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21 Oct 2007, 2:02 pm

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Well, with that, now I have to go stop at the video store and get some of those old films on the way back from the laundromat in a few. I don't remember buying all these clothes, that are now dirty. How the heck did we get so much laundry!?!?

It feels odd out. When I woke up a bit before dawn I was a bit paranoid, knowing the SantaAnas were gonna blow. For a few seconds the light coming in the window around the blinds had that "oh hell no not again" orange tone to it (as it did the Sunday we woke up to find ash raining down on our place). So I had to hop up and go look. It was definitely weird out there, misty, orangish. But it was just a trick of the light. It still feels... "wrong" ... outside, so I want to get the laundry and shopping done and get the hell back home ASAP today. Maybe, with the humidity being so low, it'd be a good day to rent a rug doctor and get the carpets good and clean before the kid's party on Friday night -when they'll all get messed up again... hmm, maybe rent that next Saturday instead! Better day to watch old movies.

So, I'll see ya'll later. Have fun.


Have fun and STOP WORRYING about something you have no control over! Do the carpets next weekend.



worry about which - the party mess or the fire season? malibu is on fire, they're saying. fortunately, a good ways away from us.


Either or. You can't really control either one. Just be prepared and that's all you can do.

EDIT: And you can give me hell when you come back!! :wink:



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21 Oct 2007, 2:08 pm

Let's see, been about 2 hours trying to do this. Just don't ask, other then I'd like to wring that Bill Gate's neck. So this post was meant for earlier in the Cafe.

Speaking of kids, which you all know I don't like. Along with their little heart wrenching little furry friends. Just remember I don't like them and Carroll did. Let's make that very clear.
Too easy to mistake things on the net.

Here's the youngest in the family and I don't like her either. Maybe because her first name is the same as SwampBlossom's, that's probably it. No it isn't SwampBlossom I haven't given this little knee biter a nick name yet, it's Andria. Henry is the furry one, he's mine so he's ok. Don't let those blue eyes fool you for a second, she's a terrorist. Henry isn't all that smart or he wouldn't be that close. Notice she's already starting to circle her arm around his neck, she just might have a future when she gets to be my age, if I let her live that long.


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21 Oct 2007, 2:19 pm

Wow! PP... you'd better be careful, around that Andria character. Can't you see, from her eyes, that she has a time crossing connection to her future self. She knows now, everything you thought you could plan for. I'd not annoy her, or you'll be in extremely deep water (lava), without a paddle (bill-hook, life belt/raft/saver/help!). Creek?


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21 Oct 2007, 2:29 pm

I told you guys little blonde, blue eyed kids are evil!! And the fact that her name starts with An is even worse, so does lil' girls. I know what deviousness and planning lies behind her eyes.



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21 Oct 2007, 2:34 pm

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Wow! PP... you'd better be careful, around that Andria character. Can't you see, from her eyes, that she has a time crossing connection to her future self. She knows now, everything you thought you could plan for. I'd not annoy her, or you'll be in extremely deep water (lava), without a paddle (bill-hook, life belt/raft/saver/help!). Creek?


Hummm, again you have come to my future rescue. I had forgotten to get gas for the motor when up that creek. I keep loosing my paddle, at least I stand a chance with a motor. It's attached to the canoe.

Ahh!! Remember that video I put up with the Wild Thing song and the dancing postpaleo? It was a gift for the rug rat. She was standing on the table when she turned it on, for the first time. Her shriek of terror was heard for miles. I'm not afraid of her as long as I have a dancing postpaleo. Swampblossom picked it out, normally she doesn't have that good of taste when it comes to kids toys, she scored a goal with that one.


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21 Oct 2007, 2:35 pm

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These are REALLy funny animal videos (with no dressed up or posed animals, Lau and Nan :) )

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxa0mnDj0bs&eurl=http://widget-29.slide.com/widgets/sf.swf[/youtube]


Oh man, now I really want a cat. Its been so long since I've been around them. I think when I finally get a place of my own I will get a cat or two. That way I have entertainment and when mom asks me to birdsit I can tell her, "I'm sorry, I have vicious hunting cats and it just wouldn't be safe for your birds. You'll have to find someone else."

(I've got to remember not to get behind again by so many pages, I just go caught up, sorry this is from like 6 or 7 pages ago)



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21 Oct 2007, 2:41 pm

She's sweet, Postie! Just remember it may be her choosing your nursing home or otherwise taking care of you when you're old and feeble!! :twisted:



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21 Oct 2007, 2:45 pm

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I told you guys little blonde, blue eyed kids are evil!! And the fact that her name starts with An is even worse, so does lil' girls. I know what deviousness and planning lies behind her eyes.


:oops: :cry: :cry: What have we unleashed on the world? :oops: :cry: :?

My youngest is one of the blonde creatures. She was such a disappointment when she actually survived growing up. She wanted to be a cop and was going to be. I mean, such a strike through my heart. But then another disappointment, they caught her out in the desert with a guy and they were doing something and you know what it was. Now that wasn't the disappointment. I know I taught her how not to get caught, she was not paying close attention to me. I should have had on a thimble. Oh well at least she can't be one of those police things now.


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21 Oct 2007, 2:48 pm

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She's sweet, Postie! Just remember it may be her choosing your nursing home or otherwise taking care of you when you're old and feeble!! :twisted:


Naw, they already know to just put me in a high chair in the corner and feed me cat food. They'll never take me alive to go to one of those places, I use to work in them. I just kept my mouth shut when SleepyDragon was talking about the linen wash near the morgue. You just don't want to know.


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21 Oct 2007, 2:58 pm

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She's sweet, Postie! Just remember it may be her choosing your nursing home or otherwise taking care of you when you're old and feeble!! :twisted:


Naw, they already know to just put me in a high chair in the corner and feed me cat food. They'll never take me alive to go to one of those places, I use to work in them. I just kept my mouth shut when SleepyDragon was talking about the linen wash near the morgue. You just don't want to know.


You're right, I don't. Some of them aren't much better than the institution Richie was talking about?.
They're just more careful about keeping up appearances.



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21 Oct 2007, 3:09 pm

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She's sweet, Postie! Just remember it may be her choosing your nursing home or otherwise taking care of you when you're old and feeble!! :twisted:


Naw, they already know to just put me in a high chair in the corner and feed me cat food. They'll never take me alive to go to one of those places, I use to work in them. I just kept my mouth shut when SleepyDragon was talking about the linen wash near the morgue. You just don't want to know.


You're right, I don't. Some of them aren't much better than the institution Richie was talking about?.
They're just more careful about keeping up appearances.


Told you, you don't want to know the real details.

I will say what we laughed over while eating lunch would twist your stomach. It never was malicious, it was communication in what was happening to those under our care. Horribly understaffed and we had to laugh or go crazy. I think being aspie actually helped in that scenario, but even I couldn't stay completely detached. They train you not to get attached, but no one I knew could ever really do that. In a way I wish I could do it again. I could do it better now that I know more about myself and I know I could reach the Autistics better. I didn't always work in geriatrics. I did work in one that was very good, that one took special training and that's where I was working with those with the special needs. It was still heart breaking. It is a national disgrace and an atrocity.


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21 Oct 2007, 3:24 pm

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She's sweet, Postie! Just remember it may be her choosing your nursing home or otherwise taking care of you when you're old and feeble!! :twisted:


Naw, they already know to just put me in a high chair in the corner and feed me cat food. They'll never take me alive to go to one of those places, I use to work in them. I just kept my mouth shut when SleepyDragon was talking about the linen wash near the morgue. You just don't want to know.


You're right, I don't. Some of them aren't much better than the institution Richie was talking about?.
They're just more careful about keeping up appearances.


Told you, you don't want to know the real details.

I will say what we laughed over while eating lunch would twist your stomach. It never was malicious, it was communication in what was happening to those under our care. Horribly understaffed and we had to laugh or go crazy. I think being aspie actually helped in that scenario, but even I couldn't stay completely detached. They train you not to get attached, but no one I knew could ever really do that. In a way I wish I could do it again. I could do it better now that I know more about myself and I know I could reach the Autistics better. I didn't always work in geriatrics. I did work in one that was very good, that one took special training and that's where I was working with those with the special needs. It was still heart breaking. It is a national disgrace and an atrocity.


It happens here, too. I think we could learn a thing or two by watching how less privileged countries take care of their elderly.

Taking the dogs for a walk. Y'all have a great afteroon!



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21 Oct 2007, 3:42 pm

Awww Postie, Blessed, lovely pics!! !! !



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21 Oct 2007, 3:52 pm

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That is too cool!! I can see wanting to do that all the time. I could watch that for hours!

All right, here you go:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFafcjA_p7E[/youtube]



Thanks, Gromit! Just because I could sit watch them for hours, doesn't necessarily mean I should.

((but I did! :oops: :D )



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21 Oct 2007, 5:47 pm

ah, i was right this morning. here we go again. closing the windows, the smoke is too much. waiting for the reverse 911 call. have all the papers gathered, the cat carriers ready. some friends of ours farther north just got their call and were checking with us to see if our place is clear if they need to come here. they've decided to go farther towards the ocean, rather than have to make a second jump.

my new boss just called to see if we are ok - she's a sweetie! she's not sure exactly where we live, but knows we're out in this part of the county. my last boss, when i called her to ask if we could evacuate some of our caged animals to her garage (she'd always said if we needed her to call) didn't want to deal with "the mess." we're not in the direct path in the immediate present, but the wind's shifted to our direction and it's the flying embers and ash that's the dangerous part. so far no ash is falling here yet but the smoke is very strong. somebody's already died in the fire to our south, and i think i heard that a fire engine company was overrun and they're medivaccing them in. or maybe that was at the fire to our northeast. i dunno. but in a half hour one of 'em went from them saying it was 500 acres to 3,500 acres.

needless to say, i won't be on WP the rest of the night, unless the wind shifts back to due west again or dies out. see ya'll later on, from one computer or another. sorry that my life is sounding like a soap opera or a bad sci-fi channel movie. it's been that lately.

(i really GOT to get this place sold and out of here. i really do.)



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21 Oct 2007, 5:54 pm

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needless to say, i won't be on WP the rest of the night, unless the wind shifts back to due west again or dies out. see ya'll later on, from one computer or another. sorry that my life is sounding like a soap opera or a bad sci-fi channel movie. it's been that lately.


I'm sucking as hard as I can to coax the wind away from you.