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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Hogwarts!

    to read the best books, need an invisibility cloak.

    i am groot

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,334
    Mistara said:
    DanaTA said:
    Mistara said:

    i envy people with clothes dryers.

    i'd be scared to live in a house with the gas pipes pumping the accident waiting to happen.
    is right up there with ferris gigantos wheels, and sybway tunnels.  midtown tunnel, nooo way

    The combination of beer and cigarettes is much more dangerous than natural gas cooking and heating!  Four of the five places I've ever lived, there was gas cooking.  And three of the four places had gas heating as well.  We do have an electric clothes dryer, though.  The only fire I've lived to tell about was caused by a woman who drank herself to sleep...with a lit cigarette.  She was on the third floor.  We were on the second.  I smelled something and knew it wasn't the dust burning off the baseboard heating the first night it came on in late Autumn.  I had to look around and investigate.  Glad I did.  The third floor had one of those plastic amber tinted windows next to the door.  I could see the flames.  I pounded on the door and woke her up and got everyone out and called 911.  Damage to the third floor, but we went to bed that night.  Only some water damage to the suspended ceiling in our apartment.  The landlord was not happy with her...took her to court, I understand.

    Dana

     

    you saved her life!

     

    i do hve a smoke detector.  havent checked the battery in 20 years.

    I suggest that you check it when you get home tonight!!!  YOu should do a test on them regularly.  And twenty years?  It's actually time to replace it!  You could probably light a fire with something that smokes a lot, right under it, and it wouldn't do a thing.  The sensor material is probably dead.  The new code, at least in Massachusetts, is to replace them every 7 years.  I just replaced all mine this past December.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,334
    LeatherGryphon said:
    DanaTA said:
    Mistara said:

    i envy people with clothes dryers.

    i'd be scared to live in a house with the gas pipes pumping the accident waiting to happen.
    is right up there with ferris gigantos wheels, and sybway tunnels.  midtown tunnel, nooo way

    The combination of beer and cigarettes is much more dangerous than natural gas cooking and heating!  Four of the five places I've ever lived, there was gas cooking.  And three of the four places had gas heating as well.  We do have an electric clothes dryer, though.  The only fire I've lived to tell about was caused by a woman who drank herself to sleep...with a lit cigarette.  She was on the third floor.  We were on the second.  I smelled something and knew it wasn't the dust burning off the baseboard heating the first night it came on in late Autumn.  I had to look around and investigate.  Glad I did.  The third floor had one of those plastic amber tinted windows next to the door.  I could see the flames.  I pounded on the door and woke her up and got everyone out and called 911.  Damage to the third floor, but we went to bed that night.  Only some water damage to the suspended ceiling in our apartment.  The landlord was not happy with her...took her to court, I understand.

    Dana

    Interesting story.  But I'm curious to hear about the fire you didn't live to tell about.  surprise

    Haven't been there yet.  I'll let you know when it happens.   laugh

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,334
    Chohole said:

    Libaries (and 2nd hand book shops) have a distinct smell all of their own.

    Especially second hand book shops!

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    Tjohn said:

    Started on a med for my diabetic nerve pain a week ago. I got tired of living with the pain (I was reluctant to add yet another med to my medicine cabinet). So far it's been a big help. smileyyes

    ...I'm hoping that isn't what is causing my back pain.  I'm still is achy and it's been two weeks though not getting the stabbing pains when I move like I did the first few days. Don't need another pharmaceutical with undesirable side effects in my system.

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    Forum development really needs to do something about this ridiculous spell check service.  It is out of date (not sure by how many years now) as I discovered when I clicked on "Update" button.  However I can't afford the 250$ per year fee for a personal cloud version and the full server upgrade is 3,500$.  Please, can we just be able to use our browser's spell check again?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    edited October 2017
    Chohole said:
    agent unawares said:

    I'm pretty sure the little private side rooms are for smelling books without people seeing you. I would drown myself in the fragrance of old books if I could.

    I was lucky enough to visit the back rooms of the "British Library" a few years back.   Both the old building and the new building, which hadn't yet attained the true library smell when I was there.

    There are just a few books in the British Library   Somewhere around 150 mill I believe.

    ...you found a photo of heaven.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,087
    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Chohole said:

    Libaries (and 2nd hand book shops) have a distinct smell all of their own.

    It's a delectable blend of glue, ink, bacteria, mold and fungi.

    And the most major part, old wood fibers breaking down. This releases vanillin which is why they smell a little sweet like a dusty bakery.

    I will never look at a vanilla cookie the same way again. surprise

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Chohole said:

    Libaries (and 2nd hand book shops) have a distinct smell all of their own.

    It's a delectable blend of glue, ink, bacteria, mold and fungi.

    And the most major part, old wood fibers breaking down. This releases vanillin which is why they smell a little sweet like a dusty bakery.

    Aye.   Dust is a major hazard when storing large numbers of old books, The cleaning teams we were training were using quite sophisticated vacuum cleaners, with variable suction levels, double and triple filtering and worn like a back pack so the cleaners could climb the library ladders with them, 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    stratagy misspelled?

     

    i can never remember how to spell catagory, friend, college

  • agent unawaresagent unawares Posts: 3,513
    Chohole said:
    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Chohole said:

    Libaries (and 2nd hand book shops) have a distinct smell all of their own.

    It's a delectable blend of glue, ink, bacteria, mold and fungi.

    And the most major part, old wood fibers breaking down. This releases vanillin which is why they smell a little sweet like a dusty bakery.

    Aye.   Dust is a major hazard when storing large numbers of old books, The cleaning teams we were training were using quite sophisticated vacuum cleaners, with variable suction levels, double and triple filtering and worn like a back pack so the cleaners could climb the library ladders with them, 

    That's really neat. I've never even considered what would go into cleaning a library.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    symmetrical bookstacking smiley

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,087
    agent unawares said:
    Chohole said:
    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Chohole said:

    Libaries (and 2nd hand book shops) have a distinct smell all of their own.

    It's a delectable blend of glue, ink, bacteria, mold and fungi.

    And the most major part, old wood fibers breaking down. This releases vanillin which is why they smell a little sweet like a dusty bakery.

    Aye.   Dust is a major hazard when storing large numbers of old books, The cleaning teams we were training were using quite sophisticated vacuum cleaners, with variable suction levels, double and triple filtering and worn like a back pack so the cleaners could climb the library ladders with them, 

    That's really neat. I've never even considered what would go into cleaning a library.

    Yeah, who wants to read dirty books.  Oh, wait... there's a big market for that. surprise   My bad!  blush

  • agent unawaresagent unawares Posts: 3,513
    LeatherGryphon said:
    agent unawares said:
    Chohole said:
    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Chohole said:

    Libaries (and 2nd hand book shops) have a distinct smell all of their own.

    It's a delectable blend of glue, ink, bacteria, mold and fungi.

    And the most major part, old wood fibers breaking down. This releases vanillin which is why they smell a little sweet like a dusty bakery.

    Aye.   Dust is a major hazard when storing large numbers of old books, The cleaning teams we were training were using quite sophisticated vacuum cleaners, with variable suction levels, double and triple filtering and worn like a back pack so the cleaners could climb the library ladders with them, 

    That's really neat. I've never even considered what would go into cleaning a library.

    Yeah, who wants to read dirty books.  Oh, wait... there's a big market for that. surprise   My bad!  blush

    LMAO

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851

    ...good one.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851

    ...breezy day today .  Had to hang onto my hat most of the time.  Wind through the screen in the apartment made an eerie sound perfectly for the Halloween season.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,087
    edited October 2017

    Complaint:  I have too many pictures to hang on the wall and am playing musical wallspace. sad  I've raided my storage and unboxed some nicely framed paintings and lithographs that have been carefully boxed and hiding in a hot attic for 15 years.  I had forgotten how wonderful they were.  Unfortunately, I now have about half the wall space I had when they were boxed up so long ago.  I know the modern thing is minimalist, plain walls with no character at all, but I like pictures on the wall.  To my credit, I have moved on from liking wallpaper and now find that 200 year old technique of hiding bad plastering jobs horribly anacronistic.  (My mother was a paper hanger for 20 years in the middle of the last century, so I know a little about paperhanging.) But pictures on the wall project one's personality, likes, and dreams.  More pictures is better, but there comes a point when one should see a little bit of the plain wall behind it and the pictures should be arranged in some sort of geometric synergy instead of simply obscuring the wall to accomodate all the pictures.  I need a bigger place, or fewer pictures. frown

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i knew a joke about 69, can't remember it now.  get smart secret agents mebbe 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851

    ...missed it by that much I guess.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    missed the lotto too  >.<

    mebbe try scratch off luck tomorrow

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    edited October 2017
    ...I never do the scratch tickets as more often than not you are buying a worthless piece of pasteboard. At least with the nightly draw ones you could have a chance to win something as the results are not already pre-determined.
    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321

    I can't remember what colors my walls are.
    But the bookshelves are mahogany.
    No such thing as too many books.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,334
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  I have too many pictures to hang on the wall and am playing musical wallspace. sad  I've raided my storage and unboxed some nicely framed paintings and lithographs that have been carefully boxed and hiding in a hot attic for 15 years.  I had forgotten how wonderful they were.  Unfortunately, I now have about half the wall space I had when they were boxed up so long ago.  I know the modern thing is minimalist, plain walls with no character at all, but I like pictures on the wall.  To my credit, I have moved on from liking wallpaper and now find that 200 year old technique of hiding bad plastering jobs horribly anacronistic.  (My mother was a paper hanger for 20 years in the middle of the last century, so I know a little about paperhanging.) But pictures on the wall project one's personality, likes, and dreams.  More pictures is better, but there comes a point when one should see a little bit of the plain wall behind it and the pictures should be arranged in some sort of geometric synergy instead of simply obscuring the wall to accomodate all the pictures.  I need a bigger place, or fewer pictures. frown

    If some of your pictures are digital in origin, or if you can get some scanned, get a digital frame!  I have one in the den and it holds a lot of photos.  Plus you can put a card in it loaded with things from your computer and it fits even more.  They were expensive when I bought this one, but prices have come down.  This one even has a remote control and various fade styles.  I shows the photos as a slide show.  The only issue is if it is set up in landscape mode, portrait mode photos are smaller and in the middle.  I had hoped to get another one and set one portrait and one landscape and load up the appropriate files on each.  Money has deserted me, though, and I can't afford to do that.

    Just a thought.

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    koh nee chee wha

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Yawnuluuuussss

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899

    I hate it when I think I’m buying organic vegetables, but when I get home I find out they’re just regular donuts.

    indecision

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,253

    Where I live we have to do something out of the house every day.  Most go to these programs.  I do not go to a program but found an opportunity to go to the local mall not to hang out which gets boring or expensive.  I found a way to convince everyone that I go to the mall to work.  I got the system figured out.  If I clock in and make the managers think I am there to work at the end I get free food.  I can get free lemonade but I am taking a break from lemonade. well if I do what I am told I can keep this up.  things I am told are like take orders or do dishes or clean front counter.  rarely it is cook this sandwich but that does happen. if I keep this up I get a piece of paper as a reward and free food everyday I come in I am scheduled.  everyone will think I have a job and am too busy to go to these programs.   on the plus side i get funds to pay for my daz and starbucks addictions.  it is not too bad.  I can afford a cell phone plan now.

     

    my tablet is acting up and will not autocorrect my words. on plus side it is not changing my words to the wrong one like if I said I like little fox's plushiesit would not say plagues.

     

    my odd rant killed time but where is my taxi?  well it is not a rant as I like this thing but my taxi is here now.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    Mistara said:

    koh nee chee wha

    ...ohayou.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,851
    Stryder87 said:

    I hate it when I think I’m buying organic vegetables, but when I get home I find out they’re just regular donuts.

    indecision

    ...mmmm organic

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    Mistara said:

    koh nee chee wha

    ...ohayou.


    moo shee mooshee

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