CIRCUS!
I have a whole series of photos of the Circus Train and more, from the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne Vermont. The train is so long they had to build a special U-shaped building fot it!
= Prepare to be dazzled! =
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Hip! Hip! Dean!
ReplyDeleteI jut finished reading Rex Stout's "Under the Andes" (1914). Really rather poor writing, imitative among other things, with a preposterous story line. Guess it would be OK for a pulp magazine. The main value of it today is as a contrast with his mature writing, e.g. his Nero Wolfe stories (which commenced twenty years later).
Cat--I prefer landline phones also; the handset is simply better than any cell phone. You don't pay for calls you recieve; and it costs less. For a long time now all houses have been wired for two telephone lines; at each outlet there are typically two pairs of wires. If one has been damaged, the other may be OK. Just sayin'.
We have a neighbor who suffers from clinical depression, and when she doesn't take her medicine one of the most notable symptoms is paranoia.
I read an article in The Atlantic by Garance Franke-Ruta (you may remember she wrote some very perceptive pieces about Howard Dean for The American Prospect). The cuttable and pastable link is:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/why-the-campaigns-should-pay-attention-to-more-than-9-or-10-states/262184/
(Sorry, I don't have the clickable link formatting handy here.)
She argues that if the Dems are going to do more than eke out narrow wins, they have to campaign throughout the entire country, not just in a handful of states. Seems I recall someone else making that argument some years ago... Even though that particular tide never reached this far, I would have welcomed it.
TTFN
--Alan
The Democrats are certainly campaigning in Illinois, although regrettably I haven't found time to do anything beyond contribute. One thing that's going on is that the Democratic legislature did a partisan gerrymander where there are several narrowly D-leaning districts with Republican incumbents. Major effort to swing those districts.
DeletePosted this on Facebook a few minutes ago...
ReplyDelete"Just got back not too long ago from teaching my three 50-minute classes back to back. I'd mixed up some salmon salad before I left, so I just made myself a quick sammich and then took Perkins outside for some long overdue playtime. He is quite a sight to behold--squeaking his toy, dropping it, picking it up again, and madly dashing back and forth. Pure uncut, unadulterated joy. Or maybe insanity. It's kind of hard to tell..."
What I refrained from posting there is that, on a pretty regular basis, Son goes off on these wobblies about how inconvenient it is to have Perkins in this house. And how NO ONE else wanted another dog after my best friend Brady died (well duh). This latest time he even threw in a guilt trip about how the cats have suffered--since one of them decided to pee on the carpet upstairs (in his bedroom) both cats have been banished to the basement. Two points here:
1. I am the ONLY one who has been working actively on a way to resolve that situation so that the cats can rejoin our household in a meaningful way.
2. Son, truth be told, has never given a flying f*ck about the cats. So that was a low blow just for the sake of making me feel bad.
Son, by the way, is 19, not employed, and not paying any sort of rent. He dutifully attends career related appointments we set up for him, but doesn't see any of it as being *about* him. It's something we're *making* him do, and he doesn't bother to do assigned homework, or even commit to memory the name of the person he has an appointment to see.
Rant over, for now.
What he is honestly capable of and what are your options?
Delete=Whew!= Mah*Sweetie rented a bright red Prius today to drive to NJ on a business trip. He left just after lunch. We spoke several times along the way and he planned to call me around 8pm once he was settled into his room. 8:45pm and still no call. I tried calling him but it went straight to messages, unlike earlier in the evening. Turns out his iPhone ran out of juice just when he needed it most to navigate, which got him 12 miles off course. But in the end, he kicked it old school and found his way. So grateful!
ReplyDeleteThe next exciting moment in my evening alone was hearing an odd bumping sound in the downstairs bath/laundry room. Turns out two kittens have just figured out how to jump high enough to land themselves inside the open washing machine...but they cannot yet jump back out. (It will now be left closed!!) They don't yet know that this also means they can likely make it onto the kitchen counters. Please don't tell them! Kitten proofing just reached a new level!