McB - Heh, now we know what you're up to. Are the yellow ones really better? Mrs Acadian swears red ones are faster - 'course she's talking about cars. But, you know I think I've heard Grits say the same thing.

mirocu - I hope you get that job at the game store. That'd be sweet! Discounts for friends, right?

Acadian, if I get that job and you ever come over you can have the whole goddamn store!!

Ehm... or not. At least not if I want to keep my job

McB - ahh, the smell of ripe silage. MMMmmm! Brings back memories. Some of which I'd rather forget . . .

But not the smell of ripe silage! Or freshly harvested hay!

But spoiled silage? Let's forget that one, please. Ugh. Not the worst thing I've smelled but not the most pleasant one either.

I watched the video...strangely mesmerizing as Grits said...but now I need to Google "silage". It almost looked like hops in the video.

Annoyingly, the cows need feeding in the winter when the grass don't grow, so you cut it off the field in the summer and store it...You seal it up (hence the black polythene stuff at the edge of the video shot), it ferments and becomes silage...

Unfortunately you always get spoil on the top, hence the delightful smell that H.E.R. was referring to...And yes, it's pretty much one of the most disgusting smells you could ever run into... ...

And there is one of them cosmic balance things...It's one of the nicest going in the shed but in the end...Yich!...

Kiln - Them's epic hours right there... ...As you're young, you're probably better able to handle it than I am right now... ...Admittedly, we used to work until 11 at night, now, it's usually no later than 9.30... ...We getting on a bit now for doing stuff like that...

Grits - Ta... ...Wrists are fine, but the RSI in the elbows and knees are giving me hell...*Le shrug*...Nearly done with the silage, just the weekend to get through...

Acadian - Of course yellow ones are better...I just stands to reason...Pfft!... ...

Isn´t that a thorn in your paw?

Can´t you make them do all the eating in the summer and all the pooping in the winter?

Yes, indeed. Though I can think of quite a few that are even worse. Those who have ever had a dog suffer through parvoviral infection has already smelled one of them. Oh, and there's the unique aroma of a cat bite abscess. And the fetus inside the cow - the fetus that died a week ago and has to be pulled out in pieces . . .

By comparison, spoiled silage is a walk in the park. Now if you've never smelled any of the above, then this is quite possibly the worst thing you've ever smelled! Worse than skunk!

Ahhh Badgy! Missed you! So glad to see you're back. Now be warned..Do NOT work all too much, in the long run it will hurt you, your body will react I promise! I know what I'm talking about, have been working FAAR too much lately, but for now I see an end to it, it's just a couple of weeks more before everything should be back to normal.


Oh...Liz and KOB..I meant no harm to you personally! Don't ever think that. I love you both!

So tomorrow I´m off to a meeting about the money I get from the unemployment service. Why even have a meeting about it? I know the conditions by default, they´re not gonna tell me anything I don´t already know.
But that´s governmental agencies for you; they love meaningless meetings and tons of paper.

*sigh*

Oh, mirocu. I hope that a job you love comes along soon!

Well I´m certainly not expecting anything at all until August or later. Now it´s vacation times, places shut down and other places have kids from school helping out. No need for mirocu right now

We´ll see what that gaming shop has to offer. Apparently the people who work there tend to stay put which is a good thing, meaning they like it there. And who knows, maybe they´ll have a place for me too later on? I just don´t see it coming during the summer. At least I got off on the right foot with the store manager

So I’m getting The Boy ready for his three week summer study trip, which at this point mostly means dragging everything together into one pile so we can see how badly it won’t fit.

I noticed a plastic bin full of candy and gum (Mr. Grits’ contribution).

“Ha ha,” I said, pointing. “Remember last year he bought you prunes.”

“Oh yeah,” said The Boy. “I remember he got me like three bags. Everyone loved them.”

I lost a moment trying to imagine the kids gathered around in the dorm of an evening, passing the bag of prunes. “What, did everyone have… digestive issues?”

“No. We used them as poker chips.”

Now THAT'S funny!

Our house was just hit by lightning. The power was flickering, the fans started running really fast and the lights got really bright, then the surge protector at my feet started buzzing and smoke billowed out of it. My puppy Boo Boo was laying under my chair sleeping, she shot out yelping. I started running around trying to unplug everything, but the plugs were stuck in the outlets.

Now the microwave doesn't work, the lights dim if you even use the toaster, which is no longer toasting right. The surge protector that didn't catch on fire is dead as a doornail, right now I am using the one that burned and it is working. Took 20 minutes to get the cable TV back working and 30 minutes to get my internet connection back up, had to unplug everything/replug/and have Comcast send refresh signals 3X before it came up. Time to back up/save my documents/etc

Urk.

Oh no. Are you alright mALX? Other than the power being screwed up now? Nobody's hurt, right?

That sounds terrifying!!

Holy [censored] mALX, be careful! I'd replace the surge protectors on your next trip to the store.

I'm still shook up, the cat is still hiding under the bed and Boo Boo won't lay under my chair anymore. She keep sneaking up on the surge protector and sniffing it, then darting away. (The smell of smoke from it is filling the room, so why she has to get close to smell it, I don't know).

The ruckus woke Bob up (never good if he is woken up in any un-natural way) and now he is ticked because if you use one thing in the house a bunch of other stuff goes out. (Hello, he's an electrician for intricate Japanese robots, he must know how to fix a damn house going haywire, wouldn't that be much easier?)

Anyway - it was really scary, but I think the worst scare was thinking about the computer being fried and the internet access not coming back when I finally got the PC working again.

Woah! That sounds super dangerous! I am glad you're safe and everyone else is safe, too! I can imagine the stress and the hurry to get everything unplugged. Very terrifying!!