Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

[Dr Dave]

 

[Kyehlar]

Until A&W Comes in saying "Hold my Root Beer"...

 

[Volpone]

I'm hearing a noise like my dog digging on the carpet in the back room. Oh, my dog digs on the carpet in the back room. To keep her from destroying it I've put down some remnants in her preferred spots. So there's that. Anyway, I'm hearing a noise like my dog digging on the carpet in the back room. It keeps going on so I decide I'd better get up and figure out why she's being crazy and almost run over my cat, who is under my chair. The noise I was hearing is my cat, licking the briefcase that is tucked next to my desk.

This, in part, is why I'm burnt out and pissed off all the time and I drink.

 

[Dr Dave]

 

[Volpone]

I think I understand Eastern European armies "goose-stepping" and wearing tall boots without laces. We got around 10" of snow on Sunday and Monday. Halfway through we got .2" of freezing rain. This created a 2" thick skin of almost that Styrofoam sheathing insulation (only frozen water) say, 4-5" above the ground. It was strong enough for my 70# dog to walk on top of--but not me. I'd take a step and it would hold say, 3/4 of my weight, and then it would break, causing me to drop a few inches. Walking on it was exhausting. Then I had a breakthrough (no pun intended): instead of walking normally if I drove down hard with the back of my heel, I could cut a hole in the crud. It still wasn't a great deal of fun but it was a lot easier than the other way. I've also been wearing my "Wellies" with my pants tucked into them instead of ankle-high lace-up leather and nylon boots. So there's my theory: Germans and Soviets don't goose-step around in tall boots solely because they think it looks cool, it is a very practical way to move in thick snow that has a frozen crust on it.