This Might Be Steven Wright

I might be stealing from the comic I most love, Steven Wright, with the deadest pan there is, but here is a thought for the day:

Protons have mass? I didn't know they were Catholics!

Yeah, I'm sorta blotto today. The Good Coffee Man didn't come today so I'm drinking company coffee. Company coffee is what we are provided (company Perk--pun intended) and it goes through a machine that cannot be cleaned. I am not sure I want to contemplate what might be in the coffee maker after years of uncleanness. The coffee is dreadful but it has caffiene in it and just enough coffee flavor to make me feel okay about
not stopping to buy something waaaaaay better. I would have been late to work and I would have had to get into my change to buy an Americano, one of the cheapest drinks available. That would have made me feel like a junky, which I'm not really.....really, I'm not. Really.

Winning Limerick

The Washington Post runs a weekly contest in its Style section called the "Style Invitational." The requirements this week were to use the two words, Lewinsky (The Intern) and Kaczynski (the Unabomber) in the same limerick. Remember, the following winning entries were printed in the newspaper:


The winning entry:

Lewinsky and Clinton have shown
What Kaczynski must surely have known
That an intern is better
Than a bomb in a letter
When deciding how best to be blown

Spooky

Is it just me or is this little baby creature made out of Marzipan just a little spooky? Tell me what you think.

Blogs Are Us

Let's try a new font, just for the heck of it! What's up today? I discovered a new blog, thanks to my friend, Bookworm. It's middledaughter.blogspot and it's really fine. This person is an artist and she writes like one--colorfully and without restraint. I look forward to reading her posts. She puts in a little something about the TV she guiltily watches. I don't watch anything guiltily! I watch lots of it with great relish and enjoy the ability to record bunches of it so I can watch even more! I am bad, bad! Anyway, this year I am particularly enjoying Lost. My male mate says he has never seen me "into" a TV show like I am "into" this one. He's right. I'm rivited. Don't really know why, either. Usually I can figure these things out, but not with this show. I used to love X-Files. Maybe it's like that--there are likable people such as Hurley (the BIG GUY) and the doctor and you NEVER know what's going to happen next! Some people, like my Male Mate, don't like that we don't know what's going to happen, or that the plot is all over the place, but I do! Suprise me, I say! And take that Reality Show Crap off. Stop doing that. Fiction has been popular for thousands of years because we like made up stories! We like to end the chapter not knowing how the next one will begin.

And I started a new (old really) Anne Tyler novel yesterday--Celestial Navigation. It's cozy to read Tyler because you know she's going to write about quirky families. But, as with Lost, you never know where she's going to go with them. I just finished Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, and it's worth recommending, especially, if, like me, you are married to a half-Greek, and you want to know more about how Greek families operate. There's lots more to it than that, but that got me started.

Over and out for today.

Blog Discovery

I was just fooling around today and I found an interesting blog called The Movie Review Diary, www.dvdlovers.blogspot.com . I found the reviews interesting but especially interesting were the comments on the reviews. Go there some time and see what you think. Also interesting is my friend Kay's new blog, called Book Worm. Her address is www.clearcreekgirl.blogspot.com. Check her out, too. She is a professional writer and always has interesting ideas about books, movies and life.

Link to Son

I am trying to put a link to my son's blog on this post, because I think he has one of note. It's fun to read. I'm not sure the link is going to be there however, so I will also type it here. http://plasticporkbone.typepad.com This has been a great link to my son in the communicative sense also, as I am not great for making phone calls at the end of a working day and neither is he. The email and blog have been a boon to our "relationship", mother/son. I am getting to know a son that is a grownup, but mysteriously has many of the same thoughts as I do about irritants in the world and other important business. I just wish I could get his sisters to be as dedicated to their blogs as he is.

A Good Daddy

Today I want to write about what a great father my son is. I hope my daughters don't mind. I think they are great and wonderful mothers and I always have thought so. But for some reason when a son shows what a good father he can be, it's surprising. It's as if we expect our daughters to do well because we taught them how to be compassionate and caring and supportive. We taught them (in most cases) how to cook and clean. Even if we've tried with our boys to teach them all the same things sometimes it just doesn't take. In my son's case, something very wonderful took place. He loves his daughter deeply and you can see it in the way it hurts him when she cries. He understands that his wife will be tired and need help and you can see that when he takes over the baby when he comes home from work and when he cooks good dinners for his wife to keep her healthy. He realizes that the Grandparents of his new little girl are far away and need to see pictures of his daughter and so he provides them on his website with regularity.

I can't take all the credit for this--his Dad took good care of him when he was a baby. But I'd like to think that I did something right in order to produce such a good and kind son, husband and Daddy. I must have done the same things with my daughters, because they exhibit the same qualities. However, if any of them had turned out to be a bank robber, I would take no credit for that at all!

Bird Creating News

Who else is annoyed by this Bird Flu crap? If there's nothing we can do about it, no virus to take, absolutely no precautions for us, except for maybe staying away from Fowl, then why do we have to hear about how threatened we are? I would prefer ignorance, at least until the horrible stuff gets here. CNN, USA Today, all the biggies are reporting what "could" happen. Today it was "Bird Flu Could Spell Economic Disaster"! Good grief. I could get hit by a car when I go out to get lunch, but will I? Probably not! I hope, I hope, I hope it never comes and "they" all look like the "News Idiots" they are. http://www.usatoday.com I wish we had Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite back. They would never use the words "could" or "might".

Three Girls in Scotland

In the Spring of 2006 my mother, my daughter and I are going to Scotland together. It occurs to me that my other daughter hasn't heard this news yet, and won't if she never looks at this blog. But that's not why I'm writing about this trip. I'm writing because I think it will be the trip of a lifetime. I haven't seen my Norfolk Daughter in several years now. She's pretty good about email, when I nudge her, so we've been in contact, but I haven't gotten to hug her or look upon her pretty face for a long, long time. She hasn't seen her Grandmother in lots longer than that. It's at least 12 years since she has lived here, where her Grandmother resides. Her Grandmother, my Mother, is 83. I have to take her somewhere really special before she becomes fragile, which luckily hasn't happened yet. Scotland is the place her ancestors on her mother's side come from and the ancestors have been the subject of Norfolk Daugher's research in the past few years, so it became Scotland.

I've always felt a connection to that other very green land and I have discovered the novels of Diana Gibauldon, so I am eager to see the Highlands and the other areas we'll be visiting. I want to learn how to speak in a Scottish brogue, too. I am very excited to see my daughter and mother get reaquainted. For Christmas I will give my mother a new suitcase with things in it for her trip--a travel journal among them. My mother writes in a diary almost every day and is in a Writer's Group, where she goes weekly with her writing assignment.

I will have lots to report after that trip I am sure. About my Mom, my Daughter and very likely, about myself.

Fast One

This is going to be a fast one. My son, the tech whiz, says change your blog so we can comment even if we aren't members, so I have done that. Welcome all who wish to say stuff! I am sure my Son would like to comment on the "rant" comment I made about him. I hope he understands that I am very interested in all his rants! This morning my rant has to do with "the other Grandma" and how often she is seeing my new Granddaughter, Alison! It's not fair! But, as I've told everyone I know, life isn't fair. At least I have pictures, though I've not yet seen a picture of Alison and her new teeth! Maybe this site will be a Grandmother Rant.

Virgin Blog

Okay, folks, this is my very first post to my very own blog. I have never had a blog and have only commented on other's blogs. So who will read this one? Maybe my kids. Who else would be interested in a 61 year old, happily married grandmother of 5? Well, who cares anyway? My daughter's blogs seem to be about their health and personal interests. My son's blog is pretty much one big rant. I think mine will be a combination of the two.

My rant for today? The credit union website, where I went to try to pay a bill. Some goofy page came up that asked if I had a new email address and when I told it I didn't, it wouldn't go anywhere, just sat there, mocking me. When I got out of that page and tried again, credit union told me, "Oh, no, can't log in twice!" Ack!!! So that's how I ended up here!