You scored as Middle Class. You’re content in your position and would prefer a house or a family than a seven figure pay cheque. But you have your moments of weakness when you buy a lottery ticket in the hope of knowing how the rich and famous live.
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Best social engineering in a spam email title ever? That’ll be the one I received today titled: “Look at this email” flogging some stock market scam.
Genius
I’m flying back to LA this avo to bring as much of our stuff as possible back to Alameda tomorrow in a Uhaul rental truck thing. Including a certain excitable black doggy that answers to anything from Asparagus to Madthu (sp?). Details of our adventures to follow, probably on Thursday.
Internet is getting plumbed into our house on Friday so we’ll probably move in then. We’re also getting cable. I’m not quite so excited about the whole telly thing though… It’s less a source of entertainment and more a means for US pharmaceutical companies to invade your living space and endlessly advertise cures for such dubious conditions as Restless Leg Syndrome and for hawking SUVs with names like the Ford Behemoth or Jeep Stars and Stripes every 3 minutes…
So I’ve downloaded 8 hoursworth of podcasts to keep me entertained on the road and a few songs for me and the canine to howl along to. If all goes according to plan tomorrow afternoon I’ll be back in the Bay Area unpacking boxes and keeping Siamese cats and schipperkes separated. Wish us luck.
One year late I finally got round to watching the last three (brilliant) episodes of Doctor Who series 3, with Sam Tyler and all that. Now “Here come the drums” has displaced Fleet Foxes in me head. Which means I’ll probably get more done given its frantic pacing.
Spoilers contained in this here youtube…
Righty, I’m off to walk the dog then we’re taking the ferry from Alameda to SF for a wander. tara
I’m looking into more local options, but I reckon this looks rather nice on a T-Shirt… CafePress want to charge 5 bucks p&p (or s&h as they say in gringolandia) but I’m sure I can do better than that in Santa Tere…
Yesterday I went to see Hollywoodland with young Sita, and there’s some new brief reviews over on the film review page and then Chili’s for supper. You’d think an American chain restaurant impersonating Mexican cuisine wouldn’t do too well here. Wrong. It’s all about the PORTIONS. I still feel vaguely full.
Lots of traffic arriving at this blog searching for “300 Sparta animated gifs” … I hate to disappoint so Pssst here’s one…
Monica and “OC” D are heading back to the Bay Area tomorrow to fill up on ethnic food before May’s constant stream of visitors. And I think we’re heading to Tequila. Someone comment tomorrow at around 11am GDL time to remind me to pick up the photos on the way out. Many thanks…
One many new words I learnt today was Palomear.
A paloma is a dove or pigeon as you probably already knew thanks to crimes-against-music like this. And in Mexico, a paloma is a tick (or check mark I think in US parlance) because it looks like a bird in flight, I presume. As drawn by a 6 year old.
So palomear, to tick. At least I think so because the other option “to devote a great deal of time to raising pigeons” really didn’t seem to work in the context of a technical manual…
Que lo voy a enmarcar! Mil gracias @trinomonero – y gran trabajo haciendo una plática muy interesante y divertida en inglés y con Windows ( miren @mariomunoz73 y @angrub20 😀 ! ) pic.twitter.com/G0iMNcsjbW
— Gwyn (@gwynf) October 15, 2018
