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Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
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Oh yeah, the Unbegun Symphony was my first exposure to PDQ when I was young... listened to it over and over. Then in later years, I would hear a piece of classical music and go "Hey, I recognize that!" That is one that I can still listen to and hear melodies woven in that I had never noticed before. Sheer genius, it is.
"It always amazes me, that at this point, after many concerts and recordings, that there are still people who doubt the existence of P.D.Q. Bach. You know, what can I say? The idea that his works were actually written by Christopher Marlowe seems ridiculous to me. Besides the sylistic problems involved, I'm sure Marlowe could have done a better job."
I love the fact that they come with claws, so I wouldn't have to rescue them from other beasties.
But, if I had a cat or six, I wouldn't let it or them anywhere near an air mattress, especially if I was sleeping on it. 0235 is no time to hear
poke
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The short version of what this means is.... if you are going to have to cross the bridge, do it early rather than in the evening. :~\ Some lanes are going to be closed during the night-time hours, making just one lane going through on Tues, Wed, Friday and Saturday nights. This is likely to cause backups, though less so at night.
Westbound=toward Gig Harbor from Tacoma
Eastbound=toward Tacoma from Gig Harbor
GETTING THERE
News Tribune staff; The News Tribune
The following South Sound road projects could interrupt your weekly commute:
1. Highway 16, Tacoma Narrows bridge
A $4 million project to increase capacity and provide car-pool lanes and other improvements between Interstate 5 and Gig Harbor is under way. During night hours today and Tuesday, crews will reduce eastbound and westbound Highway 16 to one lane near the 24th Street overpass while they pave a transition area inside the highway median. The eastbound lane closure will occur between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m.; the westbound lane closure will occur between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Then, weather permitting, at 8 p.m. Friday crews will reduce eastbound Highway 16 to one lane near the 24th Street overpass. When the lane reopens at 7 a.m. Saturday, the left eastbound lane will be redirected slightly north of its current location, and the two eastbound Highway 16 lanes will be divided by a large median.
Although the lanes will be in a temporary split configuration, both will continue eastbound to Tacoma. Roadway signs will direct drivers to stay in their lanes as they approach the work zone. At 8 p.m. Saturday eastbound Highway 16 will again be reduced to one lane near the 24th Street overpass and crews will relocate the right eastbound lane slightly north and alongside the lane moved the night before. The lane will reopen to traffic Sunday morning by 8 a.m. Note that both lanes might be shifted Friday night depending on work progress. If that occurs, on Saturday morning the eastbound lanes will not be separated by a median.
This traffic shift is necessary so crews can begin constructing the toll facilities and eastbound car-pool lane, and will be the first of several lane shifts that will occur throughout the summer on both the Gig Harbor and Tacoma sides of the bridge
If two stores in one Michigan city are any indication, the answer is yes.
They are very small, like paperbacks, except that they ain't.
Paperbacks, that is.
Y'all come back now, y'hear?
And I have a cousin who can't listen to the original Eine Kleine Nachtmusik without whistling or humming the interpolations from Eine Kleine Nichtmusik. That can be annoying on long road trips.
Miss Kitty has claws and so far she hasn't poked the air mattress....and I've been sleeping on the thing since August.
Corin, it comes with a patch kit, BTW
Like paint rollers? what's sponge rollers, precious?
Sponge rollers...not crunchable, I take it.
And I can't hear the opening to Mozart's 41st symphony without singing "Anchors Aweigh" over top of it. And it seems jarring to NOT hear that wacky chord at the end of it. ;~D
Doesn't ~sound~ crunchable!
No, she's Catholic. That's why I asked you.
I'm feeling slightly better. Managed to do my lift. Wish I could call off practice and just lie around and read tonight, oh well.
Squishable?
Sponge roller sounds squishable.... sqeeezable.
And:
"Freude schoene Gotterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Camptown racetrack five miles long,
Oh de do da day."
All hobbits, Elves, Dwarfs and men, I need some advice.
You guys are sane enough that I trust your opinions as I'm a regular lurker here in the hole.
Situation: The local Ex grandparents want to have the kids come over to their house Sunday for a Father's Day dinner with them and their mom and step dad.
I've put up with some kind of split fathers day every year for the past 8 years, I'm getting tired of it...the reason being #1 son will graduate next year and soon will be doing his own thing so its probably one of the last Father's Days I'll have while he's still a "kid". #2 son, age 12 could take it or leave it, he doesn't care either way.
Am I being rude to want to do my own thing with the kids on Father's day instead of sharing them with the EX's?
Um... you're the father, right? And it's Father's Day, right? Did they spend Mother's Day with their mom? If so, no brainer.
But of course that's easy to say for me. But I know what I'd say, in that situation.
Hi RB! I am so flattered that you think we're sane!
No, I don't think it's rude at all for you to want father's day to yourself. My folks split up when I was still home, and neither parent would have tried to horn in on Mother's or Father's day for the sake of a grandfather, or step-dad, and I had both. Plenty of other get-together opportunities on other days.
Whose feelings are going to be the most hurt? - Yours if you let them go, or theirs if you don't? Is it worth the battle in the short run?
If this is correct, seems to me Father's Day is yours. There is a Mother's Day and for that matter a Grandparent's Day, and maybe you could be talked out of Groundhog Day or Earth Day, but Father's Day is called that for a reason, Durnitall.
Oh, uh, I was in a town called Nanticoke. There was some uproar as I remember.... but I don't remember too well what it was all about! ;-D
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