This Frightens Rian

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/11/neighbours_hell/

Slowly But Surely

The shelflets are in. They took a long time to stain, poor Rian. Next weekend the trim. And then all the lonely DVDs can be hauled back up from the basement.

Things To Do Whilst You Are Alive

(from a Visa add)

- Learn to fly-fish at Inverlochy Castle

- Visit an uninhabited island

- Celebrate St. Patty's Day in Dublin

- Deep-sea fish and eat your catch

- Camp on Seven Mile Beach

- Write a screenplay

- See the Leaning Tower of Pisa

- Drink a margarita on the Isla Margarita

- Shoot a hole in one

- Watch a space shuttle launch

- See a penguin in its natural habitat

- Climb an eighteener

- Travel with handmade fitted luggage

- Find the Big Dipper

- Look down from the Cliffs of Moher

- Take your parents on vacation

- Eat an insect

- Run with the bulls in Pamplona

- Attend an Argentine Polo Championships

- Win a karaoke contest

- Have a museum all to yourself

Rian's list is somewhat different. I have already eaten a bug. And Rian had to look up the Cliffs of Moher.

House Paint

Rian is having the exterior of the Abode painted next week. (If Rian can lasso the Evil Painter).

I need to choose a colour.

http://www3.sherwin.com/do_it_yourself/paint_colors/paint_color_palette/color_themes/arts/ext_arts.jsp

Does THAT linky work, Muffintoes?

Possible Truths

"Frodo failed - Bush has The Ring."

- Bumper Sticker

More Reasons Why

www.flor.com

Reasons Why

http://www.spa-resorts-west.com/ojaivalley.html

Funerals...

...turn surprisingly different after one has watched Six Feet Under.

One...or at least this One...spends much of the time eyeing the shiny casket and wondering what brand name it has. One also spends some time wondering if one's grandmother has been beautified even though it is not an open viewing. I do know she was wearing a lovely suit beneath the closed lid.

One also eyes the undertaker with curiosity. Our undertaker was no Nathaniel or David or Rico. He did, however, wear a black top hat and ride a Harley.

One also finds it a ttch odd when the deceased's name is thine own. Tis rather like attending my own funeral in advance.

There was a blanket of pick roses over the casket...and hydrangea.