Kangaroo Days
Dec. 14th, 2006 05:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonI saw this huge fire on the way to work. I'm relieved that no one lived there. I've been vaguely horrified ever since I saw this, imagining people or pets trapped inside, or people losing all their stuff.
The entire apartment block was in flames, with the middle of the roof collapsed, and a column of flame and brightly-lit smoke visible several miles away (it's on a hill). There was still a parade of fire engines arriving when I saw it, about 10:40 or so.
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Jim and Tammy-Faye Bakker's kid turned out to be surprisingly emotionally stable and decent-minded. I'd have expected a Satanist or Anarchist, given the household he grew up in.
He turned out a great deal better than I would have done, that's for certain.
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So, the guy playing Radames in "Aida" got booed off the stage. Being a thorough glutton for disgrace, he's going for the gold by trying to sue the opera house for letting him be booed.
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Regarding ill-behaved students: One of my cow-orkers averrs that when he was in high school, the principal actually had his mother's number on speed dial.
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A company is selling Humping Dog USB drives.
Meanwhile, a charity is collecting USB drives for Africa.
Two great ideas that go great together.
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Road Kill for Christmas.
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Saturday I bought this big carton of frozen hamburger patties, and since then I've had cheeseburgers for every meal. Sometimes I do like that, and just go on a tear eating one food until I get tired of it.
So, tonight when I got to work, a cow-orker offered me a spare cheeseburger that he'd bought but didn't eat. My cheeseburger karma is high.
You get a lot of free food here. Some of the guys will hit the drive-throughs just before they close, and they'll often give you everything they have under the warmers for a couple dollars, to keep from having to toss it.
The entire apartment block was in flames, with the middle of the roof collapsed, and a column of flame and brightly-lit smoke visible several miles away (it's on a hill). There was still a parade of fire engines arriving when I saw it, about 10:40 or so.
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Jim and Tammy-Faye Bakker's kid turned out to be surprisingly emotionally stable and decent-minded. I'd have expected a Satanist or Anarchist, given the household he grew up in.
He turned out a great deal better than I would have done, that's for certain.
*****
So, the guy playing Radames in "Aida" got booed off the stage. Being a thorough glutton for disgrace, he's going for the gold by trying to sue the opera house for letting him be booed.
*****
Regarding ill-behaved students: One of my cow-orkers averrs that when he was in high school, the principal actually had his mother's number on speed dial.
*****
A company is selling Humping Dog USB drives.
Meanwhile, a charity is collecting USB drives for Africa.
Two great ideas that go great together.
*****
Road Kill for Christmas.
*****
Saturday I bought this big carton of frozen hamburger patties, and since then I've had cheeseburgers for every meal. Sometimes I do like that, and just go on a tear eating one food until I get tired of it.
So, tonight when I got to work, a cow-orker offered me a spare cheeseburger that he'd bought but didn't eat. My cheeseburger karma is high.
You get a lot of free food here. Some of the guys will hit the drive-throughs just before they close, and they'll often give you everything they have under the warmers for a couple dollars, to keep from having to toss it.
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Date: 2006-12-14 12:37 pm (UTC)More proof that Japan is superior. *nodnodnod*
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Date: 2006-12-15 08:13 pm (UTC)* I suspect that they do, actually...
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Date: 2006-12-15 10:46 pm (UTC)