Pump Up the Late Shift Jam

03:20 / 22.08.04

Hey Sally! What choo (sounds like a sneeze) been up to tonight? Still have the strange cricket/treefrog sound?

03:47 / 22.08.04

Intermitently. Arguing and making up with the husband, dinner, playing with the cats, loading the dishwasher. The normal. How about your bad self?

03:56 / 22.08.04

Um, S/O and I went over to a friend's for dinner. Hung out there for a bit. After our friend's B/F went to sleep, I came home, had a short nap, then my partner came home about an hour later (she stayed to hang out for awhile longer than me--girl time, I guess). I've been pissing about here, doing some painting, smoking cigs, and playing with one of the rodents.

Are you still feeling a bit bored or restless or whatever?

04:06 / 22.08.04

Oh, and sorry to hear you were having troubles with your partner, but it's good to hear that you two made up & that it's not still hanging over your head.

04:21 / 22.08.04

Yup, my s/o and I have notoriously quick problem resolution time. Rocks. Still bored, but less restless. So restful in fact, that I am going to go to sleep, or try. G'night, hope you find fridge.

'Night Sally!

And as far as finding fridge goes, here's a Venn diagram to illustrate how I think the search will go this evening:

Benny the Ball

06:19 / 22.08.04

Opps, sorry Kitchen, I feel asleep on my computer again!

I'm/was very good.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

08:37 / 22.08.04

Goodnight Barbelith. I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

Benny the Ball

20:38 / 22.08.04

At what time do we consider the late shift open and closed?

20:49 / 22.08.04

Well, considering it is always late somewhere in the world, I don't think it matters. I mean, it pretty much "opens" when someone bumps it to the top for the day, and seems to "close" when no one responds to it anymore, or if the people posting to it have all said "good night". At least, that's how I see it working.

21:07 / 22.08.04

I've generally seen it open around 8 or 9 pm GMT, and carry on pretty much until dawn. The late shift is also one of the few places where we can real-time banter with our beloved diurnal Australian posters (Rothky, sugar, I miss you!), as often times, people in Europe and the Americas are asleep when they're around. So yesh, basically, twenty four hours a day.

Grey Area

21:12 / 22.08.04

...this particular European is still awake. Good evening all and sundry. Anyone know how to make XP Pro recognise mass storage adapters using USB2.0? This is driving me insane.

Sekhmet

21:13 / 22.08.04

I just had a thought regarding the mysterious cricket/tree frog noise - you don't happen to have a computer that is running Weatherbug, do you? Because it makes little crickety sounds intermittently if there is a weather notice, and it will drive you batty looking for a critter that doesn't exist (my husband and I spent three days looking for a cricket in the study till we figured this out)...

22:58 / 22.08.04

We do, but that computer has yet to be on at the time the noises were heard. I've checked the porch, no frog there, so I'm starting to suspect it's not actually in the house, just right outside on the nearest tree. I can't imagine it'd've survived the cats for this long if it was indoors, they're pretty fierce.

23:01 / 22.08.04

Perhaps an invisible frog? We had those in my village when I was growing up...

Mind you, it was a pretty fucked up village.

Olulabelle

23:14 / 22.08.04

Um...How do you actually know you had invisible frogs? Surely it's more likely you lived in a village where the populace imagined hearing frogs a great deal, rather than the village actually having bone fide invisible ones?

23:24 / 22.08.04

Ah, but would you rather claim that otherwise healthy and wise villagers hallucinated frogs, or that frogs were there but invisible to the naked eye?

23:28 / 22.08.04

If we're hallucinating, it's probably just heatstroke. No big thing. Maybe they're relatives of those little newts all over the place in Enigma.

23:29 / 22.08.04

Well, does it have to be an either/or-type situation? What about the possible explanations offered us by neither/and?

I have no idea what they might be. I’m just saying, like. It’s late.

23:31 / 22.08.04

Try swinging a mashie niblick at the affected area. Can work wonders.Try to remember to open your windows first, though.

Evening, BH. How you?

Olulabelle

23:35 / 22.08.04

A village where people regularly hallucinate frogs sounds like a cracking place to live.

I don't know what you're worried about.

23:37 / 22.08.04

I'd be worried about the real frogs launching an assault.

23:38 / 22.08.04

Currently trying to mind my own business. There’s a briefcase across the street from me. I just looked out of my first-floor window: there’s a dark alcove just across the street from my flat and there’s definitely a briefcase or a little suitcase stood upright in that alcove. I’m itching to go and have a nose, but it’s very dark out there and I fear I might be intruding on some scary person’s business transaction.

Ahoo. Whatever it is, it’s *nothing* to do with me. I mention it because I come here seeking distraction from thoughts of mysterious briefcases in shadowy alcoves.

I know this all sounds quite ludicrous, btw.

23:39 / 22.08.04

It's probably a frog hallucinogen cartel. Best steer clear.

Olulabelle

23:46 / 22.08.04

Beware the suitcase-leaving scary Mafia frogs. Beware. But go and look. Slyly.

23:50 / 22.08.04

Or you might find a pair of severed legs inside the case, which will give it a funny smell. And then, because of the smell, when you go to sell the case to a fence you know, he won't give you enough to score.

23:54 / 22.08.04

Probably packed with invisible frogs so tightly that if opened it will spray you with a volley of the croaky little buggers. Just remember to keep your mouth tightly shut.

23:59 / 22.08.04

Trading in hallucinatory invisible frogs? In a briefcase that’s visible from across the road? Surely that would defeat the point, the frogs would be far better exchanged in clear plastic bags. No, it’s probably something utterly mundane, like spoons, or something. Crooks like antique spoons, and spoons fit in briefcases. It all dovetails.

00:01 / 23.08.04

Unless you are really hard up for food, then keeping your mouth wide open might be an added bonus to a free case.

00:02 / 23.08.04

Don't be silly, Bed Head. Why on Earth would you want to trade in *invisible spoons*?

00:03 / 23.08.04

Well you have to keep the damn frogs in something, otherwise how are you going to keep them together.

00:07 / 23.08.04

Yes, but if you use spoons they just climb into the bowl and then get their friends to jump - jumping being something of a gift - onto the stem, hurling them to freedom. Using invisible spoons slows this process, but in the end they work it out by feel.

00:12 / 23.08.04

If the spoons were invisible, it'd be quite difficult to identify them as antique, hmm?

Some guy tried to sell me antique spoons only the other day. He had them all under his coat. I think he was looking to score.