Random stuff: what it says on the tin...
Jul. 22nd, 2011 05:33 pm1) Today, the mercury in the thermometer (without factoring in the Heat Index) reads 102 F [39 C]. Question: is it better to turn off my Air Conditioning momentarily, to ease the strain on the local power grid, or to keep it running continuously, so it doesn't have to work as hard when I do turn it on again? The heat's gonna be the same tomorrow, so they say.
2) Today would have been my parents' 49th wedding anniversary. It was a true "Till Death do they Part" affair (Mother died in '91... Father never remarried... It wasn't until his deathbed that he admitted to me that that might have been a mistake, for loneliness). And, for the most part, it was a happy marriage... I mean, I'd come into the kitchen, sometimes, and find them kissing spontaneously, or dancing to the radio (Sometimes with each other, sometimes with the dogs). I'm the last one alive for whom remembering the day is important.
3) From the Lexiphile file: "Preposterous": "pre-post-erous" I.E: Latin for Ass-backwards, or, as we sometimes said, in grade school, to avoid a 'dirty' word: "Bass-ackwards". *grin*
4) I love what Google's doing, in honor of Alexander Calder's Birthday, today. Alexander Calder, like Jim Henson, and Richard Feynman, was one of the world's coolest guys. And speaking of Jim Henson, here's a YouTube clip of a film with Calder that we watched, one day, in my puppetry class, when I was in high school
5) Speaking of artsy stuff, will there be![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
naarmamo again, this year, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jekesta?
2) Today would have been my parents' 49th wedding anniversary. It was a true "Till Death do they Part" affair (Mother died in '91... Father never remarried... It wasn't until his deathbed that he admitted to me that that might have been a mistake, for loneliness). And, for the most part, it was a happy marriage... I mean, I'd come into the kitchen, sometimes, and find them kissing spontaneously, or dancing to the radio (Sometimes with each other, sometimes with the dogs). I'm the last one alive for whom remembering the day is important.
3) From the Lexiphile file: "Preposterous": "pre-post-erous" I.E: Latin for Ass-backwards, or, as we sometimes said, in grade school, to avoid a 'dirty' word: "Bass-ackwards". *grin*
4) I love what Google's doing, in honor of Alexander Calder's Birthday, today. Alexander Calder, like Jim Henson, and Richard Feynman, was one of the world's coolest guys. And speaking of Jim Henson, here's a YouTube clip of a film with Calder that we watched, one day, in my puppetry class, when I was in high school
5) Speaking of artsy stuff, will there be
naarmamo again, this year, jekesta?
