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[which_chick]

I had a reasonably productive after-work today. Some days, I don't get any after-work errands done, but today I got all of them taken care of.



I stopped at the aluminum place and sold the storm windows we took out during the installation of replacement windows at 343. Twenty-six dollars. Go me! They also buy copper (over two bucks a pound) and brass (just a tad over a buck a pound). I've made a note.

I stopped at the fruit place (next door to the aluminum place) and bought apples suitable for pie. I need apple pie for the function on Saturday.

I stopped at the grocery and bought grocery things, including leeks which they haven't had for three weeks and which I've been wanting.

I stopped at the Wal Mart and bought cat food and ONLY cat food. Go me!

I stopped at Heather's and dropped off the first season of Deadwood on DVD. (I also scarfed an embarrassing number of mini 3-musketeers halloween candy bars. Not so Go, there. Bad user!)

I stopped and got the mail, which didn't have anything interesting for me.

I stopped at the shed and picked up the brass valves with broken handles and/or other issues. (I need to take strip off the not-brass parts before recycling.) Some of these have copper pipe bits stuck to them but no worries because I can fix0r dat. Yesterday after work, I determined that the woodstove is plenty hot to unsweat copper-brass pipe joints. Swell. Also, solder (pronounced sawter -- what the hell is up with that?) that you melt and drip on the tile in front of the woodstove? It doesn't stick and if you wait for it to cool off, you can just pick up the drips and throw them away. I am making an effort not to breathe the solder fumes but as I'm not going through life in a pre-pregnant state of being, I'm not horribly worried about it.

I split additional wood (trying to build up a supply of stove-ready pieces) and got the fire built in a timely and efficient fashion. :)

I was just entirely the soul of efficiency and organized productivity this afternoon.

Comments

[galena417.livejournal.com]

Wow...how did you manage to get out of Wally-World with only the one thing you went in for? I can never seem to do that - bad, impulse shopper, me!

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Helpful hint: Only enter Wal-Mart when you're in a hurry and have to pee.

[galena417.livejournal.com]

ROFL! Thanks for the tip. I wouldn't want to use the washroom there, unless I was very, very desparate.

Solder

[ardvaark99999.livejournal.com]

Also, solder (pronounced sawter -- what the hell is up with that?)

Colonel. Ache. I was just reading through some of this in Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue recently, and it has a great list of theses.

English is great with spelling and pronunciation varying, though it is largely standardized. There are piles of was to make a long O sound: go, though, bow, row (but not row), hoe, etc.

While spellings have tended to become more standardized since the advent of the printing press (manuscripts that predated the printing press tended to show enormous variations in spelling within english from region to region), pronunciation has been fluid. London spellings (where the printing houses were) were adopted, but local variations in how words were pronounced remained.

The local variations led later to how various words were pronounced in the US, as settlers from East Anglia and the midlands areas brought their dialects to the colonies.

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

solder (pronounced sawter -- what the hell is up with that?)

In my dialect, which is only from a few hundred miles away, we pronounce it sahd-der.

We also pronounce Mary, marry, and merry as three separate words, which I am given to understand is strange.