In bath with Madonna ….

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Posted by Sandy | Posted in drink, food, internet, whimsy | Posted on 31-12-2006

Warning: This is a “I love my MacBook” post

As you are aware I am strangely addicted to my new laptop. So addicted I haven’t thought of anything else but its lovely whiteness for the past two weeks. Lately, I have become fraught at bath time coz I lose valuable On MacBook time while soaking (when I have a bath I have to stay in it til all the bubbles have gone and the water is cold – so I am in there a loooongggg time and I’m sure the little Book feels neglected). However, I have just discovered that I can still use the MacBook while in the bath coz it’s got a remote control! Oh how cool is that ? So I had Madonna, Jimi Hendrix and ColdPlay in the bath tonight. Well … Madonna and Jimi were quite charming but I don’t think I want Chris Martin in my bath again.

To get all those folks in the bathroom I had to deploy significant amounts of gadgetry including:

  • 1 lovely lovely white MacBook running on battery outside the bathroom (we dinnae want the condensation on our precious)
  • 1 lovely lovely white MacBook remote
  • 1 Sony wireless speaker
  • 1 Sony wireless speaker transmitter
  • 1 Guardian Weekend supplement
  • 5 Irish toffees (fair trade of course)
  • 1 glass fizzy wine with orange
  • 1 Fender Stratocaster
  • 1 bottle of lighter fuel
  • 1 match
  • a black baby

Och … I dinnae play with the MacBook all the time. This Xmas I have also:

  • sewed a billion cushion covers for our sofa (8 down, 4 to go)
  • ate for Scotland
  • sat on my butt for Scotland
  • for the purposes of ebay sales listened to Electric Ladyland, Are you experienced?, Isle of Wight. Hurrah for Jimi !  He’s dead dontcha know ?  Pool of vomit.  Poor thing!  And I mean Hurrah for his guitar playing not for the pool of vomit thing.
  • (barely) tolerated relatives
  • watched all three Back to the Future films followed by …
    • all three Jurassic Park films (yawn)
  • learned a bit of MySQL, PHP and CSS (OK I had to use the MacBook for that but I also had to use the PC laptop too – yeuch)
  • thought about my New Year Resolutions (more of that another day)
  • thought about how wet I will get watching the Pet Shop Boys on Hogmanay. I am considering taking a bin liner to wear
  • did I mentioning eating for Scotland ?

Word of the week

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Posted by Sandy | Posted in whimsy | Posted on 22-12-2006

The mac

Oh the joys of the MacBook, the burning of CDs to iTunes, the once lost but then found Teenage Fanclub Grand Prix. The glee when I found again the catchiest song every written by scotties (not the dogs the people) Verisimilitude. What a fine song, what a fine word. So many vowels, so many syllables, such a lovely meter. What does it mean ? Who cares ? OK then I’ll look at my on board Mac dictionary (are you getting sick of my Mac yet). It means something to do with plausibility or troof or sumit.

Word of the week last week

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Posted by Sandy | Posted in whimsy | Posted on 17-12-2006

I forgot to post my Word of the week last week. It’s an old word but with a new spelling as invented by Gussie to describe poor Roderick’s ill health. Here’s its etymology:

coff(v and sometimes n and on a Tuesday possibly adj): a mild version of hacking up the lungs or more commonly a condition of the respiratory organs

Origin: developed early 21st century by poet and novelist Gussie the Dog Owner. Adaptation of Middle English cough Commonly phraseology: “That Roderick she has a terrible coff”

“Your coff sounds really bad, have you taken that medicine ?”

Any chance you could stop coffing?”

“Coff, coff. Oh my lung’s popped out”

“I fot thru the crowds and bot you that medicine for your coff and I thot you took it”

It’s Warhol actually …

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Posted by Sandy | Posted in allotment, internet, whimsy | Posted on 16-12-2006

TSSL is unlikely to be updated in the near future due to Sandy fiddling with her new white, shiny MacBook toy. So far she has spent her entire salary on iTunes, is preparing a comic about the allotment, is finalising the art work (ha) on her sheep-centric Xmas cards and purchasing white wigs as she enters her (S)andy Warhol phase . SandyWarhol