Queen Prawn

My day is making me nervous - it has been so quiet in the office (people and phonewise). I am waiting for the barrage of calls to start any time now. I could use a day like this tomorrow when I will be getting here 1.5 hrs late and likely leaving early.

After much procrastination, I borrowed the first three books from my mom. I am now mid way through the third. At first, I liked it, but couldn't understand the obsession. Now while on book three, I understand it and am hooked. I know as soon as I am done with #3 I am heading over the rest that she has. My brother bought her the newest one for her birthday which I will borrow as soon as she is done with it. Anyone else read these? What were your thoughts on the series? Has anyone seen the movie(s) - not sure how many of the books have been made into movies? I plan on renting one over the weekend.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 01:09 PM) The other side of that token of course is that while gas prices are high over there...it's due to taxes. So the governments over there have their people pay higher gas prices, but on the other hand, if they have a constant amount of revenue they need to bring in...they get the money back in those gas prices through lower taxes on other items. Would you pay $4 a gallon in gas prices if the extra dollar meant that you'd get a smaller property tax bill by the same amount? My dad talks about that as well.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 14, 2005 -> 10:56 PM) You should check out my '71 Chevelle. It'll stop your heart with the simple tap of the gas, gotta love that 454 big block. Small block and big block Fords have a great throaty sound as well. I would like to get a hybrid for my next car (hopefully 4-5 years in the future), but I hope the batteries for these types of cars inprove in reliability and go down in cost (not sure where it is now, but some of those were high priced the last time I looked).

My sister and I were talking about that Saturday morning while gassing up my dad's car. Neither of us mention gas prices to him or else we hear about the price of gas in Ireland and Europe in general.

We are planning on adopting a dog after the wedding. Oh and Molly is so cute!

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 11:04 AM) I also had what seemed to be a lifetime supply of that grey putty like stuff that you would squish out over the Sunday comics and when you lifted it the comic would transfer to it. It came in egg like containers. Silly Putty! Pick up sticks is a blast. I also like the "old-fashioned" metal slinkies.

Lite Brite! My mom bought me one fore Christmas a few years ago - sort of as a gag gift. It's still at my parents' house though unless they are holding it for my nephew.

QUOTE(winodj @ Aug 14, 2005 -> 04:45 PM) For that matter why isn't Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi High out on DVD either? Brian and I saw a commercial for the "new" Degrassi and were talking about the characters from back in the day. Spike, Shane and a couple others. I think I would even pick that show up and the only DVD sets we have are Family Guy and I forgot the other one.

How do you think they will wait before calling it (which would suck considering)?

Defintely won't be able to now - my car just ate $600.

$600 f***ing dollars that was supposed to pay for something else. And my f***ing car won't be ready until Tuesday at the earliest.

Yesterday night was a night I do not want to repeat. My alt died right before I got on the expressway and managed to will my car into a parking lot out of harms way. I called AAA for a tow at about 5:45 and they said an hr. I looked at my passenger front and found a nail in the tire - wunderbar :rolly An hr passed and said it would be another hr and a half. Turns out they gave the driver the wrong suburb and the tow didn't get there until 9ish. Get to the dealership at 10:30 or so and the f***ing gates were closed so I called the Orland police to let them know I am leaving a car at the gates so it wouldn't get towed. My sister used my dad's car to take me to the ortho and then to stop at the dealership to see what the diagnosis was. The f***ers hadn't even put it on the lift. Whining about there was a line when they got there that morning :rolly . Well f***er, my car was there at 10PM yesterday well the f*** before any of these other f***ing POSs were in line. So my sister says I am better off to go home and wait to hear something so I am not wasting my day in the waiting room there. It's been over an hr and still no call (they said they would have it diagnosed within the hr). I had my f***ing car there a week ago - I realize that alts don't always give hints that they are dying, but it bothers me just the same.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 02:31 PM) hawk said 'tight butthole'....I'm disturbed LOL! Thanks for posting that - I needed a laugh.

Yeah, but I don't get bent outta shape about it. Maybe I am too blasé about things.

I started thinking about getting a ticket, but with my altenator taking a dump, no way I can spare the cash. If freaking figures - I had maintanence done less than a week ago and trouble. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Update I saw on yahoo: Cameron to have surgery, Beltran has concussion after collision August 12, 2005 NEW YORK (AP) -- Mike Cameron will need facial surgery and Carlos Beltran sustained a concussion after their frightening outfield collision, the New York Mets said Friday. Both players spent Thursday night in a San Diego hospital following their seventh-inning crash in the Mets' 2-1 loss to the Padres. Cameron and Beltran were going at full tilt for David Ross' sinking liner, and their heads hit as they made diving tries. Cameron broke his nose, had multiple fractures of both cheekbones and a slight concussion. The right fielder was placed on the 15-day disabled list, and Victor Diaz was recalled from Triple-A Norfolk for Friday night's game at Los Angeles. Beltran had a slight facial fracture. The center fielder most likely will not need surgery.

I am not sure why people are getting their shorts in a twist because some posters don't think she is this great writer. She seem decent at what she does, but considering it's her profession, I would hope she would be at least decent.

We have been stressing about Brian's new job for about 2 weeks now (he had received a counter offer and didn't know whether to stay or go). Well, he decided to stay. Loads of stress gone this morning. So I pull into work this morning and my electrical system has a hissy fit. I tested the battery with the DMM I have at work and either the altenator or the battery is going bad. I took it NTB just to make sure I could at least get home. Well, they said it was the altenator (which from what I reported to FI, he was guessing as well). Then he mentioned something about the tow on the car being out. I just had this f***ing thing into the shop Saturday for maintanence. Do those f***ers just stand there, scratch their balls and say it's okay, I mean do they really do the tests?! Okay, so I have put in an email to the service department letting them know what is going on and now I am scrambling trying to find out what the warranty I have covers. I know damn well they said altenator when I got it, but we all know how things fall off of warranties after some time goes by. If it isn't covered, it's gonna be between $500-600 that I had earmarked for something else. It's been a week from hell I tell ya.

Congrats!

LOL! Good column.

Freddy Mercury/Queen

Brian called me when he got home from work this morning to tell me about that. I read the article on yahoo and cringed. Get better Mike!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 10:28 AM) They don't raise rates THAT often. When we had it they did - we had the broadband and they were trying to force us to get digital. We were planning on it, but were waiting for the house remodeling to be finished.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 11:00 PM) Wide Open West aka WOW. It is a pretty new cable and internet company. I have WOW cabe internet but the cable tv blew so we got DirecTV in all the rooms. We went to wow from comcast. We've had it a year now (TV and internet). We have yet to lose service and no rate increases. When we had comcast, it went out weekly and the raised it what seemed about once a month.