Posted on 11/03/2005 10:28:48 PM PST by TheMadLurker
If you have a sense of humor, and can poke fun at yourself:
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/fear4republic/
Don't look now but you stumbled into a nest of zeros.
The little tube is called a practice chanter; it is fingered the same as the chanter on the bagpipe, but much quieter ("chanter" is English for "sionnsar", btw).
I haven't heard those songs before.
My Christmas selection consists of a Bing Crosby album and a CD set of instrumental Christmas songs.
*slapping forehead*
It must be my bedtime. Those darn things hit me when I least expect it...(I've been working on some genealogy files, and it's driving me nuts....)
*groaning* I'll never live this down.
To answer that specific question, that's a "been there, done that" for many.
A couple of problems are that people get tired, schedules don't match the rest of the world, and the equations for holidays and sick days need to be recalculated. But it has been done.
My point was that most real work gets done in a few furious hours, when people are at their peak. Efforts made when one is off-peak are almost not worth it. Perhaps more work which is goal-oriented needs to be defined.
The way to do this, or see it in action, is to say, "When these lists of tasks are completed, you may go home, and you will be paid for the whole day."
Then you will see true efficiency.
Unfortunately, efficiency is not always what is being paid for. The only way to answer the phone efficiently is to be there when it rings.
Don't know about Faygo, but it was many years after we moved to California before I ever saw Vernors again -- and that was the last for decades. A year or so ago it suddenly started appearing around here. The very goodwife brought home a six-pack just last night.
Hot Vernors at the skating rink, Vernors floats in summer, ahhhh....
It's that time, again, gang. If I don't go to bed, I'll have key marks embedded in my forehead.
I'll talk to you tomorrow!
Tale care, all of you.
Hi, 'Face! So-so, really. Woke up feeling not particularly well, so I stayed home from church. (Missed Bible Study class where we covered Eph. 1:1-2 today.) The upside was time to put in on projects -- am almost "done" on constructing the church's website (the big thing was getting pictures/montages constructed and up), though keeping it up to date is not going to be an insignificant task. But I knew it was going to be that way.
Went on to other projects that have been languishing. Updated the Linux box yesterday, now am downloading a *lot* of stuff so it can play DVDs. (And maybe, just maybe, at long last I'll finally be able to see a DVD of a city in China given me... 5 years ago yesterday!)
Downloading dozens of megabytes through a slow dial-up connection. It's making hanging out here a test of patience. (I can't even go on through my laptop/cellphone connection because I accidentally blew out the USBs with static last Monday -- reached for the mouse and *ZAP!* that was it...)
How about you?
of COURSE i have read penrod and sam i think there was a sequel to the original penrod and sam and i read that too (i think anyway - long time ago) also Mama's Bank Account and Understood Betsy and a host of others but nothing on the "required reading list" i always felt that if it was worth reading they wouldn't have to require you to read it you can keep dickens by the way he takes twenty years to say what anybody else would have got through in two paragraphs it's the sort of writing where you curl up under a blanket with a couple of apples and some good tea within reach and maybe some ginger snaps and then read at least when he puts you to sleep you are warm and well-fed
Darn, that's good advice! CYA yourself, 'Face. And Good Night!
It's Hebrew and Latin.
And even at one album per Christmas, I've had plenty of time to build up a sizable collection. "A Medieval Christmas" I first bought on LP in the early-mid 70s. Wore it out, but was ecstatic when I learned it had been re-released on CD.
My old pipe band used to half-joking talk about doing a Christmas album -- it would be unique. And not complete -- you simply can not play "Silent Night" on the Highland Pipes!
(Newton Booth Tarkington), 1869–1946, American author, b. Indianapolis.I think it was in Penrod and Sam that he described alligator hunting with binoculars and tweezers. All you had to do was look through the binoculars backwards, then pick up the alligator with the tweezers. That nut Steve Irwin from Australia should try that technique.
His most characteristic and popular works were his genial novels of life in small Middle Western towns, including The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), The Conquest of Canaan (1905), and the trilogy Growth (1927), made up of Turmoil (1915), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; Pulitzer Prize), and The Midlander (1923).
Alice Adams (1921; Pulitzer Prize), considered by some his best novel, tells of the frustrated ambitions of a romantic lower-middle-class girl.
He wrote several amusing novels of boyhood and adolescence, the most notable being Penrod (1914) and Seventeen (1916). His plays include a dramatization of his own historical romance Monsieur Beaucaire (1901) and Clarence (1921). 1
See his reminiscences, The World Does Move (1928); biography by J. L. Woodress (1955, repr. 1969); study by K. J. Fennimore (1974).
what is a penrod?
what is a sam?
what have you been keeping in hiding from me all these years?
I should add that mine includes "A Charlie Brown Christmas". *\;-)
Well, let's see. You could have a few measures play, and then a big cannon explosion, and then the soft tinkle of falling bits of material.
I'll bet Darks would buy that one, too.
Good night, 'Face.
I think I am going to bag it too. This connection is way too slow while the downloads are going.
You must. It is a classic
'night 'face
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