Random Thought Thread

This is so damn funny.

 

I got carded for an R movie~!

I haven't had to show ID for the past four five years, but today they asked me for ID.

I ended up asking the seller & the ticket taker how old I looked.

They thought I'm maybe 20, God bless them both

(๑>◡<๑)

 

Note to self and sundry: when your implement of choice is a straight razor, your either shave BEFORE you start drinking, or not at all.

 

At 25 Euro?? You're a bigger notebook junkie that I, mistrel.

I also agree with what many others have said about the strange mix in her accent. I hear European, American and north west English

 

I'd probably be concerned about the price if I ever bothered checking the exchange rates. But I don't, so I just convince myself that 25 Euros is about fifteen cents US, put it on a credit card, and forget about it for a month. It'll all come out in the wash, so to speak.

 

Fifteen cents? 25 Euros is about thirty dollars.

 

Of course. I was kidding (forgot the smiley). I'm usually kidding. But even so, thirty bucks isn't too bad for a nice notebook. It takes me months to fill one, so it's not like I'm buying them every week, and the good ones keep a long time and look nice on my shelves. I plan to keep them for the rest of my life anyway, as records of my work and thoughts and deeds, and even as records of what my handwriting looked like over the years. The notebooks are valuable as introductions to me; I get to meet me and know me by reading them.

Some things are worth spending a lot of money on: good notebooks; fine guitars; handmade wooden things like furniture; leather things. Woolen things my sister knits - they're worth a lot, but she gives me them for free. Being her brother has its perks.

So what if you're on a tight budget? You don't have to buy lots of stuff. Just make sure the things you do buy are worth having.

 

Soz. I did wonder. One thing that make me scratch my head with that review, is at the start when she says 'Huge A4 notebook." A4 is A4, isn't it?

While we're obsessing over notebooks, this is my style, but even at £10 it's too much. That said it's as close to perfection as I've ever seen. Soft cover, no bookmark ribbon, and thank God! No stupid elastic closure thing.

 

Vimes' Boots Theory, by Terry Pratchett:

 

I need hardcover notebooks. If I don't have hard covers, I have to have a clipboard so I can write in bed or some other non-desk place. How you can use a softcover notebook is beyond me. And I love those elastic closures! They keep the notebook closed and everything. And they make me feel like Indiana Jones - he used one on his workbook in Raiders. So, high coolness factor.

 

I made one of those Indy diaries. I'll get some pics up at some point.

As for soft covers, I never write in bed so it's not a problem. But even sat on the couch I manage fine.

As for the Seven Seas Writer notebook in the video, I couldn't buy one even if I was willing to pay inflated prices. I think they must have been discontinued as I can't find them for love nor money! The £10 I quoted must have been another notebook (maybe the Leuchtturm 1917)

 

I turned on StarKids Productions' "Ani" while I'm cleaning (i.e. making a larger mess and getting confused how my flat is an ever increasing disaster with each attempt to clean up).

It's no Holy Musical B@man! but I lost it when it came to drunk Obi-wan and his monologue:

"We can't let the Sith run everything! They're a group of religious zealots who want to impose their will on everyone else and that's the Jedis job! We're the light side; they're the dark side! They believe in love; we forbid it. Don't you see? Don't you see? There has to be a balance—a harmony between Light and the Dark Side. And to create that harmony, we wanted to wipe out the Dark Side! And then all of a sudden two Sith come along and they kill all but two Jedis. That's not balanced!"

 

Here is the website, I guess, but they say it's currently unavailable. They may bring it back in spring or summer. Price: $24.00.

 

Yeah, found that after I'd posted the above. Thanks. It's still roughly $20.00 more than I'm willing to pay for a notebook.

 

When you know you should be writing, or reading your groups chapter for
writing group and just don't have the where with all to do so.
Sometimes it is just hard to commit to the things you need/want to do. (sigh)

 

I've given this some consideration

Ice dancer - definitely can do.

Being handsome all day, skating around, picking up my bouquets afterward. A foxy coach in her coat A+

Bobsleigh - no, wrong tribe, a bit military for my tastes, too Landrover sponsorship.

Traditional Downhill racer - another yes, I'm pretty much there already, fearless, aggressive and stylish.

Curling - obviously no, I'm not sweeping at the olympics.

Ice Hockey - no, bullies chasing me on ice, stuff of nightmares.

...

Exhibition Events

Ice swimming/berg dive - yes, despite all reservations, long history of midnight skinnydip/drunk in pond, possibly a bronze, maybe silver?

 

Out of all that, I’d pick being an ice dancer.

 

Yes, but you can do curling drunk. In fact, it may be mandatory.

 

I doubt I'd care much. I'd pick curling because it's nice and slow and not suicidally dangerous. You can almost do it sitting down with a hot rum toddy in your hand. That's a sport that's about my speed.

 

The stink of clean.

 

Master Splinter taking a shower.

 

From the Library of Congress. The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, January 30, 1918.

NO MORE BEER IN GERMANY

ZURICH, Jan. 30. German breweries, the Gazette says, will have their supply of barley stopped and thus bring the industry to a standstill. The paper declares not even beer for the army will be produced.

The measure is said to be due to the bad harvest of oats, necessitating the use of barley for army horses.

 

Next headline: Moral is Low in among the Ranks, but the Horses get a Boost.

 

Low moral is a constant, low morale is a problem