Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

She's over there.

Shit! Look busy.

Sorry Kev-lol, about your work.

so fucking nice out. gray, drizzly and seventy fucking five. YES

Ach, it's fine.

Sur, you're one sick puppy!

haha it's sooooo great. days like this are what love and chestnuts were made for.

It's only september! I'm going for a carvery, I need stodge and a good bitch.

september is always such a relief for me it means i've gotten through the tough part. winter here we come. no matter how cliche, i need to write a song about winter and rain and stuff. mmmmmmasdfl;kjas;dlfkjksdj

"The tough part"??? Actually that makes more sense if you're not in the eternal rain magnet that is Ireland :(

Also winter means that the slanket (which was great hit btw) will be used more often. By me.

That is when I'm allowed to. Winter does enable the inner couch potato we have within us all.

Sept is the tough part for me this year. :(

It's pouring out today and I am working from home. ahhhhh!

What is all this copying about then?

Rock Hardy gets drunk, photocopies his arse like a demon, pays person working at copyshop discretion money. The usual really...

The colour copies are for the real fans if you know what I mean...

In color no less! wow!

xpost haha

Still a deluge in TX. The dogs are very depressed. I was productive doing work here last night and hoped today would be the same. So far, no. One nap. About to eat the last of the cherry pie.

Where is everyone today?

Back at work, alas.

As if that was ever an excuse!

I meant 'work'. Sorry.

Okay, I'm back up after Sleep Pt. 2. (4 hours)

mmm sleep.

I'm puttering along on my site. I should be more frightened than I am as I've got to demo it a bunch of associate directors next Wed.

I told myself if I finished the templates fairly early today I could go to Target and look for a new lamp.

Also I am jealous of Amsterdam.

work man. BOSS ugh

I need to go to the bathroom but the cat has settled down beside me and I don't want to disturb her. What to do?

"Also I am jealous of Amsterdam."

Don't be, it's full of stoned out of their shrimp braned Americans. ;-)))

I probably wouldn't get too stoned. But it would still be fun! More so than a full, bladder, hot laptop, misbehaving CSS and two dogs staring at me mournfully through the french doors.

hehe

i hate disturbing the cat

What to do?

i need to pee. does ilx dare me to wet myself?

She was disturbed and now has food. She is not unhappy. I'm eating the rest of the pie. Ugh, is it really only 10?

It's 16!

Well that makes me feel even worse. . .

It's the Twin Towers Memorial Deluge!

Firsst rain in weeks. The birds are going batty.

Turn off the TV Beth.

Really remembering 9/11 right on the heels of remembering Katrina is a depressing double whammy.

I'll turn it off. Good idea. After the second tower came down it was just reruns and speculation. I am curious as to how soon the news programming started emblazoning the top of the screen with "AMERICA UNDER ATTACK." Or was it "ATTACK ON AMERICA?"

How fast did they move in w/ the BRANDING of the event?

It was the same day, no?

I was watching online. Don't remember. But I did have bad dreams and was depressed for awhile. ugh.

Beth, it was within an hour iirc.

Huh, rain stopped? That was a putzy effort. However 9/11 rehash is continuing unabated. Good thing we whupped all them Eye-Rack-Eeze.

On another note, we stopped by Scott and Maria's house yesterday and admired the spanking-new Title 5 septic!

?

A very expensive mandated septic leach-field. All waste water drains into a series of "infiltrators" (seriously)—big plastic tube things lying on a bed of gravel, covered with more gravel and then topsoil. A title-5 system for one household is the size of a fucking tennis court. Looks like it's meant to service an entire town.

They used to just bury an old car.

This is surely better than a car.

Please say you're joking about the car!

No, the car is for real. Old-timer ways.
Supposedly the title-5 systems do a worse job w/ breaking down the nitrogen than the old-fashioned methods. More big plumes making their way to bodies of water. Being that we are in Massachusetts, there's probably some graft involved in the legislation. Manufacturers of "infiltrators?"

What people should do is shunt all their "gray water" from showers, kitchen sink and laundry into a dry-well—a gravel-lined pit. Toilets ideally should be the composting variety, but if they aren't a smeller leach field can easily deal with the sewage if it's not getting all the gray water too. Dry wells are illegal, but most officials turn a blind eye. We have one. It needs some maintenance—the outflow hose from the washer geysers a bit. There must be some blockage. If you don't lay a towel on the bathroom floor you get a serious flood, which makes its way to the crack in the linoleum at the corner of the shower stall. Where the floor if quite, shall we say, spongy. Sigh.

"smeller leach field"

Beth drops sewage science.

Floor IS quite. Lordy, I'm not even drunk.

If you drop the sewage, you need the science.

I get all passionate and nongrammatical on the subject of sewage.

SEPTIC SYSTEMS: THE HIDDEN THREADKILLERS.