What Are You Doing?

Trying to add a new chapter to the first book of my series, It's a work in progress. I think I found a way to start it that isn't similar to other scenes nor like the original, which is similar to how book II starts.

 

I call dibs on this look. Though I'm sure I can customize it somewhat.

 

Just got finished with a hair cut, and currently getting ready for a social event we were invited to. Personally I`d rather stay home, always have some half ass project spinning in my head and kinda in the mood to get cracking on one or two tonight. Now that I`m done "settling into the New Year" (procrastination and napping) but these are very socialite friends or our`s who are always throwing some kind of shindig. We missed the last two and they sounded very forceful on the phone. Like they might slit our throats with wine glasses should we not attend.

I`m also making my first post back here in a while.

 

Uhm, waiter! Shark please!

 

A friend of mine just found out she's going to be having a baby girl (not mine) so I'm trying to convince her to give it David-Bowie as a first name.

Also,

I believe I ordered the swordfish.

 

"You got it, my dude!"

 

Cute!

 

Why waste your time sleeping when you can instead be fruitful and read posts on Facebook until 2am? Only I can help myself.

 

Facebook? Facebook?! Nah, you should hang out here with all of us.

 

First album cover? First?

Snow, pine needles, radioactive, three-eyed micropredator... This is clearly the cover for A Nuclear Weasel Christmas. You know, the one where they show a surprisingly melodic ability to cover old Bing Crosby songs...

 

Damn.You are correct sir... I was busy procuring mandolin strings in the middle of Austin and missed the holiday theme.

 

Watching about the history of Tattoos, Narrated by Nimoy.

 

That is messed up.
I guess rubber-neckers are not just for the road.

 

From Wikipedia, about the technology of Terry Pratchett's Discworld:

 

Made me want to pull out the History dissertation I never finished: Examining The Advent, Spread and Possible Uses of Tattoos and Body Modifications in Early Civilization (working title). The last thing I wrote in it was:

Body markings amongst the Diomede Islanders also played a part in courtship and marital customs. According to anthropologist Sergei Bogojavlensky:

It was believed that a girl who smiled and laughed too much would cause the lines to spread and get thick. A girl with a full set of lines on the chin, all of them thin, was considered to be a good prospect as a wife, for she was clearly serious and hardworking.
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Nope, still have no idea where to go from there.

 

I dunno about that. My mom broke her hip when she got her foot somehow hung up on the bedroom carpet. Walkers and canes can get stuck on them as well. And carpet in the bathroom and kitchen is an open invitation to mold--- a terrible health hazard for older people especially. And if someone in the household has a bad aim and misses the pot . . .

In fact, the idea that you apparently have carpet in your loo worries me a great deal.

 

Or posts on WF till after 5:00 AM?

 

Well, I've survived thus far, and I'm going to turn 70 in a few months' time.

I don't use a cane. Perhaps if I had one, or a walker, I would change my evil ways and opt for slipping instead of tripping. But I still just walk normally, and haven't had any bathroom accidents at all, and neither has my husband.

As far as bad aim ...well we do use those little cotton ruggy mat things that go around the bottom of the toilet that get washed (and lightly bleached) with every change of towels. As far as spreading mold, etc ...nope, that hasn't happened either. Our bathroom is quite a dry room, with central heating via a radiator and heated towel rail, etc. We also keep the door open when the room is not in use, so it doesn't ever get damp. And we open the window during showers and baths to avoid steam build-up.

The carpet is very short and easy to clean. (Of course I wouldn't have a shag carpet in there!) This is the kind of short carpet that's safe to put in entryways, etc. It's made of non-natural fibre, and resists dirt, and is easy to clean if it does get dirty. I frequently spray it lightly with a bleach solution, to keep germs at bay. But we don't plan to eat off it, either.

We use a bath mat which also gets washed and bleached with every change of towels.

I know several people, including my next door neighbour, who have broken bones or injured themselves slipping on a wet tiled bathroom floor. My friend who recently broke her kneecap on the marble floor had an accident several years ago in their wet room, with a very grippy tiled floor. Unfortunately, it's not grippy if shampoo gets accidentally spilled on it. Yep. Down she went. And because she's partly disabled and has knee and hip trouble, her husband (who was in a wheelchair) had to phone for help to get her back on her feet.

I think I'll stick with the unfashionable carpet.

 

I have carpet in some rooms and I've been slowly pulling it out as I can afford the hardwood to replace it with. I didn't used to mind carpet, but that was before I knew how poorly it and pets got along together, now a broken leg seems like the lesser of those two evils.

 

You are kidding? What is wrong with pets and carpet? What I hate watching is some poor dog or cat slipping and sliding around on an uncarpeted floor. I was just visiting my neighbour two days ago, and their arthritic labrador retriever slipped going around a corner on their hardwood floor and actually fell.



It might seem funny when the dogs are young and playing around. But watching some elderly dog trying to walk across what would be like a sheet of ice to us isn't funny at all.

What is this sudden hatred of carpet? We lived with carpeted homes for decades and enjoyed them. And we are still here. We haven't tripped and died falling, or died of diseases hidden in carpets, etc. Okay, if you have an allergy I suppose a carpet could hang on to stuff that irritates it. But modern hoovers work really well, and it's easy to steam clean carpets with home equipment as well, which should take care of most allergens.

I mean, it's fine if somebody prefers a hardwood floor, tiles, laminate, or whatever. But what really gets me annoyed is when they supplement their preference by making it sound as if carpeting is 'bad' or even dangerous. I've heard it said that a carpeted stairway is very dangerous, but the only indoor stairs I ever slipped on were my aunt's polished hardwood stairs in her Victorian home. (I was scurrying downstairs in stocking feet. Thank goodness for hand rails!)

Carpeting is not bad. It keeps the floor warm, keeps people and animals from slipping around, and can be easily cleaned. I personally prefer the look of polished hardwood floors, but having grown up living in a home that had them, I wouldn't go back. They are noisy, slippery and cold. And things break when they get dropped. No thanks.

 

Just waking up...at 2pm!