I built up my power and went over to Wal-mart to spend my $100 they gave me. At least I tried.
I strolled the aisles and filled my cart -- I wanted to spend the whole thing in one trip so I'd never have to go back again.
She rang up $117. and I handed her the gift card & had a twenty ready.
The gift card wouldn't go through.
The cashier called a manager over. We all stood around and looked at it. They talked to someone on the Wal-mart phone.
There was no money on the gift card.
I left.
Life is strange.
Folks,
In flying, there's a condition called a stall where the airflow over the wings is so fragmented that the aircraft can no longer achieve lift.
In this situation, the aircraft will first yaw and if left uncorrected, will roll on its side and result very quickly in an autorotation, which is basically a spinning dive to the ground.
Methinks the Liberal Party is this morning somewhere between a late yaw and the start of a spinning dive. Just goes to show how shallow their talent pool is... and if Abbott does get the numbers next week, can you imagine HIM being the alternative PM of Australia? We're scraping up rotting road-kill here.
Ninja
Alls I gots to bring to Thanksgiving are pumpkin bread and cranberry sauce and they're just now done - so I have some time to loaf around till we hit the trough at three. Wanted to say you guys are the best and thank you for being my hoodies!
This seemed appropriate to the occasion. It's awesome regardless.
My apologies to whichever of you peeps posted this on Faceboob recently - I can't for the life of me remember who it was cuz I'm brain-decrepit like that.
Folks,
Been noticing a drop in my level of enthusiasm for flying lately... and it's because I can't find the time to get up there or the school hasn't got a slot for me. It's always one barrier or another that gets in the way.
But I have to keep watching this fella in the clip and I guess if he can persevere building his RV4 for a decade, I can wait a bit longer to earn my licence.
Ninja
I'm not sure I'll get to making all of it, but I am set for the following menu for Thanksgiving.
There are a couple of extra chairs at the table if you're interested!
Now I'd better get prepping because so far all I've made is the cranberry sauce.
Thanksgiving 2009
Deviled eggs
Variety of cheeses with French bread
Corn Lemongrass Soup with crab and mussels
Arugula Fennel Mint Prosciutto Pomegranate Salad
Turkey – brined and deep fried
Cranberry sauce – with ginger and Cointreau
Traditional Stuffing with pancetta
Mashed new potatoes with skins on, and mascarpone and chives
Gravy -
Pearl onions roasted with a port reduction and bay
Green beans sauteed with wildrice, mushrooms, bell peppers and pinenuts
Crème Brule
Pumpkin pie with whipped creme
There's much to be grateful for and I try to remind myself of that every day.
Some days I forget.
But I'm glad there's one day of the year when we in the United States are invited to take stock of the abundance in our lives. I hope each of you are with people who are grateful for YOU this year and who express it.
Happy Thanksgiving!
~
I love tourists ... really I do because they help my local economy but..
- please stand to the right on the metro (train) escalators so that we locals, with things to do, can walk past on the left. There is even a sign asking you.
- and when you get to the top, or bottom, of the escalator please do not just stop there while you figure out where to go next. There are 50 people about to trip up behind you.
- Oh - and if a machine has a diagram of how a ticket should be inserted they really want you to insert your ticket that way!
I think someone needs a drink .......
I wish all Americans a Happy & Safe Thanksgiving - even the tourists!
The
following was developed as a mental age
assessment
by
the School of
Psychiatry at
Harvard University
..
Take
your time and see if you can read each line
aloud without a mistake.
The
average person over 40 years of age cannot do
it!
1.
This is this cat.
2.
This is is cat.
3.
This is how cat.
4.
This is to cat.
5.
This is keep cat.
6.
This is an cat.
7.
This is old cat.
8.
This is fart cat.
9.
This is busy cat.
10
This is for cat.
11
This is forty cat.
12
This is seconds cat.
Now
go back and read the third
word in each
line from
the top down.
I
betcha' cannot resist passing it
on.
...I would invite every one of my handsome, adorable, clever neighbors to my apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
If I could, I would expand my list of invitees, like a sparkling balloon, to include parents, children and all manner of pets. How I would love to be introduced to them all.
If I could, I would alter the design of my dinner table into something Dr. Seuss or Lewis Carroll might design - curving into space, higher and higher - until it had lengthened sufficiently so that every one of you could find a place.
If I could, I would alter the space continuum so that my kitchen would be BIG ENOUGH to accommodate the positively epic, Edwardian dinner I would plan for you.
If I could, I would alter the time continuum so that my far-flung precious ones would be able to find their way to the Aubrey domicile with ease and economy. And yet still be able to travel first-class.
If I could, I would place a glass of flower-like, art nouveau proportions at each place setting. It would be full of champagne, and glittering at the bottom would be either a diamond bracelet, or a brace of diamond cufflinks. They are for you.
If I could, I would arrange the champagne toasts thusly: they would not be to your hostess, to your family, or to your loved ones. You would not toast this innocent North American holiday. You would, instead, toast yourselves.
Because words fail me.
Happy Thanksgiving, all.
... except for the vegetarians out there. To you, Happy Tofurkey Day.
