Posted on 10/23/2010 5:17:52 PM PDT by Lrod
Unless you lived in Detroit in the '50s. If you were on the lines you were safe. No doubt inspiration for "Frogger."
Heh!
With that, I’m off to bed. Be good!
I’d have been knocking my forehead against the wall.
I've been annoyed in recent years by industry magazine vendors who want to keep me on their subscription lists even though I no longer work in their industries. I Do Not Need To Know About New Integrated Circuits -- my last electronic circuit design of ANY significance was in the 90s, for example. And it kind of bugs me to receive glossy clay-laden paper journals that only go into the trash.
But I'm getting through to them slowly.
Though the electronics "newspaper" I received almost weekly at the beginning of my career I am now receiving again, in thin (glossy clay-laden paper) journal format. It will be interesting to see how it's changed...
Not sure of my schedule forward. Might check in from airport tomorrow, but not sure of anything after that until Sunday and maybe not then.
The conference hotel is Expensive, which means Internet will be expensive, and I won't have much time anyway.
Besides, between now and Friday evening I have to learn to play poker again -- last time I played was when I was taught matchstick poker by my grandfather in Mexico ca 1964. Most of the folks at the conference weren't even born then.
Am I "or what"?
It would be “what,” I think. You can get “How to Win at Poker” from the Dover Press catalog. Also useful is “How to Not Lose at Poker,” a course taught by my father for many years.
Interesting. Don’t have much time to re-learn, but it’s purely a social event. If there’s money on it (don’t think so), I’m outtathere.
Yes, I sure wish he didn’t travel so much - especially when I can’t go with him. But, one of us has to mind the home fires.
Good morning. How are things in the drippy northwest? It’s supposed to be sunny and 72 at my casa today.
It used to be ...
... that in unheated upstairs bedrooms of old houses, you’d have a pitcher of water and a washbasin beside the bed.
When you woke up, you’d pour some water into the basin and wash your face. A bit of cold water in the face to get you awake!
But frequently, there would be a skim of ice over the water in the pitcher. The water wouldn’t pour!
So on days like that, the first thing you’d need to do is “break the ice”.
And that’s where that phrase came from.
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Good Morning!
Good morning! It is not that cold here. 37, says my weather-beeber.
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Not sure if that’s correct, or even who said it, but I recall it as something said to me when I was a brand-new navy bride.
Your waiting counts, and while my prayers are with him while he travels, they are also with you while you wait.
*HUG*
No body ever gave ME a pancake (said in a Red Buttons roasting voice.)
40 degrees here, with a high of 50. ERK!!
Ah. But. If one was lucky, across the room from the basin and pitcher was a pot-bellied stove, still warm from the coal it was fed the night before. :o]
You have to fight the kittehs (or the Ash) for your pancake.
That must be the reason. I would suspect the Ash would be more formidable. I mean, she can almost look you in the eyes when you sit at the table, and there is no one who can resist. She gets that hangdog look, and you’re wasted. Pancakes up!!
And she has those enormous teeth.
I have vacuumed upstairs, mostly. The debris is too deep in Bill’s room to clean up much. All these people and petz and their debris ...
My Walmart has the $2.97 wine marked down to $1.97. You might want to check at yours!
I woke up at 4:00 this morning, so I washed a couple of loads of clothes.
They are hanging to dry. I would hang them outside but I can’t sit and watch them. Folks would steal them if I left them unattended.
I’ll check Walmart when I get done with everything this morning. With luck I’ll be home before 10:00. I’m such an early riser, I just hate having to wait for stores of any kind to open.
The Walmart here is now open 24 hours, but only since they finished the remodeling last year. I like it!
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