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- “Can she be a mom to her five kids and still be Vice President?” Hmm. Sheesh. Good question. I don’t know. Here’s also hoping she can figure out how to work the dishwasher at the Naval Observatory, and that she’ll have the good sense to keep a man around to help her with some of the big words she’ll no doubt encounter in documents and such.
- The war against the improper use of “like,” all but won over the summer, has flared again with the resumption of school. “He was, like, talking on the phone.” “Nathan, just say ‘he was talking on the phone.'”
- Google Chrome! Yawn. I’ve used most of the browsers out there (it might surprise you how many there are), and nothing ever comes close to tempting me away from Firefox.
- Lea’s still enjoying her stained glass classes very much, and she’s doing some cool things. (Perhaps she’d entertain the idea of allowing me to post a photo or two?) Now she’s thinking about some interesting panes for the doors in our entertainment center.
- I had my first excellent meal at PF Chang’s this week. I’ve always liked the lettuce wraps, but have found the entrées forgettable. Well, the Singapore Street Noodles are excellent. It’s a chicken, shrimp, and vegetable situation with curry and garlic. It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing dish (looking rather like, well, street food), but it’s quite tasty. (Just stay off the lunch specials altogether. This was only $9.)
- Both boys are after me multiple times a day to add some movement to the large, glass box of water in the study. A trip for damsels is in the near future.
- Eliminating Wal-Mart from my life has been an unambiguous positive. (It’ll be two years next month since I set foot in one.) I recommend it. Is whatever one-stop “convenience” you perceive you’re getting worth the consistently unpleasant shopping experience?
- Finally, we’re doing something useful with particle accelerators. (Is it me, or does this seem like nerdy, high-tech ass-photocopying?)
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I’ve been using Firefox for years. I’m not used to the new upgrade yet, though – I guess it can do a lot of cool stuff, but I’ve not figured any of that out.
I LOVE stained glass work. Bug Lea about the pictures – I’d like to see them…
I am not surprised by the sexist things some people say, but they not important to me. I blogged today about Mayor Pallin’s attempt to have some books she deemed “objectionable” from the library of her podunk town in Alaska. If the story is true, she is an enemy of the First Amendment, a fascist, and unfit to hold any public office whatsoever.
I don’t like Wal-Mart much, but I don’t find it unpleasant to shop there.
I really haven’t done enough pieces to show off, yet. I’ve done two with lead and one with foil. (I worked on a kaleidoscope, too, but I had to have so much help with it that I don’t consider it something that I did.) The entertainment center panes will be the first thing that I will be totally designing and drawing from scratch. It’s currently sketched but I’m not loving it. So, I put it to the side and started working on some Christmas projects. I am definitely enjoying the classes, though. (Thanks to Tami for sucking me right in there to my new and expensive hobby!)
The studio where I go for the class does commercial projects, too. The real artists do those. That stuff is amazing!
Gerry: I find book-banning objectionable as well, though the details of the story are hazy enough that I think it’s gotten whatever legs it’s gotten precisely because it’s a hot-button issue, as opposed to a sober grounding in fact.
Not to worry, though. Obama and Biden both have a long history of defending the U.S. ConstitutiBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sorry, couldn’t quite get it out. Gerry, almost no one who succeeds in Washington is a friend of the Constitution.
I disagree with Sarah Palin on several things, but I like her very much because she is a) genuine; and b) the precise bug up the ass that a great many people worth pissing off need. Beltway elite, who (too often) believe proximity to themselves is the best way to become qualified for federal office, don’t know what to make of her. Good. She was a relative unknown a week and a half ago. Good. She doesn’t pass muster with Gloria Steinem. Good. (I have a lot of respect for Steinem, but she’s far more exclusionary than she likes to believe.)
This whole thing is awesome political theater (oh man, I cannot wait for the VP debate), and in the end, if I can’t have a president I like, at least I can hope for a meaningful shakeup of the status quo.