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Six pigeons on the balcony and R opened the door "Pigeon bed check", and a few hopped and ruffled till R grabbed the extender curtain rod and gave em all a sound poking.

Most flew off, startled awake, but one, apparently a heavy sleeper, ricocheted around the balcony, disoriented, fell in a bucket and finally flew off. He was so difficult to wake, R was thinking for a moment it was dead. No, just a very heavy sleeper.

They haven't returned yet. This is the longest the balcony's been birdfree. R is "I know how to send a message!"

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Six pigeons on the balcony and R opened the door "Pigeon bed check", and a few hopped and ruffled till R grabbed the extender curtain rod and gave em all a sound poking.

Most flew off, startled awake, but one, apparently a heavy sleeper, ricocheted around the balcony, disoriented, fell in a bucket and finally flew off. He was so difficult to wake, R was thinking for a moment it was dead. No, just a very heavy sleeper.

They haven't returned yet. This is the longest the balcony's been birdfree. R is "I know how to send a message!"

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Do we stay for tallships? It runs 5 days, so we only really need to stay for one day..( 15th to the 20th.)

Busy day today: empty some boxes, ( the amount of stuff I'm still taking out of here boggles me) and give the vacuum cleaner a haircut. Yes, a haircut. The beater bar is wrapped entirely in hair from three shedding weirdos.

Go to the dollar store and get some shiny shiny pinwheels to fasten to the balcony rail to scare off the boids.

Some language lesson work, some chem or math review, and make more hackies. Probably do my ring order for stretchy bracelets and some keychain stars too.

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Do we stay for tallships? It runs 5 days, so we only really need to stay for one day..( 15th to the 20th.)

Busy day today: empty some boxes, ( the amount of stuff I'm still taking out of here boggles me) and give the vacuum cleaner a haircut. Yes, a haircut. The beater bar is wrapped entirely in hair from three shedding weirdos.

Go to the dollar store and get some shiny shiny pinwheels to fasten to the balcony rail to scare off the boids.

Some language lesson work, some chem or math review, and make more hackies. Probably do my ring order for stretchy bracelets and some keychain stars too.

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I will never understand rabid anti abortionists.

There's one on a forum who supports torture, the death penalty, and banning abortion, and says "not everything is about controlling women" ( well, she spelled it wymyn in an attempt to be a shithead)

Because...forcing women to carry a child to term that might have grave abnormalities...hey, that's torture, I support that.

( and i think her god has some 'splainin to do because how many pregnancies end in miscarriage? he's the biggest abortionist of em all.)

It's been legal here for how long now? Why can't the US move past this idiotic morality of "well, she deserves it if she has sex" and witless statements of "i knew someone who used it instead of condoms!"

speaking of which, if you deny sex ed, and welfare/single mother support, and affordable contraception AND abortion, you're deluded and need to reconsider your stances. Good grief.

( though the poster in question would also like to see theocratic rule, a theocracy, which I find beyond abhorrent. Which theology? Hardline christian, of course!)

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I will never understand rabid anti abortionists.

There's one on a forum who supports torture, the death penalty, and banning abortion, and says "not everything is about controlling women" ( well, she spelled it wymyn in an attempt to be a shithead)

Because...forcing women to carry a child to term that might have grave abnormalities...hey, that's torture, I support that.

( and i think her god has some 'splainin to do because how many pregnancies end in miscarriage? he's the biggest abortionist of em all.)

It's been legal here for how long now? Why can't the US move past this idiotic morality of "well, she deserves it if she has sex" and witless statements of "i knew someone who used it instead of condoms!"

speaking of which, if you deny sex ed, and welfare/single mother support, and affordable contraception AND abortion, you're deluded and need to reconsider your stances. Good grief.

( though the poster in question would also like to see theocratic rule, a theocracy, which I find beyond abhorrent. Which theology? Hardline christian, of course!)

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There's 20 suites on each floor here, and one washer and dryer per floor. And strict laundry times.

Since they actually started enforcing the laundry times, it's mean that we are back to scrapping to get in to do laundry. There's people who manage to hog the thing every day, for 4-5 loads, and with the wacky load times ( 30 for wash, 45 for dry) it means getting things done is a battle.

I stuffed a comforter in the wash, and arg, the card's out so I run down to fill it. I'd taken someone else's stuff out so I could, and realized after I'd dumped in soap, that I was out of cash.

I come back and the blanket's pulled out. I cram it back in, and set the cycle.

I see the guy who yanked it out coming down the hall with a second load ( dude, why didn't you take it when you put your stuff in the dryer?

I half expect he's going to take my laundry out and dump his in.

Seriously, the room is big enough for 2 washers and dryers per floor.

In toronto: I'll happily pay for en suite washer/dryer. This is otherwise idiocy.

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There's 20 suites on each floor here, and one washer and dryer per floor. And strict laundry times.

Since they actually started enforcing the laundry times, it's mean that we are back to scrapping to get in to do laundry. There's people who manage to hog the thing every day, for 4-5 loads, and with the wacky load times ( 30 for wash, 45 for dry) it means getting things done is a battle.

I stuffed a comforter in the wash, and arg, the card's out so I run down to fill it. I'd taken someone else's stuff out so I could, and realized after I'd dumped in soap, that I was out of cash.

I come back and the blanket's pulled out. I cram it back in, and set the cycle.

I see the guy who yanked it out coming down the hall with a second load ( dude, why didn't you take it when you put your stuff in the dryer?

I half expect he's going to take my laundry out and dump his in.

Seriously, the room is big enough for 2 washers and dryers per floor.

In toronto: I'll happily pay for en suite washer/dryer. This is otherwise idiocy.

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R downloaded a whackload of a Stephen Fry hosted "game show?" I don't know what you'd call it since it's basically freeflowing silliness, called QI. ( quite interesting.)

I swear I've rarely laughed so much I hurt, but hee that did it. It's also the sort of humor of which would NOT fly on North American TV without making grandma fairly apopleptic.

We might have all the gore n violence, but slightly offcolor humor, or nudity, or letting a kid drink a soda? Heavens no.

I mentioned last night that I missed the tantalizing promise that came with all the ads in the subways and train stations for theatre, galleries, plays, concerts, sigh....the best we have here is...um....well... a "get a pap smear" ad on the bus, where one of the women looks alarmingly mannish. And some "come work at our call centers" ads.

Culture...not so much.

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R downloaded a whackload of a Stephen Fry hosted "game show?" I don't know what you'd call it since it's basically freeflowing silliness, called QI. ( quite interesting.)

I swear I've rarely laughed so much I hurt, but hee that did it. It's also the sort of humor of which would NOT fly on North American TV without making grandma fairly apopleptic.

We might have all the gore n violence, but slightly offcolor humor, or nudity, or letting a kid drink a soda? Heavens no.

I mentioned last night that I missed the tantalizing promise that came with all the ads in the subways and train stations for theatre, galleries, plays, concerts, sigh....the best we have here is...um....well... a "get a pap smear" ad on the bus, where one of the women looks alarmingly mannish. And some "come work at our call centers" ads.

Culture...not so much.