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(And that's the first time I've used my college degree in about 3 years! I was a communications major now working in the energy industry.)

ETA: If you think it's hard to find a good cobbler nowadays, just try getting your grandfather clock repaired!

[This message edited by Solarchick at 12:38 AM, Saturday, October 29th]

Well, things that have kept me awake at night include:

Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?

Seriously could they make the english language anymore messed up? Adding silent letters, having 3 there's, 3 twos, same word different meanings depending on how its used. And phonetics...total bull crap. Here SOUND OUT THE WORD...oh wait let's stick in letters that don't have any sound or have the sound of another letter just to mess with ya.
(Ph=f for example).

I had another thing but I got distracted and it's flown the coup of my brain. Figures.

Seriously could they make the english language anymore messed up? Adding silent letters, having 3 there's, 3 twos, same word different meanings depending on how its used. And phonetics...total bull crap. Here SOUND OUT THE WORD...oh wait let's stick in letters that don't have any sound or have the sound of another letter just to mess with ya.
(Ph=f for example

I blame the french on the silent letters. You left out the letters like G (/j/ /k/) and C (/k/ /s/ ) that get pronounced differently depending on which words they are in.

Lol. I just gave the one example cause I wanted to get back to the topic which made me want to post and by the time I ended that rant on language and then got distracted by my offspring the original thought was gone.

I'm seriously losing my mind lol

It will come to me eventually.

I remember I remember!!!

Ok ok so is A Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie???

My opinion on Nightmare Before Christmas is, yes. Both, either, I'll watch it whenever.

I've never watched it because that type of animation gives me the creeps.

Just like Coraline (sp?). Hate that animation. Gives me nightmares.

Why does Mother Nature insist on giving us all four damn seasons in a single day?

Morning it's damn freezing. Send the kids to school in sweaters and winter jackets.

By lunch it's like should I turn in the AC or melt into a pile of sweaty goo...

Dinner time, it's like awe Autum is so wonderful and by 8pm I've got to crank the heat cause it's frosty.

PICK one... ONE!

Ohio has 12 seasons Winter, Fool's Spring, Second Winter, Spring of Deception, Third Winter, The pollening, Actual Spring, Summer, Hade's Front Porch, False Fall, Second Summer, Actual Fall. The first weekend in October we had temps under 0c. Now we;ve been running at 20 for the last couple of weeks. Must be actual fall. Power went out in the early am a few days back. After it came back on didn't notice the furnace wasn't working till the next night as the furnace/air isn't needed much in this weather. Had to replace the thermostat as it was deader than a doornail.

Ohio has 12 seasons

Lol. Ontario has all of those plus Construction. Then again that seems to be an all year thing now.

Solarchick

I too have a grandfather clock that needs repair. I did find a clock repair shop once, but they did not do house-calls. We got ours to work for a little while by putting shims under one side, but it looked a little silly.

Another thing I came across the other day is why do they use both O and zero - 0. in the UK post codes and on mixed streams of ID letters and numbers.