Half sick of blogging

This daily posting thing has gotten tiresome. I've been planning on sticking it out to 1000 posts and closing up shop, but that's another five months. I'm not sure I want to keep slogging on just because of a culturally dictated fetish for base 10, you know?

Anyway - sometime soon, I'll be moving the daily earring report to facebook and only posting here when I actually have something to say.

RSN.


Today's earrings: boots, brooms

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Forest

Today's earrings: pines, trees

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Shiny monkeys

Today's earrings: monkeys, suns

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R. A. Lafferty

Best excuse ever

"Sorry I'm late - my root canal ran long."


Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Today's earrings: racing camels, bicycles

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Pizza 2-nite

Today's earrings: mushrooms, olive shells

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Tonight on Survivor

Week before last, JT found an immunity idol. Last week, JT and the other guys on Team Heroes conspired to pass that immunity idol to Russell, a total stranger who happened to be the last male player on Team Villains. Their rationale for this was that "obviously" the women on the Villain team were in an alliance, and Russell needed to be saved from the Evil Women.

This week, the teams merged. Villain Sandra stole a moment alone with Hero Rupert and told him the real scoop: the internal divisions of the Villains had never been along gender lines, and Sandra was the real odd one out on that team. Since Rupert and Sandra had been allies in a previous season, Rupert believed her. Since JT was very much invested in his fantasy of Evil Women, JT did not believe her. JT's conviction was bolstered by a series of not-terribly-plausible lies from Russell.

Danielle (a Villain) wins the immunity challenge. Considerable maneuvering ensues. The ex-Heroes, what with one thing and another, decide not to vote for their primary target Parvati, but for Jerri (a Villanous red shirt). The ex-Villains decide to vote for JT. After the voting, Parvati produced two immunity idols - the one JT gave Russell, which Russell gave her, plus one she'd found herself - and handed them to Sandra and Jerri. Sandra and Jerri thank Parvati and play the idols. JT voted out.

JT congratulated Russell, but not Parvati, before he left. In his final words, he said that the lesson he'd learned (from Russell lying to him) was "never trust a woman."


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

SCIENCE!

We went to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Palace of Fine Art. Among the SCIENCE! he spoke of turtles all the way down (Dan'l told it better). After, we stopped at Mel's for munchies.

I think we're on for brunch this Saturday.


Today's earrings: eyes, dopamine molecules

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

The time has come

to start thinking about starting to re-catalogue my library.


Today's earrings: elephants, mice

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Couplet named

@Susan - dunno. Did it work?

Meg has it!
Amy got it, too.

So! Brunch at my place next weekend?


Today's earrings: boots, chickens

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Name that couplet

And thick and fast they came at last,
And more, and more, and more --

First person to name the poem without googling gets brunch on me.


Today's earrings: sand dollars, shells

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Previously unappreciated benefit of wearing loose skirts all the time

If you happen to spill a full Cup O' Soup in your lap, just stand up, and the hot liquid is no longer in contact with your lap.


Today's earrings: skeletal fish

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Got stuff done

Mailed my taxes, moved my computer so the sun won't be rising over it any more, even got through a decent amount of work.


Today's earrings: eyes, mailboxes

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Clumsy

I burnt some toast bad enough to set off the smoke alarm, so I opened a window and turned on the fan and the alarm stopped beeping. Later, I dropped half my grilled cheese. I still haven't worked out how to turn off the fan without turning out the light.

*sigh*


Today's earrings: octopi, coins

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Compasses

Unerring and impartial justice; the perfect figure of the circle with the central point, the source of life. With the square, the compasses define the limits and the bounds of rectitude. In sacred architecture the compasses represent transcendent knowlege; the archetype controlling all works; the navigator.
-- J.C. Cooper, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols

Today's earrings: compasses

Bedtime reading: Iron Tears, R.A. Lafferty

Happy Pi Day!

Dinner @ M's:
Spinach-feta quiche (A made the crust)
Pie-shaped pasta with M's pesto
An array of tiny store-bought dessert pies
Wine
Trivial Pursuit.

I love the holidays.


Today's earrings: pies, apples

Bedtime reading: Iron Tears, R.A. Lafferty

"Like Little Ducks Each Day"

Jonah Hirnbrecher was doing something with his hands, on or behind the shoulders of Jim Snapjudge. He seemed to be unfastening an invisible something, probably a garment. Then he drew it off and folded it carefully with his ritual hands. The object was still invisible, and yet its shape, including the very fancy fringes of it, could be guessed from the movement of those Jonah hands.

"I am removing your Prophet's Mantle, Snapjudge," Jonah said then in a liturgical voice. "It is best removed some hours before death, for the prophetic faculty is already lost when the doubting and questioning begin. When one dies and the Mantle has not been symbolically removed, then the trees in the sacred talking groves (there are still some in nearby Scioto county) will wail out 'A Prophet is dead!' and I hate to hear grown trees cry."

- - R.A. Lafferty

Today's earrings: gingerbread men, fire trucks

Bedtime reading: Iron Tears, R.A. Lafferty

Full moon

The celebratory hosts sweep to and fro beneath my windows. I wonder if they're having as much fun as they were told to expect?


Today's earrings: amethysts

Bedtime reading: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?, R.A. Lafferty

Eternal vigilance, or, someone should hire some proofreaders

The USITC posted fourteen changes today, and five of those changes have conspicuous errors. There may be more mistakes that I just haven't found yet.

*sigh*


Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?, R.A. Lafferty

Who's on first?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M


Today's earrings: leaves, other leaves

Bedtime reading: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?, R.A. Lafferty