I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking.

[thorne_scratch]

Happy birthday, mewsrissicat! You and your crew are some of the loveliest, nicest people I've ever had the privilege to meet, and I'm really looking forward to when you guys come to Baltimore in August. I hope your year treats you better than ever

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[mewsrissicat]

Thank you, thank you! ♥ I can't imagine it getting too much better, outside of fate handing me enough money to pay off my mortgage, you know?

And don't tease me about Baltimore... I'm as tenacious about meeting up with friends as a yakuza is about collecting on his loan. I may /not/ know exactly where you live, but if I can surf the net and find out how to build ostrich incubators, you'd better believe that I can hunt you down. XD

I hope life is treating you well, and that you kick ass at your speech. Public speaking is still not my thing, even after two formal classes. But I am hell on wheels when training over the phone, which makes up for a lot!

[thorne_scratch]

You are very incredibly welcome! Well, I shall be hoping that you fall into a sudden monetary inheritance, then. Or that you win the lottery.

Oh, I am totally looking forward to Baltimore like you wouldn't believe. Make Catt bring her kimono so I can take many pictures. And now I have to admit, I am deeply and completely curious and intrigued. Ostrich incubators, what now? Should I be looking for you guys to arrive on bird-back?

I think life will treat me better after the next two weeks are over. As it is, I will... I don't know, build a robot double of me to make the speech, maybe. Or pretend I have lost my voice and cannot go on, woe.

[mewsrissicat]

Yeah, ostrich incubators! In a previous incarnation, my boss at that time was converting his farm from raising cattle, to raising black-neck ostriches. At that time the business was named "Royal Ostrich Farm", and I hired the contractors to build the ostrich runs, and then needed to find designs (and material) for the incubators for the eggs. [Sidebar: PA is too humid to let the eggs incubate naturally.]

The farm is now changed to Protos Foods (http://www.protos-inc.com/contact.htm) but is still going, which makes me happy.

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Wow. Damn, man. You have, like, the best cocktail party opener I've heard in a while. "So, let me tell you about the time I researched and set up ostrich incubators." If someone busted that out, I'd give them my undivided attention.

[mewsrissicat]

Pah... that sort of thing seems really boring to me, though I do confess that handling the ostrich chicks was damned awesome. I still have an unhatched shell about here somewhere. No wonder we're all silly-assed for chocobos.

If I want to break out a fun drinking story, I go for the time I was dragged a tenth of a mile by a car with no one behind the wheel. XD

[thorne_scratch]

My uncle has an ostrich eggshell! Hee. I'm glad you made the chocobo reference before I did; I was totally set to. (Do you know, I still have that cookie you baked me, way back when I was in college? I think I got Sephiroth and Catt got Cloud. I have preserved it carefully for posterity.)

If I want to break out a fun drinking story, I go for the time I was dragged a tenth of a mile by a car with no one behind the wheel.

...okay, expect to get interrogated about that in August.

[mewsrissicat]

I'll bring the Pama. ^_^

[thorne_scratch]

Spot-on!