The principal word out here for the long sandwich has been a sub, but there was a time when "torpedo" had some currency. I recall the kids in my home town hoping to see the day when somebody would open a pizza parlor there, and also a drive-in movie theater. Submarine sandwiches were unknown.
It's tempting but would be in poor taste to discuss the case I testified in Thursday, but I feel the demands of justice were fulfilled. (And I have another satisfied customer.)
Tomorrow we will buy some rather fancy grapes to make into raisins, and I will make a second (folding) wheeled raisin drying table. (The wheeled table is much easier for oldsters to handle than sheets of plywood carried from one set of sawhorses to another.) I also have some weeds to murder and some consulting work to do. At the lab we expect a lot of work from DUI arrests next week (in one populous county the various police agencies are having a major anti-DUI action), but I will have to spend all day Wednesday in court (in that very county) and traveling. We will muddle through.
My family never called 'em anything, never having even heard of such of a thang, lol! I don't think I ran into my first one till my mid-thirties. Now I jus' calls 'em whatever those near me are calling 'em. (Local here is hoagie.)(May be why our Subway closed and shuttered a decade ago.)
This was the first time I've had Perkins stay with a sitter. We picked him up this morning and MAN did he ever stink. But one bath later and he is fit for polite society again.
Last night finished a reread of R.L. Stevenson's historical romance The Black Arrow. Never read it till a couple years ago, though it is demonstrably a YA novel. Highly enjoyable except for the characterization of Richard of Gloucester - standard Shakespearean type smear job, except that, to Stevenson's credit, he does several times praise Richard's courage, and even allows as how he was a fine commander. But he lays on the wickedness, cruelty and especially the crookback bit with a trowel. I know that was the prevailing view at the time but, still, it does rather spoil an otherwise delightful book.
Currently reading a volume of essays on disability in Science Fiction.
Seriously considering getting an iPad. Sis leant me hers this afternoon while Dad was working on my computers and, while it takes some getting used to, it has definite advantages over the iPhone. It makes sense to me that a person would have both.
We arranged to get some well ripened Princess raisins to make into raisins; will pick them up from the packing house Monday, right after they are picked. Put out some other grapes on the folding wheeled raisin dying table I made last week, and it seems OK. I was doing some shopping , came out of the store and the car wouldn't start--probably the starter solenoid. I had planned to make two more drying tables, but on account of the car troubles only had time to make one.; the other will have to wait for tomorrow. The car problem could have happened at a far worse time and in a far worse place, certainly.
As with anything, practice makes perfect--the second drying table is better than the first, and the third will probably be a bit better than the second. Unlike sheets of plywood carried from one set of sawhorses to another in the morning and the evening, one person can easily move one of the tables by him- or her-self.
Thinking of disability in science fiction, of course one thinks of Anne McCaffrey's "The Ship Who Sang;" also of stories where differences of senses (e.g. differences in color vision) play a part. Think also of the physical weakness of light-worlders compared to heavy-worlders. Portraying people as disabled who would not be so considered here is a recurring theme--intended to be educational, one would think.
Re the iPad, it certainly is interesting, and the interface is fairly intuitive. If one already has an iPhone, the iPad should be very easy to learn.
Light is good; so is Howard Dean.
ReplyDeleteThe principal word out here for the long sandwich has been a sub, but there was a time when "torpedo" had some currency. I recall the kids in my home town hoping to see the day when somebody would open a pizza parlor there, and also a drive-in movie theater. Submarine sandwiches were unknown.
It's tempting but would be in poor taste to discuss the case I testified in Thursday, but I feel the demands of justice were fulfilled. (And I have another satisfied customer.)
Tomorrow we will buy some rather fancy grapes to make into raisins, and I will make a second (folding) wheeled raisin drying table. (The wheeled table is much easier for oldsters to handle than sheets of plywood carried from one set of sawhorses to another.) I also have some weeds to murder and some consulting work to do. At the lab we expect a lot of work from DUI arrests next week (in one populous county the various police agencies are having a major anti-DUI action), but I will have to spend all day Wednesday in court (in that very county) and traveling. We will muddle through.
--Alan
My family never called 'em anything, never having even heard of such of a thang, lol! I don't think I ran into my first one till my mid-thirties. Now I jus' calls 'em whatever those near me are calling 'em. (Local here is hoagie.)(May be why our Subway closed and shuttered a decade ago.)
DeleteThis was the first time I've had Perkins stay with a sitter. We picked him up this morning and MAN did he ever stink. But one bath later and he is fit for polite society again.
ReplyDeleteLast night finished a reread of R.L. Stevenson's historical romance The Black Arrow. Never read it till a couple years ago, though it is demonstrably a YA novel. Highly enjoyable except for the characterization of Richard of Gloucester - standard Shakespearean type smear job, except that, to Stevenson's credit, he does several times praise Richard's courage, and even allows as how he was a fine commander. But he lays on the wickedness, cruelty and especially the crookback bit with a trowel. I know that was the prevailing view at the time but, still, it does rather spoil an otherwise delightful book.
ReplyDeleteCurrently reading a volume of essays on disability in Science Fiction.
Can you give me the title and editor of that volume of essays? Definitely something I should read.
DeleteSeriously considering getting an iPad. Sis leant me hers this afternoon while Dad was working on my computers and, while it takes some getting used to, it has definite advantages over the iPhone. It makes sense to me that a person would have both.
ReplyDeleteWe arranged to get some well ripened Princess raisins to make into raisins; will pick them up from the packing house Monday, right after they are picked. Put out some other grapes on the folding wheeled raisin dying table I made last week, and it seems OK. I was doing some shopping , came out of the store and the car wouldn't start--probably the starter solenoid. I had planned to make two more drying tables, but on account of the car troubles only had time to make one.; the other will have to wait for tomorrow. The car problem could have happened at a far worse time and in a far worse place, certainly.
ReplyDeleteAs with anything, practice makes perfect--the second drying table is better than the first, and the third will probably be a bit better than the second. Unlike sheets of plywood carried from one set of sawhorses to another in the morning and the evening, one person can easily move one of the tables by him- or her-self.
Thinking of disability in science fiction, of course one thinks of Anne McCaffrey's "The Ship Who Sang;" also of stories where differences of senses (e.g. differences in color vision) play a part. Think also of the physical weakness of light-worlders compared to heavy-worlders. Portraying people as disabled who would not be so considered here is a recurring theme--intended to be educational, one would think.
Re the iPad, it certainly is interesting, and the interface is fairly intuitive. If one already has an iPhone, the iPad should be very easy to learn.
--Alan
Of course we ordered Princess GRAPES to make raisins, but you all probably had that figured out...
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We do and it's popular! :-)
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