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Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 6:20 pm
by 96583UP
doug rr wrote:the start of a stressful week/month...
why is that, ser

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 6:25 pm
by Chris_H_2
buckle up . . .

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 6:38 pm
by Coach
The plant I am caring for at the office has taken a turn for the worse.

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 6:41 pm
by BurtReynolds
Coach wrote:The plant I am caring for at the office has taken a turn for the worse.
Sorry to hear that.

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 6:42 pm
by bodysnatcher
Maybe it had plantar fasciitis

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 6:49 pm
by Coach
About half of the tips appear to be burnt, but it is still very much alive. I'm going to water it today. It's just a little desk plant that someone abandoned in my office and put a "free" sign next to it in the kitchen. :heartbeat:

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 7:58 pm
by Peeps
im still on friendly terms (ie we play words with friends) with my ex. today she sent a message of "I miss you"

my counter was, so how is work

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 8:02 pm
by Chris_H_2
guys, snatch really should be recognized for the genius of his comment

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 8:14 pm
by spike
96583UP wrote:
doug rr wrote:the start of a stressful week/month...
why is that, ser
doug's been very mysterious about this lately. i'm concerned. :(

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 8:18 pm
by doug rr
Chris_H_2 wrote:guys, snatch really should be recognized for the genius of his comment
I laughed

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 8:20 pm
by doug rr
spike wrote:
96583UP wrote:
doug rr wrote:the start of a stressful week/month...
why is that, ser
doug's been very mysterious about this lately. i'm concerned. :(
nothing to be concerned about...just so much to do and not used to it anymore...

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 8:27 pm
by doug rr
we're flying back home to LA this week for about 4 weeks and leaving the dog here..he's 15 and hates when we leave the house for 2 hours..we're packing up our place in LA to get it ready for the year long or more renter..we have a lot to get done while there..dr. appointments and whatnot..just a lot of running around for both of us..I'm not used to having a checklist anymore :( ...comfortable white guy problems

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 8:31 pm
by doug rr
plumber was supposed to come around 10 this morning...now its sometime after 3

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 8:38 pm
by wease
doug rr wrote:plumber was supposed to come around 10 this morning...now its sometime after 3
He was 6 hours late to our interview…

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 8:39 pm
by wease
Peeps wrote:im still on friendly terms (ie we play words with friends) with my ex. today she sent a message of "I miss you"

my counter was, so how is work
Yeesh. I don’t know if I could’ve responded at all

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 9:16 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 9:23 pm
by Coach
tragabigzanda wrote:
wease wrote:
Peeps wrote:im still on friendly terms (ie we play words with friends) with my ex. today she sent a message of "I miss you"

my counter was, so how is work
Yeesh. I don’t know if I could’ve responded at all
as i recall she was hot. rethink your strategy.
sounds like something I might have texted my ex before divorce was official. you did good to just change the subject.

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 10:36 pm
by Jorge
Today I helped Hayley Williams from Paramore to procure some edibles

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 10:51 pm
by spike
Jorge wrote:Today I helped Hayley Williams from Paramore to procure some edibles
you're a backstage gopher now?

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon March 06, 2023 10:55 pm
by doug rr
spike wrote:
Jorge wrote:Today I helped Hayley Williams from Paramore to procure some edibles
you're a backstage gopher now?
I can just picture the khakis and sport jacket..