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Coffee & Tea under the window, platters of treats on every table
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Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from yesterday)
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May the 4’s be with you
Singing or Kegging? Or Fish Boil? What’s up?
Andrew’s just gone to sleep after a post-dinner meltdown. Time now for a little relaxation.
And what’s your pleasure?
Bailey’s on the rocks, please.
Some busy day at the Cafe!
My mom and I went to see the movie “Nine Lives” today. Loved it.
Now I’m catching up on the Showtime series, “Dead Like Me.”
Busy, busy.
Later.
(stewing)
Whatcha stewin’ about, kb?
Haunted passwords and unexpected grandchildren spending 10 hours here.
Oh, lordy! I think I must have missed some stuff in the other cafe. I see Boo visited your site. That was nice!
I don’t think I’ve said much. I just got quiet.
Except for yelling for Andi (below)
Just got back from a walk on my beach.
Here`s winter in Malibu.
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Sounds lovely. Laura and I were doing a lot of that on vacation, and we’re both kind of wishing we hadn’t come back just yet.
Andi!!! check your email (please)
All done. Try it now.
Puget4 talked me into diverting the chorizo (Mexican or Spanish[?] sausage), which we found made with smoked salmon, to tonight’s entree instead of a future paella.
So it’ll be smoked salmon chorizo, steamed cauliflower & green beans, and wild rice made with vegetable broth.
We’ll bring some virtual pickled herring snacks to the cafe later.
We just finished faxing our Senators Murray and Cantwell after discovering their voicemail boxes full. But the faxes are still taking calls.
“When ah say ‘No on Alito,’ ah mean
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Much better! And a very nice shot.
Do you know there’s a blues and honkytonk bar named after you, in Kansas City, Mo.? I’ve never been there, but I have friends who like it.
LINK: Knucklehead’s
The link does not seem to work.
Thanks. I wonder if he/she also rides a “Knucklehead”.
{the proprietor}
Try it this way:
http://www.knuckleheadskc.com/
Hi! Watcha doin’?
“Thanks”
Now thats my kinda bar. Looks like a good time is being had by all.
I also noticed the biker sign. FYI: If you don`t already know,
a knucklehead is a 1936-1947 HarleyDavidson. Not many left,
but if you have one you`ll never get rid of it. I`ll pull a pic of mine next Sat. & send it along. I have friends in Kansas & I`ll send them over to check it out.
Thanks for the info.
Good Night
Tony
to finish the day and put my Utah lust to rest (for now).
Beautiful. But it looks like rather unforgiving terrain for a mother hen.
Ah yes but it’s perfect for the bossy, pushy older sister.
Actually, it’s perfect for a mother hen since it offers excellent opportunities for worrying and clucking — I can can worrying about the whether I’m harming the environment, whether the pictures will come out, whether Jim’s knees will give out.
To say nothing of worrying about whether the very ground beneath him will give out as he stands on the edge of a cliff taking photos of blue dots.
I’d probably have to worry more about me than Jim who doesn’t like to get to close to edges while I like to go rock scrambling and am forever going places he’d rather I didn’t.
I’d be worrying whether Mr. SN’s life insurance beneficiary was still his ex or me.
Now I’ll worrry about it too.
making sure you are current on all aspects of your spouse’s insurance good marital planning.
Ask AndiF about her leg and Muley Twist Canyon. Even the mud is unforgiving sometimes.
Hey, Andi! Some guy named Jim hollered down from the other end of the bar and says to ask you–when you get out of the ladies room–something about your leg and a twisted mule?
Fortunately it’s easy to ignore those obnoxious guys that hang out at bars and yell stuff.
I think he likes you.
She was complaining, but I think they snuck off together.
Hep, that’s what’s happened, and I bet that leg and Muley Twist Canyon was a coded message for…
Hep should be yep, but then I’n not sure that’s word either
yeah, but I bet he’s got some photos that might prove interesting.
He did say something about almost not recognizing her with he clothes on.
“her” not “he,” of course.
Well there you go! I think there’s something going on between them.
Probably won’t last.
Anyone need a refill?
I’m still trying to crawl out from under the post-vacation heap. Hopefully I’ll be back in the normal swing of things this time next week. In the meantime, drink one for me, or maybe two.
Whazup?
Peace
Has the NYT editorial board ever called the Bushistas liars before now? The Sunday editorial actually uses the word “lies,” as in “a couple of big, dangerous lies.”
Hmm!! Once they’ve called them liars, how much further can the times go before they almost have to use that other word, “impeach”?
LINK: Lies
At this point I think so little of the NYT it’s difficult to care what they say in an editorial, even when it is something I heartily agree with.
Ain’t it the truth. And sometimes I do wonder, is late really better than never? Certainly not for all the people who’ve died under the policies of this regime.
Hasn’t there been a split between the opinions of the editorial side & the news side? It’s like the messages from the two camps are completely different.
I’m going to bed. This weekend sucked… It was supposed to be more than it turned out to be, oh well..
I’m very sorry. Could tomorrow be better? More like you planned?
well damn, it’s such a pisser when you have all that lovely anticipation and then nothing happens. I hope the weekend and the guy are both salvageable.
Whoever gets up first? Katiebird you should take a day of rest after today. Don’t lift a finger except to give us all 4’s. The rest of us can take care of it.
My 4 finger was actually sore today. Sometimes I don’t give 4’s, just to let it recover. You know what they say about athletic training.
kansas, I was terrified to talk much today. The conversation was moving so fast for a while I was making new diaries as soon as I opened them.
I picture you cowering under your laptop.
(laughing)
Great image. Reminds me of a column a few years back talking about how best to keep your laptop in good shape and avoid death by static, at least according to the warnings on the package. The final conclusion basically called for you to shave your head and only use your laptop while sitting naked on ceramic tile. It was the silliest thing and the columnist said as much. At the time I’d recently shaved my head (pre-emptive strike on my receding hairline) and just bought the Mac laptop he was writing about. Laura and I were deeply tempted to take a picture of me sitting in our bathroom with only the laptop for coverage and send it in. I’m not sure why we didn’t. I think we must have gotten distracted.
in and help if you need me. I’m staying home tonight like a good angel.
Thanks for doing that last night. Anytime you see it getting so crowded the fire marshall would object. . .
and since there’s no web cam link to guide us to their present whereabouts… I shall cease and desist from any further exploratory inquiries of the present denizens of this Honky-Tonk FBC, and retire for the evening. Even a night-owl needs a little rest once in a while.
Nightie-night from here, too.
So early tonight? I just got here!
Sorry Mary — I was working on something. But, I’m falling asleep.
I understand. Sleep well.
Anyboyd home tonight?
Hi — I just got here. How was everything tonight — this was the engagement party?
It was really very nice. It was mostly younger people I didn’t know, but a few of the people my age were there. It was funny in a way. The older people were staying more in the house around the food and all the younger people were staying ourside by the free bar.
That sounds about right. How many people were there and what kind of food?
All together about 250 people were roaming in and out during the night. Lets see, they had roast pork loin, baked brie, meatballs, all kinds of fruit, crackers and I a lot of other stuff I didn’t get to.
There’s a grand piano in the main room and they had someone playing music the whole time. He was very good. Mostly soft background type stuff.
Like I said it was nice, but I hardly knew anyone and I was kind of shy about snapping pictures. Most people were good natured though.
wow 250 people. Is that basically everyone that will be at the reception, or will the reception be bigger?
I always find a camera at a party is a good icebreaker. Even better is a video camera — you can go up to people documentary style and ask them about themselves. Once they see the camera they spill their guts.
The reception will be bigger I think. If it’s anything like my niece’s it will be huge.
I did talk to a lot of people and did get a lot of pictures, but frankly I was a little uncomfortable there.
Crowded places with people I know nothing about always has gotten me a little nervous. The funniest thing is that I have a nervous twitch in my chin. When I’m nervous my chin shakes and has since I was a child. The brides father who I had never met keep staring at my chin and finally asked was I alright. Which made my chin go even faster. I had to go through the whole explanation because the man was actually worried something was wrong. Later on I told my sister and she busted out laughing.
By the way how has your day been going? Go to any good concerts or plays?
I can relate to your feeling. I HATE going to crowded places where I know few people. I have to do it all the time for my job. Sometimes, when its not important and I’m really just not up for it I have been known to sit in my car for a long time trying to convince myself to go in. And sometimes I fail.
The thing is … people are always surprised to hear this about me. I guess I hide it pretty well. I can put on a good act if I HAVE to. But I’m not comfortable.
You hit the nail on the head. I’m kind of the same way. But as I said earlier, my chin is a dead give away. Although sometime it has been an ice breaker ;).
Sorry I didn’t answer your other question. I went out to dinner with an old friend tonight. We tried a Brazilian restaurant that was very good. She is much more conservative than me — well, that’s an understatement. She is WORLDS more conservative then me. So I tend to stay away from controverial subjects. And I don’t bite when she says bad things about Bill Clinton. So imagine my surprise when she decided to tell me tonight how evil she thinks Walmart is. I, of course, agreed.
I’m turning in for the night. See you tomorrow.
LOL – That’s great. My entire family is repug. With the exception of myself and my Mom. If I start to say anything political they have a code amoung themselves to get me steered away form it. My Mom said my grandparents would be turning over in their graves if they knew my brothers and sister voted the way the do.
Good Night All.
I’m in and out — doing some computer stuff, trying to get myself psyched to actually do some cleaning while waiting for the spouse to get home from his folks. (He said he was going to make it an early night, but I know how things go over there…)
Actually accomplished one thing — relaunched an app I hadn’t used in a while, MacJournal. I decided I need some place to dump the assorted detritus that clutters up my brain, plus I set up a second journal for keeping track of my food intake and exercise output. And I set it up to open every time I login, so it’ll be staring me in the face when I start up in the mornings.
Katiebird, if you see this, I’m basing my diet/exercise journal on your “Just for today…” affirmation — you, DF, and so many others are my inspiration to get off my lazy ass and do something about myself! I want to be in good shape for the upcoming trip to Alaska; the scenery’s too beautiful for me to spend the week vegging in the stateroom…
Well, I think I’ll at least go put away a few purses before the spouse gets home, then go read or play with my Nintendo DS — have a good night, folks…
That’s right, today was the day you were NOT going to infect your father in law with your cold.
Journaling is said to be good for you. I keep one off and on. I wish I had a Mac, it has so many cool tools. But everybody here is on PC’s except the school kids. So it doesn’t make sense– I need something compatable with work.
Have a good evening.
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