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Being a great pathologist and rhetoric speaker, I think that may be corpsing.

(Boom-boom.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpsing)

I got to 4:22...scientologists are Sick MFs

And they don't believe in sickness... something is wrong here.


Is there a Goodwill in Australia? I wouldn't miss it if not. First thing today: Goodwill. Then KFC. Then Target and OfficeMax. Then drop the junk at home. Then Church along with dropping a friend off and accidentally going to Belle Plane. Today has been long.

How is everyone?

G'day Ben, there are charity organisations in Aus which collect donated items and sell them in shops. St Vincent de Paul is one, the Salvos (Salvation Army) another.

A seasonal favourite: The Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert with "Wizards in Winter."

WARNING!! FLASHING LIGHTS GALORE!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CCSeugClR8[/youtube]

What's Goodwill? We do have KFC and Target, along with a place called Officeworks.

Charity organisation that accepts donations of used good (clothes mostly) and resells them in large shops.

Like Lifeline or Vinnie's here, or Oxfam in the UK.

Yep. I forgot Lifeline.

Good evening here, SleepyDragon! How is your afternoon?

So the idea of selling people's used items over and over was to good to pass up? It would be nice to find out how much of Goodwill's profits actually goes to charity and how much is pocketed. I know the employees get next to nothing unless they're a manager and then can live off one income. Salvation Army is, as far as I know, good in terms of helping people subsist but without knowledge I cannot say much about Goodwill other than how the employees -underlings- are always being mistreated and used (at least the ones that I and my parents have spoke to.) I hope St Vincent de Paul is good.

I put out an application at Goodwill and they said I'd get a call in a couple days. I hate telephone interviews I think I'm just going to say the minimum so that they may ask for a personal interview and still keep my mouth shut. I find the less I say the more likely I am to get the job. The only reason I would take the job is that I would like to be able to save for college -especially since my stepdad has promised he wont spend a penny on my education or cosign any loans. Nice to also be able to give to Church again not to mention WP since it needs help.

Quatermass, here is a link to Goodwill: http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about/whatwedo Don't believe all the hype. I trust them like I trust politicians: not a bit.

Trans-Siberian is very cool, but I could see it being a bit of a problem with epileptics. Thanks for the warning even though I don't have a problem like that it is still annoying/irritating with flashiness like that.

I suppose the song "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" would only be a dream down under? Where I live in Minnesota I have about a foot of snow and it is -6 degrees Fahrenheit outside ( ~0.3 meter and -21 Celsius.) For all the fact that water is lighter as a solid than as a liquid, nobody normally has to shovel liquid water off their driveway! I wish I could go back to Texas where it is still 50 Fahrenheit (10 Celsius.) What temperature is it around Brisbane this summer?

Do you have anymore parrot stories? I like how friendly my birds are regardless of whether I have food or not (even though they do like to share my food with me often). Do you ever have a bird fly to you just to sit on your shoulder and hang out with you? Have you ever had one fly to your head like, "hello, I'm your new best friend!! !"? These things happen to me. Do you ever whistle to wild birds and have them whistle back to you? Sometimes they do, sometimes not (depends which kind of bird really.)

What's happening today? It's Monday for you all isn't it? Will be for me in 2 minutes. I like to think of Australia's east coast as being 8 hours behind and a day ahead.

Yep, Monday here already....

The cockatoos seem to have given up on us. There is one especially persistent fellow who comes and taps on the kitchen window maybe once a day, but the rest of them have decided to look elsewhere for handouts.

My husband reckons that you wouldn't find many genuinely-wild parrots in remote bush areas any more, because they go where the people and the food are. My feeling is that with drought or near-drought conditions in the inland regions, native animals would gravitate to the well-watered coastal areas - where, coincidentally, most of the people live too.

We certainly see a wide variety of bird life. The parrots in particular are excellent mimics, and I often hear one which I swear has learned to imitate my alarm clock! Some neighbours used to have a pet bird which could do a convincing mobile-phone ring - at ear-shattering volume.

Yes, white Christmases here are next to nonexistent. Where we live it doesn't even snow in the wintertime. After 16 years here, the idea of Christmas coming in the summer seems quite normal. The fruit sellers have set up roadside stands up and down the highway. Now nothing says "Christmas" to me like the smell of a tray of ripe mangoes.

We're quite a ways south of Brisbane; their weather is like what you'd get in Southern California/Mexico, and ours is more like Seattle's.

Yeah, they called him a child molester, wife beater, and crowded around him, like good cult sheep. They seem to change the subject to something personal about you whenever it's something they can't win.

Ad hominem attacks are still powerful, if not exactly mature and intelligent.

I like that coffee emoticon.



Do you ever feed him or does he like your house for some reason? What time of day usually?



Water, being necessary for life, does seem to attract living creatures. I see, even in my birds, some form of a language. Besides the calls they seem to have relational pronouns, locational or "where are you/I am here" echoes, and other grammatical features which I'm not totally familiar with yet. I think in a larger population they may have it more developed or if it is the same throughout with minor variation that would mean the language is preprogrammed and not learned - things I would like to find out.







Are the mangoes natural to Australia? I know some grow in Mexico and throughout most of Latin America, but did they go in Australia before the English settlers arrived?



Gets slightly chili but not really in the winter and snow is only on the mountains?

Either morning teatime (10:30 am) or afternoon teatime (5:00 pm). We have neighbours in our street who put food out for the birds around 5 every day, so that's probably why.


Whether mangoes are indigenous to Australia I don't know, but there are regions in Queensland where mangoes, papayas, coffee, macadamia nuts, sugar cane, pineapples, cashews and bananas are grown.


That's right, the closest mountains to us are the Blue Mountains, about 2.5 hours' drive west of here. They are not as high in elevation as the west-coast ranges in North America, so there's less snow, and what there is melts away quickly.

That explains the 5 o'clock at least. Maybe the bird can smell tea?



Sounds like they were brought in at one time I suppose.



Good for the wildlife though with all the fresh water from it. Isn't it?

Probably has more to do with the times of day we humans are likeliest to be rattling around our kitchens producing tasty snacks.

(I just typed "snakes" instead of "snacks." )