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Getting started on 2013 resolutions
Here are some from David Sirota to consider. One is to “cut your cable” (which I’ve already done). He’s also planning to quit paying attention to Rush Limbaugh. That’s an easy one, especially if you don’t have cable!
According to the PolicyMic website, these are 2013′s 10 Most Common Resolutions. I’d never heard of PolicyMic until I found this, but it looks sorta worth digging into a bit more.
Kevin Drum says One of Your 2013 Resolutions May Already Be Done. Gee, it’s January 4th and I can cross one off already? Who knew?
20 Health Experts Share Their 2012 Promises in a slide show. Hey, it’s HuffPo, what do you expect? The first one has a bunch of weight lifts, squats and bench presses I think I won’t try.
Cute kid of the day (“P.S. I am 6″): His New Year’s goals: “Learn to fly” is first on his list, but he’s got some other very ambitious goals!
From awww, cute to tee-hee funny, a list of 10 Celebrity New Year’s Resolutions. I’m pretty sure the celebrities haven’t seen them…
Almost as amusing are the New Year’s Resolutions of the Tech Stars! Do check out the link in the first sentence to the WTF New Year’s Resolutions. Probably NSFW.
My (serious!) resolution is to ride my exercise bike at least 5 days a week for at least 45 minutes a day, and hopefully keep in shape for the 2000 miles I’ve resolved to cycle this year! What’s on your list?
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Good morning, everyone! I’m on the bike and pumping away. Anyone here?
I resolve not to bash Obama EVERY time he deserves bashing. Just some of them, when I can’t hold it in anymore.
I resolve to do at least one thing per day that makes life easier for someone else.
Boxturtle (And I will continue to annoy the hell out of narrowminded science deniers)
Good morning all and thanks msmolly.
Good morning everyone.
Thank you for the post msmolly.
Thanks, msmolly, of course I will resolve not to perpetuate the joke on ourselves that NewYear resolutions represent.
Anyone still my friend?
How nice! I liked the idea that was floated right after the Newtown shootings that people perform 27 acts of random kindness in the victims’ memory.
oldnslow,
What a great story about the birth of your youngest son the other day. I was running errands and wish that I could have commented at the time.
We use University of Wisconsin hospitals and are really pleased and unfortunately and fortunately, we have used the Medical facility, the Veteran’s Hospital next door and yesterday (again) the Veterinary Clinic down the street.
They are awesome to use a word to describe them.
Sure! I actually don’t make NY resolutions per se, but it does seem like a good jumping off point for something I want to do. Any date would do…my birthday (i.e., in my 71st year, I will…), or beginning this month I will…
Sometimes it helps to have a starting point for whatever you plan to begin or stop doing in the future.
Not sure this Fukushima data is something the governments wanted released.
Odds are that the corium was in the groundwater within a week of the meltdowns, calculations work out to 6.66 days (no kidding!) and that assumed a lower temperature of the corium than i think.
Boxturtle (Just to scare you: What happens if the #1 & #2 melts combine?)
Ruth, you will always have friends because of the nice way that you treat people.
That is scary. Just plain frightening.
I practice Random Kindness and senseless acts of Beauty.
Random kindness is fun. You get to confuse the heck out of a random stranger and he/she can’t do anything about it because you’re doing them a good deed.
Boxturtle (Pick up that piece of trash, you’re walking right by a trashcan anyway)
Very cool that you have facilities staffed by people that actually care. Sure does make for a better experience. (a massive endowment can do a lot to empower an orginization and its’ people)
Maybe it’s better than ‘when you can’t fall any farther’ starting points. I guess I just shy away from grand resolve.
This is a research project on how long it takes for groundwater to purify itself!
One thing that might be fun, although I’ve never tried it, is to pay for the order in the car behind you at a drive through. I so rarely use a fast food drive up window (rarely eat fast food) that I haven’t done it. But that’s truly random.
Yeah, sometimes it seems like setting yourself up to fail. Actually, I’ve been riding the exercise bike for a couple of weeks, and planning on riding 2000 miles this year since I came so close last year (about 1750 miles).
So those are only kinda sorta NY resolutions.
I think you just created a worm hole with that comment. :)
Good morning everyone, and thanks msmolly for the post and host.
Thanks, that’s heartwarming.
Oi.
Do you count miles on your exercise bike in the cold months toward your mileage goal for the year?
Well, first we have to stop polluting it to give it a chance of recovery. Figure about 100,000 years or so minimum and more likely about 250,000 years.
The good thing is it’s washing right into the pacific, where it will be diluted and perfectly safe!
Boxturtle (Never liked pacific tuna much anyway)
Hmmmm, friendship assumed, I guess. Go ahead, tell me the worst, that’s what she said.
It works really well. ESPECIALLY if the car behind you is a cop. In our area, cops are forbidden by regulation from accepting anything that might even remotely be considered an attempt to influence. But by the time they realize it, you’ve driven away.
Boxturtle (Okay, so my random acts of kindness are slightly evil. Nobody’s perfect)
Bought a used pickup truck 10 days ago. Went to the Registration Place yesterday. While waiting for my number to be called I watched 30 able bodied folks sit and watch an old woman on one of those 4 wheeled walker numbers slowly move across the room clearly headed for the door. I could watch the entire room because I was in the farthest possible seat from the door. Just when she was about there I got up, walked over and helped her get through the heavy glass door. The shame on all the faces that they let The Dirty Biker from the back of the room help the old lady…..priceless.
Random acts of kindness are soooo easy and I believe contagious. (and fun)
I should, shouldn’t I? But no, I don’t. Maybe I will start counting them today!
Whatever works, and where health is concerned, guess we all could not go wrong.
Lulz. Making a cop inadvertently break the rules by accepting a kindness. I like the way your mind works BT.
Good Morning All
So, Ruth, since we’re friends, What exactly do resolutions represent?
I’ll be making coffee while you answer.
My thought exactly :) I figured ‘of course you should‘, but you strike me as a person who would only count miles on a real bike.
Good on you, OnS! Did you flip anyone the bird on your way back to your seat?
Thanks for that. I embarrassed myself, was being very patient and telling an elderly lady it’s no hurry, when she was taking some time lifting a grandchild into the grocery cart seat, when a young man walked up and lifted the kid for her. Oh, my what was I thinking?
Oh hey! Did anybody else notice that K State got their little football team smacked by the Oregon Ducks last night?
I enjoyed that.
At least they were ashamed. I wouldn’t have been shocked if you’d said nobody even noticed what you did.
That’s the way it normally goes with good deeds. The only person who really notices is the doer and sometimes the recipient.
Boxturtle (Unless you’re a politician, then your media folks will document it)
Honestly it never occurred to me. I’m not sure how well the miles correlate, but my bike DOES show miles ridden when I stop.
I have an app on my iPhone that tracks miles (and other things) when I’m on the “real” bike. I haven’t quite figured out how riding the exercise bike correlates to the “real” bike. i know I’m winded and sweaty when I finish riding the exercise bike, and not so much on the real one unless the route is hilly and the weather hot.
I am not religious, but isn’t there something in the Bible about doing good and not bragging about it? (Yeah, I sat through a lot of church and Sunday School on the way to becoming an atheist.)
Nah. What happened though was a bunch of people silently vowed to not let that happen again. That’s the good part. That’s the point. Such a small gesture, because it is contagious, can start an entire community down a more pleasant path.
Well, now that you ask, my failings, probably. You don’t expect me to admit I’m missing anything essential, do you?
Funny how we learn things every day, no?
Good morning demi and Kris.
I always like the ‘whited sepulchre’ image, since I’m sure everybody had to go look it up before they got it.
Ah, I get it now. But, since we’re all evolving, learning and changing, there just might be something good to do that we’ve missed in the past, just because that’s where we were.
Did I make another worm hole, Kris?
Another lesson, try to look a little more decrepit, quick.
Gah morning, dude. Glad to hear you bought a new to you truck. The other one seemed to be a headache.
But, Kris bought a new car? Wow, that’s great for him too.
Congrats to you both. Wheels are important if you want to get somewhere.
We can only go just so far toward being perfect until we start making other folks uncomfortable, though, so maybe we could work on being a great contrast to the perfect ones? My resolution has evolved!
Thank you for my first Laugh Out Loud moment in a few days!
Ha! The friend whom I’ve known since we were 11 and whom I got to spend two days with were literally comparing our changed body. Oh yeah, well check this part out. Ewwww. It’s was fun and funny.
I dunno if it’s in the Bible. But it ought to be.
If somebody really notices what I’ve done, I tell ‘em not to thank me. I tell ‘em “Now YOU owe some random stranger an act of kindness with no expectation of reward or thanks”.
Boxturtle (Building a better world one good deed at a time)
My pleasure, got any tips?
Thanks. Kris’s new car is beautiful.
Nice to have you back. We missed you. Hope you had a good trip. Saw a few of your comments after the fact but hadn’t seen you live yet.
You made me think of the Corinthians verse that says Now we see through a glass darkly, but then we shall see face to face. So, maybe I’m okay with being imperfect now. Why rush that fate?
You are too kind to each other, were you really that good a friends?
(Today I am altogether having too giddy a spell, yes.)
Or, “pay it forward” works too.
avoid the clap
Kris?
Good morning. Tonight is Chinese food night :) :)
-Jimmy Dugan
That’s good advice!
I’m sure it is a parable or something, maybe not good deeds, but some people bragging about how pious they were, while one person just did good and didn’t talk about it.
I’ll be right over!
Nope, nope. There was no part of your comment that was paradoxical.
Kind words from a good friend.
It’s good to be home. When I was at the grocery store yesterday, I realized that I hadn’t heard any Spanish at all on our trip. Utah is a very very white state. But, friendly folks, I have to say. Getting tips on the road about what routes to take and how long it would take from here to there, I heard several times, Watch out for the deer!
I’ll try to squeeze in a good morning everyone, as I am not reading fast enough to catch up with the comments.
Hey Kris, are you liking that spiffy new car?
Good morning, nonquixote. We started slow but got very chatty, didn’t we?
I got one of these. Mrs. KrisA is driving it to work every day. I only get to look at it in the driveway on weeknights, and sometimes she lets me drive on the weekend.
:) See @64
well done.
Sorry Ruth. A little game Kris has. Dropping movie lines in the comments. You inadvertantly left a huge opening there that I could not resist.
i confess, i’m a little wary of checking out the post about the kid i assume is shipping out to war. it’s just too sad to think about.
good morning.
Good morning nonq! I had to step away for about 20 minutes to get my work day started, respond to urgent emails, yadda yadda.
I came back to about 30 more comments!
We were very close from the time we met until after college when she moved to Utah to join a Dance Company. We visited each other maybe once a year and spoke on the phone. We sang Amazing Grace together, a capella, at her mom’s funeral. We used to take get high and take bubble baths together.
The parts we shared with each other were limited, however. Nothing I couldn’t share here. The sagging, the wrinkling. Like that.
Hope I didn’t disappoint any of the men here. :)
I resolve to try harder with my comments in the future.
Ruth’s a hard act to follow.
One man cannot save the world. But he can make a difference. – Patton(?)
Boxturtle (Only talking about it here in hopes that others will follow the path I choose)
That is good advice. I have to watch out for the Dear every day.
Wait…..what?
Don’t follow her, young grasshopper, but forge your own path to demi-ness.
(did that sound wise?)
The path to screwing with cops? That was my big takeaway from your comments so far. Am I paying attention, or did I miss something?
It’s a good thread, chidy. Lots of lifting up and sharing her pain. Worth a read, if you want my opinion. And, if you don’t, that’s okay too. Good to see you on the threads more.
Very wise, Kris. Let’s just say Ruth is a huge inspiration and I aspire to be as wise and clever. There is a zen-ness in her attitude I find wonderful.
I do embrace my demi-ness. Most of the time, at least.
You stole my line, Dear.
Back from washing up after breakfast.
The idea is to good deeds for random strangers. The goal is to do this while amusing yourself.
For example, a car thief could boost a squad car, get it washed and vacuumed and then return it to the same parking spot. Facing the opposite direction.
Boxturtle (Spreading happiness and confusion wherever I go)
i am very askeered of taking my black ass to utah. i have family (on the white side) that lived there for a while and loved it. they were on the lake where apparently it’s civilized to some extent. but all those mormons?
scarier than bears, tigers and even circus clowns.
breakfast? what a great idea
On the way to grasshopperness, I suspect there’s a crawlie form, which I will be perfectly okay with. All life is good. that’s what she said..
/waves to demi
it’s nice to be here. heh, tomorrow, i’ll be here for PUAC. i expect to be making a lot of trouble and cause consternipation and kinipshits. the topic of this post often causes that.
Crawling? Sounds like my prom night.
Breakfast has been scuttled. Kitchen currently full of the CBL and a Birthday Cake. Oh well.
OOOH. Whose birthday?
The first person who ever stole a garden gnome and sent pictures of it back to the owner of its travels has my total respect. I’d rather plant something surprising, though.
My girlfriend went to SLC for the dance and theater. Almost all of her friends are folks with life styles much different than most of the folks there. She eventually, just 10 years ago married a man with Mormon roots and there were several times that there was tension in the room when she was verbally bashing the Mormons over the money they poured into the Prop 8 controversy. I think her husband is tired of her extreme anti Mormon views. Heh. Who said relationships are easy?
Go grab a couple Muhmuffins. Bring me one.
That’s why you wear glamorous clothes. Hey, have the yoghurt, cbl will let you slip it out. And maybe even a spoon.
Whachu got against chairs, Ms. D? Ha.
Her ass, at the moment.
Oo! I never though of that. Maybe I’ll sneak into one of my neighbors yards and plant something this spring. Gotta figure out to question neighbors without raising suspicions regarding what they’d like where.
Boxturtle (I’ve cut peoples grass before as a gesture, but never planted a rose)
You can always do her the favor of going even more librul and carrying on a bunch. You may not be invited back, but you’ll make the Weaker Sex happier with what he’s got.
Little girl across the street. Delivery tomorrow. Very nice young family that Kris and his family have become friends with. The girl is the oldest and is turning 7. Little boy will be 6 next week and there is already a fondant Spider Man figure in the works for his cake.
I thought of you gals and da dog when I was at Winnie’s. She has an old claw foot bath tub and I thought An armadillo would fit nicely under that.
Sage is pretty, and edible.
It was the black and whiteness of her argument that made him snarl. One of his comments was that there are some progressive Mormons. Not about more or less librul, if you know what I mean.
Nice to turn 7 and the like, I hope they dance.
How nice? My daughter’s youngest girl turns 10 today. She’s extra special because she was born with no heartbeat and not breathing, they got things started but she had one seizure and then spent 11 days in the NICU. She weighed 9+ lbs. so she looked like an elephant among the preemies. They said any effects would show up if she failed to meet a developmental milestone, but she never did, and is a wonderful healthy straight A student who dances ballet and plays basketball.
But she’s very special as all children are special.
On our drive, I saw enough sage to feed the planet.
Now, I share a really interesting story I heard while I was there.
A married man, a friend of hers, had to travel to the hospital where his brother’s wife was because of a heart attack. She died. Later that night he went home to find his own wife dead in bed. And, further, after another friend of theirs was comforting him and helping him get through the shock, it turned out that he Came Out and is not in a relationship with the man. You can’t make this kind of story up.
How wonderful, and I don’t just hope, I insist she dance.
i wanna be a guerrilla gardener. there’s a movement of this for real. people buy large sacks of native, often endangered or increasingly rare native plant seeds proper for their state and toss them in large handfuls on vacant lots and other cleared spaces. TX could really use some of that, by the look of things. the idea is that you increase the amount of plant life, and a chain reaction of life feeding on life occurs, renaturalizing spaces that no longer feed birds and critter due to lack of proper food.
Now in a relationship. Sorry.
More coffee. I’m going to make fresh bisquits to put that cactus marmelade on.
Not, Now, quite a like. The story is a trip, anyway.
She has a very cute whimsical personality. She apparently bonded with me when I rocked her a lot in the NICU and has always liked to hug and cuddle with me. We have a running joke about “drive-by hugs” which are the quick little impromptu hugs we exchange when I’m there visiting.
For Christmas she gave me 5 handmade “drive by hug” coupons, good only for one hug apiece, no expiration date. She explained that if SHE initiated the hug I didn’t have to use a coupon, but if she didn’t, I’d have to use one. LOL.
Scary start. Glad she is well. Thanks for sharing that. Our experience with the NICU taught us that those are genuinely caring souls hell bent on the very best possible outcome.
Isn’t it? Wonderful folks. At the party, we were sipping absynth and talking about the economy, our need for a more marxist philosophy, Occupy and how change has to come from within each individual. I had a blast.
i spend a lot of time over at patheos, a site for religious bloggers of every stripe and sect. i mainly read my buddy Hemant, “the friendly atheist.” we get some religious commenters who stop by every once in a while. the excuses they make for the outrages of their institutions are usually quite pathetic. like in the case of the RCC, i don’t know how one can name oneself “progressive” and be a mormon. the two cannot go together. while the crimes of the mormon church’s leadership are arguably lesser than the RCC, they certainly do have blood on their hands, in the form of suicidal young gay mormon teens and battered, raped child wives. the only answer is to leave such an organization. you can still worship at home if you need that in your life.
He doesn’t attend church at all. I hear you and do not disagree but am not in a position to know what he based that comment on.
Better make sure you use them all, she’ll keep a good count. Precious.
Sorry to have to run off, but I have an appointment in about 1/2 hour and have to leave in a few minutes.
Fun chatting this morning. I will check in later.
*poof*
I like that idea!
kris, i’ve been researching native TX plants of late. there’s just so much you can grow here. of course, the drought changes things a lot, in terms of what can survive in the wild. xeriscaping is an unfortunately growing industry, for all it’s a fascinating science.
I really do not understand all the church/religious animus. I try to ignore it. More of my peers are quite bright, tolerant, and live and let live. Not sure why we have such different experience.
Okay, first batch of bisquits are golden brown. 2nd batch is in and I have more than we will eat, so I’ll leave a plate of them here for folks who are hungry.
Time to get this ass out of this chair. Nice to be back and enjoy all of you.
Ta!
We’ll talk about you since you’re gone.
That’s deep well. Sometimes it’s just the old If you’re a hammer, all you see is nails. But, I suspect there are many and various reasons. Personal experience with religion being one of them.
That’s what i love about you Ruth, never miss an opportunity. ;-)
Hi, Thanks. I think the irony is quite interesting, also. Because if there were that level of hate/attack on other subjects, such as gender/race, etc, it would not be tolerated or, at least, strong rebuttal. Feels odd to me, if you understand what Im trying to say. The religious topic seems to have no bounds of criticism….that’s the freedom, I guess.
Glad it doesn’t grate, seems I am especially giddy today.
Ironic, yes. I agree. When I was growing up, when we kids said we hated something, she would correct us and tell us to say I don’t care for that. There is a difference and implies some small level of tolerance. It was a good lesson for me.
Great to see you. Now, I’m moving on with my day. Hope to see you in the morning, although I realize you have to work. Take good care.
Thanks, Have a good one….Cheers. Glad you’re back.
I resolve not to tell a corny joke.
“What do you say when informed your church burned down?”
“Holy Smoke!”
heh, i am such a trouble maker.
RevBev: demi is correct, a lot of it has to do with personal experience. it sounds like yours has been wonderful, and that’s great. but some of us can’t say the same. in my case, it’s because there are a large number of prominent, vocal, politically powerful people trying to kill me, and other queer people. i react poorly to that, or at least i don’t take it kindly or quietly. i also despise hypocrisy, and many believers practically define that, esp in the leadership of the more conservative institutions.
don’t get me wrong. i do have degrees from divinity school and spent a lot of my life trying to be a scholar of religions. i find much religion fascinating, and i have many believing friends and colleagues whom i respect and admire. i think faith can be a wonderful force for good in this world. but when it’s a force for evil, i’m going to call it out in plain language. the mormon organization has held, and continues to advocate, a large number of morally odious positions and practices. that is not in question, it is historical and modern day fact. as with any criminal organization, it is not logically possible to be a member and name yourself a ‘progressive,’ at least according to how i define that term and it is generally understood.
a discussion of the crimes of a religious organization is more akin to discussing the crimes of a drug cartel or corporate oligarchy, not race or gender. people don’t choose those, they do choose to commit crimes or support those who do.
Not like most religions I know are you such a troublemaker!
What did Jesus do about the money changers?
Beat the crap out of them.
Troublemaker from the get go, and the subsequent theologians have never let go!
Religious institutions have no boundaries in the wars they have waged against society. Religion, as an institution, is largely responsible for the great atrocities throughout human history. From the mania of the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Church of England’s abuses, religious justification for hatred of Jews, minorities, LGBTQs, etc. The Catholic Church’s protection of institutionalized child rape. The list could go on and on and on.
All of this is to say, Religion has set the terms for this battle, and the terms are that there are no terms. I’m vitriolic toward religion at times because I see the vitriol thrust on others with Religion as the justification.
It’s particularly admirable that heroic people like Martin Luther, John Wesley and such stood up against evil that was clothed in the church, and rebelled to make everyone see they were being misled. I think fighting for religious freedom may take more guts than any other field.
Heh! Heh! What a wonderful comment.
My very liberal Lutheran Pastor reminds me of FDL’s own Peterr, very open-minded.
He and I have very long discussions on religion being a force for evil (or for the status quo) Especially when I state “Here I stand, I can do no other”. :)
I think I owe you a beverage.
I’ll raise you this:
A man was hired to paint a church. He underestimated the amount of paint needed and didn’t want to spend more. So he added thinner to his reaming paint. He still didn’t have enough, so he added more thinner. He got to almost the top of the steeple, ran out paint AGAIN and used the last of his thinner.
A bolt of lightening came down from the sky and struck him. And a big booming voice echoed in his brain “REPAINT! And thin no more!!”
Boxturtle (*Ba-dum CHING*)
From my perspective, the grappling with good and evil can be best resolved by treating it as a duality, ie two sides of the same coin (a 1T Platinum?).
Understanding, or at least, accepting duality as the operational vector has profound capability in awakening to Truth.
So that’s what caused Holy Smoke!
Raising a cup of communal wine at you.
Groooowner of the day.
In the second telling of the joke, the painter is reburned?
there is a whole series of religious texts from ancient mesopotamia in which the gods and their holy/totem instruments tell each other jokes. they’re not exactly “funny” in a way we can understand, but the people who read them thought they were.
my fav religious joke is the one that ends:
“Proclamation of 1874, or Declaration of 1862?”
“1862.”
“Heretic!!!”
And then there were none :(
If it’s any comfort to you, that came from the 1910 edition of Jokes for America.
Boxturtle (One of the few that translates to 2013)
What a great resolution for the new year msmolly! There was a time I would have resolved to run 5 miles a day five days a week, but those days are loooooong gone. I’ll have to live vicariously through you this year…
I know that joke. The Southern Baptist conference in particular does not find it funny.
Boxturtle (Hits too close to home, I suppose)
Exactly why I’m a virulent secularist…
gotta run, bbl.
Got some errands to run, thanks for good company.
Consider this!
I got tired of wearing argyle sweaters so I shaved an argyle pattern into my chest hair.
Brain bleach, anyone?
I actually have a relative who pays each month to have his back hair shaved into an eagle. He weighs in excess of 300lbs and is about 5’3 or so. It’s a big eagle.
Boxturtle (What has once been seen cannot be unseen)
I hope you’re making that up.
No. He’s very proud of it. The salon he goes to does not have a web page (thank FSM!), or I’d give you a link.
It’s kinda scary that someone could earn a living shaving designs into backs.
Boxturtle (*shudder*)
I imagine there are some rough patches.
(See what I did there?)
147 comments! Took forever to read through them.
Quite the free-for-all this morning.Msmolly’s self-discipline re the bicycle is so admirable.
Have enjoyed the stories about random kindnesses. Some of the things mentioned I hadn’t thought of in that category – like picking up trash not your own. Love oldnslow’s showing up the roomful of folks watching the frail lady make her way to the door. (Funny, you don’t sound like a Dirty Biker, dude).
Back when I rode the Boston subways and buses regularly, young folks (including me, since I was young then) and guys pretty frequently offered seats to older people, women of all ages, and pregnant women. Not always, to be sure, but often. I did take the opportunity sometimes to shame the healthy-looking men in seats, ignoring old or pregnant women, by getting up and offering my own. The desired result did often appear – a shamefaced look, or even rising to offer the seat to someone else who needed one.
Wonder whhat it’s like these days, in the era of Ayn Randian political “leaders” and greed-is-good, I’ve-got-mine-so-screw-you?
Where’s the rim shot?(groannn) It is kinda scary. Back shavers earning a livng, teachers and other college graduates – not so much.
Paraphrasing folklorist Marshall Dodge,
…he was of such a compact build that he wasn’t sure if it was a sore throat or hemorrhoids…
1,2,3, groan.
Okay: gggrrroooannnn..
Everybody else has gone off to something constructive, I guess, huh?
I’m back in bed, trying to hasten the disappearance of a fresh cough. Totally from mountain cedar pollen,which blew in with the cold and sleet yesterday. Got all the meds, but the cough arrived about bedtime anyway.
Oh, the Twitter tells me that Gerda Lerner has died at age 92. The mother of women’s history, for real.
There was a person who actually changed things by her writing, teaching, and most of all, thinking.
Please and thank you. At least you didn’t shave shapes into your back hair…but I suppose you’d need an accomplice for that.
Right in my own back yard, a person who made a real difference. RIP
I hope your cough is not persistent. IANAD but a big clove raw garlic with a slice of apple, several times a day. My standard advice even though you are relating an allergic, not a bacterial or viral causation.
Oh, Jeez. I commented above before I read that there are people who actually *do* that. Wow.
Was it Smokey who went to the vet yesterday? When will we know the results of the test?
Nope. My left arm is double-jointed.
I’ve never heard of her. I’ll have to go learn. You COULD have included a couple links, ya know.
Boxturtle (Me? Lazy?!? Not me!)
I recall the name, and I *know* I’ve read some of her stuff, but I don’t recall which topic she wrote about…was is the language of patriarchy? I know she was very academic…
Here’s her wiki. She actually started the whole field of women’s history. Goodbye and thank you, Ms. Lerner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Lerner
She was heavily involved in the movie version of Black Like Me, a book that really impacted my thinking in High School.
Mr. Farnan, if you’re still around, THANKS for assigning that book in your Survey American Lit class.
Boxturtle (must now read “Black Women in White America: A Documentary History”)
Yeah, I went there as soon as I didn’t recognize the name. Perhaps I’m odd, but when somebody I don’t know earns a widespread obit I have to go see what I’ve missed. or forgotten.
Boxturtle (Comments about my use of “perhaps” above will be ignored)
Perhaps!
Guffaw.
Me, too BT.
It helped me to develop empathy which as an Anthropologist I characterize as “Walking a mile in someone else’s moccasins.”
Your random act of kindness theme lit up the whole thread today.
Shucks, I admire you alot.
Hah! so my laziness in not posting a link led to your learning more…much like my parents always saying – “go look it up!” when asked the meaning of a word.
“Black Women in White America” is definitely one I have read, and no doubt is still around here somewhere. I don’t like to get read of that type of original thought book.
Now I’m going to look for her memoirs; had no idea of her early life in Europe, or even that she had been an official Communist party member. I’m amazed the anti-feminists didn’t manage to find that out and discredit her with it.
Good thing she taught at Madison, I suppose (right in nonq’s backyard!)
wow. um, erm… just wow.
due to divorce and other issues, i went to three different high schools: secular private, public (rural) and public (suburban). my last year was at the suburban one. our english teacher that year assigned us Vonnegut, and the good stuff too. he talked openly about race, sex, drug use, and even cried once because he was so moved by one story, in front of all of us. it was a great class and i’ll never forget it.
i wonder if a teacher like that would even be allowed to teach in public schools today.
No, they would not. And our children are poorer for it.
*blush*
Boxturtle (One man’s random kindness is another man’s mindf**k)
No school board I’m aware of would permit teaching of subjects guaranteed to generate lawsuits. From both directions.
Keep it non-controversial.
Boxturtle (Kris is right: Our children are poorer for it)
I like your parenthetical there, BT.
yellowsnapdragon, thanks for asking about Smokey. The vet called with blood test results…mostly pretty good. No kidney or urinary issues, no diabetes, etc.
Just need to watch him.
She made some suggestions about litter boxes, all of which I’ve done, except for confining him in the bathroom with litter box. That one’s hard to do, because (1) I have to go in and out often,since there’s only one bathroom, and (2)because of the foundation issues of this building, none of the doors closes tight, so it would be hard to actually “confine” him.
However, he was pretty mad at me yesterday, but so far, nothing on the floor today. Turns out he’s having allergic skin issues, and got treatment for that and worms, so maybe that will help some.
Wow, that’s great! That includes test results from the mass in his mouth, then? Terrific. I feared the worst.
Boy, is that the truth.
Not sure it’s political, or just ignorant efforts to emphasize reading, but those horribly boring early readers that don’t use any words the kids at that grade wouldn’t already know, and tell boring stories, have to be a big reason for the decline in reading skill and fondness for reading.
What makes anyone read is a story (fiction or non) that tells something you want to read about.
I’ve always been a voracious reader, but if it’s boring, meh, I’m done. I don’t try to keep going. What are they thinking?
So glad to hear that it’s good. Sounds like no worry about the mouth.
Hope all goes well.
Aw, thank you for your worries. There hasn’t been a biopsy, but there was no expected stuff that would show if it were malignant right now, as I understand it.
I’ll just need to get him checked more often.
The scary part is because of its location, the vet would recommend a specialty veterinary surgeon, because it’s more complicated than anyone in her group would want to tackle.
Which doubtless means big bucks.
So, wait and watch.
But I am still supposed to try to collect and deliver, gah, a stool sample for analysis. TMI? Yeah, me, too. I’d love to outsource that task…
Stool sample collection for a cat. We are indeed cat staff. Lets hope you have many more years of staffing Smokey.
;-)
My employers are going to be p’d off when I get home because they will have gone without kibble for 6 to 8 whole. hours. It’s a crime, really. If they had fingers they’d prolly call ASPCA.
This four-legged is too big and round to get around to cleaning herself so I am familiar with a similar portion of cat anatomy and requisite duty. This big baby is pretty complacent in the process, but good luck with that.
“if they had fingers” – or opposable thumbs…yes,imagine the horrors we’ve dodged by that evolutionary fluke.
(of course, as I understand how evolution works, there needs to be external pressure for a change to occur and be passed down.This does not apply to cats and fingers/thumbs – there is no pressure as staff can be expected to eventually fulfill their duties.)
LOL. Not a fat kitteh, but Boteroesque? Yer pwnd.
i was just telling ruth that i cannot go into animal shelters. i disallow myself from doing so, because i know i’ll come out with another pet, and i already have three i’m barely keeping alive.
i would totally run a no-kill shelter if that were any sort of possibility. what a great job that would be. hard work, no doubt, but so rewarding. as politicos we should work harder to get that “check this box on your tax return to give 3$” thingee for shelters. they already do a number of other charities in some states, no kills would be a great addition.
bob barker was a sexist pig, but i always appreciated his reminders to spay and neuter on TPIR.
When I hit the lottery, I’ll be starting a foundation for animals. I’ve always wanted to have some kind of program to provide financial assistance for vet care for low income people with pets.
Like I suggested pretty complacent, but I’ll let others decide on her shape. Not so much a daily duty as a point of probable difficultly requiring regular observation. ;-)
How to wash a cat.
That video of vacuuming (!!)Mcat!Still astonishing. And she seems to enjoy it!
Just the low-volume sound of the vacuum in the vid got Pushy’s attention, as he was sitting on the arm of the chair near the laptop. Stared fixedly,then apparently concluded he was safe.
Around here,just the sound of the wheels of the vacuum moving out of the closet sends everybody flying for cover.
How terrible!.What sort of cruel…oh…wait, I see the signature now.
(the self-agitate part made me laugh, though)
Good afternoon, pups. I see a good time was had by all in my absence. I am now back from appointment, lunch with a friend, an oil change, and ready to begin my alternate week’s house cleaning, albeit late to start. But the day was good!
Whoa,what a lot you’ve accomplished! While I have been very very still, the excuse being am trying not to really get sick. (see above,if you havetime)
Just came back to post this piece of good news,which also includes Justice Sotomayor having done the right thing (right in your neighborhood,msmolly)
Maybe cats pick up on their subjects vibes. I’m thinking that maybe be one reason Mcat enjoys it.
I could be totally wrong, and it’s probably the cat’s own personality.
But, still.
Haw haw haw, Praise TBoww!, the mannish boy who shares the same demographic as Jeff Foxworthy, just called someone else a grifting fartbag. Well played, sir. That’ll throw ‘em off the trail, O Farting Griftbag!
I think someone thought they were on a different thread.
It happens.
Boy, I hope you’re right, demi. Otherwise….
Well OK, thanks for that. {:-{)
Friday evening, happy hour, 1/2 priced drinks? Hehe.
You know how it is when we have different windows open…
I’m updating my “office”, you know getting it ready for my new project. So, I got a bulletin board for 3×5 cards. And, I had this old desk that we used to have the tv on and I was trying to find a charity to take it, but after spending hours, really, no one wanted it. Not even the thrift store, because it’s big and heavy. A nice piece of furniture, so I figured it was the universe telling me to keep it.
Moved the tree out, that over here, that over there and now I’m painting the desk. I’m doing an antique green. Paint brushed on and then rubbed with a paper bag for texture. So, having fun anyway. Ha!
Har de har.
I just shared this over at Wendy’s Lament, and it’s so fun, I have to share it here too.
1/2 drinks or not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjNteHSCCSg
Nonny!!
I can’t drink yet because I’m painting. It’s looking good.
Interesting…thanks, I hadn’t seen that! But it doesn’t look like institutions that self-insure will be forced to provide all services. Too bad, because there are a lot of non-Catholic employees at Notre Dame.
No personal attacks are allowed on MyFDL. –MyFDL Editor
Does that mean that you are wanting to crash the party? Feel free, but you really do not have to stay….
David Sirota LOL!!
He filled in for Randi Rhodes last year on 9/11 and a woman called up in response to his “how do you talk to kids about 9/11?” topic.
She started relating a story about how she goes into schools with a powerpoint presentation. She never said the words “inside job” –but as soon as she mentioned Building 7, Sirota jumped all over her and didn’t let her talk anymore. Then he said he was “annoyed” that she had “called and wasted everyone’s time.” In his tirade he repeatedly accused her of saying 9/11 was an inside job, something that never came out of her mouth. I know, because I was so intrigued by the exchange that I signed up for RR’s podcasts so I could listen again (and record it). I put the recording on my blog. Needs to stop listening to Limbaugh…UH YEAH! That would be a good start for Mr. Sirota.
http://exiledinhollywood.blogspot.com/2012/08/randy-rhodes-show-on-91111and-building-7.html
Feel free to come to EPU land everyday.:)
You think we are haughty – arrogant – proud – lofty – uppish – snooty?
So, you came to Snipe with us?
Welcome to the silly club. We do have a nice group who share every day.
Looking forward to your contributions.
Variety is the spice of life. We could use a few new voices.
Jimmeh!
Hugs. I’ve had a great day and I hope and pretty much figure that you have too, ’cause you’re such a good and nice person.
See ya tomorrow. :)
Hmmm. Was someone else getting maybe, redirects, and wound up here by mistake?
I don’t believe anyone mentioned David Sirota, yet that strange comment seems like a response to something.
(Also like something, back in usenet days, used to be called “blatant self-promotion.”)
There was no personal attack. Please learn to read for comprehension if you are currently unable to.