Black Friday 2009

Yesterday was a good day. Peter made a lovely chocolate cake on Wednesday for our dessert and then took point on the turkey. My job was knocking the Dining Room into shape and the side dishes which were mashed potatoes, yams, stuffing, gravy, and green beans. We sat down about 5, said grace, and then ate until we were full. We retired to the living room and played a game of Disney Scene-It to let dinner settle. After the game we had dessert which was very yummy.

And that was our day. Today we are going to see Fantastic Mr. Fox and then Ariel and I are going to Joann’s Fabrics to look at some stuff. We have an idea for the Farpoint Costume Contest and I want to see if it would be feasible.

Tomorrow will be another quiet day. It will also be one week to Caroline’s Birthday Party. I still have cleaning and shopping to do for that.

I am grateful for the nice dinner we had yesterday.

LJ Idol Season 6 Free Topic 1: kthxbai

Since I did my usual Thanksgiving list of thanks, I have already done the first topic at hand so I could have taken out the easy route but that really isn’t my style.

Net speak is a strange language to me. I have learned a lot of the basics and have a general knowledge of how to figure out what is being said. Then there are the cases where I have to use the Internet to figure out what someone is trying to say. It took me a while to figure out that OP means Original Poster but I got that one down. I will say that I do use Ariel as my translator at times or educator. I know that Internet speak is driving teachers and editors crazy because they have to explain and keep explaining why this kind of spelling is not acceptable with the possible exception of a character texting and even then kept it short.

I saw kthxbai for the first time when I was working the homework help boards on AOL. I remember that the question was one that was an obvious attempt to get homework done for them by the helpers. I used the usual patch we had for these sorts of attempts and got the reply “kthxbai” from the user. It took me a while figure out what had been said to me but I sorted it out.

Internet speak doesn’t bother me on the net or in a text if I know the short hand. Texting use to be much more expensive than it is these days (Heck, I remember a time before cell phones and the CB radio craze but then I am a dinosaur). And in some ways we are creating a new language or at least a new way of expressing ourselves. I guess Esperanto was ahead of its time. I’m not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing, it’s just a thing like so many other means of communication that are changing so rapidly.

If you have read this far then I would like to say kthx for reading.

Kthxbai.