How do you feel today? v. 3.0

[Cameraman Jenn]

SORUS!!! The source of the music is in Australia. I think nuclear weapons are the only answer. I warned the AU watchers to get out in a post on my blog.

[aliantha]

That's impossible. Australia doesn't exist. (Where *is* Sarge, anyhow?)

[Cameraman Jenn]

Here's the source code:
www.trusonic.com.au/
Adam always joked about the Ozzies being secretly out to get the Americans and now I know he meant it, FOR REAL.

[Shaun das Schaf]

SORUS!!! The source of the music is in Australia. I think nuclear weapons are the only answer. I warned the AU watchers to get out in a post on my blog.

If it'll get rid of crappy Christmas music, I think it's a perfectly worthy sacrifice. And as for us being secretly out to get you, well, it's not much of a secret now is it?

That's impossible. Australia doesn't exist. (Where *is* Sarge, anyhow?)

His in-depth knowledge of the mythical land of Oz qualified him for honorary citizenship. He therefore no longer exists.

They're not grumpy, they're stoned!

They'd have to be, to put up with a tree up their butts every December!

No! You have to tell it this way! [aussie] One July Santa was having a really bad Christmas. Bad headache; the sleigh wouldn't start; the reindeer wouldn't obey; Mrs. Claus kept calling while he was working; he had a hole in his boot; he was way behind schedule; etc. When he got to Sydney, an overly friendly koala carrying a decorated Christmas tree kept bothering Santa to ask where to put the tree. In exasperation, the koala cried, "Just tell me where to stick it!!" And that's why in Australia they have koalas on top of Christmas trees. [/aussie]

Wayfriend, that is SO cool you know that Christmas Origin Story! Obviously we teach our kids from a young age, along with all the other origin stories, such as how Rudolph insulted Skippy the Bush Kangaroo's mother, leading to a drunken punch up in which Skip gave Rudey a bloody shiner on the snauser.

[sgt.null]

That's impossible. Australia doesn't exist. (Where *is* Sarge, anyhow?)

working 6 days a week, put in 13 and one half hours last night.

art car museum has another open call opening this saturday. only one piece in this year - but i am very proud of it. will take then post pics.

[MsMary]

How do we know sarge is back? All the silly threads are bumped.

Nice to see you, sarge.

[Sorus]

SORUS!!! The source of the music is in Australia. I think nuclear weapons are the only answer. I warned the AU watchers to get out in a post on my blog.

Overkill is my middle name, and I completely agree that extreme measures must be taken, and taken soon. But nuking Australia would lower my chances of someday having a pet wombat, so I think a satellite-mounted proton cannon might be better suited to the task.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Actually, we probably need to infiltrate the headquarters, find the list of the performers and their addresses so that we can insure that the Aussies don't just start up a new business and use the same performers. I'm actually seriously tempted to buy one of those small recorders and tape it to the speaker in the breakroom and then put samples of the horror that Sorus and I suffer through multiple times a day, five days a week.

I'm liking the proton cannon idea though. Infiltrate, steal the info, destry the HQ, then hunt down the performers and assassinate. Or if we had the list of addresses we could just mail them all highly concentrated anthrax. Ok, I know, that was tacky and inappropriate.

[Sorus]

Ok, I know, that was tacky and inappropriate.

Just like our soundtrack!

Have I mentioned that all I want is to spend Xmas with Madonna?

[lucimay]

Ok, I know, that was tacky and inappropriate.

Just like our soundtrack!

Have I mentioned that all I want is to spend Xmas with Madonna?

[deer of the dawn]

A lot has changed in the last 5 years in Nigeria (and, I suspect, in other undeveloping* countries). 5 years ago, Christmas trees were some strange thing of wonder that only expatriates had in their homes. Now they are everywhere, along with the nastiest, tackiest possible decor and music... probably a lot of product-dumping going on (i.e., it didn't sell in Europe or the US so they ship the crap here because they haven't had enough exposure to know how godawful it really is). For our anniversary Bob and I went to a nice restaurant. For the first half-hour we were subjected to a cheesy machine-generated disco beat with an endless stream of Christmas carols sung by a panoply of non-English speakers. It was killing me, but it finally ended. Thankfully, I have the survival skill sine qua non for Nigeria-- a highly developed sense of ironic humor.

(*I say "undeveloping" because Nigeria is going backwards, deteriorating rather than developing, and I suspect the case is the same in other corrupt countries.)

[Frostheart Grueburn]

SORUS!!! The source of the music is in Australia. I think nuclear weapons are the only answer. I warned the AU watchers to get out in a post on my blog.

If it'll get rid of crappy Christmas music, I think it's a perfectly worthy sacrifice. And as for us being secretly out to get you, well, it's not much of a secret now is it?

Any ideas with what you're going to replace it? Fennoscandian Metal Enterprises offers licensing that allows access to a collection of thousands and thousands of seasonal songs, growled in several exotic languages, some of whose rolling R's and wide vowels certainly tickle the ears of even the most nitpicky listeners. Lyrical themes range from 'a blacker than black darkness falling blackly down upon the murk of the ravendark winternight' to 'Raaaarrh the frostbitten snowbound cold, this sun-forsaken land now enfold!'

As a generous bonus, they provide a special mp3 library jammed chock-full of authentic winter sounds: the crunching of snow, the howling of fimbulwinter gales, yammering of wolves, forest troll grunts, 'perkele' shouted in a hoarfrosted woods after slipping on an iced-over puddle, and all this beautifully overlaid with tracks of trademarked black metal roaring. You can use this to...um...err...scare kangaroos?

[caamora]

I'm freaking out. Hubby and I have wanted to move back to Southern California so a couple of weeks ago, I started applying at other jobs in my company located in LA and Orange County. Holy crap! I was offered a job already!!! I wasn't expecting it so soon. And holy crap, I'd forgotten how expensive rents were out there. And my husband will have to get our house here in AZ ready to sell AND find himself a job in the interim.

Holy shit! I'm freaking out!

[I'm Murrin]

So it looks like I've decided to go on holiday next year. Will be my first holiday in a very long time, and my first ever holiday on my own.

In fact, it's been so long since my last holiday abroad that it was before I needed my own passport, so I've now got to go through the whole application process for a first time passport, including an identity interview.

[aliantha]

Congrats, caam and Murrin, on moving your lives forward!

I got nothin' here. Same stuff, different day.

[DukkhaWaynhim]

Actually, we probably need to infiltrate the headquarters, find the list of the performers and their addresses so that we can insure that the Aussies don't just start up a new business and use the same performers. I'm actually seriously tempted to buy one of those small recorders and tape it to the speaker in the breakroom and then put samples of the horror that Sorus and I suffer through multiple times a day, five days a week.

I'm liking the proton cannon idea though. Infiltrate, steal the info, destry the HQ, then hunt down the performers and assassinate. Or if we had the list of addresses we could just mail them all highly concentrated anthrax. Ok, I know, that was tacky and inappropriate.

As a more practical solution...why not just install a big red universal mute button in the store? That way, you can mute out anything that you don't want to listen to.

dw

[Sorus]

Ok, I know, that was tacky and inappropriate.

Just like our soundtrack!

Have I mentioned that all I want is to spend Xmas with Madonna?

Oh, you can laugh. You haven't heard the atrocities they're calling music. That particular one has been stuck in my head for two days now. It appears to be the fantasy of some creepy guy who is stalking Madonna, trying to convince Santa to grant him his wish of spending Xmas with her. I'm not really up on the whole Santa mythos, but that sounds more like genie territory to me. Quite frankly, the whole thing has me worried. What if that creepy fellow that bothers me on my way to work in the morning wants to spend Xmas with me? Is Santa gonna grant that wish? Do I have any say in the matter?

Of course, it's quite possible he's a normal guy with a harmless fantasy. In that case, my only complaint is that I have to listen to him whine about it three times a day. Seriously, dude. Keep it to yourself.

So it looks like I've decided to go on holiday next year. Will be my first holiday in a very long time, and my first ever holiday on my own.

In fact, it's been so long since my last holiday abroad that it was before I needed my own passport, so I've now got to go through the whole application process for a first time passport, including an identity interview.

That's awesome. I need a holiday. Not sure what an 'identity interview' is, but it sounds rather ominous. Have a great time.

As a more practical solution...why not just install a big red universal mute button in the store? That way, you can mute out anything that you don't want to listen to.

dw

Practical solutions were considered on the first day. After two weeks, it's murder and mayhem all the way. Big red universal mute button might be a short-term solution, but a long-term solution must be more permanent. It's for the good of humanity.

[Menolly]

So it looks like I've decided to go on holiday next year. Will be my first holiday in a very long time, and my first ever holiday on my own.

In fact, it's been so long since my last holiday abroad that it was before I needed my own passport, so I've now got to go through the whole application process for a first time passport, including an identity interview.

Ooo...

One step closer to coming to the next elohimfest.

[Cambo]

Sorus, these are the no-shit verbatim lyrics of a Christmas song they are playing at my work (to be heard in cheesy Spanish accent):

Aye aye aye it's Christmas and I don't know what to do
Aye aye aye it's Christmas and I have no gift for you
I can get you aye aye aye
All you need is aye aye aye
Come and get some aye aye aye
On this Christmas night!

[Cameraman Jenn]

Sorus ain't kidding! I've had the "I wish I was Bruce Springsteen singing The River" but instead I'm applying my sad attempt at his vocal styling and the drama/emotion of that song to my rendition of "Jingle Bells" since I can't even write my own music" song stuck in my head. The guy sounds like he's been constipated for two weeks straight without taking a dump and when he belts out the part about laughing all the way I think he actually bursts into man tears. I want to slap that guy so bad my whole arm and my right eye twitch when it comes on. And if I EVER meet the beeyach who is responsible for,

"Oh Mr. St. Nicholas please come round here,
Cuz I've been a good girl the whole stinking year,
I won't drink, I won't smoke, I won't cheat or steal
So Mr. St. Nicholas don't leave me hanging here.

There's also a part about St. Nicholas bringing her a house so her brother can have his own room and the infamous part of

I'll leave you some cookies and a big glass of milk,
Please bring me a negligee, something black and maybe silk.

I swear to the Universe that I am going to knock all of her teeth out with my fist then strangle her with the damn negligee. Seriously, I need to post mp3's of these songs and then you guys would truly understand.

Sorus, I got some of the short fingerless gloves at the dollar store, bought the rest of what they had except the rattiest two pairs. I'll bring you two pairs tomorrow. They are warmer than our striped ones but again, only wrist length so no forearm warming.

As for how I feel today, tired again. Work is winding down though, most students are done with most of their finals so it's good for me on a work load level but not for my numbers. It's all good though.