What are you crazy kids up to?

[billyskank]

Why is DU half borked at this time in the morning?

:hi:

[billyskank]

1. Oh, the debate last night.

I guess you have all been up all night nattering about it, and now you are all talked out in bed.

[taterguy]

2. Smoking drinking wasting time

What else is new?

[billyskank]

3. Awesome

What the hell else is Friday night for? :toast: :smoke:

[taterguy]

4. Friday? It's Wednesday in my time zone

[Orsino]

5. Up too damned early is what I'm up to.

Internal clock says it's time to walk the doggies, so I did.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Yawning and drooling all over myself.

I really need to go to bed!

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Up and getting ready to drive 100 miles

And to then spend all day painting a room. Oh yay.

:hi:

[billyskank]

8. Oooo painting and decorating

Not my idea of fun either.

I just had coffee in Bedford with a friend. A first. A girl, too. ;)

:hi:

[av8rdave]

9. Working...been up since 4

[billyskank]

10. Okay now I feel lazy.

:)

[BarenakedLady]

11. I cleaned the house!

Wheeeeeee.

I went to Pilates this morning and I've been cleaning ever since. A friend's daughter is spending the night tonight, so I got everyone to get their crap cleaned up. I was cleaning the office and decided to take a break.

:hi:

[billyskank]

12. Hey.

Nice to see you. I put a post in your debate thread. :hi:

[BarenakedLady]

14. Thank you

I was trying to get her interested in the election. They talk about it in school and now she can feel more knowledgeable. She said that some kids were saying that Obama wanted to add another school day to the week. :eyes:

[billyskank]

16. You know, as Republican lies go

that one's pretty classic :rofl:

[BarenakedLady]

18. Get the kids where they fear it most,

more school!

[LeftyMom]

13. I'm sleepy.

Watched the debate with 400 or so college students last night. Standing room only and really crowded, but luckily I got a seat.

[billyskank]

15. Hi sleepy

I'm cooking pasta right now with experimentally large quantities of garlic. :hug:

[BarenakedLady]

17. Vampires don't really mind garlic

...just sayin'.

[billyskank]

19. Damn.

And I'm vegetarian, so I don't have any steaks. :(

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. I'm listening to music and browsing the internets.

Debating if I want to make myself something to eat or not. :P

[billyskank]

23. Yup make yourself something to eat

Or go out and get something. That is my recommendation. :hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

28. But what do I eat?

That's the true question! I'm so indecisive. :P

[billyskank]

32. Burritos.

There. That's a decision. Do with it as you will. :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

34. Oh that sounds good.

Nummy. :9

[ghostsofgiants]

21. I'm at work.

x(

[billyskank]

25. Doh!

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

30. I have three days off after today though.

Woot.

[billyskank]

33. Long weekend!

:bounce:

Awooga.

[ghostsofgiants]

35. Kinda.

My part time scheduel finally goes into effect giving me more free time for school-related things.

[supernova]

22. Posting naked and trying to talk myself into going to the gym

to work out. I really need a session with the weights.

And then maybe have a late lunch somewhere. Will probably catch a movie later.

Watched the debate last night with struggle4progress and nclib.

[billyskank]

24. Hey

Nice to see you. :hug:

:hi:

[supernova]

26. Hey!

Nice to see you too.

:hug:

[billyskank]

27. Woot! A naked hug.

:7

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Listening to the Mets and Fish

And wishing Rev. Smitty were here so we could talk about it and put curses on the Phillies and Boozers.

O' course, if the Phillies curse works, we won't need one on the Boozers.



(You know the Brits invented baseball, right?)

[billyskank]

31. We did?

No shit?

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. There's incontrovertible evidence

A kids' book called "A Pretty Little Pocket-Book," published in Britain in... I think 1787. It noted that 'B' is for "baseball" and had a picture of kids playing a game that resembled it.

It's been pretty well established for quite awhile that the British game rounders evolved into town ball in the U.S., and town ball was baseball's precursor.

That whole bit about Abner Doubleday drawing the modern baseball diamond in the dirt at Cooperstown, NY in 1839 was disproven a long time ago. Doubleday wasn't even in Cooperstown at the time, but at West Point. Yet, the legend persists.

[billyskank]

39. I used to play rounders at school

but I never thought about whether it was a copy of baseball or a precursor to it, though it was obvious even to me that they were similar.

When we got a bit older we swapped the game for another called softball, which seemed basically the same except with a longer bat.

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. Softball's huge here

There're slow-pitch rec leagues everywhere, many of them co-ed.

I covered a lot of women's softball at the high-school level when I was a sportswriter. The speed some of those girls can pitch is frightening. :scared: One who's considered by many the best pitcher in college history, Monica Abbott, is from my home town.

This isn't her; this is Jenny Finch, another of the great college pitchers. No, I'm not kidding. :D







Oh, I looked up that other thing. It was "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" and it was published in 1744.

[Tektonik]

36. Eating some sweet pea and lentil soup with some flatbread

[billyskank]

37. Hmm that sounds delicious.

:9

However, I have an enormous bowl of pasta in front of me, to stop my stomach rumbling.

[harmonicon]

40. being sick...

I have the worst cold/fever - sucks.

[billyskank]

42. Awww

I'm sorry. :hug: