Fasten your seat belt, or you may fall out of your chair laughing at this report of some Republicans who failed miserably at creative agitprop at a Florida polling place Sunday. But the place was stamped with politics. Distributing the cold bottles of Zephyrhills were about dozen NAACP Voter Fund volunteers in yellow shirts. Others distributed folding chairs for people who wanted to sit in the line. An Election Protection corps in black uniforms passed out flyers printed with voting rights. A couple of Kerry/Edwards people handed out candy from plastic pumpkins. And then there was this other curious contingent,…
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Weekend? There was a weekend? Friday Worked at the client home office location, so had to “dress up.” Took the new camera with me, got a few photos before the light went Went shopping for new clothes with my husband David. Actually bought some for myself, and they actually fit. Saturday Bar Mitzvah service in Northfield, wearing the new clothes Lunch with Dan and Deb at their place, not far from Libertyville Drove home for a short time, bought more clothes on the way. Drove back up to Libertyville to the location of the party. Got home very late, probably…
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LONDON (Reuters) – Help is at hand for foreign doctors working in Yorkshire whose patients complain of sore “lugholes” or say they’re feeling “jiggered” and can’t stop “gipping”. Health officials in Doncaster, South Yorkshire have compiled a guide of local dialect and slang to help a group of seven Austrian doctors — all fluent English speakers — better understand their sometimes thickly accented patients. I miss Yorkshire. I loved hearing the local dialect when we were there last year. The last entry in my travel journal is staring me in the face from last year – literally propped up in…
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The producers of Highlander (the movies, the TV series, etc.) finally get around to licensing a video game with SCi Entertainment. Davis and Panzer noted that they are excited to be working with SCi Entertainment on a video game to coincide with celebration of the 20th anniversary of the franchise in 2006. Now, at last, the eternal question of rock band-shirted fanboys everywhere can be answered: “Conner vs. Duncan – who r00lz?” And if you’ll note from the above link, the original “Highlander-Official” website redirects automatically to “legendaryheroes.com”… naw, they’re not milking the franchise, are they? Jeez, I remember when…
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At David’s parents (Sheldon and Leah’s, to the uninitiated) place for a holiday get-together today, many laughs were had. The youngest niece insisted on having only peanut butter and jelly in a hot dog bun – no other bread product would suffice, no other filling was acceptable. Her objection to the regular peoples’ menu was final and non-negotiable, so the substitution was made “on the fly” with the ingredients brought to the table and assembled in her watchful eye. The rest of us made do with turkey, cranberries, pickled herring, kugel, and gefilte fish – the all-purpose, all-American holiday meal…
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Sometimes I feel like I’m keeping a few too many faces in the jar by the door. I’ve got my “real” life, with my travel agent face, my commute face, my family face, and my church face (except I don’t mutter “goddamn it, I’ve got too much stuff to do” under my breath while actually in church). They all look pretty much the same; generally, squinched up in a grimace, laughing like a loony, or mugging like an asshat. Then there’s my “virtual” life – way too many faces over the years, mostly laughing and having a good time, occasionally…
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Okay, okay: a female massage therapist. Work: hell. I got stuck at work until 7pm, horribly late for massage/chiro session. Have decided I have to work completely differently from the way I’m used/was trained/prefer to work in order to keep up with all the crap I now have to do, in addition to additional crap for when certain people are out. I’m not happy about this. The massage helped. And the chiropractor beat up on me too, so that’s 2 girls. Nyah. There’s more, but dammit I sit up late way, way too late trying to catch up with my…
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Yesterday we went up to Dan and Deb’s for an open house celebrating their new house (it’s rent-to-own). It was a nice time – lot of the neighbors came, which was nice for them. It was kind of a crowd and kind of loud, which was not so nice for me. There was a lot of food – probably shouldn’t have hit the carob-covered pretzels quite so hard. After we’d been there a few hours, Mitch took off to kidnap Gloria away from some law project she was working on, and we and David’s parents met them at the Weber…
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Funnies Stuff Bucky Katt is at it again: he proposes to make dinner for Rob and Satchel. He says he shall require a plump rat, a sprig of catnip, and a throw rug. Cotton. I think I know what the throw rug is for. Food Stuff We didn’t order a pizza tonight, we marinated some salmon in a ponzu-like concoction that consisted of soysauce, orange juice, rice vinegar, sesame oil, honey, toasted sesame seeds, ground multi-colored pepper, and garlic. This time, there was a little wasabi in there. Last time, I grated some orange zest in there. Either way, it…
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I had a dental appointment earlier this evening to do something or other to an area between two back molars. This involved some drilling and physical effort on my dentist’s part; he all but had to put a knee on my chest to get the leverage he needed to install something that felt like the world’s largest popcorn hull between the two teeth. Then there was some mysterious tinkering with liquid ceramics (huh?) and catalyzing hardeners and half a hardware store’s worth of grabbers and wrenches and long pinchy hemostatmajiggers. This process is repeated several times. Every time he sets…