Month: November 2011
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wad
I gathered up all my work clothes just before dinner last night and dumped them on top of the wash machine. I didn’t put them in the wash machine, as many sane people would have done, because the machine’s in a little alcove just off the dining room, and who wants to listen to it Read.
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nailed
I found a glove nailed to a telephone pole while I was taking a walk around the neighborhood near the office building where I work. I’ve seen lots of gloves dangling from nails in telephone poles (and fence posts, and buildings), so many it’s not even worth remarking on them, but this was a glove Read.
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consume
My Darling B and I were watching The Big Bang Theory last night when we ran into a glitchy DVD that frustrated every attempt to get past the road block. We don’t subscribe to cable or satellite television, so we can’t watch television, but occasionally we check out DVDs from the library of shows we’ve Read.
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stroll
I walked home from the office yesterday, just to see if I could still use my legs for more than a mile or two at a stretch. As it turned out, I can. But it also turned out that, when I got home, I had to put my feet up on the recliner for twenty Read.
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infinity
I’ve always understood that nothing travels faster than the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object to light speed. I’m not saying that’s correct, mind you, I’m only saying that’s what I’ve been given as an explanation for why the speed of light is an absolute. Read.
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eternity
My Darling B seemed to think she could leave some foods in the freezer “for eternity.” I pointed out that she couldn’t, but she insisted she could. “But eventually the continent will be flooded,” I pointed out, “and if we’re talking really long-term, when the sun dies it will engulf the whole planet, and everything Read.
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paperless environment
I went to Menard’s last night to buy some sandpaper. All I wanted was some sandpaper so I could sand down a slab of plywood I wanted to use for a desk top so I could apply a second coat of shellac to it. Menard’s had all kinds of sandpaper, as long as I wanted Read.
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squirrel
I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this before, but there’s about a zillion squirrels out there. I just came home from a walk around the neighborhood and counted a thousand million billion on our street alone, all out collecting nuts or whatever squirrels do at this hour of the morning. Whatever it was, they Read.
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maple
First thing we did yesterday, after cleaning up and making ourselves presentable to the world, was jump in the car and head into town to see if Lazy Jane’s still had pumpkin waffles with real maple syrup whipped cream. They said they did, but My Darling B was reading their specials at eight or eight-thirty Read.
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Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson recently appeared on the “Ask Me Anything” page of Reddit and blew the minds of Redditors during an hour-long Q & A. Here are some of my favorite questions and the answers Tyson gave: Q. If you could impress one thing on young people today, what would it be? N.d.T. That adults Read.
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