Cool, got some thunder out there. Maybe we'll get more rain.
I found a magnifier lamp that has 5x magnification -- my visor only has 3.5x. Schweet! Maybe it'll be easier for me to do my work.
Also sent away for some book on airbrushing. Free shipping, Amazon rulz!
Peggy, my pal in Las Vegas, hasn't gotten back to me yet in regards to my crashing at her place later this month. However, it turns out that a dolly friend of a dolly friend can't go to the convention due to illness, so I'm hoping I can get her place at the hotel.
Why do people say "at convention" instead of "at the convention"? As in, "We'll be out of town that day, at convention." Like in the U.K. where they say, "in hospital." Little language quirks like that fascinate me, but I must say that I'm firmly entrenched in the American English way of saying things. I lived in New Zealand for a couple of years and got irritated when people down there corrected my speech. "How ya doing?" I asked a little girl in my pottery class, and her mother corrected me: "How are you *going*." How ya going? That makes no sense. I'm going by bus, by train, how are you going?
I'm reading a British book right now, so I guess that's what brought it to mind.
Rainy and gusty outside. Nice.
posted by Newpeep, N.D. (neurotic depressive) @ 10:30 AM
3 Comments:
These days, I'm 'going', but only with the assistance of peaches, strawberries, raisin bran and prunes. How are you going?
Frogface@chek.com
Hey! Grow up, Frog! How udderly chew van aisle!
Good writing (as usual), Peep!
Love, Squirrelparts.
I didn't know that anyone did say 'at convention.'
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