Still mining the near past, from October, 2014. Not long ago, the remote control was to cartoonists what the smart phone is now, a well one could always return to during a dry spell. One of these days, I’ll learn. I told you I’d have something definitive about the Kickstarter thing, and I do! Sort of. It will begin Monday morning! Unless something totally out of my control prevents it, and I don’t think it will. Tell you what: I will keep you updated with special weekend posts. I’m doing all I can on my end.
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Finally!! Weekend posts!
Where’s Ghost?
We FINALLY got rain last night. 2 1/2 inches, which matches the total for the last 2 months! It has be 90°+ off and on for the past week. Our AC compressor pipes have been freezing up due to the furnace blower. Unfortunately we can’t get a HVAC unit for another 2 weeks. I have turned the thermostat to 79° and the compressor doesn’t freeze up. Microwaving dinner as it’s still a bit warm to heat up the house.
My prayers are with all of the fine men and women in blue. Disrespect for them and lack of trust between them and the ones they serve results in anarchy.
“If we continue with an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth we will end up a blind and toothless nation.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don’t know why the computer has started leaving my name out.
I will go to a concert tonight, but I will wear black and proudly wear my lapel pin badge.
Keep in mind, the only people who want and hope the law enforcement system falls are the criminals and those who wish this country harm. It is not driven by race or religion at its base, only those who do not want protection for the law-abiding and deterrence for the law-breakers.
Consider any one of the groups, large or small, to which you belong. Then imagine that some other member of that group does something that attracts the wrath of someone who then randomly shoots you and eleven other members of your group from ambush in retaliation, even though none of you were involved in the deed that attracted the wrath.
Such a heinous act is beyond reprehensible and encompasses a “thought” process most of us cannot begin to comprehend.
Ghost, I agree it’s difficult to comprehend, but it happens on an almost daily basis. Look at the assaults/knifing/shootings that attend large or small group gatherings. Anything from a birthday party or family barbecue to major entertainment events are attacked by those who see the attendees as fair game for whatever twisted hate they have. It’s evident in those who would disrupt political events by violence and those who murder church attendees in peaceful assembly. I have no answers except these: stay calm, wait for the facts, be careful, and act appropriately and with consideration for others while protecting yourself.
Read my comments on yesterday’s blog. I called Glen to tell him how much he meant to me. He knew officers there and is upset of course.
Just got my acceptance notice from Port Townsend Wooden Boat Show a few minutes ago. September right after Labor Day but I must leave earlier. I get three show passes with the entry and a crew pass to parties plus mine. It’s a fun show.
Ghost and Mark:
Such behavior is indeed common, and is even advocated, at least implicitly, in scripture: Psalm 137:8-9, “8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” [KJV] “Little ones” are presumably innocent children.
That one was relatively easy to find, in my hard copy of Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. There’s another, but I haven’t time to explore because I don’t have specific words that would narrow the search down. God is angry because Saul or somebody did not slay all the men, women, and children in some city or town.
Peace?
eMb, just off the top of my head, I would disagree on you word “advocated”. The verse seems to be saying that some peoples are to be negatively rewarded [presumably for their sinful ways] and that those doing the “rewarding” are going to feel good about doing so. It’s like saying that the Nazis would smile as they killed innocents, not that the killing of innocents was a desirable thing.
Next chapter in the saga of my teeth:
Last Wednesday, the regular dentist took his first peek at those space-holders – “abutments” may be a better term – installed a month ago by the surgeon. The site had finally stopped bleeding so I felt I should see him in spite of continuing soreness. He did what he did and said he’d try to have something in place in a week or so. OK.
Last evening around 9, I noted with my tongue that the sole sore space-filled site seemed to be missing the actual space-filler. How? When? And where did it go? I feared I knew the third answer.
This morning I went back to the regular guy’s office and saw a cohort of his since my man was not in. The cohort verified that the abutment was gone and told me a replacement was required. Agreed. The office did not have one, so he called the surgeon’s office and got me a 1:30 appointment.
Again, my man was not available, but his cohort was. After some fairly painful shots of anesthetic, he poked and prodded and cut and finally screwed in a replacement abutment. The question of where did the old one go arose quite naturally. He volunteered that we ought to find out; not a difficult decision. So, it was off to the local hospital for a couple xrays after the tedious check-in procedure. The xray tech was very pleasant – a high spot for the day.
A while later, at home, I got the call from the surgeon’s cohort. Indeed, I had swallowed the first abutment and it was in my large intestine. He had already spoken with my favorite gastroenterologist, and cited my gastroenterologist as saying that it ought to pass normally over the weekend, but that another xray should be taken Monday to make sure. So, I am left in a state of suspense wondering if, on its journey through me, the abutment’s very thin, long screw may have done some puncturing. That could lead to a serious case of peritonitis….
Sacra vaca!!
c x-p: That is less objectionable, but also, IMO, less plausible. Scripture often is not nice. Peace,
E.g., many of those depicted Egyptian first-borns were probably innocent infants.
OMG, c x-p, what a fine kettle of fish! And what a saga of misadventures, starting, what, months ago and still not resolved! The Villagers will be worrying until we hear that all is well. One good thing, I’d say as a complete amateur, if it’s made it through all those small intestines it should be smooth sailing for the rest of the trip. I am wishing for the very best results for you.
Thanks, Charlotte. It has been close to 6.5 months since I could chew, and I do miss the good things of the table.
My wife and I just watched a favorite film together, “What about Bob?” I’ve shown it many times at the hospital (the patients love it!), but she’d not seen it before.
He’s a good actor isn’t he? Groundhog Day is another good one.
That’s the other Bill Murray film that I often show to the patients. Most of them appreciate Richard Dreyfuss in “Mr. Holland’s Opus” as well, though they mostly like the music.
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This is link to PBS show Wild Fliers
The one that got cut off RA
http://www.pbs.org/show/supernature-wild-flyers/
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Zen Wisdom with a twist
9. If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.