"And we tend the garden all day long watching history unfold..."

As always, Name that Band!

 

Yah, I'm really sorry everyone.  I lost the opportunity to have fun of almost every kind.  Here's the story of my average weekday:  Get up at 5:30, get to work at 6:30, stack boxes on palettes until 4:30 or 5:00, spend twenty-five minutes driving home (with no air conditioning), and then I don't have any plans in the evenings, and I'm usually dead tired anyway.  So supposing I get home and sufficiently relaxed by 6 pm, I have 4-5 hours with which to have fun.  Bleh.  There goes the exciting and interesting and, as some would say, "quirky" part of my life.  Well, you've witnessed what happens when you get a job.  The best part of working at the warehouse though, is that there is no music playing, so whatever gets stuck in your head plays ALLLLL day long.  Today it was "Maybe Katie" by The Barenaked Ladies (awesome band, they are capable in so many different styles, and all their songs are good, not just a few!)  and I also had Amazing Grace bobbing around in my head for a while, but it was the Garrison Keiler version, where it's sung to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Fan Club song.  hehe, I love it!

 

So, I guess the loss of the funner part of my existence will lessen the quality of these emails, but as Jase pointed out, I had been slacking in the personal part anyway.  Maybe I couldn't have gotten any worse.  So maybe working won't hurt anything after all.

 

I played about 8 games of croquet last night.  It was intense.  And I kept almost winning, but not quite.  I beat my dad the first game of golf croquet (just a variation, not at all like golf) but then all the subsequent games I took second, or tied for second or something.  Even when I had the lead, as I did in the antepenultimate game, I flubbed at the end and by an amazing run of 5 or 6 wickets by my opponent, I lost.  But thats ok.

 

I don't remember what the most recent holiday I listed is, so here is Saturday through today:

Saturday was World Sauntering Day, Sunday was Ice Cream Soda Day, yesterday was, unfortunately, nothing.  And today is National Chocolate Eclair Day, and tomorrow is National Pink Day.  (HEHE!  Have fun with that Julie E.!)  I think everyone should listen to Pink Floyd tomorrow too.  My brother suggested it, but I like Pink Floyd.  A lot.  I actually heard them on the radio this morning on my way to work.

 

And today is the very happy birthday of:
George Vancouver, 1757

Guus Jansen, 1911

Paul Frees, 1920 (the voice of Bullwinkle!!! :-p )

Bobby Gillespie, 1961

 

Happy day o' death:

Machiavelli, 1527

Howard Staunton, 1874 (he designed the modern design of the chess pieces.  they werent always like that.  bet you didnt know that!)

David O Selznick, 1965

Judy Garland, 1969

Alan Webb, 1982

 

Things that happened today in history:

Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, 1342 Shire Reckoning (heehee!)

Zebulon Pike reaches his peak, 1808

Doughnut invented, 1847

Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip, 1939

Finland invades Karelia, 1941

WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters, 1943

Pluto's satelite Charon is discovered, 1978

Little Richard quits rock & roll for religious pursuit, 1979 (I'd say it's better that he quit.  that guy is definitely a weirdo)

Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a thong, 1990

Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg identified as Czar Nicholas II & wife, 1992

 

peremptory: 1) putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay.  2) expressive of urgency or command.  3) marked by arrogant self-assurance : haughty

 

jeremiad: A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; also, a dolorous or angry tirade.

 

denigrate: To defame or belittle.

 

Irish Word Of The Day:

eile (EH-luh): other
Usage:  Eile, like other adjectives, follows the noun:
           an saol eile (uh SEE-uhl EH-luh) = the other world

           la/ eile (LAW EH-luh) = another day

History:  Old Irish "aile" comes from Common Celtic *alyos, which is fromIndo-European *alyo- (other, out of a group of more than two; as opposedto *altero-, the other one of two), which is an extended form of the root*al- (beyond). Cognates found in English are "else", "alias" and "alien".

 

 

"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true."

      Solomon Short

 

"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."

      Francois Marie Aurouet de Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

 

"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution."

      Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)  <--- This guy is flippin' awesome!

 

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

       Matt Groening

 

Yah.  Those are your quotes for today.  I really like the thought of ice weasels coming to pick at your flesh by night.  But I don't know if that's how I would describe love.  I would say: "love is a pair of fours."  I don't know why.  It just seems right.

 

Name this book/play/poem/sonnet.  Or name the author, whichever you prefer.  |:-)

"Here now I stand, poor fool, and see
I'm just as wise as formerly."

I'll give you a clue.  The original language is German, this is just someone's translation (George Madison Priest's to be precise)

 

And with that, I'll leave you to your affairs.  If any of you have good ideas for things to do in evenings that don't take much energy and can be done within 5 hours, let me know!  peace out.

B.D. Harris

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