Still bleeding (gah) and had some damned awful cramping this afternoon, so I'm actually calling the on-call nurse at the clinic in the morning to let them know I will be coming in on Monday, appointment or not, because I can tolerate bleeding every other week but will not tolerate unnecessary pain.
On a cheerier note, we now have two ECS K7SEM v3.0C mini mobo/CPU combos for well off retail by getting them used (year old) off a fellow folder. Since we drove up to Selma to pick them up, we continued on to Raleigh and picked up a few parts to turn them into headless folders for our Folding@Home contributions. (:
Two funny things happened on the way home:
- when we stopped in at the Goldsboro Wal-Mart, we came out to find a smaller SUV parked next to us with the vanity plate FARSC8PE. I got so excited at the thought of someone else in this town appreciative of it I was jumping up and down and making happy noises, which scared the crap out of someone walking by. (He probably thought I was an overgrown 6-year-old since the water here creates tremendous breasts in the locals.)
- listening to the bluegrass show on after etown, we heard a song with the chorus "there's a hole in my bucket and I can't buy no beer".
While I was typing, the musical guest on tonight's rerun of SNL was singing about her "boo". Being out of touch with mainstream society, I asked Himself what that was. He says it's short for boyfriend. If English wasn't my dual first-language I'd give up on it entirely. This "u"/"ur"/"r"/fake-l33t crap is confusing enough.
On a cheerier note, we now have two ECS K7SEM v3.0C mini mobo/CPU combos for well off retail by getting them used (year old) off a fellow folder. Since we drove up to Selma to pick them up, we continued on to Raleigh and picked up a few parts to turn them into headless folders for our Folding@Home contributions. (:
Two funny things happened on the way home:
- when we stopped in at the Goldsboro Wal-Mart, we came out to find a smaller SUV parked next to us with the vanity plate FARSC8PE. I got so excited at the thought of someone else in this town appreciative of it I was jumping up and down and making happy noises, which scared the crap out of someone walking by. (He probably thought I was an overgrown 6-year-old since the water here creates tremendous breasts in the locals.)
- listening to the bluegrass show on after etown, we heard a song with the chorus "there's a hole in my bucket and I can't buy no beer".
While I was typing, the musical guest on tonight's rerun of SNL was singing about her "boo". Being out of touch with mainstream society, I asked Himself what that was. He says it's short for boyfriend. If English wasn't my dual first-language I'd give up on it entirely. This "u"/"ur"/"r"/fake-l33t crap is confusing enough.
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I can't stand that "like whoa" shit at the end of a sentence. Who made that crap up?
I actually think it's a bastardization of "beau".
LOL
It's a bastardization of the French "beau" (male-pretty) which has come to mean "a young man courting a woman."
This cracks me up because MOST of the people that the term is used about are anything BUT pretty. {chuckle}
Oh, well, I guess the beau is in the eye of a beholder.
But, do we really NEED another word for girlfriend? I mean... there's chick, girl, bird, babe, honey, sweetie, bitch, ho, and even tomato (as well as a couple hundred others).
The reasoning for beau turning into boo is for how it's pronounced. It's pronounced much like "bow" (I highly recommend Babylon Translator; it's pretty cool -- and it can say the words for you).
(There's the useless linguistics comment for the day. LOL)
You always remember my favorite songs, pun'kin. I only know how it's pronounced because of that song too.
This is what I get for not taking French.
Get to the chorus and tell me that makes *any* sense. And yet, on another site, I read the "translation."
I did like one of those message board things where they were talking about how right-on the chorus was. Which makes me think they're either daft or it does mean something.
My reference to l33t-ness is a bit more complicated. It comes from elite, which the Jargon File says originally referred to the users with access to typically hidden parts of BBSes (the parts with pirated software). The online version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy picks it up from there, suggesting it caught on among gamers in the early 1990s (internet connectivity in the games Doom and Doom II). Nowadays most of the people I see using it are either trying to act cool or are being sarcastic, but it's the ones who honestly find it entertaining that irritate me.
it is called silicone.
Himself says it'd be tremendously entertaining to go out more this time of year if he was a boob man.