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 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.

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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