The Acme of Giving
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filkferengiThere are times in one's life when one reaches a culmination, a moment of perfection.
My sophomore year in high school, we needed a manila folder for English class. My mom, as moms often will, brought me twelve. I filled them up, then needed a file cabinet. That Christmas I got a file cabinet full of French books--talk about the ultimate!
For our tenth wedding anniversary, I gave Himself ten comedy cds, five by George Carlin and five by Dennis Miller. How am I ever going to top that?
When Himself took over the title company last year, he was stuck with a lease on an office on the north side of town, an hour away on a good day [which they seldom were]. He was known to take as long as an hour and forty minutes, just to make the trip one way! Even aside from the whole general suckitude of the trip, it really cut into our personal time.
Let's just say, when the lease expired at the end of September, my spouse, the original Reluctant Mover, was positively gleeful about moving. To the south side of town, *much* closer to the house.
As a consequence of this, we inherited some left-over office equipment. Since the firm is waddling its leisurely way towards paperlessness, this included metal filing shelves--6 of them, 8' high, 3' wide, currently back-to-back right down the middle of my garage. That's 72 linear feet per side, 144 feet in all, with potentially up to 288 feet, if I ever need to double-row. The catch is, just from excavating a couple of rooms the last week or so, I've already filled up over 100 of those feet.
Now, the questions remain: how is he ever going to top himself, & isn't that my job? Further deponent sayeth not. [weg]
My sophomore year in high school, we needed a manila folder for English class. My mom, as moms often will, brought me twelve. I filled them up, then needed a file cabinet. That Christmas I got a file cabinet full of French books--talk about the ultimate!
For our tenth wedding anniversary, I gave Himself ten comedy cds, five by George Carlin and five by Dennis Miller. How am I ever going to top that?
When Himself took over the title company last year, he was stuck with a lease on an office on the north side of town, an hour away on a good day [which they seldom were]. He was known to take as long as an hour and forty minutes, just to make the trip one way! Even aside from the whole general suckitude of the trip, it really cut into our personal time.
Let's just say, when the lease expired at the end of September, my spouse, the original Reluctant Mover, was positively gleeful about moving. To the south side of town, *much* closer to the house.
As a consequence of this, we inherited some left-over office equipment. Since the firm is waddling its leisurely way towards paperlessness, this included metal filing shelves--6 of them, 8' high, 3' wide, currently back-to-back right down the middle of my garage. That's 72 linear feet per side, 144 feet in all, with potentially up to 288 feet, if I ever need to double-row. The catch is, just from excavating a couple of rooms the last week or so, I've already filled up over 100 of those feet.
Now, the questions remain: how is he ever going to top himself, & isn't that my job? Further deponent sayeth not. [weg]
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Date: 2004-10-25 12:26 pm (UTC)I randomly surfed onto your LJ from a Four Bitchin' Babes interest and noticed you are also in the Mormon community. I love the Babes' music and I'm LDS too! Well, that's assuming you're LDS... So, yeah. Just thought I'd say hi.
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Date: 2004-10-25 07:56 pm (UTC)Thanks for stopping by. Yes, I'm LDS too, & the Babes majorly rock! I have five albums by them; do you know if they've done any since "Beyond Bitchin'"?
Have you tried Saffire the Uppity Blues Women? They and Austin Lounge Lizards are also very fun.
:)
Nice to meetcha!
Date: 2004-10-26 08:00 am (UTC)I haven't heard of those other two groups, but I'm definitely going to check them out. Have you heard of Deirdre Flint? She has a song called 'The Boob Fairy' that is a guaranteed humorgasm.
Can I friend you?
Re: Nice to meetcha!
Date: 2004-10-26 10:05 am (UTC)Please do.
Yes, Deirdre Flint is a hoot. I'm a huge filk fan [filk is the folk music of science fiction and fantasy--lots of parodies, lots of originals, about lots of subjects], & there's a major overlap with the folk community. Deirdre Flint does lots of gigs with other filkers, such as Carla Ulbrich [http://www.carlau.com/], among others.
Re: Nice to meetcha!
Date: 2004-10-26 10:21 am (UTC)