joey

did he take it off after he sat down? - Rachel Lea Fox

Rachel, eventually. We moved a few seats down before that, though. - joey

That is just rude of him. I would have had to say something to him. - Rachel Lea Fox

I think I was just speechless. It was so bizarre! But he did end up taking it off. Also, funny that he sat right in front of me. I was probably the shortest person in the theatre. - joey

It is totally Bizarre!! - Rachel Lea Fox

I'm sorry but LOL a top hat? Seriously? RIGHT in front of you?! RUDE. - Mona Nomura

Stay away from sand... he may want to 'get friendly' down in it - Johnny Worthington

Haha. - joey

*covers eyes* - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Try to let go of the guilt. If the friend didn't want to, they could have turned it down. And you're paying! Yes, you need help. Reach out with the knowledge that you'd be there for them if they needed you as badly as you need help right now. - Spidra Webster

Well, she hasn't said yes yet but she does it for a living so I don't imagine that she'd say no. Just a matter of scheduling when she is able to get back to me. - joey

Nothing like entering your nice clean house. It really id a nice comfort - CW™ from Android

Yay, she can come help next Tuesday. She used to clean every two weeks when I was working all the time but I feel silly hiring someone now when it should be my job. Still, it will be nice to be able to focus on writing, etc. - joey

She use to clean your house? No worries then. - Johnny Worthington

Yeah, she has a housekeeping business :) My only worry is that I feel like I should be doing this now and also not being frivolous. But it will help me get my life back in order so that I can write, etc. - joey

Don't feel guilty - feel proud! You are taking steps to get yourself organised so you can concentrate on what you want and need to do. - WorldofHiglet

Just because I am able and skilled to do the gardening doesn't mean it should be my job. Instead I hire a co to do it. They do it faster and better then I could do it. So I can use that time more for me. - CW™ from Android

Nothing I can really say here, but I just needed to at least get a .1% vent out. - joey

*offers himself as a punching bag to Joey* - Johnny Worthington

:( Have any Nerf bats handy? Perhaps a pillowfight? - Spidra Webster

I like screaming in my car every once in a while! It surprisingly makes you feel a bit better! - Georgia Diehl

Spidra Pillow Fight??? o_0 *grabs chair and popcorn* - CW™

Well, I meant pillow fighting with her fiance or something. That kind of exertion can often help you de-stress and get the adrenaline out. - Spidra Webster

i agree! what THE fuck? can anyone explain coherently what the Fuck??? come on people! - Morgan Haley

There is only one place that delivers to my address now. We live surrounded by restaurants, right next to downtown, but no one can figure out where we are. It's like a black hole of delivery. - joey

Of course, it costs $, but is there any Dine One One-type service up there? - Spidra Webster

If I were nearby, I'd cook something good for you and bring it over. - Sarah June

I could order you pizza and have it delivered. Except you I've in a pizza-free zone... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod

Spidra, we have eat24hours.com. Delivery charge is usually $1.50 to $3.00, plus a minimum food order. Joey, I put in your address and it says 7 restaurants deliver to you through eat24hours! - Rochelle

Awesome, Rochelle and Spidra. Someday we'll try that! Ben ended up picking up Pagliacci. - joey

alpha by author. only way to go. (@Steve -- :P) - Jim Hearts FF

I like the "put them in a pile and forget about them" method of organization. - Eric @ CS Techcast

by cover colour in the form of the light spectrum? - alphaxion

I'm with Eric. Although, if I ever unpacked my book boxes and actually put them on my bookshelf, that might change. =) - Beau Liening

I usually sort by genre/subject/type (textbook, fiction, reference, non-fiction subject) then alpha by authour. But I'm also running out of shelf space. And now I'm wondering if I should move these out of the living room and into the new 'office' room. - joey

I'd go the Autobiographical organization which involves putting books in the order in which you purchased them. #HighFidelity - CW™

CW, that's actually really neat but I don't remember. I've been a book hoarder since I learned to read. Also, I like that book :) - joey

I went to a house this weekend where the person had his books sorted by Library of Congress call number. And he isn't a librarian! (No, he didn't do original cataloging, uses some program or other). - Jaclyn

I'd keep the "recreational reading" in the living room and the reference stuff in the office, if I were lucky enough to have an "office" room in my hovel. - vicster

I do read/unread ---> genre ---> alpha by author but sometimes this gets screwed up due to lack of space. - pea

Ohhh, read/unread is a good idea. The problem is the my recreational reading sometimes includes my old textbooks and other random subjects. And the 'office' was my bedroom and is probably still going to be my dressing room, craft room, etc. and it's really my 'office' for writing fiction. I'm not sure that it's really going to be any different than before. Maybe cleaner ;) - joey

I love moving a book to the read sections. :) When I moved from Va to Ca I gave away/sold a lot of books but I still have about 500+ unread books so that section never seems to shrink much. Probably cuz I keep buying books. Doh! - pea

Pea, I banned myself from buying new books until I finished all the ones I haven't read. That went over really well. Ha! - joey

swears off of buying books, then caves in when the next Borders coupon arrives in the email ---------> - vicster

Oh, I put myself on a Book Buying Ban (the BBB if you will) in 2006 and that has worked out okay. I went from buying 12-15 books a month to about 20 a year. Around these here parts, that's what we call progress. - pea

That happens a lot when you deal with hardware instead of software. - Mahmood Padura

Pea, books have always been my primary addiction. I have curtailed it a bit but I don't know if that's due to willpower or having been too busy to keep it up ;) - joey

Mahmood, perhaps but I definitely prefer my books as hardware ;) I'll read online and on my phone, but nothing can replace curling up with the paper in my hot little hands. - joey

Dewey Decimal System. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Call in one of the 200,000 librarians on FF to comment, they'll tell you what's best! (I have an irrational lust fetish for librarians) - Matthew DeVries

pea, that read/unread grouping is so smart. I'mma have to try that. I go alpha order by genre, but it would really help to have unreads in their own space. Hmm. - Ayşe E.

:) When I'm looking for something new to read, I like being able to go to one bookcase to pick something, without having the read stuff cluttering my line of sight. Plus, the read books I decide to keep sometimes distract me. Read something new or read Pride and Prejudice again? :D hee. Though that's not a good example as P&P is never on the shelf. Tends to live on my nightstand. - pea

I found that just shoving the books onto the shelf top-left to bottom-right as they came out of the boxes made for a mind-bending "everyone who comes over to visit spends ~20 minutes trying to find the pattern before asking" experience -- and it's very serendipitous - kinda like a mini WWW on shelves :) - Aaron the Librarian

Makes so much sense, pea! And that's exactly what happens to me. I get lost looking through books I've already read, or some journal, or Hey! Here's that postcard! It's a wonder I ever read anything new. :) (Also, in my living room now I'm looking at 3 separate piles of books. They tend to follow me all around the house. I NEED this read/unread system, though half-read/read might work better!) - Ayşe E.

"by cover colour in the form of the light spectrum?" alphaxion = win. ROYGBIV - Geoff Schultz

+1 alphaxion! 4 sure, ;) - chaz2b

This convo is a great case study in OCD!!! ;-p BTW - I am for the genre-author format... - Robyn Hawk

Big stack of unread next to comfy chair with relevvant to current project reference books, magazines clipping in more or less messy pile nearest computer in office, other reference on shelf in office random grouping in scattered shelves probably is not a system... - WarLord

It's that I haven't even gotten to the point of being able to be stress-free enough to attempt anything. Everything is falling apart. - joey

It's because your job is not the only source of stress for you. Also because your fiancé works at the same employer and the employer's HR is fucked up, thus still heaping stress on you even if you don't have to report there every day. - Spidra Webster

joey, give it time. between the time of year and work on your house and everything else it is going to take a while to get things settled down. I've been off for 6 weeks and I'm still scrambling to get things done. Kevin felt that way still after 3 months of a sabbatical. Time will always fill up if you let it, but you also have give yourself time to clear somethings that have built up off of you plate and to get into a routine. - Rachel Lea Fox

:) oh yes! - WorldofHiglet

Yup - Mo Kargas

Haha, this was in reply to a friend who responded to something I said about Aion with 'I can so picture you in the Guild.' - joey

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Matthew DeVries

You would be great in The Guild. I call for a guest-spot! - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

yes. all the time. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Usually just day trips, but yes. Although I love my husband and enjoy being with him, I also like doing things on my own or with other friends. I appreciate him more I think, when I can have my own time. - Sarah June

I've travelled with my family without him on like, mother/daughter trips (and he has travelled with his for certain things) and for business, but I'm thinking about going to visit my friends in NYC and he doesn't really want to go right now, so I was thinking maybe I'd go by myself (since I'm jobless and can just use FF miles to go whenever) and then we'll go together later. He doesn't... more... - joey

From time to time, yes. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

I've gone to Las Vegas by myself to meet a friend who was on a trade show there for a weekend. I've gone to Mexico for a week with the girls. I'm going to Jamaica for a friend's weddings. I love to travel - he's not that fond of it - at to that the often exorbitant prices of travelling and we couldn't afford to both go. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Nathalie, I'm definitely the one with the travel bug and while I prefer having him along, I figure if he doesn't want to go I don't have to be stuck here. Also, sometimes I just love travelling with my best friends that I've had for the last 10+ years. It's a nice reunion without significant others. Same with my sisters. - joey

I have. Took two two-week long road trips by myself because we couldn't work our vacation schedules out. Both trips were awesome. Met a bunch of people in person who had previously been virtual friends. - Jim Hearts FF

I have traveled solo, but I prefer to travel with Kris - Bren, Photophobe

My husband and I both do. It'd be nice if we could travel together more often, but his job makes that difficult. - Heather Solos

I went to Vegas last year with two of my friends, without my husband. We have a very trusting relationship. - Georgia Diehl

Yep. He prefers to stay home with the dogs, so I've gone to a few places by myself. - Laura - Barry's figment

Prefer to travel w/ him, but I've definitely traveled happily w/ others. - Ayşe E.

WTF are you supposed to tell each other if you're not having experiences the other doesn't know about? - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, how sparkly and dazzling the other is. DUH. - joey

Uh oh, a sparkly couple living in the Pacific Northwest? - Matthew DeVries

INORITE? Just kidding, there can be only one! - joey

If I had any skills at all, I'd make a joey animated gif showing sparkle all Twilight style. - Matthew DeVries

All the time. We don't travel well together. - cecily

We haven't traveled for leisure separately before. I can't really picture us doing it. Sometimes when I travel for work, I'll see things or stay in hotels that make me think, "I wish she was here." - Ha3rvey (Free hugs!)

I don't see what's weird about it. People have different obligations and pastimes. - Cristo

Oh and they can't add me until they can remove me from the system so there is no way around my benefits lapsing? What? - joey

hmm... what does federal law have to say about that, I wonder? - Michael W. May

I'm not participating in NaNoWriMo but I am transitioning my life from having a conventional career to attempting to be--dare I say it out loud--a full time writer and this pep talk hit me where I needed it. - joey

That was great, and Neil is so awesome. Thanks for sharing! - Lo

Did you know he'd dating Amanda Palmer?! - Matthew DeVries

Uhm.... Imma open voting on this and also cast the first 'Nay.' - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod

But Micah, I could use a makeover! - joey

as long as you have internets - Zehn

Zehn, that's probably what I most need to hide from! I cannot be productive with the Internet. :( - joey

I'm just not sure I could see you with a giant hermit's beard. - Joe Pierce

Can I throw in a vote for lumberjack instead? - Wirehead

why don't you just try turning off the computer for 30 days and see how you go? - Loc

Loc, because I do need the computer and Internet for projects I'm working on (primarily writing and music). I just need to find a balance and not get swept up in crazy conversations. - joey

Can you unplug from the Internet during the times you don't need it for your projects and just plug in as needed? - vicster

I could if I had willpower :) I do need to try to unplug a bit more. I think I mostly just need to learn to use hide more so that I don't get so invested in things that frustrate me or that I get swept up in. And not just on FF. Maybe it's just the time of year. - joey

"Yo ho, yo ho...a pirate's life for me..." - Derrick

Aww, Derrick took the words right out of my mouth! He's too clever - Lo

That was the first ride Derrick and I went on together! <3<3 - joey

Yay! Another future hermit! - Alan Simpson

*giggity* - Derrick