Hope all you dads out there had a great day. My kids and I had fun all weekend. Tomorrow it’s back to the usual child slave labor (to hear them tell it): having to clean their rooms, eat all their fresh and delicious food at meals, and not fight with each other during their vast amounts of play time. I know, the poor tortured souls…. икони
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I just haven’t felt like writing lately. What’s on your mind?
Conan! (Updated)
In case you were wondering why I haven’t been blogging lately, I’ve been busy vacationing. Last night, my wife and I saw Conan O’Brien’s “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television” show, and it was terrific. Special guests were Bears player Brian Urlacher and actor John C. Reilly. Reilly sang a little off-script number that went like this:
Missed Jay Leno last night
His jokes just make me snore
Awfully different without you
Don’t watch the Tonight Show anymore
His jokes just make me snore
Awfully different without you
Don’t watch the Tonight Show anymore
And the crowd roared. It was surprising to hear a blatant anti-Leno joke, considering that Conan is prohibited from making fun of Leno or NBC under terms of his severance. But as Reilly explained, he (Reilly) isn’t prohibited from saying anything. I’ll share more later. It was a fantastic show.
Phone survey conducted Monday
On Monday around supper time, I received an automated phone survey that asked two questions:
- “Do you consider yourself a Tea Party Patriot?”
- “Do you support Sarah Palin?”
Anyone else get this call?
Someone knows I love irony
In the mail yesterday, I received a plain envelope with my name (misspelled) and address on it, and no return address. Inside was a single photocopy of a Leonard Pitts article from the paper — an article in which he criticizes anonymous commenters on newspaper sites and blogs. So some anonymous person is trying to tell me I shouldn’t allow people to comment anonymously… I guess. Ha ha!
New posts coming soon
Hello, readers. Just a quick note to let you know I do plan to have some new posts up soon. Haven’t been doing a lot of writing lately because things have been very busy at home and work.
In the meantime, I hope you all have been enjoying the warmer weather. I don’t know about you, but I have spring fever. Took the kiddies to Wildlife Prairie Park on Saturday afternoon. The trails were a little soggy and muddy, but we had a wonderful time.
Happy New Year
Wishing everyone a safe and happy New Year as we usher in 2010.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all!
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
(Luke 2:8-20)
Going rogue?
I wasn’t quite sure what the title of Sarah Palin’s new book meant, so I looked it up in the American Heritage Dictionary (via Dictionary.com):
rogue
n.
- An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
- One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
- A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
- A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
- An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
adj.
- Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
- Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.
- Operating outside normal or desirable controls: “How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?” (Saul Hansell).
v. rogued, rogu·ing, rogues
v. tr.
- To defraud.
- To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
v. intr.
To remove diseased or abnormal plants.[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Hmmm…. None of these definitions sound very flattering, do they? I wonder if she came up with that title herself, or if someone else suggested it just to be funny. Just for fun, I checked the thesaurus to see if it was a synonym for “maverick.” Nope.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas
Regular readers of my blog over the past several years know that this is the time of year when I don’t do a lot of posting because of a heavy work schedule up until Christmas. So, before I go on hiatus, I just wanted to thank everyone for reading and commenting, and wish you all a happy Thanksgiving and a merry Christmas!