Combination activities?

[Sally, la reina]

Right now I'm eating bean soup and computering. My daughter is watching Aristocats and decorating the basement play area.

I can not, however eat bean soup and look at meatus pictures. The two do not mesh.


What activities do you do in combination with one another? Any that can not overlap, Venn style?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It's impossible to be on the computer and knit. I also have difficulty showering and reading. However, it's simplest to shower and clean the bathroom window at the same time.

[evie]

How long since you've cleaned the bathroom window, LG?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Awhile.

[Félix]

Is "awhile" a word like "alot?"

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

No. I don't think alot is really a word, is it? You're supposed to write "a lot."

[evie]

I could clean my bathroom window when I'm showering, but I don't. I shave my legs, armpits, and If I am alone in the house then I will sing too.

[Sally, la reina]

I also like to rewatch movies while grading. I like to read the paper while eating cereal, but who doesn't?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

You can't not read while you eat cereal. It's physically impossible. I usually read something heavy, like literary criticism.

[Sally, la reina]

I splash milk all over tarnation when I eat cereal so I can't do anything other than disposable reading material.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I'm a fastidious cereal eater.

[Sally, la reina]

I can only imagine.

[Félix]

I'm a fascist serial eater.

[Susan]

I use the newspaper for art projects.

[evie]

I use it as a placemat for my cats' bowls. One of them is a real slob.

[Phil]

Félix wrote: "I'm a fascist serial eater."

You eat one fascist after another?

[Félix]

I plead the fifth.

[Kevin]

I can pat my head and rub my tummy whilst chewing gum, whistling the rocky theme and doing the river dance

[Sally, la reina]

You can't do the river dance, Kevin.

[Zen]

You can't take photographs and enjoy life at the same time. The very act of staring at a screen to take a pic makes what you see through your small "tv" just a little bit surreal.... (Except if you have an older and/or superfancy camera and can still peer through the viewfinder).

[Kevin]

what if i can? what if i can michael flatley my arse like my hair (metaphorically) was on fire? huh? there's more than a few things you goobs don't know about ol kev

[Susan]

All I want to know is why you don't have Lord of the Dance in grey italics next to your name?

[Laurin]

I can't drive without listening to music or an audiobook. I don't know how people drove in the olden days before car stereos.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

They sang.

"This land is your land, this land is my land...."

[Félix]

"99 bottles of beer on the wall . . ."

[Laurin]

Thank goodness for XM radio.

[Kevin]

i've thought about that too laurin. so you're taking your family to california. in a conestoga wagon. you have approx. 6-8 months of drive time with no radio and only about 4% of the songs we have now have even been written to sing. after about 36 hours of the game when you say "i spy with my little eye..." everyone else screams "CACTUS!!!"

[Laurin]

Kevin wrote: "i've thought about that too laurin. so you're taking your family to california. in a conestoga wagon. you have approx. 6-8 months of drive time with no radio and only about 4% of the songs we have ..."

I don't know how they didn't kill each other!

[Kevin]

right. that prob did happen. and if you were traveling with the donner party there was no evidence.

[Laurin]

Oh, Johnny died of.... typhus. Yeah, typhus.

[Kevin]

^^^ and THAT is why i think laurin is so cool

[Kevin]

she got an obscure oregan trail reference

[Laurin]

Kevin wrote: "she got an obscure oregan trail reference"

We played The Oregon Trail game in elementary school. It was the highlight of the week.

[Laurin]

Kevin wrote: "^^^ and THAT is why i think laurin is so cool"

:)

[Phil]

The Donner party is obscure? Shit, I'm old.

[Susan]

Laurin wrote: "Kevin wrote: "she got an obscure oregan trail reference"

We played The Oregon Trail game in elementary school. It was the highlight of the week."

That sounds like a frightening game to play in elementary.

[Laurin]

Susan wrote: "Laurin wrote: "Kevin wrote: "she got an obscure oregan trail reference"

We played The Oregon Trail game in elementary school. It was the highlight of the week."

That sounds like a frightening ga..."

It was the best!

[Kevin]

was it like operation where you had to pull body parts off to eat without making the buzzer sound?

[Laurin]

Kevin wrote: "was it like operation where you had to pull body parts off to eat without making the buzzer sound?"

I don't know about that. But I do remember having lots of people in the party die from typhus and other things like that. Typhus is a bitch.

[Susan]

To eat or to not eat your classmate who has died of typhus? That is the question.

I think I was robbed of higher education.

[Laurin]

Susan wrote: "To eat or to not eat your classmate who has died of typhus? That is the question.

I think I was robbed of higher education."

I don't even remember what tie-in it had to education. I think it might have been a part of the computer classes we had.

[Susan]

Bahaha! I remember something similar to that, Misha!

And Mavis Beacon but much later and after I had a typewriter class complete with paper taped to the machine so you could not look at the keys to type.

[Laurin]

Susan wrote: "Bahaha! I remember something similar to that, Misha!

And Mavis Beacon but much later and after I had a typewriter class complete with paper taped to the machine so you could not look at the keys ..."

My dad and I tease my mom about her "humpty fingers" - she still types like you would on a typewriter, not a computer.

[Cynthia]

My daughter Madeline was invited to an elaborate birthday party once and they re-enacted the Oregon Trail in a wooded city park. They had props, costumes, the works. It took all that I had not to join in. But the kid's parents kind of drove my nuts, so I left them to it. Great 10-year-old party, though.

[Susan]

That sounds really great.

[Phil]

They do the mormon trail thing here every year, and multiple times per year. The girls put on those ugly dresses and the boys wear jeans and long sleeved plaid shirts. Hell, they look just like modern day polygamists. Then they push those miserable handcarts from one place to another for the day, and call it done.

Never heard of handcart pioneers? Get a taste here.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

They were cannibals at Jamestown too. They found the dinner knife marks on some poor teen girl's bones.

In Alive, a husband and wife were on the plane and I think the wife died, and some of the others buried all the bodies in the snow so they wouldn't know whose body was being cut from, so the husband wouldn't know if or when he was eating his wife.

[Susan]

Yes, in the movie they buried them face down. The wife died because of her reluctance to eat the the people already dead, if I am remembering correctly.

[Kevin]

i thought they buried them face down so they could eat rump roast?

[Kevin]

and, i CAN riverdance