This is an Unhosted Cafe.
Coffee & Tea under the window.
Goodies on the platters.
Goodies on the platters.
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Flashlights and lanterns by the door
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
The wind’s howling and the temperature dropped 25 degrees overnight. I need my coffee (sorry Family Man).
That cold front is still a day or so west of us … but I need coffee anyway.
Stepson is about to catch his school bus. Can anyone here give me a good reason not to go back to bed for a couple hours? Yaaaawwwwnnnn.
Because it’s a beautiful day (well here night), you’ve got coffee and you can…. oh I don’t know bed doesn’t sound bad.
Nah, there’s nothing out here that won’t wait. Go for it.
Coffeeeeeeee. Morning all.
I knew I shouldn’t have done that in front of you.
Nah I’m over my coffee thing. I’m just up a little earlier to get ready for my dentist appointment. Give myself a little extra time to wake up.
But if I had coffeeeeee.
I hope it goes well!
Morning Familyman
Morning Miss Andi!!!!
Morning refinish.
I saw your other comment. That’s really nifty that you are doing designs for candidates.
I enjoy doing the designs and split the profits with them that way they don’t have upfront cost unless they need to order them for a fund raiser.
Hi there!!! Just finished a design for a local candidate for Texas Senate and waiting to hear back from them. OMG Life just keeps getting busier and busier for me. LOL I guess it is a good thing I like having lots to do.
now I am getting another mug of java.
Morning Refinish.
Javaaaaaaa. Glad to hear you are so busy espically doing something you like.
Thanks!!!! I do enjoy it and of course the political stuff keeps getting more and more fun. lol
I think Military Tracy said it yesterday. Why read fiction when there’s so much for real going on.
LOL I read the fiction to escape reality but don’t have near as much time for it as I would like sometimes. LOL
Well watching news sometimes it does get surreal.
How’s things out there. Those fires aren’t getting close to you are they?
I very seldom if ever watch the news. It has to be a story or an event I really want to see. The news media has become such a joke that I can not waste my time on it.
I know what you mean, but sometimes I just like to watch the joke unfold.
Well I’ve got to get ready for my dental appointment. Wish me luck.
Everybody have a good day in the pond.
Good Luck and less pain at the new dentist!!!!
Yeah, but as every author knows, the difference between fiction and fact is, fiction has to make sense.
Good morning everyone! Gee, there’s an awful lot of that cake I brought last night still left over . . .
🙂
I guess I missed the early crowd. Guess I have to eat my poppyseed bagel all by my lonesome.
Nah, I’m a late arrival too. I’ll eat my raisin bran crunch with you.
Hey Cabin Girl! Is your brief spring coming to a swift end today?
Unfortunately yes. But it lasted long enough that I have some brave daffodils that have already bloomed.
We just had a few showers this morning already.
How is the CabinFamily? Do you have March break for schools there?
The boys don’t have off till almost mid-april, but the good news is that I have off from class that week too, which frees us up to go away for a few days then. I’m thinking about Myrtle Beach and/or Charleston, SC. A little ocean, a little history, nice warm weather then. o you have any spring getaway plans?
…CG. How perfect that your break coincides w/ theirs!
Our break is this week. I took half a day yesterday to hang out with my s-i-l who is visiting this week from Toronto, but otherwise I’m not taking any time. 🙁 We’re planning to go either to PEI (east) or Vancouver (west) this summer though, so I’m saving up for that.
Make sure you take along your camera — you know how we love the photos here at BT! 🙂
I’ve always wanted to go to PEI. Have you been there before?
Yes… A couple summers ago, a bunch of friends drove down. It is so different — a really lovely place. I couldn’t get over the red sand roads everywhere. It was very lush. And the salty air smelled good where we were — not fishy. Everyone moves at a slower pace. We had a great time. One of our friends lives there now, and we’d all like to go back to visit.
How are you doing this morning?
Hi Olivia…I’m doing well. The weather is a-changing around these parts. It’s been hot and dry and today it’s very windy and cloudy, so I’m hoping for some rain.
Hi SN, Olivia, and CG.
I’m not posting much this week because I’ve got a lot to get done because I’m going on vacation Friday!
But, but, but, we’ll miss you! You’re the early riser around here!
Yoiu know we’re all gonna want to see pictures when you get back. Maybe time for another photo fair, since olivia’s getting a new camera? 🙂
You can’t see me, but I’ve got my fingers in my ears and I’m saying “Lalalalalalalalalala” really loud so I can’t hear you saying you’re going on vacation. 🙁
I’m really happy for you, but it’s going to be reeeeeeeeeallllly quiet around here.
gone 🙁
on vacation 🙂
pictures 🙂
and when you get back you’ll be all rested up and stay up really late with me 🙂
Off to try to make lots of headway at work. See ya later.
Going hiking soon!
Here’s wishing you a productive day, but good. 🙂
Wow — that’s a stunning image, Andi. Just luscious.
Good to hear you’ll be on your long-anticipated vacation soon! (At least from an objective standpoint; we’ll certainly miss you here at the cafe’).
Early morning showers here — woke up to hear them tapping on the bedroom window. (Hmmm, there’s a poem somewhere in there…)
Trying to decide what part of the disaster area known as the apartment I should tackle today. Possibly this desk, because it’s starting to get covered in junk and I should nip it in the bud before it gets out of hand. And debating what time to start my slow-cooker chili for tonight — if I start it in the next half hour, it’ll be done in time for us to eat dinner nice and early for once, so we’d actually have time to go work it off. 🙂
Back in a while…
Morning folks,
Pre-Dawn Edition? I don’t know about you guys but it ain’t been Pre-Dawn for quite some time here.
Seems like everyone at BT’s FBC survived the tornado alley storms, so that’s good. Sure seemed like it hung in that area for a long time.
The woodpecker, chickadees, and nuthatches are happy to see some sunflower seeds in the feeder this morning.
How are you doing?
Good morning, everyone! Wonderful to see you, as usual.
It was a bright, sunny morning ’til about ten minutes ago; great, steely clouds now blanket the sky. Temperatures are set to drop precipitously throughout the day tomorrow, back into the 20s & teens for the rest of the week, with snowfall.
Do I care? No, I do not. Father Winter’s not long for this world, the ol’ bastard. The geese tell me so! This morning, too, there were robins out on the field. The cats nearly plotzed!
Hope everyone’s all set for a great day.
WHat would the morning be without a luscious weather report from WW.
Thank you, o scrumptious one. Our mountain weather’s just about the only thing I can write about with any authority these days. I think.
How are you? Feeling any chill down in NC?
We’re feeling a decidedly lovely cool and drizzly day. We really need the rain but it’s doubtful we’ll get more than a quarter inch or so.
For the sake of the wild things, I do hope you get more.
Friends in Asheville say they haven’t seen much precipitation at all this season. Snowfall there isn’t at all like it is here, but they generally do get some.
Folks here are definitely starting to worry about summer drought. I think I’ve mentioned before that the Catskills provide NYC’s water as well as our own — so drought concerns are fairly serious.
Can’t help getting the sense that spring is definitely on the way, when not one but two vehicles have made the half-mile journey from the main road to my place in the past hour. Probably the power company or forestry folks, checking out the woods or the lines that run through.
The trip’s impossible if there’s ice/snow on the ground, so I’m guessing what’s there has melted away completely.
In any case, I’m off to the house chores, now that I can run water indoors (no chance of freezing lines — yet). See you soon.
Got the chili going at about 7, so we’ll be able to eat about 5. Then took a nap on the couch for a couple of hours. Just finished rinsing the cans I used (so we can put them in recycling) and about to wash the skillet I browned the meat in.
Notice Stark has SIX diaries up — is she trying to get herself troll-rated or something? I’m almost scared to read them… 🙁 Anyway, it’s sending this cafe down to the depths of the recent list; might be time to put up the coffee break one anyway?
Okay, back to work…
No, Cali Scribe, it has always been my lifelong wish–my biggest dream of dreams, to have six recommended diaries on the Bootribune!
I suffer from attention deficit disorder, you see, I don’t have enough readers or followers or “blog pals”.
I also have work to do: my suggestion would be that anyone who wants to see the information in the diaries go out there, cannibalize it and put it in a new diary of their own–I won’t delete them until they have been re-posted by someone else.
If you want to go ahead and delete them Booman: fine, you have shown your true colors.
Damnit Janet?
Alice?
Supersoling?
(if you want me to email the text contact me at friedberg at chidjembe dot com).
a little weird…I’m just worried that another fight’s going to break out, and I’m still recovering from the last one. And I’m going to need all my courage and strength in the coming months.
Blessings and peace to you…
If those posts are seen as controversial, and if this blog can’t been the rules for what I consider a constructive little outburst, well then….the air in the hotairosphere is hotter than I thought.
I really, really have no INTEREST in being a “star poster” here.
I love you all very dearly and would like to be able to continue conversing with you in the future: however, I am at the point where I am ready to NOT even SPEAK to anyone who is not doing more than
emailing
blogging
faxing
phoning
We are wasting our time here if we do not also COMMIT to action on the streets.
oops. BEND the rules (sorry, I’m in the middle of a FIT, in case anyone failed to notice).
no, the rules can’t be bent. Please erase the excess diaries without complaining about it.
I support what you are doing, but you cannot break this rule. I can write code to prevent members from breaking the rules. I prefer to ask nicely.
Find someone to step up and re-post them.
I won’t delete them until they have been re-posted.
Consider this an act of civil disobedience.
consider this a first banning warning.
so you’d prefer to make this a fight about “me”, is that what you’re saying?
Again, I am waiting for someone to step up and repost the diaries.
take the code, save it.
Delete the excess diaries.
Ask people nicely to use their diary privileges to post your excess diaries for you.
In a half-hour if the diaries are still up, I will delete them along with their code.
If you continue to suggest that I am picking on you, or that I am trying to engage in a fight with you, or if you suggest that I have some ulterior motive other than the equal application of the rules, you have already been warned. And I will have to ban you.
My rules are simple. And I don’t have any need to be pointlessly disrespected for enforcing them. The rules exist for the benefit of the whole community and they cannot be bent for your whims.
I posted march details in one and what others could do to support marchers if unable to attend in another.
Booman and diarists have rules and reasons for this board.
my true colors?
No. “WTF” was my response to seeing my name dragged into this. LOL.
I wasn’t paying attention and just checking out diaries. Gearing up for this weekend, you know, trying to center myself and I see my name trying to be dragged into some … serious negative energy.
I agree with the way you guide this community. Because I posted in the diaries should not be reflected as anything other than just that – posts.
don’t worry about it. I’m just pointing out what I have to put up with. My true colors reveal me to be something. I don’t know what. I assume it is not good though. I assume stark has exposed me as a fraud of some kind. Not sure what kind of fraud. But one that has now been exposed.
I appreciate the members of the community that stepped up to defend the equal application of the rules and to help find a solution.
what did you think of the suggestion I made regarding shutting down the blog for a day to encourage people to “unplug” and protest instead?
would you like to apologize for anything you have done or written about me today?
No. What do you object to?
At least two people (alice and rumi) agreed to turn over their “quotas” in order for these action items to stay on the list.
I have conceded to your demands and your rigid insistence on ‘following the rules.’
What more do you want?
Not that you asked me, but here’s what I object to as a member of the site:
You were politely reminded of the rules.
You had many reasonable options open to you, several of which were pointed out to you by other members.
You then proceeded to try to turn this into some sort of “civil disobedience” episode, and accused BooMan of making this all about you and “showing his true colors” when it was merely about having the courtesy to observe the same rules that all the other posters here follow.
Worse, you brought this whole debacle into the cafe and open threads, when it was already being discussed in your diaries.
I didn’t bring it in anywhere–I responded to comments as they appeared in the “recent comments” function.
the remaining diaries have been deleted, and I’m bout to go out and work with some people who appreciate creativity and can handle it when someone “dances out of step”.
For the record: TWO DIARIES for “sale” (cheap at half the price)
Fuck You Senator Soandso
and
Hi Neighbor!
Do you stand by all of the below?
did I call you a “hotair balloon”?
I stand by what I said: I’m tired of hotair balloons. All 49 million of them! That you would insert yourself into and or assume that it’s a slam against you personally puzzles me. So yes, I stand by that.
if this blog can’t bend the rules…then the hotairosphere is hotter than I thought. I also stand by that: as I said, I had no intention of starting a fucking flamewar over this. I thought it was pretty creative, actually. The fact that it has stirred such a controversy–yeah, that substantiates my contention that the hotairosphere is hotter than I thought.
And yes, I was shocked and dismayed that you would tell me to delete the diaries.
As to the true colors: what do you think of my suggestion that you shut down the blog for a day to encourage people to protest?
I think you are dishonest, disruptive and disrespectful. You’re banned.
I put up with you calling me a racist, and I have put up with you any number of shots at me and other members. Today’s behavior, though, crosses a line. You seem so utterly self-absorbed that you can’t understand that you were abusing the other member’s rights by posting six diaries. You attempted to bully people into fixing the problem for you, you decided to be defiant and question my character for standing up for the member’s rights, you have been disrespectful to alohaleezy for no good reason, and you are totally unrepentent about how you have negatively impacted the community today and wasted our time and energy.
A simple recognition of wrongdoing and an apology would have sufficed. You chose to be defiant, unrepentent, and challenging instead.
Thank you Booman very much.
Amen.
if you see this comment, can you repost your details in my diary? I’m going to try and keep it up to date through Friday.
Thanks in advance!
Here’s the deal:
“lead, follow or get the hell out of the way!
and
March! It’s not too late to get on the bus
will stay under my quota.
Manny has agreed to post
Aint Gonna Study War no more
and
We, the People Started It.
That means there are two diaries “for sale” (lol.)
Fuck You Senator SoandSo
and
Hi Neighbor.
I have retrieved the code, will also retrieve the info in comments (shortly)
then will delete them.
You want the code DJ?
Let me read those. I’m on dial up and this afternoon is a crazy one here at home to begin with. Plus my computer is acting like it’s being fucked with. Twice now it’s shut off after opening all my damn files and the cursor going nuts.
You are already over your quota and bullying other members to “help” you out of the situation you purposefully created is bullshit. If you have ideas you should work them out with people beforehand, not force a confrontation.
Expecting the whole blog to spring to action, break the rules, or ignore community courtesy because you’ve suddenly decided is one of the most childish and counter-productive things I’ve seen online — and that’s saying something.
actually, I didn’t even know there was a 2 diary rule: I assumed the software would not allow me to do anything against the rules.
So what the hell….after the third one…..
and I’m not “bullying” anyone here.
Where do you see “bullying”?
You believed the software would stop you? Right. I presume that’s why you immediately corrected the situation when asked politely?
Oh, no. You took some sort of a stand. Made the site proprietor re-state the banning rules. That’s called forcing a confrontation. And when that confrontation is then delineated, you tell good-hearted people that they can fix the problem. That’s a particularly manipulative form of bullying.
I had no intention of creating a ruckus.
Once the ruckus was started, I decided to go with it.
you had my sympathy, but not anymore. I support protesting and marching, which is why I offered to repost the diary; but I am not interested nor supportive of your “civil disobedience”. Rules are rules, deal with it.
I’m trying to catch up on this trainwreck – guess I had so many other things on my mind… I’m sorry.
It’s blowing my mind that announcements of peace protests are also shouting down members of a blog society simply because they blog or are a community. Which is why I posted in your March diaries that not all can march and provided suggestions for those who can’t march but can support.
I think it’s wonderful you are marching, involved, but I object to the hurling insults at other community members. March for peace or be bashed? I can not assume why others can not do things, I know that most here are doing everything that they can and I support that. I do not insist they do it exactly as I do it or feel it needs to be done.
I for one hope Booman never “unplugs” this blog for a day so we could get off our asses. Chatting here inspires, encourages, informs me and connects me to people who are trying to do the same.
I respect and admire both Booman and Cali Scribe and so many other’s here. I don’t see the need for … I don’t even know what to call this.
I try to read diaries in the morning so that I can then later come into the cafe and today I really wanted to share this afternoon.
I am so sorry to see this all. I’m sorry I can’t be a part of the solution. I just can be a part of anything like this that has hurt so many I call friends. I’m really not good at any of this. Fuck… I hate this feeling.
I’m sorry Cafe Members, Booman.
I’m sorry Stark, I would unplug especially when today’s blogworld is not very conduscive today… but Tuesdays are my one day to sit and relax and this week: to get centered. I guess I can go back to chores, paperwork and wait for the school to ring with a crisis. Lord knows my days and nights are “dull and lazy”.
Hell, some people aren’t even U.S. citizens and are afraid that if they were arrested they would also be deported so they bring food, coffee and flashlights for those who can. This makes me infinitely sad also.
You pop up when I need you the most.
This morning, I usually do emails in the morning… I had to inform CodePink that I oculdn’t attend some stuff this work week that Wayne was taking Sunday off so I oculd march. We don’t feel that we should bring the children to this particular march. That one of us should stay home with them – also to be available if I get arrested.
I know people who call them Closet CodePink. They can’t actually sign on as they are school officials, or have some job that oculd use it to hurt them. I met one in December who offered to hold sacks of signs and clothing for the ladies who went into the hotel.
Code Pink. Blessed be all the citizens of other nations who fed us and sheltered us at Crawford, now that was a coalition of the willing!
God knows CNN ain’t showing up right now. As in the last Cindy Sheehan arrest video also, somebody has to take your bag as you head to jail.
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