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Good morning, on this second day of 2013! Have you noticed what word 2013 spells backwards? Lisa Derrick brought this to our attention New Year’s Night
Scroll down to the third picture.
Okay,so maybe that isn’t exactly a family story…but it was irresistible.
Over Easy, family style
This one certainly is a family topic. Hispanic women of all ethnicities (Puerto Rican, Mexican, Dominican) are choosing to have smaller families. This is good news for us all, and especially for the women themselves. To no one’s surprise, educated women have fewer children, and children from smaller families are more likely to get an education.
I love the fact that the first woman quoted in that piece is a vice-president of a non-profit founded by her own mother. Not so long ago young Hispanic women didn’t show up much in that demographic.
Let’s see, there’s the “fiscal cliff” bill that finally passed tonight (as I write); I guess that’s mostly good news for families, at least for truly middle class families. It’s good news for our “old old” relatives that Social Security was left out of the bill, including “chained CPI” which would have hurt the oldest of the old, especially women, the most.
And here’s an article on the latest “shockingly” frank author of popular teen-age fiction.
Admittedly, I’m not a parent, but I like her attitude on giving teens a safe place to discover and think about such major issues as sex and social relations. And I love that she teaches her kids they must “be the one” to speak up if someone is bullying another kid, or telling a racist joke. The best comment is the one that says her books have to better than the Ayn Rand books that perpetually adolescent Republicans love so much.
What do you parents think? Have your kids read Lauren Myracle’s books?
Opening up the floor: Any interesting family issues arise over the holidays? My mother and I didn’t get along well for years. This holiday was pretty good; kind of boring for me because of very little activity, but good for our relationship. Anyone mend a broken, cracked, or strained family relation this holiday? Tell us how it went.
Photo by Ricky Montalvo released under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license.
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Well, here weare! I see my links don’t look like links. Wonder what Idid there?
So,anybody up yet on the first working day of 2013?
Good morning, tejanarusa. Couldn’t find this today, hunted and hunted. Now back up to read!
Oh I’m just over here doing the Bucky.
Good morning :) Thanks for the post and host.
Thanks, tejanarusa
Hint; block the text, choose the ‘link’ logo, then insert the link, and click on the right hand choice which may read ‘insert’, I forget
The holidays were interesting, I had a guest and it was quite enjoyable.
Ha, Don;t be a sore winner, Kris!
msmolly..I scheduled it for 7:00 am- which was 18 min ago. Was that wrong?
For links, you select the text you want to turn into a link and click the link button on the toolbar, then paste the URL into the box (being careful to paste in the whole link ON TOP of the “http” provided, or you’ll get two of those. I always check the “open in new window” checkbox.
It’s early, you could go back and edit the links and others could still be reading.
I don’t think it was wrong, but sometimes it takes a few minutes to appear after it’s published.
We’ve learned to go for about ten minutes early, the program is befuddled at the early hours.
Hmm. I see the time stamps on our comments is 8:xx am.
I don;t see it on the list either. Found it under my name.
What is the bucky? Is that something like streaking? LOL!
Good morning everyone from cold,cold NW Illinois.
tejanarusa, thank you for the post.
Does everyone feel better now that we have a deal and did not go over the cliff? I call BS on all of it and now on to the next hostage taking situation.
Yes, that’s how I do it in comments, but when I tried it in the draft box it didn’t work right, somehow.
Hmmm.
the program is “befuddled” in the morning? Much like myself, then.
Suspiciously like ‘buck nekkid’, don’t tempt him.
The time stamps vary by commenter, I think. I exchanged much email with Kit about that. The time zone I see is Eastern, not sure what other pups see.
We used to have to adjust our “clocks” to “FDL time” which was Pacific, and some posts still have that time stamp. When I do my Over Easy posts I can set the publish time to a bit before 8 a.m. and it works. If I set it for 5 a.m. (Pacific) it goes up at 5:00 a.m. eastern.
Sound and fury signifying nothing, maybe?
Lots of distraction so we don’t notice the Creators aren’t producing the jobs they promised if we gave them everything they demanded.
My cat keeps running through the room and attacking my root foot. I’m not sure what my right foot did to offend him, but he seems to be holding a grudge against it.
I don’t feel better. Obama should have let all of the cuts expire and then we could have passed legislation reinstating tax cuts for under $250K families. The feral children in the Republican caucus won and will be back to torment us again.
You know the definition of insanity? Apparently Obama and the Dems don’t.
Teach Me How To Bucky is a parody of a rap song from a few years ago (whose name will not be mentioned here because it was an insult to rap. Horrible song). Students at Wisconsin put the parody together.
Bucky is the name of the Wisconsin badger mascot.
Didn’t realize we had all different time stamps. I’m Pacific, must be my nature. (she said mildly)
Since it is your post you can go back and edit and try again. You do have to highlight the text and click link. If you just click in it, it won’t work.
Maybe he’s learned some sorts call feet ‘dogs’ in slang.
But you’re not on Pacific time in Texas. That’s the time stamp you see? Even Kit wasn’t sure (after checking with the tech crew) what was going on. He said my time zone was set to Eastern, but it is not a user-settable thing.
Good Morning All….So glad we’re back on a Normal schedule. Really cold, however. Happy New Year.
Kris, I got a notice that the Dr Lib group was to meet right in my neighborhood. NO, I did not get there, but will certainly be tempted
if it is there again.
Now we can listen to the cliff again for the next 2 months….
You apparently missed my comment late yesterday.
I’m done running. I fly now. And I don’t fly naked. I wear argyle prints.
Trouble being that markets all over the world would collapse, while our credit rating made further financing impossible, and that is not a good thing.
I’m peculiar in more ways than you realize. I originated here with The Seminal, which later became MyFDL. So many of my posting features are odd.
Good morning Ruth.
We have to start tomorrow to demand there be no cuts to SS, Medicare, and Medicaid because sure as the Sun comes up in the East, the Repubs are going to start demanding the cuts at the beginning of the 113th Congress. They “gave” so much on this “deal” that we owe them.
I should probably shut up now, this anger is carryover from a thread last night (late) that Jane posted and there were approximately 250+ comments going when I left. The first time that i can remember that one commenter said to another,”How can I delete your comments” or something to that effect.
I am on the local Drinking Liberally mailing list, and always get their notices. For a long time I didn’t attend because it was in a pub downtown and I didn’t want to go after dark. It’s not necessarily unsafe there, but I didn’t want to go alone. So then they moved it to a very safe location not too far from my house and I *still* haven’t attended.
A couple of days ago we got a sad notice that the leader of the group died in Puerto Rico of a heart attack while vacationing with his wife. He used to use the meeting invite emails as a vehicle for nice ruminations on the state of the current politics. Apparently had been an English prof. Sad that I never met him. Someone else is taking over the group.
Maybe I should make a resolution to go this year.
Ah ha! I think the links are corrected. My timestamp is Eastern, but main page stamps are still usually Pacific. I think.
Brrrr! local radio says it’s 39 degrees!
No. I don’t subject my children to potty-mouthed dirty talk or pornography.
I’m a good Christian. Harrumph.
Okay, but srsly… Lexi hasn’t read any of Lauren’s books. I don’t think I’d stop her if she wanted to, it’s just never come up. I certainly won’t let her read this newer book discussed in the article, featuring a descriptive (instructional? wasn’t sure, form the text…) sex scene. But in a couple years or so, why not?
As the Ms. Myracle points out in the piece, the kids are going to talk about this stuff anyway. If I can make sure my child is seeing sex talked about in a healthy and responsible context, it’s better then her just joking around with friends about it.
Or no? I don’t know. I’m going to call my wife and ask her what I think.
And I don’t fly naked. I wear argyle
printspants.TEE HEE.
Thanks, yes sad. I’m sorry. A kind of reminder. I hope I resolve to go also since now, at least sometimes, it may be really near. This group does rotate its location….let’s both plan to go. I think I would be interested in what they do.
No! Never argyle pants. A nice sweater, perhaps a scarf. Socks.
Maybe even an argyle vest over a plaid shirt :)
But never argyle pants.
Good morning msmolly.
Obama cannot be that dumb that he keeps trying to negotiate with the hostage takers, can he?(Stupid statement on my part)
As many have said, he is getting exactly what he wants in these deals and that is to cut SS, Medicare and Medicaid.
You are so right, we should have gone over the cliff.
LOL.That’s the right idea!
I forget, is Lexi a teen yet?
This one
is still screwy, but the rest look OK.
Shall I restrain myself from mentioning the ‘bucky balls’? Okay, I will.
OK, you’re on. We’ll go together…separately. Hmmm.
We owe each other a report.
Our group meets (I think) the second Tuesday of the month.
That’s odd. It doesn’t appear correctly in the post text but it is fine in my comment @ 36. *crosses eyes*
Oh, what a shame.
I never made it to the local DL either, form much the same reasons. I believe we don’t have one anymore locally, as the leader gave it up, and I think, couldn’t find anyone to take it over.
Sounds good; we need to get Kris. Let’s get serious….;)
One amendment, there, I would make that cut to ‘services’, since there is a lot of fraud in connection with Medicare that I see, and know we do well to monitor better.
That would be a good idea, wish we had something of the sort here, but we don’t.
Oh, my. (crosses eyes)
It’s too early to solve technical glitches for me…bleary-eyed.
ok, talk among yourselves while I see what I can do…
Good morning all.
tejana,
Stanford University will forever have a place in the collective heart of our family. You see;
22 years ago next month the CBL went into labor about 12 weeks early with our only child together. (Kris’s half brother) Arriving at a local hospital she was immediately sent to the incomperable (then) Stanford Childrens Hospital. Known for their expertise and long term research in low birth weight infants. We were there for almost 7 weeks all told. He is a healthy, kind, outgoing, “normal” and likeable almost 22 years old. Everything they told us about his life was spot on. They missed nothing and knew everything. In short, they were wonderful.
Upon check out, (which, almost unheard of at the time, happened before his due date) I was taken into an office and presented a bill. Terrified, I slid the bottom page from under the 2 inch stack to read that my insurance covered $63,000.00 of the total $168,000.00. On the “you owe” line was $0.00. Dumbfounded, I listened, quite numb by the way, while it was explained that as a teaching and research facility data was far more important to them than money. Periodic surveys were what was expected of us in exchange for $105,000.00. It still brings tears to my eyes just to think about it.
So…we’re pretty cool with Stanford winning the Rose Bowl.
Thanks for the postnhost.
Good morning all.
There’s no link to Lauren Myracle books. I would like to ask my daughter, an elementary school teacher who is pretty open-minded, what she thinks of them. Her oldest daughter turns 12 in a couple of weeks, and might be a candidate for reading them. My daughter has talked about stuff like menstruation with her girls (the other turns 10 on Friday) but I don’t know about sex acts and such.
You are probably too young to remember this, but in my younger years coaching Varsity basketball, I wore those plaid pants like Bobby Knight used to wear. Geez, my kids look at those pics now and say “Dad, what were you thinking going out in public dressed like that…”
On another note, all my teams that I was rooting for lost yesterday except Northwestern.
holy shit 40 comments while i was typing 1.
On topic about getting along….I heard an interesting piece last night on a woman called Peace Pilgrim. I looked her up on line and truly interesting. If anyone wants to check, it may be an interesting reflection. I do not think I had heard of her before.
Weird. It does look funky,doesn’t it? But clicking takes you to the right page.
I’m kinda afraid to touch it.
You no doubt think that you ought to be the one to give her ‘the talk’; by your own reasoning.
Wow, what a wonderful story, oldnslow. I wonder if the same would happen now, 22 years later?
Maybe Kit will come along in a bit and fix it. I wouldn’t worry about it.
Morning Pups, thanks for hosting tejana,
My thermometer says 7 F. You all know what the F stands for. But the sun just peeked over the eastern tree tops and is illuminating the living room.
Just got back from reviewing the cliff thread and saving what seemed the pertinent link. Have not turned on any news.
I was at Ohio State when Bobby Knight played basketball there. Met him once. My parents were good longtime friends of the parents of the woman who married Jerry Lucas, too. He was at OSU at the same time. Also Larry Sigfried (not sure what happened to him, basketball-wise).
Wow! A-maze-ing. Could that happen today? (the bill part, I mean)
Gotcha. In fact, I’m more cool with Stanford winning than I was a minute ago!
I am, of course, normally, a loyal Big Ten fan. Except I don’t count Penn State as part of the Big Ten (despite a coupla cousins and a bunch of my graduating Pa high school classmates having gone there). That was just a mistake. ; )
According to Weather.com it is 15º here, and cloudy. I’m glad I took down all of my outdoor decorations yesterday.
That’s wonderful.
Donating my body to Stanford on their terms at once.
Why do I hear a low moan in my psyche?
Same here and I type with all my fingers.
Good point Ruth. I was too broad in my statement.
I agree that Medicare and Medicaid need some tweaking, but this BS about SS is really all wrong. Raising the cap is never mentioned in all the discussions and it would be solvent for 75 years.
The hospital is now named for the woman who provided the most generous endowment. Lucille Packard. Yes, Mrs. Packard of Hewlitt Packard. So I think maybe yes.
Tell your kids to be thankful you weren’t playing golf. AAiiieeeeee. (to the outfits)
Those early 60′s Ohio State teams were awesome.
No. She’s 11. She just thinks she’s 15.
Whoa! What an era that was, huh? I would’ve missed the Knight era at IU if I’d graduated on time. Instead I dropped out to get married, and went back 5 years later, which turned out to be the year of the first NCAA championship while Knight was coach.
Such a strange man. I always stuck up for him because his players seemed to respect him, and because the majority of them graduated, unlike other similar basketball programs. And what he did for a former player who was paralyzed in a terrible accident (basically made sure he had whatever he needed to live, van, modified home, income, etc.) without making any publicity about it.
And yet, he has a terrible temper and did awful things in public.
Humans are so complicated.
Thanks, I encounter this a lot. It’s like protecting churches from property tax, imho.
Hey! Just heard we get a high of 47 today! Very excited about the heat wave.
Heh.
Plaid pants are made of win and cake. Good stuff, good stuff.
Watched part of the Bucky video, I am in WI after all. Was there a game yesterday, I thought the coach quit. Anyway, I was disappointed with some creepy stereotypical misogynist subtext in there that was overt to me, but maybe that is what passes for acceptable. My teen daughter wouldn’t buy into any of it if she saw it. A bad attempt at glamorizing college “fun.”
Just about 40 here. Unusually long stretch of authentic winter.
What’s this about an Argyle flightsuit?
No way. My wife handled that already. With the way kids talk now, Lexi came home with some questions a while back. I let Mrs. KrisA talk it through with her.
Just like hazing referring to waterboarding – that takes me back to the frat boy mystique.
Yes, except from us dfh’s and mere bloggers. It’s infuriating.
I wonder if part of the effort needs to be aimed at news organizations.
While I was loggin on this morning I heard two statements on my local npr station, then on the national report, that took for granted false assumptions. The national one was the casual statement that
“nothing was done about entitlements,” which are a big part of the fiscal problem. Can’t recall the local one…will hear it again, though; they repeat their local stories ad nauseam.
These false assumptions treated as revealed, accepted truth are a major reason the public believes the deficit hysteria.
You have a noble wife, for sure.
I paint with all mine!
Sure seems like it to me. Sunny and in the 60s for a few days here and there is more like what we see in winter to break up the cold spells.
Pfft. We’ll be back in the high 60s in 3-4 days. That’s what the weather forecast says, anyway.
Looks like I have to face the cold…Be careful out there, wherever you’re going…BBL
My high school team was a superstar for a couple of years, and then I went to OSU and their team was a superstar for some years. So I became a basketball fan in those days. I never liked football, still don’t.
Forty five years of woodworking (knocks on wood) and I have all of mine.
I’ve taken to popping back into Over Easy threads late in the day, usually early evening, and throwing out a short comment to the effect of just physically passing through. I was streaking the first day (a few days back) but yesterday I flew through in an argyle sweater.
That’s lucky. 15 years of playing with myself and I’ve lost 2.
Says 1 week from today will be 74 degrees with a 40% chance of thunderstorms.
Just the term “entitlements” infuriates me. As if we haven’t paid for it for all of our working lives.
Economic news usually comes from the bought and sold ‘business’ news centers, and is always plain old wrong. The locals just repeat the send-outs they get. A real travesty of reporting.
“Was there a game yesterday?”
Just the Rose Bowl, man!
One of the last vestiges of the New Year’s Day bowl games that I grew up watching with my dad.
Also, guess the Rose Bowl is special to me. IU got their very first invite (and last for another long period) evah my freshman year. I very nearly went to the game myself. My dad did go, thinking I was going to…but my then-future husband talked me out of going. He couldn’t afford to and claimed he was worried for my safety…It would’ve been a week of partying with the sorority I had just pledged…
I’ve never forgiven him for that.
I refer to ‘business entitlement’ when I talk about the welfare they receive.
I am going to be more active this time, actually more than i have been in awhile regarding letting my new Congresscritter know that we need her to show some spunk on these issues.
In the gerrymandering, they split the 16th into two districts and Manzullo lost out because tricky Cantor supported his opponent in the Republican primary. We are now in the 17th with Cheri Bustos who beat a teapublican Bobby Shilling.
Which, of course, is exactly what “entitlement” used to mean.
Just like “liberal,” the RW has changed the connotation to a pejorative one. As if Social Security was the same kind of “entitlement” as “welfare.” Grrrrr.
I look at it this way: I paid into it all of my working life and I am ENTITLED to collect the benefits.
People just love to equate “entitlement” with some sort of welfare handout. I actually heard some congrescritter say that SS is “middle class welfare” and I about puked. HE of course will never NEED the SS benefits.
Since you’ve turned out so well, maybe you could give him a pinch of the credit now, if it doesn’t mean an end to all your edge.
Family stuff, my teen follows an online podcast (videocast) put together by a husband and wife who feature their toddlers and their family situations. Apparently thousands of young adults follow this, tweet about it and she will not let me in on exactly what she is viewing. So she submitted a short video or a song or an artistic something (it has not been shared with me) that the couple featured on the episode last night ans she got over a thousand tweets in a half hour telling her how much people liked whatever it was she shared.
The kid was bouncing off the walls with happiness telling me about the tweets but not telling me exactly what she did that was so well received. I am saying it sounds cool I wish you would tell me what you did that everybody liked so much.
Signed, stuck without a clue.
Envy you.
Noticed in a story about the monkey business in congress yesterday that there was apparently a “Nascar” tax break renewed. 48 mill over 2 years for race track construction. We just got a new race track here that was built for Formula 1 that probably qualifies for the break and will never see Nascar cars. Yet more misdirection.
Congratulations on her sharing her joy with you, which you earn by not pushing her too much.
-Buddha
Actually, our local public radio has been expanding their local news department, and bragging about it and its original reporting in its fund-raising.
They did an end-of-the-year fund-raising leaning heavily on that reporting. They did go from a virtually non-existent, reading-press-releases news to original reporting, with a regular staff of several.
However, they make me nuts. Most are youngish and they mangle grammar, pronunciation, word choices (using words they seem not to know the meanings of), with an older news director who has done a local show for years and who clearly has the bias of reporting meaning “person A said this and person B said that, but we couldn’t possibly decide which one was lying.”
I’ve been considering sending them a letter saying I’ll contribute when their reporters learn the basics and don’t leave me wondering “who, what, where, when” AFTER the story is finished.
Grrrrr, again.
More and more I feel this shift in “reporting” standards and the celebrity “reporter” culture is most responsible for the disaster turn in our ability to govern ourselves. The founders recognized how important the “press” is in a so-called democracy/republic by enshrining its freedom in the Constitution. So I don’t think blaming them for the collapse of our democratic institutions is too strong.
Too bad you can’t pry it out of here…even what the videocast is? I’d love to share it with my daughter, although her children aren’t on the web or twitter yet, AFAIK. Since she teaches technology she likes to stay on top of stuff, because her older students bring things up.
Would love to see the requirement that NASCAR reduce the pollutants produced by its activities. Yes, you know that I’m a dreamer.
I had a full academic with a football scholarship to a small private college. Got an injury,(all better thank you) and helped organize Vietnam protests on campus. Funding denied second year. Football or other sports were never the same as spectator sports for me.
Corporate sports $$$ and the opiate for the masses outlook from my perspective, I’m just not a follower, not even the GB (socialist) Packers.
Buddha was entitled, so I dock him two beans from the begging bowl for interfering with me.
I agree, and it would be worth a try. The recent election’s showing up how totally right wing news skews facts is a big plus for promoting public awareness, imho.
I gotta run to town.
Have a great day everyone.
All better in other ways than just physical, I suspect.
Wait, what? Give credit to whom? My ex? Oh, bet you mean my dad.
Yeah, no question I’m more like him than my mom, except I have a temper and he was the calmest person evah. Of course, on the rare occasions he did lose his temper ….mostly you knew you deserved it, as in, uh-oh, you’ve really done it this time.
My dad and I are/were both relatively shy (not easily meeting new people, not the life of the party), bookish, interested in intellectual things. Mom much more practical, not much of a reader, at least in book length. Also, my dad had an enormous vocabulary, spoke slowly and thoughtfully, and was always up for (intellectual) argument.
Meaning, picking apart an issue and arguing a point of view. In our house, argument was not the same as fight.
We argued for fun. Until the Vietnam War, when we no longer began from similar premises, and could not keep our emotions out of discussions.
In the ’70′s, my mom once told me that my dad told her he missed arguing with me, because I wouldn’t anymore.
Our dinner table discussion was often very analytical.
He also taught me – he was a lawyer who starved for a year trying to practice in his small home town, then got an insurance job — that every person accused of a crime was entitled to a vigorous defense, no matter how despicable the crime or the person. Ironclad principle.
Whew, Ruth. Ya got me started there! (my dad’s been gone since 2004)
I trust her judgement from what she does tell me. Then I do the dad thing and politely encourage her to pay attention at school today and the tweets will be there for the lunch hour or tonight. Our standing joke is that’s what it says I’m supposed to do, page 94 of the parenting handbook.
Glad I did. (Actually, I was joking, suggesting you give credit to the to-be who kept you from partying for a week.)
Sounds like some one who started you out right, respecting your own and others’ arguments.
Oh, I love that. Both of you are lucky.
Good parenting, nonquixote. Ur doin it right!
Buddha was a San Francisco Giants fan. Before there was a San Francisco. Or a Giants.
Smiling Buddha? Or the standard rotund?
You sound like an excellent dad.
Actually mine was a bit similar, as much as someone born in 1921 in a WV mountain village could be.
The first time I did something “defiant,” was in college. I’d already been told I couldn’t go to Boston to see a bf because that wasnt’ done; boys go to see girls, not vice versa. If boy can’t afford the visit and girl can, too bad. Them’s the rules.
No prob visiting my roommate and her family
in New Jersey, tho (summertime). I took the train to Boston for a couple days, staying at the bf’s family’s home (slept alone, thank you!), and flew back to Pittsburgh.
Dad picked me up, asked a few conventional questions about the trip, then mentioned that he knew there was no arriving flight from Newark, but there was one from Boston…
I confessed. He scolded me as a proper dad for a few minutes, then started asking how I liked Boston and the North Shore, what did we do while I was there, did I see this or that…perfectly normal tone of voice. Not another word was ever said about my escapade.
I even got the impression he was a little pleased that I had kicked over the traces at last.
While I do enjoy racing, Nascar corporate is not a good citizen in my opinion. Monopolist, greedy, cruel and support polititians and policies that harm their ticket buyers. They get no money from me in any form.
Yep. Most of who I am came from him. The temper, I think, came from his mother, somehow skipping him.
The partying, though…who knows? 1967 partying was a lot tamer than 21st century college partying…
Morning msmolly,
Kids got laptops at school two years ago and with passwords and internet access and the school determining that every child needed one for school, takes all “control,” in that arena from parents.
The parents in the series are both employed in info-tech and that is her main interest and highest motivational theme. I try to pay attention to what I have any actual influence and control over.
OK folks, off to start my day. Only 5 days of vacation left.
Have a wonderful day all. Thanks for again tejana’. Great job!
Oh, the standard.
I’d have liked your dad, too.
Hmmm. did my cat just take his own picture by sitting on my fancy new phone?
Heard a buzz from the dresser,saw Pushy up there looking down quizzically at the phone, and when I picked it up there’s his pic…no wait, I took that a week or so ago…
Still haven’t figured out this phone. Manual very basic.
No apps downloaded yet, cause I haven’t wanted to set up the Google account and figure out yet another password that I can remember but is secure/strong (right)…IOW just too lazy to deal with it. So I haven’t given the number out. You know I’m not a technophobe, but jeez. So much work!
Dishes and a couple of phone calls to do and to make. Checking back for the early afternoon crowd. I don’t relish housework, but I like the results.
Thanks again tejana, wonderful hosting.
I will ask my daughter if she’s heard of anything like that. The kids at her school have 45 minutes of computer time once or twice a week, in a lab. During the week she sees every child in the school at least once. I’m not sure how they determine the rotation. Technology is one of the so called “specials” like (I think) art and music and gym. Victims of budget cuts, even though they did pass a millage a year or so ago.
I bet he’d have reciprocated! He did woodwork, too, ’til his career got too busy and he sold his tools in a move. I have two small tables he made, one beside my bed and the other holding the; phone and sundries. They’re approaching antique status, I guess.
oldnslow–thanks for the props. Quality of a thread depends most on its participants. Some of the best here. ;)
Think I’m gonna have to feed these kittehs. I’ll be back later to see if the Pacific contingent checks in. Bet demi is sleeping in, recovering from her travels. Thanks for visiting and supporting!
(Ooh, nice to have edit!)
I’m out too, for awhile. The early back-and-forth here made my 45 minutes on the exercise bike fly by, but now I’ve had breakfast and tea and have to shower and get on with my day.
I will be back later, too. Have a good one!
As the host, YOU have edit, the rest of us don’t. :-(
Someday, maybe…
Lotuses and Giants, I will have to work on that, but no doubt this will work out, as the universe generally supports beauty and congeniality.
Oh, good, now I’ll adopt the benefits of all the cycling, without the work, how to manage that?
Must get going here, as well, thanks tejanarusa, enjoyed the visit.
Nice reminder of why I ignore the front page nowadays.
And this from the ‘News Desk’. Can we have DDay back please?!
If there are stories that you’d like Dan to be covering, or perspectives you think he should be exploring, the best way to make that happen is probably to go into the comments and let him know. He’s been very open to suggestion.
Thanks Jane. I just felt that this most recent post was quite ‘tabloid-esque’. Between things like this, Dayen leaving, and TBogg (whom I have a personal aversion to, since he told a commenter to ‘blow’ him), the front page hasn’t been a favorite place for me of late.
I’ll alert Dan if I catch a story that I don’t see covered here.
Here’s something that Occupy Supply may find of interest –
Thanks Kris, I really appreciate it.
DDay would have written something about the kerfuffle, too, I imagine. There just would have been a several hard news posts up within a few minutes of it. DW has written some good stuff, and he has very. big. shoes to fill.
Morning all. I’m back at the capitalist cesspool this a.m. It was a nice holiday break. *sigh*
I think DDay would have mentioned it in passing in a larger piece. I could be completely wrong, but following him on Twitter right now, he’s all over different aspects of the deal, while not paying particular attention to The Great Orange Boner’s outburst.
I’m back at work this AM as well. Not nearly as much to catch up on as a feared there would be, but I’ve still got a pretty full plate for the next few days.
Hi, ysd. How ya doing? How’s your little buddy, Nagi?
Happy New Years, Over Easiers.
We had a nice trip and are glad to be home. Got in late last night and were happy to sleep in our own bed.
Didn’t follow politics for four days, but it seems it doesn’t take much to get caught up.
One of the nice things about getting away is getting a little bit of a new perspective on things.
We were in Mt. Pleasant, Utah where it was down to single digits at night in a very isolated historic pioneer town. And, we stopped and spent some time in the Valley of Fire in Nevada near the Hoover Dam on the way home yesterday. Incredibly gorgeous land.
demi! Welcome back,girlfriend! Glad you had a nice break and are home safe.
I just came by to see if anyone was here, and to post this neat thing I just came across.
h/t credit to Brian Mathews, at the Chronicle of Higher Education blog, “The Ubiquitous Librarian.”
Just so cool!
:) Thanks, tejanarusa.
Er. Mah. Gerd! *squeals*
Glad you’re back (((demi)))
Funny you should ask. Remember Richard explaining that the cats were not allowed on his covered porch because they would claw through the screen and get out? Weeeeeellllll… Nagi finished clawing a hole in our screen door that Abner started and *poof* he was gone! Just like that.
We walked up and down the hill by our house with flashlights, kitty calls, and a can of toona. When we finally came back dejected after not finding him after a harrowing search, the boys came out of the house and spotted Nagi in the neighbor’s yard. At that point, he came to the toona. All that carousing must have piqued his appetite. So… Nagi has lived up to his escape artist reputation in addition to his cabinet scaling, cat hatting, and general mischievious attitude.
BTW, if anyone has not seen bgrothus’ diary Countdown to Jail, it is a must read.
http://my.firedoglake.com/bgrothus/2013/01/02/countdown-to-jail/
Phew! Losing Nagi would be a double whammy. So glad he’s back!!
Hey ya, Kris.
Hope you’re family enjoyed the holiday. We did.
Now, I have a beef blade in the slow cooker for dinner. And, later I’ll start taking down the tree and putting the other holiday decorations away.
New Year. New Clean. New ways of facing my life.
Hugs to you.
News ways….Sounds interesting. Welcome back. If you didn’t see my note about about Peace Pilgrim it may interest you. Happy New Year to yours and the folks….
Wow.
Me too. It freaked me out, seriously. He just hasn’t spent enough time at our house to feel a sense of permanence or loyalty, so getting out is a huge problem. Hopefully by the summer he can venture out into the yard or deck with no problem, but it is waaaay to soon to even think about letting him outside.
Oh.My.Gawd. nooooooo…wait..you found him?! Whew! Oh, thank thelord thank dog, thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
All that agony and trouble (and er, cash) to have gone through to rescue him…and then to lose him like that…would just be unbearable. I can imagine what you were going through.
So glad you had help in the search. More eyes surely help to find the escapee.
Do you suppose there’s any hope of getting him to wear a collar? Or perhaps he should be microchipped tout suite?
Such a silly cat…and no doubt the only thing in his mind was wheeee!!!! Freeeeee! New smells!!!!!freeeeeee!!!
Wow. (Nagi! Stay home! Stay with yellowsnapdragon! She loves your crazy little cat self!) (secret cat telepathy)
ysd, thanks for the headsup on bgrothus’s diary. Reading it now.