Welcome to the
Froggy Bottom Cafe
Froggy Bottom Cafe
Newbies, Lurkers and Splashers
hop on in cuz it’s Happy Hour!
Tonight we are honored to have the highly-acclaimed, world-renowned exhibit of the
First Annual Froggy Bottom Photography Fair
out all the amazing galleries at the Froggy Bottom Photo Fair Main Diary
Cheers/Salud!
ummmm.
A fresh page!
the dail-up CPU gnomes were getting enough of a workout for today. Streeeeeeeetccccccccchhhhhhh 🙂
Purty diary, ManE.
i was starting to wonder if you were ever going to hop in while I was hosting 😉
You know, I realized that and felt bad about it! For some reason I seem to work my tail off on Tuesdays and then I’m absolutely wiped by Tuesday night. Do you put amphetamines in the coffee? All I have to do is drop in long enough to recommend your Tuesday diary and then I’m roadrunner until I drop.
I worked for hours at the library today and was so stiff when I got up I must have looked like Lon Chaney dragging invisible mummy wrappings as I shuffled home.
Hey, maybe a beer would help. Got a good wheat beer with a little bite?
but it’s still my favorite.
Thank you! What does the label say?
Franziskaner Hefeweizen
yummmmm
I don’t think I can say that. . .Franziskaner Hefeweizen. . .without giggling. I’m going to have trouble ordering it from my local liquor store if they don’t have it in stock. Is it German? Dutch? Belgian?
there’s a monk on the label if that’s helpful while ordering. O:)
Oh, yeah, that helps a lot, not!! Now I will be picturing the guy behind the counter in a monk’s robe while I’m trying to say frnatszenjammerManeegesaweisanheimer.
It’s definitely happy hour here-I whizzed right through my neurology exam earlier this evening-one more class finished!
That’s great news, I hope you get some down-time before the next exam. Meanwhile, pull up a beanbag and enjoy the evening in the lounge
I have a blissful ten days before my immunology class starts…but the really good news is that I am down to 4 more classes about diseases I um, enjoy learning about.
I’m going to go crack a Ravell porter to celebrate…
What are you studying CG?
I have 21 credits down on a doctorate in pharmacy!
Wow! What is your dissertation topic?
OO Cabingirl-I have a ring that belonged to my great-aunt Adalee– who was the first female pharmacist in Ohio- legally certified,I mean. It’s a little gold pinkie ring with a skull and bones embossed on it.It has emerald eyes-or did- one is missing.The story is that this was to remind pharmacists that they were dispensing poisons and to be careful.
I always get remarks when I wear it-people think it some sorta Goth thing,ya right on me, that fits!! NOT.
That sounds really cool, Gothcat! 🙂
maybe I will use it as part of a costume at Halloween /birfday/housewarming party?
OMG the big five-OH -NO-tomorrow!
Is it tomorrow?
birfday big 50 tomorrow– party on the 29th- to accomodate out of towners– looks like we will have a tent or two out back– Good grief! Glad we got all that firewood!
The beauty of pharmacy is that I do clinical rotations instead of a dissertation. Yippee!
I want to do one in oncology and maybe HIV.
I am beyond impressed. Does this mean you’ll be our drug dealer?
Hmmmm, same thing occurred to me.(snicker)
Technically, I already am! 🙂
Good, someone who can answer pharma questions! 🙂
Evening, folks. I got 14 minutes until “My Name is Earl” starts. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. It’s hilarious and sweet both at the same time.
Here’s my favorite line from the “daytime hooker” in the first episode:
“I tried, Earl! Toward the end I even pulled out my good boob!”
We love My Name is Earl. But we’re devoted to Amazing Race.
So we watch Amazing Race on Tuesday & tape My Name is Earl to watch on Friday.
My Name is Earl, is wildly funny.
Well, you can tell that I’m working on those templates! My formatting is all messed up. (and I can’t switch it back yet because I’ve got another template to go)
I haven’t seen Earl yet. I may refuse to do so. I have too many great shows to watch! I finally watched Grey’s Anatomy this week, hoping to hate it, but waaaaa I really liked it. Damn. These people who say there’s nothing good on tv, man, I don’t know what they’re talking about. Like tonight, there’s so much stuff I can’t even get Commander in Chief recorded. Of course, then there was the barren waste of summer when I didn’t watch anything for days at a time.
I suppose I could be more boring, but it would take more effort than I’m willing to put out tonight.
I got my copy of Bayou Farewell this weekend, and I’m wondering how we’re planning on doing the discussion part. The only book group I ever did before went by chunks of chapters, with some guidance ahead of time about what might be discussed by the group.
So how will this work?
Good question. We ought to ask the discussion leader. Ooops, that would be me, at least this first time. One thing I’m thinking of doing is a two or 3 sentence synopsis of each chapter right up front in the diary , highlighting the main points, something quick and simple as both a handy reminder for those who’ve read it and a guide for those who haven’t. I’m open to all suggestions. I like the idea of giving everybody some guidance ahead of time, CG.
Have I read it yet? Nope. I’m going on plane rides this weekend, though, so that’s what I’m taking, along with my yellow highlighter.
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Why didn’t anyone comment on NCAA imperative and the ban on Indian tribal display of aggression during college sporting events. Hmm … how did sports-minded BooTribers take this announcement?
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Puget4 and I had to travel to the Emerald City for toto dog appointments today. It cost us shop work time but let us browse some leather stores and enjoy (sans camera) a beautiful fall day with sparkling water, deep green firs, blue & white skies and even some western style deciduous tree colors in the suburban neighborhoods.
I’m so glad there’s a reprise link here to the Photo Fair. If you haven’t vistited, please do, there was much inspirational material there.
Everyone did a wonderful job.
A local promo says a Boston Legal episode tonight 10 PM involves threats to wild salmon from fish farming.
Stars William Shatner, partly filmed on location in B.C. Canada; characters are sport fishermen who take some legal action against the farms.
It’s still 3 hours off for us portsiders where this is a serious issue.
Well, it’s not happy hour for me. Should I stay or should I go has been running around in my head for the past 24 hours. And I suppose this is self-absorbed enough that I didn’t want to write a diary about it
I thought a lot about diane’s “why did you come here and why do you stay” questions the other night, and I read the many many responses — I have come to the conclusion that I am here for the wrong reasons. I really felt great this summer about the connections I made, the people I met, the friends I thought I had met and gotten to know. I stayed here because of them with hopes of expanding those relationships.
But it is all an illusion. Even those of you who I have met face to face don’t really know me, don’t know that there is any desire to know me, and I have no idea whether I know you, and don’t know how to in this medium. There’s really no reason for me to put more of myself forward here as from what I’ve seen if I do, I may hurt other people’s feelings with my opinions or be drawn into some kind of crossfire, or self-censor what I’d really like to express — so what’s the point?
As I said, I’m here for the wrong reasons, I am expecting too much, I guess. There are a lot of really great writers here and I’m sure I will read you again, but my participation here means nothing without the real feelings of connection and trsut and those have been fairly well shattered.
I guess I confused myself about what actually goes on online — I need real people in my life, I need support and comradarie (however you spell that) to make things matter. I wish you all well and harbor no ill will against anyone — I just wish I could actually know you in the real world, but I will content myself for the time being with knowing that it is a better place with you in it.
You’re going through a terribly stressful event quite apart from this site or any politics. I hope that any sustenance at all that you can continue to get here you will keep taking. Remember that a lot of us aren’t having any debate with you at all. We like you just the same as we always did and we haven’t changed. Frankly, you knock me out. . .what you have done for so many other people in the last couple of months, between Crawford and the hurricanes. I hope you won’t think I’m being too superficial if I say I wish we could send you to a spa to be pampered for a month!
maybe I’m not dealing with it as well as I have been thinking — the stress, that is.
I teeter back and forth between saying “the hell with it all” almost every single day now, but I have no idea how to get myself “uninvolved, unaware and oblivious”…. how to change my focus, but it has to be done.
Would you give me the titles of your books? I would really like to read them.
Send me an email about it, would you?
Npickard@kc.rr.com
I really appreciate your interest.
Email me about the books, I mean, if you don’t mind.
I didn’t want to leave you thinking I was going to make you email me about everything you’re going through. God knows you’ve probably had enough for awhile. But my books, those I can tell you about. 🙂
Check your email, there’s one from me…
Oh, goodie! Me love email. Those of us who are phone phobic died and went to heaven when email was invented.
Your email hasn’t arrived yet, so I just want to let you know I’m off to dreamland, but I’ll check first thing in the a.m.
Oh shoot, that was meant for Brinnainne, I replied to the wrong post…sorry to disappoint you!
the true illusion is that there are some people who are more important than others here at the site. I reject that type of pedestal-making because I firmly believe we are all valued–from UID #1 to #2349.
Steven D left this comment earlier that resonated with me:
You are valued here, as are all of your opinions. I think what we’ve witnessed over the past couple of days is a combination of raw emotions, complicated topics, and a crash course of the problem with 2D communication.
If you need anything, feel free to email me. I may be a guy but I do have two ears that work properly.
Paz
I wish I could come and visit you out in Tuscon, go up to Sabino Canyon, slurp a few Egees — I have awesome memories of that city — lived there from when I was 9-12 — great years.
BTW, happy belated birthday — 25 is just an incredible time — wish I was back there!
We are having great weather this week. It’s been dipping to the low 50’s at night. Although I hear that it’ll be back up to the 90’s by the weekend. You are always welcome here in the Old Pueblo, I’m always up for a hike in Sabino.
I am,….. watching commander in chief….what are you doing manee.
walk to go get my mail, it’s kinda chilly out. Now watching tv too, pretty quiet and nice.
Good morning!
I’m so sorry that I disappeared last night. I meant to come back, but I had to set-up a new glucose meter and ended up downloading software for it and had to get that going (a trial involving dlls).
And I did catch up on reading but I was just too tired to reply to brinnainne’s message as I wanted to.
brinnainne’s message really struck at the heart of some things I’ve been wanting to ask, and probably will, in the cafe this evening (I don’t want to do it as a hit-and-run comment & I’m about to get ready & leave for work).
But, brinnainne, if you’re wondering how real our friends here are take a look at their photographs. I know that because I processed so many of them, I had a more intimate view than most (including yours, which are still on my hard drive), but the power of those photographs has to be apparent to everyone who views them.
You said, “I need real people in my life, I need support and comradarie (however you spell that) to make things matter.”, and I agree.
Take a closer look at the Photo Diaries, including yours at the Photo Fair. Those are not virtual images. They are the real thing, taken by real people. The real people who hang out here, and write diaries and comments to each other’s diaries. The photographers opened their world to us, and we responded when we commented so energetically (with memories, feelings and dreams) to their work. The honesty ran both ways.
I think the Fair blew open that virtual barrier.
Good morning!
I’m so sorry that I disappeared last night. I meant to come back, but I had to set-up a new glucose meter and ended up downloading software for it and had to get that going (a trial involving dlls).
And I did catch up on reading but I was just too tired to reply to brinnainne’s message as I wanted to.
brinnainne’s message really struck at the heart of some things I’ve been wanting to ask, and probably will, in the cafe this evening (I don’t want to do it as a hit-and-run comment & I’m about to get ready & leave for work).
But, brinnainne, if you’re wondering how real our friends here are take a look at their photographs. I know that because I processed so many of them, I had a more intimate view than most (including yours, which are still on my hard drive), but the power of those photographs has to be apparent to everyone who views them.
You said, “I need real people in my life, I need support and comradarie (however you spell that) to make things matter.”, and I agree.
Take a closer look at the Photo Diaries, including yours at the Photo Fair. Those are not virtual images. They are the real thing, taken by real people. The real people who hang out here, and write diaries and comments to each other’s diaries. The photographers opened their world to us, and we responded when we commented so energetically (with memories, feelings and dreams) to their work. The honesty ran both ways.
I think the Fair blew open that virtual barrier.