Endless Ends

[Endless_Night]

All those nights at midnight that I've spent out in the clearing, sending welcome messages . . .
surely they're listening . . . time will tell . . .

Is that where you've been? What kind of message?

Are we talking Morse Message or Lone Signal?

 

[investor2020]

I'm much more basic in my outreach communications . . .

Years ago I started by playing "Where are you Little Star" on the portable turntable ("How I wonder where you are . . . High above the clouds somewhere". . . then moved on to "Are You Out There?" ("I am calling, can you hear this? . . . I was out here listening all the time". I soon realized that our music was not the proper vehicle to use.

So I switched to morse code using a high beam flashlight: "Hello, contact me. We are friendly" . . . but I couldn't find the needed long-life batteries to keep that up.

Over time I honed my ESP capabilites, so now its just me and the dog sending out welcome messages. I am still hopeful that my efforts will be rewarded.

Is that where you've been? What kind of message?

Are we talking Morse Message or Lone Signa

 

[Endless_Night]

I'm much more basic in my outreach communications . . .

Years ago I started by playing "Where are you Little Star" on the portable turntable ("How I wonder where you are . . . High above the clouds somewhere". . . then moved on to "Are You Out There?" ("I am calling, can you hear this? . . . I was out here listening all the time". I soon realized that our music was not the proper vehicle to use.

So I switched to morse code using a high beam flashlight: "Hello, contact me. We are friendly" . . . but I couldn't find the needed long-life batteries to keep that up.

Over time I honed my ESP capabilites, so now its just me and the dog sending out welcome messages. I am still hopeful that my efforts will be rewarded.

I. Am. Dying.

That was utterly awesome. Imagination extraordinaire!

A+++



P.S. I love that you include the pup.

 

[Endless_Night]

Four months, six phone calls, one chat with a VIP and today, finally, the fence broken by a utility company is fixed!

Who says perseverance doesn't work.

 

[Endless_Night]

Plus, six hours on the Zero.

My body hates me.


Also, I think I might need hog fencing.

 

[investor2020]

Also, I think I might need hog fencing.

You are raising pigs now ????

 

[Endless_Night]

You are raising pigs now ????

No!!!

Hogs keep getting through the current fencing and rooting holes.



I can barely raise myself.

 

[investor2020]

According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, landowners or their agents are permitted to kill feral hogs on their property, even without a hunting license, if the hogs are causing damage.

I foresee a pig roast in your future . . .

 

[Endless_Night]

I couldn't kill them!

I just want them to quit digging holes.


So I quit stepping in them. Besides they make the terrain bumpy for mowing.

 

[Endless_Night]

I should be working.

Instead, I'm sitting on my derrière watching The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).

#lazy

 

[hotwords229_A]

Sometimes you just need a lazy Sunday.
You could always check out Aussie’s Lit Lab of Sexy Science if you get bored.

 

[Endless_Night]

Sometimes you just need a lazy Sunday.

Yes, yes you do.

You could always check out Aussie’s Lit Lab of Sexy Science if you get bored.

Oof. Soy sauce and erogenous zones. That's one way to spend a Sunday afternoon?

 

[Endless_Night]

I am now sitting down to Madeira chicken livers with caramelized onions avec ouef.

Because I need the protein hit after that squat and lunge workout.

Omg.

*dying*

 

[Endless_Night]

Now Vertigo (1957).

Because apparently it's movie day and when isn't Hitchcock appropriate?

 

[hotwords229_A]

Oof. Soy sauce and erogenous zones. That's one way to spend a Sunday afternoon?

I am now sitting down to Madeira chicken livers with caramelized onions avec ouef.

Because I need the protein hit after that squat and lunge workout.

Omg.

*dying*

So you read Aussie’s thread about soy sauce dippings and then you ate caramelized onions.

 

[hotwords229_A]

Now Vertigo (1957).

Because apparently it's movie day and when isn't Hitchcock appropriate?

I love that movie, but it always makes me sleepy.

 

[Endless_Night]

So you read Aussie’s thread about soy sauce dippings and then you ate caramelized onions.

Omg, no!!

The chicken livers were already thawed, as were the caramelized onions.


The thread may have put me off soy sauce indefinitely.

 

[Endless_Night]

I love that movie, but it always makes me sleepy.

It's the score. *nods*

Next up - as I seem to be binging - The Birds (1963)

 

[Endless_Night]

Eesh.

That might've been a mistake right before bedtime. That movie scares the bejesus out of me.

I think I may need to find another movie.

No way am I going to sleep anytime soon.

 

[investor2020]

I have to admit that I am a bit discouraged by my long-term failure to make contact with extraterrestrials. And I am coming to realize that, like many of the early sci-fi movies infer, our civilization is still just too primitive and violent for us to be welcomed into the mix of the other forms of life in the universe.

Thus it's time to once again (for the umteenth time) to watch "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTM5MTE4OTU5NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDA0NzM4NA@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,47,500,281_.jpg

The words are burned into my brain: "GORT KLAATU BARADA NIKTO"

 

[Endless_Night]

Thus it's time to once again (for the umteenth time) to watch "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Intellectual sci-fi. *nods*

What did you think of the 2008 remake?

I was disappointed. As I often am with remakes.

 

[investor2020]

Intellectual sci-fi. *nods*

What did you think of the 2008 remake?

I was disappointed. As I often am with remakes.

Did not care for it at all . . . my general rule: "don't mess with the originals !"

 

[Endless_Night]

Did not care for it at all . . . my general rule: "don't mess with the originals !"

I've seen one or two movies where the remake beat the original, but on the whole they are just awful.

Why must they ruin them. Why?!

 

[investor2020]

I surmise that there are people in the world who cannot stand or tolerate perfection, and therefore must cast their own imperfections on lesser imitations . . .

 

[Endless_Night]

I surmise that there are people in the world who cannot stand or tolerate perfection, and therefore must cast their own imperfections on lesser imitations . . .

Someone sent me this quote earlier and, oddly, it someone fits.

"Often people fight hardest of all to preserve a delusion. And they will frequently persecute those who challenge that delusion.”

Which happens when you despair of the desecration.

(Seriously, people are scary. )