fall back a little

[sisyphusshrugged]

We're all a little spring-drunk around here. It was just beautiful yesterday, but it was cold and yucky today, and aren't we cranky about it.

The neighborhood is full of magnolias and cherries (one in our back yard) and daffodils and more hyacinths than I remember there being last year, in all kinds of neat funky colors.

It's strange to see them out there tonight, though. March went out like a lion, and then April seemed for a while to be taking on lambish mien, but we're back to lion for now.

Someone at work was complaining about how it was going "down to 50" and I thought wow, when this whole miserable winter have we had a chance to say "down to fifty"?

Also I went batshit crazy buying yarn.

I plan to seriously consider getting oriented soon.

Oh, a real peeve - I took one of those online tests yesterday, and in the section that was meant to measure my personal relationship with precision they asked if I was [thing]-orientated.

Um. No. My [thing] practically always faces west.

Gee whiz.

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

The British use "orientate" to mean "orient."

ack! no, no, no!

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

I think that's so wrong...

Example: the first list of suggested subjects on Google

# Goal Orientated
# Object Orientated
# Object Orientated Programming
# Object Orientated Analysis
# Christian Orientated Pictures
# Object Orientated Database

I mean, really, this must define avoidable ugliness...

Re: ack! no, no, no!

[supergee.livejournal.com]

They talk funny over there, as Jack Vance discovered when British readers got hold of Servants of the Wankh.

Down to 50?

[carpeicthus.livejournal.com]

Grr. Brr.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the weather. The last thing I heard on the radio as I entered the airport: "We're going to drop 50 degrees overnight...".

Almost glad I'm in FL. Almost.