I came across this today. I always thought I was the only one who had problems ordering coffee...
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I wasn't going to post this, but it was just fabulous and I really liked it. I'm sure it's not the first time someone here posted it, but I want to keep it if nothing else but because I think it's cool.
But I don't think Louisiana will like him.
Hanna passed over us. She wasn't expected to do much anyway, but we absolutely needed some rain. I was sorry to find out a few minutes ago when I went to track it that it was already gone. I just checked Ike, and what the heck? It's headed for the gulf again. Can't those states get enough?
Other than that, not much else to report today. I've neglected to set the house on fire, although we did have some excitement this morning. Jamie and I were in bed and heard a huge explosion like sound - electrical, followed by a flash and no electricity. It came back on and we jumped up to look out the window and we saw another giant flash. Something on the power line about two houses down. We ran outside along with the rest of the neighborhood, but not much to see. Whatever it was, it didn't do it again.
It's a lazy day otherwise. Too windy and misty outside to do anything. We've been playing online Wordscaper and Dan and the girls are here playing Guitar Hero III. I'm sure I'll check it out again later.
When you use clipmarks, you get a daily email of recent stories or posts that people have done. It's kind of like a blog except you don't "post" a blog entry like this, you post a news story. It's the same in that people comment on them. I "posted" something last week about Sarah Palin and had like 22 comments, which was interesting because I haven't even read the help file all that much to see how you go about replying to comments, although I see people routinely do it. Anyway, in my email list today I was looking through the various stories and I read this horrible, horrible, horrible news story and I didn't comment on it, or "pop" it (what you do there, kind of like a "this is good"), and I didn't "share" it so anyone else could see it. I wasn't going to mention it at all, but here it is 8pm and I still have remnants of it going through my head. I'll eventually forget it, but it's just one of those horrible news stories that we all get to see from time to time where we think "Damn! People are really sick!".
You know the one. It doesn't matter WHICH one, because all of you know at least one such story that's tucked away in your brain and every once in a while, like now, you are forced to remember it.
When I was a kid and had a real record player, my brother had left all these records at the house after he went off to the war in Vietnam. He was drafted, but as it turns out, he never actually went. I mean, he ended up at some air force base in Alaska, but that's a story for another time. Anyway, one record that he left was from Simon and Garfunkel and I think it gave me one of my first memories about music. There was a song on there called The 7 o'clock news/Silent Night. I think about from time to time, especially when stories like the one I read today come up. They sing Silent Night and in the background they play a 7 o'clock newscast. It's really worth listening to.
A 20 year ban on Fish for Dinner was lifted this last week after Jamie finally decided "Hey, fish isn't so bad after all!" Her family had to readjust to the new found taste. No one died from the event (except for a fish).
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Jamie put aside her fears of fish or fish taste or whatever kept her from making or even eating it and took
the plunge. When I was a kid, we had fish all the time, at least during the summer. Mostly fish that we'd caught. My mom was on the other end of the spectrum:
"Mama, can we have Tuna?"
"Tuna!? - You expect me to cook a can? Now go out and play your foozball while I cook this snake!"
Mom would only cook spot and croaker that we'd caught. I don't think she ever bought fresh fish. I remember it because she'd always cook too much and I had to take some over to the neighbor. Mom also had a tendency to make these Salmon croquettes which WERE from a can and ALWAYS had bones in them - that were okay to eat because they'd been cooked forever - gross!
I don't see Jamie embracing spot or croaker yet, but there is always hope. For now, I'll just savor the fish, er, moment.
I semi-hacked into the security camera in the hallway. Okay, technically it isn't hacking since I'm the administrator. It took effort - I had to find the password and the IP address. What have I accomplished so far? I identified several people using our bathroom that don't belong in this department. Our bathroom must be so incredibly awesome - everyone LOVES it. Now I just need to mount a laser on the camera or put a speaker out in the hall so I can request they leave a dollar on the counter or something. Since I don't have any of that, I've been using the pan feature on the camera to move it all around when they walk by. As if that helps.
I'm avoiding Facebook today. I spent too much time yesterday working on my friends "Lil' Green Patches" or whatever the hell they are called. Good Grief!
"x has leaves, want to rake them?" - Sure!
"c has a frog, take a picture?" - Sure!
"r has a squirrel that needs some nuts, give it some?" - Alright.
"j has a vole, want to spread some poison?" - Uhhh.. I guess.
Then like 50 minutes later
"m has weeds, want to pull them?" - No, dammit! Pull your own weeds! GAH!
I came so close to deleting the application, but friends have been sending me all manner of plants so I'll just let it sit for a few days. Hopefully it won't get flooded out.
Oh - I tried. I tried hard to avoid watching the RNC. We've been watching food shows and dog training and storms and just about anything else, but finally I had, just HAD to see what Republicans look like. Now I know some of you are in my neighborhood, and please don't take offense - you might even want to stop reading, but DAMN! (yeah, stop reading)
There were so many white people there, that even *I* felt uncomfortable. What the hell? I couldn't tell if I was watching the convention or if I had accidentally turned on an episode of Lawrence Welk.
And OLD? Oh my god - what I want to know is - WHERE did they have room to stow all of the walkers and wheelchairs for this crowd? These guys aren't just talking about the founding of our country, 60% of them were there during the signing of the original paperwork.
I watched Fred Thompson speak, but I didn't listen - I had the sound muted. I kept rewinding to see the crowd. Did anyone see "They Live"? Yeah, it was like that. I expected to see "Obey" show up on the screen behind him. I was afraid to put on my sunglasses because Lieberman might have turned into an alien.
I did get a chance to record a sound bite from the convention. This was Lieberman talking about some events at a past Democratic Convention:
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