Posted on 03/24/2020 9:36:36 AM PDT by Rebelbase
A kid who licked toilets as part of the #CoronaVirusChallenge says he's now in the hospital with coronavirus. @gayshawnmendes was also just suspended from twitter
No, it’s in the bedroom. I cut up one of the boxes it came in to make a workspace.
Ah. It would be great to see it in person. Maybe some day. My set is just barely started but its back in the box because it’s easier to pack it! I don’t want to lose any of it between now and the time I get moved into my new digs.
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I found it on another thread...
Not bad.
I took a lunch break. Now I’m going back upstairs to finish package 4.
Correction
Good job!! Are you enlisting any help with the project?
I’ve turned some work on the rock faces surrounding the sub-basement over to Vlad.
Meanwhile, I’m going to call Petsmart and find out if they have crickets.
While Sharon was here, I had to put Godzilla into Coventry for the duration.
She has taken to screeching when I’m on the phone or if I have company, and covering her didn’t work. So I put a second cover on her and all that did was send her into a screaming tantrum. I finally just took her, cage and all and put her in the bedroom with it’s blackout curtains. GAH!
Presto! Silence!
Now, all I have to do is wait for the UPS guy to bring the flamingos and I can do a happy dance for the days ahead!
I hope you have loads of fun with the flamingos!
I finished the basement, with help from Vlad and some cats, and I’ve put the floor down for the main level.
More phictures!
Hoomin? You dere?
Good morning, all. Happy Friday Eve.
I missed humph day, but that’s life, I suppose.
We won’t be showing our baby, except to my in-laws and the residents of the complex.
Happy Thorsday!
I have a list of food prep to accomplish before we leave on the campout tomorrow. I suppose I should get started.
But I'm glad to be part of the exchange. I think they are learning just as much from us as we from them.
For example, on one of my recent visits, they really got a kick out of my Kindle. To them, it was as primitive a device for written communication as reed styluses and clay tablets are for us.
So they did an experiment in which they took all the data from the Kindle and put it into my brain so that I did not have to manually read it in - page by page. They thought they were doing me a favor but I had to explain to them that now the books were sort of ruined for me, especially the fiction ones, because I now instantly know what happened in every story.
They were somewhat disappointed in my reaction.
This was a difficult concept to explain to these advanced people. Why would I want to go through the trouble of reading page after page when I could have it instantly in my head?
I went on to explain that this might be a good technique for acquiring dry, scientific knowledge. But it doesn't quite work with fiction, where the joy of it comes into play as you read through it, slowly absorbing the story as the plot and characters develop and you get to wondering what will happen in the next chapters.
Having the entire novel instantly absorbed into your brain literally takes the fun out of reading fiction. With fiction, it is all about the journey of experiencing it word for word. Not about the "instant" knowledge. For example, having Tolkien's "Lord Of The Rings" immediately uploaded to your brain just takes all the fun out of it.
This turned out to be a very difficult thing to explain to these beings, as they apparently have no fiction at all in their culture. They simply cannot comprehend how our people can get enjoyment out of reading stories that are completely made up.
Just one of the subtle differences between our two cultures...
Floofy missed me! Floofy needs to take better aim, next time!
Good morning.
You were asleep when I checked last time (around 0320) so I got involved in a talk on the Dead Sea Scrolls and how they mesh up with the Bible and then I had to go to Walmart.
When I came home, I had to wait for a bit and then got side-tracked and well, here I am. But now I have this new thing to work on, so I’m going to get busy!
Oh, yes...I remember why I don’t like to work with sheep’s wool. It makes me break out in a rash.
More food prep to be done. The byos are going through the equipment boxes to make sure the contents match up with the lists.
I agree with you — Having “Lord of the Rings” instantly in your brain would definitely take all the fun out of reading books.
So how many boxes were there, altogether? I forgot how many pieces you said there were.
40 packages, and 6,020 pieces. I just send Vlad upstairs to finish package 8.
Did it all come in one giant box?
(I want to know because one day, when I’m too old to do anything else, I want to put one together for myself!)
And now lunch. Then back to the flamingos!
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