Thought for the day - October 8, 2000

Subject: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Oct 00 - 06:35 PM

Oh! I had a poem to post last night for this thread, but decided it was too personal, then the 'Cat went down, so it's probably just as well. So, here's the thought, let's all tell what we did while the 'Cat was down!

I posted to the help forum
In a fit of pique and panic
No Ragtime, Shorty, nor loki
I fast lost my decorum.

The ole brain creaked into motion
Kalaidescopes of sound and sight
Beyond the blinders of the net,
A world full of commotion!

Still a cord of whiz-bang binding
Kept me online, scanning options
Built three pages, words are pasted
My own website I went mining!

So...what did you do?

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: Quincy
Date: 08 Oct 00 - 07:18 PM

Oh Kat, I also went to the help forum and I clicked and I clicked and I clicked!
Got slightly paranoid that it might just be me that had been "barred" from the 'Cat because of something I'd said....
I tried every which way and finally after nothing for the whole day ragtime let me in!!!!
Withdrawal symptoms were worse than I could ever have imagined!

best wishes, Yvonne

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: WyoWoman
Date: 08 Oct 00 - 09:00 PM

I mostly learned Kate Rusby's "I Am Stretched on Your Grave." I re-wrote the outline to a novel I've been working on.

I had intestinal flu. This could have been withdrawal symptoms, I realize now.

I played guitar until my fingertips hurt. This is what I'm trying to do every day. Masochistic, yes, but it seems to be being effective ...

And THAT's what I did in school today, dear little ones of mine ...

ww

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Oct 00 - 10:24 PM

WOW!WYO! That's great about your outline!

Rog had the flu all day, too, so I got to play nursemaid; yippee!! I am repelling the flu.

And, ummmm, when you get down to the bone, um, I think it's okay to stop practising.**BG**

Yvonne, I KNOW! I don't suffer as much as I used to when it goes down, but it still leaves a hole about the size of Texas...I miss everyone!

kat

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 04:04 AM

I wrote a limerick. I did a lot of midterm b.s. for school. I missed my friends. I played my accordion.

Carol

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: BlueJay
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 04:20 AM

Spent about three hours on a really nice Tacoma acoustic bass, jamming with my daughter on flute and my son in law on guitar and mandola. OK, I exagerate: part of my time wasspent on guitar and mandolin. But the bass is fairly new to me, and this is the first time I'd really played an acoustic one. What a treat. The Tacoma is set up well, and very responsive. A real pleasure for me to play, almost like a guitar except you have to lower your ears a bit and grow your fingers about an inch.
It's amazing the amount of black that can be put on our fingertips playing bass. Plus, my fingers are forming calluses where they'd never dreamed! Oh, well, it sure was fun. Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 06:52 AM

Hope you are feeling better WyoWoman. With a name like WW I imagine you riding on a horse bareback through the Teton Range keeping law and order amongst the tourist & locals.

I bought a TV & VCR. I gave that kind of thing up about 2 years ago but decided it was time to come back to the planet. I rented The Green Mile with Tom Hanks, great movie.

I went shopping for a stand to put the TV & VCR on, but everything I liked was a gazillion dollars. So I came home and while parking I saw beside the dumpster that someone had thrown out a lovely oak chest. It was very old and in excellent condition except for one leg that had fallen off. But the leg was there and it was no big deal to put it back on. The thing was gorgeous and very valuable. Well there it was, a gift from the Universe, my new entertainment unit.

Felt mighty fortunate yesterday, and I feel mighty fortunate today because the Mudcat is back up and running.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 06:55 AM

I cleaned house (yuck) and cleaned up my web page.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 07:02 AM

I took my daughter and mother-in-law on the local Wool Arts Tour, visiting local sheep farms and admiring spinners and weavers at work. My daughter had more fun than my other passenger.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: harpgirl
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 07:16 AM

...I planned my pond, worked on Off To California on the autoharp, ICQ'd with my favorite mudcatter, bought a new dishwasher and slept! It was a good day.
With all that empty time and space in bum---- Wyo, you oughta be able to get that novel done right quick! Did I ever tell you about the guy I know with the fish skeleton tattoed on his ----? He's going in my novel! Ab

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 08:33 AM

Got my hair cut and highlighted; visited my son; saw the Mets and the Yankees win; flea marketed. There's a whole world outside my computer room. WOW.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: Mbo
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 12:45 PM

Mets RULE! We were all rejoicing at the beach when Atlanta got clobbered. Good riddance! Go back to your beefalo farms, losers!

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 01:01 PM

The time has come,Morticia cried
To brighten up the gloom
And with paint and paper everywhere
She re-did her sitting room

Into the valley of decorating
I happily cast my lot
It's now a lovely shade of green,
(Well...more like head cold snot)

Whilst Mudcat had deserted me
I turned the house upside down
But now that it's back up again
I just want to sit down

The furniture from the sitting -room
Still reposes in a heap
Upon the floor of the dining room
It makes me want to weep

Oh, that Mudcat had never left
Or at least stayed down today,
For now I fear the mess I made
Might well be here to stay

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: Peter T.
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 01:02 PM

But spare a thought for our stalwart Oakland mudcatters.
yours, Peter T. (Yankee hater since 1964)

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: Melani
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 05:51 PM

I went to bed. I figured it was the Netgod's way of telling me to get eight hours' sleep for a change.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 8, 2000
From: GUEST,Seth in China
Date: 10 Oct 00 - 04:35 AM

I'm teaching 5th, 6th and 7th graders in China. I'm from Washington state. Every morning we wake up to an instumental version of " Sexual Healing" played over the school p.a. syste, to every dormitory and apartment. I use a lot of music for my teaching. My students liked " How -Di Do " by Woody Guthrie, but not as much as Songs by James Brown and the Temptations. On another note, I'd like to know what things people did with their record collections when CD's took over. Somehow I can't part with my 5000 lps, and so I am paying to store them while I'm in China. Best to all from under the "A" in "China"