Fie upon you, sir! :P At some point, I’ll introduce you to a dulcimer player. Then I’ll convert you into one!
Scrax
2803
Important phone (ugh) interview with a great company that I’m more than a little sick over, because if I don’t make it, I’ll have no more money by the end of the month.
Scrax
2804
My boyfriend and I were visiting Frederick, MD this past weekend. It was a beautiful warm day, but this small rain cloud was coming off of the mountain nearby. It was drizzling under the cloud when it passed us, then we looked up. Is that a rainbow?
In Unison: DOUBLE RAINBOW!
Me: WHAT DOES IT MEAAAAAAAN!
Him: ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKKKY!
Followed by a half hour of double rainbow quotes. We went to dinner, and heard a young women showing her mom a video of the Double Rainbow guy off of her phone, so we wern’t the only people who recognized it.
Frederick! Damn fine town. One of the best used bookstores I’ve ever been to is in Frederick — Wonder Book and Video. It’s in a strip mall and looks from the outside like it probably sells remainders and last year’s calendars, but I swear it’s as good as or better than Powell’s in Chicago, Blackwell’s in Oxford, etc. etc. And Catoctin State Park is nice too.
Scrax
2806
Really!? I was grumbling over the failure of bookstores in the historic downtown. Roanoke* had an amazing used bookstore, and I was hoping for something similar in Frederick. Of the three bookstores listed in the town directory 1. was a Christian bookstore, 2. was a historical bookstore, 3. was closed.
We saw the Wonder Book and Video on the outskirts of town, but we just figured it was a porn store.
- We are scouting out places to move.
Yep, you’d never know the kind of store it is from outside.
The first time I went there I scored several hardcover slim volumes by Christopher Logue, one of my favorite poets; the second time I bought a whole bunch of hardcover James Branch Cabell novels in the 20s editions I collect. They’ve also got engravings, National Geographics, cookbooks, regular sci-fi paperbacks and hardcovers — they’ve got shitty romance novels FFS. And their video selection the one time I looked at it included old pro wrestling TV broadcasts from the 60s!
My parents (who live in MD and discovered the store) sent me a newspaper clipping 1-2 years ago saying about how the owner had survived the economic downturn by moving massively into internet sales — he’s all over eBay etc. now. He’s the man; why he’s based in Frederick I don’t know, but there it is.
Sarkus
2808
I have a tiny but painful blister on my foot. Now I have to go kill some moles for their skin (so to speak) just to feel comfortable.
Raife
2810
A friend of mine is a private investigator, and she says it’s probably easier for her because people don’t generally get suspicious that an unknown woman is following them.
newbrof
2811
Dad’s Dad’s Dad! I can’t do anything about it, but this palindrome is haunting me…
All-nighter fail. Catching four hours of sleep and finishing this paper when I get home Sunday afternoon.
I’m a senior in college and I can’t pull an all-nighter during midterms? What is this shit? :P
we are getting to old for that shit. I didn’t make it through my all nighter either.
Raife
2814
What is this pansy shit? They don’t make kids like they used to.
But seriously now, don’t do this. Those Max Payne mousepads are a collector’s piece and they just soak up the adderall like you would not believe. Grind on a magazine.
Sarkus
2816
I bought some cherry pomegranate powdered drink mix yesterday. Mixing some up this afternoon has been an adventure. First, when I added the powder to my container of water it began foaming up and over the edge of the container. I tried pushing it down into the water, figuring if I could get it wet that would solve the problem, but it continued to foam and my fingers were immediately stained dark red. I finally put a lid on the container to contain the mess, but the stuff ended up in several places, including a big spot on my sweatshirt and jeans, both of which now have a big red stain on them. And my fingers are still tinted red even though I rinsed them off several times.
I wasn’t expecting a drink mix to have this powerful of a coloring agent in it.
Houngan
2817
Gorillas don’t have eight arms. Run!
mdowdle
2818
Relax. The non-existence of eight-armed gorillas has never been conclusively demonstrated. Have another scotch.
VSys114
2819
Skipping two meals then eating a big New York strip steak feels great.
Yeah my last attempt ended at 4AM, I then woke up to go to a midterm at 9AM and finished the lab report after that to be handed in by 5 PM.
