Tomorrow Hubby and I are going over to Racine HQ to help put together lawn signs, and so Hubby can help rationalise and consolidate their mailing lists (a special project he suggested and they are delighted about).
I left a few more messages over on the last thread. Alan...one for you for sure. Sooo glad Miyoko's news. ♥
A primary on August 24! WOW!! Illinois had it's primary five months ago. (One of the states that moved it's primary to Tsuhami Tuesday in 2008 with the idea of playing an important role in picking presidential candidates. Only it worked in reverse this time around.)
In response to Cat's question at the end of the last thread:
Penny and I leave the evening of August 31 and return the evening of September 24. I won't have a laptop with me for a variety of reasons, of which the least important is that I don't currently have a laptop. I used to take laptops with me on business trips, which strongly contributes to my desire not to take one on vacation. I'm even happy to be out of touch with the news. Vacation is vacation, as far as I'm concerned. And lugging a laptop is a hassle at best.
Nice little rain last night (the T-storms on radar were just so *cute*!), and MUCH cooler today: 78º right now, and more rain predicted for today and tomorrow.
I'm with Bill on the greatness of being "out of in touch". . . .
No rain here last night AFAIK but it is much more comfortable today, thank Heaven.
I donno about being out of touch. It is true that I sometimes go days or even weeks without checking my e-mail, which is *really* dumb, because I end up with zillions of messages. But, that's a choice. Not having Internet access at all is another kettle of fish altogether, and one that gives me panic attacks.
Well, I'll miss e-mail, especially over that long a period. But news? I figure if the nukes start flying I'll hear about it and anything else can be caught up with later if it's worth bothering about at all.
Absolutely. I've sort of been off news lately myself, hard news anyway. I still like to see the Science news now and then, and the one off, funny or human interest stories. Like, for instance, I saw yesterday that Paul the Psychic octopus likes Spain to win the World Cup. Presumably, I'll eventually hear whether he was right. That's just about the level of news I can handle.
Beautiful, solid, steady rain. Flash flood warning in effect till tomorrow morning, and in truth I'd like to get one; i.e., enough rain to actually *cause* one. Temp's below 70º and headed down. My idear of heaven is to fall to sleep under two fluffy quilts, listening to the rain. . . . .
Hey, I wore that green shirt and straw hat today... went over to Racine HQ to help put together lawn signs.
So I was driving down the road and my windshield got all speckled and pretty soon I couldn't see so well. Then I remembered about wipers. Hadn't needed them in so long.
Biologists in the Gulf have been ever so carefully digging up sea turtle eggs, securing them in big boxes of sand and putting them on Fed Ex refrigerated trucks. They are being taken to Florida, where they will be carefully watched over and hatched, then released into the Atlantic Ocean. This is unprecedented, and will surely be the saving of that species.
The word verification at Arty is working like a charm. I now have no comments, which is an improvement over getting excited thinking there were comments only to discover they were spam. Now I guess the next thing is to post often enough that people will get in the habit of checking it and to post stuff that's interesting enough for people to comment on. That's two things, isn't it? And they both seem very difficult.
Howard Dean is First!
ReplyDeleteDoug Racine is also First (I HOPE!)!
Tomorrow Hubby and I are going over to Racine HQ to help put together lawn signs, and so Hubby can help rationalise and consolidate their mailing lists (a special project he suggested and they are delighted about).
I left a few more messages over on the last thread.
Alan...one for you for sure. Sooo glad Miyoko's news. ♥
A primary on August 24! WOW!! Illinois had it's primary five months ago. (One of the states that moved it's primary to Tsuhami Tuesday in 2008 with the idea of playing an important role in picking presidential candidates. Only it worked in reverse this time around.)
ReplyDeleteIn response to Cat's question at the end of the last thread:
ReplyDeletePenny and I leave the evening of August 31 and return the evening of September 24. I won't have a laptop with me for a variety of reasons, of which the least important is that I don't currently have a laptop. I used to take laptops with me on business trips, which strongly contributes to my desire not to take one on vacation. I'm even happy to be out of touch with the news. Vacation is vacation, as far as I'm concerned. And lugging a laptop is a hassle at best.
Alan, fabulous news!!!
ReplyDeleteNice little rain last night (the T-storms on radar were just so *cute*!), and MUCH cooler today: 78º right now, and more rain predicted for today and tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Bill on the greatness of being "out of in touch". . . .
Well, that's true. It's just one more thing to carry, that might get lost.
ReplyDeleteNo rain here last night AFAIK but it is much more comfortable today, thank Heaven.
ReplyDeleteI donno about being out of touch. It is true that I sometimes go days or even weeks without checking my e-mail, which is *really* dumb, because I end up with zillions of messages. But, that's a choice. Not having Internet access at all is another kettle of fish altogether, and one that gives me panic attacks.
Well, I'll miss e-mail, especially over that long a period. But news? I figure if the nukes start flying I'll hear about it and anything else can be caught up with later if it's worth bothering about at all.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. I've sort of been off news lately myself, hard news anyway. I still like to see the Science news now and then, and the one off, funny or human interest stories. Like, for instance, I saw yesterday that Paul the Psychic octopus likes Spain to win the World Cup. Presumably, I'll eventually hear whether he was right. That's just about the level of news I can handle.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, solid, steady rain. Flash flood warning in effect till tomorrow morning, and in truth I'd like to get one; i.e., enough rain to actually *cause* one. Temp's below 70º and headed down. My idear of heaven is to fall to sleep under two fluffy quilts, listening to the rain. . . . .
ReplyDeleteHey, I wore that green shirt and straw hat today...
ReplyDeletewent over to Racine HQ to help put together lawn signs.
So I was driving down the road and my windshield got all speckled
and pretty soon I couldn't see so well.
Then I remembered about wipers.
Hadn't needed them in so long.
All you non-news folks...want a little good news?
ReplyDeleteBiologists in the Gulf have been ever so carefully digging up sea turtle eggs, securing them in big boxes of sand and putting them on Fed Ex refrigerated trucks. They are being taken to Florida, where they will be carefully watched over and hatched, then released into the Atlantic Ocean. This is unprecedented, and will surely be the saving of that species.
Yes, that does sound like heaven...!
ReplyDeleteAh, lovely.
ReplyDeleteExcellent news!
ReplyDeleteThanks for passing it along, listener.
The word verification at Arty is working like a charm. I now have no comments, which is an improvement over getting excited thinking there were comments only to discover they were spam. Now I guess the next thing is to post often enough that people will get in the habit of checking it and to post stuff that's interesting enough for people to comment on. That's two things, isn't it? And they both seem very difficult.
ReplyDeleteSo,guess I have nothing to complain about...
Yes'm, thank you!!
ReplyDeleteMy thanks also.
ReplyDelete:-)
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