| A very quick Good Morning |
[Jan. 9th, 2009|08:17 am] |
When three unexpected things happen before 8 am, we call that Friday :)
I think my coffee maker is dying, alas. The coffee is as good (or as bad!) as ever, but it is now tepid. Lukewarm coffee doesn't particularly bother me -- verily, when you have the mug ever on the desk, you are rather committed to the consumption of lukewarm coffee -- but at some point during its life cycle, coffee needs to be hot.
One wonders, one does, about the origins of 'lukewarm'. Why not mattwarm, or markwarm, or johnwarm?
Warm, apparently, is another one of those words that becomes ridiculous with repititon. Try it: warm, warm, warm, warm. It even looks silly.
Tim is disgruntled with the universe this morning; having watched the History Channel's Nostradomus special last night, he is convinced the world is going to end, and that we are all going to die.
(As an aside, I think the History Channel will soon have to surrender the name, for gross rampaging inaccuracy, if nothing else. And learning about history from the history channel is not unlike approaching advanced statistics solely by reading the back of a lottery ticket. You get some information, but no context, and very little of what you need to form a real understanding.../rant)
If I were a good wife, which most assuredly I am not, I perhaps would have responded with something other that (SPOILER ALERT) "Get over it, we're all going to die sometime anyway. Everyone dies. It happens. No one's getting out alive."
Knowing that, perhaps we should celebrate and enjoy the time we have, rather than freaking out over what is, frankly, rather inevitable anyway?
This response did not please him. I suspect the situation will not much improve on 12/22/12, if we're not all smoking heaps upon the ground.
Anyway, we can add this incident to the list of Reasons You Can Be Glad You're Not Married To Cindy.
And now, work, work, work. Verily, I have no pimp post, for I've nothing to pimp. Perhaps next week. The phone's about to ring, so onward, upward, forward!!!! |
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Plft, tell your hubby not to trust Nostradamus. Trust the Mayan calendar instead! End of the Age, December 24, 2012, baby!
I like it better because it's the end of the Age, not the end of the world. So there's hope some of us might survive the fallout!
My opinion has always been that the Mayan world ended a while ago.
Meh. Us monkeys have been predicting the end of the world ever since we realized there was something called the future. It's all been wrong so far.
I'm with you, CB. "5 to 1, baby, 1 in 5. No one here gets out alive..."
Btw, "luke" is from hleow, OE for "tepid". Or so dictionary.com tells me.
Bummer... further down, I've found a reason to become enamoured of "johnwarm".
Ug, did that air again last night?
Whupie, guess I know what sorts of questions I'll be answering at work tonight. XP
Ahh, johnwarm. That exquisite feeling of a cozy toilet seat at 3 a.m. when the bathroom is 20 degrees colder than the rest of the house.
Quite honestly? Lukewarm coffee=The End of the World.
I watched that last night too. It's interesting, and I can't lie that on 12/21/12 I will be staying up to midnight just to assure myself that the earth didn't go 'splodie. But I think it's just human nature to wonder about those things.
These are interesting times we live in, to say the least.
Oh dear priority of the day.....coffee maker
I'll have something to pimp next week. My life has been a little nutty lately
cackles. this is exactly the response a certain Texan would give, as well
i can vouch for the accuracy of the history channel when ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ephemera's dad is on.... (and every time he is, i squeak and flail at the tv.) i would've told tim the same thing you did. everyone dies, dude, suck it up and deal.
Yes, there are exceptions for ephemera's Daddy, and my former neighbor, Rob Roy... but this whole The Apocolypse Is Coming thing is making me nuts. Ok, nuttier. Ok, it contributed one peanut to the brittle.
And thus I have my giggle (why lukewarm?)and my brain thinky (the Fail of the History Channel) of the day all at once.
You win once more, sweet CB! Have a good morning :) | |
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