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Then it was Tuesday...
Oct. 28th, 2008 05:49 pmMy social security number, as well as other serial numbers, resides at least partly in my spatial memory, I've realized. I think of the digits as having the same spatial relationships that they do on a standard number pad. I don't really remember the sequence as a series of moves, but rather as a series of shapes (lines, ells, or triangles) that occur in order, with vertices that must be completed in order.
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News of the Beloved Leader. I'd never actually thought of him as the King of the Commies, but yeah...
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One of the neighbors seems to have managed to drop an entertainment centre from the third floor walkway. I'm guessing he must have balanced it on the railing trying to get a better grip. It's a tad on the destroyed side.
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I think Flaster's a bit under the weather. He's been sleeping a lot in warm places. Right now he's burrowed into in my comforter. He cleaned up his plate, though, and seems pretty normal apart from sleeping a lot, so I don't think he's too badly off.
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Wendy's (a local fast food place) is running this series of bizarre, desperate-looking commercials where they try to depict their food as some sort of artisan product. The milkshakes are "hand spun" (somebody holds the cup in his hand under the milkshake machine instead of setting it on the platform) and the barbecued chicken sandwich is "hand dipped" (a generic chicken patty is plunged with tongs into some sort of glutinous transparent red sauce which looks like nothing so much as candy apple coating). The food is actually pretty good (except that red sauce - it looks like corn syrup and food colouring), but the commercials offend me so badly that I don't want to eat there anymore.
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My first attempt at giving to the Damnation Navy met with defeat. They've redesigned the drop boxes, so that instead of having this huge pull-out donation bin on the front, you now have to insert your stuff through a narrow slot. My box o' clothes wasn't going in there.
So, today after work, I made another trip. This resulted in my going in to shop, of course. I now have a matched set of four brandy snifters (0.69 ea) which ring like crystal, plus what appears to be a small goldfish bowl blown from fairly thick cranberry glass. That set me back $3, I imagine because it's cranberry glass, and people will buy it. I wanted it for the oddity value. I wonder what it was originally for?
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News of the Beloved Leader. I'd never actually thought of him as the King of the Commies, but yeah...
*****
One of the neighbors seems to have managed to drop an entertainment centre from the third floor walkway. I'm guessing he must have balanced it on the railing trying to get a better grip. It's a tad on the destroyed side.
*****
I think Flaster's a bit under the weather. He's been sleeping a lot in warm places. Right now he's burrowed into in my comforter. He cleaned up his plate, though, and seems pretty normal apart from sleeping a lot, so I don't think he's too badly off.
*****
Wendy's (a local fast food place) is running this series of bizarre, desperate-looking commercials where they try to depict their food as some sort of artisan product. The milkshakes are "hand spun" (somebody holds the cup in his hand under the milkshake machine instead of setting it on the platform) and the barbecued chicken sandwich is "hand dipped" (a generic chicken patty is plunged with tongs into some sort of glutinous transparent red sauce which looks like nothing so much as candy apple coating). The food is actually pretty good (except that red sauce - it looks like corn syrup and food colouring), but the commercials offend me so badly that I don't want to eat there anymore.
*****
My first attempt at giving to the Damnation Navy met with defeat. They've redesigned the drop boxes, so that instead of having this huge pull-out donation bin on the front, you now have to insert your stuff through a narrow slot. My box o' clothes wasn't going in there.
So, today after work, I made another trip. This resulted in my going in to shop, of course. I now have a matched set of four brandy snifters (0.69 ea) which ring like crystal, plus what appears to be a small goldfish bowl blown from fairly thick cranberry glass. That set me back $3, I imagine because it's cranberry glass, and people will buy it. I wanted it for the oddity value. I wonder what it was originally for?
