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[Melki]

Joel wrote: "Still trying to get out from under a water pipe break on Memorial Day weekend. And getting the roof worked on next week. Who said that owning your own home was the American Dream?"

It sure gives you something to do on your vacations instead of taking pesky trips to exotic isles and the like.

[Joel]

Yeah. Sort of a pay-cation.

[Rebecca]

Joel wrote: "Yeah. Sort of a pay-cation."

Brilliant! I need to do one of those. Several, actually.

[Joel]

I could take a world cruise for what this one's gonna cost me, Rebecca.

[Rebecca]

I believe you. We need to do the roof, repaint, replace some windows, and remodel the master bathroom (really. Before we sell, for sure, and it would be nice to enjoy it ourselves for a year or so). Maybe 40K? Ouch.

[Melki]

It's the last three and a half days of school for my youngest. (Yes, they waste the gasoline to bus the kids in for 4 1/2 hours on Thursday.) Grades were all ready turned in on Friday, so the hell with learning - Let the film festival begin!

He watched K-19 in World History, is in the middle of The Shawshank Redemption in English, and even in that oh, so important gym class - no, not a sports movie - the universally panned Zookeeper.

Even when you don't have to don a uniform, gym is always a waste of time.

[Joel]

Obviously a liberal arts curriculum.

[Lisa]

We still have another full week to go. Not really a full week. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are all half days. I still don't understand that.

[Melki]

Lisa wrote: "We still have another full week to go. Not really a full week. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are all half days. I still don't understand that."

School was supposed to end last Friday, but there were four snow days to make up. Got to get in all 180 days of learnin'! Half days count, for some reason.

Yesterday, they started a movie they'll never have time to finish - October Sky, so now I've got to rent it from Netflix for him. He played Yahtzee in one class and card games in another, then listened to 80's music in math class.

My tax dollars at work.

[Joel]

I've just noticed I haven't read a current novel in eons. I keep picking up authors who are either long dead or just smell like it. Does this make me a bad person?

[Melki]

Joel wrote: "I've just noticed I haven't read a current novel in eons. I keep picking up authors who are either long dead or just smell like it. Does this make me a bad person?"

I'd say it's okay as long as you're reading them for the content and not because you like the way they smell.

[CartoonistAndre]

Melki wrote: "Joel wrote: "I've just noticed I haven't read a current novel in eons. I keep picking up authors who are either long dead or just smell like it. Does this make me a bad person?"

I'd say it's okay as long as you're reading them for the content and not because you like the way they smell."

Eh. The book or the author?

[Rebecca]

How come on some threads (like this one), when I click the link from my notifications, it "can't find that post" and sends me to the beginning of the thread. Every time.

[Melki]

Rebecca wrote: "How come on some threads (like this one), when I click the link from my notifications, it "can't find that post" and sends me to the beginning of the thread. Every time."

Phew! I thought it was just me.

[Lisa]

Happens to me, too.

[Joel]

You get notifications?

[Mike]

Joel wrote: "I've just noticed I haven't read a current novel in eons. I keep picking up authors who are either long dead or just smell like it. Does this make me a bad person?"

I just joined this group. What is the current novel you are on? Thanks, Mike H, North Carolina

[Joel]

Me, or the group?

[CartoonistAndre]

Rebecca wrote: "How come on some threads (like this one), when I click the link from my notifications, it "can't find that post" and sends me to the beginning of the thread. Every time."

I found that I had to click the 'newest' link every time after the email notification opened my browser to the oldest page (original post). Maybe one a y'all Mods might give the techy person a lil' kick in the shorts? It is quite annoying! The link should go to the latest comment.

Mike- 3 men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome.

[Joel]

To all our American Humour Club members, Happy Independence Day. For all our British members - well, turn on BBC 1 and have a sandwich or something. It'll be over soon.

[Kathy]

Joel wrote: "To all our American Humour Club members, Happy Independence Day. For all our British members - well, turn on BBC 1 and have a sandwich or something. It'll be over soon."

Lol. Eloquent as usual. I second what Joel said.

[Melki]

A nice rainy 4th for us here in central PA. Four of us, plus dog, staying inside, trying to keep out of one another's way and off one another's nerves.

[Lisa]

I'm in southern California, Huntington Beach to be exact, right now with the family. We arrived a few days ago and saw on the news that the state and local officials were banning personal fireworks because of how dry the place is with this nasty drought. Apparently no one listened to the news but us. We went to the pier to watch the fireworks the city put on and the entire way back to the hotel we saw them from every car window going up from backyards and neighborhood streets. It's now 2.5 hours after the end of the official fireworks show and we still hear them. A fire just broke out in LA. My son just asked me if we were witnessing a Darwin Award nomination in person.

[Melki]

Lisa wrote: "I'm in southern California, Huntington Beach to be exact, right now with the family. We arrived a few days ago and saw on the news that the state and local officials were banning personal fireworks..."

Lisa, you have the BEST weekends, hands down.

You can't separate Americans from their fireworks, come drought or high water. When it finally stopped raining here you heard nothing but boom, boom, boom until well after midnight. Some of the BOOMS were so loud I expected to see mushroom clouds. Your son is right about the Darwin Awards. I hope California survives.

[Lisa]

I do my best, Melki. Alas, this is the last big hurrah for the summer. From now until September I will have to settle for barbecues, pool parties and such.

[Joel]

Based on the 'Pimp Your Book' thread, it sounds like The Humour Club membership has been busy putting out new books. Very cool. Hopefully other members will support some of these authors by picking up a copy and adding a review. It's a good way to get acquainted with unfamiliar, funny writers.

[Rodney]

My computer died, I'm having to go to goodreads on my phone.

[Joel]

Humour Club operators are standing by.

[Joel]

My annual summer dilemma: Trying to get in all the reading I want to do on top of wanting to do too many other things. Lucky for me there's nothing worth a damn on television.

[Melki]

Joel wrote: "My annual summer dilemma: Trying to get in all the reading I want to do on top of wanting to do too many other things. Lucky for me there's nothing worth a damn on television."

Reading is always better than television. It's too wet here to do anything outside.

[Guy]

Rodney wrote: "My computer died, I'm having to go to goodreads on my phone."

Navigating goodreads on a phone isn't easy Rodney.

[Joel]

It's like being back in the days before electricity, when folks had to watch t.v. by candlelight.

[Melki]

Came home from the grocery store and tried to pack the purchases into already an already stuffed fridge and freezer. So why does it seem like there's never anything to eat in this house?

[CartoonistAndre]

Maybe you shouldn't fill the fridge with paper towels and TP and put only edible items in there? I mean, am I off-base here?

[Melki]

I think the real problem is that every week we buy food intending to cook and eat it, but end up eating out instead.

[Lisa]

I'm with you, Melki. Every week I find myself saying, "I mean it this time! We're eating all of these vegetables!"

Alas, every week I have to deal with something rotting in the crisper drawer.

[Melki]

Lisa wrote: "I'm with you, Melki. Every week I find myself saying, "I mean it this time! We're eating all of these vegetables!"

Alas, every week I have to deal with something rotting in the crisper drawer."

And that mysterious liquid that coats the bottom of the drawer and you're not sure exactly where it came from.

[CartoonistAndre]

And that ziplock with the green alien embryo...

[Melki]

We keep all our alien embryos in the freezer.

[Joel]

I only eat take-out. I rent out my refrigerator as an apartment to a family of trolls.

[CartoonistAndre]

Hello Rodney! Are you still around?

Maybe our friend is on some other threads, hacking it out on a phone and I've just not clicked on the right topic...

[Rodney]

Still here, but a phone is very limiting.

[CartoonistAndre]

Rodney wrote: "Still here, but a phone is very limiting."

Sorry to hear that. Hope you can get another laptop or desktop soon and get back in the fray.

[Rodney]

yes, me too! I'm a geek, and being without a computer is like an addict stranded on an island.

[Melki]

Rodney wrote: "yes, me too! I'm a geek, and being without a computer is like an addict stranded on an island."

Nice simile! And welcome back, Rodney.

[CartoonistAndre]

It must be awful for a geek such as yourself to be so limited! The phone I use is one of those that terrorists and spies use- disposable. The motherland requires for me to do.

So I hope you don't need to go through what I have to when texting... Hit 7 four times for an S... Five times to get a 7. Shoot me.

[Joel]

I still don't own a smart phone. The stranded on an island thing sounds rather nice after this week, even if I'm jonesing.

[Lisa]

I pray every day that I get stranded on an island . . . there's booze on islands, usually. What else do you need? A couple of coconuts, fresh shrimp and booze. No smart phones necessary.

[Melki]

Lisa - you mentioned some sort of bizarre blender accident on one of these threads and I didn't comment on it at the time.

What happened and how are you recovering?

[Joel]

Melki wrote: "Lisa - you mentioned some sort of bizarre blender accident on one of these threads and I didn't comment on it at the time.

What happened and how are you recovering?"

I thought she said 'bender'.