08:43 – Work on building science kit inventory continues. While she watched basketball and golf yesterday afternoon, Barbara labeled about 800 bottles, enough for about 20 more kits. She’ll probably do about the same number this afternoon.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
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Never liked b-ball; and isn’t watching gold sorta like watching paint dry? My mom used to watch it all the time, too; maybe it’s relaxing or something. I only played it once in my life about fifteen years ago on a company shindig and it was kinda fun; gorgeous April day in north-central Maffachufetts.
19 here this morning, with chill factuh during the nights into the single digits. Flood warning in the state the other day, high wind advisories, etc., normal March.
Wife back from Kalifornia this past Wednesday and now off today to Colorado for the week. Back for a day next weekend and then a week-long gig within the state, at the capital, at least.
You find golf boring? Try test cricket. Up to five days * six hours per day. I find it interesting sometimes, but I try to have a book handy and just look up when something interesting happens. Same with golf.
I’m reliably informed by cricket fans that I am a barbarian, but I also can’t watch it. Probably my deficient understanding of the rules, but it seems to me that cricket matches must cater to the upper crust – I mean, who else has the leisure to spend days watching a single game. More of a social event than a sport…
I haven’t been to a cricket game in about 40 years but I can watch it on TV. I keep a book handy though.
Brad, do you drink tea? If so you cannot be a barbarian.
Nope, I dislike tea… Another nail in the coffin, I’m afraid. Coffee and coke, beer and whisky are my drinks of choice…
Not together, I hope.
I guess you could boost the caffeine hit by pouring cola rather than water into your coffee maker. Won’t need to sugar either, if you normally do. Though I don’t know what would happen when you boil carbonated cola. Would it rupture the heating pipe or just come out really fast from the upper nozzle? Tell you what, if I break the carafe of my coffee maker, I’ll try it and report on the results. (If the carafe breaks, it’s about a dollar more to replace the entire coffee maker than to replace just the carafe.)
It is Saint Patrick’s Day, so for those of you who drink coffee and booze, there is a natural combination awaiting you thereby.
I will celebrate later with a nice turkey reuben sammich and some lowfat chocolate milk. Yeah, I live an exciting life up here; I noticed that Mrs. OFD left a couple of bottles of vino but I have zero interest; we could have a fully-stocked wet bah here and it would do nothing for me. As the saying goes, one is not enuff and more than one is too many. Three and a half years of clean and sober so fah, while knowing I walk a tightrope the rest of my wacky life.
But other than that, yep, I’m a barbarian. Descended from same, mostly from northwestern Europe. And a barbarian in a Vermont Flannel shirt is still a barbarian.
I’m wearing a flannel shirt even as we speak (so to speak), though I don’t know if it’s Vermont flannel, or a Vermont shirt, or whatever “Vermont” was modifying up there.
A former coworker told me on the first day on the contract that his ancestors were tribesmen around Finland, whom the vikings considered too barbaric to deal with. I carefully didn’t mention that he’s a career government employee, a middle manager, the carrier of notable swivel-chair spread, and, honestly, such a nice and gentle-spoken guy that even I didn’t dislike him. I think he’s letting down his ancestors, if he thought enough of them to mention them to a new acquaintance.
Hey lookie, one of the signs of the four horsemen is descending upon Europe:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/17/us-cyprus-parliament-idUSBRE92G03I20130317
Just go out and grab 10% of all the savings accounts in the Great nation of Cyprus. One wonders at the audacity of the elites. And then, I wonder who is next? Why not just take it all?
“Many Cypriots, having contributed to bailouts for Ireland, Portugal and Greece – Greece’s second bailout contributed to a debt restructuring that blew the 4.5 billion euro hole in Cyprus’s banking sector – are aghast at their treatment by Europe.”
A lot of folks are gonna be a lot more than aghast in the next few years in Europe and elsewhere.
I note that the Picture of the Week at that link shows that some Americans still care about what goes on in The Suck and The Sandbox.
I don’t get the Cyprus thing either. Just how can one legally justify government theft directly from individual bank accounts? Of course, governments are experts at theft and at the legalization of their own actions, but this reaches entirely new territory within Europe!
None of the governments in the EU have come out and acknowledged the real problem, i.e., that governments have simply gotten to expansive. As Jerry P. is fond of saying: what cannot continue will eventually stop. This level of EU-wide expenditure cannot continue, but the politicians seem determined to ram full-speed into a cliff, rather than applying the brakes gently. Depressing…