc’s ace in the hole in this world full of wheelers and whackos and dealers and old obligations and too little time was a burning commitment to living by his wits without stoopin’ to work. So far he’s semi succeeded, thanks to innocence, audacity and a flat refusal to let himself to let himself be outgangstered by some fat guy in a suit. You see in the music business just like in real life it’s a day to daily war between the sorry and the soulful and no rule says the righteous gotta win, but I’m puttin my money on a conman gypsy bad ass true blue legendary bandit hero. And when it’s all over they can say he did it for the love, but he was not above the money.

[Wneighbor]

1894? My you've aged VEY well.

Need I remind you that I'm an elf? LOL

who typoed? 1984

[g'nad]

mmmmmmmm.... nosebleed...

[Wneighbor]

Wow, Ya'll have a pretty good president. Our current president started with the college the same day I did. I can honestly say that his policies are not anywhere near as good as ya'll's presidents.

[RosieCotton]

The only bad thing about ours is that she's so ambitious and active that it's tiring to talk to her for long!

[Wneighbor]

My dial-up is on the fritz. Dunno if I'll be here much. It was inoperable there for several minutes.

[RosieCotton]

Hey, if it'd make me feel better, I'm all for it.

Cookin' dinner. Chicken and spoonbread and a vegetable...haven't figured out what yet.

[g'nad]

venison tacos here... we rented The Silver Chair fer thekids tuh watch tuhnite...

got cold the last two hours... wind chill dropped into single digits while me and the young'uns wuz outside...

[Wneighbor]

Ours is *really* a spendthrift but not toward paying employees. He began with a redecoration of our student union building for 150K. When it was over with I couldn't tell any difference. Granted, I'm not working at that campus and only saw it once before the re-do, but I didn't see any different. Older employees didn't see anything much either.

When he and his wife moved into their school furnished home the wife was not happy because there were no large trees in the back yard. She had it approved for the college to pop 2 grand for a mature oak tree. Then, a contractor was paid to dig a hole in the backyard for the tree at $700. The biggest problem with that was that she didn't like it where it was the 1st time, or the 2nd time, or the 3rd time or the 4th time. And the 5th time she had them re-locate the tree, it was right back into the first spot. Each digging of the hole was $700.

Okay, so that's small change in the scheme of the college budget. But, I had to go to an outside source to get plotters for my classroom - and didn't get them till the 2nd year I worked here. Cost for one plotter coulda been paid for by the tree holes but we didn't have money in the college budget for 'em. I actually taught the whole first year I was here without the students getting to plot their drawings at all!

These are only examples of the spendiness of our pres. And what rankles me most is that it is *all* taxpayers money!

[Wneighbor]

Manicure.

2J, tell 'em you just want a regular manicure, no acrylics.

If you want polish tell 'em, or just get a clear cote. Makes 'em shiney.

The French manicure is *usually* done over acrylics. It is the natural nail color on the beds and very white on the ends. The American manicure is natural on the nail bed and a more natural lighter color on the ends. The difference is that French is VEY white on the outgrowing end part and American is a more *real* nail color.

For the pedicure just tell 'em you want a pedicure. They do that like you want. But, wear loose pants cause they will also massage your feet and calves. VEY NICE!

The college cosmetology department here gives the kind of manicures and pedicures you are looking for, you might want to check and see if there is a cosmotology school there and you could get this done more often if you like.

That extra fee for the French manicure or American manicure is in addition to the fee for whatever else is done. It costs extra to have the natural color added. I don't think you want that with a natural manicure because it's colored nail polish they put over acrylics to make the fake stuff look real.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Ahh, ok. I think KVET plays some audio from that movie for commercial bumpers. Kris saying, "Aw, hell, let's go to Austin", and Willie saying, "I want you to rent a U-Haul truck, pack up my things, and move to Austin".

I'm guessing they're from that movie, anyway.