Steph Posted January 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Deep greens and blues are the colors I choooooose ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted January 16, 2016 Report Share Posted January 16, 2016 My favorite lullaby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steph Posted January 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I am such a procrastinator. I finally mailed my Groundhog Day cards from 2002. Well, most of them. And only to the people whose names I got around to putting in my address book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Tale of woe .... In 2001, I decided to be dedicated about having an address book and dedicated to being organized, so I transferred most of my addresses into this nice little leatherbound book I got from a family member, and threw away the little scraps I had saved with the return addresses. And then ... because I kept the address book in a prominent position to remind me to write people ... it apparently fell off that prominent position and out of my life forever. I was devastated. I searched for weeks. That was shortly after I moved here and losing all those addresses cut me off from everyone. Now I have a box full of return addresses waiting ... waiting ... waiting to be transferred into my new, larger, unlosable, supposedly, address book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 The idea of 'loss' stirred something up in my subconscious, and got me trying to remember a line from a song I heard way back when. Which I can't remember. I was remembering something along the lines of 'lose yourself, but don't lose your mind'. I put this into the googly thing, and all I got were references to a song Sean Lennon wrote. (Yep. He's who you probably think he is. Of half-British half-Japanese descent.) Not what I wanted. This is definitely not 'way back when' enough. Do these words ring a bell with anyone? Could Sean's father have already written them? Or someone else from the same time period? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 What's the deal with the cotton in aspirin bottles? Is it a low-tech version of those little moisture-absorbing packets? Or is it just there to keep them from rattling around? Both? Oh, the questions never end! ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 I'd guess both. But mostly the rattle. Not familiar with the lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco005 Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Well, historically, sound was thought to be the main cause of headaches, the cotton was used for placing in the ear canal which "helped" reduce the headaches. Just kidding, totally made that up. Here's a picture of an eagle. Happy Sunday everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Congratulations on achieving randomness! Cool pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Just watched a few seconds of Happy Days and was struck by how bright the colors were and that seemed wrong. So then I razzed myself -- "Do you think they didn't have colors in their homes in the 50's and 60's? Do you think they lived in black and white?" But eventually I realized that I was correct -- the bright colors were wrong. I live in the kind of home the Cunninghams lived in. And it is dim! Even if we had all the light fixtures in the house on we couldn't get it that bright without it being in the middle of a summer day with the curtains open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted February 12, 2016 Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 It's Darwin Day tomorrow. This is probably one of the more well known pages from his notebooks. If you are interested in his life and work, Darwin Online is the place to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 This is fun. http://theappendix.net/blog/2014/2/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species http://kinja.amnh.org/darwins-kids-doodled-all-over-his-origin-of-species-m-1685423397 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2016 Suppose there's a heaven. Suppose people in heaven peek down on earth occasionally. Would marble makers peek down and be amused by how much we like what they made? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody Posted March 3, 2016 Report Share Posted March 3, 2016 On 3/1/2016 at 5:56 AM, Steph said: Suppose there's a heaven. Suppose people in heaven peek down on earth occasionally. Would marble makers peek down and be amused by how much we like what they made? Nice idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Ha! I missed this one. Like it! ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 Tim Omundson's smile .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 I suck soooooo bad at geography. How badly do I suck? I took an identify-the-states quiz on facebook. And I missed Alabama. Where I went to school from 5th grade through 12th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Hee hee! You probably knew, even as you wrote it, that I was going to give you some grammar-guano about that first sentence. But now, (you know, I really like that shift/enter technique!) having read further, it's so much more enjoyable to give you grief about the second! Where you couldn't help correcting yourself. As the old expression goes, you're a lady and a scholar. Which is wonderful. But you'd never make it on the street! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 I wasn't sure which was correct, so I split the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 I was trying to be amusing, but just realized I was wrong. If you had some reason to be 'on the street', I have no doubt that you would make it. The other people there would pick up on the fact that you don't quite belong, but they'd love you anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 I may have done this before, but the original post also made me want to put in a personal plug for the tv show 'How the States got their Shapes'. This show was so much more interesting and fun than I expected it to be. It looks like you can find some of the episodes on 'the tube' if you want to check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Someone else recommended that show to me today when I shared my geographic shame. I knew it sounded familiar. Probably I heard about it from you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 Forgot to pay my electric bill. Due tomorrow. So I had to go to the electric company tonight in the just below freezing weather. And silly me, I wouldn't drive it. Walking to the electric company is how I make sure I exercise at least once a month. But it's late and I have to wake up in less than 7 hours ... so I ran it. So, yay. I proved that even after taking the winter off I can still run that mile that I worked up to last year. Disclaimer: "run" may not mean the same to me as it does to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted April 9, 2016 Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 Missed this one! The internet and cable tv disappeared for a couple days. I was halfway through a slow painful death when they came back on this morning. Anyway, a to your disclaimer, and a to you in general. Oh yeah. I had some random conversation too. Paid a visit to my now ninety-six year old neighbor yesterday. She already had 'company' in the form of her son's dog. Dog-sitting has never appealed to her much, and one of the first things she said to me was "This dog is a big pain in the ass!" I was a little taken aback by this, since it would normally be her style to say something more like "...pain in the patooty!" I guess she's getting more 'laid back' as she gets older. ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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