Last Person #5

[Steve]

It is VERY cold around here. 15F on my way to work. But the skies are clear, the Cascades are gorgeous and the Mountain looks like it's so close you could touch it.

Supposed to rain next week.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Getting ready for NC to close for the next few days because we might get an inch or three of snow...le sigh.....

I'm with you. I fully expect the center I teach at to announce it's closed, so no class tomorrow. What part of NC are you in? (I'm south of Asheville.)

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Albany Civic Theatre is holding a contest. Local playwrights can submit one-act plays. The winner gets their play produced!

Gods, but that makes me think of some of the awful one-act plays I acted in, in college. I hope they get something truly worthwhile to produce.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

It's freaking cold today. 2F right now.
Xue, you cannot shun me, because
A - You're scared to, and
B - it's really freaking cold!

Careful, you guys are running out of F's there. When you run out completely, then you have to go the F & Stuff store.

 

[wingchun100]

Gods, but that makes me think of some of the awful one-act plays I acted in, in college. I hope they get something truly worthwhile to produce.

They will when they get one from me.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Well the oldest's day just got worse (with potential to get much worse if things are not done before I get home)..... home from college and the party is over.... I get up this morning...at 5:00...to go take care of the driveway so no one (my mother in her 80s) slips when they get there in the afternoon.... and as I walked though the kitchen...and looked a 2 (not 1 but 2) full (1 over flowing) trash cans in the kitchen (from a late night Quesadilla party after coming home.), and 2 pizza trays that have been on the kitchen island for 2 days that I asked to be put away yesterday. And a kitchen table full of all things decidedly not for the kitchen or eating.....I got more than a little annoyed.

Mrs. Xue has been annoyed since after Christmas, but tends to say nothing to him, but complains incessantly to me...so today.... I gave sleeping beauty a list that needs to be done..... sleeping until 2:00pm and then bingeing on various TV series all day while other do the work is over....heck even the youngest takes care of her stuff.......but at least a haircut did happen and the man bun is gone.....

 

[wingchun100]

Oh Lord...you mean the laziness doesn't go away? My girlfriend's daughter is almost 12, and she will say things like, "Steve, can you hand me my drink?"

When she asks this, she is usually sitting on the couch...and the drink is within arm's reach.

 

[Xue Sheng]

He actually was not lazy at all pre-college (and there was no man bun or skinny jeans either). I would come home to him cutting the grass and I never even asked him to do it, or taking care of the driveway in the winter...ok, we all use to tease him on weekends when he slept until 11 or 12 (but not 2 sometimes 3). Snowstorms he would get up early to help in the driveway too. However in his second year of college..... things have changed drastically

 

[wingchun100]

He actually was not lazy at all pre-college (and there was no man bun or skinny jeans either). I would come home to him cutting the grass and I never even asked him to do it, or taking care of the driveway in the winter...ok, we all use to tease him on weekends when he slept until 11 or 12 (but not 2 sometimes 3). Snowstorms he would get up early to help in the driveway too. However in his second year of college..... things have changed drastically

Oh man...I hope maybe we are going to witness the opposite of what you are dealing with: LESS laziness with age!

 

[Steve]

Well the oldest's day just got worse (with potential to get much worse if things are not done before I get home)..... home from college and the party is over.... I get up this morning...at 5:00...to go take care of the driveway so no one (my mother in her 80s) slips when they get there in the afternoon.... and as I walked though the kitchen...and looked a 2 (not 1 but 2) full (1 over flowing) trash cans in the kitchen (from a late night Quesadilla party after coming home.), and 2 pizza trays that have been on the kitchen island for 2 days that I asked to be put away yesterday. And a kitchen table full of all things decidedly not for the kitchen or eating.....I got more than a little annoyed.

Mrs. Xue has been annoyed since after Christmas, but tends to say nothing to him, but complains incessantly to me...so today.... I gave sleeping beauty a list that needs to be done..... sleeping until 2:00pm and then bingeing on various TV series all day while other do the work is over....heck even the youngest takes care of her stuff.......but at least a haircut did happen and the man bun is gone.....

That's pretty familiar. He'll grow out of it. My oldest did the same thing for a while. We finally made it clear to him we were is family, not his servants. I'm sure it will all work out.

I bet you're happy to see the man bun go.

 

[Xue Sheng]

That's pretty familiar. He'll grow out of it. My oldest did the same thing for a while. We finally made it clear to him we were is family, not his servants. I'm sure it will all work out.

I bet you're happy to see the man bun go.

This is new since college, so he grew into it and for his sake he best grow out of it.

Yes, happy the man bun is gone.....there, that proves it...I'm an old foggy

 

[wingchun100]

No, it proves you know what fashion statements are ridiculous.

 

[Buka]

Binged watched movies today, over ten hours worth. (over grilled rib eye, Ahi steaks and ice cold beverages)

Watched "Hell and High Water" with Jeff Bridges.
Watched "The Arrival" with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.
Watched "Florence Foster Jenkins" with Merle Streep and Hugh Grant.
Watched "Fences" with Danzel and Viola Davis.

My brain is fried.

 

[ks - learning to fly]

well..couldn't get my car out of park this morning..stang is in the shop..

 

[Xue Sheng]

While I am in the kitchen

 

[Dirty Dog]

Waiting for the snow to melt so I can drive my car again. Sue's Jeep is nice and all, but...

Thinking about getting rid of the key for the Vette and installing a keyless entry & push button start.

 

[Dirty Dog]

While I am in the kitchen

...make me a samich?

 

[Buka]

Waiting for the snow to melt so I can drive my car again. Sue's Jeep is nice and all, but...

Thinking about getting rid of the key for the Vette and installing a keyless entry & push button start.

Curious, Dog, why would you do that on such a classic?

 

[Dirty Dog]

Curious, Dog, why would you do that on such a classic?

There's nothing "classic" or collectible about a '99 Vette. I wouldn't do it to a numbers matching '63 split window. But I'm not into the whole chalk mark restoration thing. I drive the snot out of my car (it's got 127,000 miles on it so far) and modify it to boost performance (factory it was 345HP at the flywheel, right now it's 815HP or so at the flywheel). I've also modified the body in a number of ways for both appearance (I can't stand the pop up headlights/air brakes) and performance.
In a perfect world, I'd pull the driveline and suspension out of my '99 and stuff it into a '71 or '72 body. There's actually a company that makes a frame with the mounts already on it to mate the C3 body with the C5/C6 suspension and driveline.
I'd start with one that wasn't numbers matching, of course, to avoid being lynched by collectors.

 

[granfire]

Binged watched movies today, over ten hours worth. (over grilled rib eye, Ahi steaks and ice cold beverages)

Watched "Hell and High Water" with Jeff Bridges.
Watched "The Arrival" with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.
Watched "Florence Foster Jenkins" with Merle Streep and Hugh Grant.
Watched "Fences" with Danzel and Viola Davis.

My brain is fried.

actually, that looks like a preview of the Trump years....
<shudders>