jaquetta
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Post by jaquetta on Jul 23, 2005 19:10:22 GMT -5
I went to Books by the Bay in Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco today - lots of independent booksellers there and Rhys Bowen autographed my copy of her new Molly Murphy mystery, but San Francisco betrayed me. It was hot! Not as hot as Concord, but hot. I also found the HP Lovecraft book I was looking for at the Borderlands booth.
We ducked into SF MOMA but I'm a philsitine. Modern Art mostly leaves me cold, although there was a cool picture of a coffepot by Matisse I wouldn't mind owning. In case anyone wonder what to get me for my birthday.
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Post by trisha on Jul 24, 2005 11:42:45 GMT -5
Lol ;D Just as soon as I win the lottery, it will be fine art for all my friends. Until then, I leave it to the moppets to decorate my walls. If you like, I could send you mini moppets version of Starry Night, or Miss Moppets rendering of Sunflowers. I must say, I really prefer their original work over the imitations their art teacher had them make. I also have to wonder what Van Gogh would think of children in an art class being asked to regurgitate his work. But that 's another story.
So, SF betrayed you with a hot day? I wasn't aware that was out of the ordinary there. MI has betrayed me with weeks on end of high highs. Even during the T-storm we had this morning, it was still around 75 degrees out there.
And, yes, our road signs are not quite logical. Even I have been lead astray by them, and there's nothing more humiliating then being lost in your own backyard.
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jaquetta
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Post by jaquetta on Jul 24, 2005 20:04:56 GMT -5
Trisha, your children's art is probably just as good if not better - at least to me. I'm sure Van Gogh would be proud to have his work re-imagined! Or not.
Hey, Mark Twain has said that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. You have to wonder where he spent his other winters, but generally the weather hovers between 40-77ish (fog in the morning). So to have it in the 80's (and there was no way it was 82 where I was, it had to be 90 something. All those highrises & concrete? The lawn of Yerba Buena Gardens notwithstanding.)
Today I was in Oakland at the FiberArts festival for the Knitting & Crocheting guilds and then ran up to Piedmont Ave, my old haunt. (Worked there for 15 years). Pity I came home. Thirty degree difference on this side of the tunnel. Alas.
Don't you hate getting lost in your own town? They redid the streets around here for the BART station and one day I was driving down a road I had never seen before from a road I think I have driven practically every day of my life. (well, for hyperboles sake, practically). It was more than a little unnerving.
CI tonight! And one that I haven't rewatched for awhile.
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Post by Metella on Jul 25, 2005 10:17:40 GMT -5
Say; I know a member on here who should speak up .... she can do custom watercolor art work ....... I have an original piece up in my home Global Warming - nah, just something those pesky scientists like to blabber on about. Let's cut down some more trees for a view of our neighbor's wall.
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Post by BegToDiffer on Jul 25, 2005 14:23:02 GMT -5
To anyone who doesn't believe in Global Warming, just come to my house. It was 85 degrees inside when I tried to go to bed last night. Even the fan was useless. Tried to sleep but then I began to hear animal screams. So, at 2:30 a.m., I'm now in my neighbor's yard, in my nightgown, with a flashlight and heavy duty gloves, releasing a baby raccoon from the trap the jerk set. (Also, praying that I won't get shot.) All this was not a pretty picture. Ah, summer in the city. See what lack of sleep gets you.
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Post by Metella on Jul 25, 2005 15:03:22 GMT -5
racoon in a city? poor bugger. Well, my house is the only one on the block w/trees ..... it is by far the coolest one AND the paint fades slower so I have to paint the fence less etc
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Post by trisha on Jul 26, 2005 11:49:49 GMT -5
BTD, the only person I know of who doesn't believe in global warming is G. W. Bush, and I know you don't want him staying the night (like you need another useless, spinner in your bedroom) ;D ;D Not to change the subject, but what happened to our 1st season rewatch? Is anyone still interested? If so, start a thread for ART
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Post by Sirenna on Jul 26, 2005 20:05:12 GMT -5
LOL, Trisha! George Bush sex jokes! The weather's been freaky here lately too. Humidex in the forties just like most of the midwest but it decided to rain on my way to work this morning. Ten minutes was all it took to turn my white work shirt see-through!!! I hid in my cube for about forty-five minutes until I dried out.
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Post by Metella on Jul 27, 2005 7:03:45 GMT -5
ooops ! say, I had a smoky blue shirt that I didn't realize was seethrough in the florescent light of the office ...... since it wasn't in the normal light of my house ....... ouch. I just had to bull though the day with my arms crossed most of the time. Thank goodness I wore a sensible bra.
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Post by janetcatbird on Jul 27, 2005 10:17:18 GMT -5
You want a heat wave? We're in the hundreds, with humidity making it feel like 110!! For about the 4th straight day!!
Some years ago a local columnist talked about our area, how the heat is what makes Southerners so crazy. You know, when it's hot enough to melt rocks and the AC goes it's "Lord of the Flies". Yeah, come on down!!
--Catbird
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jaquetta
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Post by jaquetta on Jul 27, 2005 11:16:14 GMT -5
I don't know about Global Warming, SF is always hot a couple of days out of the year, I just feel singled out that it was when I was there . It's actually been colder than normal around these parts, but its back to its hideous 100 degree weather. I think I'm having trouble switching from the Global Cooling and coming Ice Age that we were all worried about when I was in HS. That and Zero Population were the hot topics.
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Post by Sirenna on Jul 27, 2005 18:47:38 GMT -5
Lucky for me I wore a bra that day! Yes I confess to going commando up there once in a while although never at work. Work clothes make anyone look like crap so one needs the support to enhance. When it's below 20 degrees and I'm under three layers of fleece and cotton I fill out like a snowman so then no-one notices. Or so I think... ;D
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Post by janetcatbird on Jul 27, 2005 19:48:32 GMT -5
I shouldn't complain too much about the heat, it's not like I'm one of those poor pitiful construction crews. Anyways, when Mom was pregnant with me they were living in Houston, Texas. I was born in the middle of June, and Mom did not have the best pregnancy, swelling and fluid and all. She still hasn't quite forgiven me for that, I think...
"Going commando?" If you're just around the house that's one thing, though I always wear oen if I'm to be seen in public. Of course, when I was in dorm classes people rolled out of bed in their pajamas... The trick is what kind of top you're wearing, cause when your straps show through a spaghetti strap top that's just tacky. But I know in my generation (I'm just barely out of the juniors department) it's different than the work world. What's bad is when you go from 99 outside to office AC of 65 and your hair can't quite hide the points (bras can only do so much), cross your arms indeed!
--Catbird
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Post by trisha on Jul 27, 2005 21:32:54 GMT -5
Lol ;D I bet I know what Techguy is thinking, "The things I learn about women on internet message boards ..." I don't mind the heat here much, because it isn't usual for us and one thing we have a lot of in MI is places to cool off. And, Catbird, I always shop in the juniors department. For one thing, I'm short, which makes it hard to find a good fit elsewhere, and for another, I HATE the style (or lack there of) of the "womens" and "misses" dept. I've told my sister in law that if the day comes that I start shopping those sections of the store, she needs to either shoot me or beat me soundly about the head with a copy of Cosmo.
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Post by Techguy on Jul 27, 2005 22:04:33 GMT -5
I bet I know what Techguy is thinking, "The things I learn about women on internet message boards ..." Given the nature of the most recent posts in this thread, I have to say my thinking cap is still on the subject! And to think there are naysayers out there who still doubt the educational value of the Internet. HA!
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