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http://www.xkcd.com/223/
So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
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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.
>
>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?
>
> 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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triple_r escribió:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> http://www.xkcd.com/223/
>>
>> 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.
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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"Invisible" wrote:
> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
Nothing. We're not even spending time together today.
It's an artificial holiday and we don't need it to show our love for each
other. Of course we don't live in America, so it might not be as deeply
rooted in our culture (yet) but the stores certainly do what they can to
proclaim its significance.
Rune
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I strongly considered standing on the street with a "free hugs" sign,
since I figure there's got to be some people who'd need cheering up
today, and why should the day be only about good vibes between romantic
couples? In the end I have too much work that I need to get done to
take the day off and I'd be too shy to do that without company (and I
don't know anyone offhand who could take the day off to join me). Oh
well. Also, having a fancy dinner tonight with the lady at an italian
restaurant.
Invisible wrote:
> http://www.xkcd.com/223/
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> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
>
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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> In the end I have too much work that I need to get done to
> take the day off and I'd be too shy to do that without company (and I
> don't know anyone offhand who could take the day off to join me).
Also, of course, because a lone guy with that sign would come of a lot
sketchier than would be the case with a few people of mixed sexes.
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:16:46 +0100, Rune wrote:
> "Invisible" wrote:
>> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
>
> Nothing. We're not even spending time together today.
>
> It's an artificial holiday and we don't need it to show our love for
> each other. Of course we don't live in America, so it might not be as
> deeply rooted in our culture (yet) but the stores certainly do what they
> can to proclaim its significance.
>
> Rune
Hear hear! It *is* a Hallmark Holiday(tm); but of course that doesn't
mean we're not doing anything special - just that every day is special
for us.
Jim
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Kyle wrote:
>> You know you feel old when...
>
> Please, don't remind me!
Heh. Sorry...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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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...
Heh. And I thought *I* was just about the only single person here...
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Rune wrote:
> It's an artificial holiday and we don't need it to show our love for each
> other.
I can certainly understand that PoV. ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> I strongly considered standing on the street with a "free hugs" sign,
> since I figure there's got to be some people who'd need cheering up
> today, and why should the day be only about good vibes between romantic
> couples? In the end I have too much work that I need to get done to
> take the day off and I'd be too shy to do that without company (and I
> don't know anyone offhand who could take the day off to join me). Oh
> well. Also, having a fancy dinner tonight with the lady at an italian
> restaurant.
Damn - dude, that would have been pretty awsome...
[Although you would probably get a bunch of drunk homeless people who
smell of cats wanting to hug you, which is perhaps not so cool.]
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
Flew back from UK to Munich in the afternoon. Flight was delayed due to fog
so I didn't get home until 20:30. My gf had cooked me dinner, I gave her
some presents (the one she got for me hadn't turned up yet, stupid DHL can't
deliver next-day!) then we watched football on TV and went to bed.
Not really that exciting tbh.
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scott wrote:
>> So, what are all you non-single people doing today?
>
> Flew back from UK to Munich in the afternoon. Flight was delayed due to
> fog so I didn't get home until 20:30. My gf had cooked me dinner, I
> gave her some presents (the one she got for me hadn't turned up yet,
> stupid DHL can't deliver next-day!) then we watched football on TV and
> went to bed.
>
> Not really that exciting tbh.
Reactions:
#1 - The story ends with "we went to bed" and it was "not really that
exciting"?
#2 - Oh, so DHL failed to deliver stuff for you too, eh?
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> Reactions:
>
> #1 - The story ends with "we went to bed" and it was "not really that
> exciting"?
I meant compared to a normal day.
> #2 - Oh, so DHL failed to deliver stuff for you too, eh?
Yeh, she'd paid for the next day option, but not the before-noon option,
assuming it would show up sometime during the day. Actually on their site
it says it was on route to be delivered at 10am yesterday, but nothing else
yet...
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> I meant compared to a normal day.
Oh, yeah, OK.
>> #2 - Oh, so DHL failed to deliver stuff for you too, eh?
>
> Yeh, she'd paid for the next day option, but not the before-noon option,
> assuming it would show up sometime during the day. Actually on their
> site it says it was on route to be delivered at 10am yesterday, but
> nothing else yet...
I paid extra to have some items from Zazzle delivered by DHL. The
delivery charge was actually greater than the combined value of the
items! And yet, eventually I had to drive to their depot my ****ing self
to get the parcel, due to their blatent inability to understand simple
instructions.
I was not amused.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> I paid extra to have some items from Zazzle delivered by DHL. The delivery
> charge was actually greater than the combined value of the items! And yet,
> eventually I had to drive to their depot my ****ing self to get the
> parcel, due to their blatent inability to understand simple instructions.
Well she'd asked for it to be delivered to the nearest dhl place which is
about 3 minutes walk from where we live... We always get stuff sent there
because often neither of us are home, and it means we can just go pick it up
whenever is convenient for us. Maybe they were full because of it being
14th, I don't know.
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And lo on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:26:18 -0000, scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> did
spake, saying:
>> Reactions:
>>
>> #1 - The story ends with "we went to bed" and it was "not really that
>> exciting"?
<snip>
> Yeh, she'd paid for the next day option, but not the before-noon option
For some strange reason my brain skipped over the middle bit leaving me in
a WTF situation. :-)
--
Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Phil Cook wrote:
> For some strange reason my brain skipped over the middle bit leaving me
> in a WTF situation. :-)
...something is wrong with you. :-P
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> For some strange reason my brain skipped over the middle bit leaving me in
> a WTF situation. :-)
LOL, although nothing WTF about the before-noon option, it's often useful
and sometimes absolutely necessary. :-)
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