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Journal SolemnDragon's Journal: It just isn't a date without ash floating on the wind... 19

Journal by SolemnDragon

Good idea: Bringing flowers for your date.

Better idea: Bringing your date a sharpening stone- with holder- for her knife collection, instead of flowers.

Good idea: ignoring the mess made by your date who had a muscle spasm and threw quinoa/corn pasta all over the kitchen floor by accident.

Better idea: Convincing her that it a.) was the pasta's own fault, b.) something that doesn't affect your opinion of her, and c.) should be cleaned up by you while she rests so that the muscle spasms stop some.

Good idea: Meeting your date's friends.

Better idea: Getting your date's friends cell number so that when you're wandering around to find them at the area you'll be watching fireworks from, you'll be able to just call the group and ask where they are.

Good idea: Get an idea where you're going to be.

Better idea: Surreptitiously pack a map so that when the dragon gets lost, you can offer one.

Good idea: Get the dragon to eat dinner before leaving for fireworks.

Better idea: AND bring a cooler, and also offer her the local peasantry just in case.

Good idea: fireworks.

Better idea: fireworks up close to the river, so close that we can watch our neighbours get burnt by ashes and falling debris that's still alight.

Good idea: people-watching.

Better idea: people watching... with a lighter.

Good idea: making sure that your date has room to sit next to you.

Better idea: Making sure that your date has room to sit next to her best friend AND yourself, with room left over in case the crowd starts getting to her.

The fireworks were great fun. And beautiful. And it was a good adventure. tiring, but good. i left my cane at home along with the chair. Thanks to careful planning, i didn't need them.

This week i'm having a terrible time with fatigue & restless limb problems, but am otherwise well from the weekend. How was yours???

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  • well, it could have been better. Saturday was nice. Very warm. just kinda hung around the house... but we went up to our favorite ice cream joint in Churchville (Artic Circle) to get some... well, some ice cream. People watched for a spell. Let me tell you, what is with this whole dress-like-a-10-dollar-street-walker for some of these teenage girls. gawd, its, well... I'm *not* getting too old... but its just stupid. Seriously... show some fucking respect for yourself and other for fuck's sake.

    I weep for t
    • I've been meaning to ask you for some good, basic vegetarian recipes. I can't cook for anything, and i'm kind of at a loss what to eat any more. I grew up on meat & potatoes. After going vegetarian (grain-based) now i can't eat most of the grains, so i went back to meat and potatoes- only... now i can't do the meat, either. So i'm looking for ideas what the hell to do instead. No wheat oats barley rye &ct. Corn, quinoa, rice are allowed.

      I'd appreciate ANY help i can get. For example, what did you d
      • hmmm, how are you with mushroom-based foods? Quorn [quorn.us] makes some great meat-substitute products based on mushrooms. They are all very good. If you do some googling I'm sure you'll come across the fanatics of the CSPI. read this [foxnews.com] first and then judge Quorn products.

        How are you with soy products? Morningstar Farms and Boca (the two biggest players) both make some good soy based products.

        We aren't these wacko stupid freaks who, because we are vegetarian, think that eating meat-substitutes isn't being vegetarian.
    • Let me tell you, what is with this whole dress-like-a-10-dollar-street-walker for some of these teenage girls. gawd, its, well... I'm *not* getting too old... but its just stupid. Seriously... show some fucking respect for yourself and other for fuck's sake.

      Teenage girls aren't too bad...I mean, it's part of their growing up I guess to go over the line of decency just to learn where the line is. Much like their liberal use of perfume, insanely over the top at times. I wish the U.S had an equivalent of the

      • I agree with the general sentiment that teen and PRE-teen girls are dressing WAY too slutty these days. But here's a thought -- have y'all tried shopping for clothes for [little] girls lately?! It's ALL $10 hooker shit.

        Go to Target at look at the stuff they have in the little girls' section -- I kid you not. It's all like cleavage-revealing and bare-midriff and skin-hugging pants, in these garish "look at me!!" colors... And the shoes ALL have high heels on them. Even for frigging toddlers, for chrissakes!
        • Go to Target at look at the stuff they have in the little girls' section -- I kid you not. It's all like cleavage-revealing and bare-midriff and skin-hugging pants, in these garish "look at me!!" colors... And the shoes ALL have high heels on them. Even for frigging toddlers, for chrissakes!!

          A friend went shopping for their toddler (12 months at the time) and at the store they saw a shirt that had the text "I'm too sexy for my diaper". Uhm, what? Can you repeat that? I thought you said a shirt for a child

          • The "I'm too sexy" thing is a joke. A couple of years ago in the US[1], this song came out called "I'm too sexy." The guy basicly just kept repeating "I'm to sexy for [insert item here]." Where several items were used--I can't remember, I think shirt was one of them.

            It became this big funny fad to say "I'm to sexy for [whatever you are holding/looking at/wearing]." It wasn't anything about sex, just a joke...

            [1] Maybe other countries too. I don't know. I think the guy who sung the thing was Austrailian.

  • busy (Score:2)

    by trmj ( 579410 )
    Saturday: Woke up at 7AM (after a whopping 3 hours of sleep) to go and work at one of the local festival places. I run a duck pond and sell those elastic yoyo ball things. When it gets dark, I wander around the grounds selling the light up LED flashing things that are annoying as hell but sell better than anything else we have.

    Finished that at 11PM. Went "home" (friend's house while his family is in Canada), slept.

    Sunday: Got to sleep in until around 11AM, which was nice. Dealing with a lot of people

  • My weekend? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by daniil ( 775990 )
    It was the best in...ages, thank you very much. I spent three days (Friday to Sunday) exploring another city (exploration is something i love), two of them hanging out with a good friend of mine (whom i, regretfully, hardly see these days). She knew the place better than i did, so she showed me around the old town etc. We just walked around and talked for hours, occasionally resting our feet in some cafe.

    On Saturday, i took part in a semi-spontaneous parade. Me and some seven thousand other people marched

  • as for my weekend, well, read the JE. ;-)
  • Had BBQ on the 4th, wife made me clean up my side of the room. I straightened out my piles of books that have long since overflowed the bookshelves.

    I came into work yesterday to pre-makeup some days I'm taking off at the end of the month. Blackhat and Defcon. WOoo!
  • oh, wait, this isn't a good evil & wicked JE is it?

  • Oho! (Score:2)

    by Tomble ( 579119 )
    A certain somebody had a date? And a rather good one by the sounds of it? Good for you :)

    No, this isn't a "let's get Sol married off!" * or an "OMG she got a date!! How did she manage that?!" **, just an "I'm glad you had a good time". I can say that, can't I??

    (*- I read about the gargantuan list of proposals you've received!)

    (**- not least because this would make me a massive hyprocrite; apart from that, I trust you realise you must be one of the most sought-after ladies around here...)

    My weekend? Eh

    • you can say that. I am not particularly sought after- mostly i hide under piles of sparkly pebbles, so nobody asks me out. But yes, i got to go on a date, and he did send me a whetstone instead of flowers, and it was fun. now he's 1600 miles away again. I'm considering flying out around labour day here in the states, two months away. That's a good interval for a second date, isn't it? I figure two months is just about long enough for them to forget about my throwing macaroni everywhere

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