GifS’ Administrative Update
23 August 2007 by Eve
If things seem a little slow around here lately, fear not! Two of our most prolific posters, Stardust and Naomi, are currently off on non-GifS-related jaunts, and I myself can only pop in once and a while from work, that’s all (damn spam–!).
Gawd has been keeping himself busy, though:
Throwing Hurricane Dean at Mexico;
And cutting the Peruvian people no slack in the aftermath of the earthquake.
23 August 2007, on 9:31 pm
Naomi and Stardust are off jaunting?? We didn’t authorize that!
23 August 2007, on 9:52 pm
^ Oops - too late! :-O
23 August 2007, on 10:43 pm
Naomi and Stardust are off jaunting?? We didn’t authorize that!
Dudes, I am SOOOOOOO telling on you…
24 August 2007, on 12:08 am
About time those two shut up. Jeez. The rest of us can finally get a word in edge wise.
Just funnin’. I love you guys.
24 August 2007, on 8:45 am
I come back after a forced two-month hiatus, and I find that others are taking a break, too, while there are lots of posts from posters I do not know. I’ll have to dig right in!
Also: hi, Eve!
24 August 2007, on 12:53 pm
Hiya, Zipi!
Also, I didn’t mean to imply that the rest of the mods aren’t around; they are!
24 August 2007, on 10:40 pm
“Gawd has been keeping himself busy, though:”
One can only imagine the terrible sins those American, Peruvian and Mexicans must have committed…
24 August 2007, on 11:50 pm
One can only imagine the terrible sins those American, Peruvian and Mexicans must have committed…
Yeah, you can probably blame the Midwestern floods on me. I killed like 15 people, burned down a few churches, and robbed a few banks. An atheist’s work is never done!
25 August 2007, on 1:52 am
Sarah
And You didn’t invite me?
25 August 2007, on 2:52 am
Awww… I’m sorry.
Perhaps we can start another crime spree tomorrow? I’m rather tired, so I’ll need a day to rest up.
25 August 2007, on 1:51 pm
Hey Sarah and Jimmer
We’re having drought conditions here in NC, so maybe you could have you’re killing and burning spree here. We could use a flood. Lemme know so I can join in!
25 August 2007, on 2:00 pm
We (I & companion) were without Electric power from about 3:30 PM Thurday til ca. 6:30 AM this morning (Sat.).That’s the longest, ever, that I remember being without power. Everytime there’s any kind of blackout; I think of how rather primitive this world was before Mankind discovered…and developed…electricity. And rather difficult…and boring!
Yeah…ala Ben Franklin:
“Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a ‘man’ healthy…wealthy, and…
bored out of his friggin’ skull!
I used to fantasize about living in other historical times; especially in my ‘New Ager’ years. Somehow, now, as an aged atheist…REALIST…all that old romanticism fades, when I realize how lousy things were without modern conveniences; especially anything electrical!
For one thing, living without air conditioning in hot weather…just ain’t for me folks…and even the local Comcast cable just came back online a couple of hours ago. YAY!
Yeah…I had it on good authority that Stardust and Naomi were “On The Road Again”!
I hope Stardust dosn’t get a big surprise from her South side of Chicagoland home “Fridge” when she returns. The electric’s been out all over the area; and still wasn’t completely restored, as of this morning. Like other parts of the Midwest; we’ve had some of worst flooding in quite a few years. We actually were surprised that the food in our unopened Fridge HADN’T spoiled…What!…
Thank the FSM?
(Actually…one item IS spaghetti!…Yum, yum!)
25 August 2007, on 9:46 pm
ChuckA
I experienced a relatively short power outage the other day when an overhead power line went down in my area. Don’t know the reason. At the time, I was in the middle of typing a post on a blog and my monitor went pfffft! as all the power went out.
I checked my switch box to make sure it wasn’t just something here that tripped and came back and sat in front of my computer and my nearly empty coffee mug.
It was my first cup of the day. I savored the last swallow and cursed myself for not having drunk it sooner and already gotten started on a second hot cup before the loss of power.
It’s the little things in life that count. Ben would’ve had a nice pot belly stove to brew some coffee on, I bet.
26 August 2007, on 2:28 am
Hmmm…Karen…
Then again old Ben probably had VERY low expectations. Of course he did have his famous kite to play with…even during thunderstorms. I don’t know how much fun that would have been, of course, in 60 or 70 MPH winds; and pouring rain!
For me, however…
As far as anything in the realm of a ‘pot belly’(you probably already know where I’m going on this?)…let’s just say…it ain’t a stove! And I’m pretty sure there’s nothing cooking on it! While it’s not huge; it’s certainly not one of the littlest things in life. I’m not even sure it’s still warm! (badumbum?)
[OK...my big, 'word hint' finish]:
I suppose, in a sense, there IS something there to ‘contemplate’?
Orange, anyone?
[From this silly 'power out' comment...you don't think that storm effected my brain cells, now, do you...Karen?]
26 August 2007, on 2:46 pm
ChuckA
Hey, potbellies can come in handy. My dad’s was always used as a table to keep his hot dog on at baseball games.
And I think your brain cells are quite in tact, dear.
27 August 2007, on 6:28 pm
Hey everybody, I’m back and will be posting soon.
ChuckA, drove through some crazy weather on the way home, then when we got home I found plants overturned and tree branches down. What the hell happened?
Have to do some catching up and figure out what about the south I want to bitch about this time. We had several “experiences” during out second visit to Virginia. I could never live down south…never, ever, ever never.
27 August 2007, on 7:46 pm
Lol, many parts of Illinois aren’t that different from Southern VA. I’ve lived in both. Northern VA is more like the Chicago suburbs, but you don’t have to go far to get to Inbredville.
30 August 2007, on 11:12 pm
The only thing an “all powerful” Gord has at his disposal for ridding the world of “sinners” is natural disasters that invariably take out millions of innocents? (of course, if we are to believe the Holy Booble, no one’s innocent in an all loving Gord’s eyes) He can’t get his hands on something more precise? Hasn’t He ever heard of a snipper rifle?
Hurricans to get rid of a few sinners–the Devine equivalent of using dynamite to rid your picnic of ants.