What Are You Doing?

The cottage is home to... ˜quick mental calculation˜ ...at least a hundred spiders: Daddy Longlegs, common black spiders and the Huntsmans. All of the ceilings and walls have cobwebs, mostly from the Daddy Longlegs.

They share this abode with us humans. I tend to think of the cottage as home to all living creatures who've chosen it. They don't bother us, and we don't bother them. Only we have to de-web sections when it becomes overgrown, especially in front of doorways and above the stove.
The only creatures I won't allow to stay are poisonous ones, simply due to close proximitty thus potential for clashing.

I've been in this rural setting for seven years now and I have to remember this is not typical in the burbs.

Spoiler: above my bed head...

1ft wide, 3 ft down the wall; 8ft ceiling

Spoiler: Shower cubicle...

The Daddy Longlegs seem to like the cubicle the most (7-8ft ceiling). Often their webbing goes half way down the wall, much to their demise as they drown when the shower is turned on.

Spoiler: the scary 2in funnel over the toilet door entry (7ft ceiling)...

With this type of spider in it; we have dozens of these throughout the cottage.
Toilet spider is about 2in diameter spread out.

Spoiler: In the toolshed(part of the cottage)...

The black spiders seem to like the tool shed the most. The ceiling is full of webbing.
The cladding outside is home to even more of them.

 

Been raining on and off these last couple of days.
1am, put fone in gutter outside to connect to teh internets.
Sky looks clear, but 3am, I can hear strong wind, thus now Teusdee, might not be able to mow as planned.
Looks like a long mow ahead of me if I have to wait a few more days.

 

Patiently waiting for the current craze for sentence fragments in popular fiction to end so we can read like adults again.

 

Might as well wait for all split infinitives to knit themselves back together again.

In the meantime, are you planning on continuing to protest by leaving the subjects off your sentences?

 

I was throwing a bone to the 'there are no rules of grammar' people.

 

Nah, language is an evolving thing. What they never taught us though is that this evolution is driven by the people who don't know the rulez of grandma. Or spelling,

 

Writing well is more than mechanics, but it is not less.

- Douglas Wilson

 

Night, all

 

We call it sheetrock and drywall here in the states.
Plasterboard is just a fancy word for it.

 

I feel ya.
Probably why I am taking an adult approach to my WIP, since
everyone else that writes about the major theme/activity(s)
treats them like a joke, or portrayed in a poor inept fashion.
(Though I do get help, since Lady J in group is an editor by
trade.)

 

Snow fell, had to clean the Jeep so we, my niece an I, had a snowball fight at 5 in the morning. I won cause the cold doesn't bother me. Helps being slightly insane as well.


Have a weird cough, too. Need ginger tea. Unsure why I'm calling it "tea" when it's just boiled water with chopped up ginger root. Eh. "Ginger water" ....

Today will be a boring day. I'm supposed to go party, but those days are long out of my system. I'll sneak out when no one is looking. But that's much later, for now, it's breakfast time. Think I'll eat grapes with a pistachio muffin. Yum.

 

˜smiles˜
I'd never have guessed Aussies were viewed as speaking fancy.
And speaking of language, WTF is up with Amercian's pronunciations of Solder and Aluminium?

 

Apparently, getting invited to my own wedding. Dunno why it's in my mailbox. Actually, I don't even remember handing out invites....huh, those might still be in the nightstand.....ah well. Less people; more oxygen an all that.



I'm trying to write but cannot find it in me to type. Just keep staring at the screen. Guess today is just not good for it. I want lunch.

 

Well that is good.
Would be kinda awkward if you weren't.

 

"Hey, Moon. You going to Moons wedding?"

"Dunno, haven't gotten the invite yet..."

I'm going to bring the damn thing just for some giggles.

 

As for aluminum, we're simply of a more classical mindset than you furriners. From Wikipedia (hiding in a spoiler to follow your excellent precedent of saving space for those not interested in more detailed explanations):

Spoiler: Aluminum vs Aluminium

British chemist Humphry Davy, who performed a number of experiments aimed to synthesize the metal, is credited as the person who named the element. In 1808, he suggested the metal be named alumium.[96] This suggestion was criticized by contemporary chemists from France, Germany, and Sweden, who insisted the metal should be named for the oxide, alumina, from which it would be isolated.[97] In 1812, Davy chose aluminum, thus producing the modern name.[98] However, its spelling and pronunciation varies: aluminum is in use in the United States and Canada while aluminium is in use elsewhere.[99]

The -ium suffix followed the precedent set in other newly discovered elements of the time: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (all of which Davy isolated himself). Nevertheless, element names ending in -um were known at the time; for example, platinum (known to Europeans since the 16th century), molybdenum (discovered in 1778), and tantalum (discovered in 1802). The -um suffix is consistent with the universal spelling alumina for the oxide (as opposed to aluminia); compare to lanthana, the oxide of lanthanum, and magnesia, ceria, and thoria, the oxides of magnesium, cerium, and thorium, respectively.

In 1812, British scientist Thomas Young[100] wrote an anonymous review of Davy's book, in which he objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium: "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound."[101] This name did catch on: while the -um spelling was occasionally used in Britain, the American scientific language used -ium from the start.[102] Most scientists used -ium throughout the world in the 19th century;[103] it still remains the standard in most other languages.[99] In 1828, American lexicographer Noah Webster used exclusively the aluminum spelling in his American Dictionary of the English Language.[104] In the 1830s, the -um spelling started to gain usage in the United States; by the 1860s, it had become the more common spelling there outside science.[102] In 1892, Hall used the -um spelling in his advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents he filed between 1886 and 1903. It was subsequently suggested this was a typo rather than intended.[99] By 1890, both spellings had been common in the U.S. overall, the -ium spelling being slightly more common; by 1895, the situation had reversed; by 1900, aluminum had become twice as common as aluminium; during the following decade, the -um spelling dominated American usage.[105] In 1925, the American Chemical Society adopted this spelling.[105]

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990.[106] In 1993, they recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant;[106] the most recent 2005 edition of the IUPAC nomenclature of inorganic chemistry acknowledges this spelling as well.[107] IUPAC official publications use the -ium spelling as primary but list both where appropriate.[e]

 

tomatio tomatum

 

It's like the opening scene in a sitcom

 

I love language debates!

I was going to do laundry tonight, but being warm and procrastinating won out.

 

Needing to get my world back in order, cause it has
been in a chaos beyond my control.

Also having a strong need to feed my inner masochist,
cause I have a need for it, and have earned it.
(Also need to read more of some terrible book that I
was asked to, and work on revving it._

 

On ny way to work. I took my weeks vacation for thanksgiving, now it's back to 60+hr weeks.

 

That was the most tame party I've ever been to. Not complaining either, just remarking. A bunch of dudes playing Halo 3 on Xbox one with pizza and beer. Really fun, even though my Halo skills are now scrub level.

Friend of mine gave me a "Game Over" t-shirt like I gave him when he got married. What goes around an all that, haha.

Today is a time for relaxing. Mainly due to the half-sick feeling still rampaging throughout my body.

 

I figured out who came up with this dastardly scheme - my soon to be brother-in-law. He's got a sense of humor. Regular jester he is. Great guy.

Going to forget my invite so they can claim I'm trespassing.

 

RE. Aluminum vs and Aluminium

Iain, that was a jolly nice read...cheers.
This kept popping up in me mindtank while reading...

Spoiler: 40 sec vid...

And yes, Some Guy, in the grand scheme of things, does it really matter.
Even in the smallest of elements of one's life, does arguing over such things matter.

Spoiler: 3 quotes...

"It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing… such a little thing..." - Borimor

"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling." - Joseph Addison

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature." - George Bernard Shaw

...though it seems very important to many folks that their perception, conclusions and way of life is the correct one and thus they feel compelled to defend their lot, and sometimes attack the other for being different.
I theorize one reason being a fear of imperfection.

Anyone wanna read (700 words) the great steering wheel incident of 2008?

 

One theory: your inner self set that up in case you have second thoughts of marriage, as apparently heaps of folks freak out on the day; huge life decision and all that.
And it's usually a nice experience to be invited to someone's wedding.