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Works for me, Nicky. Let's not mention this little "arrangement" to my brother, hey? I'll just tell him that there's free beer waiting for him in Atlanta ... that should get 'im.
Posted by: Slightcap at parents house (---.ipt.aol.com)
Date: August 08, 2003 04:28AM
Update......
Here is my trip so far.
7:00 am. Leave house. Sit in traffic for an hour and a half. Say a few nasty words. Only get to just past Aquia(about 15 miles from my house).
8:30am Decide that sitting in trafiic will either kill me or the person on front of me, so i decide to take an alternate route. Get off the highway, turn wrong twice. Say a few more nasty words. end up going back the way i came. Go back home.
9:00am Arrive home. call mom to tell her that i am leaving AGAIN.
9:15am Leave home AGAIN
5:30 pm arrive on the outskirts of atlanta, only to find that the exit I need to take has been blocked by a jack knifed tractor trailer. Insert a few more nasty words.
7:15 pm. Arrive at parents house. call friend to arrange plans for the wedding this weekend. Listen to mom and dad bicker about various silly things. Eat dinner.
11:00pm Finally find time to get on computer to talk to my friends only to find they have all gone to bed.
Posted by: Slightcap at parents house (---.ipt.aol.com)
Date: August 08, 2003 04:32AM
Edit to previous post: 11:00pm Finally find time to get on computer to talk to my friends only to find they have all gone to bed. Except for vi. Helped vi find books to buy for the library.
Posted by: Slightcap at parents house (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: August 08, 2003 04:58AM
Ok. I vow to cheer up and look forward to the rest of my trip. No more complaining about the girlfriend. I am sure she is a lovely person and we will get on well together. I really do wish the best for both her and my brother.
P.S. I really did have fun on the trip down here. All my cat did was sleep and give me "i hate you for bringing me" looks. I think it is kinda funny that i had to come back home. Laugh guys. It was supposed to be funny.
Posted by: Slightcap at parents house (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: August 08, 2003 06:14AM
I have three cats. A black one, a gray one, and a brown tabby one (all male, all neutered). I brought the black one with me because he just got done being sick and i wanted to make sure that if he did get sick, I could take him to the vet. I left the other two at home with a person to feed them.
My mom also has two cats. Currently, one of them is following my cat around and sniffing every where he goes. They are not hissing at each other. The just follow each other around and look at each other every so often.
I have a lovely glass dish with a tortoiseshell lid (1920s) and an even lovelier tortoiseshell handled manicure set (1930s) so if you want to get rid of your tortoises Ptolemy..............:-)
I've got a massive black moggie from the SPCA, who is gorgeous and soooooo adorable [despite the fact she's 98 in cat years], and a psychotic kitten we found in our tree. He's blacky, tortoishell-ish and has black spots all over him. Oh, and he's a total midget.
ILS
"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect
Sounds great. I had a tortoisehell (Maudie) who had a miraculous ability to calm three year olds in mid-tantrum, after all the humans had given up & started tearing their hair out...
Hope it turns out to be fun Slightcap!
Post Edited (08-08-03 21:19)
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
My 2 yr old cousin decided that Toot [my obese black geriatric] was a perfect substitue for a teddy bear. Squeezing ensued. Needless to say, Toot was not very happy about that.
My midget, Serge, thinks that jumping from our balcony to next door's is great fun. What he forgets is that he once missed, fell from the second story, got a concussion, split his palate and couldn't eat. Aaah, cats.
ILS
"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect