Good morning. It's cooled off a bit here, due to wind off Lake Michigan. Today I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop: Will I suddenly get a whole bunch of articles to edit, or are they coming next week instead? Can I finally start catching up with my gardening?
I did something today. I have a friend (the one who bumped into my oldest son at the mini marathon). Her husband died of cancer a year after Pam died (she's remarried). So I emailed her a quick remembrance, and a mush alert (I shared how Pam wanted to marry me on Christmas day, so I'd be her favorite Christmas gift ever).
My friend mentioned no one ever remembers her anniversary so she cannot talk about it. She said mine was a mushy story, but she loved it, and she thanked me for remembering her.
I'm debating whether to give her a quick call this evening before she leaves work for the day. I have often offered to walk a 5k race with her sometime where she can simply tell me stories of her deceased husband. So far we haven't done it, although if Taylor University (across the street from my favorite ice cream parlor) ever has a 5k, we'll do it.
It’s been a busy few weeks with guests at the lake. Today everyone leaves and “yay me” I get to clean! I enjoy it because it will give me some alone time.
Good morning. Another hot “weather alert” day here.
Clement Attlee was a Brexiteer ahead of his time.
The mothership is reporting on the upcoming (next Thursday) earliest ever Presidential debate, between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. (Cynthia has already bowed out of watching).
When I got around to listening to the actual video clip, I discovered the money quote, at the very end (where it could be missed), where Attlee called the EC "in my opinion, a dictatorship of bureaucrats".
I haven’t had the patience for “debates” in years now. I once found them fun. But after figuring out it was just a show where the spouted rehearsed lines, my interest dissipated. The follow-up headlines afterwards were more to the point, even when they are misstated.
The Attlee clip was a good reminder that today’s contentious issues were also contentious issues in the past, with familiar arguments for and against them. There’s an Arrogance of Now that presumes we’ve only just discovered the issue and its reasoning.
Good morning. Since LucyTrice started the "cheer up" theme (and I, for one, am there for it), here's a musical cheer up. Its the band, Lawrence (the guy from last week's Me and Julio video) and some other folks. Enjoy.
Jake managed to eat all his food while leaving his pill on the plate. This means war: I'll have to grab him by the scruff of the neck and poke it down his throat.
Katie is a zen master for pill taking. She tells Zeus (the blonde dog, aka Zeucifer) to sit, and gives him a treat. She has him stay seated, then she opens the pill bottle and puts the pill in the back of his throat, closing it while stroking under his chin. Zeus swallows the pill, wags his tail, then Katie tells him he was a good boy.
And an excellent one. I may be biased on that, but in her district several stores want her to be their PIC (pharmacist in charge). Lol, she wants to be a staff pharmacist, not a PIC.
Cats are definitely worse than dogs (my wife's had a few over the years) but try getting something down the throat of a thousand-pound horse that it doesn't want to swallow...
Some years ago, my vet had me feed one of my geldings a pint of uncultured yogurt per day for a week to help deal with a digestive track issue. It took two pints a day to get the job done, since I ended up wearing one of them by the time all was said and done.
As to what was "said" during the process, I'll leave that to your imagination...
My dog will eat around his tiny pill too and he’s fed a ground raw meat diet. I’m amazed at his ability to avoid eating it. So I coat it in peanut butter.
Happy solstice! Here's a short, catchy tune about summertime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK_z73tVbgU&ab_channel=LegacyRecordingsVEVO
Donald Sutherland has died. He was 88. He was in a lot of movies and TV shows.
💐Requiescat in pace. 💐
Good morning. It's cooled off a bit here, due to wind off Lake Michigan. Today I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop: Will I suddenly get a whole bunch of articles to edit, or are they coming next week instead? Can I finally start catching up with my gardening?
I did something today. I have a friend (the one who bumped into my oldest son at the mini marathon). Her husband died of cancer a year after Pam died (she's remarried). So I emailed her a quick remembrance, and a mush alert (I shared how Pam wanted to marry me on Christmas day, so I'd be her favorite Christmas gift ever).
My friend mentioned no one ever remembers her anniversary so she cannot talk about it. She said mine was a mushy story, but she loved it, and she thanked me for remembering her.
I'm debating whether to give her a quick call this evening before she leaves work for the day. I have often offered to walk a 5k race with her sometime where she can simply tell me stories of her deceased husband. So far we haven't done it, although if Taylor University (across the street from my favorite ice cream parlor) ever has a 5k, we'll do it.
It’s been a busy few weeks with guests at the lake. Today everyone leaves and “yay me” I get to clean! I enjoy it because it will give me some alone time.
This creates a dilemma: should we reply to affirm this, or not, so you'll be left alone? 😉
Worth Your Time II: 'Why Activists Keep Failing the Causes That Fire Them Up'--Sarah Isgur
http://archive.today/IeYEi
Good article. As was this observation from 50+ years ago...
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket." Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
Good morning. Another hot “weather alert” day here.
Clement Attlee was a Brexiteer ahead of his time.
The mothership is reporting on the upcoming (next Thursday) earliest ever Presidential debate, between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. (Cynthia has already bowed out of watching).
When I got around to listening to the actual video clip, I discovered the money quote, at the very end (where it could be missed), where Attlee called the EC "in my opinion, a dictatorship of bureaucrats".
He was exactly right.
I haven’t had the patience for “debates” in years now. I once found them fun. But after figuring out it was just a show where the spouted rehearsed lines, my interest dissipated. The follow-up headlines afterwards were more to the point, even when they are misstated.
I won’t watch either. I prefer to wait and hear Megyn Kelly’s critique of the debate the next day.
I'll want to hear John Podhoretz give a stemwinder Drama Queen rant, and then Abe Greenwald will say, seriously, "Actually, it's worse than that."
John in the morning, Megyn in the afternoon!
The Attlee clip was a good reminder that today’s contentious issues were also contentious issues in the past, with familiar arguments for and against them. There’s an Arrogance of Now that presumes we’ve only just discovered the issue and its reasoning.
It is a commentary on our times that she would rather force her cat to swallow a pill. What a metaphor!
Good morning. Since LucyTrice started the "cheer up" theme (and I, for one, am there for it), here's a musical cheer up. Its the band, Lawrence (the guy from last week's Me and Julio video) and some other folks. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ewvhgV700
Nice! Energetic cheerfulness. And hope. And amazing piano skilz!
They are a good band
Very nice!
Good morning! I was in need of something cheerful this morning and this popped up. It involves comics. Enjoy!
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=9
It makes me wonder how much lower unemployment would be today if young men didn't stress about never having seen a chicken riding a bicycle.
Very amusing.
That is FUN! I have long been a fan of xkcd. Even for a non-engineer, the sense of irony is bracing. Thanks!
Good morning. Happy Solstice!
Jake managed to eat all his food while leaving his pill on the plate. This means war: I'll have to grab him by the scruff of the neck and poke it down his throat.
Katie is a zen master for pill taking. She tells Zeus (the blonde dog, aka Zeucifer) to sit, and gives him a treat. She has him stay seated, then she opens the pill bottle and puts the pill in the back of his throat, closing it while stroking under his chin. Zeus swallows the pill, wags his tail, then Katie tells him he was a good boy.
She is a pharmacist...
And an excellent one. I may be biased on that, but in her district several stores want her to be their PIC (pharmacist in charge). Lol, she wants to be a staff pharmacist, not a PIC.
Has she tried that with a cat?
Cats are definitely worse than dogs (my wife's had a few over the years) but try getting something down the throat of a thousand-pound horse that it doesn't want to swallow...
Some years ago, my vet had me feed one of my geldings a pint of uncultured yogurt per day for a week to help deal with a digestive track issue. It took two pints a day to get the job done, since I ended up wearing one of them by the time all was said and done.
As to what was "said" during the process, I'll leave that to your imagination...
Oy!
I don't think so.
My dog will eat around his tiny pill too and he’s fed a ground raw meat diet. I’m amazed at his ability to avoid eating it. So I coat it in peanut butter.
We had an aussie like that—you could hardly get her to swallow any pill, even with two pairs of hands.
We used to wrap the pills for the greyhound in meat. Jake is really annoying me.
Cats are so plastic, they’re almost liquid.
Who usually wins such battles?
The party with opposable thumbs.
Always a game changer. Reminds me of this Larson cartoon:
https://images.app.goo.gl/GWNX5Gm2fwnRQ8PK8
Morning. There appears to be a general election metaphor lurking in there somewhere.
Indeed. Both parties have carefully avoided the “pill” of reasonable and fit candidates.
Yuck, but now that you mention it, there could be. If he bites me, and I need an antibiotic shot, that could be metaphorical, too.
Or you could just ingest bleach....
For whiter teeth ...