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    Manly Wade Wellman is the greatest name in the history of names.

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    Kif from Futurama can never get enough love and I have a plushie of the little alien.

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    Feeling a certain way and wanting something and feeling guiltily and selfish for feeling that way.

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    My second son is graduating from high school today. Hard for me to believe!

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    My second son is graduating from high school today. Hard for me to believe!
    Yeah, where did the childhood, go, eh?

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    Quote Originally posted by Froody Blue Gem View post
    Kif from Futurama can never get enough love and I have a plushie of the little alien.
    Kif is probably the most relateable character in the show.

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    Quote Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday View post
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    Kif from Futurama can never get enough love and I have a plushie of the little alien.
    Kif is probably the most relateable character in the show.
    Yeah, I definitely see a lot of myself in him with his anxiety, his shyness, and being a people pleaser. Even the little detail about him not making up his mind on what type of beverage to order or something along those lines, even if it was a silly little joke it's sadly relatable for me. I guess he began to develop more as a character in season 3 but we saw hints into his character in "Brannigan Begin Again." Definitely my favorite character on the show and one of my favorite fictional characters in general. There is Fry who is pretty relatable to many as well.
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    Early Tom Clancy books tend to be better than later ones, before he got famous and no one dared edit him. Ditto Stephen King.

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    With my full enneatype, I'm guessing I'm either a 596 or a 496. I guess 956 is an alternate one but I am very reluctant to say that is my final type even if it is fitting. I kind of feel shame with who I am and that version kind of comes from a very turbulent unhealthy place. Whatever type I am, I am not the healthy variety.

    5w4, 9w1, 6w7 sp/so

    4w5, 9w1, 6w7 sp/so

    or 9w1, 5w4, 6w7 sp/so. I've tested as a 6, 6w5 on multiple occasions but some of the other types fit my core type much more than that and I am guessing the 5 gets integrated in the type somewhere else.
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    Quote Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday View post
    Manly Wade Wellman is the greatest name in the history of names.
    Yeah. I didn't know about this thread, but that is possible true.

    I wonder who has the balls to name his kid "Manly." Maybe it's some kind of "Boy named Sue" kind of thing.

    Or maybe his mother had some blood loss from the birth.

    That is awesome.

    Steel Willdrink Catkill could be a good one, but AFAIK that's not a real person.

    Chip "Chunk" Torso
    Slab Chunkmeat

    No, MST3K already exhausted the made-up names.

    I like living in a world where there existed someone called "Manly Wellman."

    Hell, he could do my taxes. I'd trust him.

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    How's this for awful -- I think I'm just going to start deliberately socializing with more friendly woman (except this one -- I'm not sure if she's a man or a woman -- and I don't care to examine her breasts openly, and, anyway, Faye Dunaway didn't have very large breasts, and she was definitely a woman).

    Yes, for the petty goal of expressing my displeasure with WareGirl's actions.

    Her little half-effort of seeking me out to collaborate on a task two days ago was sweet, but, I'm sorry honey, now I'm the one who needs convincing it's worth any effort, after her display of profound lack of judgment, pandering to some random nerd "buddy" of hers.

    No, I know there are some sociological explanations, I just am not having any of that.

    So now I must punish her.

    With mediocre-to-nil results, and with no possible gain.

    For it amuses me.
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    "Wolf Blitzer" would be a pretty macho name, too, if you didn't know who actually has it.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    "Wolf Blitzer" would be a pretty macho name, too, if you didn't know who actually has it.
    Yeah, he was pretty much a SCUD dud.

    For another RL example, David Hackworth isn't too bad.

    As a name.

    ETA, although the first name has to go. Something more like "Buzz" or "Rocco."
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    I always like to carry a lot of stuff with me and keep a close eye on my purse. I kind of get neurotic if I go to a place and don't have stuff to work on.

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    Quote Originally posted by Jizzelbin View post
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    "Wolf Blitzer" would be a pretty macho name, too, if you didn't know who actually has it.
    Yeah, he was pretty much a SCUD dud.

    For another RL example, David Hackworth isn't too bad.

    As a name.

    ETA, although the first name has to go. Something more like "Buzz" or "Rocco."
    Armie Hammer? That's pretty macho.

    Rock Hudson, though that is a stage name, Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.

    Powers Boothe which was his birth name.

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    Quote Originally posted by What Exit? View post
    Armie Hammer? That's pretty macho.

    Rock Hudson, though that is a stage name, Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.

    Powers Boothe which was his birth name.
    Yeah, Powers Boothe is a pretty bitching name.

    Somehow I don't associate Rock Hudson with great virility, plus his name sounds like out of The Flintstones.

    Schwarzenegger is a nice one, but, also "Arnold" makes me think of either (i) a pig or (ii) Arnold Stang (not a bad name, just, also, not living up to).

    Of course, for awesome name+weird RL persona: Wings Hauser. The shame.

    However for OK name+awesome RL: Bob Mitchum. Not everyone gets a deodorant sharing the name, much less with the awesome ad copy: "So strong you can skip a day."

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    Funny, I thought Rock Hudson sounded too much like a Flintstone name also. But technically his stage name precedes the Flintstones.

    Rutger Hauer; that's a pretty tough sounding name too.

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    Rutger Hauer. So strong you can skip your life.

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    Goddamned it, fucking shit.

    WHY have the crows come back?

    I had a great flock of Steller's Jays nesting here.

    That's their fucking job, to chase out the goddamned crows.

    And fight the squirrels.

    question: How can I reattract the Steller's Jays? There's been a healthy group nesting outside my office window for like a year.

    Goddamned it, I fucking hate crows.

    Loud and unrewarding.

    I used to have faith in ecological niches (look it up), but now I'm not so sure.

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    Stone Phillips has a pretty macho name. And I knew a guy named Ron Block; ditto.

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    Quote Originally posted by http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_David_Ryder
    Crow: Slab Bulkhead!
    Servo: Fridge Largemeat!
    Mike: Punt Speedchunk!
    Crow: Butch Deadlift!
    Crow: Bold Bigflank!
    Mike: Splint Chesthair!
    Mike: Flint Ironstag!
    Crow: Bolt Vanderhuge!
    Mike: Thick McRunfast!
    Mike: Blast Hardcheese!
    Crow: Buff Drinklots!
    Servo: Trunk Slamchest!
    Crow: Fist Rockbone!
    Mike: Stump Beefknob!
    Servo: Smash Lampjaw!
    Crow: Punch Rockgroin!
    Mike: Buck Plankchest!
    Crow: Stump Chunkmen!
    Servo: Dirk Hardpec!
    Mike: Rip Steakface!
    Crow: Slate Slabrock!
    Servo: Crud Bonemeal!
    Mike: Brick HardMeat!
    Crow: Rip Slagcheek!
    Servo: Punch Sideiron!
    Mike: Gristle McThornbody!
    Crow: Slate Fistcrunch!
    Mike: Buff Hardback!
    Servo: Bob Johnson! Oh, wait...
    Servo: Blast Thickneck!
    Crow: Crunch Buttsteak!
    Mike: Slab Squatthrust!
    Servo: Lump Beefbroth!
    Crow: Touch Rustrod!
    Mike: Reef Blastbody!
    Mike: Big McLargeHuge!
    Mike: Smoke ManMuscle!
    Servo: Eat Punchbeef!
    Mike: Hack Blowfist!
    Mike: Roll Fizzlebeef!
    Some of the various comedic names from MST3K.

    No, that doesn't violate copyright: the names are all from various sources, and even if the intent were not humorous or satirical, the compilation of the names is something like 0.1% of the content of the episode. IIRC, 20% of the length is the rule of thumb for reproduction for limited distribution, in one context (e.g., having a chapter of a book copied and bound for students in a class).
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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    Stone Phillips has a pretty macho name. And I knew a guy named Ron Block; ditto.
    Rod Ironmack.

    Ron Steel.

    Hargus "Pig" Robbins (real person: famous piano player, everyone's heard him play, even if not knowing it was him).

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    Well, I finally broke down and used the car horn yesterday.

    Some idiot was backing out of a spot at the grocery store -- tentatively, but it appeared to not see me.

    No, I don't give them a friendly "toot."

    I lean on the horn until they stop their idiocy, and I can verify they've stopped being a menace.

    I believe that's consonant with the rules of use of a horn, and while I don't like doing it, I think it can be correct. Clearly. Since I did that thing.

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    That does it.

    The next time I'm at some WalMart or whatever, I'm buying a LOUD air horn.

    Every single time I hear this bitch screaming (she probably thinks it's singing. it is not), she'll get the horn.

    Ditto for any and all dogs.

    Also, I'm considering buying an extra alarm clock and wiring it to a car horn. Yes, if I was truly a stud I'd make my own clock -- I have some 7-segment LEDs and stuff, but I don't trust my ....

    Actually, I should just make a little script to blast the car horn at unpredictable intervals throughout the day, powered by a computer.

    Of course, I could just hit the car alarm button from my place, but then they'd know it was me who wanted them to die and suffer.

    I think I deserve a round of applause for not just littering the neighboring rental place with poisoned meat.

    No, an air horn will be fine.

    No, officer, it's my alarm clock, someone was mistaken, probably.

    Yes, I thought I heard someone screaming outside, but I didn't think much about it. Kitty Genovese and all that, you know.

    Dogs? No, who doesn't like dogs! Never bothered me.

    As it leaves the porch, enters its cruiser, "No go back and eat your donut, you fat fucking pig." Over the PA.

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    That does it.

    The next time I'm at some WalMart or whatever, I'm buying a LOUD air horn.

    Every single time I hear this bitch screaming (she probably thinks it's singing. it is not), she'll get the horn.

    Ditto for any and all dogs.

    Also, I'm considering buying an extra alarm clock and wiring it to a car horn. Yes, if I was truly a stud I'd make my own clock -- I have some 7-segment LEDs and stuff, but I don't trust my ....

    Actually, I should just make a little script to blast the car horn at unpredictable intervals throughout the day, powered by a computer.

    Of course, I could just hit the car alarm button from my place, but then they'd know it was me who wanted them to die and suffer.

    I think I deserve a round of applause for not just littering the neighboring rental place with poisoned meat.

    No, an air horn will be fine.

    No, officer, it's my alarm clock, someone was mistaken, probably.

    Yes, I thought I heard someone screaming outside, but I didn't think much about it. Kitty Genovese and all that, you know.

    Dogs? No, who doesn't like dogs! Never bothered me.

    As it leaves the porch, enters its cruiser, "No go back and eat your donut, you fat fucking pig." Over the PA.

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    Cops love it when you joke about donuts.

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    Not as much as when you remind them that their costume looks like a Village People reject gay stripper.

    I'm guessing.

    "So, your department is 'don't ask, don't tell,' right? I saw some costumes like that at the tranny sex shop. Looks great on you! Ever try wearing it with short-shorts? Get you more tips from the community! Pride forever, officer!"

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    WAIT a minute. You should answer the door to cops wearing a completely authentic-looking full-on cop uniform.

    "Sir, are you a police officer?"
    --"No sir"
    "Are you aware impersonating a police officer is a serious crime?"
    --"Yes sir, I just use it to practice my stripper pole technique using some of those people you like as an audience at home."

    Excellent argument for using a chain-lock on the front door and never opening it more than the length of the chain allows.
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    Some more somewhat-butch session piano player names:

    Spooner Oldham

    ...

    Oh, and the session bass player:

    Tommy Cogbill, is a pretty badass name.

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    I guess this is as good a place as any.

    I decided to take some personal time off for just today.

    Yeah, I'm fucking pleased as punch that my oldest nephew had a second open-brain surgery to remove a tumor, at the age of nine. I think he's on his second artificial heart valve.

    Sorry to say, the kid's fucking toast.

    Even if his latest MRI shows promising, they couldn't get it all, and there's no third chance at using the scalpel to excise the tumor.

    Well, maybe he'll get lucky and be a fucking vegetable until he succumbs to his mostly-always-fatal congenital heart defect.

    Yeah.

    So, I'd rather have a live retard eldest nephew than a dead one, so suck on that, you hosers.

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    Wow. I don't know what to say. I feel bad for you and your family is I guess all I can do.

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    Oh, I appreciate that.

    I wasn't really trolling for sympathy, just felt like getting it off my chest.

    Yeah, it's basically fucking bad.

    That and pops still recovering from a major skin graft for sepsis, while he was fluttering between life and death. Yeah, it's not a good family right now.

    I better start making a better one.

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    Jesus.

    And here's from yesterday: I woke up and just popped on Five Easy Pieces, just to kill time waiting for Drunkle to wake up.

    Are you fucking kidding me?

    For some reason he wanted to talk to me in his high school German.

    "Jack....how do you know this?"

    Yo, dumbass, every fucking educated person in the goddamned world can speak some German.

    Try reading a book once in a while.

    You live right across from the goddamned central library of this non-book town.

    Who do you think fucking writes those books?

    Everybody and his goddamned mother, that's who.

    Stop pissing down my back and telling me it's raining. I fucking hate speaking German.

    But who the fuck is fucking surprised that someone knows one of the major European languages?

    Like, fucking literally every educated person on the goddamned planet can speak some shit German and read it.

    Born in a goddamned barn.

    Fucking hick.

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    Yeah, so I need my own family, and while I have no intention of schooling "my" children with a strap across their back, you're goddamned right they're not growing up being monolingual fucking barroom-birthed bastards.

    And you are fucking goddamned right they're going to be catechized. They don't have to be confirmed, and I'm less than sanguine about US Catholic private schools (although from what I hear the girls are real goers), I don't give a shit about that.

    But at least be exposed to the mainstream of Western culture. After that? I don't care. They can come live with me until they're ned to dust -- I like family, and I don't like punishing people or disciplining, so that's a small detail about which I don't care.

    Just, fucking know the traditions. After that? Who cares? Not me, go their own way, I don't care.

    Tuesd. Jul 3rd is the monthly "Anointing of the Sick."

    I'm disgusted with my sister, my mother, and her brother for .....

    AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO CARES ABOUT THE RULES!!!!!!

    LEAGUE PLAY!!!

    Yes, that's a joke I made. I still think it's important to know the rules or conventions before you break them — and in many cases, they should be broken. Just fucking know. Sapientes. Or whatever.

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    Now, I got to figure out an alternative place to bring my special lady out to breakfast.

    Don't ask — no, I wasn't 86'ed from my regular spot, it's just....it's complicated.

    The only other spots I can see that are open early (i.e., before 1100) are downtown, and who the fuck wants to park down in that shithole?

    Well, Jake's might be worth it.

    Assuming she goes for it, first words out of my mouth are "Two glasses of champagne." To the waitress, that is.

    And, no, I have no idea why — it's not a beer-swilling dive bar, so got to step up. Kind of a classy-ish institution.

    And then, I have no idea what else.

    There is the good old Roxy, around the corner. I'm not even sure they sell beverages, but they make a mean greasy-spoon diner food.

    There's always one of the hotels, like the Heathman, but if things go that direction, I don't think I have the scratch to spring for a room.

    Naw. Parking downtown (i) costs (ii) is a PITA.

    So, I think just nut up and try to hide my car on a side street and hit up the usual.

    Not only do they know me, whoever's working tomorrow, I know for a fact they serve some mean food that is not green.

    I was kind of hoping for a different venue, like Vista Spring Café (1100), Goose Hollow Inn (1100).

    What could be ideal is go for a short walk, she can tell me about her birds (stop it, stop thinking about one of the "extra" scenes from Apocalypse Now Redux) and then hit Vista Spring (kind of a classy-ish joint, you guessed it, at the corner of SW Vista and Spring St., residential neighborhood, free street parking, all that).

    I'm not sure what her deal is — I know all these streets like the back of my hand, having went to HS here, but I also don't want her to get lost or panicky if she's in unfamiliar terrain.

    Ah. I'll figure it out when the time comes. Just no place downtown, because I can't ask her to do the whole shit parking thing, and equally important, I'd never park much less drive "downtown" if I can help it.
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    Yeah, I forgot, in about two or three years that little sweetheart is going to need to have his ribs broken again and a third artificial valve replaced.

    Call me a savant, or a psychic, but I have a pretty good idea that my nephew is not having the best time of his life.

    He fucking hates the MRI -- I think they give him alprazolam through a nasal inhaler/insufflater/whatever it's called.

    He doesn't like it.

    I'm pretty sure he fucking hates the ICU -- given he's spent more time in there since birth than most people spend in a lifetime, that seems reasonable.

    So not only Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Artesia (many people don't live past their teenage years with that combination), he also had some sawbones cut into his skull not once but twice in a few months.

    Yeah, I'm no mind reader, but I'm pretty sure he's not liking it.

    But, he likes Beethoven, and he likes dinosaurs, and he loves swimming.

    So, it's not all bad.

    He loves his maternal grandparents (my mother and father), but they are having some problems themselves. It's not going to be good for him if his grandpa succumbs to his own extremely serious maladies, and if my mother doesn't get her anxiety and general foolishness under control, she's just as likely to stroke out or have another, probably fatal case of colitis.

    And who's left? Me? I can't even tidy up my own place, and can barely drag myself into work in the morning doing unskilled manual labor.

    His great-uncle, my uncle on distaff side, is basically a walking stiff who can't even remember his own name half the time.

    His paternal grandparents, while having quite a bit of capital, are the most boring people I've ever met, and they live four-hundred miles away.

    His father, while a certified "perfect SAT score" literal genius, is kind of ... well, he's a good father, and a competent engineer. He just has some emotional problems. His mother, my sister, is a rock, probably helped by her profession as a psychologist and licensed therapist.

    No.

    I'm the man of this family, even though I don't have the means or the maturity.

    There's no-one else.

    I'm completely powerless to intercede -- it's not my place, and also while the nephews adore me, especially the eldest, there's nothing I can do that isn't already taken care of. Best health care, specialists from Mayo Clinic, best of care in my region, close monitoring of levels of care by all who are concerned.

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    Quote Originally posted by Froody Blue Gem View post
    I always like to carry a lot of stuff with me and keep a close eye on my purse. I kind of get neurotic if I go to a place and don't have stuff to work on.
    Yeah, I have that affliction as well.

    At work, where everything I wear gets soaked in sweat, I still fold up a few pages of music, or possibly a small book, and shove it into from right front jeans pocket. They get trashed, as in soaking wet, and I've never really had to break out the "supplemental" material, but still, what if I did require?

    I've gotten better at trimming down my shoulder bag to a bare minimum of one or two books + notebook computer + a manilla folder with some music scores. And other stuff -- extra matches, toothpicks, extra writing implements.

    But yeah, when I was doing heavy duty scholarly tasks, I'd have like twenty or thirty pounds of books and other paper materials in a bag with me.

    Apparently that was considered odd, but screw them.
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    Have been feeling lonely and insignificant as of recently. I hope this phase will be over soon. if it is a phase.

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    Sugar, I'm glad to see you here again.

    I think you got a classic case of the blues.

    No cure: you're terminal, honey!

    Don't know what to say but you're in the right spot — no bad vibes here, just good feelings.

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    Here's completely random: I do think that certain moods have a corresponding sound to real-life sounds.

    Yeah, it sounds insane, and it probably is, and I'm not going as far as Scriabin.

    I do think that one of the appealing aspects of, particularly, the Hammond organ, is — actually, any organ, really — the ability to shape the final sound by modifying the harmonics.

    All right. So, like a "lonely" sound to me on the organ is pull the sub-fundamental stop all the way out, add to taste the octave/fundamental, and leave everything else off except some of the higher harmonics.

    No percussion, and primarily use the Leslie speaker as the main dynamic (i.e., go from tremolo [fast] to braked or chorale [slow] speed).

    Don't even need to use the "expression pedal" so much.

    So the dynamics are from using some of the upper drawbars, to taste, and constantly riding the speed of the speaker.

    It is a peculiar sound, but I think it should convince anyone that mental states have some physical correlates.

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    I think I'm starting to like this woman of, probably Korean, more probably mixed Vietnamese and Korean, descent at work. (Don't ask how I think I know, I just think I'm kind of a savant about this kind of thing — probably wrong, but I'm usually right).

    THAT is definitely "against type" for me — not sure why, it's not been any deliberate choice on my part to avoid the company of women of SE Asian descent, as sexual partners. Let's just say I was busy with other "occupations," and it didn't happen.

    This young woman seems to have a deliberate, matter-of-fact attitude, and yet she is extremely feminine in a way I could only describe in a long essay which I'm not interested in writing.

    She's also what I would call extremely attractive, but in a way that doesn't draw attention to the fact.

    And she is endearingly not shy about asking me for help — her English is in fact not very good, but she knows my name and we have a system worked out where if she has to lift something way too heavy, and I'm nearby, which usually ends by trading a short joke about how heavy that was.

    I still like my little WareGirl, but she's complicated and I think she and I are either, on the one hand, happy getting to know each other slowly, or on the other hand, I might well miss my chance or have already. Just call me Johnny No-Nuts on that one, but that's the way it is for now and that's fine with me.

    The two women do have similar characteristics, in this odd combination of a compact, self-sufficient introversion and a somewhat direct manner of speaking or jesting.

    I suppose I can look back through Musil's Three Women this weekend and see if I can copy some ideas for a short fiction. Meh, my only copy's in German, well, that could be OK, but I don't really want to have to use a dictionary so much (it's a pretty long-ish text, and Musil's Austrian German can be at once straightforward and ornate, very mannered and literary).

    ETA The problem I've had in the past with Asian women (I'm including all of Asia) is that the familial influences tend to be very strong, so an Auslander is maybe OK for a short little fling, but not being of the tribe doesn't really work for a serious thing.

    EETA Oh, and pretty often during break, she and I both park out front, instead of the wasteland of the much larger rear parking lot. We never talk then, we just each go to our cars. I think she usually eats something, and I just stick my foot out of the window and smoke, comb my hair, and decompress.

    I'm unsure if she disapproves of the Japanese make of my car, but perhaps that signals to her that I'm not unfriendly to the yellow peril, even though I'm somewhat sure that, if she has any political leanings, she would not approve of some kind of pan-East-Asian collective, were such a ridiculous idea conceivable. Perhaps she may be in the process of acculturating herself to the US idea, subconsciously, where maybe instead of a Hyundai, the Toyota has an edge, and slowly absorbing the idea that I'm still OK despite my car.

    There will be no inviting her for a tour of the local Japanese Gardens.

    In fact, I don't think there will be anything, but I still am pleased to discover an attractive (to me) woman who seems to not hate me.

    That's good for now.
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    I also think I should buy a tuning fork (A=440Hz kind).

    Not sure why.

    It would amuse me.

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    Actually, I have a small mechanical metronome that would (barely) fit into a pants pocket. I can't find where I put it last, but a little German or Austrian device, where you wind up a set of gears like a watch, and the little swinging "arm" creates a kind of "tick tock" sound, which is actually pretty loud. I guess by electrical induction, is how it's amplified. Good question, but I don't feel like destroying the unit in order to find out.

    It might be of use during relatively solitary moments of low-impact work to experiment with using it as a kind of "personal audio device," or a kind of a boombox, really.

    I don't know, set it at 80 beats per minute, and just supply the variations myself within my head.

    I do that anyway, by mentally supplying a "beat," but some external stimulus could be amusing.

    That may be on the wrong side of the "eccentricity" edge, but fuck 'em.
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    Oh, about this new girl (the old NewGirl actually is a contractor for one of the delivery companies, so I'm not sure what she was doing working one of the aisles picking freight, and I hardly see her around).

    Oh yeah, so like I noticed yesterday I think she was bothered enough by the periodic screeching sirens to alert workers to incoming traffic to make a big show of plugging her ears with her fingers.

    I could have offered her a couple of earplugs from my pocket, but I doubt she'd have been receptive to fingering herself with some strange man's used (though clean!) prophylactics.

    HOWEVER, I shall make a point of keeping an extra pair of earplugs in the factory-sealed little plastic bag and offering to her if she has another problem. Hell, for all I know she was just on the rag and a little sensitive, but, still, she may not know where they keep the earplugs (near one of the "first aid" stations), so at least that could be a good help.

    I'm nothing if not sympathetic to those who are perturbed by noises.

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    Krekor Ohanian

    AKA

    Touch Connors

    playing

    Joe Mannix

    as

    Mike Connors

    who used to be

    Touch Connors.

    Drops mic.

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    Butterflies are just flowers that fly.

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    Quote Originally posted by What Exit? View post
    Butterflies are just flowers that fly.
    You are correct, sir. I don't have a link, but there's a great live performance by Herbie during his Headhunters phase, where he gives a little introduction to his tune "Butterfly," in very smoove ode to the ladies. Sorry, llllllladies.

    ETA the link to the Herbie performance. Very smoove.

    Here's a neat wiki about the Hammond. And the stops on the organ and all that. I think I made a mistake and apparently the fundamental is called the "unison" stop, where the octave is actually, ahem, an octave higher. I was right about everything else, of course, but just in case anyone's curious or is listening to Billy Preston (ahem, thee Vee-Jay gospel record, or anything else) or Rick Wright and wonders what they're doing with/to that instrument.
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    Cool VARIATION ON MANLY NAME: WOMANLY NAMES!!

    I only got one:

    Legs Lowbelly

    No, that is not a real person. But she could be!

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    This guy at work: "Do you think is still the X staging area?"
    Me: "Well, the drivers are Rhodes Scholars, they'll find it."
    This guy after a few seconds: "Did you just think that up, or was that just unintentional?"

    He thought that was the greatest pun ever made, such that he repeated it to at least one other person, with full attribution.

    And, FTR, no, that was mostly accidental. I'm not that clever on purpose, but I like to enunciate a mediocre pun as soon as it hits.

    But still, I thought that was a pretty good accident.
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    I wish the day had more hours so I could get more done.

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    I wish I was working again so I could get less done.

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    I wish the days were longer so I could sleep more and get more done.

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