Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Red-breasted Nuthatch


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  1. Dean, Whoopee!

    Cat--Hmmm… a couple of drinks quickly to prime the pump, then another three or four over the course of an hour like Bill suggested ought to give Mr. Blue a blood alcohol around 0.07% to 0.08%, which I am sure would be soused for me. Could be for him too; we can assume that. But some people put away lots more. I was estimating for hard drinkers.

    Medievalist mysteries? Sounds good; I never heard of Brother Cadfel. I started today to re-read The Mouse That Roared

    listener--library cartoon (click): Zits

    I must confess that I once manipulated a young female college prof by giving signs of breaking down in tears in order to get the last class card… it was bad behavior and I have felt guilty ever since (about 45 years), but it worked and I both enjoyed and profited from the class.

    And now to bed.

    --Alan

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    1. After four drinks in one hour (ignoring further drinking) I wouldn't be visibly sloshed. I think I could probably pass a field sobriety test, although (if I weren't a nondriver for other reasons) I would not really be qualified to drive safely.

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    2. Keep meaning to reread The Mouse That Roared. I remember it as a marvelous read.

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  2. I left a number of comments on the last thread at what turned out to be a bit after midnight.

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  3. Our more seasonal weather has returned: coldish, gray, and rainy. We're just above freezing, which in fact if not in comparison with what just passed, is a warmish winter.

    Knees are beginning to look like they were triggered by running out of my diuretic. I've been aware for long that what goes on with them isn't osteoarthritis (at least not much), more tissue and ligament involvement. The lateral bump is exquisitely painful. And a lot of the movement difficulty seems to come from an attempt to avoid the lateral scream. This has been a problem, off and on, since my early thirties. Tai Chi when I was in China nearly crippled me (they'd promised it wouldn't hurt: they were wrong wrong wrong).

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    1. I always understood Tai Chi was the gentlest on the body of the Martial Arts. Maybe it's just as well I never so much as mastered the Form. So sorry you're still suffering because of it all these years later.

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    2. No, it wasn't the Tai Chi, per se -- more that it exacerbated for a time, what my body already tends to do. I *loved* the Tai Chi classes, but can't deny that *something* about it was very very bad for MY knees.

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  4. Crying can be effective, and not only in public. Don know why exactly. Maybe it's because most people - real human beings, not the monsters that become torturers and such - have a built-in mechanism that responds sympathetically and helpfully to tears. Also, especially if you're a pretty together person usually, those around you might not realize the depth of your feelings or the degree of your need until you do break down and cry.

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    1. Yeah, it's the same concept as those days in our home schooling years when the kids would ignore what I was saying until I yelled. Since I strived to not yell, that tended to register with them that they'd crossed a line. But I feel the same way about both scenarios. It isn't fair to push a person to the point where they either yell or cry. Why not simply converse and listen and work something out before it gets to that point? But that's just me thinking. ;-)

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    2. Most people aren't as sensitive and evolved as you are.

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  5. From Labour Start:

    And in the USA, housekeeping and restaurant workers at Las Vegas casino-hotels owned by Station Casinos LLC and operated by Fertitta Entertainment LLC continue to fight for their right to union organization. Their employer, the worst violator of labor law in the history of the Nevada gaming industry, has been ordered by the government to post a notice to employees in all its facilities that states: "The National Labor Relations Board has found that we violated Federal labor law and has ordered us to post and obey this notice." But workers continue to demand their rights. They need our support.

    Clic here to send your Message and support the IUF campaign.

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  6. I went back to work today and am super tired tonight. But it went well. The one glitch is that I went to the Library last evening to sign my time sheet for the last two weeks, but it was already gone. Today I got a pay stub and discovered that I was not paid for being out sick Saturday because my boss didn't know I was out sick that day. I guess. Of course, the fact that I called in to the staff meeting sick might have sparked the question. And since my Saturday coworker was at the staff meeting, it would have been very easy to figure out. Of course, there's always the telephone. Ah well, I'll get that pay in the next check, two weeks on. Still.

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    1. It's aggravating when people miss the obvious because they don't use the brains God gave them.

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