“[Muffled, garbled Shapenote singing]”

azurelunatic

“Where have all the cowboys gone, long time passing
Where have all the cowboys gone, long time ago.
Where have all the cowboys gone? Turned to husbands every one.
When will they ever learn? Some people never learn.

Where have all the husbands gone, long time passing.
Where have all the husbands gone, long time ago.
Where have all the husbands gone? Turned to barflies every one.
When will they ever learn? Some people never learn.

Where have all the barflies gone, long time passing.
Where have all the barflies gone, long time ago.
Where have all the barflies gone? Sold their Chevies every one.
When will they ever learn? Some people never learn.

Where have all the Chevies gone, long time passing.
Where have all the Chevies gone, long time ago.
Where have all the Chevies gone? Sold for babies every one.
When will they ever learn? Some people never learn.

Where have all the babies gone, long time passing.
Where have all the babies gone, long time ago.
Where have all the babies gone? Grown to cowboys every one.
When will they ever learn? Some people never learn.”

azurelunatic

“I just got done with seeing Darkside, and I must say that the ideal getting together thing for us is hanging out at his place, first talking shop and then talking computers and then watching Mythbusters, which is exactly what we did.
I am a happy, happy, happy [multiple repeats] Lunatic. He ... um. I wasn't very much expecting the thing where he said, "And so why are you [incomprehensible]?" OK, bye-bye guys.”

azurelunatic

“In Life's Name, and for Life's Sake”

azurelunatic

“[Staticky rendition of Christine's part] Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you; Happy birthday, dear Shannon; Happy birthday to you!”

azurelunatic

“Hello, it's been one of those interesting days, with yard sales, realtors, people seeing the house, um, ... and all that sort of happy fun and utterly insane thing. I seem to have become at least assistant cook and bottle washer if not chief cook and bottle washer.

My dad discovered that the neighbors have got an interesting little set-up. They have a pipe stuck through a gap in the fencing from their side of the fence to our side of the fence. The pipe proceeds from their side of the fence onto the mostly empty half lot that's also part of the property. And the pipe is covered by bricks in a bit of a pit, and there are signs that stuff has been drained through the pipe onto the property here. When Guide Dog Cousin saw this set-up, his first thought was Neal Stephenson book Zodiac.

[giggles; those who know the book know why]

It's definitely something that needs attention paid to it of some sort of other. Dad was talking about putting a cap on the pipe or putting interesting, um, things in the pipe. Guide Dog Cousin was talking about rigging a funnel and a garden hose to make whatever it was that was being poured through the pipe return to sender. I think that's a capital plan.

In other news, Guide Dog Ant found in the cupboards, the bottoms of the cupboards that she was cleaning out, some very old canned fruit that have turned actually grey in the canning jars. And the thought was, that Guy Dog Cousin and I had pretty much simultaneously, was to use those fruits to put in the pipe before capping our end of it, *cackle* which would definitely be an interesting experience but probably not something that really, we really ought to do. *laughs*

I made lemonade. There's a lemon tree.

My friend Dawn is going to be coming to pick me up tomorrow morning to drag me out so we can spend time together, then tomorrow afternoon I'm going to be making my infamous pizza; there wasn't pizza today. We made something else because there wasn't enough time for pizza.

And then tomorrow evening I'm going to be packing up and getting ready to fly back home, because my flight leaves just after noon tomorrow, and what with traffic and security I'll have to leave pretty much first thing in the morning tomorrow, well, not tomorrow, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday.

So it will be a nice, a nice little vacation for me. Fortunately I got Thursday off work, so I can take Thursday to recover from vacation if need be, though at the moment it's been pretty low-stress.

Talk to you later, LJ!”

azurelunatic

“It's been a nice quiet morning, I'm going to be fixing pizza for supper and that will be fun. Guide Dog Aunt and I will be going shopping for pizza ingredients. We're probably going to go with pre-made crust, because I don't have the pizza crust recipe in my head, and Dad probably doesn't have access to his pizza crust recipe, which is the one I use.

The yard sale is not not quite as in full swing as it was yesterday. Aunt-Fayoumis found a few dishes from when we got back from Iowa together, so I now have a set of fine china, which is going to be interesting. I've never had a set of fine china before, it's probably going to live in a box.

That background noise there was Aunt-Fayoumis dinging this bell she found. It's a really cool bell. Ding it again! Closer to my phone so everyone can hear. Not that loud. [Aunt-Fayoumis: "It's still ringing."] Ding it again! [Aunt-Fayoumis: "It rings for a long time."]

DING!

*giggles*

I have a pretty great family! [yelling so relative mostly out of earshot can hear] I said, I have a pretty great family. That's what I said. [/yelling]

Yep, it's a great day. Nice and bright and not half as hot as Arizona.

Bye, guys!”

azurelunatic

“Thanks, John. That was a really nice way to start off my morning.
I think I'm just going to go back to sleep, you know, sleep in until the absolute chaos wakes me up.
He sent me a text message. The text message was a *giggle* lightsabre. *giggle* yaaay Star Wars.
*giggle*

It's going to be another day, guys.

Another insane, dusty, dirty, hopefully not argumentative day, hopefully without any black widows.”

azurelunatic

“Deprivation has started to set in. There is a humungous yard sale going on. Grandma needs medication.

Guide Dog Aunt has a poodle, um, Aunt-Fayoumis is around. Uncle-Fayoumis is not. Neither is Guide Dog Uncle. Uh. My Uncle Davy's oldest boy and his wife have been here.

Everything's [whistles] I'd say interesting? I'd say boring?
There's a lot of stuff getting moved around and a lot of assorted dust and grime and ... evidently there are black widow spiders around. And that that does not thrill me, quite understandably.

*sigh* I don't like spiders. I really don't like poisonous spiders very much either.

eh... that's life.

I expect that there will probably be five million messages in my in-box when I get back. The text message thing is open, should be open, who knows if I'm actually getting any. I haven't gotten any so far. Is that you guys or is that my end? I don't know.

nyerrr. ... Guide Dog Aunt is on one of her health food kicks again, which means no joy for anybody. *giggles* She does that. The magic word is Trader Joe's, though. I'd say you get things like jam. ... uhhhh

I feel like I'm camping and underpacked.

Talk to you guys later, hope to hear from some of you. I'm probably going to crash out for the night now. Goodnight, guys.”

azurelunatic

“I'm at Grandma's safe and sound. I got here a little too early this morning. I had only gotten about 1 hour of sleep due to everything combined.

I did get a nap.

Everything here is going well so far.

I have met the assorted grab bag of relatives, including the one I was wanting to avoid. Everything with that has gone well so far. So much for my not calling them by their title. I seem to be getting along with them and have not yet bashed them about the head with a nerf bat or anything like that.

Grandma is as well as can be expected. Seeing the aunts is a delight.

It's been a long day, and I only expect it to get longer. There is very bad signal at Grandma's, so the phone may be off. In that case, the answering machine is still around.

I will probably post somewhat later. It's been just an interesting day. I have a box with buttons and so on and so forth.

Talk to you later, guys.”

azurelunatic

“Already it's been very eventful, although not in an unresolvable way. I had sort of forgotten to actually print out or write down certain crucial things, like the terminal I was leaving from, the actual flight number, my confirmation code, and, you know, the time the flights were leaving, happy little things like that.

So when I got to figment0's house, I suddenly realized this, as I was checking the information to see what terminal he should drop me off at.

And we dashed inside. His very elderly compaq running windows 98, ISP ... AOL ... somehow, for some reason failed to connect to the internet, so I wound up calling the wonderful and talented amberfox, the wonderful talented and trustworthy Amberfox, who was able to log in to my e-mail and retrieve the pertinent information.

So I'm now hanging out at gate B1, terminal 4, Phoenix Sky Harbor airport *giggle* waiting for my flight to head off to LAX.

*sigh*

It's been a day, all right, but it's been really fun so far.

I think I had the best birthday ever today. Or yesterday. It's still today, I haven't really gone to sleep yet.

I did get a nap.

See you later, LJ.”

azurelunatic

“Hello, this is the Lunatic. I have been soo giggly tonight. I don't expect that half the people will be able to understand the post, just be-- [giggles] -- just because I'm so gi-- [giggles] see what I mean? [giggles]

Why, yes, I seem to be operating on some weird form of hormone high at the mo- [giggles] moment. [giggles]

Three guesses for what caused this, and the first two probably don't count, unless you're a new reader, in which case the answer is Darkside. [giggles]

And the only thing that I did was have a telephone conversation with him, and it was mostly rated, like, pg-13 or below, although there were a few r-rated moments, such as the chicken joke. [giggles] Oooookay, Loony giggly now. [giggles]

Ooo, happy Loony.

Anyway, yeah. See, giggly Loony. It's not all doom and gloom, it's [giggles] occasional moments of doom and gloom that are followed by giggly and [sine wave sound effect] and so forth.

Anyway, laterrrrr. [giggles]”

azurelunatic

“Ok,

Today's ummm (definition listing)? is on the phrase "Bitch, please." For the longest time I was under the impression that this was, you know, requesting a bitch, in the same way that you know that calling out "Check, please" is you know calling for a check in the restaurant. So you know, people are typing "Bitch, please" and i'm hearing "Bitch, please..." and imagine this accompanied by the hand of the person raising up in the air waving around trying to summon a waiter. I'd like one bitch not too smart... flaming... yes flaming. definately flaming. So, then I finally realized that most people were using it you know to actually address the bitch. "Bitch, please....I don't know what planet you're on but I know your not on the same planet with me and ummm why don't you just you know stay there and don't mess with me cause you a bitch and not my kind of bitch" and yet others have you know interpreteded it as a request for bitching "Bitch, please. Feel free." So yes...


"Bitch, Please"”

godai