Tag: a personal note

How does this one grab you?

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The New York State Democrats (who else?), in their infinite wisdom have passed a bill that would remove the word “mother” from state law and replace it with the term “gestating parent”.  This is not a joke.  Would that it were.

Oh and the Dads will get their new term, also.  The bill,  9136,  would change  the word “father” to “non-gestating parent”.  These people are crazy.  This would also turn “paternity” cases into “parentage” proceedings.  This nonsensical terminology (and more) would be used throughout New York’s child custody, family court, domestic relations and education laws.  Boy,  is there ever going to be a huge bill just for the new stationery alone.  Freight-car loads of documents and forms will all have to be re-printed.  I wonder which politician’s brother has a printing company?

Governor Kathy Hochul is expected to sign the bill into law.  Of course she will.

There is really very little room left in this world for satire.

And on that joyful note, I will fold my tent.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody

Patty

It’s really getting hot now..

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Well, we seem to have turned the weather corner, and now it is full-blown summer.  It’s 92 right now.  Fortunately, my apartment stays cool, so I won’t have to put the A/C on until I start making supper.

Nothing major today–just the usual stuff.  Sometimes the usual stuff is good–no surprises.

Today is D day and  I have not heard or seen one word about it.

There used to be coverage of D day on the news, but it seems to have disappeared from sight.

Our kids are learning zip about history (even modern history), just as they are learning zip about most things. ( Transgenderism excepted).

On that rather low note, I will sign off.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

I swear I’ve got a mental block

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When I first took up the blog,  I was determined to keep up the format that Lee had in place.  Monday through Thursday, varied topics.  The only subjects that were scheduled were:  Joe Collidge on Friday, Byron the Quokka on Saturday, and Oy Rodney on Sunday.  Pretty simple, right?    Well it hasn’t turned out that way.  For some reason, Friday will roll around, and it will be getting later in the day, and I’ll suddenly realize–oh, crap!  I never posted Joe Collidge.  Maybe the problem is just that one day is so much like another around here, it can just slip past me.

It almost happened today–but I remembered.

It is sometimes very hard to learn a new habit.

Aside from that there is another issue that I have to address.  It is almost three months since Lee’s sensei picked up his sword.  I have put in two calls to him, just to find out if he had any buyers.   I am going to wait until the 19th (it will then be three months) and call him again.  If he would just at least return my calls, I would be a bit more at ease.

Nobody ever said life was easy.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

 

My Favorite Typos REPRINT

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From January 26, 2014

 

The invention of the keyboard was a boon to communication. It was also a boon to miscommunication.

I was reminded of this last night in a chat room, when someone typed in a little family anecdote involving his moth-in-law. Did this mean he had unusually intimate relationships with insects? In-laws are acquired by marriage. Who do you have to marry to acquire a moth-in-law? But of course he meant “mother-in-law,” and his fingers garbled the message.

Recently I was trying to find out how to buy a bearded lizard online. I’ve always loved reptile pets, and these little guys have become very popular. The “beard” is a threat display that pet lizards very rarely use.

For some reason, my fingers kept typing in “beaded lizard.” This is a very serious mistake. The Mexican beaded lizard is closely related to the Gila monster, only it’s a little bigger and a little more poisonous. What a difference a simple letter “r” makes.

Then there are “the Untied States of America”–a cryptic comment on our country’s future?–and flyers for “marital arts” schools in the neighborhood, and that ever-popular song that says, “These are a few of my favorite thighs.” And I’ve always been fond of “priates” and “Indains,” and “ture or flase” questions, and “simularity,” whatever that means.

The things we type should keep us humble.

Thus went Thursday

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First, let me say I can’t believe it’s Thursday already.  It seems the days, weeks, and months are really flying by.

We’re also in June, as well.  The half-point of the year.

Just can’t believe it.

I know time flies faster as you get older, because a specific time period represents a much shorter piece of your life.  Yeah, yeah, but it still seems to race by.

No major news from here today.

I did speak to Lee’s former editor at Chalcedon.  Susan is a great person and I wish she lived closer.  That’s another thing wrong with modern life.  Everybody is so far away.

Visiting is out, for me.  I drive, but only locally.  There is not enough money in the universe to tempt me onto an interstate highway.  Thanks, but no thanks.

Another sunny and warm day–we can always use those.

That’s it for today.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

PS in the picture (left to right) are Martis, Helki, Jandra, Jack, Lee, Ellayne, Ryons and Obst

An atrocious night.

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Last night, I watched some TV (on the computer, as usual) and went to bed.   A typical, normal night.  At one o’clock I woke up.  I mean really woke up.  No matter what I tried, I could not get back to sleep.  I tried milk, crackers, etc.  The usual remedies–all to absolutely no avail.  At around  five o clock I threw in the towel and got up.  Between 5 and 5:30 is my usual wake-up time, anyway.

Needless to say, I’ve felt like something from Zombie apocalypse all day.  Glad I accomplished what I had to yesterday, because today I was totally useless.  Insomnia is such a thief of time–it ruins the night in which you are trying to sleep, and it wrecks the next day.

I’ll admit I sure watched a lot of documentaries today.  That’s about all I was good for.  Thank heaven for all the interesting stuff that’s out there.  I really got into poisonous plants this afternoon.

As Hercule Poirot would say  “the little gray cells were very tired today”.

At least the weather is lovely.

Tomorrow is bound to be better.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Had a busy afternoon.

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Got really busy this afternoon, hence the drop off of posts.

Tomorrow I have to run a couple of errands and vote.

Our town doesn’t even have a republican running for city council. That part of the ballot just says “no petition filed”.  I guess people just gave up.

Will have more to say tomorrow.

By the way, I got a call from my friend in Florida.  Her neighbor, who was shot the other day is recovering nicely, but his arm is still paralyzed.  Hopefully that will straighten out.  He was a totally innocent bystander.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

 

 

Sometimes, I just wish…

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I’m sure everybody has had this feeling at one time or another…

I wish I could talk to my parents, and ask them questions about things they were around to see (well before my time) while they were going on.

I’m pretty sure this is a universal feeling.  My Mom did tell me about the influenza epidemic when she was a young woman.  It was amazing to hear a first-hand account of her experiences during that time.   My Dad told me about grandpa (his Dad) having typhoid fever.  My Dad wasn’t born yet, but grandpa told him about it.  It did leave Grandpa with a bowel issue for the rest of his life.  And many other events and occurrences that I would find so interesting to hear about.

I guess the motto is “talk to people  while they  are here”.

Also Fatima.  I am not Catholic, but it sure seems that something really happened in Portugal in 1917.  Something worthy of note.

Well, that is the extent of my musings for today.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

An unusually cold and windy day

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Today it was nice and sunny, but on the cold side with really high wind gusts (which made it feel even colder).

Still doing a lot of sorting of Lee’s papers, but truthfully was not all that ambitious today as far as any other tasks go.  And there are tons of tasks.

My friend in Florida didn’t have any more news about the fellow who was shot, other than that he is in stable condition.  He was shot in the neck and shoulders as far as she knows.  Hopefully, he will recover enough in a few days to be able to talk on his own.

I feel a little bit like I’m stuck in neutral.  Not tired exactly, but without any real sense of ambition or purpose.  That’s probably par for the course.

Monday I will attempt to go pick up my glasses.

Tuesday is election day, so I will be going over to the school to vote.  This being New Jersey, I have very little hope for anything positive along those lines.  New Jersey really belongs to the teacher’s union.

The fawn was back again today.  That makes me a little nervous, because our landlord is due to mow the lawn and that would really upset the little one.

That’s it for now.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Got sidetracked today, but it was interesting.

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Today I watched a video about the history of Newark, New Jersey.

Newark was a very big city, near to Elizabeth (which was big, too, but not as big as Newark).  Newark had much more of a big-city feel to it.  I remembered when I was about eight years old, and a neighbor took me to Newark for a day of shopping.  Those department stores!  They were incredible.  Palatial.  They had in-store restaurants–real ones– with waitresses in uniforms, and silver and china place settings.  They had floorwalkers–men with carnations in their buttonholes.It was a different world from today.  After WWII, there was a rapid decline in the population.  The GI’s returning from the war found that mortgage financing was easier to get for suburban housing as opposed to urban.  The population decline, plus poverty, plus other influences caused the decline of Newark.  Just in my lifetime, such a change.  It is gone forever.

Not all change is change for the better.  Sometimes I think it is mostly not for the better.

I also spent time reading through a lot of Lee’s Inquisitor  columns from both The Independent  and Today.

Now I have a better idea of what I will post tomorrow.

Another clear, sunny and beautiful day.

That’s always a good thing.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty