From the field office at Ma's:
oopsie...put up my Friday 8-ball answers and didn't post my questions here. :D Just realised that a little while ago. Here they be:
What's the chances of getting out of some of this snow?
Outlook not so good
eep. Is it gonna be a lot?
Better not tell you now
Are we gonna be up to our asses in freezing white crap all week?
You may rely on it
When I get home, is there gonna be some jackoff parked in my space?
It is decidedly so
Actually, the snow will be good. They say if we don't get a whole bunch of snow or a whole shitload of rain in the spring, there'll be a drought this year.
One interesting thing I found out: Having multiple Yahoo profiles is not always a good idea. I discovered this when I created an alternate profile that people couldn't trace back to my grey_nereid ID [which they never can, really, as far as I know] and found that when I used that ID, people had a tendency to use the ignore feature on me quite a bit more than when I used my regular ID. Some of them were the same people who were perfectly happy to chat with me when I was Frida, but for some reason hated my guts when I was Entwife. I came to the conclusion, after close analysis of my chatroom behaviour, that being too anonymous can give one excessive license to be obnoxious. [Also, it hadn't occurred to me that if someone iggies you while you're under one ID, and you re-enter the room later under another one, you may still be iggied--and your cover blown--for the same reason that you can have only one of a person's ID's on your friends list and they can still IM you on any ID they want to use. Will have to make a note to test this. hm.....]
Other than that, everything's right as rain. Or snow. Or whatever that crap is that's supposed to fall out of the sky.
same bitch time, same bitch channel...
Purchase of the day: Wood filler.
Posted by Frida Peeple at January 24, 2004 07:29 PMJust an entry for the 'Why would I want to know THAT?' department:
In days of yore on ships with cannons, they had a hell of a time keeping the cannon balls from rolling around. So they made a brass plate called a monkey that had divots in it to hold the stack of cannon balls stationary.
Segue to metalurgical lesson...
Brass contracts at a faster rate than iron when subjected to extreme cold. So when it got really cold out, the iron cannon balls would pop off the brass monkey.
So, now you know...
Posted by: MtnWolf at January 26, 2004 06:08 AM