Monday, May 23, 2011

Random Odds and Ends

1. Preakness. What can I say? Animal Kingdom came so close. But I understand. He’d never gotten dirt in his face before. What would you do if someone tossed dirt in your face and asked you to run full out for a mile and a quarter? I’d pull up and wipe my face first. Wouldn’t you?

2. Harold Camping. He needs to spend some time reading his Bible. “No one knows the day or the hour.”

3. Free Writers’ Conference. The conference was held in the same building that FEMA was using (they are still around helping with the tornado devastation). Kind of strange. Kind of prescient. One of the sessions was bad. Really bad. But the other two were great. I learned about press releases and publicity. Another was about e publishing and POD (print on demand).

4. Luke. He’s working this summer as an O Chem lab TA. The other day, his prof also hired him to clean, organize, restock the chem. Labs. Apparently, Luke’s meticulous and organized. Hmm. His room tells another story.

5. Washing Machine. The fixers guys came and couldn’t find anything wrong. And those puddles of water...? They decided to tighten everything. Oh, right. Okay. After they left, I ran a load of laundry. When I turned on the machine it send me a message. “TCL” I assumed it was an error message, and I looked it up in the manual. No such message exists. In fact, the machine only does two letter messages. Then it hit me. It was a message from the imp. “TCL” meant—“Total control, loser.” The imp was mocking me. Sort of a neener message. Sigh.

8 comments:

  1. I think your washing machine is possessed. Just saying. :)

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  2. I think your washing machine bet on the wrong horse and is still irked about losing. It is also irked because it also bought into the whole rapture thing and thought it would never have to do laundry again. So its in a generally bad mood :0

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  3. I think it means "The Cleaning Lord", as in, you are it's peasant and it rules over you. Clearly. You're paying taxes in wet floors, LOL!

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  4. I wish more people were better grounded in their bibles so idiots like that nut wouldn't get them upset or doing rash things.

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  5. Check your place of origin for the washer. It may be speaking spanglish.

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  6. I'm sorry for all of Harold Camping's followers. So sad.

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  7. Sad to hear your washer is possessed. What is it with appliances and mischief?

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  8. Neener, neener! Maybe the washing machine meant TLC-- tender loving care makes him work. Stop kicking it!

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