1) I slept surrounded by cats. At one point in the night I had to move one of them, because it had the cheek to get in between me and Rose. I only have so much patience, after all
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Well, if the cats decide they have to come with you today, just make sure they all come back, please -- I'm rather fond of (most of) them.
And without any more strays, please. This house seems to attract strays -- those two black & white ones were stray cats in the neighborhood once upon a time, who presented themselves on the porch and made it clear that they lived here. I think the local cats put up hobo signs indicating "Suckers Live Here Good Eats Here."
Help yourself to anything you'd like for breakfast -- everything's either in the cabinets I showed you two last night, or in the refrigerator. I've got about five different kinds of jam if you'd like toast, including some homemade blueberry from our own blueberry bushes.
Toaster is over there --
Hey, you're good with electronics. See that old green transistor radio behind the red toaster? Can you see if you can get it to stop wandering off-channel? Drives me crazy.
Welllll, that radio never has been right. Can't really break it more than it already is. And if it's fixed -- that would be lovely, really. Don't feel like you have to, of course, if you don't want to fiddle with something as simple as an old transistor radio.
Ah, you see I grew up in an extended family of semi-mad scientists: electronic engineers, the man who co-invented the modern binary computer, aeronautical engineers, and a chemist who went off-road into nuclear physics. There are some interesting geegaws around here, souvenirs and such from old projects of my family, especially in my office and up in that double-storey library upstairs from your guest room.
Just don't ... um ... there are some things wrapped in lead. Just leave them in lead, please, if you run across them. Humans don't react well to certain particles. I should have mentioned them before. (They're not emitting through the lead -- I did double-check.)
As long as I have one working radio and one working television (the computers, I'm afraid, are off-limits unless you can promise me my work files won't disappear), playing with electronics is fine with me.
Think you can get that old green radio in the kitchen to stop wandering off the National Public Radio station?
Hmmm. The piece of Trinitite in lucite should be intact even if you remove its radioactivity. I rather like that souvenir from the first Trinity test, but making it inert would be fine -- it'll still be an interesting paperweight.
The other pieces are mostly irradiated lead used in testing (dummies standing in for Uranium). Rendering them inert would just make them ... lead cubes. Sort of boring.
::waves hand vaguely::
What do you think?
(God, I must sound so weird. I grew up with this stuff as playtoys & my parents thought of them all as pretty harmless! Scary now that I think back!)
Well they're your lumps of metal. Your little bit of history, I suppose you could say. As long as they're stored properly and not hurting anyone they're safe. I somehow doubt you could take over the world with the, so I'm not especially worried about leaving them be.
Well, perhaps you should just leave the knick-knacks alone, then, and if you get a chance to look at the radio, that would be a great favor. :)
I'm going to have another cup of tea and then nap for a bit. Be careful driving today; we may have some more snow! (Not too much, just a couple of inches.)
Well, if the cats decide they have to come with you today, just make sure they all come back, please -- I'm rather fond of (most of) them.
And without any more strays, please. This house seems to attract strays -- those two black & white ones were stray cats in the neighborhood once upon a time, who presented themselves on the porch and made it clear that they lived here. I think the local cats put up hobo signs indicating "Suckers Live Here Good Eats Here."
Help yourself to anything you'd like for breakfast -- everything's either in the cabinets I showed you two last night, or in the refrigerator. I've got about five different kinds of jam if you'd like toast, including some homemade blueberry from our own blueberry bushes.
Toaster is over there --
Hey, you're good with electronics. See that old green transistor radio behind the red toaster? Can you see if you can get it to stop wandering off-channel? Drives me crazy.
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Um. The fire extinguisher is under the sink.
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Just don't ... um ... there are some things wrapped in lead. Just leave them in lead, please, if you run across them. Humans don't react well to certain particles. I should have mentioned them before. (They're not emitting through the lead -- I did double-check.)
As long as I have one working radio and one working television (the computers, I'm afraid, are off-limits unless you can promise me my work files won't disappear), playing with electronics is fine with me.
Think you can get that old green radio in the kitchen to stop wandering off the National Public Radio station?
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The other pieces are mostly irradiated lead used in testing (dummies standing in for Uranium). Rendering them inert would just make them ... lead cubes. Sort of boring.
::waves hand vaguely::
What do you think?
(God, I must sound so weird. I grew up with this stuff as playtoys & my parents thought of them all as pretty harmless! Scary now that I think back!)
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I'm going to have another cup of tea and then nap for a bit. Be careful driving today; we may have some more snow! (Not too much, just a couple of inches.)
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