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Since the subject of home-entertainment technology has come up already this week, I thought I’d share this from 2005. The premise is valid but not entirely correct, not in the age of digital television anyway. In the event of a problem, you can unplug the modem or unplug the router or unplug the cable box or, if you’re living in the dark ages like some of us, unplug the Roku in an attempt to make things right again. After that, Waaaaah!!
I want you to know that this Web site has accounted for about half the money raised so far in the parsonage Kickstarter campaign. That’s pretty remarkable! You should be proud of yourselves. I am! I hope you have an enjoyable weekend.
159 responses to “Do Not Adjust Your Set”
Jackie, yours is a case where we can illustrate the important difference between using that and who. Had you written “…want a woman with a boat who’s hot” then we’d know you, despite your protestations over the years are hot, not the boat.
There are those who would say both apply. And have. It was not I who did however. I will state the boat is and was as it almost caught on fire. Lezlie and I were standing over it with fire extinguisher and cell phones trying to find shop and wreckers and a fan did a u turn in to discuss boat for an hour! Wrecker driver did same thing. Poor Al at yard finally said, “What makes this boat SO special?”
It will be fun sailing her and showing her too. She is no Dock Queen but she is beautiful. The owner does best she can.
I have not mentioned the convertible recently. I still plan on getting it. In August I have appointments at Shands and I will go from there to the east coast of Florida and do a lookover. If everything looks ok I will pay the man and have it shipped home. Otherwise my wife will have to drive a car all the way back home and I will have to drive the other. Also we could and probably would run into some bad weather and this car, like my other old car, is a garage queen that isn’t used to getting her feet wet.
Go for the convertible Jerry.. I was thinking convertible when boat popped up and I changed my mind. Good thing to ride in and more fun than a golf cart.
Debbe & Trapper, the strip steak was delightful! True, our market doesn’t stock the very highest quality of meats, just meats of solid and edible quality…all the more exercise for the new choppers – nothing was falling off the bone.
I mentioned my food “wantlist” to a former HS lass who is now a retired nurse. She noted that my list [fruitcake, pizza, Subway, & solid meat] did not include any cruciferous vegetation. I replied that if I held up the 2 remaining pound loaves of fruitcake in a + design, I’d then have the cruciferous quality she desired. [Latin meaning of “cruciferous” is “cross bearing”.] While I’d have given my left arm to have been a close friend of this brilliant and quite attractive classmate back 60 years ago, our tastes in food would have been at variance. Thus, we are only now – well, I didn’t find her until July 2014 – being decent friends from a thousand miles apart. I did send her one of JJ’s books, but don’t believe she reads this blog.
Pizza is tentatively scheduled for next Friday, while my MBH is serving a hot meal to the homeless downtown, something I cannot do for physical reasons. Maybe tomorrow’s paper will have a two-fer coupon, or similar, usable at my favorite pizza place. Cannot say when I’ll again attempt a Subway hero.
FYI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JUDBJkeFNY&feature=youtu.be
Peace,
The sing along version of the above is even better, for one can read the lyrics as well as hearing them. Thanks, eMb.
Where did all the villagers go?
Good morning to anyone reading this.
Good Sunday morning Villagers….
Jean, I am so excited for you. I follow Georgia Dunn’s BCN strip and her twitter account. Occasionally she posts pics of the cats and of her two children. She is definitely a good story teller….the current one is a cliff hanger 🙂 Just google Georgia Dunn twitter.
On Whether.com, they are saying the next three month’s temps will be above average. I look at the record heat, and in 1934 on this date it was 108 degrees. Two days ago the record temp was 104 degrees in 1933….I immediately thought of my maternal Grandma who at the time was almost 7 months pregnant with my Mother.
Jerry, good to read your post….keep thinking forever young.
Cxp, glad you enjoyed your steak.
Where’s Mark?
Haven’t seen a post from Indy Mindy late either.
GR 😉 here’s hoping some day you will find a……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bcSoHoJh0c
’tis to laugh…
http://cheezburger.com/8820675840
Today’s (24 July) is a hoot!
Perhaps a quiet hoot? Still….. 🙂
EMB, very entertaining and as someone who never learned to surf I can’t imagine walking logs. Llee, my father’s name was Al and he named his vacation getaway Al’s Hoot.
Would a librarian have noticed the silence?
My “not so little” home town is beginning to heal. Thanks for all your and everyone’s prayers.
God bless us every one.
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I just learned something, but why isn’t it green?
ah-ha!
Somehow I accidentally Googled Arlo and Janis and stumbled over all these references to Jimmy and the strip in REAL books, some of quite serious nature by serious authors. So, see……we are not the only people who show our Village seer respect and appreciation.
Deserved of course.
Green?
Mark is here. Had lots of things to do yesterday, hair cut, oil change, grocery shopping. Needed to get out of house for a while, haven’t been out since last weekend.
Good for you Mark! Get away from that computer screen and into that 100 degree heat. It hit 102 here yesterday according to my truck.
It’s actually cold inside house but I am thinking I will drive to gym.
Seriously, we all need outdoor time or out of house.
Reading Nora Ephron this morning, a book of her columns or essays. On parenting today, “. …..breast feeding until the child can unbuttoned your blouse.”
I swear I have seen this. Also one eating turnip greens and corn bread, then climbing into mama’s lap for her dinner beverage!
Heat index was around 103 yesterday, supposed to be around 102 today. I did my walking inside the airconditioned stores.
Had my gym time at the VA Friday. Found about program the VA has called Telehealth. In an effort to reduce hospitalizations and worsening of chronic health conditions such as heart failure, diabetes and even weight, they can set up a remote monitoring system. With different plug-in devices it can record blood pressure, weight and blood glucose readings from your meter and send them to the VA where the information is readily available to your doctor. This way they can monitor potentially dangerous changes in your condition and let you know when you need to come in and see your doctor before your scheduled visit. It has its own cell phone type connection and only requires you plug the machine into household power.
Jackie: The !Kung and other indigenous tribes feed kids breast milk up to 4 yr. or so. Since lactation inhibits ovarian cycling, they often do not get pregnant until the older offspring is 4 or 5, and thus rarely have large families. Natural birth control.
In 19th C. Britain, where wet nurses were often available to middle and upper class families, they often had a dozen or more kids, which wears a woman down. These wives commonly died, after several kids, in childbirth. Edward Lear [of limerick and artistic fame] was the 21st of 22 kids and was raised by an older sister. The info at the museum we were visiting in London didn’t say mom died bearing his younger sibling, but that’s my guess. Peace,
One of my great grandfather’s from mid 1800s had about that many by four different wives. I think most of my female relatives before 1940s died giving birth. Amazingly I had the two required children of 1970s and almost died of same delivery mishaps as they in the 1800s.
I have no idea who bore my half a child since 2.5 was average back then.
Met most charming Rhodes scholar back about 1980s who had grown up in a family of twenty plus in a two room cottage/cabin on the farm that adjoined ours. My age but we had never met. It took forty years and change for that to happen. But think of the children stacked like logs to sleep!