Re: Happy New Year to one and all!

On 12/31/2024 2:59 PM, Justisaur wrote:

On 12/31/2024 11:58 AM, JAB wrote:

Well as the title says, now off for food and some serious hammering of a bottle of Laphroaig special edition. Oh and we must watch Wallace and Gromit that we have recorded.

 We're having Hoppin' John.  Everyone's been sick since we took a trip to Universal right before Christmas, our second vacay this year impacted by viruses.
 Here's to a better next year, may your stores have eggs, and your noses be free of undead (no one can agree if viri are alive or dead.)

I'm off to a great start.
I'm feeling very addled right now. I was sliding by on the battle against the undead (virus) until yesterday with only a slightly itchy sometimes runny nose for the last 9 days while everyone else was (and still is) fairly sick, but it hit me with a vengeance yesterday.
In some sort of Rube Goldburg series of events I was making breakfast when I blearily shoved the plate on to the counter, but didn't really notice the spring tongs I probably left there last night in this state. I shoved them against, which promptly launched the plate away from the counter as soon as I removed my hand.  My normally very good gamer reflexes let me touch the plate as it fell, but I retracted my hand in reaction from my addled state, watched it fall to the floor in slow motion thinking I'd slowed it enough.  It seemed to explode into a thousand pieces not when it struck, but when the higher part hit the tile.
I used to like tile, I've broken so much on the tile in this kitchen in the last 4 years I'm wishing I had vinyl again, or preferably linoleum which makes a nice balance between give and hard.  I've got rugs on parts of the tile, but it seems to get very dirty and curl up, and doesn't seem to be in the right places.
It doesn't help this place is tiny and I have 3 desks for me and my kids in the kitchen with only an island fit for two to eat at.
Well I hope I've entertained, as I'm sure I must've whatever higher beings laugh at our expense.
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-Justisaur
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