Here is a nice, but boring, image of a pretty fountain. It’s not as elaborate as the one at the Bellagio Las Vegas, but it’s in a nice setting. See? Nice, but static. Now, try this on for size: 101 two-liter bottles of Diet Coke. 523 Mentos. It’s a little bit art, it’s a little bit science, it’s a hell of a mess when they’re done. Do not attempt this without safety glasses and lab coats. EepyBird.com – Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment via AKMA: 2 Degrees of Eepybird
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Boing Boing: Flaming Tuba guy David Silverman on NBC Tonight Show 6/23 If you saw something truly bizarre on The Tonight Show the other night, namely a flaming tuba being played by a genial man in a Utilikilt, here’s somethig REALLY good to watch. via BoingBoing
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I made up a new playlist for myself in iTunes to try to help get my head screwed on straight after all that’s happened this week, Emotion is exhausting; so is grief, and so is dwelling on crap from the past (this is not all about Mom’s passing, but all the other issues and hurts that get fluffed up and revisited.Stuff between different people, from long ago. I hope some good comes of all of the crap I pulled on various family members. I’m the emotional one and it was hard to keep my junk dialled back. It was really better…
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My time staying in Mom’s little house is drawing to a close – tomorrow I return home, and someone else will finish sorting, tossing and reminiscing over photos, knick-knacks, and clippings that fall out of books. I’ve got a couple of boxes left to pack up, while my sister Timmy has been packing up the family china for me. Actually, Mom had two or three sets of china from different family members; this one is the prettiest, but not the most valuable, because althought it’s Haviland, it’s “seconds.” That’s all my maternal grandparents could afford. You can see little flaws…
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We three sisters have pretty much gone through Mom’s house and sorted things into piles and stacks; we keep finding things I call “landmines,” that have some emotional or sentimental value. For instance, I found myself crying over a blackened skillet today. Also, a boxful of old photos and cards yielded a Father’s Day card I sent to Pop in about 1967, the year before he died. I was staying in Grand Junction with my godparents while he was building my playhouse. Re-connecting with my childhood, after not seeing these objects that represent specific events in so long, is proving to…
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Marella Elizabeth Stockdale Baker, also known as Aunt Lella and "Murph" to family and friends, went to a better place June 7, 2006. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado on September 2, 1915 to Charles William and Florence Jane Martin Stockdale, she was the youngest of five children. She is survived by her daughters, Marcia "Timmy" Smith (Frank), Teresa "Tudy" McCormick, and Virginia "Ginny" Gibbs (David) . She is also survived by granddaughters, Holly Martin, Raeanne (Rick), Heather Lloyd (Tally), Sydnee Crankshaw (Eric), and great-grandchildren Collin and Paige, Ezra and Haley Lloyd, and Alexandra Crankshaw, as well as numerous nieces, nephews,…
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Waiting rooms in hospitals, no matter how pleasant the view is, are not places you want to spend a lot of time. We’re waiting. Family has been called. There are ebbs and flows. Rallies and setbacks. We’ll see. Via: Flickr Title: 3 south lobby By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 6 Jun ’06, 2.14pm CDT PST
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Things are not going well in Salt Lake City. I may not be posting much the next few days. Spammers can all go hang. The rest of you, please tawk amongst yourselves. UPDATE: 2 days later, Mom passed away.
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A little browsing in Bloglines led me to this post: My Left Wing :: A Stretch No More: Crossing the Godwin Divide (Part I) …which led me to another blogger, Steven D’s post, “We Live Under A Dictatorship,” which is worth a good, hard read. Another link on the first blog led me somewhere familiar: The Guardian: Jonathan Raban/Dictatorship is the danger What is surprising – more than that, electrifying – is that the voice belonged to Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired a few weeks ago from the supreme court. O’Connor is a Republican and a Reagan nominee. Regarded as…
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Mom’s still not getting her morning paper delivered to her front stoop; the Salt Lake Tribune’s “Quality Driveway Delivery” means she still has to get all dressed just to get the news. I sent an email to the Home Delivery Manager at the Trib, and if she doesn’t start getting her paper on the porch soon, it may be time to pick up the phone and call some honchos. My niece Holly got porch delivery reinstated, so Mom ought to be able to get it, too. Here’s the list, right handy: Find an Employee Search Results