What Happened Today
I hurt my mousin' hand today. I whacked it against the corner of some shelf or something. It's slightly better now, it just twinges slightly when I type.
It was my sister Erin's birthday today so she got her presents in the morning then had some friends round in the afternoon. I just kind of put up with the proceedings until I could get some cake and play the new games she got. As she always does, she got another Sims 2 expansion pack, not that she'd played the last one. She doesn't really play those so much as she collects them, it seems. She also reads this, so I'll stop saying bad things about her. Because I value my life.
Other than that, I got round to making my big to do list today. I think it covers almost everything... except, I've just realised, writing more comedy sketches. On the bright side, it inspired me to write a small sketch about someone trying to make a to do list. It also reminds me to do regular woodles. Which I totally forgot about until just a few moments ago. I'll get on that after this is done.
I'm sure something else interesting happened today. Oh, yes, now I remember. Really. My mind blanked for a moment there and then got it together again by the time I'd finished that sentence.
The Corbett family, it seems, has a curse. Whenever we let other people use projectiles outside, said projectiles will get stuck somewhere highly inconvenient. This is probably why my brother doesn't let people borrow his bow. A few months back (probably late January or early February), I had some friends for my birthday and one of them got his hands on a bow and arrow of mine that shoots foam arrows.
I've just remembered that I bought that so I could use it in a Zelda parody film. Huh.
Anyway, he found out just how far this thing could shoot and took it outside to launch arrows over the roof of the house. In accordance with the curse, it got stuck on the roof. This led to about half an hour of throwing footballs, basketballs, whatever we could find, really, at it in the hopes it would fall down. We eventually got it. Then got another one stuck.
A while after that, Sam or Erin (can't remember which) managed to get this spinning disc thing lodged in a tree. It's one of those little toys where you pull out a string really quickly and it sets a helicopter blade-style thing going, shooting up into the air. After determining that we couldn't get it down by any sensible or simple means, we constructed Citizen Cane. For those of you who don't want to follow that link (or this one to the video version), CC is a giant monstrosity of a thing, made entirely from garden canes held together with various forms of adhesive tape.
It took us three hours but we finally managed to get the thing out of the tree, just in time to get inside and pretend we knew nothing about it when my parents and brother got home.
Citizen Cane is not something you ever expect to have to use once, let alone twice.
But, alas, one of Erin's friends found the spinning disc doohickey today and lodged the disc on the roof. Owing to them being little girls and me throwing like one, getting it down with the balls again wasn't an option. We tried Citizen Cane but it proved too difficult to control (several months of storage on the shed roofs up the back have not been kind to the tape holding it together) and probably wouldn't have worked anyway. It was successful on the tree mostly because it could shake the branches around the disc and let it work its own way down.
So we tried to cobble together something else. James tied a roll to sticky tape (as Erin pointed out, all our crazy schemes seem to involve that most magical of materials) to one end of some rope, providing enough weight for it to be thrown on to the roof. It also proved fairly hard to aim. His first attempt put the tape into the gutter on the other side of the house.
His second attempt was even more ironic. He threw it up. It came down. It snagged itself on an outside light halfway up the wall, got caught and wouldn't come out without pulling off the whole light.
So we used Citizen Cane. After a few minutes of poking and prodding, it came out. Then it started to rain and we went inside.
So, to summarise, the disc went up on the roof. The disc is still up on the roof.
Still, it was an excuse to use a 30ft long garden cane-based construction for something other than... whatever the hell else you could possibly use a 30ft long garden cane-based construction for. There may be pictures tomorrow, taken with Erin's new digital camera.
There will also be a woodle tomorrow. But not tonight. I'm too tired and I have... stuff to do tomorrow. Have a nice day.
It was my sister Erin's birthday today so she got her presents in the morning then had some friends round in the afternoon. I just kind of put up with the proceedings until I could get some cake and play the new games she got. As she always does, she got another Sims 2 expansion pack, not that she'd played the last one. She doesn't really play those so much as she collects them, it seems. She also reads this, so I'll stop saying bad things about her. Because I value my life.
Other than that, I got round to making my big to do list today. I think it covers almost everything... except, I've just realised, writing more comedy sketches. On the bright side, it inspired me to write a small sketch about someone trying to make a to do list. It also reminds me to do regular woodles. Which I totally forgot about until just a few moments ago. I'll get on that after this is done.
I'm sure something else interesting happened today. Oh, yes, now I remember. Really. My mind blanked for a moment there and then got it together again by the time I'd finished that sentence.
The Corbett family, it seems, has a curse. Whenever we let other people use projectiles outside, said projectiles will get stuck somewhere highly inconvenient. This is probably why my brother doesn't let people borrow his bow. A few months back (probably late January or early February), I had some friends for my birthday and one of them got his hands on a bow and arrow of mine that shoots foam arrows.
I've just remembered that I bought that so I could use it in a Zelda parody film. Huh.
Anyway, he found out just how far this thing could shoot and took it outside to launch arrows over the roof of the house. In accordance with the curse, it got stuck on the roof. This led to about half an hour of throwing footballs, basketballs, whatever we could find, really, at it in the hopes it would fall down. We eventually got it. Then got another one stuck.
A while after that, Sam or Erin (can't remember which) managed to get this spinning disc thing lodged in a tree. It's one of those little toys where you pull out a string really quickly and it sets a helicopter blade-style thing going, shooting up into the air. After determining that we couldn't get it down by any sensible or simple means, we constructed Citizen Cane. For those of you who don't want to follow that link (or this one to the video version), CC is a giant monstrosity of a thing, made entirely from garden canes held together with various forms of adhesive tape.
It took us three hours but we finally managed to get the thing out of the tree, just in time to get inside and pretend we knew nothing about it when my parents and brother got home.
Citizen Cane is not something you ever expect to have to use once, let alone twice.
But, alas, one of Erin's friends found the spinning disc doohickey today and lodged the disc on the roof. Owing to them being little girls and me throwing like one, getting it down with the balls again wasn't an option. We tried Citizen Cane but it proved too difficult to control (several months of storage on the shed roofs up the back have not been kind to the tape holding it together) and probably wouldn't have worked anyway. It was successful on the tree mostly because it could shake the branches around the disc and let it work its own way down.
So we tried to cobble together something else. James tied a roll to sticky tape (as Erin pointed out, all our crazy schemes seem to involve that most magical of materials) to one end of some rope, providing enough weight for it to be thrown on to the roof. It also proved fairly hard to aim. His first attempt put the tape into the gutter on the other side of the house.
His second attempt was even more ironic. He threw it up. It came down. It snagged itself on an outside light halfway up the wall, got caught and wouldn't come out without pulling off the whole light.
So we used Citizen Cane. After a few minutes of poking and prodding, it came out. Then it started to rain and we went inside.
So, to summarise, the disc went up on the roof. The disc is still up on the roof.
Still, it was an excuse to use a 30ft long garden cane-based construction for something other than... whatever the hell else you could possibly use a 30ft long garden cane-based construction for. There may be pictures tomorrow, taken with Erin's new digital camera.
There will also be a woodle tomorrow. But not tonight. I'm too tired and I have... stuff to do tomorrow. Have a nice day.
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
11:18 PM
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