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| Monday, October 25th, 2010 | | 11:13 am |
Wait, what? It's FALL?
Our sweet gum in the back yard turned a gorgeous shade of red this year. It's getting tall, next year it should reach higher than the house. We still have green tomatoes in the garden - I do not think those will survive to turn red, and I can not get my family to eat them fried and green. For that matter, I don't much care for them that way either. Peppers - those I have pureed and frozen for use in the winter. Good sleeping weather too. I like the cold for sleeping with the quilt that was a wedding present from the spouse's parents. This time of year the cats are cozier as well, snuggling at times. Three large pumpkins decorate our front stoop, and those should be carved this week. | | Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 | | 10:32 pm |
Evening
... and the cats are sleeping on the carpet, knowing that their mistresses are once again not going to be home to sleep with them. Which is nice, as then they sleep with me. | | Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 | | 7:15 pm |
Oh look! It's Tuesday!
Tonight the spouse and I had toasted cheese sammiches, with jalopeno cheese and potato filled pierogies. The spawn did not share in this feast, as they went to Music Fest with some of the Slovenia trip kids. | | Thursday, July 15th, 2010 | | 3:14 pm |
Speed Racer has died.
I am in tears today over a man that I only got to meet once, and another whom I never got to meet (in spite of recommending him as a guest for Otakon forever), but who were very important to me when I was a child. Peter Fernandez, the voice of Speed Racer, has passed away. William Weber, Wee Willie Weber, who hosted the show that introduced many of us in Pennsylvania to Japanese animation, also passed away this week. When I was in elementary school I used to run home to turn on the TV and using the UHF dial do my best to tune in the Philadelphia station to watch Speed Racer, Kimba the White Lion, Astro Boy, Marine Boy, and Ultra Man. My mom did not approve of these, so it was just as well that she wasn't home yet when they came on. Unknown to me at that time, my future spouse was watching the same things on his set 80 miles away. My spouse and I purchased our first car together, a White Ford Probe with MACHFIV as the license plate. I mentioned Speed Racer in my speech at the opening ceremony for Otakon 2002, when I was Con Chair, saying that when I was little I had planned on marrying Speed Racing when I grew up, and got a cheer. I did get to meet Mr. Fernandez when he was a guest at Otakon. For me this was The Guest to End All Guests, more important than any other guest we have ever had. And my spouse knew this when he introduced us. I told Mr. Fernandez how pleased I was to meet him. In the course of our conversation he mentioned that Speed Racer was "just a cartoon", and I told him strongly that it was Never Just A Cartoon, that Speed Racer was a hero to us growing up, that we had all wanted to BE Speed Racer. He got a big smile on his face. At the end of the con he told the staff that he had never felt so welcome, and that he would love to come back. | | Friday, July 2nd, 2010 | | 2:06 pm |
My name is John Wellington Wells...
ARTIST: Gilbert and Sullivan TITLE: The Sorcerer's Song Lyrics [Sorcerer] Oh, my name is John Wellington Wells I'm a dealer in magic and spells In blessings and curses And ever-filled purses In prophecies, witches, and knells If you want a proud foe to "make tracks" If you'd melt a rich uncle in wax You've but to look in on our resident Djinn Number seventy, Simmery Axe We've a first-class assortment of magic And for raising a posthumous shade With effects that are comic or tragic There's no cheaper house in the trade Love-philtre, we've quantities of it And for knowledge if any one burns We keep an extremely small prophet, a prophet Who brings us unbounded returns For he can prophesy with a wink of his eye Peep with security into futurity Sum up your history, clear up a mystery Humor proclivity for a nativity He has answers oracular, bogies spectacular Tetrapods tragical, mirrors so magical Facts astronomical, solemn or comical And, if you want it, he Makes a reduction on taking a quantity Oh, if any one anything lacks He'll find it all ready in stacks If he'll only look in on the resident Djinn Number seventy, Simmery Axe He can raise you hosts of ghosts And that without reflectors And creepy things with wings And gaunt and grisly spectres He can fill you crowds of shrouds And horrify you vastly He can rack your brains with chains And gibberings grim and ghastly Then, if you plan it, he changes organity With an urbanity full of Satanity Vexing humanity with an inanity Fatal to vanity Driving your foes to the verge of insanity But in tautology on demonology 'Lectro biology, mystic nosology Spirit philology, high class astrology Such is his knowledge, he Isn't the man to require an authority Oh, my name is John Wellington Wells I'm a dealer in magic and spells In blessings and curses And ever-filled purses In prophecies, witches, and knells If any one anything lacks He'll find it all ready in stacks If he'll only look in on the resident Djinn Number seventy, Simmery Axe | | Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 | | 9:45 am |
"Honest, one net full of exploding cod and you're marked for life!" Yes, indeed. It is the end of the school year. Census is almost done. | | Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 | | 5:02 pm |
Supper...
tonight we will be having chicken stir fry with brocolli and rice. | | Monday, May 3rd, 2010 | | 8:34 pm |
hmmm.
1. Power steering went out while we were driving the Eldar Spawn to her boyfriend's. Luckily I learned to drive on a car with no power steering. Yeah, that long ago. 2. Tom Cat puts his paw on my leg and says, "Let me out, pleeease?" A day later I have poison ivy there. 3. Trained for the census. It was fun! now for the real fun to start after I get observed on my first Visit. Life is immensely busy, and up and down and every which way. Trying to just enjoy the moments, of course. I wish you all a Splendid Spring! | | Sunday, April 18th, 2010 | | 7:09 pm |
John Scofield, rest in peace
John Scofield has died. I wish I had kept in better touch. And I wish there was something I could do for his family. | | Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 | | 9:31 am |
| | Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 | | 9:31 am |
Saint Patrick's day
And now for my annual post. Saint Patrick's Day is more celebrated here than it is over in the Old Country. At least in this format. It's a religious holiday there, or started as such. When the Irish came over here they were starving. The Potato blight had killed off their main source of food and profit, and so they sent their best and brightest to America, where the streets were paved with gold. Only, they weren't. And a lot of what the Irish got as jobs was literally shoving manure off the streets. There were signs in windows saying "Irish need not apply", and at that point in our history the freed slaves were considered a step up from the Irish. They were called "Micks" (from Mc in front of their name, which means "son of") and if you called someone a mick it was understood that they would try to punch you. At that point in time too there was a brand new job that was created, police were a new thing, and the only people who were willing to take such a dirty job were the Irish. The Irish were proud of their heritage and didn't want to forget it, and started celebrating Saint Padraig's day - parades came later. It was a bold statement that they were not going to be ashamed of who they were. Now it is sort of a joke and an excuse to drink beer. Oh, and corned beef? The Irish didn't eat that in Eire. They started eating it here because they were poor, lived in tenements, and got their food from Jewish butchers in the neighborhoods. It was a cheap meat. so they'd cook it up with potatoes and cabbage. Sue (proud of the Shays, even though she's only a quadillionth Irish) | | Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | | 8:53 am |
The snow is very pretty.
Had a starling at my feeders today, perching on top of the suet cage which was twirling around in circles from the bird's weight. Spouse is, of course, out plowing. And, no, the spawn did not have off from school today, or even a delay. | | Monday, February 15th, 2010 | | 9:20 am |
Monday after Valentine's...
Had a lovely Valentine's Day. Nobody was ill, which is quite a difference from past Valentine's Days back to the eldar spawn's first one. Had a one off job, proctoring, came home and went to watch the Spouse and the Bhoo's carrier play Flames of War at Dragonhead Games. Spouse got creamed, but it was fun watching, and he used the dice that were in his Christmas stocking. Got him two more to match for Valentine's. He had give me a box of chocolate alligators. BC (the Bhoo's Carrier) brought chocolate covered strawberries for all the females in the house, which were lovely. Younger Spawn was at a friend's all day, so it was just the three of us for Beef and Mushroom pie for supper, and watching of Princess Tutu and Kemeko D. A very nice day! | | Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 | | 7:41 am |
| | Monday, February 8th, 2010 | | 10:01 am |
Thank you
I want to thank everyone who has been so supportive of us while I've been out of work. Sometimes it's hard to know what to say when you all ask me how things are going. I don't want pity. Intelligent sympathy is always good. And sometimes I don't know how much to tell you when you ask. Suffice it to say that so far the jobs that have been available will not pay for my share of the bills, including the mortgage. I am applying for positions, but in a time when so many people are out of work - I am usually very much Over Qualified or Under Qualified for the positions at hand. And the Library field has been hit hard in the Commonwealth. What jobs I *am* right for all seem to be in the Pittsburgh area, which is not an option at this time. So my Out of Workness is not going to end any time soon. But not for lack of trying. Meanwhile, I am making Tuscan bread soup for supper, cleaning up from having company all weekend, and my cat has his head in our tissue box. | | 9:47 am |
Saturday night gaming
Had a most excellent gaming session on Saturday. Missed having the spouse with us, as he was plowing all that snow. But otherwise, lots of mooks to take care of, and banter banter banter with our Superhero characters! | | Friday, February 5th, 2010 | | 11:00 am |
Ham-asparagus rolls.
Yah, haven't been posting as much since I started playing games on the Evil FB. Last night I made ham-asparagus rolls for supper. We had a huge spiral cut ham for Christmas, and so these were leftover slices that I'd been trying to figure out how to use. Waste not, want not. Anyway, you take 8 ham slices that are thin enough to roll around stuff, and 2 cups of grated/shredded swiss cheese. Steam 24 asparagus spears. In each slice of ham place three spears of asparagus and 2 Tablespoons of shredded swiss cheese. Roll them, and place in a 13 x 9 inch baking pan with the over-wrap/edges on the bottom. Take 1/4 cup of butter and melt it in a saute pan, add 2 Tb of flour and stir over low heat until bubbly. Gradually add 1 cup of milk and continue stirring until smooth and thickened. Add 1/4 cup of shredded swiss cheese and 1/2 cup of sour cream (the receipt calls for whipping cream, but I used sour cream and it was great) and continue stirring until the cheese is melted. Pour the sauce over the rolls in the pan, and then sprinkle the remaining cheese on top. Broil for 4 minutes 4 to 5 inches away from the heating elements. Really very tasty. Original recipe was from the Southern Heritage Cookbook. | | Sunday, January 17th, 2010 | | 12:05 pm |
| | Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | | 10:32 am |
Sort of tired, but...
Got a call from a friend who is the Judge of Elections at my polling place! He asked me to work the election as a Clerk for the day! It's not the $100, which *is* needed. It's not the 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. working day. It's that I will be taking part of something that is a vitally important facet of American citizenship, and I'm very, very excited. Spouse said, "What about the requirement that you have to be over 70?" Hahahahahahahahaa. : P I have always wanted to volunteer, but never could because it would mean taking off the one night a week that the library was open, and I would never have coverage (yeah, the person hired to work evenings "can't"). So taking a personal day would mean closing the library. Actually, that's not too bad an idea - but that's me talking who is not working there at the moment. November 3rd! Don't forget to vote you Pennsylvanians! | | Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | | 6:10 pm |
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