Wacky Friday Fotos
January 27th, 2012Please place your caption in the comments section below.
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Friday Fives
January 27th, 20121. What is the creepiest everyday object you know?
At home speculum kit.
2. What’s the most useful everyday item?
Well, in recent history, there is the automobile and the smart phone, which have drastically changed society. On the smaller, handier side, I would say the most usefule item for me, a pocket knife.
3. What’s the most useless everday item?
The remote control - well, that is probably under the category of needless, rather than useless.
4. If the power was out for 24 hours, what would you do?
Read a book or two by lantern light. Thankfully, I have a couple of oil burning hurricane lamps and I am ready to go.
5. If you had to have one item you use everyday surgically attached to you, what would it be, and why?
A coffee maker.
Texts From Bennett
January 25th, 2012
This is genius.
Pretty misogynistic, Julz would not approve. That said, it is hilarious. From the blog’s boilerplate description: These are the text messages from my 17-year old cousin Bennett . . . “
Wacky Friday Fotos
January 20th, 2012Please place your caption in the comments section below.
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Friday Fives
January 20th, 20121. What is your favorite vegetable?
Tomatoes. Although technically a fruit. Favorite vegetable, vegetable - now that I have learned how to properly prepare them, Brussels sprouts.
2. What is your favorite salad dressing, sauce, gravy, or condiment?
Salad dressing - Newman’s balsamic. Sauce - used to be Hollandaise but that has moved to Sirachacha.
3. What is your favorite culture’s food (American, Chinese, Creole, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Soul Food, Southern U.S., etc.)?
Mexican.
4. What is your favorite beverage?
Morning: coffee. Mid day: Ice Tea. Evenings: Beer.
5. What is your favorite food?
Bananas and breakfast cereal.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail by MLK, 1963
January 16th, 2012Each year I read “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Dr. King as part of the holiday observance.
This is some of the best American Literature published in this country and each time I read it, it affects me.
Enclosed is the text from my post on my blog.
or here for a tighter typographically set version:
or here for a printable PDF version:
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf
Wacky Friday Fotos
January 13th, 2012Please place your caption in the comments section below.
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Friday Fives
January 13th, 2012Cooking/Food, again.
1. Tea or Coffee or juice in the morning, and why?
Coffee and lots of it. I switch to ice tea usually in the afternoon, but generally, I am always caffeinated.
2. What’s your typical breakfast on workdays, and what on weekends?/strlly ong>
3. What do you drink through the day?
During the week a bowl of cereal or oatmeal and a banana. Weekends is usually an eat out affair. in 2012 I want to give up eggs and cheese, but eating out makes this very difficult.
4. Best snack?
Bananas and a handful of almonds or cashews and a toasted bagel.
5. Your favorite dinner when you cook for yourself alone?
Frozen Totinos Pizza. Tofurky has made a decent vegan version that is a nice indulgence.
Wacky Friday Foto
January 6th, 2012Please place your caption in the comments section below.
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Friday Fives
January 6th, 20121. What’s a song you’d enjoy screaming along to as you drove down the highway?
We have covered this in the past. I like to belt out Rosalita by Springsteen. Although on long drives, I also like to do cover tunes sung in my best Willie Nelson impression.
2. What is your favorite place/type of environment to
relax?/strong>
A bookstore or a library.
3. What are the best kind of dreams?
I like action thriller dreams where I am saving the world. Last night I was part of some sort of helicopter rescue to the south pole.
4. What do you look for in a mate?
Grooming, high cheek bones and a decent bank account.
5. If you were a crayon color, what color would you be and why?
Sky blue. It is just so pretty.