Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

I'm usually in bed every night at 9pm. I don't watch much tv.

So the only thing that annoys me more than the tv station changing one of my shows to a starting time of 10.30pm, is them making it sound that doing so is a lovely experience for me.

Is this the only house in australia that watches Lost anymore? Are there so few people watching it now that it has to start at 10.30pm. Remember the good old days when it used to start at 8.30pm?

But it's the way they announce it as being at A Special New Time that pisses me off.

It's very special. Thats why I'm sitting here at 9.17pm eating chocolate and drinking coffee, with over two hours ahead of me before I hit the pillow.

I know, I know, I could tape it. But I never seem to go back and watch anything I tape. If I don't watch it, I don't see it.

So I'm filling some time. (What did we do before the internet.) And I found this.

These are plans someone drew in 1670 for a flying machine. I'm just not sure about it. I can't imagine ever really feeling optimistic that this was ever going to work

 

Flying-machine-design-1670
Flying-machine-design-1670

But I hope the guy who drew this is up there now looking at all our flying machines. I think he'd get a real kick out of them

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[this is connie]
I'd be hard to sleep if I drink coffee... and I will stay awake the whole night, unless after that I also drink some beer LOL
Cat

lol, then I'd feel like Homer Simpson.

I have the same problem, I lie in bed with my heart pumping if I drink coffee after dinner but I need it to keep me awake until 11.30 tonight.

[this is connie]
Homer! The father of Bart my idol :D

But you eat chocolate and not donuts. That would make you a Marge, maybe :) Or the sweet and smart Lisa.

Happy waiting and watching then Cat :)
Cat

donuts are not big here in australia.

I think I'm Selma

Flamingo Dancer
I try and wait up for West WIng on cable at 10.30 and nearly always fall asleep 10 minutes into it. I should just buy the stupid dvds.
Cat
lol - now that would really piss me off. Sometimes I try and have a nap at 7.30 to prepare but it never works. It's a bit like trying to sleep when you know santa is coming. (In a lesser way)
Life in the Sherry Lane

I go to bed at 8 p.m. nearly every night of the week. I read for about 1 1/2 hours and then fall asleep. There are no tv shows that I'm interested in at this time. I'm not sure how that happened. I used to watch tv.

The flying machine looks like a sea plane. I love your writing. You make me giggle when I read you.

[this is connie]
LOL my best friend's brother said that Vivi (my best friend) and I would be Patty and Selma in few years as we gossip and we smoke ciggies together. Hehe.
Emjay
This is what they made TiVo's for .... I record nearly everything and then have a party for one where I sit and watch multiple episodes of shows. Since we've had the house I watch much less tv - it was so easy to do when everything was in the one room!!!
Cat
I never get back to watch tapd things - and I can't sit and watch a few episodes, I can hardly stand to sit and watch a movie
Cat
Thats what I do - read in bed. And even if I go to bed at midnight I still have to have a read before I sleep.
TicTac
[this is good]
Reading is good. I think I read somewhere that the steel balls supporting the gondola where to be filled with steam. Maybe he read somewhere that a heavier than air vehicle would need to be able to rise above the ground. Good thing he didn't read Martha Stewart. Could you imagine how ridiculious a contraption like this would be were it filled with yeast?
Cat
Looks ridiculous enough as it is. He would be amazed if he saw the concorde
TicTac
He would probably see it and exclaim that it would never fly. Too big. Too heavy. And of course, its French.

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