| bells and whistles [message #22683] |
Thu, 05 November 2009 19:55  |
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 Black Bear
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Bells! And Whistles!
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: bells and whistles [message #22687 is a reply to message #22683 ] |
Thu, 05 November 2009 20:57  |
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Julia
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Wow. You made it through the extra-long quarter peal. And the rat-encounter (I didn't think you were so kindly disposed towards rats. But maybe it was only that rat in the garden. [that *was* you, right? Or am I confused? I often am, you know.] I guess the domesticated aspect, in addition to the 'little fuzzy creature which can, in fact, behave in a rather endearing manner' made it okay.)
Yay for you!
Yay for your editor!
Actually, double yay for you, Robin, because on top of everything else, you now are contending with Twitter. Brava! And Facebook, of course. But I understand Facebook.
I just got a Twitter account now and I don't quite get it. Oh well, I can just open my door and ask any one of my friends down the hall, many of whom use Twitter like crazy obsessive people (not judging. Just stating a fact) to explain the thing to me.
I never realised just what (how much) a quarter peal involves... 1260 soundings of the handbell. Wow.
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both Niall and Colin—who as a wily old tower conductor would have caught on to Niall’s nefarious plan—shouted: Keep going!
What if I’d just said no?
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Heehee. What indeed!
Lots of applause and "woohoo-ing" and so on.
Wholehearted admiration.
--Oh, and WHAT is this about an email novel?!
On a side note: Robin, and all the rest of you who have CFS/ME/other horrible nasty unfair miserable unhappy things of a similar ilk/etc... if that is anything close to how these past few days have been, with bouts of ickyness, but mostly just being utterly drained and exhausted, and generally wretched- then I must say I have even greater respect for you than before. Serves me right, I suppose. Last week, my leg hurt but I didn't feel anything like this. "I can't possibly have lyme- not really. I don't feel bad enough!"
How stupid am I. Honestly, now.
I feel quite bad enough now, thank you very much.
And it mostly isn't so terrible for too long. I can't imagine how it must be when it is (if that makes sense).
Don't get concerned now, guys, though I do appreciate it. I am okay. I'm taking the doxycycline and everything. This morning was no fun, though and yesterday was just plain bad.
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| Re: bells and whistles [message #22695 is a reply to message #22683 ] |
Fri, 06 November 2009 00:42 |
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Diane in MN
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A friend's daughter had pet rats for a while when she was 8 or 9 and not too thrilled about big dogs. At least one of them was a Dumbo--you guessed it, big ears, which added an extra little cute bonus. They didn't get to run around loose, though.
I’m not sure the hellhounds would be quite such suckers for having their wrists licked however.
I suspect the hellhounds would have said "HA! VERMIN!" and been on them like the proverbial bad suit.
What I don’t know—and I don’t know if I want to know—is if Niall is perennially poised, ready to keep making more calls
This is a dedicated man, yes? What's your best guess?
Dogs learn what they want to learn with breathtaking speed.
Oh gosh, don't they? Especially if it's something you'd just as soon they didn't learn or come to consider as part of Unalterable Routine. They are so good at training us--and we, poor saps, think we're in charge of the curriculum just because we can hold the lead.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: bells and whistles [message #22705 is a reply to message #22702 ] |
Fri, 06 November 2009 13:45 |
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Cecelia
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Julia-
I got her for precisely that reason - I was out on my own, and I had the tiniest apartment imaginable, but I wanted a pet. My brother had one when we were kids, so I knew they were fun and intelligent. And actually, part of the charm was that they don't live long. I'm in my 20s and I don't know what I'll be doing next year, much less in 15 or however long a dog would live. It was a very sound decision, too, because I've just had to move back in with my parents, and bringing anything bigger than a rat into the house would have upset the already delicate situation.
Anyway, best of luck with future pets!
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| Re: bells and whistles [message #22718 is a reply to message #22695 ] |
Fri, 06 November 2009 20:03 |
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Robin
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| Diane in MN wrote on Fri, 06 November 2009 00:42 |
A friend's daughter had pet rats for a while when she was 8 or 9 and not too thrilled about big dogs. At least one of them was a Dumbo--you guessed it, big ears, which added an extra little cute bonus. They didn't get to run around loose, though.
********* Yes. Penelope told me there were 'dumbos' and I thought she was JOKING. Ginger-streaked albino Hooded Rats are quite enough really.
I’m not sure the hellhounds would be quite such suckers for having their wrists licked however.
I suspect the hellhounds would have said "HA! VERMIN!" and been on them like the proverbial bad suit.
********** Yes. I suspect this is one of those things they have to learn from infancy . . . and you STILL don't want to leave them unsupervised.
What I don’t know—and I don’t know if I want to know—is if Niall is perennially poised, ready to keep making more calls
This is a dedicated man, yes? What's your best guess? :)
************ 'Dedicated'? You mean 'obsessive nutso'? Well . . . :)
Dogs learn what they want to learn with breathtaking speed.
Oh gosh, don't they? Especially if it's something you'd just as soon they didn't learn or come to consider as part of Unalterable Routine. They are so good at training us--and we, poor saps, think we're in charge of the curriculum just because we can hold the lead.
************* Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. See today about sofa time. . . .
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| Re: bells and whistles [message #22730 is a reply to message #22694 ] |
Fri, 06 November 2009 21:35 |
sixpence
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Diane: Not only should you be careful about direct sunlight - reflected off of pavement can be as bad. Once when I was being dosed with a sensitizer, I got fried walking across a parking lot - with a HUGE hat on!
sixpence
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| Re: bells and whistles [message #22734 is a reply to message #22728 ] |
Fri, 06 November 2009 21:52 |
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| Julia wrote on Fri, 06 November 2009 20:43 |
Somehow I knew that was coming... :)
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She could put a ferret in a harness and leash and take him on hurtles across the countryside, too. (And if he gets too tuckered out, carrying a sleeping 3lb ferret isn't exactly burdensome.)
*enables just a little* ;)
Smooshes!
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| Re: bells and whistles [message #22758 is a reply to message #22747 ] |
Sat, 07 November 2009 08:20 |
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Black Bear
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Diane--frogblog is on the way!
re: the non-meat-eating fish, I suspect that yes, what they're trying to prevent is kids having tanks of piranha or oscars in their rooms. They're pretty popular fish on college campuses because they're large (therefore exciting) and have a certain gross-out factor since they eat live food. My suspicion is that the issue is not the fish themselves, but the inevitable consequences of keeping the food itself in the dorm. Crickets are escape artists, for one, and having an infestation of crickets in a dorm building is NOT something a college wants to deal with. I'm sure that small carnivorous fish (like, say, tetras--which are cousins to piranha) aren't an issue, because they eat flakes and frozen stuff...
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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