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#1 2011-02-26 00:31:47

Sahi
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Posts: 37931
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QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

KABOOM!

Sorry folks, please wear a helmet in here as things might explode any second!


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#2 2011-02-26 03:50:53

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20042
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Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

*puts on a magical pink helmet of protection*

Another wonderful sunny day here. With all the south windows, it's actually getting quite hot in here! Summer will be "fun".


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#3 2011-02-26 05:28:34

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
Mantis
From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Ooohhhh an explosive Mint!! (and by the way..OMG my computer types so much faster, it's almost scary!!)

I have decided today that I needs more moots.... seriously, I already miss everyone... so, maybe... eh... Darn, I just wish I'd win a million and then I could spend my days visiting everyone of you!!!


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#4 2011-02-26 06:36:58

Em
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From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42304

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

*hellos the Mint, ducking for cover* Whew!!! That was close. What that a flaming toilet of doom that landed just feet away from me?

At work. On a Saturday. Just a few hours, then to the knitting store for new needles. One of my zero's broke yesterday. Teach me not to buy bamboo.


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#5 2011-02-26 09:33:54

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37931
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Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Bamboo zeroes? That sounds very fragile!

I'm knitting with nr 4 right now. (= 4mm) A cardigan for my niece. I'm only at three cms yet. I had to take the first cm apart again, as I'd made a mistake and couldn't find where I'd made it.


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#6 2011-02-26 09:37:31

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20042
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Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way wrote:

Ooohhhh an explosive Mint!! (and by the way..OMG my computer types so much faster, it's almost scary!!)

I have decided today that I needs more moots.... seriously, I already miss everyone... so, maybe... eh... Darn, I just wish I'd win a million and then I could spend my days visiting everyone of you!!!

I think we should be paid for going to Smarchmoots. *nods very seriously*


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#7 2011-02-26 11:44:55

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
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Posts: 37931
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Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

That would be awesome! Now who do you think we should try and convince to pay us?


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#8 2011-02-26 11:52:39

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20042
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Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

If I only knew that....


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#9 2011-02-26 12:19:47

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20042
Website

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Now, time to eat something, and then I should go out for a bit of guerilla gardening.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#10 2011-02-26 15:34:38

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
Mantis
From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Magpie wrote:

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way wrote:

Ooohhhh an explosive Mint!! (and by the way..OMG my computer types so much faster, it's almost scary!!)

I have decided today that I needs more moots.... seriously, I already miss everyone... so, maybe... eh... Darn, I just wish I'd win a million and then I could spend my days visiting everyone of you!!!

I think we should be paid for going to Smarchmoots. *nods very seriously*

That must be THE best idea ever.... we could have it as our job!!!!


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#11 2011-02-26 16:46:13

Magpie
Mantis
From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20042
Website

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Damn, missed Libra!

But I had a nice few hours with a book and knitting... Now I'm debating whether I should go buy more books on Monday (last day before I go back to work, after which it'll be harder to find time/energy for book-shopping) - it'll make it even harder to catch up with the Otherland reread...

ETA: Pickle explosion! *cleans her laptop*

Last edited by Magpie (2011-02-26 16:49:06)


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#12 2011-02-26 19:16:21

Genisis X
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From: Canberra
Registered: 2005-05-08
Posts: 12518
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Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Oh hey guys. How are we all *explodes*

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#13 2011-02-27 00:09:54

Jadelin
Pilgrim
From: On the move
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 931

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

*farts*

Hey, I'm just a beginner, guys. Ok?

*mumbles* Hm, that did not go well.

*leaves*

 

#14 2011-02-27 00:14:00

Jadelin
Pilgrim
From: On the move
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 931

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

*comes back and sprays some room freshener, pine-scented *

*leaves*

 

#15 2011-02-27 00:16:40

Jadelin
Pilgrim
From: On the move
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 931

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

*comes back*

*discovers the pine scent created an explosive mixture with the methane*

*sniffs*

*lights a matc.......

 

#16 2011-02-27 01:51:00

Sahi
Mantis
From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37931
Website

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Maen Mint!

About to do some calculations for my niece's cardigan and then take it apart again to start over. Turns out the yarn I had did not behave in the way I thought it would. (Yes, yes, should have made me a swatch, but that would have been just as much work as I have now.)


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#17 2011-02-27 03:48:26

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
Mantis
From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Maen Mint!

I am awake.... now I have to move and clean stuff... but I really don't wanna....


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#18 2011-02-27 04:15:29

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20042
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Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

I allowed myself to sleep in today... nothing much to be done today (except cleaning up the mess from where I dropped some plants last night).

I want to go to the forest today to look for wild garlic, but now it's dark and cloudy again - couldn't the sunshine have lasted another day?


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#19 2011-02-27 04:50:47

Sahi
Mantis
From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37931
Website

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

*waves at Libra and Magpie*

Quiet day here today. Lots of rain, so no going outside. Working on my niece's cardigan again. Almost back to the point where I ended last night. (Before taking it apart.)


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#20 2011-02-27 12:41:47

Nefermiw
Pilgrim
From: Lund, Sweden
Registered: 2010-11-28
Posts: 136

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Gosh, an exploding Mint!
I'd beter go find my hard hat which I got from my former job.

.....

Nah, can't be bothered. I think I'll go to bed early and read some more Otherland. I've already been introduced to Christabelle and Orlando and that psycho-guy (I think he is called Dread in English). Ooh, it's definitely possibly my absolute favourite series. I can't wait to experience all the amazing adventure again!

 

#21 2011-02-27 13:23:10

Magpie
Mantis
From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20042
Website

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Went to the forest today, but no wild garlic yet. Unfair - why is it growing in the botanical garden, and not in the forest, where I could pick it.
On the way back, we took the bus past my old home - the house my parents had to sell when they divorced - and it's now painted turquoise (it used to be light grey). It's a bit ... strange to see it like that, but it doesn't look bad.

And my cooking today wasn't very successful... some of my bread dumplings just ... melted.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#22 2011-02-27 15:03:23

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
Mantis
From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

I has achieved victory!!!! Have been wrestling with my irish flute (like a flute) for ages, trying to figure out how to actually get music out of it.... Whistle is straight (like a recorder), while the flute has this hole in it that you need to use in a specific way (and on top of this my teacher from the music weekend actually told me I had the most difficult flute she'd ever seen because of the size of the hole)... But today I picked up the flute and almost made it completely through Inisheer.... and it's such a gorgeous sound... and I'm all happy and glowy and now I don't want to stop, so I'm actually thinking about taking it to work tomorrow and practising in the car during my lunch break because I should now keep on going.... Weeehhh!!! I love it! I'm so happy.... persistence DOES work.... I'm utterly amazed!

*proud Libra off to bed*


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#23 2011-02-27 15:04:14

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
Mantis
From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Magpie wrote:

Went to the forest today, but no wild garlic yet. Unfair - why is it growing in the botanical garden, and not in the forest, where I could pick it.
On the way back, we took the bus past my old home - the house my parents had to sell when they divorced - and it's now painted turquoise (it used to be light grey). It's a bit ... strange to see it like that, but it doesn't look bad.

And my cooking today wasn't very successful... some of my bread dumplings just ... melted.

A bread dumpling melted???? Need more explanation.... having seriously weird visuals right now!!


"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#24 2011-02-27 16:27:30

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42304

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Spent the day in Savannah visiting youngest.

Store was out of size zeros (2 mm). Must go to one of the large chain stores tomorrow at lunch. *sigh*


"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#25 2011-02-27 16:32:30

Magpie
Mantis
From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 20042
Website

Re: QM - Warning! Stay out! Explosion danger!

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way wrote:

Magpie wrote:

Went to the forest today, but no wild garlic yet. Unfair - why is it growing in the botanical garden, and not in the forest, where I could pick it.
On the way back, we took the bus past my old home - the house my parents had to sell when they divorced - and it's now painted turquoise (it used to be light grey). It's a bit ... strange to see it like that, but it doesn't look bad.

And my cooking today wasn't very successful... some of my bread dumplings just ... melted.

A bread dumpling melted???? Need more explanation.... having seriously weird visuals right now!!

It was too soft, so when I took it out of this pot, it was just a gooey lump... very weird - only two of them were like this, the other 8 or 9 were fine (luckily - I'd be very pissed off if they'd all been like that, because I was making a large batch so I could freeze some for when I don't feel like cooking after work.)


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

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