The A&J series that is running in newspapers this week about syncing wireless technology is based on true events, as was the lizard episode a few weeks back. You are right: I’ve not been leading a very exciting life of late. As for the lizard sequence, one commenter somewhere kept coming back day after day to snort (if one can snort online) derisively something like, “What’s the big deal? It’s just a harmless lizard.” I didn’t say anything then, but I would like to say on my—I mean Arlo’s—behalf that when a skink, a rather large and aerodynamic lizard, is running loose in one’s underwear, it becomes a matter not of fear but of urgency. Anyway, ponder Felix the French space cat. There seems to be some debate about whether the first French space cat was Felix or Felicette. If you’re truly interested, it’s an easy search. Sadly, a second French space cat was sent in suborbital space flight similar to Felix, or Felicette, but did not survive the recovery. Apparently, its name is unrecorded.
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OF had just blown when I got there, is now winding down. Next pred. not up yet but may be before 1800. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Yep, came in and everyone was leaving. Must have been a quickie. Not bad for a geezer, eh geyser.
Jerry: Good one…
Popping in, 4am wake up. No, I didn’t get the job. They went internal; I figured they might. This week marks five years with the company. Now my goal is figure out how to get in my vaction time before leaving – they aren’t required to pay me for vactioned time earned, and I definitely want out soon – they’ve done reallly lost their minds now.
A quick grin before bed, Blacklight, not realizing she really wasn’t captured by her cat toy.
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/t31.0-8/11856351_10156070771150454_9111605505398753325_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9
Hang in there Mindy. We are pulling for you! Prayers also…
A.Word.A.Day is always interesting. Today’s [20 Aug.] illustration looks particularly Brit. Nose reminds me a bit of Princess Di. [Perhaps the reason that Evan became a more common boy’s name than Charles.]
http://www.wordsmith.org/words/today.html
Peace, emb
Seems I’ve heard that word in nautical usage, as in two ships were anchored athwart each other. Jackie could problem tell me if that is correct usage.
“probably tell me”
Lady Mindy, again, “Illegitimis non carborundum.”
Debbe 😉 American Graffiti Clue #6. I really, really should know the answer to this by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sAHiR0rkJg
Ghost, yes. Wait, what was the question? Love, Jackie
Well, Jackie, at least I didn’t ask if we could get athwart each other. 😉
Short story: Suzanne Summers made an appearance in Pensacola and I was asked if I could get a white t-bird convertible there. I said yes, if we could just take her picture in the car. They said yes and I had the car there. She made the appearance indoors and never came out. That’s show biz.
Good slow dancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyRDfO3lQfk
You – strike that – Us people are bad. I listen to what is posted, then listen to the variations
alongside or other tunes there and pretty soon it is time to get ready for work.
Mindy
Hugs and keep us posted
Jerry
You believed them – why?
You would think all we did was slow dance when we were young, swaying back and forth. Oh right, that’s what we did, didn’t we?
So who among us danced the bop, the shag, the twist and the myriad other variations of fast dancing from that period?
Good morning Villagers….
Sockhops, I remember those well. You kicked your shoes off on the bleachers and the girls would dance in a circle….then came the slow dances…boys were shy back then…but not now.
Picking up my thyroid med today…I hope it starts giving me more energy. Seems by 2ish in the afternoon I could lay down and sleep.
Got home to a pleasant surprise. I’m friends with an older woman who works hard in her garden. I supply her with eggs. So along with the ham salad she made, I got to eat my first tomato of the year….didn’t even wash it before I ate it like an apple. Then a big salad with another big whole tomato in it.
A very pleasant 58 degrees here…going to be good day. Jason is working out good. The Boss is starting to get a little absent minded though…he has too much on his plate. Harvest time is around the corner and he will be very busy at both of his mills. Said he would use Jason to help him out as Jason has worked in the mill business when my husband worked at a mill for 20 years. Then the mill closed. Husband has severe degenerative discs and arthritis in hands which earned him a disability from the SS. He would rather be working. But he does stay busy here, and keeps moving….he does laundry, vacuums, shops, cooks….I am very blessed to be married to him.
Look at the time….gotta go
And it’s PAYDAY
Jerry, I do pray the El Nino keeps Danny at bay.
GR 😉 remember this? I do, and where I was and stayed. Mom was in the hospital for an extended time and my Great Aunt Sena took us two older girls in. Is was there I learned about rock and roll from my older 2nd cousins. I was just a mere nine years old then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0jUvufQgQo&list=RDR0jUvufQgQo
🙂
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8552471808/hB6EC5F0C/
….and get that vacation in Indy Mindy….is it one or two weeks you’ve earned?
re:Jackie 10:44 AM I have found myself in all my new meetup.com groups and various social events that everyone does this Texas Two step thing. So I started lessons at a studio near me. The instructor asks “you never listen to country music, do you?” Nope, I’m more of a jump, jive and wail kind of guy, but when in Rome.. . also for the first time in oh, like 57 years, I actually went camping, tent and all, in Pedernales Falls, thought I’d be out of my comfort zone, but I was among friends that I do my ten mile hikes with every weekend. I’m still “being reborn” after my wife died. I have an interview today to start volunteering with the Houston Museum of Natural Science. … ..and yes, she’s rolling her eyes in heaven; I got a male menopause car, a new 2016 Mazda Miata, I never thought I’d succumb but help me! it’s like invasion of the brain snatchers – am middle aged man – must get little sports car…. ..and hey you know? it’s really sweet.. and I never miss any posts here
John in Richmond, I should be in moving more clothes to my closet (like Janis in the great seasonal migration) but I have to answer your morning post.
Dang, I am proud of you! You are the poster child for rebirth!
Even the Miata, love it, love that you got one. Several years ago I made friends on the net with a guy now gone who seemed the soul of conservative do it yourself boat building, described himself as a Virginia hillbilly. Went to first boating event with him in Atlanta, GA and he wheels into the campground towing a homemade Duck with a Miata convertible blasting rock music. I told him “Hillbilly rock star out of control” and he remained that to me the rest of his life. I loved him a lot, may go visit his wife this fall.
Sometimes it is like stepping off a building and you don’t know how far down the ground is but you step off anyway, no parachute, no net. Now that takes courage!
Heck, I just signed up to volunteer with the Tulsa Great Raft-up Race on the Arkansas River. Maybe next year I will get a crew to build a raft to compete in? Thinking about kayaking lessons too. If I would go to Miami I have a good friend named Esther, a Cuban immigrant, who is awesome teacher and role model with a gorgeous younger boyfriend, so maybe I will go to Miami for some lessons? Esther and friend rescued my late husband and his errant partner from that Stuck in the Mud Everglades adventure, I owe her.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, are the rafts going to lock through? I always wanted to make that trip when we lived in OK…
John, in the unlikely event that I live that long, I will likely filch your retirement plan. Except for the Miata…rather than getting into it, I’d have to put it on. But…you go, guy!
The rules mentioned having a suitable anchor to throw out and stop the raft in case the crew misses the take out spot to prevent going into the dam just down stream and also having a suitable tow attachment in event raft sinks or does not float or similar catastrophe.
These rafts are floating/paddling the Arkansas stretch through downtown Tulsa which is reviving the riverfront. Similar to event in New Mexico I am familiar with called Raft the Rio, rafts are often tongue in cheek and style counts. I will read the rules tonight.
The down the Arkansas from Tulsa to southern Arkansas is pretty and I have had friends that did it, fall is good time with foliage. Heck, I need to just go float the Illinois, still a wild river.
Love, Jackie
Ghost, that Miata comment intrigued me. I am sure you have mentioned but exactly how tall are you? I know Mark is about 6 foot four or five, I remembered that. Are you same size? Is that why you drive the couch with four wheels, the Crown Vic? At your age you are hardly using it to park.
I say that because when I sold cars, the Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincolns were the refuge of the tall, although the Marks did well with tall guys too. Maybe pickup trucks now?
Steadily losing, weight down another pound this morning but I don’t weigh that often any more, I know I am losing so I don’t dwell on it or obsess. Had delicious brown butter sauteed yellow squash, some ricotta and spinach ravioli with sauteed “super” greens, kale, spinach and chard, weird things thrown in. Seldom eat pasta or much carbs now but I hardly deny myself!
Love, Jackie