One of these days, I really have to get started again on the England trip journal entries. The good part is yet to come – walking in Yorkshire and climbing over dozens of stylish stiles. Walking used to be a much bigger part of my life before I bought a car and became a suburbonaut – when I lived in Seattle, I didn’t own a car, and often walked home from work when I lived in Fremont and worked at the top of Queen Anne Hill. It was about a 45 minute walk, mostly downhill, through some of the prettiest…
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Seen at The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: farther down, there’s a picture of a building described in a quote on the page as “a totemized retro-futuroid coffee table joined umbilically to its Soviet-style predecessor.” No, no, no, no… it’s a giant space Dalmatian attempting to impregnate a Dachsund. Sideways. Arrroooooo!!
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The most comforting voice in morning radio,Bob Edwards is getting bounced as :NPR Host. I’m really sad to hear this news, because Bob’s voice in the morning has been a familiar part of my morning routine for so long. I’ve been a regular listener of Morning Edition since at least the early 80’s. I have to date that kind of memory by where I was living at the time and whether or not I had a pet. Such are the vagaries of memory. But through it all, Bob Edwards’ voice on the clock radio was one of the few constants…
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Did I whine about it’s being International Desk Tuesday yet? No? Well, whiiiiiiiiine. Also, it’s apparently Small Hotel Group Tuesday – I’ve booked 3 small groups already (hotel groups are somewhat labor-intensive on the front end, then maintenance until they happen). Feh. And I think I have my eval today. I think I need to have this put off. David is home today, wish I were too.
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In today’s Salt Lake Trib:Sniffles, sneeze? Blame those trees. Oh, joy. David and I both suffer from allergies. And in fact, I always get a sinus infection when I go to Utah in the winter, and often get sinus headaches when I go other times of the year – a combination of the dry, polluted air and local pollens, probably. My mom is really allergic to cottonwood pollen, she’s probably suffering now. I’ve just warned Da Hub that we’d better pack all the allergy junk we’ve got (fortunately, we’ve both got prescription nasal antihistamines in addition to regular presription pills…
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A few of my favorite things from the previously mentioned 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army 113. There is absolutely no need to emulate the people from ‘Full Monty’ every time I hear the song “Hot Stuff”. 129. The Microsoft ® ‘Dancing Paperclip’ is not authorized to countermand any orders. 131. No dancing in the turret. This especially applies in conjunction with rule #113. 142. ‘Calvin-Ball’ is not authorized PT.
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Al Franken, Seriously Need to read later – long, long article takes a while to load.
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Avalanche Company: The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army Somewhere, I hope Spc Skippy is happy and loved and getting plenty of magic beans… (note, this link works, the one from Accordion Guy didn’t for some reason). Another link to checkout later: MemeStreams.
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Later today we’re getting together with Steve to see “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” with Steve… and boy, this website is truly bizarre, because it looks and sounds so “normal.” What else can you expect, with the same writer as “Being John Malkovich?”
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Today’s Get Fuzzy laid me out helpless on the floor… just go there and look at it and tell me that Bucky’s ear jammed up against the phone isn’t the funniest thing you’ve seen all day. And for the record, “Tricky Woo” was the name of Mrs. Pumphrey’s overfed, overindulged Peke in the “All Creatures Great And Small” books. Darby Conley’s playing homage to a different kind of funny animal story with the name. And she was a he, for the record. The other thing he was well known for, besides being horribly fat and out of condition, was for…