Nine for Random Chatter, doomed to die

[Dragon Lady]

Actually, not at all. I would have been quite pleased with, say, 9 new threads. I just finished reading (skimming?) 250+ blogs in my Reader. I haven't even started on the Board (and maybe won't?), and I dealt with my email inbox with 50+ new emails (more, but that's as high as my iPod tells me I have unless I specifically tell it to download more messages, which I didn't). Oh, and no way will I try to catch up on Facebook. I really want to be in the know on all of these places, but it gets really daunting. I don't want to just mark everything as read, because I know I'll be interested in much of it, but at the same time, I tend to avoid the sites that tell me I have a billion things to read. Which just makes the problem worse.

So if everyone else on this forum had taken a week or more off over Christmas and it was just starting to get exciting in here again, I would have been much more pleased.

[Unit of Energy]

I'm a complete idiot, but hey. I just pulled my first all-nighter since freshmen year. Ok, so technically it hasn't quite been pulled yet, but I have to go to work for four hours, and by the time I get back I will have. I was watching movies in the basement with 3d and a new girl in the ward. it was totally worth it, although I may not feel that way when I get off work.

[Whistler]

LOL. All I know is that my husband and I haven't stopped laughing yet. I mean, honestly. Who named that?

Cognoscente brings it up here: https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/50679/ and I have been enjoying the phrase ever since (the link to the video is dead; it is "Whatever, Whenever": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRHyjj34ZE)

[TheAnswerIs42]

Well, actually we were just laughing at my experience in Wal-mart, and whoever named the bra company "sweet nothings". But my husband does like to remind me that many celebrities are also . . . flat-ish as well, to make me feel better. So the song has always been a good one in my book.

[Dragon Lady]

I just turned "Find My iPod Touch" on. Then I went and found my iPod online. And it was right. And then I sent my iPod a message. And I think this is awesome. I can also remotely lock or wipe my iPod Touch.

[TheAnswerIs42]

DL- cool! Nice to know it works! I added it, but haven't tried it yet.

Vorpal- I'm so glad to hear that things are going well! That must just be awful to go through. My brother in law is a pediatric surgeon, and he always has terrifying stories to tell. Well, they are daily life to him, but scary to the people involved.

Random thought: Why doesn't anyone buy bowling shoes? I mean, when you are still growing and not into bowling that much, it obviously doesn't make sense. But I mean your average, "bowl once or twice a year" adults. I mean, they cost $30 on amazon and therefore pay themselves off, considering you are never going to change shoe size. And then you wouldn't have to wear stinky, strange looking used shoes. But nobody does. Or at least, no one I heard of.

(We had a birthday party for my son today at a bowling alley, hence my thought process. The toddlers had a BLAST. I can't believe he's five!)

[thebigcheese]

I knew someone who stole a pair of bowling shoes from the bowling alley, but that's probably a little different from what you're thinking. She thought they were cool, so she wore them to school every once in a while.

[Unit of Energy]

my parents do have their own bowling shoes. And to me bowling once or twice a year doesn't actually justify the expense of having my own shoes. they take up space and it will take 7-15 years for me to finally be saving money not renting. And personally owning a pair of shoes that only get worn once or twice a year is silly.

[vorpal blade]

Vorpal- I'm so glad to hear that things are going well! That must just be awful to go through. My brother in law is a pediatric surgeon, and he always has terrifying stories to tell. Well, they are daily life to him, but scary to the people involved.

Thanks!

[ahem.]

I've always owned my own bowling shoes. But then, I do a lot of bowling.

[Gimgimno]

Whistler is in my Japanese class this semester. I talked to her after class, but she didn't want to talk to me because I'd accidentally said that "nanigo" meant "what time" instead of "what language" during class. Embarrassing.

[Whistler]

w-what??

[C is for]

Funny story. Right now at work I'm manually inputting the weekly summaries for each week of instruction. While waiting for a course to come up, I visited the forum and decided to nominate something for the Title Bar. It was a narrow escape that I noticed I'd pasted Katya's comment in the summary of week 18 instead of the summary. Ha ha. It's so hilarious.

[Katya]

Funny story. Right now at work I'm manually inputting the weekly summaries for each week of instruction. While waiting for a course to come up, I visited the forum and decided to nominate something for the Title Bar. It was a narrow escape that I noticed I'd pasted Katya's comment in the summary of week 18 instead of the summary. Ha ha. It's so hilarious.

It would be an interesting class whose instruction could be summarized by my comment . . .

[vorpal blade]

Here are a couple of pictures of Evan after the operation. Depending on how his brain surgery wound makes a scar, do you think they should call him "Harry Potter?"

[Dead Cat]

Here are a couple of pictures of Evan after the operation. Depending on how his brain surgery wound makes a scar, do you think they should call him "Harry Potter?"

Yes. Even if they decide not to call him that, you should at every available opportunity. Or maybe you should call him Harry Evans Potter

[krebscout]

Oh goodness, how terrifying for the parents. I'm so glad he's doing so well. And quite the handsome kid. What a blessing.

[NerdGirl]

Definitely call him Harry Potter! He's so cute! My brother got hit in the head with something a few years ago during some military training, and he had a Harry Potter scar for a few months, but alas, it faded.

[Marduk]

We need some sort of identifying nomenclature that classifies him simultaneously as a relation of Vorpal and the petulant Mr. Potter. Hrmm.... Harry Blade? Vorpal Potter? Potter Blade? Yes, I think I like the last one best.

In other news, through no fault or intent of my own, I discovered Katya on the F-book. Maybe now I'M the one who needs a title... "the incidental facebook stalker," perhaps?

[Dragon Lady]

I dunno. Nicknaming him with Blade with a scar like that seems a little… unkosher.