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05/02/2006 09:00 #21988

random
This is beautiful: a photographer fills a black pool with pretty naked ladies and takes a series of underwater photographs. Tasteful nudes but maybe not work-safe.

Yes, as (e:zobar) wrote, the lady next door really did call the health inspector on us because we didn't move our compost heap after she 1) lied and said it was illegal, 2) verbally abused me, 3) attempted to verbally abuse Z except he wasn't paying attention.

Now, I was going to put the thing into a nice plastic enclosure, the kind you can buy at Target, and probably move it to a different part of the yard-- it was just behind our garage because the rest of the yard is under constructoin. But after the woman's reprehensible behavior, I believe I will be leaving it where it is. Except now, see, to conform to health code, it has to be elevated twelve inches off the ground-- Rats don't like to climb, so they won't burrow in elevated compost heaps.

So I'll leave it where it is, behind my garage and against her fence, and will, in order to comply with the health inspector she called on me, have to make it larger and uglier.

Sweet, sweet irony.


In other news, I am going to take a big risk and plant most of my tomatoes today. Perhaps the peppers too. The guaranteed frost-free date isn't until May 17th, but the long-term forecasts show no temperatures below 40, and I am impatient, and also the tomato plants are growing rather too large. If anyone wants one, I still have one or two more than I strictly have room for.

(e:kara), I remember you saying something about trading some plants, and I meant to reply and now can't remember where you said that, but my zinneas didn't actually do all that well and I'll be starting most of them from seed outdoors I think, so...

Oh shoot, I have to cut a bunch more sod today to make room for the foxgloves, I forgot.

Happy May Day (yesterday), by the way-- I am going to put up pictures of my garden, I swear, one of these, um, years.
scott - 05/02/06 09:23
I have the very same tomato planting debate happening in my home.

To plant, ot not to plant...

I've got 50 seedling plants outgrowing their little planters... I think mine are going in the ground this Saturday, like it or not. (Just gotta rent a roto-tiller)

I'm down for a plant exchange, too. I have all kinds of wierd, exotic plants growing in my garden. (It was my dad's garden, and he was into odd plants.)

04/25/2006 14:08 #21987

obsessions
I have been suffering from obsessions lately, the kind of thing where I start reading and can't stop until it's done. This was always a problem of mine in print-- I was dead to the world until every book in the stack from the library was done, all in one long binge-- but the Internet has made this possibly fatal. I just clicked through every single photo put up on The Daily Oliver -- Oliver being a gorgeous, sleek Wiemariner living in the South of France with his brother Hugo and some dude with a camera. Oh my GOD this dog is cool.

It made me sort of want a dog. That and the fact that my older sister, the mommy of Scout ,just adopted a second Springer-- I think it is Scout's full-blood sister, previously owned by Katy's sister-in-law. Lizzie and Scout are nearly identical, although their markings are different, and OH GOD THE CUTE.

But I digress. I keep getting obsessed by things and sucked into them, and then I forget what I was doing, and I keep doing things like teraing myself away from the computer to make breakfast, and then coming back twenty minutes later to see that I sliced one bagel, set it in the toaster, and then abandoned the other bagel on the cutting board, and never turned the toaster on. Right! Right.

Work is a problem: they are changing all our schedules around. I've been part-time for the last five months because I wanted to take a break and finish a novel, and yet they've been shortstaffed so I've been working full-time, and now I am confronted with a choice: keep up this sham of part-time, or just give up and go back to full? Or quit entirely? I will never finish this novel.

Especially because I cannot keep a thought in my head. See, I opened this window to assure (e:zobar) that the coolest car ever, contrary to what he says in his post which I don't know how to link to except by just going ,would be a VW campervan converted to run on vegetable oil. He likes tiny cars. I like cars you can live in. We already have a foreign subcompact, thanks, and we also have a ridiculously tiny two-wheeled vehicle. If I am going to get a vehicle, it's going to be one I can get laid in.


And oh yes, will be at Century ca. 7 pm for barbecue wings and also AIDS fighting, and if only Doppelcracker is bartending (I hope he will be), I will be drinking something ridiculous, probably Sidecars or Mai Tais. Provided it's not busy. In busy bars I just have a beer.

Oh I should figure out how to post a photo of Scout and Lizzie.
dragonlady7 - 04/25/06 23:13
Jenks: Me too. Totally addictive. It's like an alcoholic's binge.

MrDT: Not necessarily, or I flatter myself I'd've stopped, but it can sometimes be very inconvenient.

It's really annoying when I read a book but I get sucked into the binge and can't stop. I'll just keep reading-- I'll read everything else on the shelf, and several days later, being late for work and not cleaning and not cooking and not bathing, I'll emerge all hung-over-- and I'll be unable to focus for days. It's really awful-- it's like a drug binge. It's worst when it was authors with strong voices-- then I can't write anything without sounding like them, for days. A couple weeks ago I read a book by Jenny Crusie, and then, unsatiated, delved into Neil Gaiman-- it was a week before I could stop saying hilarious deep things, with the downside being that they weren't really, I just thought they were.
mrdt - 04/25/06 23:03
thats not neccesarily a bad thing
jenks - 04/25/06 20:46
That is why I don't read more. I love to read, but I can't start a book til I have a long chunk of time free since I tend to read at the expense of all else- food, sleep, study, phone, friends, etc.

04/18/2006 10:09 #21986

great
Oh wow awesome!
This page just spontaneously refreshed itself and I lost my entire post.

Sweet.
leetee - 04/18/06 19:25
I feel for ya. Can't tell you how many times something like that has happened to me. For me, it's usually 'cause i've clicked when i should have clacked...
kara - 04/18/06 11:51
Here's a trick -
compose your post, sans formatting, in your (e:pad). This is great for when you want to write a post, but don't necessarily want to post it from work. Save your work in the (e:pad) as you go, then copy and paste into your journal when you're ready.

04/17/2006 08:55 #21985

dyngus day
The several real actual Polish, non-Buffalo people of my acquaintance all laugh when I mention that Dyngus Day is a big deal in Buffalo. Also, none of them have ever encountered anything involving pussy willows. Therefore, I think this-all is just kind of a Buffalo thing. But still, it sounds fun. Every ethnicity in Buffalo has its own drinking holiday-- how great is that? This is a great city.
Not that I can ever participate in any of them, but the idea is great nonetheless.

I like my job, sort of, for the most part, but for two things: I am on a "part-time" schedule that has me working six days this week, and I never have holidays off and in fact have especially long days on holidays because all the senior people do have them off.
Also I can never get a Saturday or Sunday off, which means that (e:zobar) and I see one another in spans never longer than a couple of hours. Which, you know, some late-shift workers have it much worse, but, still, others being worse-off doesn't actually alleviate my pain at all. You know?


All right, i changed the colors here and have determined it's not the colors that make me inarticulate. I'm just inarticulate.
uncutsaniflush - 04/17/06 09:53
fwiw, I was born in Poland and grew up in the Detroit area Polonia community and I had never heard of it until I moved to Buffalo. I had heard of the folk tradition that Dyngus day is based upon - "lany poniedziałek" or "Oblewania" ("wet Monday" or "get soaked" would my translation to English) but it was a tradition that is considered to be rural and is not particularly common in the major urban areas of Poland.

04/16/2006 09:46 #21984

eeeeeeeeeeesssssttttteeeeerrrrrrrr
The Easter bunny came! With a big white bag from Parkside Candy! And (e:zobar) and I have both just stuffed ourselves with chocolate! And washed it down with coffee! And I just chased him slowly around the house trying to tickle him. I thought it'd be a great idea to see which of us could make the other barf first.

I have to go to work in a little bit. I am going to stuff myself with chocolate and show up so fucking high on sugar, and see if that gets me through the day.

Man! Z is fun when he's fucked-up.

And this is legal. Is this a great country or what?

I have media to blog with, later, when I am not so lazy (photos, of Z's family doing traditional Latvian egg-dyeing, with onion skins and pocket knives and pantyhose). Meanwhile, I link to this instead:
Eddy from Z's work goes to the Broadway Market, eats the horseradish, manages to get in not one but three phallic jokes, all to a polka soundtrack.