We have magnetic words on our ‘fridge. At Abby’s party someone grabbed some of them and build ‘custom’ sentences. However, they’re not English, they’re rather Engrishy. Witness:
Butt Storms Need Essential Base
I don’t know who put that together but it has caused a smile to cross my face more than once 🙂
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Google Talk
I use Trillian because it allows me to chat with various IM clients. However, Google Talk is out and I’ve just downloaded it. My buddy Craig works at Jabber – its great software – and its what Google Talk is based on. Google Talk looks like its riding on a custom Mozilla implementation. If you look at the options screen the text and widgets are right out of Firefox. I think good things are happening. In fact, Google Talk also checks in on your GMail.
However, it doesn’t stop there. It’s got VOIP built in. How cool is that? I can VOIP just like I could with AIM, only know I can do it with a tiny less than 1MB download rather than with AIM’s larger download. It’s a wee early to tell, but it could be good as well. I need to find someone else on Google Talk to try talking 🙂 Add me to your list: randy.peterman@gmail.com.
Update: I am having troubles with Google Talk. I may not be online simply because they refuse to show me as such 🙂
I Used the Phone Book Today
Don’t tell anyone. This has to stay between you and me. I used the phone book today. Google just wasn’t cutting it for finding a local waste removal service. The City of Aurora’s web site suggested (gasp!) that I use a phone book. So I went upstairs, grabbed one out of our pile of 7 phone books we’ve got and called Waste Management. Their courteous operator took my order, set me up with my schedule and BAM! [to quote a certain sterile chef] I’m going to have my garbage picked up by WM tomorrow instead of the other company. Also, I’ve got recycling now, which is handy since recycling is good for the environment or something.
But like I said, dont’ tell anyone I actually opened up the phone book. I’m going to put the other 6 phone books into the recycle box next week so that WM can collect them and then take them to the recycling elves who will make our worldly posessions new again simply by waving their magic wand at them and turning them into cookies.
I Love Cats… They’re Delicious
No, this post was not inspired by my sister-in-law’s blog about her trips to China. Instead it is about our neighbor’s cats who have been making our house, their home. I’m allergic to cats and so dont’ find myself drawn to them, even cute little kitty cats don’t hold an attraction for me. Abby’s birthday party this past weekend generated a lot of trash – which I dutifully bagged into large trash bags so as to facilitate my job of moving trash to the curb, and our trash men’s job of moving it from my curb into never-never land where all garbage goes.
This morning (20 minutes ago) I went out to move the trash to the curb but Alas! the cats had ripped into my garbage and had a hey day with it! So I spent some time picking up after the cats and getting most of the things that needed to be disposed of to the curb. Next time I hear one of those cats making sounds liek they’re in heat I’m going to find them and… let Abby pet them – she’s brutal on cats.
Happy Birthday Abby!
Abby is three! And I love her very, very much 🙂 She has received lots of presents, cards, and various other things. Here is a sophisticated outfit she got from her Grandpa and Grandma Peer (and her aunts there as well!).
She’s getting bigger and keeps telling us so. What a cutie pie!
Randy’s Ande’s Mint Chip Ice Cream: AKA Govern-Mint
The mint chip ice cream was a smashing success at Abby’s birthday party as well as at the church ice cream social we had last night. I felt bad for the other couple that brought pink mint ice cream (mink ice cream?) to the event because I was the first on the table and they were the last. However, it was good clean fun either way and I highly recommend to myself to post the recipe we used here so you can try it at home.
Oh, and at the ice cream social two sister-in-laws (two wives of the Matthew’s brothers) sang a fantastic cover of a song by Caedman’s Call. It was really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good. I would pay real money to listen to things like that regularly. I’m going to see if they’ll come over to ‘The Pordcast Studios’ and record it so that we can share it with the world.
First Pet
Abby has now gotten her first pet. Given my personal track record with animals I have high hopes of spending many more trips with Abby to purchase $0.12 goldfish.
This ‘black’ goldfish is named Shody (pronounced like Show-Dee). Abby kept wanting to call the fish Goldy but Jessica and I kept telling her that Goldy was a poor choice for a black fish. So she blurted out with great excitement: Shody.
The upside in all of this is that Jessica is pleased with the quietness of the aquarium. We don’t know where the aquarium will reside, but we do know that Shody has outlived some of the goldfish I owned already 🙂
The Time is Currently 12:06
And I’m still working on getting things ready for Abby’s party that will start in less than 12 hours. I have some more cupboard doors to put on, then in the morning I’ve got to mow the lawn, grill some food and entertain as if I got the next 12 hours in sleep.
As I was making an emergency run to the store earlier tonight I was asked by a gal what cologne I wear. I replied that I don’t wear cologne (which is true!). She then told me that she had ‘The hook-up.’ Something about that didn’t feel quite right. Why would someone have the hook-up on cologne? I always associated any sort of hookups to drugs, phone lines or cable. I can see it now: Get Cologne Piped to Your Home Cheaper Than You Can Buy it at Macy’s!
Whew, I’m tired, that was almost funny.
24 Eggs
Jessica is preparing the base for the Randy’s Andy’s Mint Chip Ice Cream. 24 eggs as she has multiplied the recipe to help facilitate feeding many mouths. I am going to have to hand crank so much ice cream I will probably have carpal tunnel syndrome. But I digress. Eggs are a fantastic source of protein, cholestrol and chickens. I highly recommend them if you eat that sort of thing.
Polly, You’re a Thane
Last night I put the first of many coats of polyurethane on our cabinet doors. This morning… more polyurethane, lunch time and dinner will also hold more polyurethane. Late tonight will be the last coat and then early tomorrow morning I will re-assemble our kitchen and then mow the lawn, milk the cows, collect the chicken eggs, slop the pigs, grill some chicken and then the people should be hear for the party to celebrate Abby turning 3 [which actually happens on Monday].
Whew. I’m not bored 🙂