If you can’t seize the day, at least seize the moment. Yesterday, Google’s Doodle involved a rudimentary guitar synthesizer, as a birthday greeting to Les Paul. Some people with talent to match the time available used the new instrument to perform old standards. Here’s a gallery, made available today.
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Back from a fine supper of Pad Sew (#8B) which hit the spot (and allowed me to avoid stove duty). Not something for my daily bread, but fun from time to time. Gets me out in public, etc. OK, I was lazy and I begged the others. There. Tale told.
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I stand amazed. We had hail just now, big as jelly beans. I haven’t seen that stuff in years!
Wouldn’t have been important, except that son #3 needed to report to the dojo. At the moment I opened the door, the precipitation became a tactile affair. Bravely, I pushed the remote door unlock, and ran… to the locked door. Weak battery moment, I expect. No real pain, but the next time I catch a news bulletin vaunting the virtues of pingpong sized objects falling from the firmament, I’ll breathe another sigh of relief. It could have been worse.
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Either it’s the hockey angle, or approaching summer vacation, but our local politicians are plumb loco right now.
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While otherwise distracted by a book I found in our common kitchen at work (yes, some of us have alternative library systems), I started to focus on the place names. By a rare juxtaposition of history and geography, the story was set in a place named for a breed of cow. Guernsey. Not Jersey, or Alderney, or Holstein, or others from the long list available on Wiki. And I thought to myself, how odd?
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Today, in keeping with a desire to live more economically, I declined the purchase of a new pool vacuum hose. Instead, I found the correct size of connectors to repair my current equipment, at a cost of 20%. If I can do it, why can’t my governments?
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The summer room is back in place. Now, with an invitation like that, how can the season let us down? It wasn’t difficult. That is, after I found the bag of carefully folded and stored pieces. Amazing how things get “out of sight, out of mind” in the average home. Gravity. The only explanation I can find, after a careful study of the situation.
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My life is back on track. No more wet paint woes (since I didn’t find any today). No troubling weather (although there’s a frost warning in effect). Today was my chance to solve a telephony problem.
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Maybe I should pay more attention to the weather channel. After all, we live in dangerous times.
Last evening, the city of Springfield, MA had a visit from a tornado. Not exactly Tornado Alley. The video on YouTube was an eye-opener for me… forming over water, crossing the river, etc. The things I’d always believed would keep me safe from twirling winds. You see, at about the same time, we were caught up in some gusty weather, right here. And the weather channel was showing a red alert, reporting “that rotation has been observed in storm clouds, which may lead to the formation of tornados”. Right here.
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Two days in a row, caught by wet paint on a handrail. I’d bow my head in shame, but my forehead is too easy a target.
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