― Ed (dali), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Someone tried to kick one of my car windows in last night. The driver's door window. Whilst I was sat in the driving seat. I hate this town sometimes.
No, I mean all the time.
Kate might be interested to know that one of my goth friend's male friends is ginger, freckled, pointy-nosed, and plays guitar.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link
He ran out of thyme and the bayleafs came round!
(did it work?)
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh no, Ed - gastric flu? You mean maybe it wasn't food poisoning that I had? Rubb.
Bah to car trouble and chav trouble.
This morning I am mainly squabbling with my actual brother about Winter Consumerfest. What funs. He thinks I object to the baby jesus. I'm fine with baby jesus, I just object to the national obsessed with debt and consumerist frenzy. Soon we will be arguing about economics, and I'll call him a Tory and he'll call me the L-word. Hurrah!
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
How's your ribs, doing, Dr. C?
Bah, it's like a casualty ward in here with us lot!
here is a smily DDB to cheer me us all up:
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/LennonWoreChucks2/Pic%20Stash/dew1-1.png
Though ha ha, I narrowly avoided being dragged back into the restaurant that started my whole ordeal by St00g3s last night. Ron got me in a TISSP-lock and tried to drag me into the elevator going "come on, Kate! it can't hurt you just to drink up there!" and I was all noooooooooo and ran away down Kensington High Street. :-)
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry to hear about people's bodily and automobile troubles etc, but also always happy to read a good pun of a Tuesday morning :)
I seem to have spent more time at the ante-natal clinic than at my house this last week - was measuring a bit small so many scans followed and I might have to be induced early due to low levels of amniotic fluid :(
Will find out what the consultant wants to do this afternoon - I may be a mum in the next few days!! Arrgh!!!!
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
(ie, me, and Karen the accounts supervisor)
Good luck Archel!
If the sprog *was* born on Christmas Eve, you could traumatise him/her tell him/her that he/she was brought by Father Christmas!
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I wrote a whole song last night!
― g000blar (g00blar), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Yay to power-pop songwriting indeed - I hope it's a keeper, and not one you THINK is great, but you'll look at this evening and go "nah, it's nonsense".
I've been whistling "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" all morning. I realise now that I'm part of the problem rather than the solution.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Massive kudos to Ed for being saviour of my wallet this weekend.
― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
(I still have this remaining problem where I get hungry, so I eat, and then about an hour or two get this awful vomitty feeling.)
x-post hey TISSP!
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link
The car is going up on the ramp this afternoon to see what's wrong with it. Best case = the oil feed pipe for the turbocharger has come loose, most likely scenario = an oil seal needs to be replaced (an engine-out job) worst case = engine block has a crack in it (which might = my mother in law threw 10,000 pounds down the drain back in february)
― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I never get to talk about songwriting with anyone, and I miss it!
I know a lot of people who talk or write about music quite seriously (obviously) but they tend to be music *critics* not musicians. So they're coming at it from a different descriptive angle.
Too many of the musicians I've known don't *like* to talk about their own creative processes - perhaps for fear that if they understand them too closely, they will lose whatever magic makes it happen.
And this is so backwards to the methods that I absorbed (through osmosis obviously, as I never went to classes) in art school.
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Check your email too, you may have some pressies.
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link
1) I'll be allowed to wear my contact lenses again (off them for another month, stay with serious eyedrops for another week, eyes not weeping now but still don't want to look back into the sunn, now they know that the time has etc)..
2) The return to actually writing and recording songs! my god it's actually going on! I got up the courage to listen to the very WIP version of the first song (blocking guitar, bass, drum track) and it's not as bad as I remembered, the news that the 'producer' has been working on it adding atmos and sdrawcabs drums etc, and I sent back a short list w/ precis of other songs existing only in my febrile.
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.bakelitemuseum.co.uk/
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost, yes, that's the place! I think they might have opened especially for us as they are supposed to be closed in December.
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I find nearby Taughton much more hilarious, as a placename.
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I know someone who went to the Spam Museum. Info here : http://www.spam.com/
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost, I too really want an electric fire in the shape of a scotty dog. It was brilliant.
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry, misread you there, Ailsa. Williton? It just sounds like a stutter to me.
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
((And I can't even FIND my boss to ask for a half day today, because I wanted to go ice skating with my sisX0r. Bah!))
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
And didn't Bakelite first start out as a type of lacquer or varnish or something? I vaguely remember reading (in The New Science Of Strong Materials, a very entertaining book despite the title) that the first major Bakelite product was the gear stick knobs on Rolls Royce cars.
A torture dungeon with gimp masks for horses (yes, yes, pfunkboy, you may make another "woo, FP to thread!" joke now)!
Hurrah!
I am annoyed today because I wanted to buy the mother a Nintendo DS for Christmas but absolutely bloody everywhere has sold out. Serves me right for leaving my Christmas shopping until a fortnight before, I guess.
On the other hand, I have salmon and cream cheese sandwiches for lunch. Hurrah! And I am having fun distracting the goth, too.
xpost: no, I've never been *down there* in my life!
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
This is just too good. Can make FP Knob jokes now too.
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/131/320446889_05a045270c.jpg
― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Blimey! Really? Bet he's frittered it all away by now though.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Grrrr!
(I've been going "grrrr" so much in the past hour, it's left me trying to remember which Welsh myth had a character called Gwawl in it. Because that's a good "grrr"-type noise, too.)
xpost: badoom-tish!
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link