Warren's Five (plus two) Most Fun Past Journal Entries
Thirty Eight
Warren's wedding
Warren does an Ultimate Survey
Hume Improvement
A Small Tail Tale
Peaceful Postal Protest
An Amusing Top Five List
My Amazon Wish List
Buy me stuff!
Pete's Ancient and rarely updated
D-land Journal
Successful relocation.
Journal Entry entered: October 1, 2001 - 9:21 p.m.
Well, the move was a success! People started to show right around 10am. By eleven we had virtually the whole crew there: Jim & Toni, Daven, Dr. Bashford, Michelle, Torii, Lexie, Brook, and my baby brother, Seviah. Needless to say, Vin and I had lots of help!
Once we got organized we did a bucket brigade of stuff out of the house and into the cars (a minivan, an SUV, a Hummer, and several cars, to be exact). Once the vehicles were full we rambled over to the other place and did the same thing into the new place. The crew had a generally good time doing this. People would shout out commentary about the stuff they were passing up... usually derogatory and amusing. "Warren's porn magazines!" "Warren's inflatable sex sheep!" You get the idea.
We repeated this deal, and at the end of the second run, we had the whole household moved! 3.5 hours and I was installed in my new abode! Everyone was pretty happy with the record time we set. The ginger ale and the Cousins party subs were demolished and then folks took off.
I'd like to thank them all publicly for sacrificing their backs and legs and Saturday to help me move. You guys make me feel loved, despite all the trash talk directed at me (I'm looking at you, Lexie!!!)
I am now trying to put my house together and make it livable. The bedroom is nearly done, the living room is getting there, and the kitchen just needs to be swept and scrubbed. Woo hoo!
The house needs a bit of work. I am risking Queeg's life right now, having him plugged into a 3-prong to 2-prong adapter! I like the house, but this weekend I shall be bringing the electrical outlets into the 20th or 21st centuries! Other work needs to be done, too. Screens, gutters, other miscellany, but on the whole it is a very nice and comfy place.
Well, that's all. Back to setting things up and getting my life back into some semblance of order. Cheerio!
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Warren's list of words that monkeys use to annoy him by misspelling, misusing, or mispronouncing them (the list will most assuredly grow)
- COMING (typically mispelled "comming")
- TONGUE (typically mispelled "tounge")
- HERE vs. HEAR (the former is a place word; the latter is what you do when a sound hits your ear)
- IT'S vs. ITS (the former is a contracted form of IT IS; the latter is a possessive form of the impersonal pronoun IT)
- LOSING vs. LOOSING (the former is what you are doing if you are not winning; the latter is what you are doing when you let the lions out of the lion pen at the zoo, you are "loosing them" or "setting them loose").
- POUR vs. PORE vs. POOR (the first is what you do to get milk from the carton into the glass; the second is a small opening in a surface, such as those in your skin that sweat comes out of (... don't write poetry if you don't know your English, you just look sad). The third, a state of having little or no money, is rarely confused with the other two).
- ROGUE vs. ROUGE (The former is a person who might also be described as a rascal, scoundrel or cad; the latter is make-up that one uses to add a bit of a blush to one's cheeks.)
- THEY'RE vs. THEIR vs. THERE (the first is a contraction of THEY ARE; the next is a possessive form of THEY; the last denotes place or location)
- TO vs. TOO vs. TWO (the first is a function word indicating movement, direction, proximity, intention, addition: "I'm going to the store" or "Add this to the pile" or "How close is the house to the road"; the second one sort of adds quantity, often of the excessive sort, to a concept: "Too many reptiles" or "I'm coming, too"; the last represents the number 2.)
- WHERE vs. WEAR vs. -WARE vs. WERE- (the first references place or location; the second is either a verb, noun, or suffix relating to clothing or other adornments [example: wearing footwear] OR a noun or verb relating to the effect of exposure or useage or corrosion [wear and tear]; the third is a suffix that indicates that something is a class of some sort [hardware, software, flatware, wetware]; the fourth is a prefix used to attach the disease of Lycanthropy to a person or animal, i.e: werewolf, wererat, weretiger. Finally, although pronounced differently, "WERE" is also a past tense of are or to be.)
- YOU'RE vs. YOUR vs. YORE (the former is a contraction of YOU ARE, the middle is a possessive form of YOU, and the latter is a reference to another, undefined era in the past: "Days of yore.)
- ASK [ask'] ("axe" is something used for chopping wood or the action of chopping something with an axe).
- CAN [kahn] (it should not be pronounced as [kehn]). Thanks, Ken.
- CAVALRY [kah'-val-ree] ("Calvary" is a mountain that is prominant {pun intended} in the Bible, not a military unit that rides on horses... or these days on tanks and Hum-Vees).
- DONDER [don'-der] ("Donner" was the name of a party of travellers that got stuck in the mountains and ate each other, not the name of one of Santa's eight little reindeer).
- ESCAPE [es-kayp'] ("excape" simply sounds dumb).
- ESPRESSO [es-pres'-oh] (it is NOT "eXpresso," pinheads. Thanks, Mischief.
- HUNDRED [hun'-dred] (it's not "hun'-erd" nor "hun'-red"). Thanks, Rachel.
- INSURANCE [in-sure'-ense] (it is NOT "in'-sure-ense"! In English, the second to last syllable is the one that gets the emphasis except when asking a question, when the LAST syllable is accented... never the third to last!!!)
- JEWELRY [jew'-el-ree] (it's not "joo-lah-ree" or "joo-luh-ree", stoner!) Thanks, again Rachel.
- LIBRARY [lie-brayr'-ee] (there's no such thing as a "lie-berry", people!)
- NUCLEAR [new-klee'-er] ("nuke-yuh-ler" is incorrect, Homer! Same goes for you, Dubya!!!)
- OFTEN [aw'-fen] (the pretentious will insist on saying "awf'-Ten" but that is an archaic form and no more appropriate than saying "thee" and "thou" in colloquial English)
- RIPON [rih'-pin] (so very many people pronounce this "rih-pon' " or "ripe'-on" that it gets on the nerves of anyone who has ever lived or gone to school there! Thanks Rachel K.
- VIOLA [vi-o'-la] (the musical instrument is pronounced "vee-ola" but the flower and the woman's name is pronounced with an "eye", not an "ee")Thanks, Viola.