Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

Is it sleep deprivation? Cold? Or WHAT? I just know I want to sleep the daze away.

Baby is getting HUEG and is stealing all yr blood/oxygen/energy.

I know! My lung capacity is probably half of what it normally is. I also have a crap way of sitting behind comp, so feel even "awfuller" when breathing. Sometimes I have to stretch and just take a big gulp of oxygen.

Nothing's wrong with wanting to sleep in your condition, is there nath? Have a lie-down.

wow...the QE2 looks nice in that photo. would like a few weeks floating around on that, doing karaoke, or whatever happens on cruise ships.

today I have a terrible hangover, I am good for nothing. I have to interview someone at 4, which is insanely annoying but has to be done. I just want to play Wii and eat fruit and rehydrate myself a bit.

also I wimped out of daily swim due to hangover...where is my discipline!

ps: aldo hope you are feeling a bit better. i guess things like that go in phases, I have had some really low days in the last year or two, and a month or two ago I was just feeling really sad and mechanically churning through every day. but it has passed a lot recently and I feel happy now, not really for any specific reason, though I know exercise has helped me a bit.

It's always thrilling to see big cruise ships off the shore here, even though they're nowhere near as grand as the QE2. I didn't see one this year.

Over the last couple of years, we've been getting pretty large cruise ships docking in SF. It's not just the size that transfixes me while I look from my rather awesome view at work, it's the piloting all the large ships need coming and going, but my favoprite is still watching the spattering of leaning white sails against the blue-green water when there's a regatta.

Oohhh yes, my childhood bedrooms looks out on a lake with a yacht club, and part of summer, to me, is white sails out the window.

I miss that view so much.

Sam, it's a bit difficult when you run a shop. :-)

I just did the "stupidest" mistake: ordered 24 bags of 16 toilet rolls. hahahahahahahaha Actually I hope I have diarhea so I can use'em at a quicker pace. hahah ALso I said they could deliver in the morning... when the shop's closed and we're at my check-up.

My brain is officially mush. I'm serious.

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I didn't get any great photos but it's weird how, of all the amazing stuff I saw in Egypts, I remember the fellucas on the Nile with as much intensity of emotion as anything.

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All these boats are lovely. Living most of my life landlocked, I have no such boat memories.

Nath, lie your head down on the counter and put a little bell on the door. :)

Anybody who knows me, knows I'm not religious at all, but my gf was giving me stick yesterday for absolutely insisting on at least dipping my hand into any body of water when I travel somehwere new. I guess she thingk it's a silly fetish. My first opportunity in Egypt was the day I took that photo. I can remember being in loads of places, Paris, NYC, New Orleans, various European coastlines, etc., but in few of them was I also kicking back on a sailboat.

Water is fantastic! I would think it's very spiritual (not religious) to dip into every major body you encounter.

alright i need to work. At home today to clean house but then I also have real work to do. it never ends.

Actually, it does, Sam, so remember to enjoy it.

I could never live away from the sea, and it's odd, because I'm not much for boating. I just want to be near it.
Nath, it's terrible to run out of toilet paper! GOOD JOB!!!!!

enjoy working? I enjoy my own kind most. web stuff not bad but whenever I think things will slow down for me a bit. . .well it doesn't. People always be wanting stuff on their websites. I'd like it to slow down enough so I can stop working at night/on weekends. I miss sewing and reading.

Don't you knit, too, Sam?

I did once upon a time. The knitting basket by my chair in the den has grown cobwebs I believe.

:(

Wait, can you knit with them?

If you can knit with cobwebs then I'm in good shape!

Sam, I hope you can get get past this work hump and join the knit nights again (like we've had any all summer, ugh).

I think I am coming down with the first cold of the fall. Bleah.

Yes knitting again would be good. But work is seriously kicking my ass. Looks like I'm not going to be finished with both of these sites on 10/1 like I thought. And come October I'll be starting on four new redesigns. Count 'em four!

I have to really shine though as I want to be promoted *soon*. Making it even more obvious how ineffective and incompetent my boss is is really my main goal here.

Kick ass, Ms Mis!

Feel better soon, luna.

sounds like we could all use a boost!

Tell me about it.

I could use a boost. A UTI has me temporarily off coffee and alcohol. I am extremely attached to both substances, on a deep molecular level. I feel steamrolled. Plus my work season is precipitously tapering off, so there's transition anomie.
Waaaah!

ugh, those are miserable Beth!

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that should do it!

onimoed this morning. I had to do lots of running around to get my son to karate and drop off stuff for people before I even had breakfast. I think I'm about ready for caffeine and sugar and beer.

My brain is officially mush. I'm serious.

I read somewhere* that your brain actually shrinks when you're pregnant, so think of every daft screw-up as reassurance that everything is working properly :)

That's a great picture Michael.

I'm fairly close to the Kip Marina on the Clyde so we see lots of yachts. It's a great sight on a sunny day (not that we get many).

your brain actually shrinks when pregnant

must remember to deploy this one if ever arguing with pregnant wife in future. "you can't be trusted dear, your brain has shrunk!"

I read somewhere* that your brain actually shrinks when you're pregnant

:-) Doesn't surprise me. The books all tell you that in the last weeks your brain activity dwindles and you become extremly forgetful. Can it really implode? I think mine did. Thank god I could change the order of 24X16 toilet rolls. I would need an army of diarhea suffering fools to get me through so many. :-) But, yes, brain is really not working properly. :-(

Sam, I'm rooting for you. Kick your boss' incompetetent ass in the upcoming months!

I love living near water, too, although I am so put to shame by all the people I know who boat, fish, swim, scuba dive, go clamming, fossil hunting, etc. I just look at it.

I am slightly onimoed this morning, and am conquering this by going to the pub in a couple of hours as it is Neil's birthday and also some friends of ours are moving to Wales next week so we're having a big day out.

Maria, there's still time! I went clamming for the first time last year! It's fun! But you get too many clams, and lots of giant gaggers. It's impossible to throw any back or stop. Your inner famine-year-Wampanoag takes over.

I am testing the waters to see if I am fit enough to play with my friends again.

Hi dere. Play nice :)

I am wasting a holiday Monday by not being onimoed.

Watched "Stuart: A Life Backwards" last night. It was very good but I can't help wondering why we watch things that are so upsetting. Next thing I'll be reading all those horrible "I was fucked right over as a child" weepy things that all have the same cover.

I wanted to watch that, but spent the evening in the pub instead trying to explain VALIS to someone who hadn't read it.

At the weekend we went to the Tank Museum, which was a lot of fun. The WWI exhibits are particularly good.

trying to explain VALIS to someone who hadn't read it.

lol almost as hard as explaining it to someone who has read it :P

You never imagine yourself saying "at which point his friend tells him everybody knows that Fats and Dick are the same person, DIck says 'Oh yes!' and Fats disappears."

I wanted to watch Stuart: A Life Backwards, but we were out for dinner and I totally lost track of time and didn't get back home until about half an hour into it, so figured too late to start watching. I'm sure it'll be repeated on BBC4 at some point (not being on Virgin any more, we don't have the fancy watch-again-if-you-forgot-about-it option, boo)

Chances of something being repeated on BBC4 = HUEG.

Good Monday folks. Weekend lovely and lazy due partly to much imbibing. A treacle tart is almost horribly sweet. Like nasty candy. It was interesting though I can't call it a hit. Friday I also loaded the fridge with random British beers I got at the fancy grocery store. Nobody wanted the Old Speckled Hen. It smelled like pee.

I can't remember what thread it was on, but I saw this shirt and thought of Ronan:

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I'm quite partial to Old Speckled Hen.

I don't mind it either, I mean it wouldn't be my bitter of choice but it's acceptable enough. Not sure about the new weaker version though, it's not that nice.

Can everybody just keep it down, this morning? My head is throbbing.

Maybe the Hen was a bit skunky after it's overseas voyage. I still have a Guinness in the fridge. I think I'll save that for breakfast.

What were you drinking MW?

What wasn't I drinking, Ms Mis? Cider, g&ts, wine...

My gf was out of town and I appear to have had an alcoholiday.

I think I'll save that for breakfast.

;)

Guinness, part of a nutritious breakfast!

Sampled a friend's home brew and also the Schneider Weisse double bock wheat beer last night, but not enough to be onimoed. Something has caught hold of my throat, though, and made me feel all snuffly-scratchy today.

The parrot groomer was over on Saturday and has some saline solution for their sinuses. The poor buggers have allergies like me, except they don't make regular use of tissues and drugs. The little guy was none too keen, but the bigger one snorted up the saline like a pro. They also got their beaks buffed and feet massaged, and I wondered why I don't get this done for myself as well. I could use a good beak buffing!

Owning parrots sounds very strange. . .