[hollywood]

Behemoth, on Dec 18 2005, 09:01 PM, said:

My back hurts so bad it's not even funny. I was hoping it would just be three more days of this but the morons at the moving company on this side screwed up our paperwork so badly it may be another three weeks on the floor once we are in Munich. I want a real f**&%$ing bed!

Sounds like you should hold off seeing Brokeback Mountain for a while.

[Maurice Naughton]

Behemoth, on Dec 17 2005, 03:01 AM, said:

My back hurts so bad it's not even funny. I was hoping it would just be three more days of this but the morons at the moving company on this side screwed up our paperwork so badly it may be another three weeks on the floor once we are in Munich. I want a real f**&%$ing bed!

I'm sorry to hear about your back.

In Munich, when you go to the Alte Pinakothek, would you jot down a description of each of the paintings and send the lot to me? I forgot some of them.

Thanks.

[Behemoth]

Maurice Naughton, on Dec 19 2005, 12:54 AM, said:

In Munich, when you go to the Alte Pinakothek, would you jot down a description of each of the paintings and send the lot to me?  I forgot some of them.

Thanks.

All of them? That might take a while. I'll do my best though


edit: Do you know about this? they have quite a bit online:

Tour of Alte Pinakothek

[rancho_gordo]

2 days of farmers markets. 2 days of rain.
In Marin, they charged us full price as if it were a sunny day in August. Most markets have winter rates and then give you half off or free if it rains, especially if it was torrential as it was yesterdays. There was even a tornado watch in Northern California and yet they insisted on charging us the full rate. Then after we paid, they suggested we close down early since there were no customers! I decided to be an asshole and said I'm getting my money's worth and I'm staying the whole day.



The wind flipped this guy's tent:



I think there is a culture of disdain for the growers/vendors/farmers that participate in the markets by the Marin Country Farmers Market Association. It's less and less a farmers market and more and more a street festival. The other growers were joking that I'd be replaced by some BS thing like Cindy Lou's Gourmet Peanut Brittle.

Reason to be cheerful: I am free of these people. Sundays are now my own!

Here's a VIDEO!

[Scorched Palate]

Ants in the kitchen. All over the kitchen.

Not annoying enough, you say?

OK:
Frustrated by my bug-proof pantry containters, the ants found their way to the dining room, at the FAR end of the house, where I had about 12 dozen Christmas cookies -- which I spent noon to 8pm yesterday baking -- in adorable gift boxes, ready to give to friends & coworkers today.

[Leslie]

Plumbing problems in the basement. And it's raining today to make matters worse.

[Squeat Mungry]

Cracked ribs. Ow!

[tanabutler]

Sorry, Squeat. It probably wasn't athletic sex that cracked them, either, was it?

My annoyance, and it's minor, is that Bloglines is going to be completely down tonight for a while. I wanted to catch up on reading blogs, but don't know if I can.

[hollywood]

Say it ain't so, Santa.

[Scorched Palate]

Steve, I have no idea how you managed to hold a market in yesterday's weather. It was sideways-rain, thunder and lightning here in SF.

Another annoyance: Just got a shipment confirmation that the 3 items I really needed for my trip (out of the 5 items I ordered) from ExOfficio are out of stock and will not be backordered. When I called to cancel the remainder of the order, they told me "oh, it's already shipped."

[rancho_gordo]

Scorched Palate, on Dec 19 2005, 04:49 PM, said:

Steve, I have no idea how you managed to hold a market in yesterday's weather. It was sideways-rain, thunder and lightning here in SF.

And in general, the north bay is wetter. It was just unbelievably bad and much of my stock got soaked. I'm getting over my anger but I still can't believe they would charge on a day like that. And yet I would be stupid to think they'd give the little guys who pay their salary a break.

That's the end of it. Thank you for the indulgence. Now go visit Reasons to be Cheerful.

[GrantK]

rancho_gordo, on Dec 18 2005, 12:28 AM, said:

Scorched Palate, on Dec 19 2005, 04:49 PM, said:

Steve, I have no idea how you managed to hold a market in yesterday's weather. It was sideways-rain, thunder and lightning here in SF.

And in general, the north bay is wetter. It was just unbelievably bad and much of my stock got soaked. I'm getting over my anger but I still can't believe they would charge on a day like that. And yet I would be stupid to think they'd give the little guys who pay their salary a break.

That's the end of it. Thank you for the indulgence. Now go visit Reasons to be Cheerful.

It's Marin. They're always like that, at least in my dealings with the bureaucracy. The people kinda suck too.

[mongo_jones]

a $100 jump in our electric and gas bill over last month. must remember to turn the heat down when we leave the home for extended periods.

[winesonoma]

Dragging an oxygen hose around all day. Ahh the joys of arthritis.

[Daisy]

Having to, in about an hour's time, enter the maelstrom that is Grand Central in order to travel to Westchester for a family celebration that will be if history repeats itself in a mediocre restaurant. Having to return at a late hour and find a cab driver willing to relieve me of $15 so that I may get home.