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message 1701: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments No, I’m reading Dale Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, a book I picked up at the Women’s Crisis Center Thrift Shop yesterday afternoon, but I’m worried that I’ll never finish the first chapter.

TPBM need to run errands before lunch.


message 1702: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Nope. But I do have to go out some time after lunch.

TPBM is taking exams.


message 1703: by C. J., Cool yet firm like ice (new)

C. J. Scurria (goodreadscomcj_scurria) | 4485 comments Nope. I might have to hopefully in the future.

TPBM still has multiple books with bookmarks in them.


message 1704: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) Nope, but I have to afterwards.

TPBM is thinking how nice it would be to live in the Bahamas?


message 1705: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments I prefer Hawaii or Rome.

TPBM is eating a granola bar.


message 1706: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments No, but I’m trying to decide what to have for dinner.

TPBM is reading a book a mouse has chewed on.


message 1707: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) No. I shot the mouse that attempted to chew on my books.

TPBM loves small banks?


message 1708: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments It’s true! How did you know that?

TPBM is good at arts and crafts.


message 1709: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Not drowning but there's plenty of it to go around here.

TPBM thinks that pajama time is the best time of the day.


message 1710: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Definitely! And it’s past that time for me.

TPBM likes to read before going to sleep.


message 1711: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Sometimes.

TPBM is nice and warm in their bed.


message 1712: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) No, I would shoot such a dog. My dog is very quiet. Except when eating my chocolate which he refuses to believe is bad for him.

TPBM has gotten stuck in the weird part of youtube before?


message 1713: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments I thought pretty much all of YT is weird. But there are weirder parts? How do I find them?

TPBM had delicious homemade burgers for supper.


message 1714: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments No! And now I wish I had. I love burgers.

TPBM wonders why there’s a sunken tub on the pirate ship.


message 1715: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Yes, this is the first I've heard of it.

TPBM wonders why the pirate ship even as a tub.


message 1716: by M (last edited Jan 09, 2013 06:33AM) (new)

M | 11617 comments According to the information on some pages typed by Ray the mouse, and that I found in the hold, where the typewriter used to be, in the tempestuous last decades of the eighteenth century, two notorious French pirates, Dom Langouste and Pierre Homard, captured La Gioconda, as the ship was once called, and turned it into a floating pleasure palace. The sunken tub, in the shape of a great seashell, had been taken from a pillaged Italian estate. In a storm, the ship washed up into the lagoon of a tropical island, where it was used for a time as a pirate headquarters, then was abandoned. The mice remember the derelict years as a time when it was hard to find food. A few years ago, some girl pirates discovered the old vessel, caulked its seams, and dragged it back out to sea. There appears to have been a mutiny of sorts, the details of which I don’t know, but you know the rest of the story.

TPBM has big plans for today!


message 1717: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments No! No big plans today. Wow! That's quite the history. I love the ship even more now.

TPBM feels like they're actually learning in Physics.


message 1718: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments LoL! The great thing about learning physics, is that with each year, your have to throw-out what you'd learned the previous one as the full effects of quantum mechanical uncertainty and string theory consequences become more fully quantified and qualified. Hmmm. But of course, there is thermodynamics and partial differential equations and the needed assumptions to simplify everything real in order to make the equations work.

TPBM has yet to become aware that delusion is a key element in successfully understanding physics.


message 1719: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Mostly likely yes. I'm very glad I only have to take one year of physics though.

TPBM is looking forward to February 20th.


message 1720: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) No, should I be? Is something important happening I haven't heard of yet! *gasp*! Oh No! I'm out of the loop!

TPBM now very much wants to know what is going on on Feb 20th?


message 1721: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments I haven't a clue, but since Stephanie posted it, I'm guessing February 20 is Pre-Camp NaNoWriMo.


message 1722: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments I already know. My brother (who I haven't seen for two years) is coming home!!!

TPBM is watching Parenthood.


message 1723: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) Oh that is so excited Stephanie. It's is always nice to see family.

As for parenthood I must admit I've never seen it.

TPBM likes this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylfb3F...

(IS that a legit TPBM question?)


message 1724: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (chasmofbooks) | 2875 comments Never heard one before.

TPBM is fed-up with safari.


message 1725: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Oh, yes! That and old songs of sailors. “Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!”

TPBM would like to get a job writing for a magazine.


message 1726: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) I don't use Safari for that very reason, and writing for a magazine would be like asking be to slowly saw my own hand off. I could never do it.

TPBM has discovered home made honey-mustard sauce is better than anything ever before tasted?


message 1727: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments No, other than my being block headed.

TPBM thinks that the LoTR movies are very good but very overrated.


message 1728: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Honestly, I think the LOTR movies are the same sort of crap James Cameron’s Titanic is--high-budget entertainment for an undiscriminating audience. H. L. Mencken said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”

TPBM is about to take some aspirin and go to bed.


message 1729: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Well, I finished, finally, reading all the stories and poems. What a diverse and interesting collection. Makes me feel a little morose that I didn't squeeze the time out to create a poem. But I have a weird fushigi blog to write, so I guess I have homework still to do.

TPBM will consider dying without seeing either Titanic or Forrest Gump to be a significant mark of having lived a successful life.


message 1730: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments No. I've seen both. Though, only snippets of each.

TPBM finished three books in two days, because they now have access to a magnificent library.


message 1731: by Guy (last edited Jan 09, 2013 09:30PM) (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Well, I think my library is mighty fine, albeit no-where near magnificent. Alas, I started another new book to add to the four I'm already reading.

TPBM finds that they begin new books before finishing their current one(s).


message 1732: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments It’s been years since I finished a book! Kat’s comment made me think of the library at Baylor. I love libraries.

TPBM likes to read dictionaries, especially old ones.


message 1733: by C. J., Cool yet firm like ice (last edited Jan 10, 2013 03:40AM) (new)

C. J. Scurria (goodreadscomcj_scurria) | 4485 comments Guy wrote: "Well, I think my library is mighty fine, albeit no-where near magnificent. Alas, I started another new book to add to the four I'm already reading.

TPBM finds that they begin new books before fini..."


Yes!!! Besides the books I have listed as being "Currently being Read" I have many books stored away that still have bookmarks in them.

TPBM takes great pleasure from the thought when they hear the sentence "Read a book."


message 1734: by C. J., Cool yet firm like ice (new)

C. J. Scurria (goodreadscomcj_scurria) | 4485 comments Whoops. Sorry M. You got it.

I do like to read old dictionaries though I don't consider the collegiate dictionary that was published in the 80's very old. I do like it very much though.

TPBM takes great pleasure from the thought when they hear the sentence "Read a book."


message 1735: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) Yes, I must say I do.

TPBM loves homemade bread?


message 1736: by Guy (last edited Jan 10, 2013 02:27PM) (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Of course! Who doesn't? And, maybe it's time to make some. I haven't in a long time.


TPBM would rather go hungry than eat bread with margarine on it.


message 1737: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments As a matter of fact, I do.

TPBM has been known to read math texts for fun.


message 1738: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) No, but I've been known tot thrown them out car windows when opportunities arise.

TPBM agrees with capital punishment?


message 1739: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments As long as I’m not the one who’s sitting in the electric chair, with a lamp shade on his head.

TPBM got the laundry done!


message 1740: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) No, it will be done in time.

TPBM has written a poem with the word "orange" in it?


message 1741: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments Yes. I'm doing homework. BLAH.

TPBM finished another book today XD


message 1742: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments No. I've never read the Giver.

TPBM plans on having their own private library someday.


message 1743: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments Yes. Plus many more books that I don't own XD

TPBM is an official bibliophile, according to this: http://www.universityreviewsonline.co...


message 1744: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Kggelen wrote: "Yes!

TPBM thought the ending to the Giver was really odd."


Not only did I think it odd, I thought it the single worst example of deus ex machina I have ever read. If your curious, I wrote pretty nasty review: Review: The Giver.


message 1745: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Kat, that is maybe the dumbest qualification criterion I've read. By it, I'm not even close.

TPBM prefers to read paperbacks to hardbacks for ease of reading.


message 1746: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments Haha. I read it and thought the critera were really funny.

I honestly don't care. But, if I'm reading a hardback, I take off the dust cover. It's annoying.

TPBM is drinking milk.


message 1747: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments But don't throw those dust jackets away! My local bookseller told me that a 1st edition Casino Royale with dust cover in fair shape is worth about $25,000.00. Without: $10,000.00.

Except for the milk of human kindness, no.

TPBM prefers used bookstores to new ones.


message 1748: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) *Hugs Al* That's about all I can do, but I encourage the tea thought, think I will have a cup too.

TPBM knew Elvis?


message 1749: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Well, no. But really, can anyone really know anyone else?

TPBM remembers where they were when they heard that Elvis was dead.


message 1750: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Ahhh. A philosophical turn from the up too late and tired Al. All the time, Al, all the time.

TPBM has begun to discover that perception of truth is easily deceived and truth hard to discern.


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