Assorted thoughts distributed across space-time

[kinzel]

Still not king

Meanwhile, my presumption is that the holiday season will be a disappointment to Wall Street. At this point during the holiday stores are often frenzied. Here, I'm seeing quiet retail activity, few to no lines, parking lots with lots of empty space. Perhaps that's because Waterville has not grown into it's new "I am not a mall" shopping area. Or maybe not...

No chess Monday coming...sigh. Maybe I can find mty old Chessmaster 2000 discs...

Isn't it odd to see Microsoft handing out "Linux licenses"... come on -- just buy Novell and get it over with, will you?

Watch the skies.

Still no reasonable snow here. Colorado, you can send some our way!

I haven't bought by holiday sauerkraut yet. Guess I'll be a last-minute shopper. Oh yeah, need some cranberry sauce, too.

Will telephone tables disappear now that everyone packs a phone in their pocket?

I still miss my little S-10 sometimes. Oh for the joy of standard shift.

The downstairs office is making headway against empty boxes. I sill don't have a printing contract for a reprint or new-print of Liaden Universe Companion Volume One... guess I got to get on the stick there...

My oatmeal should have been ready 5 minutes ago -- I better go eat

... and my oatmeal was ready... but in the middle of the meal some traveling Watchtower missionary types came by to interrupt. I, alas, was not able to shake hands with the male of the duo, explaining -- rather briefly -- that I was at breakfast. Note to missionaries: never stop at my house by parking lengthwise across my driveway as if to block my exit again...

Do all appliances need batteries and brains? I managed to find, after a long search, a Bissell non-electric, non-battery powered floor sweeper. It wasn't easy to find. But a rechargeable battery powered back-up floor sweeper is another excuse to pollute, IMNSHO. This is lighter, and I can use it without sucking power from the grid.

I need to buy another 5000 to 10000 sheets of paper. Sigh. At least the paper isn't battery powered.

I will be glad when the Tim Horton's they're building in our neck of the woods actually gets here. When it does, I will begin pestering them to add scones to the stateside menu.


OK... we're now officially in the holiday. Have fun.

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I have a telephone table that was my grandmother's. It is a tiny little thing, with a top that is less than a foot square, and a matching tiny chair. I use it to store remote controls...

Somebody, I think my mother, has my grandmother's telephone dialer. It was made of sterling silver, with an ivory head. You used it to dial a rotary phone so that you didn't damage your nails. Now there is an obsolete gadget.

telephone tables

[baggette.livejournal.com]

I have two or three telephone tables. All of them are employed as .....telephone tables!
I refuse to run for the telephone or tote it around with me, so I have 5 (or is it 6?) spread over three floors. Only one is a cordless (so the teenagers can look for it, when they don't put it away). I prefer to use the umbilical corded excuse to take a break from running up and down the stairs!
I've also just discovered the joy of the speaker phone. I can sit next to the phone (in the seat provided by the tele-table) and not make my headache worse.

Re: telephone tables

[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

It's good to have at least one corded phone in the house in any case. When we had the big blackout 3 years ago, a lot of people didn't have a working phone in the house, because the cordless ones won't work when the power is out. The old corded ones do.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

I went to The Great Satan of Big Box Stores yesterday. They are way overstocked with gift sets and small appliances. I wonder how much their sales will drop this season.

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

So how do you become king?

I fear telephone tables have already disappeared. I have a nice rolling telephone table that is just perfect to use for my laptop. I need another one for the wife's laptop, but I cannot find them any more.

Doc

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Ummm re "still not king"...
are you not familiar with The Secret Diary?... (http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/aragorn.html)...

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

Not until now...

Doc

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

About telephone tables:

you can find some in "fine furniture shops" for a few hundred $real wood $dollars. Also, I think Target has some through mail order, and I may have to get one that way since i have a corner... that need something and a classic telephone table may be the only thing that will fit. And yes, i want to put a telephone on it, too...

forget telephone tables - how about pay phones

[(Anonymous)]

I recently made SIX stops looking for a pay phone when I forgot to recharge my cell. SIX. I ended up using the office manager's telephone of a sit-down restaurant. Even the QUICK CHECK didn't have a pay phone. And this is New Jersey!!!!!