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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.
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There’s a stone cabin in Capitol Reef National Park. The info sign reads:
In 1882 Elijah Cutler Behunin and his family built this cabin, and stayed a brief time until the rising river washed out their crops. Behunin was one of the first settlers in the area.
A family of ten lived here. Braided rugs covered the dirt floor. Ends of dress materials became curtains. There was a fireplace to cook in, and a water supply near the door. The family probably ate outside.
Father, mother, and two smallest children slept in the cabin. The post bed almost filled one side of the room. By widening a dugout in the cliff, the older boys had a place to sleep. The girls made a bed in an old wagon box.
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/BS/BS-Behunin.html
Think of that while we luxuriate in our queen and king sized beds alone.
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I know that this is anecdotal evidence, but my sister breast-fed her girls until they were 3 or 4 and and 4 kids in 5 yrs. Basically breastfed for nearly 12 years. I guess the natural birth control was not effective on her!
See if I can link this very penny post off my Facebook page which I stole from Mark originally because I LOVE puns and word play. One of many reasons I love Jimmy of course.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1637232626588472&id=100009052528502
Well, yes that worked! I have a lot of intelligent and articulate friends who love puns as well and I have been banned from posting lighter fare on a group we all frequent. What a shame, humor is a last defense or first defense against queroleness.
That doesn’t look right she said.
Punny puns, not penny. Hal is never to be trusted. Read it to see Mark holding his one as pun champion against some pros, several of whom are English.
Here, and melting.
Debbe – Make sure you are monitoring your cooler temperatures when you do that. You are essentially running it in an extended defrost-mode. They won’t let us do that when our a/c dies at work for that reason.
Gosh, it’s hot. My house does not have central a/c. I have a room a/c (curse my narrow windows so I can’t use a window unit!) and have been battling a two-front battle: getting home to empty the condensation bucket before it overflows the “drip pan” (a winter footware melt station) and most infuriatingly, keeping the darn exhaust vent in place! The window exahust vent is poorly designed. Once the plastic duct gets warm, it slides right out of the stupid mount! Of course this happens while I am at work, and there runs this darn a/c unit, blowing both hot and cold air and an opening in the window letting in more heat and humidity. I keep the temp set higher so it doesn’t run quite so much, and I have just re-configured the exhaust (so far, so good).
Kitties have an useasy truce so they can share the kitchen (home of the a/c unit).
Work is work, had to have two days of classes for food service safety certification. Yay. The pair who rode with me played Pokémon Go aling the way. Hour drive to the Coke distribution center in Lafayette. Random, yes, but I guess the company got the room for free, so why not. It was a neat old building – early 50s, with all the smooth subway tiling and the bomb shelter in the basement. 🙂
Hugs for those dealing with drama, and a frosty beverage of choice for everyone.
101F actual here, with 102F heat index counting humidity.
querulousness, I had to look it up myself. Sometimes read, but never used myself, so it was not in the gray matter library.
Cute story: http://goingviralposts.biz/felix-cat-employed-uk-train-station-just-received-promotion/
Querulousness – habitually complaining
Spainish Querer – to want
So what is the Latin root? To want to complain? 🙂
Seriously though, what is the Latin root? They discontinued Latin my 8th grade year.
Don’t ask me to define it, it is just in my vocabulary! I think of people like that as whining and irritable and always unhappy.
Querolous is apparently a word spellchecker doesn’t know but Jane Austin did.
I try to not get political here, but this strip is not “for or against” anybody particular and is too good to miss: https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13707728_10154313298728764_8873003933175405909_n.jpg?oh=55450e2225b5b08abafc27862902b456&oe=582D907B
Reading Nora Ephron, the lake author. She has great vocabulary but then she was Nora Ephron. You have doubtless seen one or more of her movies, they were successful like Sleepless in Seattle or When Harry Met Sally and many others.
But couldn’t help think of noble leader Jimmy. Nora Ephron wrote hilarious book about her marriage to Carl Bernstein, made into a movie. Meryl Streep played Nora and Jack Nicholson played Carl Bernstein.
Carl Bernstein always threatened to sue but never did.
Makes me think of what Mike Ryoko, the late humorist said about Continental Divide, movie based on him, “Carl Bernstein gets Dustin Hoffman but who do I get? John Belushi.”
Late author. She died in 2012 of a disease no one knew about.
Just as I pulled up the site, fledgling osprey flew off. It was off the nest 2-3 days ago, but is regularly there, still being fed at least in part, by the folks. Tears the meat off fish by itself now. Watched a video of its being banded, but don’t remember if they said its sex. Peace,
http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/osprey-cam
Mindy: all the sources I found said it came from the Latin “queri” for “to complain”.
I know the two years of Latin that I took way back when were helpful when I switched to French, as well as with vocabulary in general. My most vivid memories have nothing to do with the language however. I was in Latin I class when JFK’s death was announced. My Latin II teacher urged us to watch Churchill’s funeral and explained the symbolism in state funerals that date back to the Romans.
Ruth Anne will be neither surprised nor dismayed to hear my vocabulary comes from reading. I simply picked it up, no one in area I ever was used words much but writers certainly did. Books and libraries opened the world to me.
But second grade I read at a measureable college level, often totally unsuitable material but since no one else read around me I ranged freely. Mt stepfather did know who Mackey Spillane was and had a hissy fit. To this day 64 years later I remember a completely inappropriate sex act that took place in that book. Someday I may find out if it is possible?
Thank God for libraries, books and book mobiles.
When Kennedy was shot I was in dorm lobby tutoring a friend who was in danger,of flanking out. He is a respected PhD today.
Flunking out. Hal changed it to flu king this time. I suppose no one flunks any more, he just changed to flanks again.
Reread last post on words and Hal is semi literate. He changes what I type up what he thinks I should say. We come from different centuries, he is set up for the young and they know few words.
See, he did it up there again.
The free dictation feature Apple now provides with its OS X has a dirty mind. I’ve tried dictating perfectly innocent phrases and seen them come back as profanity. I’ve given up on it.
Debbe 😉 Which band member’s hair style most nearly resembled yours in the 70s…except for the color, of course? 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZkTh_T75QY
Anonymous, it could have been worse. Mark, I get it. Encourage hate and call for law and order. I guess the theory is divide and conquer. Also Mark, I hope that cat is not roaming free at night. Someone will catnap it. I’ve seen it happen.
Trucker Ron, maybe it knows you too well… ????