Amateurs practice until they get it right.
Professionals practice until they cannot get it wrong.
-Diane Sawyer, on Julie Andrews
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Castle
In the first 3 min of Castle today, the killer was described as asian, female, mid-30s...
Big Frog gasped, turned to me, & said, "It's you!"
You have been warned.
Big Frog gasped, turned to me, & said, "It's you!"
You have been warned.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Karaoke
It's even more fun when the lyrics may or may not be someone whose first language is English. It's great having a setup at home.
Some of tonight's highlights include:
Not a Sam!
Buuuuuuuuuuuuut... you more than turkeys I love. (We followed that one up by YouTubing Boynton's Turkey Love Song.) (BTW, particularly in this instance, then =/= than.)
"Shatner" it.
Everyone needs an Uncle Baccy Juze.
That was written by the great "PD".
Some of tonight's highlights include:
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
2 types of people
"There are only two types of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done.""
-CS Lewis, The Great Divorce, ch9
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Bobcat snow
Ahh, majestic creatures, bobcats.
source: Ohio DNR
< auditory screech >
But wait.
Don't you live in the suburbs?
Actually, yes.
And it snowed enough that our screen porch is snowy.
And our Bobcats, as it turns out, actually are in the neighborhood to do sewer work.
Which they can't do when there's 5" of white stuff (more manna!) on the ground.
(Could be worse. We were in the 5-12" stripe of the forecast.)
So the gents, who actually hail from south Georgia, have made themselves available for private snow removal.
Coming from a driveway that is exactly one car length long and two car widths wide to a heck of a driveway, we took them up on it.
Sure beats using a dustpan.
source: Ohio DNR
< auditory screech >
But wait.
Don't you live in the suburbs?
Actually, yes.
And it snowed enough that our screen porch is snowy.
And our Bobcats, as it turns out, actually are in the neighborhood to do sewer work.
Which they can't do when there's 5" of white stuff (more manna!) on the ground.
(Could be worse. We were in the 5-12" stripe of the forecast.)
So the gents, who actually hail from south Georgia, have made themselves available for private snow removal.
Coming from a driveway that is exactly one car length long and two car widths wide to a heck of a driveway, we took them up on it.
Sure beats using a dustpan.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Oh, you're moving south -- it'll be warm there.
Oh, you're moving south -- it'll be warm there.
THEY LIED.
Yes, it's warmer than Harrisburg PA (at this moment, 32F here vs 25F there, and generally 10-15F warmer), but there are drawbacks, mostly in human preparedness. There is enough salt currently spread on sidewalks and streets all through the Triad that walking around literally crunches. And yet, I know for a fact that there are households that park right along the street's edge of their driveways instead of in lovely covered garages (so glad we have a garage!) because they have no shovels. In fact, on the late-night news, the poor reporter who drew the "you're outdoors in the snow" short straw is saying that if you don't have an actual shovel, try a broom, or a dustpan. And if you don't have an ice scraper for your car, there's always a kitchen spatula.
THEY LIED.
Yes, it's warmer than Harrisburg PA (at this moment, 32F here vs 25F there, and generally 10-15F warmer), but there are drawbacks, mostly in human preparedness. There is enough salt currently spread on sidewalks and streets all through the Triad that walking around literally crunches. And yet, I know for a fact that there are households that park right along the street's edge of their driveways instead of in lovely covered garages (so glad we have a garage!) because they have no shovels. In fact, on the late-night news, the poor reporter who drew the "you're outdoors in the snow" short straw is saying that if you don't have an actual shovel, try a broom, or a dustpan. And if you don't have an ice scraper for your car, there's always a kitchen spatula.
Friday, February 20, 2015
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