Well, I messed up Big Time. The current A&J comic strip that appeared Sunday, Jan. 1, was a poem, a limerick of which I was rather proud. Today’s strip, Jan. 2, was a limerick about cats, of which I was less proud, but there it is. Now, I can count on comments such as, “Not another limerick.” Or, “These limericks are awful.” Or “I’m bored with this poetry thing.” Actually, the Sunday strip is drawn earlier than the Monday-Saturday strips, and I didn’t realize I was putting two poem strips back to back, or I wouldn’t have done it. Because I know if I do, well… see above. So, to those commenters annoyed by this, I hope this takes some of the sting out. Having said that, I do not intend to lose any sleep over it. And again: Happy New Year!
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Actually when on a long trip I am of the belt and suspenders type, I take my older GPS receiver and an atlas from AAA. For the rare long, long trip I also go to AAA and have them run up a trip-tik to my specifications. I used to carry an atlas in my vehicles all of the time they have been reliable from Texas to Alaska, from D.C. to Arizona and all points between. Paper maps rule.
The Crayola© box weather did deprive me of power for almost four hours yesterday, naturally on a holiday when I was home to be affected by it. My utility company has an app that notifies me and gives updates of outages and includes a map that pinpoints the locations where damage has occurred. This was in a heavily wooded area a half mile or so from me, undoubtedly the result of a tree taking out lines and/or transformers.
Glad things came back online for you. You have good crews in your area.
I went hunting to find his preferred handle, and found:
domaucan1 on 13 Dec 2016 at 3:40 pm #
It’s great to be a part of this village. I can almost remember the first Arlo and Janis when I was reading the Opelika/Auburn News. I feel like Jimmy is a part of my family. God bless our family.
God bless us every one. God bless the USA.
In context, this was following my rebuke of Billy Bee. Though I do not claim it is related.
domaucan1, or dom to save my fingers until I know your preference, hope you have enjoyed the season. Happy New Year!
Weather and pleather report from Oklahoma. Pleather is how many naugas had to give their life for that sofa?
Got up this morning and only pair of burgundy pleathers was a small pair I bought when I was down 20 pounds from where I am now. Most of those smaller jeans won’t come up now so the new Sunday rang a couple of bells.
These are on and still bearable but hard to pull up or down but still look presentable. There is no room for anything but me in them.
Weather wise it is still in 40s but misty and damp so it feels far colder than it is in fact. Wearing all the layers and adding leather gloves to drive home. Have the cap on already. No snow but foggy today. It’s a lake.
Catholic so lots of blessings.
Lots of lightning last night and heavy rain for a little while. Apparently they had some flooding over in Pensacola and tornados north of us in Alabama. Four people killed in a mobile home close to Dothan. I just got a telephone call about some flooding in this area, but I don’t know where. I’ll go watch the weather on tv.
I used to kid a Catholic girlfriend about getting more exercise at Mass than we do, asked if that’s how the priest kept all the dads awake.
Glad to hear your home his safe, Jerry.
“You have good crews in your area.”
Utility crews are very fast and efficient in this area. Unfortunately, a lot of that stems from the frequent occurrence of severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes in this area. And even the very occasional ice storm, believe it or not.
Sometimes y’all loan them out to us Yankees here in Midwest. I see the convoys on the interstates when I travel.
Even Miami has had snow in my lifetime, I believe. Frequent training opportunities under live conditions, will yield a very capable force.
Works the other way, too. Following Katrina, one of my all-female staff and her husband, who live in a rural area, had a two-man electrical crew show up at their property to check a downed power line that crossed it. They were from Long Island NY, of all places.
While taking to them, one of the linemen suddenly asked, “What’s that?”, and when told it was a hummingbird, went back to the truck to get his camera…he obviously had never seen one. When given permission to go into a grown-up area, they demurred. Turned out the local crews had told them that all underbrush in the area was filled with gimongous spiders, and they didn’t get that it was a joke.
Ruth Anne, I like the Delorme atlases, too. I mark favorite places in them, then transfer the notes when I get an updated atlas. That is so much fun! 🙂
Ghost, my first apartment was in a heavily wooded area and suffered summer thunderstorm power outages regularly. I switched to using a windup alarm clock during thunderstorm season. Coworkers could always tell when my power went out—I came in ten minutes early, with wet hair and a blowdryer.
All this discussion of liver and onions made me go eat at a place called Mom’s Diner just down street from my mini vans service department. Recommended.
Had liver and onions grilled, steamed carrots, cauliflower and broccoli and a bowl of strawberries, cantaloupe and honey dew. Iced tea. The home baked roll was not legal by old WW limits.
But it was delicious and healthy. Skipped desserts.
Morphy:
Sounds reasonable to me.
However, the edge seems to go in favor of Canadian money being worth a little more than ours.
I haven’t been in Canada in quite a while. The next time I go, I will be sure to check for American coins in circulation.
Maybe the vending machines there have signs on them stating, “Do not use American coins.”
I have had at least a dozen inexpensive watches. My body chemistry tends to dissolve the plating and leave the brass to turn my wrist green. I got a Rolex and never had that problem. Unfortunately it started to lose time (after 25 years) and the repairs caused more problems. Sigh. I then got a Tissot, again with no case deterioration. It just stopped running after 10-15 years and is currently out for repairs. I hope it comes back in working order (for at least another 10 years).
I see Canadian coins all the time. 🙂 The Loonie is still only 3/4 of the US dollar.
Gary, outside of sporting advertisement, in plain print, I did not recognize the brand name and pronounced it with two t’s in my head. But I’m a gadget guy and went to look it up. Oh yeah, *that* Tissot.
Rick, I thought the looney was still strong too. But I haven’t paid attention. Gary is correct. Today is CAD/USD 0.7463
Just got the two annual backyard steers back from the butcher. For the quarters that I sold, somehow I inexplicably received the packages of liver back when unloading the frozen beef. Some people just don’t realize how good liver can be!
Sorry, the shorthand version split across the end of line is not clear:
CAD/USD 0.7463
Means:
1 Looney = less than 3 U.S. quarters, barely
David, sometimes proper preparation technique can escape a busy mom.
Gary, your liver remembrance made me think of my mom’s oatmeal, half way to cookie dough on the stovetop. I had enjoyed instant oatmeal as a student, convinced I was doing it wrong but liked it any way. Then I had the courage to say yes to someone else’s offer of oatmeal and learned the truth: hot grain breakfasts of any kind, grits to malt-o-meal can be chewed but shouldn’t *have* to be.
Some years ago, a friend was looking at a “recommended diet” pamphlet his doc gave him following a mild myocardial infarction. (The friend’s MI, not the doc’s.)
“Thank God!” he exclaimed.
“What?” I asked.
He showed me where it said to avoid “liver and other organ meats”.
Brain, get out of the gutter.
I’m not proud of how I read that, Ghost.