A New Train Pulls Out of the Thought Station...

Because there have been so many delays on Track 3 (aka-Railway Ties and Thought Tangles), a new train has been set on the track.

I just hope we fixed the brakes before we start down that first hill...

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SPLAT!

ETA: You might be surprised at how exquisitely hard it was to make that work…

hehehehehe! Expertly done!

Oh look! Here's the brake! (Holds up broken lever)

I wonder if the bridge across the canyon was ever fixed?

I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it…

I'm mystified as to how you got "SPLAT" to stand out there on its own -- I'm sure it was a grim battle between you and LT's built-in code that usually takes out extra spaces and line breaks.

It's a little secret I like to call the Non-Breaking Line Space. The things you learn in Interactive Media I.

I wondered the same thing as foggi! Nice job btw, Espy! :)

I can't craft as expertly as espy, but by gum i can steal.

Ah! Mr.A. has lost a capital I! Poor Mr.A.

ETA: And that, Jimmy, was when I made the conclusion that your mother and I were living in a model.

A model? Weird. A motel? I still am missing where that quote is from. Please tell me that was a quote from something...

I pulled an all nighter with only one hour of sleep. Granted I slept hard the night after, but hey! Always a first. Maybe I shouldn't conduct the train.

I'm going to putter around in the chat room for a while, if anybody else shows up with a few minutes to spare.

Dobby doesn't like me...I can't get into the chat room. I think it's my computer though. It never makes it there. Have fun foggi!

Maybe the computer's virtual bridge is out, A_R!

foggi, nice talking with you! Sorry I missed saying goodbye!

That's all right, JP -- after all, we'll always have the runaway train of thought! ;-)

*cue Casablanca music*

Ah I love that first photo MrA.

Let see. Well I was sort of dreading coming back from the move and seeing how many posts there were in my absence.

The move itself was a special treat which I won't bother to complain about only wonder who gets the apartments I clean because I never seem to move to an apartment that I don't have to clean first.

I will have actual home internet access starting Thursday. I have not unpacked any of my many many heavy books.

How is everyone?

Maren!!! We've missed you! Good luck catching up on those posts . .

#14-I'm laughing so hard. That was a good one.

#17 Mar:
Hi, mar! I'm sorry about all the cleaning and wish we could help you with it.

Thanks K! Thanks Foggi! Hmm my actually train was about 20 minutes late today but not derailed.

Ack! I'm being attacked by book clubs! They keep sending me junk mail with all their tempting deals. Must say no.

That's adorable, foggi! :)

22- You must be strong, K. Just remember the TBR pile. ;)

23- LOL, that's great foggi!

#25 cat:
Strong...or broke. ;) Nah, I learned my lesson already when one of them (QPB) got me when I was younger. It's something I wouldn't do again.

Hey everyone... I dont have much time on here cause i am at my aunts house... but I wanted to drop by and tell you all I miss you and give an update... Everything is going fine except the facts that I still cant find a job and i still dont have internet at my apt. But other then that everything is going well. I got my wireless router today though so I should have internet soon!!! Then I will be on all the time, well as much as I can. I hope you are all doing well you are all in my thoughts! Can't wait to be able to participate again. Bye for now.

We've missed you, Bella! I'm glad everything's fine and hope you find a job soon. Can't wait till you get your internet!

On an entirely unrelated note:

Hogwarts Express now has 997 members. Three more and we can form a softball team... er, yeah. Congratulations to us for being so awesome!

Any bets how long it will take to get the next three members?

Awww! Tipinski attacks me a lot, but she's pretty sweet when she's sleeping. She's taking up 3/4 of the computer chair right now.

Hmm I am still struggling to get phone and internet service at home (long story with much complaining) so I won't be around much this weekend.

I would bet that is when the three new members join.

I swear I checked a week ago and there were 976 members. Where did they all come from so suddenly?!

#31 Mar:
We'll miss you! I hope your phone and internet work soon.

#32 bib:
I wondered the same thing. It has been only a week, hasn't it?

I think we scared one away. It now says 996 members.

Remember people, newcomers are like wildlife. If you run at them they're going to bolt. :o)

And if you see one, you should speak softly and carry a big stick.

Wait..... ;)

KIK! A big stick, or a wand?

*says in her softest voice* Hello, newbies.

*the newbies eye K's wand and make a run for it*

*shouts* Wait! I wasn't going to put a spell on you!

*shakes head* K, K, K, much better if you offer them the wand.

*Sets wand on the ground and backs slowly away to see if a newbie will come pick it up.*

The only problem with that course of action is when they pick up the wand and curse you. maybe we should wait a bit o give the newbies wands...

I've never been cursed by a newbie. Old friends, now, that's another matter . . .

*considers using Levicorpus on suge, but decides the values the peace and quiet of recent days too much to cause that sort of ruckus*

Ack! My link didn't work. :'(

You're probably right, jp! Must agree with Espy, too, though. ;)

KIK. Foggi. :)

Where is everyone today? *crickets*

Next week is the blood drive. The day my children fill up on cookies, bagels and juice.

I picture a day in the future when they're told: "Based on your blood drive consumption rate, you owe us 487 pints of blood."

My house is about 2/3 clean! I want to do the kitchen and bathroom floors before I call it a night, but I'm stopping in here for a minute before I go do those. I got my DH chapters read, too . . . *sob* . . . so I'm ready for Monday.

My kid sister was playing SIMS on the computer all of yesterday and so I got buried in my book until it was time to watch the Olympics.

#41 jp:
KIK!
My mom used to work for a blood bank. I can tell you those who draw blood snack on the food and juice, too. ;)

#42 foggi:
Congrats on almost finishing the cleaning. *HUGS* for DH!

A;righty everyone... I put the most recent updates on the thread of lovely but I wanted to drop in here to tell you all the I MISS YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! I will hopefully have the internet by the end of the month and then i can be on in all of my spare time. I hope everything is going well with everyone... my best wishes to you all. Thank you so much for the thoughts...

Hi, Bella! Can't wait to see you till then! Miss you, too!

We have a container full of random assortments such as colored pencils, markers, and glitter glue. My kid sister used to bring them with her to trips when she was going to visit her dad. This container has been in the car several years, usually in the trunk.

Someone brought in it the house yesterday and asked my kid sister to go through it to get rid of the things that don't work. We all heard a scream, and came to see her covered in silver glitter glue. It had exploded! Some of it was even on Slinky and the carpet.

hahahaha!!!
Because it was hot and when she opened it it exploded!
I am rolling!!!!!

LOL!
Were you able to get it out, or are they still all glittery? I guess the glitter glue was working! ;)

Yep, definitely working!

It's all off of my sister and the cat. The carpeting isn't so lucky except that it's thin and has a pattern to it to help blend it in. We're going to cross our fingers and try cleaning it a second time now.

okay so i know nothing as there was no way i was reading 359 messages on the last traing and this one so..............yah

HI EVERYONE!!!

#46- ROFL! Maybe you should have put that on the I Love To Laugh thread! :o) K, when you were at my house, did you happen to look up at the ceiling in the living room? There is a splotch of glittery blue there, from when I unstuck a bottle of glitter glue. LOL!

#50- Just jump in Smiley, and welcome back! Nothing but randomness on this train anyway!

so i like cereal and am enjoying wonderful hunger as i await dinner and cant wait until the new episode of secret life tonite......

Hi, Smiley! I hope the cereal held you till dinner! Enjoy your show.

#51 jp:
It wouldn't hurt to post it in two places. ... No! I completely missed that! KIK! Glad we're not the only ones.

*pauses to check her ceiling*

The carpet looks a little better now - less glittery. I think a third attempt just might get the rest of it out.

awwww. i liked the glitter.

glitter is shiny................i like shiny.................

I love glitter too, but to be honest (or overly serious) my grandmother would strangle us if it stuck in her precious carpet. I have a joke about her... "Off with their heads!"

It's funny because it's true. She decapitates people.

True. Nearly Headless Nick is our cousin. ;)

Once removed?

kik!

Not completely.

*wonders how Kerian can use so many lines from Alice in Wonderland and yet she STILL hasn't read it. Isn't there a police division for this sort of thing?*

curiouser and curiouser

So my husbands birthday is on tuesday but one of his gifts arrived yesterday. Seeing as how it was the present he picked out himself I told him he could open it last night.

Well this gift is a new lightweight hiking tent. Which is now set up in my bedroom. My husband was is so excited that he finally has his almost dream tent that he wants to camp on our second story porch this weekend. I'd be worried if he wasn't so darn cute about it all.

I wonder if it's funnier because I know him and can just picture his face as he talks about this idea! Probably still pretty funny though.

Awww! That is just precious Mandy! You have to hold on to those memories because they grow up so...wait. Maybe they don't. *Notes hubby's love of computer games.*

I am surprised he didn't sleep in it last night in your bedroom, or did he?

#59 Espy:
Yep. How did you know?

#62 jp:
I used to watch movies over and over again as a kid. Alice in Wonderland was one of them. Also, Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series may play a part in that. (I really want a stuffed toy of the Chesire Cat to put on one of my bookshelves!) Must read that book soon! It's moved forward in the books I'll read soon, honest. :)

#64 Mandy:
KIK! Cute.

#67 compski:
That's what I'm wondering.

he did at first but then said it was too hard...and the dog kept whinning because she couldn't get to him, so he came back to bed

Are you going to let Pepper camp on the porch too? She'd love that!

I think so

It's tough with dogs sometimes! We often set up a tent in the backyard. Fiona (one of two dogs) always wants to go in the tent. Rather than risk having the tent torn as some dogs we used to have always did, she's let in the tent. She loves it.

Pep is not allowed in the tent because don thinks her nails will rip the tent:( poor gril :(

Poor Pepper! Maybe she wouldn't like the tent door being closed anyways. Some of the dogs we used to have always had problems with that.

LOL Will if he's going to sleep on the porch make sure he lights the grill and makes some s'mores for you. 8)

We only need one more member till we have 1,000 members!

I was just thinking.............nope its gone!

*looks up* What was that?

1,000

yay

Really?

*disappears in closet looking for decorations*

*emerges in a snowy forest, by a streetlamp, looking confused*

WE ARE ON FIRE!!!!!

that is soooooooooooooooooooo cool.

well, hot, but you get my drift.

Yes, MrA. This is how you play with fire.
I like this photo better, even though it's blurry:

ooooooooh. pretty.

awsome

well since noone's in chat i'm just say on here how well that babysitting went........
first day: wasnt so bad, i only had to watch one kid and i came bak worn out and not feeling well
second day: horrible. the brothers fought alot, there was 2 then. i came back and that nite i got a fever and a really sore throat. :( just got done with that, and my throat is still sore......................

#83 & 85 jp:
EEK! JP! That's amazing. You are so brave!

#87 Smiley:
I hope you feel better soon!

thank yu i'm hoping it'll be gone by tomorrow..

i'm logging off now. it's abt. 11:30 here soo........

Smiley, I didn't know you had to deal with two boys. I'm sorry. Is the sore throat from yelling at them, or just from being exposed to them? Make sure you wash your hands frequently next time. It's the best defense against the little germ carriers. The only way I know of to deal with the fighting is to give them separate activities, preferably in different rooms. Get well soon!

Thanks for the applause MrA! And K, I'm not that brave. I just know not to catch the flaming end. ;o) Luckily, the ground was still pretty wet from all the rain we've been getting. I wouldn't try this during a dry spell.

i did have to yell alot.............i dont know how i got it...........

I just got a sweeeeeeet deal on some TV DVDs, granted not the show I actually went out looking for, but I didn't expect to find the one I was actually looking for. Still, I came home with all three seasons of Veronica Mars for $24.99 each. YAY!

*writes down: "don't catch flaming end"*

good to know.

So, a bat flew down my sister (holly's) chimney last night and into their house. Luckily my nephew was safe in bed with the door to his room closed. After a while my sister and her hubby couldn't find it so they went up to bed, it was under their bed. They called the landlord's who basically just said they would call animal control today. They managed to get it out of their room and get their door closed so they could (kind of) sleep. This morning though Holly got a present.....from their cat! Rosie took out the bat! This is surprising to me, she's a very skittish little girl, declawed (by the people who had her before my sister) and never struck me as a mouser or birder...I guess she's a batter!

They're taking her to the vet this morning, make sure there's no rabies. But three cheers for my cat-niece!

WAY TO GO ROSIE!! Never thought she had it in her!!

Oy. I hope the cat was up on her shots. They will probably give her a booster. Don't they have to take the bat in too, to have it tested?

Yeah. She probably knows that. I hope. My mom was the one who talked to her this morning.

I was bored at work so I started a blog. Haven't done much with it yet, I want to play around a little more, but I thought I'd let you all know.

(If the link I put in above doesn't work, it's linked on my profile page.)

#94 bib:
Eek! That sounds like it was terrifying. I hope Rosie's okay!

#98 bib:
Your link works! Nice blog! :)

Thanks K! :)

LOL! I almost thought K was saying "That sounds like it was terrifying," to bib's post about starting a blog!

Heehee! I have two blogs already myself. I started one about my cats last month after someone told me that I talk about them too much.

Kerian ROFL - I'm sure people use to try and avoid me at social events because I always managed to bring up the subject of my rabbits. Even though they are long gone (more than 4 years), when I was given a Pandora bracelet by friends at work recently they had put a rabbit charm on it.

Just like that, you are the rabbit woman for all time. (I googled that bracelet since I'd never heard of it, by the way. Very nice gift!) I get a pair of socks with cats on them from one of my grandmothers every year. It makes me feel like I can relate to Ron Weasley, though I do love the socks. :)

Now I'm thinking of the Book Quiz I once took. It tells you what book you are. I'm supposed to be Watership Down. It says I talk about rabbits all the time. Rabbits = cats? ;)

It kind of annoys me when people get me cat themed gifts just because I like cats. Especially after Umbridge and her kitten plates. brrr.

MsDonna, I can't believe you've gone so long without a rabbit. I think it's time for a new one. Want the one from my yard?

We're sorry it looks a little possessed.

But it's only a little possessed.

Really. ;)

Well, okay, if it it "only" a little possessed. :)

I get scottie gifts sometimes, but luckily they are not as prevalent as cat items. I am not tired of them yet.

i'm so happy!! my voice is almost bak!! (did i tell yall my sore throat rendered me voicless? it hurt to talk and when i did it only came as off and on between weak voice and whisper so...yeah

the sucky part is that i have to take 3 pills morning and nite now along with this yucky drink stuff to get my throat better. working so far but the medicine's disgusting...

What I hate is that the people who give me cat themed gifts don't own cats. Some of them don't even like cats. So they obviously don't know how to pick a good cat themed gift.

Kit. E. Kat the cat

N. E. Jizer the bunny

Pup E. the dog.................................

hey i was post 111!!!!

someone needs to join me in chat..........

Sorry Smiley, I had a headache and I was going back and forth between the computer, the wash, and the Olympics. I am glad you are feeling better. Sounds like you had a nasty virus for them to put you on antibiotics.

#106 jp:
I hated Umbridge for liking cats so much! She ruined them and made sweet innocent kitties look horrible. I adored those plates in her office. They were far above a bit much, but I couldn't stop myself from saying "Awww!"

JP and cat, How long have you had the visitor? :)

#109 smiley:
Congrats on having your voice back! Soon enough you won't have to take the medicine anymore. I know the feeling. I used to drink Airborn day after day when my family would be sick to help myself stay healthy. Ugh.

#110 jp:
I've found also found that I've enjoyed my cat themed gifts from those who have cats more so. I have a heart-shaped keychain with two cats on it that my mother gave me when I was going through some bad times in my teens. It says "Someone loves you. Me!" It's always been very special to me.

#105: - Kerian - I was very surprised when I received the gift considering the gift I received last year was a pair of hand knitted bed socks.

#JP - no more rabbits for me my last one broke my heart and bank balance. You'll have to ask MrA about the bank balance bit as it still chokes me up to think about him.

#115 Donna:
Quite a difference, I'd say! :)

Proving the point of #103 . . . Tumbly won't get down from on top of the kitchen cabinets. It was a good photo opportunity, though.

Kerian he is so cute. You're up early.

I found out while I was gone this summer that Tumbledore's a girl. Not very feminine of a name, I know.

I'm up late! 2:12am. I was typing my book wishlist so I'd have a copy to keep in my bag. Of course, now I see the awful flaw that since the size of our wishlists are always increasing due to good book recommendations here, it's entirely hopeless to keep them all typed up. I was hoping for the typed list to make it easier for me when I go bookshopping. (Guess what I'm doing the weekend following this one? ;)

Goodnight, or for Donna and MrA ... still goodnight? Hmm. Good evening. (9pm-ish, yes?)

Hi Kerian - it is only 7.30pm here at the moment.

114 Kerian, so I was thinking that Rowling must be a dog person because of how Umbridge liked cats (plates, at least) and she made Sirius turn into a dog. Then I remembered Crookshanks and wasn't sure.

Crookshanks was based on a stray cat who used to hang around the cafe where she wrote. I think I learned that on her website.

You must also remember that McG turns into a cat. But then, Hagrid has fang. I think she's just an animal lover.

acromantulas, basilisks, phoenixes (phoenixi?), blast-ended skrewts...

#115- *hugs for MsD.* I know how you feel. We've had many cats break our bank account only to lose them to incurable diseases. It hurts, but I always end up with more.

#116-That's the reason we keep ending up with more. OH MY GOSH WHAT A CUTE KITTY FACE!!!!

#121-122- I agree. Rowling is an animal lover. Who can blame her? If I could have a pet dragon, I would. Curse my brimstone allergies! Are there any non-flammable dragons?

cute kitty

#120 compski:
I never even thought about if she was a dog or cat person! Based from how well she captured Sirius as a dog, I'd say she's definitely had one. I've had dogs and used to consider myself a dog person, but I don't feel that I could write about them anywhere near as well as Rowling did. Crookshanks is in the background more, I think. Maybe Rowling is a dog person. :)

#121 bib:
I didn't know that! :)

#123 jp:
More cabinets or more cats? ;)
Thank you! Some people who see her call her ugly because of her face but I think she's absolutely beautiful.

#124 SMiley:
Thanks, smiley. :)

Every so often something happens that makes me think of the Harry Potter books. A customer at work once held up a yellow rubber duck, asked me what it was and what it's purpose was. Chamber of Secrets. I loved that scene! Over this weekend there was a woman counting out change for her transaction and she told me she didn't know the coins. Goblet of Fire. (There was more than one time Mr. Weasley had trouble with muggle money, but it made me think of that book.) Mr. Weasley's awesome. :)

Obviously, you occasionally get WttPs as shoppers! What fun!

I think several wizards live on my street, actually. There are several places where the street numbers skip one -- including between my house and the neighboring house. The lots aren't very big, so I'm convinced that the missing house numbers belong to wizarding residences that are hidden from Muggle view!

127 Kerian, Or think of Twilight books. Today I was talking to someone about when I turned in my keys to the middle school last spring. I almost told him I was so happy I danced like Alice into the office, but realized at the last moment he probably never read Twilight.

I swear I only tapped the pad once! I don't know where this double post came from.

#128 foggi:
That sounds very cool! I wish I could say that of my neighborhood. :)

#129 compski:
I can't say how many times I've started to say something in reference to a book and then start to think about it, realizing that no one would really get it except HE buddies. Dance like Alice anytime you want here! :)

I get to take a kitten with me to work! One of them climbed in my purse.

It's way too quiet around here this evening!

it's quiet... too quiet.

*looks around suspiciously*

*wonders if Kerian remembered to take the kitten out of her purse when she got home... ewww*

I have no voice right now, and it's frickin annoying. my boyfriend keeps forgetting and calling me on his breaks. it'd be nice to be able to actually talk. especially since I move down to school tomorrow, and he's getting kicked out of his house because his room mate is an absolute jerk, so we've been working on finding a new place for for him to live, mostly via text-messaging.

poor Rissa, I hate when I have layrngitis! Its so exhausting! I had it once when I was the teacher of an after school daycare room and I made three signs "yes" "no" and "because I said so" I would hold those signs up whenever the kids would ask me something. They thought it was a real laugh!

*comes fully awake* Did rissa say boyfriend?

yep, of a little over a month.

#134 MrA:
She did not go to work with me. ;)

#135 riss:
I'm sorry your voice is gone! I hope it comes back soon and that your boyfriend finds a place to stay soon!

It's a busy weekend. People from out of state and from southern CA are visiting. I'm eager for Monday to be here, though I'm doing inventory for work that day. Let's just say family fight and that I'd rather be anywhere but home.

Is LT running slow today? It said I have a new profile comment, but when I looked, nothing new was there.

Alrighty... here is my update... haha, still do not have internet but i will have it by october because i am taking an online class for school... i miss everyone good night!

It just did that new comment thing to me K!

Hmmm... where is that mysteriuos invisible comment.....

#141 Bella:
Can't wait till October! :)

#142 bib:
That's so weird! I still don't have any new comments. Polly's right. Invisible!

aww didn't anybody get my hint?

polly, have you been writing invisible comments to everyone?

Or is it that you want us to send you an invisible comment? And how would you know that we haven't sent an invisible comment already?

I have no comment. Just commentary. Invisible commentary. *waggles eyebrows*

No I was referring to "The mysterious ticking noise!

first day of school today!!!!

wasnt so bad except for the fact i have an essay due tomorrow and 2 tests to study for already

LOL polly! I completely missed that! Where is my mind lately? :o)

I was just reading some reader reviews for twilight and I wonder if I will like the book. It doesn't really sound like my kind of story but I guess I'll have to get it from the library to find out

alas, i'm beginning to suspect that it's inevitable, polly. I was pretty sure that MsDonna would not like it, but turns out I was dead wrong.

*goes off to join LG in the anti-twilight club room / phone box*

I found Rarg!!!!!! If you aren't doing anything for 23 minutes, go take a look. It is such a sweet animated story, and wait til you see the library!

Rarg

I just watched it. I disagree with the senator. The books as books were much more interesting. ;)

Brain cramp. What part was that in reference to? The discoveries?

Hmm. Maybe I need to rewatch it? I can't remember that expression in it.

Does anyone here like sudoku? I just found an online Harry Potter sudoku game. See here for something you can print easier. (I'm going to print mine in black and white.)

OK, now I am getting that invisible New Comment thing! It has happened twice this evening. Do you think maybe someone is leaving comments and then deleting them?

No, I think it's too wide-spread for that. I got it this evening, too.

Okay, I checked the Bug Collectors group. Here's the thread for it. Basically, Tim says he's fixed it. You may see one last "empty" comment notification, but after that it should stop.

I didn't get one. I feel left out. :o(
All my new comments were real.
The rest of you need that "Beware of Invisibility" sign.

Really, jp? Are you sure?
You may check my profile. It's safe, for now. ;) Good thing I didn't put it directly below my map. That would have been a bit spooky.

Kind of funny we'll receive one last empty comment! I wonder why. Bugs. Hate 'em. Except those fireflies! I'd never seen any before until I saw them with jp and cat. Very cool!

Well I got my (hopefully) "one last empty comment" this morning. I really do hope this fixed it, it's really disappointing to discover you don't really have anyone leaving you notes. *sniffle*

I got the non-comment today too! Hey that HP soduku puzzle is cool!

I also got the non-comment today. I had it yesterday as well.

HI GUYS! I haven't been here for a while.

I Like Chocolate :)

So do I.

Ack! They moved the thing where you leave comments to the top of the comments and you can archive comments now. Overnight changes!!

Cool! This is much better than having to scroll down through all of the comments to get to the box! (But I've always been able to archive comments -- or did you mean that you can now archive all of them in one fell swoop?)

The one fell swoop thing. When you archive comments, where do they go and how do you get them back? I've never done it, but I probably should.

Heh. I've never tried to get them back. Actually, I think there's a "Show archived comments" link right next to the "Archive all comments" one when you have some archived ones. Basically, archived comments don't show on your profile -- I think they put them into "storage" somehow -- it's too early in the morning for me to remember technical computing terms. Anyhow, you can get them back if you want them.

Hmmm....there is a show all archived comments link....has that always been there? I'm soooooo not observant, I'm often made fun of for it.

Anyway, I knew that you should be able to get archived comments back, that's why you archive instead of delete, but I had never seen the "show archived comments" thing before so I wasn't sure where they would go if I did archive them and sometimes I do go back because I know I had a conversation with someone about something and I didn't want to risk archiving them and not being able to get them back, because, lets face it, LT is generally fairly user friendly, but not all of it is intuitive (like writing reviews) and I was afraid that archived comments might be something like that....

I'm going to shut up now.

OH sister...*sigh*. You make me smile! :)

#163 polly:
Thanks. Glad you like it! :)

#168 bib:
Thanks for the warning. I really don't think I like the change. It will take getting used to.

#170-172:
There is a way you can put your archived comments back on your profile. Click "Show archived comments." Find the archived comment you wish to put back on your profile, and then click "de-archive" on the bottom of that comment. You may click "Back to regular comments" to return to your comment page as other LTers view it, with your recently de-archived comment on your profile page once more. :)

#172 bib:
I know the feeling. I've always regretted archiving comments, and to delete them sounds horrible. If you could see all my comments and the archived ones, you'd see my profile page would be miles long. ;)

On the note of invisible comments, it seems my "Beware of Invisibility" sign has done the trick. Not only have I not received any more invisible comments, but I didn't even see anything to tell me I actually have a new unread comment.

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I had a really strange snack yesterday. I put a little bit of chocolate covered pretzels, goldfish crackers, dried strawberries, and apple cinnamon rice cakes into a small blue bowl. As soon as I sat down with my book and the bowl, I realized it had me strongly thinking of a story I had read and lead a class presentation on in a Women's Lit class. The story is called "The Body." At the end of the story, a man finds a blue bowl with dead bees and rose petals (which my dried strawberries resembled) inside the bowl left on his front porch by a woman. I remember I'd had a lot of fun buying little fake bees and roses at Michael's Arts and Crafts to put together a visual aid and still have it in a box in my room.

AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

Sorry, that was for my six year old Typhoid Mary that wants to go out and play with her friends (who keep knocking in spite of me saying she's sick) and now her fever is back up to 101.8 because she won't listen.

pant, pant.

Now I feel bad. I told her to rest and she fell off her bed and banged her leg. I think I'll go take a rest. On the tracks.

Watch out for the train, JP!



Get off the tracks!

That noise you're hearing is not the alarm clock. Do not hit snooze JP! Wake up and get off the tracks. Quick! Before compski's train gets you!

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
Holy Craa-umbcake!

I just watched Harvey. And hubby brought me a double chocolate muffin. I feel better. :o)

*sigh* How much longer will they be sick? Little one has been feverish on and off since Tuesday. I'm really starting to miss her sassy little self.

Yah so thanx for the wave, or the Hi MrsG! that everyone gave me. ;) jk.

My kid sister's fevers/flus have usually lasted from two to seven days. Not sure if that helps.

For jp's family, laia, and polly's husband.

Get well soon, sickos!

What Mr A meant to say was that we hope you are all feeling better soon and we are sending hugs to you all. *slaps MrA up the side of his head*

KIK! I'm glad you joined LT, Donna! :)

*rubs head*

ahhh... yeah. that's what i meant. sorry sickos.

(btw, "slaps MrA upside the head" was not just an figure of speech. ow.)

Thank you K, I just showed your message to Jim and he said "Thanks!"

LOL! We are still working on the getting well. Right now we are going through the cabin fever crazies.

I think Merlin has been enjoying the sickness. More laps to choose from.

In fact, there have been so many laps, that Merlin has had to constantly jump from one lap to another. ;)

181 to 184- LOL!

Okay -- if this is news, it deserves its own thread. If it's just my computer being dumb, then maybe not.

Is the Lexicon down?

I was going fact-checking over there, and when I try to pull up the Lexicon, I get a black page with some ads and some broken image links. I thought maybe my bookmark was wrong, but I get the same thing trying to come through Google or Wikipedia -- in fact, if I try to click to one of the other pages on the site through Wikipedia, I get a 404 (page not found) error.

I remember someone saying that, with the lawsuit troubles, the Lexicon might one day just go away. I'd think there would be either explanation on the site's former homepage or lots of news clippings, but I checked Mugglenet, HPANA, and the Leaky, and I'm getting nothing.

Somebody else try checking the Lexicon, and let me know if it's just my computer losing its mind, please.

Mine doesn't work, either. Maybe the site got hacked. It would be a shame if he took it off, but I bet after the lawsuit he didn't have the heart for it anymore.

#185 polly:
You're welcome to Jim! :)

#188-189:
I noticed it was down yesterday when I was trying to cheat on the spellothread doing some research. At first I had thought it was likewise just my own computer. I hadn't even considered that it night have to do with the lawsuit. I hope he keeps it up and that it's just temporary! I'm trying to access it in aother tab right now...it's not working. :( I clicked around and found this, though. (Sadly, none of the links on that page work, either.)

Remember on the Spellothread how Polly said we would never get the answer? Maybe she did something to the lexicon!

So it's polly's fault! ;)

I think I can go into the chatroom now that Im on a different computer.

i cant on my new cpu :(

Good Gad! Look how late I'm up! Why don't I go to sleep?

Gah! And I'm surrounded by mosquitoes! Help! I feel like I'm in a low budget vampire movie! *swats at tiny bloodsuckers as she turns off compu

HI MRS. G.! *STARTS WAVING LIKE AN IDIOT, OVERBALANCES, AND FALLS OVER*

I did NOT!

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Hope the mosquito bites fade fast, jp! Also, I hope you're not allergic to them!

I think as someone who doesn't have a strong love for music that I'm missing out on something. Over the weekend, I heard this girl talking about some actor who's going to play the role of a musician she's a huge fan of in a movie. When another woman said she'd seen the musician in concert, the girl said "You actually saw him?! I'm going to cry!" I didn't think she would, but her eyes actually misted and began to water. Then she cried, and cried, and cried so very much! I was so amazed anyone could cry that much and that hard for music. Of course, the group of people I was with were just as baffled over me as they were that girl, because I asked, "Who's (I've forgotten his name)?"

I have the best mom! She just went grocery shopping and as I was taking things from the bags to put away, said "look in the bags for something special." It was Entertainment Weekly with Harry Potter on the cover! I'll have to see if the have the right release date for the movie. *sniffle* I'll probably take it to work. I don't have time to read right now.

*groans* I had to look at the magazine. This is the one that is supposedly going down in history for annoucing HBP as coming out on Nov. 21st because their deadline was before Warner Brothers made their awful annoucement. Still very nice to be able to read! That was nice of my mom.

Moms are nice. :o)

Yes. Cat has an extremely nice mom, too! :)

:'( cat..........Larka..........................................

i dont know if i told yall but my parents made me put Larka outside cause he kept peein in the house. then he dissappeared and has been gone for about two weeks now :( and i really miss him and Mittens is lonely now. so today we went to the SPCA and i picked out a kitten who is all black. she has gold/grreenish eyes and is really cute. we adopted her (she was a stray until the SPCA took her in) and i'll be picking her up tomorrow as they had to spay/neuter or wahtever her. but even tho i miss Larka to death i really like this kitty and have decided to name her Lyra. the message above was from when i was really sad and missing him and now things arent so bad....i'm actually feeling alot better now that i'll have another cat. :D

i'm sorry about Larka, smiley. It's good that Mittens has a little buddy now.

Lyra is a lovely name!

I'm sorry Larka wandered off! Some cats come back after wandering off and I hope Larka will, too. I'm glad you're excited about you're new kitten and hope it makes fast friends with you and Mittens. I agree with polly. It's a beautiful name!

you know we once had a cat who wandered off and was gone so long we acquired a kitten. Well guess who showed up at the door a few days later? You guessed it! And she wasn't happy to have been replaced either! She was so mean to the poor kitten I found another home for it.

kitty's here!!!!! she's scared and sensitive from the surgery, but she seems happy.

Mittens and her arent exactly getting along at this point, unless you count hisses and growls as friendly banter.......................................
but i'm hoping they'll warm up to eachother

I am sure they will smiley... my two cats took about 4 days to get along... when they first came here...

We once had two kittens who wandered off to have one of them return on their own a year later. It might ordinarily be tough to be sure it was the same cat because of the amount of changing they do in the first year, but it was an extremely unique print. I believe it was a calico.

#209 Smiley:
Mittens and Lyra may come around! I never thought Aloft would become friends with my kittens, but she's friends with Tumbledore now.

If I hear one more politician refer to himself as a "maverick" I may need to smack them with a thesaurus. Too many local political yokels have been saying it lately. Next they'll tell me "I'm one of a kind, just like everyone else!"

Unless of course James Garner runs for office.

Thank you MrA! John McCain keeps referring to himself as "The Original Maverick" and I keep saying James Garner was the original Maverick and no one ever seems to get it!

That saddens me that people don't get that, because its what I think everytime i hear it.

I wonder if Mr. Garner could sue. Is he a democrat? :o)

Aack! I just slipped on an eyeball. Darn cat toys...

ROFLMAOPIMP...

Great, I just snorted dark roast right out of my nose.

Oh, sorry. :o)

Rubber! It's a rubber eyeball! It used to be a favorite toy of my dear departed cat Graymalkin, I kid you not. My new cats don't love it as much as he did, except to leave it in the center of the room.

#217 jp:
Are you sure it's a cat toy and May Eye Moody didn't visit you? ;)

#218 --> KIK! And ouch!

217: Thank goodness JP put something about "cat toy" in that thread. I was beginning to think the family illness may be the plague.

Eeek!

This is reminding me that Halloween is coming. I need to think of new names for the literary graveyard. Are you going to do one again, compski?

I saved all my HP tombstones from last year, but I am still bummed that the movie is postponed. I might go back to all pumpkins in the flower boxes and do the graveyard every other year. I had a lot of trouble with tombstones blowing away last year!

I am determined to make a great Halloween display this year!

I always have trouble with tombstones, too. They don't stay standing up no matter how many things I put in front and behind them. Four nails into the ground attached to the tombstones seems to work best, though not as much as lining them up against the bush surrounding the front of the house.

My kid sister told me what her costume is going to be this year. I'm afraid I can't say what it is. She needs a new idea or she'll find herself grounded by our grandmother, though. How did she get so funny?

OMG Missie's costume this year! She wants to be a rainbow colored, covered with hearts with wings like a butterfly, but not and puffy sleeved princess fairy thingie. Cole just wants to be Bat Boy!

I'm going as a wad of chewing gum. I'm dressing all in pink and sticking a tennis shoe to my head.

Or, conversely, I may stay home drinking and eating all the candy we bought "for the kids".

*imagines Fishpants with a miniature US Open stuck on forehead*

#227 --> Hilarious! :)

I once got a box from the post office on Halloween. It wanted some candy. (It was one of my sister's friends. ;)

>#227: stop drinking all the booze that you bought "for the kids"!

Kerian - why was your sister's friend in a box at the post office?

A couple months ago I bought my nephew a Mike Wyzowski stuffed toy and he loves it, he takes it everywhere, so Holly's going to dress him up as Sully this year. I'm trying to convince her to dress as Boo, cause you gotta have Boo in there too!

#231 Donna:
No idea. ;)

#232 bib:
What a perfect costume! :)

I'm going to be dressed as an unemployed former college student.

so one by-product of having a boyfriend who's a musician, I didn't used to listen to The Misfits or The Ramones

"Rissa is a Punk Rocker!" Do you "Wanna be Sedated?"

#234 espy:
You can have a job by then. It's over a month away yet. Also keep in mind Halloween doesn't necesarily count as a holiday. I was dressed in such a costume as that one year for Halloween when I was called and offered my job. Hang in there and I hope you can manage to enjoy the holiday still. *hug*

#236 --> KIK!

So I spent the morning yelling at a customer service machine. Honestly, I don't care if they want to humanize these computers, but all I wanted to do was get credit for a newspaper that wasn't delivered. I said I didn't get yesterday's paper and it kept asking me if it was only today's paper that was missing.

The machine is particularly annoying because it makes typing noises when it's getting information. I know it's a machine, pretending it is typing just insults my intelligence.

Which makes me wonder if computers have too much freedom in our world. Start letting them have customer service jobs and they're just going to want to raise that glass ceiling. Next thing you know, they'll be picketing for their right to vote.

I had an incredibly strange dream last night. Parts of it were kind of sci-fic, which is really unusual. Perhaps if my alarm hadn't been set this morning I would have seen the picketing for computer rights to vote. ;)

I'm sorry about the machine!

I had a dream that combined both customer service and sci-fi. I dreamed that the place I worked this summer was being run by a network of glowing, blue aliens who were studying humans. when you started working there you were connected to the network, and everything you saw from that point on was an illusion, and you never moved again.

Weird, I dreamed that LG (and her hubby) and MrA and MsD were all sharing a house in NYC and raising a werewolf and they kept trying to get Mandy and I to visit them so they could feed it.

#240- I knew it! Aliens have computers and the computers are taking over customer service! Luckily, rissa has tapped into the blue alien subconscious through her dreams and revealed their schemes for world domination and lateral promotions!

#241- LOL! You should report that one to the rumor mill bib!

#241 "A puppy!!! I'lll be right there!"

...and that was the last we ever heard from Mandy2

Personally, I dreamed black last night.

I dreamed that I was on LT and all of the messages were unread. I was scrolling through an endless line of blue messages. It was terrible and wonderful at the same time.
Also, I might have had another nightmare where I'm reading a really good book and the book disappears before I finish it, but I'm not sure because I can't quite remember...

244- Hm. Maybe you need to buy better dream image quality. ;)

Wow. We're twelve posts above the GD!

I had no idea we were being that loquacious recently!

It must be all the rumors flying around. :o)

Rumors do tend to multiply.

hurricane, hurricane, hurricane.................ahhh!!

Stay safe Smiley!

George Takei, aka Mr Sulu, is getting married!
He's like the only Star Trek actor I've met, when cat was but a wee kitten!

Bit of a cradle-robber though, his beau is 17 years younger.

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whew, I really needed to get that off my chest. Thanks!

*pours tea* Soooo...bib, how are things?

Oh, btw, we watched Fringe last night. I see what you mean about the graphic nature and the artsy filming. Not a good show to watch with a migraine. :oP

*Takes sip of tea* Mondays.

Okay, feeling a little better now. Some of you know I work for a non-profit. Our big fundraiser (5K walk/run for hunger) is this Saturday. I am in charge of collecting and tracking pre-registrations as well as coordinating the volunteers who will work registration on the day and then tabulating the results of the various contests during the actual walk (who brought in the most money individually, as a team, participation percentages, etc.) This would all be fine except that I don't get to ignore all the other stuff for my job, which means I'm still basically the mailroom, IT and secretary pool in one. I'm anticipating a high stress week.

Get some rest bib. If you haven't got your health...

KIK! Which brings us to the part of the week where my brother-in-law is switching jobs and he starts today about 2 1/2 hours away in MD, so he moved there this weekend, meanwhile Holly and the baby are still here, but Holly works a funky schedule so I'm picking my nephew up from Day Care today, spending the night, dropping him tomorrow, spending the night Wednesday so I can drop him Thurs. picking him up Thursday and dropping him off on Friday. I love my nephew and I'm happy to help my sister out, but the timing couldn't be worse! Oh well, it will make the concert next week and random Wednesday off work all the more meaningful, right?!

*hugs for bib* I hope the event is a huge sucess and that everything cools down for you soon.

And try not to drop your nephew too much! ;o)

if she doesn't drop him then how can she pick him up?

I though she picks him up and then she drops him??

Tomato, to-mah-to

I guess he's a bouncing baby boy.

:D

He is definitely not a baby anymore. He is officially a little boy. Most of yesterday was spent wrestling in that way kids that age do. The plus side of this is that once he tackles you he's not sure what to do, so you get a hug and a kiss. It was a pretty good way to destress at the end of the day actually, although I was completely exhausted by the time I put him to bed!

I love my yoga instructor. Some quotes from today's yoga class:

"Think of your practice today as a bank robbery. If everyone listens, nobody will get hurt!"

"Squat as if you are about to sit on the lap of the cutest quarterback in the NFL."

She has another good one where she tells us to point our toes as if we were wearing 3 inch heels. I love her words of wisdom. Especially when there are a few men in the class.

I'm wearing my LT t-shirt today! Woohoo!

Morning:

Checked clothes I put in the dryer last night, realized they were still wet, reset dryer.
Checked clothes for a second time, realized they were still wet, cursed dryer, reset dryer.
Noticed dryer was on the lowest setting, cursed self, reset dryer.

I'm off to flying start!

You know.... as I continually tell my wife... those things with long cords work better when you plug them in.

I often sleep alone.

Random Drive By Posting

I was cursing my dryer yesterday, though only in my head. My mother was cursing about her makeup today, but only in my head. (Phone...Sister dear took mother's makeup without putting it back.)

In my house, it doesn't matter half the time if you plug things in. Half the outlets don't work. The best one is in the kitchen. The worst one is by my bedroom door...never works except for the vacuum cleaner, to quote a famous suit person, I guarantee it. (I have family that works for that guy, so I get to quote him. ;)

My parents just got a new dryer. It's great. It has a nifty "sensor dry" setting, so it goes until your clothes are dry and then stops. Good for the environment and your sanity.

I really like Foggi's dryer. You just put the clothes out and, and provided it's not raining, they get dry. Really good for the environment too.

266 *Pictures Bib at work in her new t-shirt:

Coworker: Why bib, nice shirt. Wherever did you get it?
Bib: I won it by writing an amazing review of Breaking Dawn.

Nice work Bib!!!

Thanks compski! I keep waiting for someone to ask but no one has! It'd be a good day to do it too, since my books I bought with the certificate arrived today too. (I have them shipped to work because there's no tax in DE!)

I can't say how many times our dryer was broken so we had to hang clothes outside. Fortunately it's a big backyard.

Yikes. I am such the procrastinator. I need to write Tim or Abby.

Do you mean for your prize? Your actually supposed to email Lindsey at the info address.

Yes. I just saw that when I re-checked the blog. I'm writing her an e-mail in another tab.

#272 I would love to hang my clothes on a line, but I would end up sneezing my head off when I bring them in. When they invent a pollen-free clothesline, I'll be the first in line!

Congratulations on your prizes bib! Enjoy them!

I found something that looks like it might be interesting at Sears when I was browsing one day last week. They have this thing that you set clothes on to dry on multiple racks and it has a fan or something at the base that blows air on the clothes. I tried to look for a price but couldn't find one and I was running late for my bus so I couldn't check it out more.

I've seen that thing! I've used a drying rack, the cats thought it was the most wonderful toy ever. :o)

KIK! I bet they loved it! Hmm. Maybe it wouldn't work out if I got one then. I had been considering it. I need to find something I can dry clothes from. I suppose I might get a regular drying clothes rack, but would cats play with that, too? The kittens get into everything.

*imagines kittens making themselves cozy on their upholstered, multi-level, air-conditioned condo.*

Heehee. They will be playing in my room soon enough. I'm moving furniture around this weekend. We used to have old heaters that went along the walls and someone tore them out for us a couple years ago when we got forced air heating and air conditioning. I have patching to do in one of my walls. It's going to look awful with the paint. (Think the purple shade of cat's room, only a little pinker.)

You know. I was just thinking about how hard it is for me to whistle when I'm up to something. I normally a very good whistler, but when I'm trying not to get caught or laugh I can't whistle very good.
I wonder if anyone else has the same problem...

if you made a swing chair out of soft leather, could you say that the suede swayed?

JP! JP! Where are you? I watched Bridge to Terebithia last night. *sniff* I need you!

I've never seen that, is it good?

Poor compski! *hugs* OK, I don't know how the movie handles it, but you have to read the last chapter in the book to understand the message. Which as far as I can tell is that wonderful things don't last. :o(

I was so tired last night I forgot it was movie night until 10:30. But I couldn't have watched that one so late anyway. I would have been up till 1am calming the kids.

288 Polly, It is good, but the book is excellent. Don't watch the movie without reading the book first.

289 Thanks for the hugs JP. I had to read it in middle school and I think I was just as distraught as Cat. Luckily for my parents I finished it in the daylight. I said this last night, but after reading it and Where the Red Fern Grows I was really thinking my teachers were out to get us. I love both books, but they were tough at that age.

It is Much Too Quiet around here tonight. I didn't have time/access to LT for most of the day, so I had an exciting number of posts to catch up on initially, but now I'm caught up and nobody is generating new posts.

:-(

Oh, well -- guess the burden of creating new posts falls on me this evening!

And now she has decided to go to bed. You people really need to step it up around here so Foggi has some engaging intellectual stimulation… or, if that fails, a few good laughs.

Why wasn't I part of the solution you ask? I couldn't post because Foggi was using my computer.

I'm sorry foggi! I was watching Heroes and trying to post and read comments during commercials, all while trying to get the six year old to stay in her room and go to sleep.

Is the new season good so far? I haven't seen anything since the first episode of the second season.

It just started tonight with two new episodes. Lots of plot twists, a bit more gore than I care for and temporal anomalies galore. Syler as evil as ever, Suresh scenes that would make suge faint away, Hiro and Peter screwing up time right and left...It was incredible!

#285 kirby:
I'm a terrible whistler. When I'm trying to not get caught about something I can't even look make eye contact. I smile too easily. Avoiding eye contact also leads to suspicion, though.

#291 foggi:
Sorry! I was working. Wish I could have LTed or gone in chat with you!

292: "engaging intellectual stimulation… or, if that fails, a few good laughs."

Espy, Always trying to oblige, but I have to be up early. You would think her roommates would provide for her, though. Maybe she should have put it in the rental contract. "The rentees will provide engaging intellectual stimulation or a few good laughs to the rentor when The Hogwarts Express falls short."

Really, that is just asking too much….

I did get them to play a board game last night, so maybe I won't kick them out for lack of engaging intellectual stimulation/good laughs just yet . . .

;-)

#295: (A week later, but whatever). Forget suge, I practically had to be wiped off the floor. Humunah-humunah-humunah!

falalalalalalala!!!!!

i'm sick :(

sorry!

sorry smiley! feel better.

If anyone blogs and wants to be added to my blogroll let me know!!!

I got my Amazon order in today. Well, it was picked up today. I really tried not to open it. Couldn't stand it after 30 minutes. I have not opened my new Clue game though. I'll save it for later.

Hey, guys....ummm....this isn't the current train, this is like two trains ago.

I wasn't even paying attention!

Maybe it's on the return journey.

*wonders if it will collide with the currently derailed train*

god bless my doctor!!!!! she works miracles!!! i'm still sick, but i feel soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better!!!