Using a weed-whacker is a bit neater if one uses long-legged pants and perhaps rubber boots as well. It is not the scratches from the flying wires that I mind when I garden bare-legged, but if I don't remember to brush off or preferably take a shower, I find that I'm bringing clorophyll debris all over the indoors.

Not that the pants help very ( Read more... )

Well, yes, as it happens. I am.
Still, I don't feel any closer to understanding life, universe, or anything.

I only got to reading weekend's news. It must be a summer trainee that is writing the newswires at the Finnish News Agency STT ( Read more... )

Yes, I would gladly quote Dr Who as exhorted by numerous entries in various journals. But it is 30 years or more since I last read any of those books, and I don't have any of those on my shelves, either. Dredging brought nothing from the memory, I'm afraid.

I had the misfortune to see my rather bare body in almost full-size mirrors.

I look like a Snorlax. Exept that my face is prettier.

That's it. Diet coming up.

Early this spring I patched the driveway with gravel to help it drain and dry more quickly ( Read more... )

If you are against small kittens being skinned and used for hats, post this sentence in your livejournal.

Some things seek the shortest path.
Electricity. Water. Stink.

And little old persons in their little old cars tacking a left turn into a roundabout.

Thank heavens the traffic was so quiet.

- o -

(For the appropriate definition of "shortest", in each case. For some the metric is the energy, for others the logic is different.)

[the_Sam] Will it give me enough straight credibility if I make soup from dehydrated stuff and eat it straight from the pot?
[mr_Jusu] You'll be more credible if you just pour hot water into the sachet of dehydrated stuff, slosh it around a bit, and eat the soup straight from there.
[the_Sam] NO YECHH ME NOT DO THAT

I had someone in for a bit of fireplay. Now he sent a note of thanks: "It was a hot session!"

I think he did not notice the double meaning there.