I'm an outlaw in the court of strong opinion

[sovay]

I had a generally lousy day in not very interesting ways, but in the evening spatch and I made a steak with black beans and rice and in honor of Harry Morgan's birthday watched Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), which was delightful: I realized it belongs to the style of comedy which pitches all the jokes it can think of in the audience's direction while running very fast the other way, which I associate with Mel Brooks and enjoy. Tomorrow I have another doctor's appointment so early I might as well not bother trying to sleep. I have too many movies and even books I would rather write about. In the last few nights we seem to have acquired a mockingbird which serenades us at unwanted hours with its celebrated impersonation of a car alarm. It makes a change from the four a.m. motorcycle across the street.

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[spatch]

The best thing we can do for Harry Morgan's birthday is watch as much of his stuff as possible, and we are certainly coming very close to it without starting a binge of his seasons of MASH.

That mockingbird is still singing. I don't think any car alarms want to mate with it.

[moon_custafer]

The door alarm at my workplace has started its usual "Hey Hey hey I'm beeping here" in the past ten minutes. I don't know the number of the maintenance company so I'm going to have to wait till 9am and call our grumpy Facilities Supervisor. Trying to decide if I should try to switch the alarm off till then or if she'll chew me out for doing so.

[sovay]

The door alarm at my workplace has started its usual "Hey Hey hey I'm beeping here" in the past ten minutes.

Did someone come and make it cease its hopeful call?

[moon_custafer]

The people scheduled to work on the fire-alarm system (which is what's causing the beeping) are here, but they're doing something somewhere else in the building and have not turned off the ongoing alarm at the front.

Meanwhile the two guys up turned out to be technicians called to work on a *different* system, also elsewhere in the building, and unrelated to the beeping.

I tried opening the hatch myself but the "silence" button did nothing, and I didn't dare try any of the others.

As of this moment, The Beep Goes On.

[thisbluespirit]

Well done for making it through the day of Things and good luck for the appointment. <3 (And hopefully some less lousy days to come, too.)

[sovay]

Well done for making it through the day of Things and good luck for the appointment.

Thank you! The appointment was sleep-destroying but useful!

(And hopefully some less lousy days to come, too.)

(That'd be nice.)

*hugs*

[sovay]

As of this moment, The Beep Goes On.

In lieu of the ability to teleport you earplugs, *hugs*

[sovay]

The best thing we can do for Harry Morgan's birthday is watch as much of his stuff as possible, and we are certainly coming very close to it without starting a binge of his seasons of MASH.

Fortunately his filmography, while nowhere near Whit Bissell, is gratifyingly extensive! TCM had better run a lot of it this year, is all I'm saying.

That mockingbird is still singing. I don't think any car alarms want to mate with it.

I wish we could tell it that it's just a Hestia beacon. She claws at my blinds.

[moon_custafer]

It was finally turned off about fifteen minutes ago; and thus ended the World's Worst Technorave.

2:32 pm -- it seems I spoke too soon - the party has now moved to a car-alarm just outside my window.

ETA - yay it's stopped

[asakiyume]

Ooh, that sounds fun. The movie, not the day. Perhaps the mockingbird can be encouraged by competitive hints to imitate something else. "Can you do the sixth Brandenburg Concerto? How about "Cruel Mother"? How about ... the sound of silence. No I don't mean the song. I mean the sound of one hand clapping."

I see from your most recent entry the outcome of the doctor's appointment. Here's to the drops doing better than the mal-directed ointment.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

In the last few nights we seem to have acquired a mockingbird which serenades us at unwanted hours with its celebrated impersonation of a car alarm.

Oh no. I love mockingbirds and their talent for imitation, but less so at unwanted hours! XD Close to my office, there's a parrot that can imitate dogs and swear words and it's delightful!

I hope today is better! <3

[sovay]

Ooh, that sounds fun. The movie, not the day.

It was definitely the right thing to do with the evening. My mother remembers it fondly: she has always liked James Garner. The supporting cast is a heap of character actors, of whom Jack Elam is another standout. And while I still do not think of myself as especially experienced in Westerns, I had seen the major riffs for this movie, which is always fun. spatch and I went around semi-quoting bits of it to one another for the rest of the nigiht.

"Can you do the sixth Brandenburg Concerto? How about "Cruel Mother"? How about ... the sound of silence. No I don't mean the song. I mean the sound of one hand clapping."

Maybe it wants to learn John Cage's 4'33"!

[sovay]

Close to my office, there's a parrot that can imitate dogs and swear words and it's delightful!

It sounds it! I don't think I have ever actually met a parrot in person that did imitations. Does it just hang out and bark at people?

I hope today is better!

Thank you! It has been a very tired day, but not an actively bad one, which probably is an improvement.

*hugs*

[asakiyume]

Maybe it wants to learn John Cage's 4'33"!

--Or can goaded into it. "I don't know that you're ready for a task as challenging as this. I mean, you're good .... but are you 4'33" good?"

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Does it just hang out and bark at people?

Yes! It belongs to the owners of the little kiosk where my co-workers and I sometimes buy stuff, so we always see it hanging out there on its perch. Sometimes it says "hi" back to us, which is adorable, but I always lose it when it starts barking or swearing!

*hugs*