oh dear what can I do?

[orangerful]

We have teh evil bird outside our window. Around sunrise, this little bugger (or buggers, as the case may be) begins to chirp very loudly. Over and over and over and over...pretty much forever (he was still doing yesterday when jimithingy got home from class around noon). We don't know what to do. I just cram my pillow into my ear and pass back out again. It seems to be a bit rougher for jimithingy, but he's a lighter sleeper than me. We assume that it's baby birds, in their next, calling for momma to bring them food. It is irritating though because it really wakes you up, it's just the right pitch that it bring you out of your sleep. Plus, I was concentrating so hard on ignoring it this morning that I didn't hear my phone ringing.

Oh, and how much is gas where YOU live? This is getting regoddamndiculous. $2.61!!! I can't afford to drive to work but I can't afford to not go to work! I just don't understand. I even went out of the way yesterday to go to the gas station that's usually cheaper and they were three cents more! Oi!

We watched The Machinist last night. Christian Bale was very skinny in that movie. It was kinda hard to watch; he was just skin and bones. I'm not going to go into a long, involved review here. It was a good movie but I think it could have moved a bit faster. I also think that there have been alot of films in this style recently so it took away from the novelty of it. *shrugs* It will forever be refered to as the "omg Batman is so skinny in this" movie.

Now I gotta bump something up on Netflix. #1 is Shallow Grave with Ewan McGregor. But I also just sent back Curb Your Enthusiasm disc 2, so I need to pick one other film. Bill just gave me a pile of MST3K DVDs to watch too. But that's more for just me. jimithingy isn't as big of a fan.

Oooooh break time!

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[marmistheman.livejournal.com]

$2.55 here in south jersey
damn i hate that
we are heading to baltimore this weekend for some aquariam type fun
so i am to expect bad gas prices there too i suppose
do you pump your own gas down there?
i havent done that in ages
i hate pumping my own gas
ah well
back to the stepper
its Rocky II time now

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP you guys are coming down here??? Why didn't you TELL ME! Silly boy. The Star War's clubs big summer social is this Saturday in Davison, MD, but Sunday I think we're free. Heck, the social will only go until 5 or so, we could get together for dinner or something! Our apartment is about 20 mins from Baltimore (at the most). If you want to stop in for snacks or something, you're totally welcome. We don't really have anyplace to sleep except the couch, but if you want to bring sleeping bags or something you're welcome to stay the night!

[marmistheman.livejournal.com]

im comin down with joanne and jordan
and joanne's sister is coming with her 2 daughters
5 and 3
muy crazy
you dont want them tearin up your house
trust me on that one, hehe
we are going to the aquarium
port discovery (not sure what that is)
and the harbor?
does that give us a good taste of b'more?
any other suggestions would rock our world

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

that's pretty much most of kid friendly baltimore. Cheesecake Factory is in the harbor, they have yummy food (and cheesecake), or so I've heard as we've never actually managed to get inside haha. Little Italy has lots of lovely italian places with desserts too.

that would be an awful lot of people in our wee-tiny apartment. Especially when 3 of them would be kids bored to tears by our jabberin. If you guys ever want to stop in when it's just the three of you, you're welcome to. :-)

[vertigozooropa.livejournal.com]

Gas is only $1.10 here. :-P

How many litres in a gallon? What's the Canada/US exchange rate? I'm not helping here.

But, for the record, $1.10 per litre is the most expensive gas has ever been here. Ever.

The cheapest I've seen it has been 35.9, and when I started delivering pizza in 1999, I tried to catch it at 45.9, because it would fluctuate up to 63.9 and back. 63.9 was really expensive.

I remember I once caught gas down low at 79.9, and had to reflect on how absurd that was.

And soon, when gas goes down to 99.9, I'll be glad of it. This is sick.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

According to Classic 164 Currency Converter (http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic), 1.10 Canadian Dollar = 0.90684 US Dollar.

Ugh, it's insane. I hesitate to spend $40 on star wars toys, but now I drop that much to fill up my gas tank and can't really do anything about it. It just makes you feel so frustrated and helpless.

[vertigozooropa.livejournal.com]

if that's the case, consider yourself lucky, because we're paying about $3.45 US per gallon.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I agree with you! (and you're welcome to bring up politics here...as long as I agree with them! hahaha)

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I've tried the ESP. Didn't work. In fact, I think they were doing it back because the sounds became LOUDER!

jimithingy tried the "whacking the hole where the nest is with a large pole at 7am" approach, which worked for a solid 5 minutes. Then the momma bird came back.