The Mundane Peaceable Kingdom: talk about boring things here

I hell of saw a small snail today.

It's garbage day.

Haha.

nearly out of contact lense solution

The paint on the windowsills has dried. A while ago, I notice. A looong while ago.

I bought the following pet supplies earlier:

- 5 lb. bag of "Timothy Complete" guinea pig food
- Hay trough for guinea pig
- Goldfish tank cleaning pump
- New food bowl for second guinea pig
- Loach food

I think I'll change the litter box later, actually. Since you brought pets up. Thanks!

I could really do with a shave

I had some tasty thai fried rice for lunch today.

I meant to call up for a haircut today and I forgot! There's still time, though!

The world "loach" might be a bit for this thread. Yellow card.

Oh someone broke one of the windows in my car the other day and the glass dude came out this afternoon to replace it and that was pretty much more expensive than I figured. Is this too exciting, though? (It has a criminal element.)

don't push it.

'xactly!
Will M's "yellow card" talk seemed criminally close to interesting also.

im hungry

xposts.

My car window EXPLODEDED the other day from the heat, it was fucked.

Please take that talk elsewhere.

What do you guys think about hamburgers? They're still pretty good IMO.

Still pregnant. It feels like 9 decades now.

recently in nyc there has been a "gourmet fastfood hamburger" explosion

five guys, shake shack, blue 9

its pretty awesome im a fan

i like burgers

i just had a cigarette

i didn't like the two bottles of beer i bought today

i think i have 1 beer in my fridge - i might drink it if its really there

oh hey there is one beer in my fridge right now but i think it's my roommates?

stealing that beer: too exciting?

i ran into my old boss today

shes doing well.

xpost

i, whereas, did like the two beers i had today. (light "a.le coq"-s they were too ...oh, sorry, that last bit might look slightly interesting)

i think i have 1 beer in my fridge

shit, i've known the beer content of my fridge in minute detail for far too long now.

I am full.

I'm thinking of maybe having a bottle of water, though.

and i know for a fact it's beer-empty right now...

I hell of saw a small snail today.

-- Abbott, Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:46 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

abbott i kiss you

I would send you a beer if I could, homes.

xpost

watch it! don't get excited, yo!

cheers. imagine i just bought you the bottle of water you might have.

xp

er to join in the spirit of the thread, last night i stayed at work and caught up on lots of accounts stuff

i was really pleased

that's the spirit, yesyes.

watch it! don't get excited, yo!

-- t**t, Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:08 PM
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with my mind on my money and my money on my mind

soz about my exciting windo aspolsion talk ;_;

I jus drank a glass of water.

There is really nothing happening at work today.

this is basically what the ilx heaven thread was like before monday

That's satisfying.

I am tired and mildly loaded. I may go to bed soon.

This lady with a straw hat just checked in. She was mildly amusing!

I had 6 beers last night and played football manager 2007 for maybe 2 hours?

I had 3 beers last night and watched X-Files.

got a stand for work laptop
also got a laptop lock
have like half a head cold, mild stress freakages

:(

I am not doing so well in the cRap Music Fantasy League.

Oh and I watched an episode of Dexter?

How is that?

i enjoyed my penne bolognese this evening. and then, when i put my plate down, so did the cat. mmm.

Dexter is watchable, but takes itself way too srsly.

Behind me, there was snooker on TV - but I didn't even watch it. Yay me.

my cats are doin' pretty okay lately. xpost.

lol

The laundry is done.

i can hear a lawnmower.

that dexter guys is terrible at acting devious/smart/cool and the show is riddled w/super annoying narration. but i only saw it for like 5 minutes once. then i cleaned my refrigerator or something.

just realised it's time for bed

is this the new chicago thread?

jk dudez

I have been laughing for like 40 seconds over that.

there is a

lamp

Now I need some chapstick.

to my left

it appears to be

what songs r u guys listening too? i am listening too cruel summer by bananarama.

tipping over but

that is an optical illusion

I just blogged.

i am listening to my roommate play a song on his guitar in the basement

I am listening to the Just Brakes jingle.

"At Just Brakes we really dooooo CARE!"

xposts, yeah narration on Dexter is fucking terrible,as is most of the acting.

I'm huffing some AIM chatz atm. Talking abt "indie metal" etc.

lots of people are leaving tho ;_;

im listening to vybz cartel now - made a mix today

I started another boring thread. Is there enuf boring stuff for TWO threads? Of course there is.

i must have listened to in rainbows like 25 times by now. i'm about to put it on again for the first time since i got home an hour or so ago.

i guess that will make it like 26.

not that it's a boring record.

thinking abt doing things
not doing things

co-sign

Man now I'm hungry.

I've done delivery like 12 times in the last couple weeks, I don't want pizza again for a while.

My girlfriend is making spaghetti tonight.

But I'm hungry now.

Come on over, Big Hoos!

Haha. If not for work and what I assume are a bunch of miles!

this is the mix i made and have been listening to all day while working - i am still working i have lotsa works to complete :( plz do not make fun of me for liking mia. you can make fun of me for liking kayne or 50 - thats ok. the mix is called vodka thighs.

I like it - The Emotions
Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You) Featuring Outkast - UGK
Jimmy - M.I.A.
I Got My Mind Made Up - Instant Funk
Street Life - Randy Crawford
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Hot N Cold - Basement Jaxx
Smuggler - Vybz Kartel
Crank Dat Soulja Boy (Supaman) - Soulja Boy
Robot Rock - Daft Punk
Just Got Paid - ZZ Top
Barracuda - Heart
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
Ayo Technology (Feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland) - 50 Cent
nolia clap - Juvenile
Edwrecker - Feadz
Did It Feel Like Love (Miami Mix) - Genuine Parts
Flashing Lights (Ft. Dwele) - Kanye West
Wrong Girls to play with (Dub) - Papa Austin

good work

After work I walked home. It had stopped raining and there were many wet leaves on the ground, mostly maple and mostly a dull yellow. I saw a couple of crows. A dog barked at me, but didn't bother to get up from lying down on the porch while it barked.

thx hoos

I ordereded pizza

i made a cup of tea

yesterday i ordered a pizza and paid in change

not feeling mundane enough abt mundane thread

blowing nose

admitting defeat

leaning

slouching

I have to make dinner/tomorrow's lunch and also rough out my resume but I'm having trouble giving a shit.

My husband is watching tennis on the Tennis Channel because I'm not in the livingroom to change the channel to the playoffs, and last we knew fucking doe-eyed luscious-lipped Grady Sizemore had stolen a base! Thus is the lure of ILE. Must go.

I really hate writing.

That was too exciting, re: Grady. Sorry.

Yeah, no exclams allowed.

I'm thinking about buying a used amplifier off ebay.

for to facilitate better vinyl listenings.

being an office worker is pretty weird
i had forgotten

this whole make lunch ahead of time thing
and being there
and doing a job
for other people

i like writing
i rewrote a press release today

i am making yogurt

I get free lunch at my work.

there are free snacks at my work but i do not eat them

i saw a v v small but fast motor today
it was neat tho inactive + maybe its smallness relegates it to the mundane

One of my co-workers laughs at her own joeks 2 much.

There are warm cookies where I work.

We give them out to people as they check in.

But I have eaten far too many over the 2 years I've worked here.

I probably will never want another one again.

Do you work at the Doubletree?

I do.

And I am totally eating a cookie now.

Those cookies are the bomb. Do you work at the Doubletree on the Charles in Boston?

I like bland crackers, there is an abundance at my work (that's not what we get for lunch, but i liek that shit all the same)

(with avocado, or just on their own)

We used to stay at that Doubletree all the time.
I love ship's biscuits

I work at the Doubletree off MLK in Austin.

Oilyrags came to visit me the other night.

We talked about jazz. It was cool.

You are in Austin! Cool. We're making vague plans for a Southwestern trip. All may be off, however, because of the extensive rot in our house sills. Oh sadness. Not boring. Just trajik.

There were shelf-fungus growing under our corner trim-boards.

You guys come, I get you "Friends & Family Rate"

I can make no promises about shelf-fungus, though.

I will email you if it looks like it might actually happen. Money is the issue, wouldn't you know. We keep getting these monster credit card bills. I feel persecuted.

I sympathize.

I finished tomorrow's daily blah blah for our portal page.
then I packed a bunch of stuff in boxes. why is packing stuff in boxes always so totally depressing? nostalgia=bullshit

Burn the boxes.

I put a semester on my Visa once.

Burn them with charcoal, which is significantly more boring than other methods of burning.

no, compost.

ashes to ashes, etc

I biked over to this tea place for their sampler, where you get 5 cups of different teas for $3.

5 different teas! $3!!!!!

But then it was closed.

I am doing laundry, and hating every second of it. But only because I let it pile up too long.

So we got coffee instead.

stouffers mac and cheese cooking in the oven as i write this

I had this English class in high school that was really boring.

more than this?

I don't understand why I never hand-washed my clothes and hung them on a rack in the tub when I lived in apartments. Laundromats are so awful. Always some heavy-breathing perve hanging out.

My job is so boring it's like my brain shuts off when I sit down. I go into work with good intentions for my productivity, but by the time I've finished my first cup of coffee I am mindless.

I dislike those beanies which also have little visor-thingys on them that kids wear these days.

http://www.goodhumans.com/Images/Products/brim_bea___2005_medium.jpg

clotpoll!

I am interested in this tea place. But, I am in LA for a few more days. Is it in Seattle?

oh beth, i do that. in fact i should hand-wash some underwear tonight or i will be all "uh oh" later in the week.

Tea is pretty much good.

Handwashing is apparently not Good Enough for those art snots in Sonic Youth.

I did used to turn underwear inside-out for a second day of wear.

No, sorry, it's in St Paul. There's always the Crumpet Shop in Seattle, which will refill your tea all day.

Thank you, you just reminded me to soak some bras tonight.

I agree that those hats are lame.

oh why did i never think of that?

tonight i made a chicken breast to eat with leftover caesar salad. i tried to call my mom, but got the voicemail.

Those hats are lame. And almost boring. No, entirely.

she turns off her cell phone when she isn't making a call because she's afraid the battery will run out! oh, moms.

I really like pillows.

did you mean to post that on the breast augmentation thread?

I watched the Matt Lauer interview with heterosexual senator Larry Craig on NBC tonight. Not only was pretty much everything that came out of Craig's mouth utter applesauce, but he is terrible at lying, to boot. I must confess though that I'm still unsure as to whether his wife is in complete denial or is lying her pants off as well.

I bought two new pillows, because there were these two pillows on our bed that we both hated, Why put up with that? The new pillows were expensive, though. Fucking down.

My feelings for down pillows are probably too...intense for this thread.

I got silk pillowcases as a gift, and i love them dearly

Take the pillow-talk to the new non-location thread, where exclamation points are encouraged.

I like the existence of tissue paper.

guys - tempurpedic pillows!

Can you roll around decently on those? What grade would you give them?

I'm tempted by the idea of a core of memory foam + an outer layer of down. I'm sure someone makes such a thing, also that I cannot afford it.

You could just staple a bunch of down pillows to a memory foam pillow.

My bed now is comprised of conventional foam topped with a memory-foam pad AND a feather bed. I love the support of the foam, but it doesn't breath well in hot, humid weather. You get all clammy in bed. The feather bed provides some air circulation.

It's ten pee emm, do you know where YOUR children dinner are is?

I have "This Is England" on my computer, I think i'll watch it tonight.

The guest bed, which used to be our master bed before we moved, is tempur-pedic foam. I am a bed slut.

Oh shit, I want to see This is England.

I saw half of it. I'll get back to it, I guess. The skinhead girls were a bit fashion-modelly.

beth, you filthy whore!

i would buy a tempurpedic bed, but, sigh, not in the budget this year i'm afraid :/ my sister said they were having a 2-for-1 sale on overstock.com though!

that was way too enthusiastic for this thread

Oops.

my apologies, kenan. perhaps you should have a moderator delete this. i am so embarrassed!

in fact, i am quitting ilx! at least for today =]

Me too. My heating pad beckons and the Sox are circling the drain.

xpost serves you right. You were way out of line.

CHILL

i just tried to pour the cracker crumbs into my throat, but the bag wrinkled and they got diverted into my eye socket, and then into my hoody

My feet are sore. I walked a lot today is why.

noes

xpost

For what was the walking

I'm looking for a new apartment. Maybe I mentioned that the other day.

Also I started what is probably my silliest poll yet a few minutes ago.

I was torn by that poll Oilyrags. Which to choose? I like them both, now.

My right middle finger has a cut right on the tip. I don't recall cutting myself, though. It hurts a little, but not too much.

I washed some dishes, that should make my roommates happy. Not overly ecstatic or anything, but mildly...one could say..."happy."

a fly landed on my arm at the vegetable market and i shooed it off then it came back and i shooed it off again then it came back and i shooed it off again then i paid for my stuff and drove home, observing the speed limit all the way.

the following (explicable) smells are discernable on my index finger:

dog
corn muffin
glenmorangie
lip balm

I strictly observe the speed limit whenever I'm being tailgated.

What areas are you looking in?

Did your feet affect the poll?

I want a central apartment, but will settle for one that is away from the middle of town yet close to work (the Walnut Creek area.)

Not as far as I can determine.

About a year ago, I decided I would find a topic with no wikipedia page and start one, just so I could say I did (this is the first time I've ever said so, as it happens.) I chose a topic about which there is very little to say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_switch

Today I checked it to see if it was still there. It is, and has been edited a number of times, but was marked as orphaned, so I've spent the last few minutes linking other articles to it, so my glorious exploration of the subject of pull switches would not disappear.

lol wiki dictionary definitions

i need to take out the trash.

i'm sick and waiting for my roomie to come home and bring me meds.

this is basically what the ilx heaven thread was like before monday

-- chaki

It's much better now eh?

What I don't get is 'medium sliced bread'. It's too thin to be described as medium, and there's no thin cut option anyway. Why don't they make medium the slim cut, thick, the medium cut and have an extra thick, 'door-wedge' thick cut?

I remember some girls looking a bit like the girls in This is England on my estate growing up.

I need to watch This Is England, purely because it's supposedly set in my home town. I want to watch it with indignation, going "pah, that doesn't look like *anywhere* round here".

For me, that's straying into interesting territory, which shows how boring I am.

Why don't they make medium the slim cut, thick, the medium cut and have an extra thick, 'door-wedge' thick cut?

they should do that. they would probably make more money.

I have to go check on a thing in a minute.

I am eating cereal.

I have just finished some hot chocolate.

James Watson, respected scientist, holds forth on ornithology

"I think at sort of a young age I began looking at sort of ornithographical magazines, so I became aware of...of science through people interested in birds, and particularly bird behavior. Because the migration of birds was the thing with which you were dominated. Some birds came through in the spring, and in the fall, and in the winter you saw another collection of ducks"

I like all these boots. What is vegetable leather??

First you take a lot of carrots...

Wikipedia delivers the goods:

Vegetable-tanned leather is tanned using tannin (hence the name "tanning") and other ingredients found in vegetable matter, tree bark, and other such sources. It is supple and brown in color, with the exact shade depending on the mix of chemicals and the color of the skin. Vegetable-tanned leather is not stable in water; it tends to discolor, and if left to soak and then dry it will shrink and become less supple and harder. In hot water, it will shrink drastically and partly gelatinise, becoming rigid and eventually brittle. Boiled leather is an example of this where the leather has been hardened by being immersed in hot water, or in boiled wax or similar substances. Historically, it was used as armour due to its hardness and light weight, but it has also been used for book binding. This is the only form of leather suitable for use in leather carving or stamping.

http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jndfg20/website/werner.gif

can i taste your cerreal

Hmm... So, not vegan then...

http://www.bandsinthepark.org.uk/bromsgrove-bandstand.jpg

I just wrote an essay about Chaucer.

I've got all these books
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i just ate a $5 ice cream sandwich nd i feel kinda ill

i am waiting for a certain email, before i get back to work

I just switched my healthcare provider. My co-pay is much higher but it's only like $50 a month now.

my ulcer is back. :(

Oh, Lauren :( Do ulcers still allow wine and mac'n'cheese?

I just heard the mayoral candidates speak pre-election 'vote for me' gladhanding at the Univ. One of the guys read his Facebook profile out loud. Yeah, I am so glad I know you like Friends and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

basically evertyhing i do is bad for an ulcer. for example, jerk chicken for dinner last night and for lunch today - ow. i just picked up several boxes of prevacid samples from the dr's office and am praying for relief.

ugh, like poison that stuff tastes! strawberry poison.

I find a can of Coke washes away most unpleasant medicinal flavors, esp. when paired with a cigarette. However, my meds make me hell of nauseous on no food + smokes, so it is a careful path I tread.

Coke would not be so great for an ulcer though, right?

I have a headache and the hiccups at the same time.

I am applying for a job as a part time pharmacy technician today.

I'm hoping for a job at a hospital, but will probably have to settle for a Walgreens or CVS.

I just finished my college nightclass. I'm going for a pee. Then I'm going home.

A good pee is reeeeaaaalllly satisfying.

I enjoy a good pee.

I own Boring Postcards USA. It contains a postcard of the Air Force Base where my stepfather was stationed. So I had my mother pick up a copy. Except she ended up getting Boring Postcards [NOT USA]. Even that was probably too amusing for this thread.

In other news, I ate cereal this morning. It tasted of flax.

Oh, and I also have an ulcer. It goes away when I take Prilosec but comes back shortly after I go through the treatment, instead of staying away for several months like it is supposed to. I am going to go see a medical specialist about this as soon as I get around to it.

I am putting off some work I should do.

[a quoote]A good pee is reeeeaaaalllly satisfying.[/ a quotes]

this is OnTheMoony

I'm a fan of crackers.

I have put my laptop on a tray so that it doesn't get too warm when it's resting on my lap.

i need to do laundry. i'm down to my "laundry day" aloha shirt.

I got really restless during meditation today.

I need to do laundry. I'm wearing that pair of jeans that I don't really like. They require a belt so as not to fall down, but look dumb with a belt.

my dog is nesting in all this dirty laundry.

I've been living at my gf's for the last few weeks.

My place stinks of dirty dishes & needs sweeping.

I'm supposed to meditate for class, but I keep thinking about the class during the meditation, thus invalidating the desired effect.

I really wish people knew how to calm down.

You don't have to void your mind of all thought to meditate, IMO.

i am at workplace waiting to go to band practice
reading abt quantum entanglement
ate some biscotti it was dry

I hate searching for apartments.

aw grady, my dog loves dirty laundry too, he digs holes in it then collapses.

I am off work. This is good.

I had something to post to this thread but I didn't hit submit because it was interesting enough. Clearly I am not ready.

wasn't, rather

and if someone posts, you're doing just fine, wanko, how should i take that?

We have no salad for our dinner. Off to the honor-system farm stand up the road.

I have lost a factor of 4 so my mass-to-light ratio is way too big.

I am having beer and chips. Not the British kind of chips.

I'm a-having some sleep now.

Just some ol' boring mundane sort of mediocre average sleep. Nuthin fancy, yknow. Honest.

No lettuce at the farm stand. Frozen spinach will be our green.

My bigger cat is being very nice to me today. Also I think it's time to make some dinner.

Ate my dinner.

I just had a phone call with my mom. She's flying across the country to get a new puppy tomorrow.

I ordered a pizza and spent too much on a pizza and ate a pizza and that was probably too much pizza to eat.

I watched Rashomon with my cat.

i put the dictionary back on the bookshelf.

my cat believes the bandit.

I believe the ghost.

what did you need the dictionary for?

i looked up 'fabulist' the other day, i wanted to be sure i had used it correctly.

i had.

yes you did! I used the online dictionary.

i hope you and your cat are not arguing, conflict is discouraged on this thread.

dont let your cat near a mouse either

or a ball of wool

litter box is cool, tho. poopin' is normal, and very boring.

best to let your cat just sleep while you stare at a wall

i am opening another domestic beer and feeling at least a little bad about myself, but not in an alarming way. just in a normal, 10.40pm on a wednesday in october sort of bad.

i wish i could watch die hard right now.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1069/1332573471_10ab231160_m.jpg

quiet lol

that cat IS alarmed

my roommate is watching friday night lights. i have precisely an hour and 15 minutes to finish this medical school application.

i'm downloading video clips for work. overtime shift. here til 10pm probably.

i need to talk about myself for 400 words.

this should not be difficult, as i have "talked about myself" for at least 5000000000 words on ilx, but somehow i think that admissions boards value things like, say, puncuation and capitalization and grammar

so many papers to grade I'll never be done.

good luck, gbx!

no exclaiming please horseshoe.

grading papers is the absolute boringest thing in the world, you have my deepest (quiet calm) sympathy.

ha. (sorry, that's a quiet laugh.)

I know. theoretically I love teaching, but comparing humanities papers to other humanities papers is seriously a fool's errand.

^^^don't tell me I'm not boring enough.

a kindly gentleman just talked to me about his work history before leaving for the night. i am now alone. soon the cleaning ladies will arrive.

i just replaced the batteries in the airconditioner remote control, yesterday my husband replaced the batteries in his wireless mouse, it is shaping up to be 'battery replacement week' at our house, what batteries will have to be replaced next i wonder, luckily we have a goodly supply though we won't at this rate.

this reads like joyce

if he was in the future

i just packed up the audio equipment for the Polynesian performers.

there was a v v attractive couple making out near the water.

they had very little clothing on.

this is not

"mundane"

I fell off the bus today and scraped my knee. Now it has a bruise. It was the sort of fall where you have enough time to think of how you want to land, but you still land badly anyway. Ah well. I was fine but my knee still hurts.

hawaii mundane.

my beard itches a lot

the daily show tonight is of average funniness

crosspost.

crosspost.

crosspost.

I like the phrase "hawaii mundane"

I walked straight into a skateboarder today. I saw him coming at least 10 feet away but had too slow of reflexes to move. I just kept walking and caused him to fall off his skateboard, which then rolled backwards downhill. NB I was not reading or eating an ice cream cone.

i covered a shift at work tonight. i washed dishes.

i bought an excellent cheese for 18 dollars, and i don't feel any byers remorse

There's a lot of saxophones...in New York City.

buying cheese should not make one remorseful.

i'm watching johnny carson interview david letterman on youtube.

and it's boring?

http://www.dibruno.com/stores/dibruno/catalog/epoisses.gif

no, but i'm watching it because i'm bored.

xp

is that a creamy cheese?

the phrase "hawaii mundane" just made me severely envious. but in a muted way.

tshirt material

it is a creamy, nutty cheese.

We are told that Napoleon was partial to this cheese and ate it with Chambertin wine. It was very popular in the early part of the twentieth century but disappeared during the second world war. It was only in 1946 that two local Bourguignon families started to produce it. The well known Epicurean Brillat Savarin called it the King of cheeses. Many people consider it one of the most interesting French cheeses. It is often compared to the character of two well known French historic personalities, the Epoisses has the force of Charles le Temeraire and the sensibility of Madame de Sevigne.

The cheese has a powerful rich flavour with a pungent smell; the pate, a mouth watering taste of sweet, salty and creamy milk flavours.
The pate is fine textured. The rind is regularly washed in Marc, this adds to its complexity and fascinating taste.

i rode the metro home. my favourite thing about riding the metro/subway is how mundane it usually is. urban mundane.

Mundanity is very soothing in the proper doses.

the phrase "urban mundane" just made me severely envious. but in a muted way.

urbane mundan

burbam nundab

voluntary metropolitan ennui

Urban F. Meyer (born July 10, 1964 in Ashtabula, Ohio) is currently the head football coach at the University of Florida

weezy f. baby

confession time: i smiled a little too broadly when i read remy's cheese history lecture.

it looked like too long a post to read, so i skipped it.

there was this little yamaha 80s-style keyboard/synth at the practice space today (a CS01 or something? yep http://www.vintagesynth.com/index2.html) but anyway it has a WHITE NOISE setting and so i set it to that and it was so crazy soothing i was shocked. which was weird, to be soothed and shocked at the same time. but srsly WHITE NOISE synthesizing after a long day = ah = noise mundane

"we are told that napoleon liked cheese"
of course napoleon liked cheese, i mean, yeah

hey i can go home now. i will drive slowly and listen to talk radio.

crazy windy thunderstorm right now= very soothing.

i am leaving work now as well. i might buy a slice of pizza when i get home.

also GBX OTM re: domestics beers and feeling sorta bad abt yrself but not really b/c you know you are capable but also just wanting to watch die hard
i have thought all these things at the same time v recently like this afternoon

there is beer in the fridge at work but i haven't had any yet, maybe on friday

Tonight: Cloudy intervals. Low 64F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy skies with a few showers later in the day. Very warm. High 83F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

Tomorrow night: A few showers early with mostly cloudy conditions late. Low 68F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

this thread puts ferry cross the mersey in my head

omar and grady might drink some water when they arrive home, i did that earlier.

our liquor liscence expired at work so we have tons o beer in the big fridge and whenever i walk in there to get something i see all the six-packs locked up in a cage just staring at me.

ha estela I just poured myself a glass of water to drink before bed.

your kidneys will thank you.

I nearly got hit by a car this morning. posting here because nothing happened

i hate my job

There's a lot of saxophones...in New York City.

-- Abbott, Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:19 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this made my laugh out loud, but not too hard, or else i would have awoken my roommate. perhaps.

hawaii mundane: semi-nude ppl making out
montana mundane: just another forest fire, just another bighorn sheep on the highway
chicago mundane: drunks in the alley, lol, guess it's time for hot dogs

my = me, whatever

also we say lol

when i say "L" you say "OL"

L

OL

you down with LOL?

oTL

I hell of saw a small snail today.

i saw two slugs on a porch last night! icky.

i got a slice of pizza and went for a can of ginger ale with it. i ate the pizza and drank the ginger ale. now- as estela predicted- i am drinking water.

i am watching re-runs of ANTM season 1 and soon i will take my dog for a walk. she is staring at me implying that "soon" should be "now".

I totally just realized where all these shout-through-the-nose indie rock singers (Murphy, Finn) have been copping their style from.

weird, i did drink water when i got home

i walked my dog. it was cool and breezy out and much more comfortable than it has been lately.

i watched planes taking off for north america, and planes landing from australia and asia. it made me feel kind of bad like gbx's beers.

my dog pooped in a dark area of the park. i had to use my cell phone to locate it. she was ready to head home before i was.

my dog and i also went for a walk and then we also came home and then we also both drank some water. however i think we should not characterise any of this simultaneity as weird because it might make us a bit too excited.

I cleared all the weeds out of our front garden a few weeks ago with some hardcore kill-everything weed killer.

Now there are loads of weird mushrooms growing there instead, they all appeared from nowhere a couple of days ago. Where did they come from?

work is paying for a full health check, including poking at my bits. this is broadly good news, but hmm.

There was a strange buzzing noise in the office for a minute there but it's stopped now.

if it was strange you shouldn't talk about it here. try to only post about noises like staplers and printers and sms notifications.

someone left the laminator on, but i got to it before it started to smell too bad.

good, a drama avoided.

it may have been the aspie i sit next to...

oh.

It really is quiet here to-day - no-one else in the office - and despite being right in the middle of the city I haven't heard a fire engine or a police car all morning. Nice.

Your mundance update about my ILE presence:
I have decided to try to get out and about more (out of the Chi thread). Nick says that despite me posting on here since 2002 or so, no one knows who I am. HELLO!

I have the beginnings of a headache, but it's receding.

kitcat- don't shout, but hello.

This is my second post of the day. More boring than the first.

Many posts on this thread are far from boring, esp. any of the ones about beer or cheese.

that's probably why you had a headache.

I apologize, dar - too much caffeine.

how did we go from 'no rules' to 'no loud voices'?

this is the climate of fear we live in, 2007.

im sitting in office using internts to procrastinate

by posting in boring thread

boring THINGS thread

now i'm correcting omitted words in posts made in boring things thread

yawn..

i hit the snooze button for too long.

i'm going to have a sandwich.
it's not a very exciting sandwich.

overslept, missed a quiz.

i am groggy. going home now to ride out the grog by lying on sofa watching TV (not sure what's on, nothing too exciting i hope).

just fucked up a very mundane task that I will have to re-do thus doubling the dullness

i am brushing my teeth and watching the morning news.

i burned a cd.

I just applied some ointment.

Nowhere exciting, just on my finger.

Nothing I say is boring, by virtue of my having said it.

This thread is like twitter, amirite?

Twitter is a kind of exciting name. I dunno.

Also, I too overslept.

i feel a little fat, but not enough to trouble me not to eat a cheese omelet for lunch

> not sure what's on, nothing too exciting i hope

serafinowicz. then 30 rock on five(us?)

i am still at work, installing content server.

i'm hot.

i just found a Streetwise Manhattan map in an old file

i snuck some free coffee from the back hallway. it tastes ok.

i might still go and buy some from the coffee cart anyway.

still hot

If it was free, why did you have to sneak it?

Sorry - too much intrigue going on with the coffee. We should just stop.

we should.

it's not worth it

I want brownies.

Boring brownies with nothing added.

The reason no one knows who KitCat is is that no one recognizes her new screen name.

Also she is entirely too exciting to be on this thread.

this thread is like World Of Animal Crossing
with terrible graphics
I like it

i read an e-mail.

I wrote an e-mail.

I wrote two e-mails actually, and a report. five more reports to go. not sure about how many e-mails.

quiet day. not much to do.

I revived a thread someone started about me a few years ago.

I saw that thread.

I tend to cram as much popcorn as possible in my mouth at one time.

I'm sure it is not pretty.

I just read an article on whether or not they should allow a farmers market in Blaby. IT's all happening in Blaby it would seem.

Back home for the night.

I twiddled my thumbs some today.

i wnet for a walk into the park and i smelled a trashcan and peed and there was a big black dog and a man whose leg smelled like a pee and a man with a metal nose going TOOOT TOOOT and i ran in some weeds and fell over and met a little scaredy doggy it was AWEOSM

am i doing this thred right

not really but here is a chickeny treat anyway.

yes you are
yes you are

xpost

one report to go

just had a coffee, am slightly more awake than was approx. 30 mins ago

sure is humid outside in nyc today, huh?

the widget weather forecast for today predicts a high of 22 degrees c. and a low of 14, with a current temperature of 20 degrees.

I'm feeling a great deal of self pity right now. As usual.

reports done
now for the daily blah blah and then home. I think I will drink some water and perhaps some korean beer and see if the cat wants to watch red beard

I should probably eat some dinner as well.

my dog just sighed.

cheese pizza is so good. why would anyone want to put other things on it? i don't think i'll ever understand. but live and let live, that's what i occasionally say.

My cat wanted back in. So I let her back in.

a lot of dust has accumulated on my box fan.

i should take the screws out and give it a good cleaning, but it will be cool enough to put it away for a few months sometime soon.

you should be able to locate an effective dusting product in the cleaning aisle of your local supermarket. ours has quite an impressive range so when i am there i keep my pulse rate down by employing breathing techniques.

Over time, do most writers peel away layers of artifice from their voice? Early precociousness then a paring away of each inessential layer? Or is the opposite model just as common? And can poor writers just not peel?

If you watch a band from the side of the stage, you get a better sense of the band dynamics than you would watching from the front.

Also, drummers often make an interesting contribution that is overlooked.

Also, I am increasingly convinced that most drummers are just too loud. Power is important, but control is more so. Deftness.

when it rains, it makes the backside of my apartment smell rotten, worse when it rains and then the a/c kicks in. I just got a pretty good whiff. awful.

youn I think the best writers rarely saddling themselves with all that junk in the first place, I think they get better with practice, but that is not the same as peeling away useless flourishes or what you might call artifice. being truly concise, one line after another, also takes some cunning that you only get from experience

i changed my username.

What was it before?

more busy today. that's nice.

busier? that word looks weird.

busy.

Today, I have cleaned out the dongle database, doesn't get more boring than that.

I can't decide which of my various mild ailments I'd get rid of first.

whatever is causing the deafness in my left ear would be favourite.

I want to play loud music but it's 9 am and the housemate sleeps til like 11 am. I took my socks off.

im going to separate recyclable trash from the real trash. maybe.

Today, I have cleaned out the dongle database, doesn't get more boring than that.

I've always found "dongle" to be one of those words that are intrinsically funny. I guess because it's like a combination of "dong" and "dangle." I hope that's not too risque.

question: is writing in all lower case better for indicating mundaneness or is it too offbeat ( a la e e cummings)?

question: where is chris p?

(aka causististry or whatever)

I was at a party. It wasn't a very exciting party, and I mostly talked to a friend about applying to grad schools, which is why I feel like I can mention it here.

Otherwise I spent all day in bed. I listened to the Colbert audiobook. It was wasn't a very exciting audiobook, which is why I feel like I can mention it here.

Someone in my block is running a washing machine. Is it the flat above? The flat below? Or another flat entirely? I really can't tell. Also, someone just went out of the front door. No, they came in. I can hear them walking up the stairs.

I may continue posting my stream of consciousness inner voice throughout the day.

It's Monday morning.

I'm drinking watery iced coffee.

Iced coffee is no longer in season, Jesse.

I am still waking up at my desk, even though I've been here for an hour and a half.

i went fishing yesterday, in a very wide river. I hardly caught anything just a couple of roach. I got so bored by the end of the day i ended up target casting at a floating mattress passing by.

Am I sick? Should I not go to school today? I can't tell. I am tired, that's for sure.

Iced coffee is always in season.

Apparently I am not going to school today.

I'm not either, I have to nurse a very sick man to health, and I'm only missing my "chemistry for fucktards" class that I am very much regretting taking, wherein I would have been learning about moles for the fifth consecutive class. I understood the mole after the first day of discussing it, all is cool.

i heard i should read this thread

so i think i'm going to now. maybe.

a little milk. a little bruce willis movie. a little 'ctober evening on its little peaceable way again.

I read the thread, so that worked out pretty nicely.

i'm still pregnant.

Nice!

Not really. It's getting a tad boring staring at my belly. :-) Then again, it's a nice postponement (?) of sleep deprivation.

y'kno, bruce looks nearly peaceable too (apart from the couple of first mundane shots that killed nobody).
and, hmm, mos def, if that's him, seems sorta drowsy as well, thus far, inna rather unnoisy way.

my new "office" hovers around the upper 50s/low 60s all day and there's nothing we can do about it, apparently.

Stop! Sweater time!

That's too funny for this thread, Abbott, but since I want to keep the peace, I'll let it slide.

yeh, "sliding". very mundane. very different from "slipping", come to -- lazily -- think of it.

I need to get off the Spider Solitaire addiction. Boss has walked up to my desk while I was playing probably 4 times today.

am i allowed to explain in measured and calm tones why Jol should be outed?

I am very sleepy and my laundry isn't finished yet.

I am not bleeding from any orifice, I think.

I really should vacuum.

I am not bleeding from any orifice, I think.

-- Autumn Almanac, Friday, 26 October 2007 15:25 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I really should vacuum.

-- Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2007 15:28 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I am still awake.

Now, after a reasonable interval, I am awake again.

I've got the in-laws coming and I need to make up the spare room.

Spot the mistake in this post:

It's Monday morning.

-- Jesse, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:20 (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

I have eaten slightly too much.

A woman on telly just described myxomatosis as "like Stevie Wonder, but a rabbit"

The in-laws are not staying - so it's lucky I never got around to making up the spare room.

File CDRs, or not?

too lazy to pee

just peed

In pants?

i think i am getting a cold. i'm deciding whether to stay in all day and night eating soup and reading magazines and listening to broken social scene and radiohead, or if i should go out with friends for cake and tea and then to see sam isaac supporting edwyn collins at dingwalls.

i mean, at least dingwalls won't be all smoky.

and if i want soup i'm gonna have to leave the house soon anyway to buy veggies. and it's raining.

i mustn't get ill, i don't have a night off again until... i dunno, a week today i think.

but if i stay in maybe i can give ulysses another go (read it once, 12 years ago, was re-inspired by walking around dublin with the pinefox). (oops, was that too exciting?)

and i have the house to myself for once... it is so, so quiet. i could just curl up on the sofa wearing a duvet al day.

Sunburn is no fun.

am i allowed to explain in measured and calm tones why Jol should be outed? -- darraghmac

trying to 'xpress myself in tones mundane and peaceful: not on this thread, dear dude.
as we all kno, there 'ready is a whole other thread where yer doing all that jolling, lolling n'footballing. albeit in an unmeasued and uncalm mode.

*seeps beer, lays down, burps mildly*

i found some soup in the freezer i made like a year ago, so i am defrosting and eating that, then i will go and eat cake with girls, then i will go to the gig. i will wrap up warm and go by silverlink and bus instead of going on my bike, that will keep me safe. hurrah.

no soup in my freezer no more. until i go out tomorrow. and do some mundanin' around for nutritionals again.

i am so so so clean, i don't think i ever spent as long in the shower as i did this morning. tho to be fair i did clean the bathroom as well as myself. then i did my washing. and ate garlic bread for breakfast. then got all the fruit in the house and made a giant smoothie nom nom nom. nowi am going to go do dalston and buy gin.

have niece for weekend, it's not very quiet, but that aside it's quite relaxing.

Ima bakin' some chicken w/ green onion and pepper and salt. 1 hour then probably a quick broil to crisp it.

Tonight I am going to a barbecue hosted by soil hydrology scientists.

The least exciting science.

So you're confident the tomatoes etc will be good, yes?

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Wrong thread! But it fits somehow!

hahahaha, yes suzy

That is indeed a dull thread connection.

Orange soda is a gentle treat on a hot summer evening.

Laying down is nice...spend some time on the futon, if things get REALLY crazy, it might just turn into a nap.

went to yoga today

babe city

which i guess is not that boring, now that i think about it

honey in tea = a+

gbx do you carry the little roll-up mat with you? I see a lot of patterns for like 'make your own yoga roll carrier shoulder strap satchel tube' but I have never seen one actually employed.

nah i just use what they got

read that as "meat roll up"

I complained to an LA friend about my beergut. He suggested hot yoga. After he left I drank beer.

the dump truck full of "topsoil" I got today was pretty low-grade stuff, very sandy and clay-ey.

I had nachos for dinner ... not "meal type" nachos with beans, guac, etc. but chips and cheese ... I knew I'd regret it later.

when i was taking the laundry out of the dryer a sock fell onto the floor and then a bit later a different sock fell onto the same floor so i had a bit of a think about my technique.

a different sock, you say

hmmm

Just spent an hour installing two bits of software on 70 PCs in one of our student clusters. Luckily, with three people helping this didn't take as long as we'd feared - many hands really do make light work!

this revival is for my plaintive and otm friend darraghmac.

My wife is out of town. I ate dinner alone. I read the sports section of the newspaper as I ate. I need to take a shower. There are clean sheets on the bed.

i thought i might go to sleep early tonight. i didn't, but i could still go to sleep earlier than usual.

my boots could do with a polish.

i'll probably end up going to sleep around the same time as usual

tyvm

i'm looking up offensive standup comedy on youtube and idk it's not as good as a lot of the less offensive standup comedy i prefer but i think that may be because it's not very well written or delivered. idk.

i'm up later than usual, even for me.

tomorrow after work i will shop for ingredients for a monstrous bannoffee pie that i've been requested to make for a barbecue on saturday. you don't need to bake anything really so it should be quite a laid back process.

We went out to dinner tonight and then I played WWF with random opponents and listened to the last two Savage Love podcasts.

i'm listening to maria's radio show. she's in amherst. doing her radio show. too bad emily dickinson never had a radio show.

http://wmua.org/

i had dinner, followed by a few spoons of ice cream. i am digesting my dinner and also the ice cream. in a while, i will watch a well-regarded comedic figure's television program, and i will probably laugh.

i was worried yesterday for a while that i had strained a thigh during football but it seems to have settled down now

i ate the last of the caramello nibbles (also the first and all the ones in the middle) and now i'm thinking about emily dickinson's radio show.

her —radio show!

speaking of peaceful and mundane, i love the track titles on this random ambient compilation i found on spotify.

Concentrated Focus Drone to Calm a Troubled Mind
Blanket Wash Tone for Peaceful Dreams
Layered Pitch Drone Builds Confidence
Metallic Chime Drone for for Well Being
Circular Rhythm Tone to Soothe your Soul
Opening the Inner Eye Meditation Drone
Shimmering Pulse Tone for Concentration
Orbiting Chimes for Deep Sleep
Repetitive Muffled Drone for for Healing Strength
Sparkling Flicker Tone for Yoga Concentration
Celestial Light and Health to Cleanse the Spirit
Slow Revolving Drone for Deep Thought
Whirling Spectrum Drone for Spa, Tai Chi, Meditation
Voice of Angels Drone for Healing Strength
Song Of The Wind Drone for Deep Meditation
Release the Healing Energy with Relaxation Tone

oh no, not the middle ones too

they're gone and that's that.

i love your list, jody.

I was bored, so I watched some Seabert clips on youtube.

caramello nibbles?!?!?!?

they're little buttons of cadbury milk chocolate with caramello filling. i think they are relatively new. i was actually thinking about you while i wolfed them down and how you would love them, i think it might have sped up my consumption.

those sound delightful
I am having a late evening screwdriver

I'm almost out of milk but I'm not too worried about it. I am having a late evening (for me) g & t.

it's july 13 and i brought the fan up from the basement and plugged it in, then i turned it on

I spent a lot of time today thinking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death (warning: not totally mundane)

i'm about to have a lime popsicle. someday i will get around to making my own popsicles, but not tonight.

a long, awkward noise not unlike that of a whoopee cushion just came from the apartment upstairs.

oh estela, you are ROTTEN <3

<3 yourself

i just saw my neighbours. all this rain has disrupted their golf. they had traces of mud on their shoes and the woman was wearing out of character frosted white eye shadow. it was distracting. after a while i averted my eyes from it and that's how i ended up noticing the state of their shoes.

how did you end up noticing the state of her eyes?

Given up on sleep, making porridge so that my inevitable scolding might be partway relieved

i couldn't have missed them. if mister magoo had seen those eyelids he would have concluded he was at a ballroom dancing competition.

namaste

Chilling with friends, looking at brown carpet.

listening to a variety of musics, enjoying the cool night air through the open window.

i have this on right now; it's lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrpJJdH9xfQ

While washing the dishes, I found myself thinking about a cormorant. It may have been the bird that was foremost in my mind, or it may just have been the word. I was scrubbing the saucepan with wire wool.

"Cormorant" is a pretty word, reminding me of "celebrant" and "supplicant" and "cor blimey". The exemplary phrase "Cor blimey, the celebrant murdered the supplicant!" brought the image of killer cormorants into my mind, dressed in dog collars like men of God, perhaps as a disguise to fox the police. I was by now removing tea stains from a tea cup.

For some reason, the word "cormorant" also made me think of the word "ptarmigan", although there is no connection between them except that they are both birds. Sorry, I mean, rather, that they are both words. And both have nine letters. The proposition "cormorants often murder ptarmigans" flashed into my head at this point. I was removing butter from the blade of a butter knife.

"Ptarmigan" in turn made me think of "pterodactyl" and "Michigan" and "tarnish", as in the sentence: "A pterodactyl flapped into Michigan, tarnished by murder most foul!" At that point I began thinking about dactylography, which in English is the scientific study of fingerprints, but in French means simply typing. As in "the murdered french typist exchanged dactylographie for dactylography". At that moment I was scrubbing a slow yellow yolk-smear from an egg-cup.

Finally, an Elvis Costello line popped into my head: She's filing her nails as they drag in the lake. Listening to that song, I always wondered how she could file her nails underwater. Then suddenly I realized that "they" didn't refer to her nails, but to policemen. But how was she managing to file policemen underwater?

The murky dish slops were just at that moment disappearing from the bottom of my sink with the gurgling sound blood makes in a murder mystery.

there's a pile of boxes of stuff i should deal with in the middle of the room

it's kind of blocking the way through the room

it takes about twice as long to walk to the door

a minor reorganisation would make it so i could sort of step-hop over them without difficulty

reorganising them instead of dealing with them feels like cheating

when an friend who i havent talked to in months asked me have i done anything exciting this summer, i couldnt think of a single thing. im blaming the bad weather

This may be WAY too exciting for this thread, but the other evening, while walking home from work, I saw an ENOURMOUS stag beetle toodling along the A23.

It must have been about 2 inches long.

Some new leaves on the ground from a nearby tree just outside my window. They look nice and crackly.

I had a pie for dinner. It was quite nice, but I was disappointed to find when I got it out of its foil pie-tray that it did not have pastry sides or base, only a pastry top.

Mundane enough for you?

Now I post that I realise that it will probably set off some terrible flame war about how British pies are different to American pies. Oh well.

Not I.

It is vaguely grey outside.

I had a pie like that once

I ate a pie recently with some israelis. They had no idea what rhubarb was! But they liked it.

I watching a TV programme with arc welding on it. It is quite mundane, but welding is always good.

I am thinking about maybe popping some brown bag popcorn and putting some nutritional yeast on it.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/MichealJacksonPopcorn.gif

O SRY WRONG THRD

putting some nutritional yeast on it.

Veg, you are VERY good at diplomacy.

lol I'm not sure what that means...?

Ha, I thought that was purposefully vague in order to keep the peaceable vibe and not tangent off into Vegemite vs Marmite. [Let's not do that now I've actually broached the subject, though. Shhh, all is peace.]

hahaha lol, I love you for thinking that! ...no it's deactivated yeast that you can apparently put on popcorn

vegemite or marmite for that matter would taste p terrible on popcorn I would think

hmm

but maybe not

Try it!

I have a jar at my desk. I will report back!

vegemitefail - I opened the jar and it was moldy! that is unheard of, afaik vegemite never goes bad. hmph.
I have another jar at home I'll try in a few days.
also nutrional yeast on popcorn is a lie: it just goes to the bottom of the bag and doesn't stick at all. lame.

Awwww

perhaps I should start a business importing rhubarb into israel

that has to be a euphemism for something

i am making hot and sour pork soup, but not too hot and not sour. and without pork.

i just drank some swiss miss hot cocoa why because my office has it

I will watch the second half of Memoirs of a Geisha tonight, occasionally looking in on the baseball game.

I have a Swiss Miss weakness

i ate a spinach pie today and it was spicier than usual.
i enjoyed this about today's spinach pie.

Tonight we (me and the wife) get to eat leftovers for supper. I like this because it is no work at all, and because we have some superb food leftover in the refrigerator right now, so no diminution of supper-eating pleasure will be incurred.

if this were not the mundane and peaceable kingdom i'd want to know what the fuck is wrong with you people

but it is that kingdom, and i am about to read a book i've waited 1/2 of a dmac for and i think you're all actually pretty swell to be honest, and maybe you should all come in here and say one nice, boring thing about the last ilxor you sniped at.

if you don't i'll do it for you. but i'll leave you out.

Well Jon loves him some Smashing Pumpkins and I am good with that, obv.

ned's off the list. the rest of you are dubois

mordy and jon are p good dudes when they're not sniping at each other tbf

what is the book that u are going to read dmac

it is book fourteen of a fantasy series, on that note i'll see everyone in oh i dunno three days. this thread better be full by then

let's face it, i'm drinking a tea here
i would barely dare to say much more than that
about it, perhaps other than to tip a hat to the tea
which begins again to rewarm my lips or so we pretend

i really like emil.y a lot and i think she's interested in lots of interesting things. i think in orbit is a good poster. jon posts sometimes on the metal thread which makes him pretty cool in my eyes.

I put about four hundred quid of work into the skoda last week, suspension, belts, fixing odds and ends like radio connections and a windscreen leak and whatnot. Hoping that the engine lasts well enough so that it makes this maintenance worthwhile, but then there's a timing kit refit in the next 10k km and the cost of tax added to that, if i sat down and added it up, idk, maybe i dont need a car for living in dublin, have a bike and a transport card....

otoh the engine model (vw 1.9 tdi alh) is a famous beast for longevity, and the suspension work (whole new front end, shocks, droplinks, wishbones, the works) made an immediate difference, plus the mechanic is an old friend who i dont catch up with enough and island mechanics with two preschoolers need old friends with old cars and iirc having a sturdy diesel and keeping it in good nick is as environmentally sound as any other method of driving (cue iatee) and ms mac loves an impromptu random spin and there's plenty of forest and coast in range, also the train out west is a joke and too expensive to be a funny one so.....idk

just in case

cmere that Skoda still runs like a dream