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By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/13/00 10:46:51 AM
# Replies: 19
I've got the summer doldrums....
Response #1
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/13/00 1:03:26 PM
Beinfang: Beyond Thunderdoldrum!
Response #2
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 7/13/00 2:28:45 PM
Maybe you could get into Summer Camp....
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #3
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/13/00 7:59:41 PM
Maybe I could disguise myself as a teenager and go back to high school, and write weekly essays here on the BBS about being a teen in the 2000's.
Response #4
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/13/00 8:09:34 PM
Of course, because of my job, I could only go on Saturdays and Sundays.
Response #5
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/13/00 10:49:46 PM
Maybe you could go to hotels and disturb businessmen who are trying to sleep.
Sorta to see how THEY handle it so you'll know next time.
Response #6
By: sooz
Date: 7/14/00 9:03:50 AM
Join a band, I say. We're in dire need of some dancers... how do you look in tight pants, wiggling?
Response #7
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/14/00 1:06:47 PM
I look AWESOME in tight pants, wiggling. Hmmm, yeah, now that you mention it, I guess the Nunnery *does* need some dancers.
Response #8
By: Ralf
Date: 7/15/00 6:05:22 AM
"Quit wiggling around and get me some gas!"
--Butt-Head to Beavis during a Brian Setzer video
Response #9
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/18/00 7:13:17 PM
In an effort to shake off these summer doldrums, I have decided to take up racewalking.
Response #10
By: Ralf
Date: 7/19/00 9:48:21 AM
You mean, "dorkwalking".
Response #11
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/19/00 6:17:37 PM
To shake off my own summer doldrums, I've taken up walking around the lovely neighborhood of Ballard. Ballardians, and Seattlites in general, enjoy gardening. A lot. Like, it's ridiculous how much they garden. So I see the lovely little quaint homes all up and down the grid blocks with happy little flowers and manicured trees.
And then I typically get to one of the many parks which have been set aside in the interest of standard-of-living. Today it was the one at NW 70th and, er, 20th I think. There were happy little children playing and moms with minivans carting said happy little children around. There was a small gathering of people, maybe ten or twelve, who were doing some kind of free form slow motion tai chi yoga kinda thing, which looked kind of funny. A distinctly West Coast moment.
And I walked to where the neighborhood is falling down into Puget Sound. All the houses are gripping to the hillside for their lives. The homeowners look a little worried, even though they have a kickass view out their living room window. A train went by on the tracks below the Slide Zone. Some sailboats left the nearby marina. Some children chased each other around a tree at Golden Gardens park.
Then I went home.
No racewalking, sorry.
Response #12
By: Ralf
Date: 7/20/00 4:53:13 AM
Ballard: Land of expatriot Norwegian splendor, and birthplace of Red Hook beer!
Response #13
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/21/00 1:05:43 AM
On that very walk I described, I walked by the Nordic Heritage Museum, which I swear is a real place. That's where I met a little gray cat with a nametag that said, 'Stray.'
Response #14
By: Ralf
Date: 7/21/00 3:46:18 AM
My company just won a contract to install software in Bellingham, about 90 miles north of you, Homey.
Woo woo!
Response #15
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/21/00 2:25:48 PM
You. Must. Visit.
Noncompliance Will Not Be Tolerated.
(With an invitation like that, how can you resist?)
Response #16
By: The Professor
Date: 7/22/00 6:34:36 AM
I tried jogging in the morning, but even then it is 90 degrees. I think I'll wait until it dips into the 80's.
Dehydration is not the best way to lose weight, I think.
Response #17
By: Ralf
Date: 7/22/00 6:51:55 AM
The contract signing is around September 12th. Installation before the end of the year. I will pull whatever strings I must to be there.
Too bad I'll miss the nice weather. :-)
Response #18
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/24/00 5:35:36 PM
"Oh, but it's the rains that make all the plants grow so well!"
--some random hippie I pounded into the pavement
Response #19
By: Ralf
Date: 7/24/00 6:46:52 PM
Me: "So, when is it gonna stop raining?"
Friend: "It's November, so, mmmmm... about eight more months."
Me: "Ha! No, really?"
--A conversation I had in Seattle, shortly after moving there in 1979.