Happy New Year! If this cartoon seems familiar, it’s because it ran only two years ago. I hope you’ve enjoyed the holidays. I like years when Christmas and New Years Day come on Friday. It’s as if everyone tacitly agrees the official holidays will be stretched out for an extra two days. However, Monday can be a hard landing. Brace yourselves!
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Debbe 😉 Ah, yeah, that’s right, I, ah, had my nose in the bowl games…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyp9fh-u4w8
So Jimmy did you get permission to take an extra day off?
This is day 2 of our move. It was all supposed to be done on NYE, but they ran out of truck. I have been SO busy packing and moving boxes and I am exhausted. I can’t imagine if I did not have movers.
We also do not have cable TV, but based on the results of the games over the past 2 days, I haven’t missed much! I did stream the Times Square ball drop but it was a full minute off and had terrible music.
Love this strip Jimmy. Loved it first time, still love it. No further comment.
Oh Yes. Where do you sit when you move? I have found a throne to sit on….
The carrot and stick metaphor has been staring us all in the face for decades. Yet, how many of us have thought of this twist? ‘Thaves’ are geniuses, like JJ. Scroll down the left side for Today’s Cartoon.’
http://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest?
Peace, emb
Thing about that metaphor is that the original image, as I remember it, is a carrot ON a stick, dangled in front of the mule’s nose by the passenger.
Lost, why wait for the library?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPgXDWMB-Q
Lost, give this one a look too. Not science fiction. Interesting series of movies starting with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e4cFpjoLfg
OF due 1329-1349 CST. People assembling. Peace, emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Love y’all. This has been my continuing education and way better than a book club and a lot of old biddies (sorry Debbe honey) sitting around slugging down wine while they “meet”.
And of course the music. No Musicale group cou,D compare. Now if I just had someone to go to opera or symphony with. And yes, Far Frozen North is too far, even for opera or Gilbert and Sullivan. Anyone further south?
Twins born in different years? That will produce an odd birthday celebration. http://www.startribune.com/two-year-twins-babies-born-dec-31-and-jan-1-in-san-diego/364026191/
Jackie: There are independent, mostly amateur, G&S companies in many cities. However, most produce only one or two operettas per year, so you’d have to do a search. GSVLOC is doing Iolanthe for 3 or 4 weekends. Sorry about our weather.
Peace, emb
Jackie, your mention of manicures reminded me of something about which I’d not thought in years. When I was not quite fifteen, my Dad took a job with his brother, and we moved from the small town where I’d been born to a medium-sized city in another state. I can see in retrospect how that could have been traumatic for some, but I loved the change, and it began my metamorphosis from shy-fifteen-year-old to, ah, not-so-shy eighteen-year-old.
I began getting my hair cut at the large old-style barbershop that my uncle frequented, located on the ground floor of a large downtown office building. The shop had a manicurist on staff, and one day I decided, what the hell, I’d try a manicure. It was great. The manicurist wasn’t bad either. She was very attractive, despite being “old”…probably in her early 30s. 🙂 And she had amazing cleavage, which I of course found intriguing. (Yeah, I know; some things never change, do they?)
One day, I was getting a manicure when my barber finished with the client ahead of me. I moved to the chair, and the manicurist came with me, using a high stool and a tray that attached to the arm of the barber chair to continue my manicure. When I had arrived at the shop, I’d told the “shoe shine technician” I wanted a shine, and after I got in the barber chair, he got free and brought his shine box and a short stool over, set up, and started shining my shoes. At this point, of course, my uncle walked in a found his fifteen-year-old nephew sitting there like Thurston Howell III with three people working on him. He just looked at me for a few seconds, shook his head slowly, and walked out.
He kidded me about that for a while, but there wasn’t much he could really say. He was the epitome of the “sharp-dressed man” and, whether casually dressed or wearing a business suit, he always looked like he’d just stepped out of the pages of Gentlemen’s Quarterly magazine. What clothing taste and style I have, I probably mostly picked up from him. I miss him.
Oh, and I love symphonic music. I don’t know a lot about opera, but I’m willing to learn.
But perhaps I’m too far south?
Nope, I am pulling out of here on January 30 in my pickup truck and a sailboat
. My route goes to east Texas, south to Lafatte, LA or else east to Vicksburg, then south to Bay St. Louis and
coast, work my way east through Mobile, Florida panhandle and ultimately turn south to Tampa. From there schedule is wherever I feel like going until March 4 when I will be back in Tampa for the Everglades Challenge to cheer on friends at the Fort Desoto beach launch.and if I go on down to Keys it will depend on how long I was there earlier. And spring break. I hate spring break.
Have to be back in south Texas in Port Aransas by March 21 as I am building a new boat for myself there at Farley Boat Works and putting on a build workshop for two more to use in June for the Live Strong cancer fundraiser we are sailing as part of the Texas 200. That one goes until April 3.
The tonneau cover on truck is so I can pack a variable wardrobe suitable for more than one activity. Sailing, I mean sailing.
GR6 & Jackie
Minnesota Public Radio does Metropolitan Opera Saturdays at noon CT.
find it on line
http://www.classicalmpr.org/listen
Watched “Thin Man” series NYE W/ Merna Loy & William Powell
Nick Charles was not the “Thin Man” that was the victim.
Jackie
Saw 2 OK schools at the London England New Years Parade.
Jenks, OK and Southmore, OK (I think that is what they said)
They parade a little different over there.
Happy Twoth
Anon(Jackie),
I’d invite you to go to the Baton Rouge Symphony if you’re near when they are playing. I can’t find anyone to go with me either. My wife and kids don’t care for classical music and my friend, Lloyd Roasch, who hired the BR musicians, has moved. I used to go with him and sit in the upper balcony. My hearing is fading fast so I listen with earphones now. Hearing aids are good but not like real hearing.
GR6,
My grandfather wore a suit, vest, tie, etc. to go sit on the porch. I guess some of him rubbed off on me even though he died when I was 15. I wear a suit, tie, etc. to Mass, even on weekdays. I have a coat,tie, etc on now since I went to Mass this AM. It really bothered me to not wear a tie to Mass while my arm was disabled. Thank the Lord I am back to normal now. A . A Happy and Holy New Year to the entire village. God bless us every one.
I just tried to describe my wardrobe, but the blog rejected the post. Perhaps it read too much like an advertisement for a clothing store? 🙂
Just got the following from my daughter:
‘OK, I am telling all of you that MY SON just told me that he got a THIRTY-TWO on his ACTs! With a 36 in reading and a 35 in science! COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD! … so I’m bragging about it.’
Peace, Granddad
Academy?
The posts on this page are so enjoyable! I lead such a quiet life, it’s a treat for me to read stories of Ghost’s life, of Domaucan’s, about Steve’s long-awaited move, and of Jackie’s plans and life-long adventures. Useful comments from emb and from Old Bear. Thank you all ever so much.
Dearest Charlotte, a quite life is good. Wanna swap? 🙂
Jackie, ever hear this old sea song?
“I’m walking inland from the shore
“Over my shoulder carrying an oar
“And when someone asks me what
“Is the funny thing I’ve got
“I know I’ll never go to sea no more, no more
“I know I’ll never go to sea no more.”