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No. Most of my time is spent in private correspondance with a Finnette.
TNP thinks the immediacy of e-mail is OK, but doesn't have the discipline to type or god-forbid hand-write or typewriter-write actual letters, you know, with actual content that one spends much time considering and composing. Even if those letters were to have been sent electronically.
No, I still do a fair amount of handwritten notes and typewritten (word processed, really) letters. I'm OG that way.
TNP got an unwelcome letter this week.
No. Unwelcome many things, but not a letter, unless junk mail counts. :)
TNP thinks escalating a complaint to the relevant Bureau of Labor and Industry is a wise move, after having giving internal HR notification. Cost of doing business, you know! Suck on that, bitches.
Yeah, they’re there for a reason.
TNP is in a funk.
No, kind of the opposite. In the kicking ass and taking names, while remaining calm. It's exciting, but it's not exactly good.
TNP is now or has ever been the one to wear a small bag attached to one's belt, in which to contain supplies not related medical equipment.
No, except for a brief time in junior high, when I had a cool (or so I thought it, anyway) little belt pack.
TNP will be doing some gardening today.
Yeah, but I'm gwine wait until the rain stops, or heck freezes.
I knew it, EH. Such a nerd! Well....OK. But my fanny pack says it's good for carrying a concealed weapon, even though I'll use it to carry a few books, a notebook, and some clutch pencils. That's not nerd, that's boss!
TNP thinks it would be hilarious to visit Texas and pronounce "Houston" the way Houston St. is pronounced in NYC. And get all indignant if some all-hat-no-cattle person corrects you, "Well, sir, my good sir, I'm well familiar with the man and the legend, Mr. Sam HOW-stun, I must say, surely, you may be mistaken, if you'll permit me to make no offense on your good color and culture, sir!"
Yeah, why not? I'm sure all those Texans would enjoy a good laugh at my expense.
TNP owns a cowboy hat.
Nah. Didn't Dennis Weaver wear a cowboy hat in McCloud? He was cool, so therefore cowboy hats are cool.
TNP has recently been in serious trouble with either a LEO violation (non-criminal violation) and/or a Homeowner's Association. If so, TNP is extremely unhappy as a result.
No, fortunately not.
TNP has at least three plastic cards, within arm's reach, that have his or her picture on them.
I did about five minutes ago at my desk, but not any longer.
TNP thinks disputing a violation (first offense, "non-culpable mental state") with a plea of "not guilty" in front of a judge for allegedly violating noise ordinances while practicing at the piano keyboard at the hour of 18:28 is an extremely prudent course of action, regardless of outcome.
Sure, why not? Hold the prosecution to its burden of proof.
TNP thinks any defense lawyer worth his or her salt should have "Reasonable doubt for a reasonable price" printed on his or her business cards.
[I'd be surprised if there were a prosecutor dedicated to a non-criminal violation or, as it were, a "Uniform Citation and Complaint." I'd love to be proved wrong, but this is not perhaps the best thread for that.]
Yes! I think that's pretty clever. For a presumptive fine of $255, I somewhat doubt many ambulance-chasers are going to meet the needs of their clients' pocketbooks.
TNP has recently (define how recent you want) broken off a friendship, even online, because of irreconcilable differences about the nature of truth and the amount of trust one is prepared to support from someone. Philosophical differences, combined with dogmatism and illiteracy can be pretty potent, is another way to put it.
Yes. With great regret, I had to do that almost six years ago with a longtime friend who also had a verbal mean streak and a bitterness that he just couldn't control, despite repeatedly promising that he would. Not more recently than that, fortunately.
TNP knows at least five guys named Mike.
I'm sure I do. I'd have to think for a bit, but there's no question, at least five. And these are people I know pretty well, my memory is just not that great for pulling random memories out of the air.
And everybody knows Mike and his Mechanics! Best darned drivetrain specialists from coast-to-coast! That's a gimme, for sure!
TNP has fought the law and the law won, and will provide an amusing anecdote if true.
Yeah, I got a ticket once for having an obstructed windshield, even though I argued that I could see just fine even with that small sign in one corner of my windshield. The judge was not convinced.
TNP fought the law and the law lost, and will also provide an amusing anecdote if true.
Oh, I was hoping for Rube E Tuesday special, but I'll answer. Sure! Loads of times I've gotten out of what could have been legal hassles by saying the right words and presenting myself correctly to police or sherriffs. Not really one amusing example stands out, but ... no, none of the examples are especially amusing. Just everything played by the book. Never had a traffic violation, so I got that going for me, which is nice.
TNP has never known the names of his or her neighbors, except perhaps as a child, and excluding friends who have happened to have been neighbors. In fact, TNP thinks it's kind of odd to "get to know yer neighbors." Smile, nod, and just walk away. :)
I know some of my neighbors but by no means all. My wife is better at remembering that stuff than I am.
TNP has read Dickens lately.
No, no, no. He's just not someone who interests me very much at all. Except maybe *The Pickwick Papers*.
TNP was aware that, especially in his later piano sonatas, Scriabin was for most practical purposes a virtually atonal or at least highly chromatic composer. Very challenging to play and, difficult to listen to, although they are each not especially long.
I didn't! Did he go deaf, like Beethoven?
TNP has, as I do, a friend nicknamed either "Ludwig" or "Wolfgang."
No. Never. Not personally. They're out there, sort of one degree of separation for me, but I've never had a friend with a rocking name like that. Or even been friendly with such a righetous dude. I'm assuming!
Aside: har de fucking har. No, Scriabin did not go deaf! It's not like Chopin, Liszt, Wagner didn't at times go very far into chromaticism. The gateway poison that leads to those horrible abominations present in Scriabin, Debussy, and others. ETA I should note that both Scriabin and Debussy held Chopin in extremely high regard, even though I think they were deluded. ;)
TNP, if he or she has bouts of insomnia, would be willing to switch his or her current sleep aid of Benadryl (diphenhydramine) for melatonin, just as an experiment.
I would, but fortunately, I tend to sleep very well. It's only if I'm really worried about something the next day, or if I'm feverish, that I have any problems sleeping.
TNP could do with some Wagner right about now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXh5JprKqiU
No. I like peak Wagner as much as any Wagernite, but you really have to be in the mood to listen to Tristan and so on. Not right now.
TNP has more than five lighters (matches don't count) in the same room as he or she right now.
No, I don't own any lighters other than a long one for lighting fires and stovetop burners.
TNP is wearing something purple today.
No. Should I be? I should think red would be the proper color for the Pentecost Season, but not wearing that, either. Black and blue. :)
TNP favors "wifebeater" style undershirts, but doesn't think that's the best term for them, however apt.
No. Should I be? I should think red would be the proper color for the Pentecost Season, but not wearing that, either. Black and blue. :)
TNP favors "wifebeater" style undershirts, but doesn't think that's the best term for them, however apt.
I don't wear those kinds of T-shirts, I wear crewnecks, and yes, the term is definitely... problematic.
TNP has scratched a dog today.
No, but I've heard plenty whose owners likely don't give a damn about keeping their beasts controlled and happy, today and every other day.
TNP has considered wearing a piece of men's symbolic jewelery or other adornment other than a wedding ring or perhaps a watch, and will state the results of that decision. On the following episode of TNP.
Yes, as it happens, I'm at court and wearing cufflinks at this very moment (and my wedding ring, of course).
TNP is now or has worn a wedding ring.
Forgot about cufflinks. And some other common "men's accessories."
A wedding ring? Eeeeww! No! Girls are icky! :)
TNP has used regular two-part resin epoxy in the past twenty years, say, and if so, agrees that it's a royal PITA, however effective.
Nope, never in my life that I can recall, probably because I suspected it would be a PITA.
TNP watches Forged in Fire
No, never heard about it before. Looks interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forged...re_(TV_series)
TNP knows at least three blacksmiths.
Sure. Not backing slowly away. Right. With the horses' hindquarters and the leather aprons. Sure, I've seen them! They're nice men, aren't they?
TNP has seen every episode of an older TV (or radio!) program but doesn't get tired of revisiting them.
Yes, the original Star Trek probably qualifies. They still have a certain retro charm.
TNP has seen a ST:TOS episode in the past week.
Nah, not for a long, long time. Much longer ago than I've listened to his seminal, avant-garde masterpiece of a audio album The Transformed Man.
TNP thinks, for all his excesses, in some roles, Mr. Shatner had very much the right stuff at both the beginning and end of his career, if not elsewhere, as an actor.
Yes, when Shatner was good, he could be very, very good. Haters notwithstanding, he didn't always just chew the scenery. Some of his scenes with Spock and McCoy are right on the mark, and his comic timing in "The Trouble with Tribbles" is excellent. I also saw him in an educational film - can't remember its title - in the late Seventies, and he was terrific in it.
TNP would like to own a sterile tribble.
Nope. I still have some mice around that I'm not too happy about. For all I know even a sterile tribble might have a lifespan many times that of a human. Still trouble. They probably chew wiring, mess with jet engines, who knows what.
TNP would address a petitionary letter to a judge whose name one doesn't know as "Court of blahblah, BL:" instead of "Dear <sirs/sir//whatever>."
Never mind: writing that out just now, I think the answer is simple. The former.
TNP can give a one-word name off the top of his or head to the symbol "§" and will do so, and provide another odd name for a symbol to be provided.
Not one word, no. I call it "a section sign." I do know that "&" is an ampersand, though.
TNP will now reveal what "§" is actually called.
Well, sure, one one-word name is the "silcrow," and I was very pleased to have remembered that after a few minutes of deliberation and by recalling that "¶" is called a pilcrow. I was astounded I recalled that, given how none shits I give about typography and all that. Or, you could just call it a section sign, like an actual person.
I have it on pretty solid testimony that in Finnish it is called a "pykälä," and it occupies the spot on Finnish keyboards where a US-Int'l qwerty has the tilde symbol. Don't even ask why I know that. Just a side effect.
TNP will say that he or she has too few dictionaries and grammars in his or her private library, rather than too many.
No, probably just about enough, especially since you can find so much via Google these days.
Thanks for telling me the word "silcrow"! Never heard it before. Here's more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign
TNP spent more than 30 seconds reading that article.
No, but although I'm pretty sure I did a Bing to make sure I was right, I don't remember clicking anything. Dunno.
TNP thinks the worst thing about MS's Bing serch engine is its name: you can't make a past passive participle out of that motherfucker! Sounds like somebody watching TV, or an alcoholic: "Yeah, I just Binged it!" Doesn't look good, and sounds only marginal at best.
I have no opinion on the matter. I haven't used Bing in quite awhile.
TNP was really looking forward to going on a rollercoaster this summer.
No, haven’t been on one in awhile.
TNP was really looking forward to going to a ballgame this summer.
Definitely. Doesn't look it's gonna happen for quite awhile, though.
TNP had heard about Brits swarming a beach this week despite COVID-19 warnings: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-53176717
No, I'm afraid not. No surprise. Hell, the temple of health that is my own corporeal existence has gone out to socialize. And doesn't feel that bad about it.
TNP is absolutely (well, 80%, or solid B grade) certain that all these much vaunted "openings" in the US and through North America are going to be "rolled back" within the next eight months, at the maximum.
Hell yes. It just happened in Texas in the past day or so, as it happens.
TNP has been in Texas in the past year.
Nah, I guess it’s more like four years.
TNP likes Kansas City BBQ better than Texas.
I like all BBQ, so no.
TNP is hankerin' for some BBQ right now, podnuh.
No. I'll stand by that choice, given that I just bought a stack of white shirts with collars and all that ('dress shirts," I guess they're called) and am doing my best not to burn holes in the one I'm wearing right now. Also, I don't know how to clean shirts, besides dump them into the laundromat machine, which explains why I have a bunch of them.
TNP is both extremely lucky sometimes at finding high-quality merchandise and is inordinately proud of his or her acumen.
Yes, that's probably true.
TNP has drunk Scotch in the past week.