Okay, I admit it, I am the first person to say to others "what did the doctor say?" when they are ill ... but what did I do, I tried to fight off a nasal infection for two weeks all on my own, even though I knew what it was. Sheesh, what a moe-ron. Oh, by the way, I blame Viv for my getting sick, although since we see the same doctor, it does make the doctors visit easy ... "Hi Jessica, I have the same thing Viv saw you about on Tuesday."
The house is still messy from the party last Saturday, or maybe not messy, but I still have a couple things to take care of. Like moving the grill back to the deck, which actually I need Kevin to help with. I also need to find homes for all of the items that got left behind. Some I know about, like Spanky & Mae's cooler, Cornstalkers umbrella, Lois' microphone equipment, and the top of Venche's martini shaker. Others not so obvious, like a very nice cooler that was full of water bottles, I have no idea who that belongs to.
Some of you may remember that the big tree in my back yard likes to drop dead sticks all over the place. After all of the high winds this past week, I now have enough sticks back there to keep my fire pit burning for about a week straight, which is what I plan on doing with the darn things.
I made a few changes to the blog, dropping a few links to people for various reasons, Rock'n'Robin because she barely even gets on a computer anymore, let alone has time to update, Suzie because her blogspot isn't her main source anymore and I'm not sure she wants strangers (or people she knows) finding her, and ReportWriter because I've pretty much reached the conclusion she is long gone, even if she says she isn't. I did add one of the two "advertising" pictures that Jannaverse made for me.
There are other things going on with my general 'cleaning up', but I'm not quite ready to talk about them ... I miss Rock'n'Robin, I really have no single person to talk with in person about anything and everything right now.
Edit: For that matter, about 90% of everyone I know well is/was out of town last weekend, this weekend, or next, it seems like only myself, Spanky, & Venche have not gone anywhere. What's up with that? Maybe I need to go somewhere just to go. :-)
10 June 2007
07 June 2007
Um...
When I saw the headline for this one, I thought you've got to be kidding me...
Woman arrested for making faces at dog
...but then as I read the article I thought, shouldn't this woman be tried for something? There are many, many times that I side with the police officers who have to deal with these idiots, I think that it's usually the prosecutors that want to make a name for themselves. This time it is the reverse, the cops should have just arrested her for disorderly conduct and public intoxication, using the faces she made at the dog as evidence. No problem getting that conviction. The state's attorney looked at the evidence, and the charges, and decided not to prosecute ... good job exercising some sense. Now if you could only pass that along to the lady and the officer involved, I wonder if there is stem cell research for common sense (re)placement?
Woman arrested for making faces at dog
...but then as I read the article I thought, shouldn't this woman be tried for something? There are many, many times that I side with the police officers who have to deal with these idiots, I think that it's usually the prosecutors that want to make a name for themselves. This time it is the reverse, the cops should have just arrested her for disorderly conduct and public intoxication, using the faces she made at the dog as evidence. No problem getting that conviction. The state's attorney looked at the evidence, and the charges, and decided not to prosecute ... good job exercising some sense. Now if you could only pass that along to the lady and the officer involved, I wonder if there is stem cell research for common sense (re)placement?
04 June 2007
Junetoberfest
Curse my silly memory... I am sure that others will tell you I was distracted and stressed at my party, but already I am only remembering the good times, ah the beauty of a rose colored memory. First off thank you to the people who helped put Junetoberfest together with their help, or lending of equipement: Venche, Viv, Lois, Spanky & Mae, and Schmendrick ... thank you. A special thanks to our musical entertainment, justsmilechild and erinoneday.
Saturday dawned about as clear and beautiful as you can imagine an early June day could be. Viv showed up early to help with the set up, Venche showed up a little later, but still early. Amazingly enough, everything managed to work itself out and be prepared by the time 1500 (that's 3:00pm for the military time challenged) rolled around and attendees started to show up.
Viv and I grabbed the microphones and did play by play for this badminton death match for world supremacy.
Sharon shows the correct method for making Takashi pose for a picture.
This little guy turned out to be very entertaining, he shot up about to the height of my tallest tree.
Unfortunately, the rain did not stay away, so several times people crowded into my tiny house. Here they are watching a DVD cornstalker made of swing dancing events, but we also had The Princess Bride playing.
Frisbee was also on the menu.
Okay, so as if the rain wasn't enough, there may have been a few water balloons thrown around too, who is this leading the charge towards the not so unsuspecting Venche?
The rules were that nothing wet was to go inside the fence, so we all stayed out and got soaked.
Then for a more conventional water balloon toss, Ben & Justsmilechild won. It was a good weekend for Ben winning things.
We got the food going then, much thanks to Carol for doing the majority of the cooking. A concerned Ken is looking on to make sure his favorite part of a party is being done properly.
While dinner was cooking, there was entertainment in the form of Takashi, who shows us how karaoke is really done.
After dinner was done (I am assuming that not many of my regular readers actually wanted to see food being eaten) it was the world premier of The SmileChild & OnionBoy Gospel Hour, consisting of the one song we practiced. It went well.
And then the real entertainment got on stage. Erinoneday and Justsmilechild did an original justsmilechild tune, and three others.
Thank you again ladies! Try to remember all us little people when you are touring the world.
Anytime you have a fire, you have to have marshmallows!
By this time the excitement was winding down with the sun setting and everyone tried to find a warm spot around the fire.
Clean up didn't turn out to be so bad, although it's not exactly finished right now. I was just thinking, we had no baked beans! It was also odd for a pot luck that no one brought desserts. Thank you to all who showed!
Much thanks to both Cliffo, you can see all 42 photos in his set here, and Cornstalker, you can see a video highlight reel here and you can see all 87 photos in his set here. Thanks to both for allowing me to borrow pictures with more or less implied permission.
Saturday dawned about as clear and beautiful as you can imagine an early June day could be. Viv showed up early to help with the set up, Venche showed up a little later, but still early. Amazingly enough, everything managed to work itself out and be prepared by the time 1500 (that's 3:00pm for the military time challenged) rolled around and attendees started to show up.
Viv and I grabbed the microphones and did play by play for this badminton death match for world supremacy.
Sharon shows the correct method for making Takashi pose for a picture.
This little guy turned out to be very entertaining, he shot up about to the height of my tallest tree.
Unfortunately, the rain did not stay away, so several times people crowded into my tiny house. Here they are watching a DVD cornstalker made of swing dancing events, but we also had The Princess Bride playing.
Frisbee was also on the menu.
Okay, so as if the rain wasn't enough, there may have been a few water balloons thrown around too, who is this leading the charge towards the not so unsuspecting Venche?
The rules were that nothing wet was to go inside the fence, so we all stayed out and got soaked.
Then for a more conventional water balloon toss, Ben & Justsmilechild won. It was a good weekend for Ben winning things.
We got the food going then, much thanks to Carol for doing the majority of the cooking. A concerned Ken is looking on to make sure his favorite part of a party is being done properly.
While dinner was cooking, there was entertainment in the form of Takashi, who shows us how karaoke is really done.
After dinner was done (I am assuming that not many of my regular readers actually wanted to see food being eaten) it was the world premier of The SmileChild & OnionBoy Gospel Hour, consisting of the one song we practiced. It went well.
And then the real entertainment got on stage. Erinoneday and Justsmilechild did an original justsmilechild tune, and three others.
Thank you again ladies! Try to remember all us little people when you are touring the world.
Anytime you have a fire, you have to have marshmallows!
By this time the excitement was winding down with the sun setting and everyone tried to find a warm spot around the fire.
Clean up didn't turn out to be so bad, although it's not exactly finished right now. I was just thinking, we had no baked beans! It was also odd for a pot luck that no one brought desserts. Thank you to all who showed!
Much thanks to both Cliffo, you can see all 42 photos in his set here, and Cornstalker, you can see a video highlight reel here and you can see all 87 photos in his set here. Thanks to both for allowing me to borrow pictures with more or less implied permission.
30 May 2007
False rumor
No matter what you hear to the contrary, cleaning the gas grill is not as glamorous as it is made out to be ... now if you'll excuse me, I need to go degrease myself, I mean take a shower.
Goodbye Mikey
A well-liked coworker of mine passed away last Tuesday, Mike Cannon.
I apologize if I get some of the details off here, but I am going from memory.
The day of or the day before his 18th birthday Mike broke his neck while skiing, he ended up partially paralyzed. He neither hid his dislike for his condition, nor did he necessarily complain about it ... he took the hand he was dealt and played it out with gusto. He walked with the help of crutch, he enjoyed the ladies and drink now and then, and he golfed - crutch in one hand, club in the other - he had a hole in one at #2 at Milt's (of which I am very jealous).
I would be lying if I said to you my first interactions with Mike were pleasant ones, I was a new employee, and frequently didn't know what I was talking about. Mike let you know when you were wrong ... he also let you know when you were right. When I moved to the overnight shift, I got a chance to know him better. He remembered you, and remembered stuff about you and asked about it. He liked to call me 'Saluki', and pretty much everyone else on the shift ended up doing so too. I think I learned how to be a gentleman from Mike, he always had more patience with the ladies than with the men, and I saw on several occasions them falling all over themselves to be close to him. He had a great sense of humor, his physical humor was flawless, and was not afraid to laugh at himself, or others, in good nature.
Mike had some bad hair, some bad shirts, and had the most horrendous garbage disposal appetite. He was 49.
I will miss it all.
Mike confirmed with me that how you treat every person does make a difference ... some say that how we treat others is the only thing we can take with us to Heaven, well Mike certainly took that. What he didn't take was his broken neck, here's to Mikey Cannon up in heaven, playing golf, skiing, and throwing back a cold one with the angels. I'll see you again my friend.
I apologize if I get some of the details off here, but I am going from memory.
The day of or the day before his 18th birthday Mike broke his neck while skiing, he ended up partially paralyzed. He neither hid his dislike for his condition, nor did he necessarily complain about it ... he took the hand he was dealt and played it out with gusto. He walked with the help of crutch, he enjoyed the ladies and drink now and then, and he golfed - crutch in one hand, club in the other - he had a hole in one at #2 at Milt's (of which I am very jealous).
I would be lying if I said to you my first interactions with Mike were pleasant ones, I was a new employee, and frequently didn't know what I was talking about. Mike let you know when you were wrong ... he also let you know when you were right. When I moved to the overnight shift, I got a chance to know him better. He remembered you, and remembered stuff about you and asked about it. He liked to call me 'Saluki', and pretty much everyone else on the shift ended up doing so too. I think I learned how to be a gentleman from Mike, he always had more patience with the ladies than with the men, and I saw on several occasions them falling all over themselves to be close to him. He had a great sense of humor, his physical humor was flawless, and was not afraid to laugh at himself, or others, in good nature.
Mike had some bad hair, some bad shirts, and had the most horrendous garbage disposal appetite. He was 49.
I will miss it all.
Mike confirmed with me that how you treat every person does make a difference ... some say that how we treat others is the only thing we can take with us to Heaven, well Mike certainly took that. What he didn't take was his broken neck, here's to Mikey Cannon up in heaven, playing golf, skiing, and throwing back a cold one with the angels. I'll see you again my friend.
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