The Drop in Centre

[mollyhousemouse]

😕   

if anyones sees my focus wandering around, could you send it back to me with a large cafe con dulce de leche please?

[Mikiesboy]

53 minutes ago, Backwoods Boy said:

 

 

Well, that makes at least three of us.  I immediately associated it with death; probably because of the first three letters, wrong associations came to mind - "mortuary", "morbid", "moribund"

Its interesting...I'll have to ask AC if he knows it.

[Mikiesboy]

20 minutes ago, mollyhousemouse said:

😕   

if anyones sees my focus wandering around, could you send it back to me with a large cafe con dulce de leche please?

Nope...

[mollyhousemouse]

5 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

Nope...

Nope you haven't seen it?

Or

Nope you won't send it back with coffee?

i put my earbuds in and have some good music playing, we'll see if that helps

hope your morning is good @Mikiesboy

[Kitt]

7 minutes ago, mollyhousemouse said:

i put my earbuds

Try some baroque chamber music. They say it is excellent for study and concentration. Something about the number of beats opening the memory center.

[mollyhousemouse]

4 minutes ago, Kitt said:

Try some baroque chamber music. They say it is excellent for study and concentration. Something about the number of beats opening the memory center.

thanks! i'll look into that

i have Tim Janis and Andrea Bocelli on a playlist seems to be working a bit

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Reader1810 said:

G’day Dugh! *waves* 

Hi. 🙋‍♂️

[dughlas]

4 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

Here's today's word:

 

mordant    adjective | MOR-dunt

Definition

1 : biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive   2 : acting as a mordant (as in dyeing)   3 : burning, pungent

 

 

The etymology of mordant certainly has some bite to it. That word, which came to modern English through Middle French, ultimately derives from the Latin verb mordēre, which means "to bite." In modern parlance, mordant usually suggests a wit that is used with deadly effectiveness. Mordēre puts the bite into other English terms, too. For instance, that root gave us the tasty morsel ("a tiny bite"). But nibble too many of those and you'll likely be hit by another mordēre derivative: remorse ("guilt for past wrongs"), which comes from Latin remordēre, meaning "to bite again."

 

I have not seen that word in a very long time and would have been hard pressed to explain it out of context.

[dughlas]

1 hour ago, mollyhousemouse said:

😕   

if anyones sees my focus wandering around, could you send it back to me with a large cafe con dulce de leche please?

Haven't seen it. Could be out playing with my marble. It's misplaced too.

[Kitt]

Just now, dughlas said:

Haven't seen it. Could be out playing with my marble. It's misplaced too.

Only one marble? And here I thought you lost em all!

 

Mine are still in the jar on the shelf, right where I can find them if I need them!

[dughlas]

Just now, Kitt said:

Only one marble? And here I thought you lost em all!

 

Mine are still in the jar on the shelf, right where I can find them if I need them!

I kept that last one in my pocket.

[mollyhousemouse]

8 minutes ago, dughlas said:

Haven't seen it. Could be out playing with my marble. It's misplaced too.

i seem to have found it

making good headway now this morning

xo

[dughlas]

Just now, mollyhousemouse said:

i seem to have found it

making good headway now this morning

xo

😥

[Kitt]

 

14 minutes ago, dughlas said:

Haven't seen it. Could be out playing with my marble. It's misplaced too.

Did you look under the cushion in the sofa?

[Reader1810]

41 minutes ago, dughlas said:

Haven't seen it. Could be out playing with my marble. It's misplaced too.

Maybe it rolled under the table in the dining room? I’ll keep a look out for it...

[Mikiesboy]

AC knew what mordant meant! 

[Brayon]

39 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

AC knew what mordant meant! 

For some reason, that doesn't surprise me. LOL.

[Parker Owens]

1 hour ago, Mikiesboy said:

AC knew what mordant meant! 

 

34 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

For some reason, that doesn't surprise me. LOL.

 Why am I not surprised either?

 

 

 

[Zenobia]

22 hours ago, Defiance19 said:

Hi Zen.  Good to see you. 

How was you trip? Unless I missed that?

Hi Def *waves*   Thank you for asking

New York war phenomenal. I visited many museums: the MET, the MET Cloisters (I was surprised that the tickets are valid for 3 days in a row for non NY residents, so I used that opportunity), the New Gallery, the MoMA... and I think I was extremely lucky to have such a good weather, so I wandered around in Central Park, China Town (the one in Manhattan and the one in Flushing), Brooklyn, South Ferry... I was surprised by the amount of parks and greens in the city, not only Central Park but also so many others.

And although the newer scyskrapers aren't always that imaginative with regard to their architecture, I loved the ones from the beginning of the 20th century, a time which is so often decisive in the formation of the nowadys so renowned art etc. collections.

Btw. food seemed rather expensive to me at the supermarket, now I understand what some of you here talked about a while ago. I mean I saw that you get much better prices at small grocery shops or in Chinatown but wow - here in Germany, the big supermarket chains have more or less the same prices in all areas, I buy not only there but the quality is definitely okay and I'd say the prices are low compared to the supermarkets I saw.

Edited November 5, 2018 by Zenobia

[Zenobia]

10 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

Here's today's word:

 

mordant    adjective | MOR-dunt

Definition

1 : biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive   2 : acting as a mordant (as in dyeing)   3 : burning, pungent

 

 

The etymology of mordant certainly has some bite to it. That word, which came to modern English through Middle French, ultimately derives from the Latin verb mordēre, which means "to bite." In modern parlance, mordant usually suggests a wit that is used with deadly effectiveness. Mordēre puts the bite into other English terms, too. For instance, that root gave us the tasty morsel ("a tiny bite"). But nibble too many of those and you'll likely be hit by another mordēre derivative: remorse ("guilt for past wrongs"), which comes from Latin remordēre, meaning "to bite again."

 

I am kind of relieved that some of you sometimes don't know all the words tim presents here 😉

I could guess what it means because I know mordere but then I see some other words in the text below on which I have to concentrate when reading them.

Which I did, and it made me a bit more tired, and as it's nearly midnight -> hush, I'm off to bed.

But it's so nice to stop by here and I hope you all have a fine evening 💓

[Brayon]

22 minutes ago, Zenobia said:

Which I did, and it made me a bit more tired, and as it's nearly midnight -> hush, I'm off to bed.

But it's so nice to stop by here and I hope you all have a fine evening 💓

Sleep Well, Zen.

[Brayon]

Mental break... If I see another Subject/Verb fragment, run-on, sentence I think I will punch something.

While I like the fact I'm getting a refresher, this is the stuff I struggle with.

[Starrynight22]

Woof another 10 Another 10 + hour day but hopefully we only have two more

[mollyhousemouse]

....sigh......Phil picked me up at work. we went to our mechanics house cause the car got hot on the way to work. looks like an easy fix though

finally heading home

[Brayon]

1 minute ago, mollyhousemouse said:

....sigh......Phil picked me up at work. we went to our mechanics house cause the car got hot on the way to work. looks like an easy fix though

finally heading home

Glad it's working out, miss molly.

Hope the rest of the night is better for you.