disjointed ramblings while files download
Mar. 22nd, 2004 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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lonejaguar!
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Making progress on the retyping thing. It is faster the second time around, and I found some more stuff I thought I'd lost and only need to reformat.
Found out that the minor kablooie also affected the choir songs I'd downloaded and put into a playlist. Damn Kurt (our director), anyway. Here I am, all ready to renounce choir for the rest of the year... and he goes and posts soundfiles of our next concert's songs on the web. And they're gorgeous.
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Daniel and Justin tried snails the other day. Justin, who was very excited at the prospect, who bugged Chris about it until Chris finally called his uncle in Calgary and got a recipe from him and made them, and who will usually eat anything that doesn't move - and a few things that do, if they're slow enough - took one bite and declared them to be disgusting.
Daniel, who is one of the food-pickiest kids I know, chewed pensively, then said, "They're OK, but they taste mysterious and they're hard to chew." And he ate both of his and asked for more.
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Justin has decided that after our cat is gone, we will get a pony. So the other day he told me he wanted our cat to die so we could get a pony. I told him that wouldn't do any good, since if she died right now we wouldn't get a pony anyway - no money. Besides which... she's our pet. We love her. Right?
"I do love her. But I want her to be dead."
Kids. Way too honest for their own good.
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Do you know why pouring water on fire puts it out? Justin asked me that and I tried in vain to remember enough of OAC Chemistry to explain, but didn't get anywhere.
"Because," he told me. "What's the enemy of hot? Cold. And what's the enemy of cold? Hot. And water is just snow and snow is cold. So the cold and the hot battle each other and then they get destroyed."
And damn it, I couldn't figure out how to tell him he was wrong. Because it does make a hell of a lot of sense.
lonejaguar!Making progress on the retyping thing. It is faster the second time around, and I found some more stuff I thought I'd lost and only need to reformat.
Found out that the minor kablooie also affected the choir songs I'd downloaded and put into a playlist. Damn Kurt (our director), anyway. Here I am, all ready to renounce choir for the rest of the year... and he goes and posts soundfiles of our next concert's songs on the web. And they're gorgeous.
Daniel and Justin tried snails the other day. Justin, who was very excited at the prospect, who bugged Chris about it until Chris finally called his uncle in Calgary and got a recipe from him and made them, and who will usually eat anything that doesn't move - and a few things that do, if they're slow enough - took one bite and declared them to be disgusting.
Daniel, who is one of the food-pickiest kids I know, chewed pensively, then said, "They're OK, but they taste mysterious and they're hard to chew." And he ate both of his and asked for more.
Justin has decided that after our cat is gone, we will get a pony. So the other day he told me he wanted our cat to die so we could get a pony. I told him that wouldn't do any good, since if she died right now we wouldn't get a pony anyway - no money. Besides which... she's our pet. We love her. Right?
"I do love her. But I want her to be dead."
Kids. Way too honest for their own good.
Do you know why pouring water on fire puts it out? Justin asked me that and I tried in vain to remember enough of OAC Chemistry to explain, but didn't get anywhere.
"Because," he told me. "What's the enemy of hot? Cold. And what's the enemy of cold? Hot. And water is just snow and snow is cold. So the cold and the hot battle each other and then they get destroyed."
And damn it, I couldn't figure out how to tell him he was wrong. Because it does make a hell of a lot of sense.
