It must say something about me that every time I take a few days off to recharge, I wind up someplace with no Internet accessibility or even a cell-phone signal. Whatever it says, I just returned from such a place, and it was great. Sorry about the interruption, though. I haven’t talked much football this year. I decided to wait until it matters (Well, as much as it ever matters.), and that time is coming. Sorry, non-sports fans! I know this Sunday Arlo & Janis from 1994 has appeared here before, probably a couple of times, but I’ve always liked it, and I thought it might be appropriate. To get us in the mood.
Going for It
By Jimmy Johnson
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42 responses to “Going for It”
Frank Deford had a wonderful, curmudgeonly commentary on NPR this morning on the SEC taking over from the Big Ten as the premier college football league. Sad but true, I’m afraid. Nonetheless, Go Blue!
Posting a link to Deford’s commentary separately in case it ends up in the moderation bucket.
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/22/357819936/college-footballs-big-ten-conference-try-the-littler-ten
Come on Arlo, tape the game and for it.
How ’bout that? Now even NPR has heard of that newfangled football conference called the SEC.
Partial solar eclipse tomorrow (4:15 to 4:40 pm) should be visible here… except the forecast is for cloudy skies. 🙁
BTW, that’s 4:15 to 4:40 pm MDT.
From earlier this morning, before JJ took away those gorgeous gams:
“Partial solar eclipse tomorrow (4:15 to 4:40 pm) should be visible here… except the forecast is for cloudy skies.:-( ”
Remember, it will be a PARTIAL eclipse. Part of Sol’s disk w/b visible throughout. Do NOT look directly at it unless your are wearing a welder’s eye shield. Best way to see it is to find a TV channel that is doing live coverage. If local trees are still in leaf [most around here are not], look at the shadows on a sun-facing outer wall. The usual circular dapples w/b crescents or circles with a bite missing from one side. That’s what we saw after ‘the big one’ in Hawai’i, as we walked back to the luxury hotel after the total eclipse had been clouded out. Peace, emb
Jimmy, we both enjoyed this mornings funny. Having a great time in New Orleans. Walked about the French Quarter yesterday; saw the sights. Even two topless young things strolling around. Have to run, museums today.
“. . . unless you are wearing a welder’s eye shield.” Sheesh!
Good morning, Villagers,a great morning, a great run, and a great couple of hours in the surgical suite.
Mark, I do enjoy the New Yorker cartoons generally, allowing for their maddening bias. I get them in my fb feed, so I don’t consider that “reading the New Yorker.” Actually, I have found some very interesting essays in The New Yorker, (I first read Anthony Bourdain there) but what I object to is that they always go on for far too long. You think you are almost through and there are still five pages left to go, none of which adds much to the essay. It is humiliating because I feel like I would be “Shallow Susie” if I quit reading before the end, but at the end, I feel duped into wasting my time.
Emb, the tree thing is how I saw the last partial. Weird feeling, since I was not expecting it
We invested in some safe-solar-sunglasses at the local observatory’s gift shop.
Jackie is caught up on condition of her pets, sitter has taken everyone to vets for me except two cats, Ashes and Meow Meow, who hopefully just need shots. We have one with bladder infection and one with terrible throat infection, one dog with ear infections, three with skin allergies needing regular shots. I owe vet enough to buy a new cow or make a couple of truck payments.
Wilma our dog sitter loves my pets and they love her more than me. When her car goes down the road (she lives in next block from me) they set up baying and howling, begging her to stop.
Please stop! Please!
I loved today’s new A and J. I knew what Janis meant, it was college football and the girls are less pneumatic and more athletic.
Sometimes the Dark Side just confounds me with their observations!
Love, Jackie
Whooo, we had to clean the whole office. Had a real flu patient come in and they sat and hacked in the lobby for thirty mortal minutes. I have mopped the place with Lysol and H. and J. are scrubbing the walls in that exam room. My running shoes are wet, gotta go change into my alternate pair.
Jackie, on days like today, I consciously avoid The Dark Side. Bunch of sex maniacs. But the trolls that infest “Crankshaft” are much, much worse.
So, am I then in trouble for my “PeeWee” comment on TDS?
If so, in my defense, Janis started it. 🙂
The comment over there that has me scratching my head is the one about “bread implants”.
GR6, you knead them and they rise?
Hit that one out of the park, eh Mark? 🙂
Ghost, I am so sick I did not notice the peewee comment was yours! Sorry, I impugned you I guess.
Last week when Doonesbury was doing reruns of the Playboy arc from the early 1970’s, I laughed about the ice cube jokes because all I could think of were your Pokies and putting ice to make them stand up and look perky.
Haven’t had time to look at anything else right now.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, you worried me with your comment about sick pets so I went by after lunch and checked on ours. All safe. Thank goodness.
Quote of the day: “I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. They can’t be tethered or held in your palm.
Just like a sparrow, they light on your porch. Their song might be brief, but how greedy would we be to ask for more? No, you cannot keep a sparrow. You can only hope that as they fly away, they take a little bit of you with them.” — Emm Cole (The Short Life of Sparrows)
No “impugnization” assumed, Jackie. I was just taking the term “flat-chested” ad absurdum. 🙂
Nice quote, Munchkin. Still, I hope you continue to stick around for a while.
Lily, my mom’s dogs are surely pushing 20 and I know Garfield aka “Sun” is too (my big orange cat) Charlie and Voodoo are no spring chickens, nor is Ashes. Only two cats, Skipper and Meow Meow are very young.
There is a young tortie we are feeding who is pregnant and we hope to catch her and litter. Moved the iron baker’s rack on porch out in front of my window so she gets used to humans. She looks just like Meow Meow but neighbor says it is not her sister. Meow Meow and all the rest are “fixed”.
With Mike being so ill and then a big spurt of traveling and our boating festival, we have let things go to our shame.
Love, Jackie
Wow, that so calls to mind, “I shall give them beauty for ashes.” -Is. 61:3
Luckily, though our dogs are 11, 10, and 6, they are in great health, except Skippy, the Lab, who has arthritis.
For those who might like to look at the insanity that goes on in my back yard each October, here is link: http://jimsboats.com which I think will take you to the October issue of Jim’s newsletter.
Jim is one of our designers, along with about seven others who came this year. We put on programs that rival some of the big wooden boat festivals, only in our back yard and our boat shop which is not a for profit either!
I think Ghost and some of our pilots might like the proa which is a multihull sailboat that sails with a wing that looks like an airplane wing turned on end. That is a self designed boat and really fast. We also had a boat with a small propeller on end of bow also, a canoe I think?
Love, Jackie
Jackie, I have never sailed, but looking at those pictures made me want to!
Heh, I have to post this one. My friend Epi was looking over my shoulder as I scrolled down all those boaty pictures, and at the end, I asked her what she thought, and she said, “Well, I haven’t seen anything yet that I would want to lay out on without my bikini top.” 😀
Heh, I have to post this one. My friend Epi was looking over my shoulder as I scrolled down all those boaty pictures, and at the end, I asked her what she thought, and she said, “Well, I haven’t seen anything yet that I would want to lay out on without my bikini top.” 😀