August 19, 2005

• FRIDAY FIVE

  Sorry this is coming so late in the day. Got to soak up every minute of sunlight before the summer is over again.

  Appetizer – Do you get excited when the season begins to change? Which season do you most look forward to?
  I wouldn’t call it excited. Oregon is a pretty mild place season-wise actually. We don’t get super extremes much. In the spring we usually get a nice combination of warming up and sprinkles so by the time the 80’s and 90’s hit we’re adjusted. I don’t even have air conditioning and I manage. In the fall the rain begins and it pretty much rains until summer again. When we have the rare snow everybody freaks completely out, like we’ve never seen it before. I most look forward to spring I guess because I know it’s followed by summer.
  Soup – What day of the week is usually your busiest? – I work 8 hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays so I guess I’d call them the busiest in terms of doing stuff I HAVE to do. I’m cogitating on finding a part-time job closer to home so I don’t have to drive all the way up the hill across town where I’ve worked now for 20+ years. Don’t know if I can afford to take a cut in salary though.
  Salad – Would you consider yourself to be strict when it comes to grammar and spelling? What’s an example of the worst error you’ve seen? – Oh brother, I was brought up by a father who thought life began and ended with grammar. In fact, his whole family was like that. Well, his dad was a Latin teacher. Worst thing you could do was dangle a participle. You could have the best grammar in the world though and still be a crappy person.
  Main Course – Who has a birthday coming up, and what will you give them as a gift? – The birthdays in my blood relative family are spaced perfectly – February, May, July, October. So the next one coming up is Turtle Dove‘s 40th and she has her heart set on a laptop.
  Dessert – If you could have any new piece of clothing for free, what would you pick? – A beautiful long skirt that came all the way to the ground and had the color turquoise in it.
  

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  Deep Thought: “One thing a computer can do that most humans can’t is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse.”
  Today I am grateful for: String
  Guess the Movie: “I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of “woes” and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you “stand, Men of the West!” Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003. Winner: tearsign.
  Amazing Grace and Cindy
  by David Krieger
  There is a wonderful movie, Amazing Grace and Chuck, which came out in 1987. It tells the story of a star Little League pitcher, Chuck, who, along with other youngsters on a field trip visits a missile silo in his home state of Montana. Chuck is an unusually sensitive and decent young person with wisdom beyond his years and the experience makes him aware of the threat to humanity posed by nuclear weapons. Instead of remaining complacent in the face of this threat, like most Americans, Chuck commits himself to doing something about the situation. He decides to give up the most important thing in his life, baseball, in protest of nuclear weapons. He stops pitching for his Little League team until the world is on the path to eliminating these weapons. ….Cindy Sheehan’s stand in Crawford is sending a powerful message to the American people, just as Chuck’s fictional protest did. Cindy’s protest is forcing Americans to probe deeper and to not accept the facile responses of the administration in the increasingly deteriorating situation in Iraq. Cindy Sheehan is a true American hero, reminding us of the power of one. She is forcing Americans to wake up and pay attention to a war that is continuing to spill the blood of young Americans, drain our resources, and stretch our military to its limits. She is forcing Americans to face her grief, and that of other soldiers’ relatives, who suspect that there is no nobility in fighting and dying under the false pretenses of this war – a war that appears to many Americans to be for oil and military bases in an oil-rich country rather than for any noble cause. (Rest of article here.)
  End of Day: 8:12 pm
  + = Watching a very lovely DVD out now nobody would have heard of called Off the Map and will review later.
  - = Pat Robertson the Assassin.

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