I completely caught up on visiting blogs yesterday, but I’ll be scarce today. Sunday is a holy day in the First Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, so I’ll be watching Football. Monday will be a high holy day as the blessed Broncos play the cursed Chargers. 😉
Today’s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:18. To do it, Click Here. How did you do?
In today’s cartoon, I predict Snowe.
Have a great Sunday!!
Yesterday I had to rearrange my plans, but I did manage to complete that long delayed computer backup and get some visiting in anyway. Today, I can visit blogs and spend more time in doing so.
Today’s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:12. To do it, Click Here. How did you do?
Here are a couple one liners from Daily Kos.
"It was announced that Rush Limbaugh would be a judge for the 2010 Miss America pageant. This is an early boost to Miss Connecticut, whose talent is filling out illegal prescriptions."
—Seth Myers
"A group called the Conservative Bible Project is re-editing the Bible because they say it’s too liberal. They say previous editions have a liberal bias. For example, when Jesus is washing the Apostles’ feet, it sounds a little gay. So now he washes their truck."
—Bill Maher
And here is your cartoon.
Have a great weekend!
This is a story you know, but I’d like to discuss my reaction to it.
One minute the president was on television, speaking at a town hall meeting about the rebirth of New Orleans.
In the next, he had been shoved aside by a breaking-news Grimm’s fairy tale.
A 6-year-old boy reportedly had climbed into a homemade helium balloon and was floating 7,000 feet above Colorado, at the mercy of the winds.
For hours on a workaday Thursday, a mesmerized America watched the shiny silvery disc spin slowly against a brilliant blue sky with puffy white clouds.
Emergency vehicles began trailing the balloon over two counties. The Air Force was contacted. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded some planes. And the gripped nation wondered: Was the boy in the balloon? Had he fallen out?
At last, the balloon floated down — a safe landing! — 50 miles from the Fort Collins home where it had been tethered.
But there was no boy.
And then, two hours later, he emerged from the attic in his home, where he had been hiding in fear.
The boy’s father, Richard Heene, said that the family was tinkering with the balloon Thursday and that he scolded his son Falcon for getting inside a battery compartment on the craft. He said Falcon’s brother Bradford, 10, had seen Falcon there before it took off, and that’s why they thought he was in the balloon when it rose into the sky.
But Falcon had fled after the scolding and was never in the balloon during its two-hour journey.
“I yelled at him. I’m really sorry I yelled at him,” Heene said as he hugged his son at a news conference Thursday.
“I was in the attic, and he scared me because he yelled at me,” Falcon said. “That’s why I went in the attic.”…
Inserted from <Kansas City Star>
While working here late yesterday afternoon, I kept MSNBC on to keep tabs on the story. I worried for his safety. I prayed. My heart went out to the family. But when the balloon came up empty and Falcon was discovered, I felt angry. The media stoked that anger. Chris Wallace made a point of describing just how unconventional the Heene family is. I thought that America had wasted an afternoon. I thought of all the resources wasted. I blamed the family.
Then I thought of a different scene. The rescue workers surround the balloon and remove the body of a dead child. Would I have rather seen that? Of course not. I felt very foolish about my anger and am just glad that the child is OK.
Yesterday I managed to keep up with comments, but I got no visiting done. I expect the next couple days to be similar, so please don’t give up on me.
Today’s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:16. I had an unfair advantage. To do it, Click Here. How did you do?
I found the right’s reaction to Limbaugh being dropped from the investment group trying to buy the Rams. They claim that liberals are denying his free speech, because he is a conservative. Say what? How about this. Nobody denied Rush anything. NFL players objected because of his long history of racist remarks, including referring to NFL players as crips and bloods. Then his own buddies kicked him to the curb. It couldn’t have happened to a nastier bigot.
Here’s your cartoon!
TGIF!! What’s up for the weekend?
Half of October is now gone. Where did it go so fast? I stayed caught up with visits yesterday, but I may fall behind today, because I’ll be out getting a USB hard drive custom built. It will cost me about $20 extra to do it that way, but if the drive fails, instead of sending it to the manufacturer for a replacement and losing all the data, I can take it to the builder, who will recover it, if possible. The problem is that my neighborhood computer supplier had to move. It now takes me over 90 minutes to get there by bus.
Today’s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:26. To do it, Click Here. How did you do?
Here’s today’s cartoon.
Happy hump day to all!
I’ll be around today more than I thought, because the therapist for whom I volunteer is ill and cancelled the group. I do have errands to run, but I should get some visiting in. I’m changing the poll this afternoon, so vote if you haven’t done so.
Today’s Jig Zone puzzle is a good one. It took me 7:05. To do it, Click Here. How did you do?
Here’s your cartoon:
Have a great Tuesday
Yesterday I caught up on visiting neighbor blogs and hope to do so again today. After that, my plate will be pretty full for a bit, volunteering, getting a USB hard drive for my computer, backing up the computer, getting an H1N1 vaccine, visiting Social security, trying to learn enough about Medicare to avoid mistakes in getting that going, etc.
Today’s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:41. To do it, Click Here. How did you do?
Here’s a cartoon.
How was your Monday? Have a great day!
Yesterday I enjoyed watching football, especially the Bronco’s win. 5-0… Dang!! Whowouldathunkit!
How did your team do?
I expect to be around most of the day and to catch up on comments and visits.
Today’s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:02. To do it, Click Here. How did you do?
Here’s a cartoon:
OGIM!! Survive the day!
