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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,426
    edited December 1969

    It is Friday and payday but can't go to the bank till Monday.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    tjohn said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    tjohn said:
    Got stung on the side by a wasp today. In my own house! :ahhh: I kilt it...he's dead, Jim." :vampire:

    I hate wasps. Evil creatures. I go all Dalek on them. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

    I really hate the big ones, but was once surprised by some tiny ones that lived in diseased grapefrult on an old dying grapefruit tree at the house I lived at in Florida. I used to love to get a fresh grapefruit off the tree for breakfast and was trying to find one of the very few good ones that the old tree still produced when I felt this little annoying hot spot of pain on my arm and looked to see a wasp about the size of a grain of rice jabbing away at me for daring to poke around in his tree. Then saw a whole colony of them living in a grapefruit. I didn't find a good grapefruit and I didn't disturb the wasps. I figured they were just part of the natural death of the old tree and they didn't really hurt.

    I always keep a can of wasp spray on hand, ready for use on the bigger buggers though.

    The next year (2007) the tree didn't even blossom and was dead by the end of the summer. I miss that tree. For several years while I was at that house it produced the best grapefruit I ever had. Large, firmly soft, full of juice, sweet, easy to extract the pulp. Best grapefruit I ever had. It was part of an old grove from the 40s and was old in the late 50s when the house was built in the area. It and a few of the orange trees from the old grove continued to live in the yard but every few years another one would stop producing and eventually die. The grapefruit tree was one of the last, and up until 2004 would produce a bumper crop of gorgeous fruit every two years. But after the 4 hurricanes of 2004 that hit the Melbourne, FL area the tree was pretty battered. It blossomed in 2005 but bore no fruit, then in 2006 It produced perhaps 10 good fruit and then the next year gave up the ghost.


    Sounds like yellow jackets. Those little suckers can pop you good.

    As an avowed bug-lover, I can tell you that wasps are in my Top 4 Bugs I'd Kill Anyway(tm) list. They hate me, I hate them. :shut:

    I hate and will kill on sight:

    - Earwigs
    - Centipedes
    - Wasps
    - Fire Ants

    When I was a kid I got stung by a wood borer, a HUGE waspy thing, and had to go to the doctor. Now I kill them first because they're not smart enough to know I'll wipe out an entire nest in revenge. :snake:


    misread wood boner :lol:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    It is Friday and payday but can't go to the bank till Monday.


    does that mean you don't have TGIF spending money?


    thinking about the cookie at starbucks.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,426
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    It is Friday and payday but can't go to the bank till Monday.


    does that mean you don't have TGIF spending money?


    thinking about the cookie at starbucks.


    That is basically true. I do have four dollars and some change.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    It is Friday and payday but can't go to the bank till Monday.


    does that mean you don't have TGIF spending money?


    thinking about the cookie at starbucks.


    That is basically true. I do have four dollars and some change.


    between 3 - 5 today is half price frappucinos, for the budget conshuss

    %-P

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,426
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    It is Friday and payday but can't go to the bank till Monday.


    does that mean you don't have TGIF spending money?


    thinking about the cookie at starbucks.


    That is basically true. I do have four dollars and some change.


    between 3 - 5 today is half price frappucinos, for the budget conshuss

    %-P

    Cool

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    My favorite song is "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" but I can never remember all the words.
    Oh good, found them online:
    http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/lyrics.html


    i usually so wrong about lyrics.

    We Built this City (on rock and roll)
    thought she was singing, 'don't give a crap'.
    according to lyrics she singing 'don't care about that'
    i liked the song better when it was 'don't give a crap.'

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,298
    edited May 2015

    DanaTA said:
    tjohn said:
    Got stung on the side by a wasp today. In my own house! :ahhh: I kilt it...he's dead, Jim." :vampire:

    Ow! I've never been stung by a bee or bitten by a wasp or hornet. I hope to keep it that way. One of my sisters blows up like a ballon if she's stung by a bee. She needs to carry an Epi-Pen around with her all the time. Spiders cause a reaction, too. I don't want to find out the hard way that I have the same allergy.

    Dana

    I think the last time I was stung was when I was 7-8 years old when I bent my leg and squeezed one that sat on it. Since then they've never touched me, despite I've picked tons of fruit with them all around me, sometimes right besides a nest. I've even stepped on and squashed one of their nests (cubes standing on the ground) a couple of times, I only discovered it by suddenly noticing them swarming around me but they didn't do me anything.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited May 2015

    brain fart,

    On the Beach - was the name of it.

    oooh, nice. Dragonsong by A.Mcaffrey on high school suggested reading list
    http://www.phschool.com/curriculum_support/reading_list/high_school.html

    Post edited by Mistara on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    i'm all alone at office. no instructions on who to call if a caller needs immediate help. :roll:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    TroutFace said:
    tjohn said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    tjohn said:
    Got stung on the side by a wasp today. In my own house! :ahhh: I kilt it...he's dead, Jim." :vampire:

    I hate wasps. Evil creatures. I go all Dalek on them. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

    I really hate the big ones, but was once surprised by some tiny ones that lived in diseased grapefrult on an old dying grapefruit tree at the house I lived at in Florida. I used to love to get a fresh grapefruit off the tree for breakfast and was trying to find one of the very few good ones that the old tree still produced when I felt this little annoying hot spot of pain on my arm and looked to see a wasp about the size of a grain of rice jabbing away at me for daring to poke around in his tree. Then saw a whole colony of them living in a grapefruit. I didn't find a good grapefruit and I didn't disturb the wasps. I figured they were just part of the natural death of the old tree and they didn't really hurt.

    I always keep a can of wasp spray on hand, ready for use on the bigger buggers though.

    The next year (2007) the tree didn't even blossom and was dead by the end of the summer. I miss that tree. For several years while I was at that house it produced the best grapefruit I ever had. Large, firmly soft, full of juice, sweet, easy to extract the pulp. Best grapefruit I ever had. It was part of an old grove from the 40s and was old in the late 50s when the house was built in the area. It and a few of the orange trees from the old grove continued to live in the yard but every few years another one would stop producing and eventually die. The grapefruit tree was one of the last, and up until 2004 would produce a bumper crop of gorgeous fruit every two years. But after the 4 hurricanes of 2004 that hit the Melbourne, FL area the tree was pretty battered. It blossomed in 2005 but bore no fruit, then in 2006 It produced perhaps 10 good fruit and then the next year gave up the ghost.


    Sounds like yellow jackets. Those little suckers can pop you good.

    As an avowed bug-lover, I can tell you that wasps are in my Top 4 Bugs I'd Kill Anyway(tm) list. They hate me, I hate them. :shut:

    I hate and will kill on sight:

    - Earwigs
    - Centipedes
    - Wasps
    - Fire Ants

    When I was a kid I got stung by a wood borer, a HUGE waspy thing, and had to go to the doctor. Now I kill them first because they're not smart enough to know I'll wipe out an entire nest in revenge. :snake:


    misread wood boner :lol:

    :ahhh: :red: :red: :red:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    closing my eyes trying to pretend i'm not all alone with the jellybellybeans.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    i'm all alone at office. no instructions on who to call if a caller needs immediate help. :roll:

    That happened to me once when I was a secretary. Everyone was out at lunch. Someone called the office. I ended up forwarding the call to the employee's voicemail box. I forgot what happened next.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    edited December 1969

    Well, we have our first named storm of the season already! Ana. I hope this is not an indication of how the season will go. It's pretty early.

    Not that important, I know. But the eBots dropped me again, so I need to post something to get back in the threads notifications. Complaint.

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    starionwolf said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    i'm all alone at office. no instructions on who to call if a caller needs immediate help. :roll:

    That happened to me once when I was a secretary. Everyone was out at lunch. Someone called the office. I ended up forwarding the call to the employee's voicemail box. I forgot what happened next.


    usually is someone needs a router reset. was a quiet day though. carrarathon time :lol:

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,426
    edited December 1969

    Finally got some time to watch Hunger Games but my blu ray player won't recognize the disc.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,426
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    Finally got some time to watch Hunger Games but my blu ray player won't recognize the disc.

    Now it decided to work as I was trying to figure out how to complain to Netflix.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    too tired to complain bout anything

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Over the worst of the flu I think, is the second year in a row I had a flu shot and straightaway got sick, maybe coincidence think it was more a chill from being caught in a rainstorm the other morning. Rantworthy anyhow. Friend made me a pot of chicken broth not complaint. My family is threatening intervention if. don't have some time off :lol: Is tempting to just lay back and get looked after.... *weak wave* :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    too tired to complain bout anything

    Can't seem to keep eyes open either :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    Finally got some time to watch Hunger Games but my blu ray player won't recognize the disc.

    DVDs need to quietly disappear, DVD format wad a dreadful idea :lol:

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Over the worst of the flu I think, is the second year in a row I had a flu shot and straightaway got sick, maybe coincidence think it was more a chill from being caught in a rainstorm the other morning. Rantworthy anyhow. Friend made me a pot of chicken broth not complaint. My family is threatening intervention if. don't have some time off :lol: Is tempting to just lay back and get looked after.... *weak wave* :)

    You know that you don't get sick from being in the rain, right? You get sick from being around other people, some of whom are sick or at least carriers. Most flu and colds like to be in warm places...so the cold air isn't it, either. Doctors have said this recently, in fact Dr. Oz even had a segment about myths last year and one of them was going out in the cold with wet hair.

    But, I firmly believe that human belief is a very strong thing, and if someone believes something will happen as a result of something, and has a high level of certainty that the myth is true, and that myth is getting sick from being caught in cold rain...he will get sick. It's called faith. Unfortunately, more people have faith in bad things than in good things. Not saying this is you. Just some food for thought.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    Finally got some time to watch Hunger Games but my blu ray player won't recognize the disc.

    DVDs need to quietly disappear, DVD format wad a dreadful idea :lol:

    Why do you say that? Do you think VHS tape was better?

    Blue Ray is not DVD, either.

    I'd like to see crystal tech make it. A single crystal of small size can hold a whole lot of data. There is a technique that I read about years ago. They can scribe data on a plane inside a crystal with laser etching. Then they can ever so slightly change the angle, and there's a whole new plane to write to. I truly hope they are working on perfecting this technique, and making it affordable. A handful of crystals could hold everything you have on all your hard drives and DVDs and have room left for as much over and over again.

    Dana

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,298
    edited December 1969

    Taozen said:

    I think the last time I was stung was when I was 7-8 years old when I bent my leg and squeezed one that sat on it. Since then they've never touched me, despite I've picked tons of fruit with them all around me, sometimes right besides a nest. I've even stepped on and squashed one of their nests (cubes standing on the ground) a couple of times, I only discovered it by suddenly noticing them swarming around me but they didn't do me anything.

    Translation error - should have read: "(hives standing on the ground)".

    BTW, looks like wasps have artistic skills too:

    http://obutecodanet.ig.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/animais_09.jpg

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    Finally got some time to watch Hunger Games but my blu ray player won't recognize the disc.

    DVDs need to quietly disappear, DVD format wad a dreadful idea :lol:

    Why do you say that? Do you think VHS tape was better?

    Blue Ray is not DVD, either.

    I'd like to see crystal tech make it. A single crystal of small size can hold a whole lot of data. There is a technique that I read about years ago. They can scribe data on a plane inside a crystal with laser etching. Then they can ever so slightly change the angle, and there's a whole new plane to write to. I truly hope they are working on perfecting this technique, and making it affordable. A handful of crystals could hold everything you have on all your hard drives and DVDs and have room left for as much over and over again.

    Dana

    Big fan of solid state memory, crystals yes why not. Optical media acratches up too easily and is too transient to be interesting - tape? The only advance in tape tech over a century was the UMatic format, huge years ago because it was reliably portable and could replace film. Mag Hard drives are teh suck as well cos they fail too fequently :lol:

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Over the worst of the flu I think, is the second year in a row I had a flu shot and straightaway got sick, maybe coincidence think it was more a chill from being caught in a rainstorm the other morning. Rantworthy anyhow. Friend made me a pot of chicken broth not complaint. My family is threatening intervention if. don't have some time off :lol: Is tempting to just lay back and get looked after.... *weak wave* :)

    You know that you don't get sick from being in the rain, right? You get sick from being around other people, some of whom are sick or at least carriers. Most flu and colds like to be in warm places...so the cold air isn't it, either. Doctors have said this recently, in fact Dr. Oz even had a segment about myths last year and one of them was going out in the cold with wet hair.

    But, I firmly believe that human belief is a very strong thing, and if someone believes something will happen as a result of something, and has a high level of certainty that the myth is true, and that myth is getting sick from being caught in cold rain...he will get sick. It's called faith. Unfortunately, more people have faith in bad things than in good things. Not saying this is you. Just some food for thought.

    Dana

    last thing I expected to happen was getting sick :(

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,363
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Over the worst of the flu I think, is the second year in a row I had a flu shot and straightaway got sick, maybe coincidence think it was more a chill from being caught in a rainstorm the other morning. Rantworthy anyhow. Friend made me a pot of chicken broth not complaint. My family is threatening intervention if. don't have some time off :lol: Is tempting to just lay back and get looked after.... *weak wave* :)

    You know that you don't get sick from being in the rain, right? You get sick from being around other people, some of whom are sick or at least carriers. Most flu and colds like to be in warm places...so the cold air isn't it, either. Doctors have said this recently, in fact Dr. Oz even had a segment about myths last year and one of them was going out in the cold with wet hair.

    But, I firmly believe that human belief is a very strong thing, and if someone believes something will happen as a result of something, and has a high level of certainty that the myth is true, and that myth is getting sick from being caught in cold rain...he will get sick. It's called faith. Unfortunately, more people have faith in bad things than in good things. Not saying this is you. Just some food for thought.

    Dana

    last thing I expected to happen was getting sick :(

    Anyway, here's to a speedy recovery! :-)

    Dana

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,426
    edited December 1969

    I reported to Netflix that the bluray was damaged and hopefully I can watch it Monday.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,426
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    I reported to Netflix that the bluray was damaged and hopefully I can watch it Monday.

    Nope replacement won't ship till Monday.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,230
    edited May 2015

    I could never understand the complaint that optical media scratches too easily. This could only come from someone who never learned how to handle vinyl records. I swear, what to people do with CDs & DVDs that gets them scratched? Dig sand castles? Scrub walls? Proper care is easy. You stick your finger in the hole or grab around the rim between your thumb and middle finger and slip the media into its sleeve or case. Ah, perhaps it's the sleeve or case that is the bugaboo here. I agree that the standard cases are too fragile but there are any number of inexpensive soft carrying cases in which to keep one's collection. A CD or DVD will last decades with only the barest amount of respect for it. Those who complain about their fragility must have been hard on all their toys.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
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