Spring Break w00t! Day One.

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(1) So wrong, but in a really fabulous way.

(2) These thingies confused the hell out of me when I was doing the recycling this afternoon. I couldn't figure out what the hell Marc had been squirreling away in his Guinness bottles and in my experience, white things knocking around in dead empties are supposed to be cigarette butts. Weird.

(3) If you've been in my car recently, have you by any chance lost a lid to a travel coffee mug? *looks at ellen_fremedon and sanj* 'Cuz I appear to have one more lid than mug. Accounted for!

(4) Today I finally watched the end of Slings and Arrows and god, I really wish I hadn't. It's so gorgeous, so absolutely perfect, that I can barely stand knowing that there's not going to be any more of it.

(5) I spent a good several hours this morning trying to figure out why Google Docs hates me, but it really doesn't. It hates schizoid!me, and for some reason keeps forwarding all of my docs sent to any of my accounts to Carrie'sRealName@gmail.com. Which, I guess that's OK, but I don't remember setting it up that way and I can't figure out how to change the setting. I think it's really fantastic that Google is doing so many things, but I can't help feeling like it used to be really easy to go in and fiddle with the settings on gmail, and now between the Reader and Docs and Dodgeball, I never have any idea where to change anything. *pouts more*

(6) Today I had a few ounces of gorgeous fresh mozzarella left over from making dinner and I toasted it onto a bun with some yummy freshly shaved ham and lettuce and tomato and dude, that was so much better than my usual Lean Cuisine desk!Monday lunch. Spring Break Rulzzz. Remind me that that doesn't mean I should quit my job, OK?

ETA: Now I remember what I was going to say.
(7) Bowling. It's so COOL how many kinds of bowling there are, isn't it? Last year when we scheduled our son's 6th birthday party, we discovered duckpin bowling, which is a mid-Atlantic thing, apparently. And then today when I was watching S&A, Geoffrey and Charles were playing five-pin bowling, which reminded me of duckpin a little but is apparently a Canadian thing. jlh tells me that she grew up in Maine seeing candlepin bowling on TV. I somehow made it to my early 30s without knowing there was anything besides 10-pin and lawn bowling like bocce and pétanque and god, just LOOK at all of it. We are a truly wonderful and bizarre people. *nods*

Comments

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

I have, in fact, lost the lid to a travel mug.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I'll bring it in on Thursday morning. :D

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

ShinyShiny constantly makes me very happy!

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

ShinyShiny FTW!

[folk.livejournal.com]

Widgets! They've been in tinnies forever here. (The jingle was seminal in the mid-90s. "A widget...it's got a widget...a widget it has got!")

(Also, did I email/comment to you about a DC-area get-together when I'm there après-wedding, or did I dream/hallucinate that?)

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how long these things have been around here - I don't usually do the recycling and they certainly aren't in cider bottles. Clearly I am a sheltered girl-type creature.

Yeah, you totally did, but I think I got it late at night and lost the thread when I made it back here. I know y'all are going to be here on that Monday and Tuesday, but do you know exactly when? Do you think you'll be in on Monday early enough to do something that night, or would you rather put it off till Tuesday when you know you'll be fresh?

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

1) I saw that link somewhere else and was greatly amused. ;-)

2) I'm just not sure I could drink it from a bottle, you know? It seems... wrong somehow. *is a Guinness fanatic*

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you could SEE me and heidi8 both dying over shinyshinyfeed at the same exact moment. *laughs*

Heh - it's amazing the things you'll do when you're desperate for a decent stout and can't motivate yourself to get the whole fam out for a pint at the fair-to-middling Irish 'pubs' in the area. Forget getting to Ireland, ALTHOUGH it looks like the kids' first trip there will be next summer, yay! I feel like we're finally getting our traveling feet back under us and it's all very exciting.

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

I've never really found that the widgets do their job, though... I remember when Guinness first announced that thanks to the widgets, they could bottle the beer and it wouldn't taste funky... it still does. Sigh. Only draft for me, thanks.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

2) What folk said.

7) Meg was most amused to see lawn bowling the other day, which she hadn't seen before. Lawn bowling has its own variants: flat green and crown green, the latter of which takes place on a deliberately non-flat lawn - effectively, you bowl the balls around the brow of a several-inches-high hill. Are you still curling? Curling's not so far from bocce on ice, which only makes me wonder why people aren't playing something very much like ten-pin on ice to practice their skills, trying to deliver a stone down the rink to knock big skittles over. Or are they?