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coffee~time
Hi :palmtree: [Image: 178416096_7ad6c0fa57_o.gif]

I dropped by last night [I'm the guest] too lazy to sign in Smile

How is the new job?
no more digging cheese puffs & hair pins out from the folds of fat women?
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the news from Mouse Town}

out in the front yard, on top of the dog's pillow was a very weak/sick mouse.
I was easily able to get it in a jar, it was so weak, it's eyes half shut and legs wobbling.
I am not sure if it will make it or what is wrong.
it looks like I feel when I am sick.
I gave it rescue remedy, offered it some sweet vitamin water and wheat berries.
It is hiding inside a small box inside a garbage can.
I hope it makes it.
at least it won't be victimized.
it is a good bet it was forced out by it's "tribe"
I saw that happen with the ones I caught.
they pushed the sick one out.

*hint instead of chasing them
if you corner one just put down something for them to hide in, they'll readily run into a bottle or a box for safety.
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:cook1: why can't they teflon coat the road of life? :cook2:

I am thinking too many thoughts .. me thinks {ha ha ha!

reality is that which will not go away even after you stop believing in it



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I wish I had some solvent to your problem, since I still get that too.

I think we both know that the problem is in your head, not what was in your stomach. Your thoughts are probably going way too fast and are way too serious to be able to to relax at night. When you're awake you don't have this problem because you have the visual stimulation of anything around you.

My theory is that you should find a solid reason to not worry. It has to be convincing though.
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it came on when I announced I had to kick charles out and move home
Until I know where the money is coming from } who will rent and for how much
there is so much to be done at both places
that alone is migrane material.

i was not happy there accept with the pool.
it is all impossible now, gas to heat it is too high$$$
I can't see how I am going to fit, all I see are things I will miss, like my kitchen sink and window, the short walk to the toilet.
If I dont wrestle those pipes together it will be cold ahs hell!
I can't stand the cold right now!
it will be much more money to be there per month.
I have so many reason sto have this knot in my gut
but there is no other way given the laws in that city
I will be hiding a dog as well.
if charles rents the small house 50% of the trouble is lifted.
than all I have to do here are a few things, other wise, the whole yard becomes an issue as do my cars in the driveway and the old doughboy is still standing..
He could relocate the koi
it makes great sense for him to be next door to his (s)mother since he won't cut the cord and it gets to tense when he lives in.
recall she had the cops throw him out in the night, last Feb?
it is funny, he was saying how I have known him since he came out of diapers. He used to walk by the apt and hit the ground with sticks, mad little fucker he was.
I thought "I wish I could fix that guy or he is gonnna be another Manson"
be careful what we wish for?

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Right.

Maybe you should keep yourself occupied on fixing the place up for a new renter. Clean up any messes, repair any missing trim. Keeping yourself idle, worrying about this isn't going to do you any good. Get Charles to help you out if that's an option.

First things first. Patch up that mouse hole :wink: The mouse circus might be fine for you, but I sincerely doubt it would be okay with anyone else. I would be skeeved out.
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everything in it's time.
first I have a trip to take.
2d Charles' parent;s house is where the mice are coming from.
He is a slob too, now he has brought mice to the big house.
I have tiger, but he is more destructive to the house than the mice.
My drawers and cabnets and counter tops and stove are Mouse Free
I am not going outside to do work and get sick before my trip.
there is plenty to do to ready the van and mostly rest for the trip.
If I am not aboe to sleep but a few hours a day, that has to be fixed or how in the hell will I make the trip?
Charles is the perfect one to move here.
He won't let me know for sure til the end of feb.
if he doesn't, then my head aches will be much bigger.
at the very least, the entire kitchen and laundry room must have new flooring.
The walls are panels, they need wood cleaner and the kitchen and laundry room, and all the doors need repainting.
the list is going to take months.
I have set a dead line to up the rent for June.
He will have to move or pay me more.
He said he'd rather move down here and pay for this house.
Now he has to commit to an amount I can live with.
otherwise, some time between march and april I have to begin having the work done. intending to have this place rentable by June.
I hope he is able to pay me at least 800 or I won't settle for less. I want $1,200
when I think of what they are paying for my old apt. w 2 doors up, it is now more than that!
Charles was at the burger depot when I caught him on his cell phone. (something else I have never been able to afford)
I had him get me a burger and shake, $11 can you believe it?
last time I was there $4.98 for a burger, fries and ice cream.
what i need is food on a reguilar basis. or I am not going to have the energy to do jack shit
and one more thing, I am not going to do the sslop work this time
I am getting too damn old to be shlepping around like Hazel!
the mess he will have left me makde two houses to clean!
No fucking wonder I can't sleep! :rage: there is just too much on my plate.
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there have been mice and rats in the creeks and back yards of this area for as long as I can remember.
Opossum, raccoon and skunk too.
not to mention squirrels and even hawks.
over the last few years there are ravens (or crows?)
big black ones the size of a house cat!

house cats are what we always kept.
as soon as one died the mice come in.
My cat was having trouble in her last years, she passed this Oct.
the mice moved in within the month.
I have not gotten another cat because
I am so glad not to have a damn cat box anymore!
Mice don't creep me out when they are locked up.
I used to walk the streest with a black and white rat on my shoulder.

it came in handy when the police pulled John over and greg took off running they were going to bust me too for the hell of it but when he saw two rats on my shoulder, he told me to go on to school . Confusedignrofl:
I got written up in Herb cain's column the first time, for having my rat at Oscar's diner.
I was on a local TV show with my rat RAZAMATAZ
I have to let these go before they make more.
when I leave for LA they will be relocated, cage, wheel and all
I'd love to set up a camera and see if they return to play in the wheel :giggle:

you know what else?
I think they are learning.
they have stopped shitting in their food and water.
their diet has made the smell waaaay less.
they sit up and wahs their faces and hands, groom each other.
and three of them seem to be a unit. [maybe the three I caught all at once]
the one that was outside yesterday, a male, he died.
He was sick, maybe poisoned.

A few doors down some one has bird seed all over the ground 24/7
I blame them for the population boom.

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it is freezing here! Npalmtree, did you get your snow yet?
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I have to be honest. I love the snow and cold weather. It's been nice over today. 55°F. Maybe a little dreary with the drizzle, but that doesn't bother me.
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I'm glad some of you are willing to live where it is cold or it would be way more crowded here.
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~News From Mouse Town~

the mice have entered a relocation program.

they are out in the garage but they are still inside the aquarium.

I put the aquarium inside the old bird cage.
It will keep them safe but not contifined.
for now, the lid is still on Mouse Town.

I will watch them thru the window, see what happens.
Ideally, they could remain or,
if they choose to leave they have to deal with predators again.

My fear is without any birth control they'll start to multiply.
the tiny babies will easily squeeze thru the wire of the bird's cage
& get out into the world of cats and predatory birds.

I have grown fond of the ones who spent their xmas and new years with us.
But I don't want to turn them loose in case they come back in and I have to recapture them.
I am thinking to wait before taking the top off their tank,
maybe they'll get a bit fatter & they won't be able to get out of the bird's cage?

I can't think of any place they can be let out.
They like grain, they should be in a barn somewhere.
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Well, it's windy and in the middle 20's here right now. Great fireplace weather! If I didn't get home so late, I would have put a fire on.
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I miss the mice. I have to go outside to see them now, peek thru the window of the garage.
They were not coming out of their box and after dark it got too cold for me.
I hope they are alright.
I will go out to check them soon.

I just heard that lighting a fire actually draws heat from other parts of the house.
it was done on mythbusters I think, they monitored the rooms and found the fire sucks the hot air up the chimney!

in the bar I had an aparatus in the fireplace that was a series of black tubes and a blower.
The air gets sucked thru the tubes, heated and shot back into the room.

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it is about 8:30 pm now.
I can hear the train, must be too quite in here.

I miss the mice, I do!
I went out to see them at dawn and only saw one
later I went in the garage and found RAT TURDS!
there were RATS in there STARING at my Mice!
I have the door open, encouraged the cat to go in.
Mice should be safe.
the aquarium is inside the parrot cage and from the looks of it, the rats didin't go in, probably they are too big to fit thru the bars.
I put rocks on the cage too.
It will take something big to knock them over.
I feel tempted to bring them back inside.
:mouseinwheel: was fun to watch
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[spoiler] did we ever make this work right?[/spoiler]

what is an "authentic" Irish pub? how is it distinct?

If I had a hang out to drink at that wouldn't be a good thing.

Fortunately, while I was going to bars I was a non drinker.
I'd have coffee and shoot pool.

Hard booze is a [raggety high[/i] but guinness is different, even different than beer.
still, 3 is about all I can consume without toxic over load.

if weed puts you to sleep it is probably old.
It breaks down [chemically] from THC {psychadellic
into CBN and CBC {sedative
like an apple, it continues to mature after it is plucked from the tree.

I got cured of the munchies years ago.
in 1969 Eda and I split a ki of panama red.
I had never been so high in my life!
I ate and ate until I was so stuffed all I could do was lay on the floor.
I took 2 alka-seltzer and felt so much better .. I ate More!
I was rolling on the floor in agony, belly so full, it felt like it could burst!
To this day I have not had the urge to eat after getting high.


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hah!

Well, the Irish pub isn't authentic since it's not in Ireland, the owner was trying to mimic one, by the appearance and function. Dark wood on the outside and interior. A fireplace in the middle of the room. The main thing is that there are distinctively 2 halves. One side is for adults only (the bar), and the other half is the restaurant, which is all ages. That concept has been used in a lot of chain restaurants like Bennagans, or TGI Friday's, but the bar is hardly separate from the the rest of the patrons.

I'll tell ya, after working this week, I could sure go for a Guinness right now!
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Frankybonz Wrote:hah!

Well, the Irish pub isn't authentic since it's not in Ireland, the owner was trying to mimic one, by the appearance and function. Dark wood on the outside and interior. A fireplace in the middle of the room. The main thing is that there are distinctively 2 halves. One side is for adults only (the bar), and the other half is the restaurant, which is all ages. That concept has been used in a lot of chain restaurants like Bennagans, or TGI Friday's, but the bar is hardly separate from the the rest of the patrons.

I'll tell ya, after working this week, I could sure go for a Guinness right now!

here ya go :beer2:

is food sold at all Pubs?
I thought a Pub was strictly for drinking.

a fireplace in the middle of the room?!
can't it be off to one side?

Our bars had dark wood paneling, mine has the huge fireplace.
In the center is the dance floor.

The owner of the building my bar was in [his was underneath me] was 100% Irish.
He called his place Moore's Tavern

If I had known only known about Guinness :guinness:
Back then I was drinking San Miguel Dark.
The only imported beer the customers liked was Heiniken Lt. :ew:
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I didn't mean that the fireplace was dead center in the room, it's in a central location against one of the walls.

Yes, they serve food... "and the other half is the restaurant, which is all ages." <--you missed this.

The term "pub" is short for "public," meaning for everyone. I'm not sure what the specifics on drinking age are for the British Isles (while I know there's no law), but I'm sure you won't see a five year old drinking Harps, or something of the like.
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Frankybonz Wrote:I didn't mean that the fireplace was dead center in the room, it's in a central location against one of the walls.

so the thing that distinquishes it is having a fireplace .. somewhere?
Probably out of necessity for heat and not aesthetics?
There is a bar on Telegraph that has a circular fireplace in the center of the room.
Having it there changes the focus from the bar to the hearth, setting a much different tone.
Frankybonz Wrote:Yes, they serve food... "and the other half is the restaurant, which is all ages." <--you missed this.
not missed, just not mentioned.
It is the law here, "if there is food served, minors can be in the place."
I'm guessing that is another tradition born of necessity?
cheaper to drag the kids along than to get/hire a baby sitter?
Frankybonz Wrote:The term "pub" is short for "public," meaning for everyone. I'm not sure what the specifics on drinking age are for the British Isles (while I know there's no law), but I'm sure you won't see a five year old drinking Harps, or something of the like.

Pub means public? that explains it.

there is a house remodeled into and named The Pub.
It has a fireplace and feels like someone's living room.
They allow dogs but they don't serve food or allow minors.
It's a Beer/Wine/Coffee/Pipe & Tobacco Store.
The damned no smoking laws made them eliminate smoking accept for areas that are basically "outside".
I went there one night for a D.J. dance party and the smoking section was so over filled it was not fun at all!
Everyone was crowded into a small porch, even though there is no ceiling, the smoke was so thick, it was impossible not to breathe the other people's tobacco.
I smoke chemical free tobacco and for me, the other's smoke was nasty

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Annette Wrote:
Frankybonz Wrote:I didn't mean that the fireplace was dead center in the room, it's in a central location against one of the walls.

so the thing that distinquishes it is having a fireplace .. somewhere?

I don't know if that's the key, but as you mentioned, the living room aspect is certainly the way it should feel.

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Frankybonz Wrote:Yes, they serve food... "and the other half is the restaurant, which is all ages." <--you missed this.
not missed, just not mentioned.

You're wrong. I copied and pasted that from what I wrote 2 posts ago.

Frankybonz Wrote:The term "pub" is short for "public," meaning for everyone. I'm not sure what the specifics on drinking age are for the British Isles (while I know there's no law), but I'm sure you won't see a five year old drinking Harps, or something of the like.

Pub means public? that explains it.

Quote:The damned no smoking laws made them eliminate smoking accept for areas that are basically "outside".
I went there one night for a D.J. dance party and the smoking section was so over filled it was not fun at all!
Everyone was crowded into a small porch, even though there is no ceiling, the smoke was so thick, it was impossible not to breathe the other people's tobacco.
I smoke chemical free tobacco and for me, the other's smoke was nasty

I'm not a smoker, never was one. I used to go to this one club in NYC that was set up in a nice lounge sort of atmosphere. Smoking was aloud, but there were so few people doing it that it didn't bother me. As soon as 2 nearby clubs were closed, the club became overcrowded. I remember walking in there one night, and within 3 minutes my eyes were burning from all the cigarette smoke. So, for me, the smoking laws have been great!

I can't stand coming home smelling like ass just from walking past a cloud of lung skunk, and my throat hurting from breathing it in.

I'm sure what you smoke is far better. I told you about sitting next to my friend who was smoking a tobacco pipe. Didn't bother me one bit. In fact, the smell was pleasant.
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the fireplace being in the center of any room makes the focus be that.
It is not usual to take focus off the product, usuall the bar it's self is a focal point.

I didn't mention about the food, not because I didn't see your post,
it was not of any significance to me, is why I overlooked it.

I was trying to fit your image into my image and in mine, there is no eatery.
They don't want kids in there!
I had food at times but I didn't want them either.

Different bars have different 'products' .. ours was gay women.
We didn't specialize in food or booze, we were a "mousetrap{Bill's word for it
for beautiful gay women.
Not your pendelton shirt wearing dykes, but "lipstick Lesbians"

the places we wanted people to notice was not the fireplace it's self
but the 4 to 6 tables filled with girls that sat in front of it!
if things were going well, no one even noticed the fire was not real but gas flames.

The first view as you reach the top of the stairs was the bar stools and [of course] the gals sitting on them ..
then next was the dance floor which better be bumping and humping with hot bodies or no one wanted to pay the cover to come in!

Bill [Moore's Tavern] had food and he could let in kids but there never were any.
His focal point was a pool table, no fireplace.
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they are getting lazy about cleaning the air in clubs.
The Electric Banana had a machine to completely suck all the air out and replace it with clean air every so many minutes.
for a club that size, they hosted bands from Bill Graham, that took some muscle.

My place had all those windows and two big double doors that could provide cross draft.
The windows were there the reason I fought to keep that place from extinction.
The other bars were so smoke-filled it was visual in the room!

I smoked on an airplane ride to Hawaii back in the days when they used to clean the air in the cabins.
The last trip I took was on an Airbus {stale air bus!
this guy was snoring with his mouth open and I swear,
his humidity was hitting me!
I don't think they clean the air anymore At All.
Ya know what might be good? ban chemicals from tobacco
unless they are written on the packeage.
the list would be too long to fit!

I grew up when it was okay to smoke anywhere, even in hosptials.
Every now and then some one's stinky cigar would get "asked outside"
I miss smoking until someone lights one of their chem-filled ones :ew: :thud:

I'd like to outlaw buildings that don't have fresh air
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I've worked at 2 places so far that deserve a frequent visit from OSHA. I should have have them on speed dial by now.
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that doesn't sound good.
the first two places you liked, what happened?
they have not called back yet?
or is it the agency getting in the way?
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No, I'm talking about past jobs. Like the photography place, and the place that fired me. This new place is a little filthy with dust, but they have windows that open up, and the air vents aren't visibly unclean (at the photography place, the vents are black!).
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