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Google Waffles?
2009-05-04 18:46:00
I did not, after all, have a Sticky Waffle Sandwich. But the waffles did stick to the bagel when I picked up the bagel, and I just shrugged and ate them together, so I guess I had an Open Faced Sticky Waffle Sandwich. (TM!)Also, I'm proud to say that on the very first day I used that phrase, if you Google "Sticky Waffle Sandwich," you'll find "Thinking The Lions" there at 7th -- Front Page!Let's make me Number One -- go Google "sticky waffle sandwich" and then click on that link, or link to me using Sticky Waffle Sandwich as the link text; let me know (via email to "thetroublewithroy[at]yahoo.com" or via comment) and I'll link you back.

But I had an excuse, whereas The Boy had none. (The Found Alphabet, E)
2009-05-04 17:10:00
There is a cautionary tale about the letter "E."The "E" shown here is found in the word "Exit" which sits atop the sign for "John Nolen Drive" in Madison. I decided to use that "E" for the Found Alphabet because The Boy had a near-miss accident not long ago when he was driving to go to a girls' basketball game in the state tournament. He took the "John Nolen Drive" exit too fast and ended up skidding off the road.When I asked him what happened, he said "I hydroplaned." I said "It's sunny and dry." He eventually admitted he'd been going too fast and has since had his driving restricted.Last week, when I decided to use that "E" for the Found Alphabet, I retraced The Boy's steps, and had to then take out my cell phone camera and snap the picture and then get off the ramp -- and nearly skidded off the road because I'd been more intent on taking the picture than slowing down.Letter "D" is here.
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If you really wanted a food fight, one could probably be arranged.
2009-05-04 17:04:00
When I think about how many classes I didn't go to in college -- and when I think about how kids in classes now sit there with laptops and wireless Internet so that they're equally as likely to be surfing the Net as they are to be listening to the professor -- I think more and more that the idea of online schools makes sense.Why do people have to go to a brick-and-mortar location to sit in a brick-and-mortar classroom at times that are convenient for the professor but maybe not so convenient for the student? Why, especially, do they have to do that if they're older, or going for a second degree, or live far away from the college they would otherwise attend?Online schools, I think, are getting more and more accepted these days as employers come to understand that just sitting in a class doesn't guarantee the student is learning anything, and that the people who are willing to take an online class or classes are getting the same education but are more motivated and more likely to...
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Quote of the Day, 26:
2009-05-04 15:45:00
"I tried some of Quentin's dog food yesterday. It tasted like beef jerky."-- The Boy, talking about his friend's dog's food.I have nothing else to add to that beyond this:When I said "Why would you taste dog food?" The Boy said "Because it tasted just like beef jerky."
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Kramer carried crackers in his. (Commutation 12)
2009-05-04 15:36:00
There were two things that occupied my mind on the way into work today, distracting me from listening to talk radio, and by far the most important thought was this: I wonder how good fake Tupperware is?I had to wonder that because in my briefcase... and you'll like this, because I'm sure you've always wondered what a lawyer carries in his briefcase... in my briefcase was my lunch, and my laptop from work. I'd taken the laptop home from work because my laptop at work has "Windows Movie Maker" on it and I wanted to begin transforming the 173,000,000 videos and photos we have of the kids into DVDs. (See how computers enhance productivity?)My lunch for today is waffles with syrup and a raisin bagel (and, yes, I may just make a Sticky Waffle Sandwich out of it, putting the waffles between the bagel halves. Or the bagels between two waffles. It doesn't really matter, does it?)Or does it?The anticipation of a delicious lunch was offset by the constant worrying that the syrup woul...
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At least we got rid of the basketball.
2009-05-04 15:30:00
I'm watching anxiously to see if the landscaping I've tried to do in our yard over the last five years is going to start fulfilling its promise. I've been working and working to convert what was a boring and half-dead slice of lawn into a perennial garden, planting more or less a random set of bushes and flowers and trees, anything I could get for $2 at one of the discount garden centers around here.I had to start the project, and finish the project, that way because I didn't think I had the funds or the know-how to hire a landscaper. Then, this morning, I was googling for cheap plants to fill in some of the vacant areas where we ripped out the shed, and I find this atlantalands012 website: E&J Landscaping of Atlanta, with a great-looking website that has all kinds of tips on choosing a landscaper, including this one that makes perfect sense and which I've never thought of before: If a landscaper's been in business 5 or more years, they should have some results you can go ...
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If you read this, SuperSkinny Lady, please contact me to clear up the myste
2009-05-03 15:35:00
The Laundromat's dryers smell.If I had thought about it, which I had never before yesterday, I would have probably hoped to have lived the rest of my life without finding out that the laundromat's dryers smell, and without, then, wondering what kinds of clothes are so dirty that after they are washed, they smell so bad that they stink up the dryer?But, then, life takes you down interesting paths sometimes, and sometimes those paths take you to the laundromat twice in just a few months, and at the laundromat you will sit and think "I'm forty years old. Why am I sitting in a laundromat wondering what people have to do to their clothes to get the smell to carry over to a dryer?"Sweetie and I had to go to the laundromat yesterday, a trip that was necessitated by the computer in our washer breaking down. We've only had the washer for a few months, and already its computer is broken, which makes me wonder this about American society:Why do washers need computers?On the list of applian...
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I also was watching "Cinemax After Dark" for work-related research.
2009-05-03 15:27:00
With May 1 arriving this week, Sweetie began her annual selection of a new swimsuit, an event that prompted me to ask her "What happened to that one that you had, the New York/Statue of Liberty themed swimsuit?"What happened to it, apparently, happened seven or eight years ago, which is how long it's been since Sweetie wore that suit. She gets a new one every year, as she told me last week, and getting that new one is a long, arduous process involving at least two or three trips to the store, wandering through the swimsuit section, picking out three or four swimsuits, buying them, taking them home, deciding she doesn't like those, and restarting the whole process.Because I am sympathetic to Sweetie, and because I have a great deal of interest in seeing her in a swimsuit, I have taken it upon myself this morning to help her cut that process short and get all the bathing suits she could want just by pointing and clicking. See, I've been looking at AmiClubWear, "the positive place ...
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The bumper cars would be by e e cummings. (Sunday's Poem 15)
2009-05-03 14:13:00
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280) by Emily DickinsonI felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading ? treading ? till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through ?And when they all were seated,A Service, like a Drum ?Kept beating ? beating ? till I thoughtMy Mind was going numb ?And then I heard them lift a BoxAnd creak across my SoulWith those same Boots of Lead, again,Then Space ? began to toll,As all the Heavens were a Bell,And Being, but an Ear,And I, and Silence, some strange RaceWrecked, solitary, here ?And then a Plank in Reason, broke,And I dropped down, and down ?And hit a World, at every plunge,And Finished knowing ? then ?____________________________________I was never a fan of Emily Dickinson's. I never got her, to be honest. But I'm still reading that August 4, 2008 edition of the New Yorker -- the New Yorker is the only magazine I actually read cover-to-cover -- and I got to an article that reviewed a book about Emily Dickinson, and that actu...
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I should call this entry something catchy like "The Artful Dodger," only th
2009-05-03 14:05:00
Maybe it's just the "Little Einsteins" influence, but I'm thinking more and more about art these days."Little Einsteins," for anyone who's not the parent of a two-year-old and/or in trouble with the library, are the group of 4 kids who go on adventures punctuated by music and art; each episode features a different artist and the art works its way into the episode. Like yesterday's episode, which Mr F and I watched raptly while playing "Tickle Bugs," the Einsteins had to chase down a train that turned out to have been drawn by Andy Warhol.I watch those shows and then look around at the "art" we have on our walls -- mostly pictures of family and that frisbee I bought in California when we played Frisbee Golf with my sister, plus that drawing of "Wedding Bowl With Fruit" I made using a charcoal pencil.My point is: We need more art. Also, that Andy Warhol train barely tried to get away from the Einsteins. But mostly We need more art.Take the picture at the start of this post. I...
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Viva O'Laughlin: Sweetie's Hunk of the Week (14)!
2009-05-02 14:13:00
Sweetie's Hunk of the Week is... Alex O'Laughlin?You/Sweetie Know Him As: ...a guy who was on "Criminal Minds" the other night, and also in something Sweetie said was called "Moonlight," about vampires. I pointed out to her that it's Twilight that's about vampires. So, you and Sweetie know him as that guy from Twilight.I know him as: I don't know him at all. When Sweetie said "Alex O'Laughlin," all I could think of was Viva Laughlin and that scene they showed on The Soup of that guy singing that Elton John song. So, I guess, I know him as that guy who sang that Elton John song.Thing That Makes You Go Hmmm About Him: There is no star too obscure to have a fan site, it seems, and the Elton-John-singing-guy-from-Twilight is no exception: Adoring Alex ("We strive to be your #1 fan source" for Alex O'Laughlin... as though the competition is fierce?) was set up by a loyal fan of his (who knew Sweetie could program HTML?) . The #1 fan source about Alex O'Laughlin lists his hei...

As part of my rise to the top, I will invent the world's first "Cookie Pizz
2009-05-02 14:03:00
A while back, over on The Best of Everything, I wrote up what I thought would be The Best Job To Have When You Get Tired Of Having Your Own Job, and the job I picked (Guiness World Record Confirmer) was indeed a good one... as were all the other jobs I sometimes long to have.But I left one out: Cookie store owner. I would love to own a cookie store. Here's the pros & cons:CONS: Trouble deciding which cookies to eat first for breakfast; weekly need to buy larger set of pants because current pants keep "shrinking in the wash."PROS: Cookies.(Note: In my current life, my pants exhibit a disturbing trend to shrink in the wash, too. Sweetie needs to be more careful and it has nothing to do with cold pizza leftovers.)Additional PRO that I just remembered: ... including Macadamia Nut Chocolate Chip Cookies.What's gotten me thinking about cookies this morning? More than usual, I mean? The ad I saw for owning a cookie franchise from Mrs. Fields. They've got a site that shows a...
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Does anyone even REMEMBER Alice Cooper Anymore (What's That Song About, 7?)
2009-05-01 22:16:00
Today's song is not so much "a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a tortilla" as it is just kind of an interesting look at different cultures. The song is Bebo by The Saw Doctors.What I Thought It Was About: With a name like "Bebo," and being by a group named The Saw Doctors, I assumed when I downloaded it without ever hearing it before that it'd be some kind of guitar-heavy rocker, maybe about a crazy guy named Bebo. That's what having seen the movies Saw and Saw II will do to you... it'll make you link the word Saw with crazies and murders. (I imagined The Saw Doctors as being a cross between The Spin Doctors and Alice Cooper , as well.)Here, then, is the song: "Bebo"What It's Actually About: "Bebo," as it turns out, isn't a giant, ham-handed killer who somehow grew to be 7 feet tall with a doughy face, bad combover, and strangely-untucked blue denim shirt who roams the back alleys of Milwaukee armed only with the baseball bat given to him on his 7th birthday by his ...
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Then again, I can't be sure the CATS weren't breaking in.
2009-05-01 22:06:00
I am nothing if not cautious. Having grown up being raised to believe that everyone is a serial killer, and having lived in Milwaukee near actual serial killers, I believe in having my home be secure.So I lock windows, I lock doors, I make sure that we have lights around the house, and I felt pretty safe, until the night I thought I heard someone trying to get into our living room windows -- low to the ground, away from the street -- during a time when people were having homes broken into in our house.I did the only thing I could do: Grab the nearest weapon (A copy of "Doonsebury's Greatest Hits") and made my way downstairs to find... that it was the cats making noise. That lesson taught me that it's important to have even more security than I thought we needed. I don't want to have to defend my family using a softcover comic - strip collection. Protect America can give me the extra security I'd like -- and they can do it for a price I like... FREE.They've got this wireless ...
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Some lucky anonymous person will soon be a lucky anonymous person in a cool
2009-05-01 17:45:00
The stats on Lulu.com today, show that TWO people have now bought Eclipse-- Lisa Pepin -- writer and Rosemary-alm0st-planter-- got her copy and now a new buyer who picked up a downloaded copy at the ultra-cheap price of... whatever it is. It's like $1.25. I don't know who bought it, but odds are, you read my stuff, so remember, send a picture of you reading the story, and you get a free Eclipse t-shirt. (You, too, Lisa!)Email it to: thetroublewithroy [at] yahoo.comThe rest of you: Eclipse is the haunting, scary, fascinating story of Claudius, who wanted to be the first man to reach the stars... and maybe he was.Buy it at Lulu.com for almost free! Not convinced? Check out the free first chapter at Scribd. 310 other people already have.
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Warning: This Headline (And Post) Will Create Disturbing Images Of A Grown
2009-05-01 17:39:00
I'm slowly learning that it makes sense to ask questions. It's taken 40 years, but I'm getting there. For example, I've found that it pays to ask your boss "Hey, do you mind if I take the day off?" instead of just not going in and spending the day watching Spongebob Squarepants in your pajamas. And I learned that after only three jobs.Another place it pays to ask questions? Finding out about web hosting sites. Web hosting is serious business -- as I've learned from other people, people who set up their sites on inferior web hosts and had nothing but troubles from them. You set up a website, you want it to work and you want it to work good -- but you don't want to pay through the nose for it, and who's got time to search through the probably-billions of web hosts out there and find out which ones are cheap & reliable?WebHostingChoice, that's who. You don't have time to dig into the details of all the web hosts that can be found (there's Spongebobs to watch, after ...
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Question of the Day, 57:
2009-05-01 16:13:00
"How is that ironic?"-- Me, to Matt the other day.My brother, Matt, mentioned to me the other day that he'd gone on a cruise with his family not too long ago. I asked him the same thing I ask everyone who I know has gone somewhere: "Did you send me a postcard?"I collect postcards, you see. I have probably 200 of them from all over the world. So if I know someone's going somewhere, I tell them to send me a postcard. When I found out Matt (who knows about the whole Postcard Collection Thing) had gone somewhere, I asked him if he'd sent me a postcard."No, that's ironic," he said. "I had a postcard to send you, one I picked out and wrote and was ready to mail, but I just didn't mail it."So I said: "How is that ironic? It sounds more like lazy."
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It worked better than the yawn-and-stretch move.
2009-05-01 16:04:00
Last night,The Boy suspected something was up. While I was out with the twins running errands, Sweetie had come home from working out, and had some ice cream she'd bought. She told me what happened:She came in, told The Boy she had ice cream and that she was going to sit out on the front steps and listen to music and eat some ice cream."Why?" Said The Boy. "What are you up to? What's going on?" He was mystified by Sweetie's decision to just sit outside away, from the TV, away from the computer, just her and nature and the sky and her ice cream and some music. He found it very, very odd. So much so that when I said, on hearing the story "That sounds nice. Maybe I'll do it?" he exploded and said "What are you two doing out there?"Sitting outside is an option that we have only near the end of April or beginning of May, though. We live near a lake, and have a ton of trees and leafy bushes and flowers and plants in our yard, plus on the other side of the house, a half-mile a...
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"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." (Take A Book For Charity, 7
2009-05-01 13:36:00
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} Did you know there's a website where you can compare celebrity heights? There is, and I found it by accident this morning trying to look up how to contact Keir Dullea, who's next in line to be asked to Take a Book For Charity . Keir, you'll remember, was one of the two astronauts in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (foreshadowing... predict who's next to get asked to Take a Book...) and I thought it might be a neat thing for someone to have a copy of ...
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Quote of the Day, 25:
2009-04-30 16:12:00
"The people that suffer are Matt Stafford..."-- One of the "Dan Patrick Show" commentators, this morning.If you don't follow sports, you may not know that Matt Stafford is the college kid who just got drafted by the Detroit Lions and got a contract that guarantees him $42 million.That's: $42,000,000. Guaranteed.Talking about those salaries and the salary cap and that kind of thing on the Dan Patrick show this morning, one of the commentators made that absolutely leotarded (thanks, Dan Savage) statement that Matt Stafford, who is guaranteed $42,000,000, could somehow be suffering as a result of that.Matt Stafford is guaranteed, at the age of about 22, to be paid $42,000,000 in his lifetime, even if he never completes a single pass, never scores a point, never does anything worthwhile in any sense of the word. Matt Stafford could toss nothing but interceptions from here on out until he is cut, and he will be paid $42,000,000.To keep that in perspective: Matt Stafford is 22. He...
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I got a little misty-eyed writing this, but it's probably just my computer
2009-04-30 16:02:00
It's tough to boil down all the fond memories we have of our Mom. Ask someone -- me, for example-- what their ABSOLUTE most favorite memory of Mom is and you can almost see the mental sorting going on: the time she dropped me off at college and said she wouldn't hug me so she didn't embarrass me, and then hugged me anyway? When she was a Cub Scout den mother and helped me learn to do a backwards somersault so I could get my Wolf badge? Taking us to the beach at Pewaukee Lake on the last day of summer before I began sixth grade?Any of those could be in the running for my best memory of my Mom, but I like to focus on a different one: Mom taking me to the library when I was a kid. The Hartland Public Library was located just a few miles from our house, and Mom went there a lot. She was a great reader and probably has read a thousand books for every one you or I have read.I remember the first time she took me there, to get my library card and begin checking out books. After I...
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Scenes From Grocery Shopping.
2009-04-29 15:38:00
Last night, I took Mr F and Mr Bunches grocery shopping with me, giving Sweetie and the older kids a break. Mr F, Sweetie warned me, was grumpy and hadn't had a nap all day. I soon learned that was true. This is Mr F ten minutes after we got in the car, just as we arrived at the grocery store:His lips are orange because I gave him a nutritious dinner of Cheese Puffs and milk. The grocery shopping itself was uneventful -- and by "uneventful" I mean "spent telling Mr Bunches to please keep up if he doesn't want to ride in the cart, and also having the boys eat a half-package of chocolate chip cookies before we got to the checkout." But I did notice this:"Toasted Oats: A Toasted Oat Cereal." In case the name wasn't clear enough for you. I was going to buy a box and pour myself a bowl of it with some Milk: A Milk Drink, and then eat it with a Spoon: A Spoon Utensil.Yes, I know -- I'm copying Lisa Pepin's Lost In Provence in making fun of things at grocery stores. All I will...
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Someday, you'll see my book on Mulberry Street (Keeping My Chin Up, 2)
2009-04-28 15:31:00
Every day, I send out at least one query letter or submission of some sort as I shop around my writing and try to break into publication. I locate publishers and agents online and in print, and I make sure to always check out their websites and catalogs to see if they're accepting submissions or queries, and how to send them in.Most of the time, I hear nothing back. That can be tough, but I'm used to it. So somebody requested that I send them the first 50 pages of my book Up So Floating Many Bells Down, and then never ever got in touch with me again? Their loss, not mine.But what I don't like is the annoying parts, like yesterday when I get home and see an envelope returned from an agent that I'd sent a query-and-chapters to. The envelope was marked "Not on 39, not on 31, RTS." The agency I'd submitted to had listed right on its website that it was on the 39th floor. So I'd sent what they said they'd accept, and then someone, somewhere, tried that floor, and the 31st f...
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Tap-dancing is an underappreciated art form these days.
2009-04-28 15:24:00
Anyone can get clothes for everyday use almost everywhere you look -- even drugstores sell clothes and sneakers and, sometimes, at our drugstore, pants, I suppose in case you are sitting around thinking I need some cough medicine and pants, but I don't want to run to two different places...But those are clothes for everyday wear. What if you need specialized clothing, like, say,dancewear? Where do you go to find those? Not the drugstore. Not unless you either have a really great drugstore, or really don't care what you wear to dance in.Because I'm here for you, and because I spend 103% of my day surfing the Internet (that's possible, mathematically, if you work fast), I can give you the benefit of my advice: Skip the drugstore and go to the Capezio Dance website, instead.This is a website that's run by a group -- Ballet Makers, Inc. -- that is dedicated to providing innovative products and services for over 100 years, and they are showing that dedication by selling, online,...
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Quote of the Day, 24
2009-04-28 15:17:00
"The computer died... on the washer."-- Sweetie.Yesterday, seemingly everything went wrong at home. Sweetie called me up to tell me that the washer was not working. I was in my office, working on a brief. I said "Did you check if it's plugged in?" She said, yes, she had. I asked "Did you check and see if a fuse was blown?" She said she'd checked that, too.I sat there, for a second, and then said "Well, I really don't know what else I can do."Eventually, Sweetie decided she'd try to find the warranty information, then called me back and said "I called the number on the washer.""What number?" I asked."The 1-800 number on top of the washer."See, I would have called that first, before I called me. But she called and they sent a repairman and that resulted in Sweetie calling me, later, and saying the quote of the day, exactly as I've written it: "The computer died... [pause pause pause about two seconds long, which is a long pause]... on the washer." And in that 2-second pa...
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It's Not About Lights In The Sky... (Take a Book For Charity, 6)
2009-04-27 13:50:00
After looking up the Paradigm Research Group for my post yesterday on The Best of Everything (it was about aliens!), I decided they might be interested in helping Mateo and McHale Shaw, so here's a copy of the email I sent out this morning:Mr. Stephen Bassett Executive Director Paradigm Research GroupMr. Bassett, I am writing to request that your group help raise funds for twin boys in Wisconsin who need help paying their medical bills.The boys are Mateo and McHale Shaw. They were born conjoined twins and need ongoing medical care. They have exhausted their insurance coverage and rely on donations to continue to pay for medical care. To help them, I have started a program called "Take a Book For Charity ," in which I ask people to use a donated copy of my novel, "Eclipse" and do something interesting or charitable with it, after which I will auction it off and donate all proceeds to the Shaw twins. "Eclipse" is a sci-fi horror story about an astronaut who maybe went into space, ...
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I'm feeling critical today: (Sunday's Poem 14)
2009-04-26 15:25:00
Playgrounds by Laurence Alma-TademaIn summer I am very gladWe children are so small,For we can see a thousand thingsThat men can't see at all.They don't know much about the mossAnd all the stones they pass:They never lie and play amongThe forests in the grass:They walk about a long way off;And, when we're at the sea,Let father stoop as best he canHe can't find things like me.But, when the snow is on the groundAnd all the puddles freeze,I wish that I were very tall,High up above the trees.___________________________________ _I've been reading Shel Silverstein's "Where The Sidewalk Ends" to Mr F, three poems a night, usually, and I've come to a conclusion.Shel Silverstein is overrated.I had these memories of "Where The Sidewalk Ends" and knew that everyone loved it and remembered the good poems that everyone remembers, but when you read that whole book, beginning to end, you come up with this: A lot of the poems are junk. They don't have rhythm, they're not very clever,...
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If it helps make things sexier, I'll point out that Sweetie was reading a r
2009-04-26 15:18:00
Last night, Sweetie and I did something we almost NEVER do.Get your mind out of the gutter: I'm not talking about that. This is a family blog. PG-13. Mostly.No, what we did last night was sit in our living room and read. We'd put the Babies! to bed, and it was only 8:30. Sweetie said "What do you want to do?" and I said "I don't know, what do you want to do?"We are exciting, are we not? Sitting in our room was out -- I didn't want to become that guy that kinda goes to bed at 8:30 on a Saturday night, and sitting in bed at 8:30 is going to bed, isn't it? I'm already the guy who puts pajamas on at 3 in the afternoon on Saturday and justifies it by saying "We're not having company over, right?"But sitting down by the TV was out, too, as the older kids were down there and they were (a) crabby and (b) watching boring stuff on TV.So we sat in our living room and read, and that's when I realized why we never do that, why we never sit on our fancy couch in our fancy living r...
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This is how you beat The System. (First Thoughts)
2009-04-26 13:16:00
I was lazing around yesterday, sort of reading, and sort of watching the "Great Plains" episode of Planet Earth, and a commercial for a fancy mattress came on. I learned that I could, by calling in, get a brochure and a sample piece of the mattress.I immediately thought: I should get everyone I know to call in, get their piece, and create my own mattress.
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Sweetie's Hunk Of The Week (Let's go with #13)
2009-04-25 13:44:00
Sweetie's Hunk of the Week is A Guy You've Never Heard Of From "Smallville."You/Sweetie Know Him As: A guy from "The Fog?" God, I don't know. Here's what happened. I asked Sweetie who the Hunk of the Week was, and she said "Tom Welling." After I stared blankly and said "Who?" she said "He's on Smallville, but I know him from 'The Fog'." After I said "Who?" again, she said "It's him or Kip Winger."I Know Him As: "Who?" I didn't even remember his name when I got up this morning. I was going to go with Tom Wilson but then I thought to look up the Smallville cast on IMDB and found out it's Tom Welling. And he plays "Clark Kent." Not Superman. "Clark Kent."Thing That Makes You Go Hmmmm About Him: His very existence. Is Smallville even on TV anymore? He does have a fan site, though. It was last updated in November, 2008, but it does include this juicy bit of gossip about him:Is the second cousin of Reed Nilssen, Swedish snowboarder who received a bronze medal in ...