OOPS!
A friend of mine sent me this, that she found on Facebook.
It's just the most amazing photograph, having caught that moment. I think this would make a far more interesting album photo than the typical cutting of the cake photo! Somehow you just have to laugh. (And send out for ice cream, maybe?)
The couple's response should be a good test of their responses to unanticipated events in the future!
ReplyDelete----Alan
Good point!
Delete(I have the impression the whole group laughed.)
My sweetie, her mother, and I were visiting the Grand Canyon. At the South Rim Village we decided to have ice cream at the ice cream stand, that was staffed mostly by college students (common in those long-ago days), who were crazy busy. We placed our orders; I got a different flavor from the one I ordered, and didn't object. My sweetie pointed it out, and I said (truthfully) that I liked the flavor I got, and the workers were very busy. She told me later that was when she decided to marry me. (I joked that she had no idea how much money it cost me to set that up!)
Delete---Alan
Fortunately I didn't get (for instance) peanut butter bubble gum ice cream.
Delete---Alan
Now that's a sweet story!! (No pun intended!)
DeleteIn the Den of the Dark Lord Elon Thinskinnious [Click] Ultimately an interesting look at social media such as Twitter and Facebook, plus the attitudes of todqy'w extremely rich people.
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^^^^ todqy'w = today's
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Archaeologists say find near Stonehenge is ancient goldsmith’s toolkit [Click] Reinspection of millennia-old axes and polished stones found in 1802 has revealed tiny traces of bronze age gold.
ReplyDelete----Alan
Cool!
DeleteFascinating that the goldsmith reused tools that were already thousands of years old. I wonder if he recognized them as ancient tools.
Delete---Alan
Trump asks for — and receives — a 45-day extension for disclosing his personal finances [Click]
ReplyDelete----Alan
Not cool. 😠
DeleteDemocratic Lawmakers Seeking Alternative to Twitter [Click]
ReplyDeleteElon Musk Kills Twitter Audio Feature After Bizarre Talk With Journalists [Click] “It's clear Musk would rather burn Twitter to the ground than hear people question the wisdom of his choices.” Twitter’s market value must soon become less than zero, if it has not done so already.
^^^^^ Alan
DeleteA lot of people I know have switched to Mastodon. I've never had a Twitter account but find myself tempted by Mastodon.
DeleteI haven't ever had a Twitter account, and had a Facebook account for only a very brief time. From what I read about Mastodon, it sounds like a way to burrow into an isolated community, but I could be wrong about that. I figure time will tell.
Delete---Alan
I had a Twitter account under a pseudonym for the one purpose of harvesting weather information for my little weather blog. But when the weather person I was getting the info from left Twitter, I did too. Never liked it (way too frenetic) and don't miss it a bit. I have no interest in Mastodon. Facebook is enough of a challenge. I keep it so that I can see photos of the grands and the little stories their parents post about them. It's just for family and a few distant friends.
DeleteMusk is just another toddler with money.
DeleteIn fairness, Musk has some degree of autism.
Delete---Alan
Yes...and he has the ability to get an aide to help him through the tough decisions.
DeleteMobile Homes Climate Resilience [Click] Vermont and Montana featured.
ReplyDeleteThe Atlantic: Is COVID a Common Cold Yet? [Click] No, but its symptoms have changed a lot.
ReplyDeleteNew Space Propulsion Idea Using Magnetism May Help Us Go Interstellar [Click] Neat!
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ReplyDeleteThe hearings will be televised on the 19th at 1 p.m.
(Susan)
Indeedy, Susan! I already have it set to tape on CNN. I'm hoping to move a meeting to morning so I can watch live.
Delete"the committee will vote on referring former president Trump to the Justice Department for at least three criminal charges. Those charges include insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government." ~ Heather Cox Richrdson
Moire from HCR:
ReplyDelete"Representative David Cicilline (D-RI) and 40 colleagues yesterday introduced a bill in which the term “insurrection” matters a lot. The measure bars Trump from holding office under the restrictions imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Written in 1866, after President Andrew Johnson had pardoned most of the Confederate ringleaders and constituents had voted them back into office, Congress wrote:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
The states ratified that amendment in 1868.