(UPDATE: It is Sunday, the last day of the Boston Comic Con. I hadn’t meant to go dark the past few days, but I’ve hardly had a spare moment. In fact, I think the past month or so possibly has been the busiest of my life! That’s not a bad thing, and I’m not complaining, but I’m ready to slow down. As for BCC, I know you expected more in thee way of live coverage, but I will at least recap it for you in the coming days. I do want to say, I have met some wonderful fans from the Boston area, and I thank each of them for coming out. The Comic Con isn’t necessarily the easiest ground to navigate!)
Things are about to get a little crazy around here. Delta permitting, I will leave for Beantown tomorrow morning, where I will be on exhibit at Boston Comic Con Friday-Sunday. I know it costs to get in (I don’t get a cut of that; I’d let my readers in free if I could.), but I hope some of you in the Boston area will come by and see me at table D915. Autographs and handshakes will be free. I ship more books to Massachusetts than any other state, and I’m looking forward to meeting some of you. Also, I will be in Burlington, VT, two weekends later for the Vermont Comic Con. This is an experiment for me. I expect to be the old geezer in the corner fielding questions such as, “Is that strip still around?” It’s true, I’m in the corner, the southeast corner. I don’t know how much time I’ll have, but I definitely plan to send you updates here.
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Yep, it appears the Black Widow showed up with Captain America. Now there’s an empowered woman for you…she runs with the big dogs of the Avengers. (And packs a pair of GLOCK 27’s, if you’re wondering.)
https://latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/ca-0413-the-avengers-153.jpg
GR6, Glock 27? A tiny toy size pistol that I find hard to hold.
Yaaay! Mark/TT!
Yes, but the Black Widow doesn’t have four-inch thumbs. 😀
Speaking of small hands and thumbs, my RA has gotten bad in my hands or possibly carpal tunnel. I have seen orthopedics, rheumatologist and primary. I go in about a week for nerve conduction studies.
Relative to Glocks, I cannot pull open my little Gluck so we put a clip in and I was told to keep my finger off trigger until I needed to fire and hold steady for close range and chest before I pulled since I only have six shots. I may be a widow but no Black Widow.
Here’s a question for our college profs. Do flues in house have more than one variety? House filled with flies while we had doors open working on new patio off kitchen and laundry. It turned out beautifully, by the way. Ready for plants, bird feeders and hanging baskets and furniture to go in. This is my skinny sunbathing patio with enclosed high fence although the privacy shutters aren’t up in laundry yet.
Busy killing flies before washing windows, I noticed there seem to be different sizes and shapes. I thought house flies were all same?
Jackie, I think HAL hit you again. You didn’t really mean to ask about a ‘Flue’ did you? As in fireplace/chimney? 🙂
Mark! good news, keep doing well.
Everyone in the bad weather- you are in our thoughts. Be safe as you can.
I was able to start a new picture. Glory/ glorioso lilies. A few other ideas got written down (helpful if I can find the note later) Good to be working again, even if only a little while. Every bit helps.
Trapper Jean, you ok up on the mountain, or has rain washed you downhill?
Hugs, Debbe- and everyone else! 🙂
Jackie, let me add a word of advice about carrying your GLOCK 42, in case Glenn has not already done so. It is not wise to carry it or any other striker fired pistol in your pocket or purse, or in any other circumstance that might allow some object to protrude into the trigger guard and press against the trigger. There are pocket holsters and special purses that guard against that happening, but perhaps the simplest solution is one of these.
https://ozarksholstercompany.com/shop/guardglove/
Dustin does my custom holster work for me, and he will do you a good job for a fair price. You can even get them in the color(s) of you choice.
Jackie: There are more kinds of flies than you can shake a stick at. The Peterson series Field Guide to [American] Insects takes you down to family only, not to genus or species. If you can tell the biting flies [deer-, horse-, and black flies] from non-biting [house- and carrion flies], that’s all you generally need.
c x-p. ‘Saariaho now lives with her husband and children in Paris. She has said that though she loves Helsinki, she’s more comfortable in a city where she is not a celebrity. “I’m too well recognized in Finland,” says Saariaho. “When I say this to colleagues in America, they think it’s fantastic that there is a country where contemporary music composers can be esteemed public personalities.” ‘ My post suggests that they might have unstated climatic reasons for preferring Paris, which is only as far N. as Vancouver, BC.
New Yorker post: Though a deprived American monoglot who finds learning foreign languages difficult, spoken/written languages fascinate me, and signing all the more so.
Signing may have been hominids’ first language [our proto-hominid ancestors had the hands for it before the current human vocal apparatus was as refined as it’s been for the last few hundred millennia], and sign languages develop anywhere deaf people are common enough to develop one. [E.g., Hawai’i, Nantucket.] They are not word for word or grammar for grammar related to the spoken languages around them, and have different nuances and maybe obscenities than the rest of us do. So I thought the article might be of interest to this diverse group.
Peace,
Actually I did read article from New Yorker, as much for relationship differences based on language. Not that I intend to enter into another relationship with someone from a foreign country. And actually I did think we spoke same language. Not necessarily true.
But, I digress. I thought the same thing, I doubt many classical musicians in America would even be recognized. Perhaps Andre Botecelli. That doesn’t look right? I understood both points.
Thanks Ghost. I will order one. Glen set up gun so I could use, despite my fingers not working right now. I can use but painful. You intrigue me you know. I once had highest security clearance because of what I did and had to know, so you sound worse than the ones who still kept it all secret, I mean trusting no one. There is almost always a good reason for that of course.
He told me to keep fingers off trigger because I didn’t want to accidently shoot. My plan is to tell them to stop and if they don’t wait for close range. Security at both ends of house would be nice.
Going to bed really early tired from cleaning but I plan to reread Catcher in the Rye which I have not read in low these many years. It influenced me at a young age, as did Salinger scant writings. I wonder now, was he really that good?
I read the article, with interest and for a long time. I then scrolled down and found that there was much, much more of it. At that point I lost interest in whether or not it is possible to learn to speak French. Obviously it is easy. A very small French child can do it so I could too, if I wanted to, couldn’t I? Wee!
Jackie, your finger is ALWAYS off the trigger until you are ready to fire. But don’t wait too long.
(I was going to link to a Youtube video showing a demo of the principle, but apparently WordPress is set up to be PC and not show an “evil death machine” being used to potentially save someone life. Google Tueller Drill if you are interested.)
Nope, won’t even allow a brief description of the video.
I took a class in Chalk painting this week and I, as usual, have big plans. We’ll see. I also took my old car that I’ve had since ’93 (it’s a ’72) out for a drive today after putting in a new fuel filter and, instead of selling it I may keep it and buy the convertible too. My wife thinks I’ve gone crazy. I can’t say that I blame her. If I do that the newest car that we own would be banished to the driveway (not the Caddy). I may have to promise to spend more time working in the yard, but then that would interfere with my plans for chalk painting. Does anyone know what that is? Clue-it has nothing to do with chalk.
But by coincidence it is French.
Debbe 😉 Also Southern, although I have to say some of the extras are a little too much “Deliverance”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skAOb_EUE_M
In fairness, I have to relate the time some years ago when a co-worker/ridin’ buddy and I took off on our Gold Wings on a Friday afternoon for a high-speed run to Big City for a weekend business meeting. After the meeting had ended with a luncheon Sunday noon, we decided to take a more leisurely and scenic route to explore some of the back-roads so beloved by Jackie.
After awhile, we began to pass very large, very old houses sitting very close to the highway with lots of people, often as many as two or three dozen, standing out front looking at us ride by. Many of those people seemed to have more than a normal family resemblance, if you catch my drift. A few of them had expressions I can only describe as “purple rage” on their faces.
About the time I began having visions of a large group of them bull-rushing us on the highway, and of our bikes being stashed in sheds out back of a house, and our bodies being weighted down in a crick or a bayou, I keyed up my helmet mic and twanged out the first few chords of “Dueling Banjos”. “Yeah,” Ridin’ Buddy came back on the radio, “just what I was thinking.” We rolled on a good bit more power and made ourselves scarce, forthwith.
“. . . not read in low these many years.” Not “low” but “lo,”. Peace,
Blame Hal. I am reading along apace. It is an easy read. I seem to recall I like Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenter.
This was first published in 1941 so book is 75 years old.
Amazing.
Ghost, why can you no longer ride? I see lots of older riders, in fact that’s almost all you see.
Yeah, the big touring machines are so expensive now only old rich guys can afford them. Sold my last one several years ago when I realized I didn’t have time to ride it enough to justify the upkeep. Had one totaled out by being hit by a car (while I was riding it) but still had two more after that one. Were I going to buy an expensive toy now, it would probably be something a bit safer, like an ultralight aircraft.
Jerry – No idea. I know of using chalk in art, painting with chalkboard paint (so you can use chalk on it), and hair “chalk” – which is wax, as I know first-hand; I just had a traumatic experience using said product of lies on my hair yesterday. It got ugly. Anyway, none of those scenarios strike me as especially French, so enlight me. 🙂
Jackie – Catcher in the Rye has the distinction of being the only book I have ever flatly refused to finish. Wretched is about as kind a word as I am willing to use to describe it. I am genuinely curious as to its appeal to you and others though. I guess I understand, academically, why the story was considered so radical at publication; however, I still do not understand how anyone could stomach Holden’s bellyaching.
Good morning Villagers…
….and a special good day to you, Mark. Glad to see your post………Amen
Jerry, don’t know if that’s a kid playing Willie’s guitar, but if his hair gets much longer, he’ll be sitting on it.
Llee, thanks for the hug, and I’m glad to read that you’re feeling a little better. Take baby steps to recovery……and that goes for you too, Mark.
TR….I’ll call Mother Nature later and see what I can do about sending you some rain 🙂
Jackie, we have what we call horse flies here….and they are big and they bite! One time as I was driving down the driveway several of them were following me down to the gravel road….told Ian, wonder what would happen if I slammed on my brakes…would they all crash into my back window?
gotta go…..
ya’ll have a blessed Monday
GR 😉 tell me you didn’t see this one coming 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWw9-iygCfM
everybody go awwww…..
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