hello everyone

Hi, raggedy

how ya doing tonight?

pretty ok... and it doesn't look that difficult :)

but looks can be deceiving

right...

hi all

hello

done

congrats, was the look deceiving?

nope, not tonight

i'm relieved...

well, im off to bed for the night, got to catch up on some sleep

gnight..

Morning

hi all

July 25...

you're out by about a week

catching up on the past week... :)

done... time for lunch...

hi all

hello

hello

sorry, my compu too sencetive

goooood mornin yul :D

good moming btwrt :) how is you painting progressing?

ohhh ... i dunno ... it's ok i guess ;) i'm no big painter, i just dabble in it for fun

morning

g'mornin :)

hello

i used to paint alot. i should do some too

i've been using oil paints ... i enjoy how vibrant the colors are

i don't have any ability to draw, so the stuff i do has to be more ... what's the word i'm looking for ...

abstract, i guess might be the word.

i was dreaming today that i found my plein air box from college. just remembered :O

lol

i like oils too but i have a special watercolour tecnique developped and i used to do masses of still lives :)

ooh, nice :D i'd love to see them. i've painted ... about 4 paintings so far? and only two of them are technically finished ;)

oil takes time. unfortunatly i sold all of my best paintings and i have only very bad photos of them. i shell try to paint again and also make a webpage with pix i have left.

oh, that'd be awesome :D definitely let me know when you have that done. oh and if you need website help ;)

thanks :)

today's grid seems to be going fairly well so far ...

i need to look at it :)

oops. i think i spoke too soon.

done

yay yul! +~+~+ fireworks +~+~+

i must be missing something obvious ...

:)

i have to run. nice chatting with you, btwrt. everybody,have a nice day

you have a good day too :D c-ya

seriously, they are advocating metal detecting as a hobby?

better than train spotting!

that was a movie

what's this about metal detecting??

some commercial, that's all

did you walk into the classroom in the middle of a conversation? lol

classroom? what classroom? it's summer

lol i was referring to this forum abstractly as a 'classroom' ;) it won't happen again

uhoh

i have gone too speedily

uh oh what exactly?

i messed it up

ohhhh

it went quick for a bit and then i got stuck

i finished it, tho, if you feel the need for a hint which i know you won't ;) i'm working on archives some more. i am ... 6 away from all of them done? better than 18 or more away like i was a couple days ago

go btwrt

:D

don't you mean butt-wart?

if you insist :)

lol. i really don't.

yes you do, i know you do

wow, it's like you can read my thoughts ...

i should have known it was too good to be true

what did you do now?

nothing, just reflecting back on my earlier oops

ahhh, i c

my kittens are too cute

;) sooo cute and itttchy

ok but if i were to videotape them you could enjoy the cuteness without the itching

that is very true :)

there. now what to do all day?

lol

i'm trying to solve a cat problem, so i'm trying to stay in my room with them all day.l

ahhhh. gotcha.

apparently for me, today is the Day of the Phone

ringy dingy

how's voldemort?

meh, sending me angry emails

i think you misinterpreted my code

voldemort = you know who

you know who = ....

prolly so ;) voldemort = evil male person. what's your take on it?

starts with a W?

i suppose the evilness is more salient.

argh this is so annoying for some reason on the laptop here, AIM is saying sign in failed. it let me sign on in europe, why not here? i signed out on the desktop first...

yes

hmm. took a min but i got it to sign in. mebbe cancel and retry?

i've been trying for a couple of hours

i just don't get it

ahh i c. yeah i think voldemort is good ... haven't talked in actually about 3 days (yipe!)

oh, poor you

i had a grand night last night, what with voldemort missing, and voldemort-that-was sending the angry emails, and being at hogwarts by myself as the headmaster is on holiday

angry emails re: what?

mostly about bronze knuts i think

hmph

something to do with how mini-me's food,groceries,college fund, are all very financially strenuous for voldemort-that-was to have handled over the past 3 months

well unless he owes money to the malfoys, why doesn't he just deal?

yes. i think evil voldemorts have lots of ways to obtain more bronze knuts and even the gold pieces, what are they called, poor little butt-wart would not know

;)

well just think of it this way... it'll have to be over at some point

house-elves, as you know, do not get paid ;)

true dat

i'm trying to install an older version of AIM

ahh, ok

think it's working!

go

look at helen go!

No, please don't.

whyever not, whever?

:)

We should respect her privacy. Afterall, none of us would like it if a bunch of people watched us going in the privacy of this chatroom.

;-)

ewwww i didn't mean that

If she's going, I hope she has a laptop.

have laptop, will go...

hey - it's sunday morning for me - i guess it's still saturday night for other people

or travel...

lol

or sunday afternoon

make that sunday night...quarter past eight... :)

thanks alot for reminding art - gee since we live about 20 miles apart, i guess it would make it afternoon for me also

looks like you frittered away your morning, too, helen!

I have nothing accomplished today. yet.

i did go out to breakfast :) & read a little of the paper :)

and, btw, sleeping is NOT frittering, lol

I finished a good book...

what book?

A Michael Jecks mystery, set in the 14th century.

The Chapel of Bones.

I like historical mysteries.

oh yes - we did stop at one garage sale on the way to breakfast & i bought 3 first edition nancy drew mysteries for 25 cents each!!!

You did not fritter away your morning! Very productive.

i am slowly collecting all the them - i emphasize 'slowly' :)

How many are there?

yes art, i must agree, lol, very productive, lol

i believe there are 54, but i just buy whatever i find because that's easier than keeping a list & it's not like i spend more than a dollar for each one

Yikes! I had no idea there were so many. I read a few as a kid, but I was more into Westerns then.

plus, some are not in the best of shape - heck, some kids actually would draw or write in their books, can you imagine such a thing?

i think i have many of them helen

gasp

i don't think ms. keene wrote all of them, some ghosts were involved along the way

how do you know if they are 1st editions?

hurshy, old buddy, old pal

wasn't carolyn keene a pseudonym anyway?

yup it was

seems like I recall reading that the actual author wrote many things under many names

yes - not her real name - someone just had her on favorite authors day on babble complete with her life story, lawsuit involving rights, damn, if i knew there was going to be a quiz i would have taken notes

lol

i don't remember who it was, but i was impressed by the amount of info that person shared in their profile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Keenee..
.

oh. I haven't been babbling a lot lately. I think I read that in a Girl Scout magazine. & that was many, many years ago!

how d'you know if it's 1st edition?

general rule - if it doesn't say 2nd, 3rd , whatever edition anywhere :P

so, hurshy, don't let your mom sell those books! i see them for between 5 & 10 dollars at antique shops/fairs

*runs to check her books*

it's usually in the copyright page... if there is only one year in the print... it's first ed... although may not be first run

right

on a more advanced level, check against the official first edition date. also, there are usually more than 1 first edition per book - different editions, different countries etc, but there's only one First Edition. also there are 1st printings of 1st editions which are even more valuable!

i dunno, they look like firsts but my no 27 is older than my no1 so i don't see how they can be

maybe i only have one then

what year did no 1 come out helen?

no clue - would have to look

which i may do AFTER sudoku, since i am not pro & am almost done

oh the BLUE covers are firsts

then i have one.

I think my bros. had some original Hardy Boys, but the only Nancy Drews I have are paperbacks, when she was modernized in the 80s.

i thought the yellow spine ones were firsts but guess i was wrong

I thought the yellow ones were firsts too ...

ok, here is what i read - it's pretty confusing since there seem to have been many ghosts involved over different periods of time starting in the 1930's

well, I'm done. happy book hunting!

the original stories began to be updated in the 1950's - they changed her hair color, her car, her friends, etc

what was her original hair color? not titian?

I have no ideas which ones I read. They were my aunts' books.

blond from 1930 - 1960

and are you saying george and bess weren't original? and ned???

the wikipedia is pretty good

lol hurshy - it appears she had a friend named .....

yes, that's right

HELEN!!!!!!

good golly miss molly, the foundations of my world are being shaken

ned was always there, but george was added later, & bess substituted helen

well thank heaven for ned

sometimes, i pays to NOT know too much, lol

although in the combo books with the hardy boys, i did wish she'd throw him over for frank

i never read those

sudoku's are so nice when they suddenly unravel and play nicely!

hah! finally solved that expert from a week ago. i hate having to guess...

ffdfds

Ha

Nailed that puppy!

Rank me, baby!

Used Green

Cue theme music.

this thing doesn't solve. i quit.

desperately need help, i do

and there we go