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http://www.xkcd.com/223/
So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:47b418ed$1@news.povray.org...
> http://www.xkcd.com/223/
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> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
Unfortunately Lady and I are some 3000km, 3 timezone hours, and 3.5 flying
hours apart for the next 12 days. She remained in New Zealand, while I
temporarily returned to Australia for a family funeral (we couldn't afford
to both come back). So we talked by phone several times today.
My biggest task today was getting this house's yard back in some tidiness.
This mostly involved bashing up the 4-foot-high overgrowth of flowering
giant paspalum, high lawn grasses and weeds that took over the entire back
garden and lawn (10m x 20m area) in the two summer months and a week while
we were overseas. (It was drought conditions when I left, but a lot of rain
fell in Eastern Australia since then due to a strong La Nina pattern forming
in the Pacific Ocean)
It was too dense for the 4-stroke mower, which choked almost immediately and
also cut poorly because the mower's skirt flattened the long stems below the
cutters. So I mixed up the 2-stroke fuel and went out with the nylon cord
snipper. The very tall coarse stems of giant paspalum grass will tangle and
wrap around a rotating head and bind it up if you approach it in the wrong
way and I had quite a few stops to pick it apart. I found best results when
I slashed in high passes first and gradually cut it down in successively
lower passes and also worked from the back towards myself (I walk backwards
through the tall grass as I sweep side-to-side instead of walking forwards
over the already-cut part). This threw the cut stems away from the working
area and I got very little cutter tangling then.
Eventually I got all the yard snipped roughly down to a few centimetres
height. Then I did two runs over it with the lawn mower -- first on its
highest cut, whereupon I stopped many times to remove a helluva lotta
grass-catcher loads full, then did it all again on an almost scalping low
cut, whereupon I took away even more catcher loads per area than the high
cut did. The idea here was to weaken the tussocky paspalum and give the
lower lawn grasses more chance.
I filled up the 50-litre compost tumbler with clippings during the last run,
interleaving each catcher load with a layer of high-nitrogen fertilizer
(dynamic lifter). That will create a scalding heat that kills the grass
seeds as the bacteria set to work breaking it all down. I still have
another 50 litres of grass clippings in the wheelie bin, and another 50 that
I've just had to dump into heaps!
Romantic day, huh? :-)
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:33:17 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>http://www.xkcd.com/223/
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Heh, that's sure true.
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>So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
Dinner with friends. Our teenage kids are "dating", so we're taking them out for
their Valentine dinner.
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Kyle wrote:
>> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
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> Dinner with friends. Our teenage kids are "dating", so we're taking them out for
their Valentine dinner.
You know you feel old when...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
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> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
Sick as a dog, so the Better Half has banished me to whatever room she's
currently NOT in. Oh, wait a sec -- she does that when I'm feeling well,
too...
Oh, well... ain't love grand?
--
Dan
GoofyGraffix.com
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Invisible wrote:
> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
Collaborative cooking and wine consumption. In an effort to avoid
already-expensive restaurants who raise their prices still further
whilst decreasing the choice on their menus and need booking by last
September (not to mention the whole Enforced Fun atmosphere), we are
going to buy an extravagant selection of fresh seafood this afternoon
and kill/cook it together. Aah. :)
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:33:17 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> http://www.xkcd.com/223/
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> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
Working. We'll probably go out to dinner tomorrow night (it's usually
too busy to go out on the actual day).
Jim
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> http://www.xkcd.com/223/
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> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
Well, I think I'll eat a bucket of ice cream and cry myself to sl-- oh, wait.
Oops. NON-single people. Sorry.
- Ricky
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> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> http://www.xkcd.com/223/
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>> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
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> Well, I think I'll eat a bucket of ice cream and cry myself to sl-- oh, wait.
> Oops. NON-single people. Sorry.
Yeah I almost replied too. Gotta read messages more carefully before
replying...
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:44:53 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>You know you feel old when...
Please, don't remind me!
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