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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Evening Corin - the show will go on, you need to stay strong and listen not to the Siren’s Call.
LSA is planning to be at JKV tomorrow bright and early. I’m at another office tomorrow with no chance for ‘sick-leaf’ being available.
G’nad et al - the Sig .22 is coming along, the snapcap drill is the only way to fly. The one thing I think it needs is a bit more heft, having said that, those that have shot have remarked on the nice trigger. Shot my partner’s Kimber Eclipse, nice shooting iron. My 1911 Swiss sports a new taller front sight, can actually aim at the bull I’m shooting at, not the one below it. 300 meter sights to 100 meter sights, with just a taller front sight.
Evening Corin - the show will go on, you need to stay strong and listen not to the Siren’s Call.
LSA is planning to be at JKV tomorrow bright and early. I’m at another office tomorrow with no chance for ‘sick-leaf’ being available.
G’nad et al - the Sig .22 is coming along, the snapcap drill is the only way to fly. The one thing I think it needs is a bit more heft, having said that, those that have shot have remarked on the nice trigger. Shot my partner’s Kimber Eclipse, nice shooting iron. My 1911 Swiss sports a new taller front sight, can actually aim at the bull I’m shooting at, not the one below it. 300 meter sights to 100 meter sights, with just a taller front sight.
At least I blame the double post on the Union Pacific, just as I hit post, the train came through. :-)
Yahsureyoubetcha.
I had a different weekend.
A bud (a consultant that I got to know through the SOX stuff over the last several years) from Australia... Got married over in Spokane. He invited me to the wedding. We’ve become pretty good friends over the years. He’s a good frood and he definitely knows where his towel is.
So yesterday I hit the road for Spokane. Its about four hours of road time. It was a good drive. Washington is a beautiful place to drive across. There’s a little bit of everything. Some real honest mountains, some desert, some canyons, some rolling farmland, some high elevation pine forest, some red rocks, some blue rocks... A great drive.
The wedding was a hoot. A serious hoot. The Bride’s side was mostly farmer folk, and Cougs from Wazzu. The Groom’s side was mostly flown in from Melbourne and Brisbane. Buncha drunken Australians and a buncha drunken rednecks. Most definitely my sort of people. :-).
It was seriously nuts.
It was not a particularly religious ceremony. But for them... It fit. In keeping with the tone of the event, the “minister” was a girl who was one of the brides’ best friends. She got her canonization on the Internet. Legal and everything. Really. No kidding. She did an amazingly professional job if it. Her name was Alex and she was exceptionally cute. She and I got along real well. I would join her church in a heartbeat.
We stayed at The Davenport in Spokane. The Davenport is a local landmark there. Built in the 1880s... Remodeled just a few years ago... It’s gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. Marble everywhere and doormen in groovy suits and top hats.
The happy couple left the wedding in a 1933 Packard limosine. The kind with an enclosed compartment in the back but with an exposed driver space in front. Neat.
Fun was had by all. And my weekend was different. Gotta love it.
Sounds fun! It does sound like a fun crowd. :~)
I do have a lot of memories in Eastern Washington land, but I like it best on this side. But there’s some places over there I’d like to show ecurbh sometime. :~)
We had a different kind of group at the bar we just went to. We went to El Sarape for dinner and a couple pints after the big garage sale weekend. It was the kind of thing, that sitting there, I was thinking of the story I’d tell when I got back... It would start “so... there was a group of drunk Mexicans, and a bunch of drunk bikers in a bar and only one juke box and...”
Oh - here’s a funny thing. We went out to take our garage sale signs down this afternoon. We had used those two dead flat panel monitors as sign stands right at the turn here into the store. Someone stole them. :~)
*snort*
I guess in a way it's not funny, 'cause *maybe* you could have had them repaired or something. But...it's funny, too.
How did the juke box affair end? Do tell!
We weren’t going to have them repaired, I’m just curious, if people thought we’d put good monitors that work, out on the road.
We don’t know how it ended... the night is still young. But we had switched from Mexican music to Aerosmith :~)
Well I made it back reunioned and all....
~sip~
I’m catless tonight.
[Snicker] somebody stole them.
Genius! Solves two problems at once! :-)
Heh...oh, to be a fly on the wall. Could get interesting later.
I like that about El Sarape. It has...ambiance.
Aw...poor Miss Kitty...
Fun trip?
Well, we left before one side or the other ended up in our laps. :~\
And we heard the biker mutter as he sat back down: "Thank God, that crap was driving me nuts."
Welcome back!! Miss Kitty will be very glad to see you tomorrow! LSA
I kinda hoped someone would take the monitors, but I wasn’t sure they would. Guess there are people that will pick up anything on the side of the road. :)
You should have pinged 2J to that post. :~)
LOL! You beat me to it! I was just getting ready to post....
Heh...I actually rather like that...for the right setting, anyway.
The couch would be too hard to keep clean.
Well, As long as we still have our couch, I’m going to hit it.
We’re beat.
Good night all!
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