posted July 30, 2009 10:23 PM            

To me it's really just a matter of delivery. On a forum there are no audible or facial cues, so you have to find other ways to help people understand what you mean. I use the smileys. If I wanted people to know that I was making a pun like you did, I'd add a winking smile , or a laughing smile , or a big grin . Other people, including other Scorps around here, use further words to ensure that they're understood.

Dry is cool with me. I'm a Capricorn, and we're known for our dry humor.

posted July 30, 2009 10:32 PM            

I'm with you. If I'm late or something it's on me. If something happens, and I don't get up on time for work, so be it. To me, that is preferable to people waking me up when I intend to stay in bed.

posted July 31, 2009 04:20 PM            

How is everyone?

posted July 31, 2009 07:20 PM            

Strange thing happened this morning, though, and this is absolutely true:

I didn't set my alarm last night. I woke up when my roommate woke me up at 6:15.

posted August 01, 2009 12:47 AM            

Nobody wakes me up if they know what's good for them. No one! I lose it! I really do.

I slept at around 8am in the morning yesterday and the cleaning lady came in and started yakking on her cellphone or something, on top of having the tv blaring on top volume. I don't know what came over her! But she, of all people, knows that I lose it when woken up because sleep is so precious to me.

It was fine when it was still the tv hum noise, but when she started speaking louder, it woke me up, so... I got up, took a deep breath, stormed to the bedroom door, opened it violently and banged it on my way out. She heard it because the yakking stopped for a little while as I walked to her.

Then, instead of doing what I was going to do, which was to ask her in a seething tone, "Do you really have to speak that loudly. I am sleeping" I just walked by her not knowing where I was heading to an ended up outside and sat on the paving against the wall outside, legs close to me and knees to my chin, with my hands rapped around the top of my knees and fell asleep outside in the weak winter sun.

I dunno how long I was outside, but I woke up from the nap and just sat outside looking at birds flying across the sky. Then I went back inside, still p!$$ed but calmer. I didn't speak to her then she left only to realize that her stupid noise made me sleep for 2 hours today!

Aaaarrrg!

posted August 01, 2009 08:01 AM            

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Unmoved, your reaction sounds disturbingly similar to what mine would've been...

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I've said the exact thing about you and your responses on LL, remember? It's actually very freaky sometimes. I think it's fine to find people who have similar personalities to oneself, but you take it on some other level with experiences at times. I think you've seen that I'm always like, "I agree with MVM" Ag! You must be thinking... this woman!!?? Wtf? Always agreeing with me. hehehe... not always but most of the time and I seldom agree with many.

It means you're weird MVM, because I am strange. hahaha

If you're similar to me (visa versa), you're similar to eve too. Hehehe.

AG must like them off or something because I am always interested in what AG says, and I just like AG, and so do you. I can tell.

I seldom, I mean SELDOM find a person to say something I don't know, which I am interested in, and AG has a choc-ful of good trivia, useful info and I dig his style as it is not pretentious or self-seeking. I'm not surprised that I am always on this thread, my watering hole.

Yeah, AG. You're smart without effort. There's nothing that gets under my skin as much as people trying to be smart. So, you're refreshing because you just ARE smart, and natural. I also like that you're not into BS.

MVM doesn't like BS too, and that's probably why she enjoys you too.

AG appreciation day! Yay!!!

posted August 01, 2009 11:46 AM            

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Have a website: http://thereifixedit.com/

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posted August 01, 2009 12:02 PM            

The 'trivia' part really threw me. I tend to associate trivia with games or something, and most of it is genuinely useless. I'm not offended, though. I get it. I do my share of picking up on information.

I do like them off. Strange people are more interesting. They illustrate that they're willing to go against convention, and have their own minds. The aspect that makes my Saturn opposite Mercury easier is Uranus in Libra. It trines Saturn and sextiles Mercury. That could account for some enjoyment of the strange.

posted August 01, 2009 12:43 PM            

There are a bunch of people trying to remember a certain odd fact, but everyone's forgotten or too lazy to google it.

Then comes AG with an answer, leaving all those involved saying, "Oh yeah... it was at the tip of my tongue..." type of thing.

And, flattery was not the primary purpose AG. I was just being honest.

posted August 01, 2009 03:45 PM            

AG's all about NO BS, which is why he's awesome ...so yes, a Happy AG Appreciation Day

posted August 01, 2009 04:37 PM            

I just refreshed my mp3 player with some new material:

Books

• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

• The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
  

The Tipping Point seems to be in the same vein of books I've previously enjoyed like Freakonomics and Blunder. The one will focus on the causes behind sudden trends.

I'm still trying to figure out how to pick good fiction, and lately I've come to realize that I really have to listen to the samples, because some of the narrators are just too obnoxious for me. I feel like I can hear it if they're working too hard at it, and it annoys me. If they are focused on diction, the reading becomes too stark and dry. If they're focused on drama, and they're unpracticed, it comes off pretentious. I realize that these people have to perfect their craft somehow, but it really affects my experience if they suck.

Incidentally, Donald Sutherland is the narrator for Hemingway's book. That's a slam dunk.
Music

• Four songs off Radiohead's Pablo Honey

• A couple David Bowie tunes I'm not familiar with

• A couple new purchases from Cake

• Maggie May

I thought that I would find that plenty of people had covered Rod Stewart's Maggie May, and probably done a decent job of it. I'm against Rod Stewart by nature. There were some cover versions, but the amazon.com samples weren't enough to show me that they were superior to RS's...so I got Rod Stewart's. But then I went in search of the guy who made me a fan of the song, Ty Taylor, a contestant on the first Rockstar series (INXS). He f-n' rocked that song. Someone did make an mp3, and I found it and downloaded it. There's a glitch in the first moments of the song, but otherwise it sounds good.

Now...do I finally go see The Hangover, or do I go searching for some new walking shoes? One of my movie watching friends said that she really didn't find The Hangover funny despite [her words] "everybody in the world" liking it.

Maybe I should jump in the pool for a minute...but then, I've barely eaten today, and I'm getting hungry.

posted August 01, 2009 09:15 PM            

How's your dad doing this week, AG??