Blogger saves the evening! / Egg liqueur and fireball whiskey / Pencils

Bingo of the night:

OVERPACK (535 points) - against Korey-Ann C.


High-scoring words of the night:

NAPPIES (105 points) - against Chris W. [5W]
AVIATE (275 points) - against Ashley S. [two 5W]
OVERPACK (535 points) - against Korey Ann C. [5W, 4W, bingo]


I finally finished my mini-project, although the tags page took a long time to load in Safari... copying the tags from there was also a pain. Then I got the brilliant idea to see if I could copy the tags page into a Blogger post, using Chrome for both actions. I could, but Blogger spat out an "Error 400 - Bad Request" message at me when I tried submitting the post. Figuring that it was way too long even for a Blogger post, I decided to copy the tags from the Blogger post into the Update Journal page - copying and pasting took far less time. In about three hours, I had a finished product in LJ and Facebook! Trust me, it would have taken at least ten hours if I'd continued to use Safari - and this saves me a few extra trips to Oakridge library!

Teunis came back at around 11:35 with a guitar, a violin, more instruments, Pepsi, peanut butter, sausages, milk, Chinese inks, brushes, a fun wand with stars inside, Superstore mint tea, grass jelly drinks, "naughty" fireball whiskey, egg liqueur, MALTA drink (beer apparently wishes it tasted like that - with the same ingredients), random computer stuff / food supplies / mint water / CDs / cables, a huge container full of textbooks and other people's books (reminds me of Dallas' boxes and container of books), a new 2TB hard drive (from Staples and not Andrew - unhappy about the cost, but he NEEDS it!), the WATCHMEN comic, Breyer's mint chocolate chip ice cream, spices and other things from storage (FLAVOR!), and more. He forgot the pasta sauce without EVIL (for him) tomatoes, but he was coming from Surrey and the stores were closing. No problem at all, man! Discussed Cantonese / Chinese dialects, multi-tasking, swearing / alcohol, intelligence, IQ, voicemail, communication, THE BATHROOM FAN ON THE EDGE OF FAILURE (must contact Hester about that), culture, humor, words / language, context, Nine Inch Nails / A Perfect Circle / morbidity, the band Sabaton / Nazis / Hungarians, food variety / worth, Youtube videos, his brother / Microsoft / technology / robots / computers, and more. Seems he can reboot the drive that he thought was dead - nice!


Trivia fact for Wednesday, July 21: What famous philosopher-poet was the first American to successfully combine clay with graphite to create a modern lead pencil? Henry David Thoreau, whose father (John) operated a pencil factory.