Random thoughts... - by Tocky
Tocky on 20/10/2018 at 05:56
This is an easy one. Whatever happened to you today or whatever thought popped into your head or anything you want to share. Random shit. I'll start.
I have been feeding crows for two damn years every morning when I get to work. You see, I go by my moms before work every day to check on her and make sure she is okay and doesn't need anything and we talk a bit. She is way on up there in years and I worry about her. She always has a bacon biscuit for me and even though I have told her not to go to the trouble it makes her happy so I eat a bit of it as I talk with her. The rest I take to work and feed the crows. They wait on the light lines most mornings and I've torn the biscuit into pieces so I just dump my paper plate out and they watch from there and I go into the building. BUT before I do I look at them and say "nevermore". A stupid homage to Poe's Raven poem. I've been doing this doggedly for two years. No results. Yesterday as I did it I said the perfunctory "nevermore" and started to walk away when one of them said "neh mo". I was stunned. I said "never more" and one said "neh mo" in response again. I was so happy I kept saying it and it kept repeating it. I said it all the way from my parking spot to the building and it responded every time. It's not earth shattering but it made my day. I had given up on it ever happening.
Today there was only one crow and I said it and it just looked at me like I was crazy. I have to figure out which crow can talk but how the hell do you tell one crow from another?
So what's your random shit?
Renzatic on 20/10/2018 at 06:11
I just found the ass half of a dead mouse sitting in front of my breezeway door. It wasn't there the last time I went outside, but it's there now.
Normally, this wouldn't be much of a concern for me. I have cats. It's what cats do. I should be thankful it wasn't a snake again. Thing is, all my cats are put up in the garage for the night.
...so who left the mouse?
Tocky on 20/10/2018 at 06:27
Somebody likes you but not enough to give you the top half.
Renzatic on 20/10/2018 at 06:57
Which is the same thing as saying they don't like me at all. :mad:
Tocky on 20/10/2018 at 07:07
Hey man, brains are gooooood. Ask any zombie. Which reminds me, my daughter is at a wedding in Florida so tomorrows zombie run will be shit without her. I'm just not going to go. Funny how you realize it's not an event you like but who you are with.
But yeah, who wants the ass end?
PigLick on 20/10/2018 at 07:36
paging Mr Duck
Pyrian on 20/10/2018 at 18:56
We have a typical "entertainment center" cabinet that holds the cable box, consoles, and stuff. The front is "baby proofed" but it's half a foot from the wall behind to allow ventilation. Well, our younger daughter just loves to throw stuff back there when she's done with them. Lots and lots of toys, and more problematically, the occasional sippy cup or food item. Our older daughter has taken to "borrowing" a bungee cord with a hook on the end, and "fishing" behind the entertainment cabinet. She even calls it that. Heck, sometimes she pulls up toy fish. Hasn't pulled up a real one... Yet...
Mr.Duck on 20/10/2018 at 19:34
I am the crunchy center of the Universe.
Tocky on 21/10/2018 at 03:40
Uh... well, as long as you aren't gooey. I had to laugh at the fishing for toys story, Pyrian. Reminded me of Halloween carnivals in my youth where one fished with a clothes pin attached to a string on a pole flung behind a screen wherein someone clipped a packet of goodies. Halloween is on my mind tonight. I had a few toddies of cider spiked with Captain Morgan spiced rum as we sat around the fire and told ghost stories at my sons tonight. Some of them true. I came home and wetransfered my latest episode of Count Eeflac to the station. I had enlisted my brother for this one. It was Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. Not fond of old horror/comedy but the station owner wanted it. I had him as my neighbor Frank with stein which I took from him to put him into my coffin done up with various electrical devices which fried him into a skeleton. FRANKly I think I'm better than the average horror host. I impart knowledge of the film and how it fits into the genre as a whole while performing a skit. Most, including Svenghoulie, are way more lame.
I missed the zombie run. I hope it was a success for them but without my daughter it just would not be the same. Here is a pic of runs past.
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heywood on 22/10/2018 at 13:12
Quote Posted by Pyrian
We have a typical "entertainment center" cabinet that holds the cable box, consoles, and stuff. The front is "baby proofed" but it's half a foot from the wall behind to allow ventilation. Well, our younger daughter just loves to throw stuff back there when she's done with them. Lots and lots of toys, and more problematically, the occasional sippy cup or food item. Our older daughter has taken to "borrowing" a bungee cord with a hook on the end, and "fishing" behind the entertainment cabinet. She even calls it that. Heck, sometimes she pulls up toy fish. Hasn't pulled up a real one... Yet...
I can only imagine. He he
We have a bird's nest of cables behind our entertainment credenza and fireplace next to it, so we just fenced the whole thing off:
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Used this with an extension or two:
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My son does throw toys over the gate from time to time, but our rule is that it stays there for a few days to a week before he can have it back.