Musings
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Surfing in the Bay Area?
I don’t surf, and I don’t really watch people surf, but if you’re not from around here, you may not have heard about an annual surfing contest called Maverick’s. The contest first started in 1999, and is held once a year. When conditions are right to create the huge (up to 50 feet) swells, the word goes out, and participants have about 24 hours to get here and get their game on. If you’re a surfing geek and kind of interested in what is so unique about this area that creates such huge waves, read all about it on SFGate. By the way, if you’re NOT from here, the waves…
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Another Useless Bit of Trivia….
Ted’s friend/sometimes coworker, Ramzi, called Ted last night to ask him who wrote the lyrics to “New York, New York”. Somehow, I thought that song was OLD. Like from the 1940s or 1950’s or something. Nope. I never knew it was written for the 1977 (ok, still almost 30 years old, but really, not what I meant) film, New York, New York, and starring Robert De Niro and Liza Minelli, directed by Martin Scorcese. Actually, I never knew that such a movie existed. Live and learn. Thanks Ramzi, for the question, and thanks to NPR for the info. 🙂
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Proof of the Apocolypse?
Or maybe I just found everyone’s Christmas gifts this year? Hmmm. I’ll have to think about it. Maybe both. In the meantime, ponder this: Old Silly Putty Face (As I used to call him when I was 10) has a new album of old songs from the 50s, and it is #1 on Billboard’s Pop Album chart. Wow.
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I Love California
Sunny High: 70° Low: 43° Ignore the Earthquakes, Traffic, Mudslides, Droughts, $600,000 Condos, Poverty in the Valley, etc. On a day like this, it’s just a great place to be. I mean, come on….It’s FEBRUARY.
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Weekend Wrap Up
Saturday, I went to the movies with Autumn’s Mom. We went to see “Walk the Line“. I’ve never been a big Johnny Cash fan, mostly because I’m not really into country music. Nothing against him. So, not being a fan, I didn’t know anything about him, except that he wore a lot of black, was married to June Carter (I only knew that because they died so close together a couple of years ago), and that he….well, that’s all I knew. The movie was really good…I definately enjoyed it. Very interesting, very well done. Did he come off looking perfect? No, far from it. It’s the story of his romancing…
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The Man Owns Us….
Just finished the taxes. I feel kind of like this guy…not the bull, the other one.
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In Case You Were Wondering…
What’s wrong with missionaries, and why I don’t give my ‘charity’ dollars to religious groups…I mean, they go and bring education and medicine and try to help people, correct? But at what price. The fact of the matter is that the whole goal of missionaries is to try to convince the ‘other’ that the best course of action is to change from being ‘other’ to being ‘self’. To be a bit more clear, those people over there have a problem, and the best way to fix it is to make them more like us. Because, you know, we’re doing so damn well over here. We don’t have problems with poverty,…
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Why I’m afraid of going to Africa
Two posts before I leave the house? This is getting stupid. I’m insane. I’m still in my jammies. ACK! The worst thing is that I dreamed about this post…I was peacefully sleeping, and I dreamed that Autumn’s Mom wrote a post about either going to Africa, or the Toto song, I’m not sure which…maybe both? I don’t know. Anyway, it made me remember why Africa is the last continent on my list of travels: Look here… and/or here (Hint…my maiden name? Ward.) I remember reading about this when it happened, and I lived in San Francisco, and I remember thinking maybe the Terminator was behind it, and was going to…
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Junk Mail (aka Spam)
Do you ever read any of the junk mail that gets through the filters? Since I’m working from home today, my work email isn’t quite the same as when I’m at work, and I have to open an email in order to delete it. Of course, I don’t open the attachments. I stopped and read one today, and I thought it was kind of funny. Here you go. Nothing has been omitted, except for the attachment. Enjoy: Nor was that all. what do you do? in 1893 Of course not. But instead of weeping with exalted grief as she should have done when Misery expired giving birth to the boy…
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A Day in the City
Saturday, after a lovely breakfast at Lafayette Circle Cafe, we drove into the city, with the intention of going to Morrison Planetarium. We knew that it was being redone, but weren’t completely clear on the details…Ted knew there was a new museum in where the old City Library was, but he had forgotten that we had actually gone there a year or so ago, and that it is the new Asian Art Museum. I remembered reading that the aquarium was near the Moscone Center, downtown, but wasn’t sure where. So we parked near Moscone, and went into the Metreon to use the bathroom and find out more. Of course, I…
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Waxing Philisophical….
So I’m reading this book, “The Mermaid Chair”, and the protaginist has fallen in love at first sight…with a monk. And she’s already married…been married for 20 years or so, I’m guessing, and never thought about ‘cheating’ before. So while this certainly isn’t the first book I’ve ever read about, or partially about, infidelity, it has me thinking…about art. About how good art can take a person down the road not taken. Good books, good paintings, or sculpture, or music…good poetry, or films, or even TV…(tangent…sometimes I think novels and TV can be the best at showing you other lives…because they have time that poems, films, and paintings don’t have.…
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No Pressure…
But if you’re interested, a certain Girl Scout is taking cookie orders. They used the money they raised last year to go to the Antioch Water Park, which was a lot of fun. But it’s not like it’s going for a ‘good cause’, a charity, or anything like that…so don’t feel pressured. But if you think you might buy them anyway, let me know what you want, and I’ll take your order for you. They are $3.50 a box. Available varieties are: All Abouts Cafe Cookie (new) Trefoils Do-Si-Dos (Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies) Samoas Thin Mints Tagalongs (Chocolate Covered with Peanut Butter) Lemon Coolers (low fat).
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Teaching Intelligent Design
Hot off the presses, the L.A. Times is reporting that a small school in Lebec, CA has begun teaching Intelligent Design in the guise of a Philosophy class. They’re getting sued by a small group of parents, represented by the Americans United for Separation of Church and State. This is kind of a murky issue…my first reaction is that Intelligent Design belongs in Church, not in school. Then I read that it’s not a Biology class, or any kind of Science class…it’s a Philosophy class. That makes it murky. If you can’t talk about this kind of thing in PHILOSOPHY CLASS, where CAN you discuss it? But wait, there’s more.…
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Still sick…
So I’ve been getting questions…still sick? type questions. So here’s the update. Yup. Still sick. Here’s the details for those of you sick enough to want to know (most of us are sick enough, I’m sorry to say)…Tuesday night I had the WORST sore throat and ear, so yesterday I went to the doctor to make sure it hadn’t turned into Strep or an Ear Infection. Nope. Viral. But I did make myself cough for the doctor, and she said it sounded “chunky”, and I should take some musenex…isn’t that what Cherry took when she was sick? It has helped a lot. Not coughing up anything, but my coughs are…
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Home Sick
So on Monday Morning, Ted told me I had been moaning during the night. Not the good kind, because I was SO sore. Turns out I was coming down with flu or something. So now I have a fever (not high, about 100 or 101, but I’m usually about 97), sore throat and ear, cough, achey achey achey. And now I have to get a kleenex, because I have snot running down my face. Blech. Sick sucks.