Weird.
My dreams (that I can remember) tend toward the pedestrian. The one this morning was different for me.
I had lost something on a beach. I finally found it, only to realize that the tide was coming in, and the only way out was up a straight cliff. And of course the tide was coming in really really fast, and really huge (like tsunami huge). And the cliff was very tall, with few handholds. Try climbing, knowing that it will most assuredly end up with a fall back into the surf, or ride the wave that was coming? It was wave for me, a pretty blue strong but not thrashing wave. I didn't hold my breath, and I was swept away. And that is all I remember.
Sunday, July 07, 2002
Hmmm. another good thing to do at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. Thank you Lynn, who got it from Kat.
A - Animals: None
B - Best Friend(s): Sheryl
C - Cohabitants: None
D - Desire(s): Peace
E - Eye Color: Hazel
F - Favourite Foods: Potato Salad
G - Games: Trivial Pursuit
H - Habits: Drinking Pop
I - Interests: Reading, Writing, Photography, Camping, Hiking, and computers
J - Job: Information Specialist
K - Kitchen...wonder or blunder?Used to be wonder but now I just blunder
L - Languages: English.
M - Most valued possession: family photographs
N - Name (named after?): Shirley. Named after my grandfather, or maybe after my father's ex-girlfriend, or maybe after that curly-haired moppet. Anyway, one of the last so-named. That name died out in the early fifties.
O - Outfit you love: Black skirt, red top
P - Pizza toppings: ham, bacon and pineapple
Q - Question asked to you the most: Is there a way that the computer can....?
R - Relationship: Old maid amanuensis.
S - Sport to watch: Michigan State University Spartan Football
T - Television show(s): CSI, Survivor
U - Unsavory characteristic: Too touchy
V - Video: A River Runs Through It
W - Webpage: dreamwest.org
X - Xylophone (or other instrument): Piano, violin, and a little bit of gittar picking
Y - Year born: 1952
Z - Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
A - Animals: None
B - Best Friend(s): Sheryl
C - Cohabitants: None
D - Desire(s): Peace
E - Eye Color: Hazel
F - Favourite Foods: Potato Salad
G - Games: Trivial Pursuit
H - Habits: Drinking Pop
I - Interests: Reading, Writing, Photography, Camping, Hiking, and computers
J - Job: Information Specialist
K - Kitchen...wonder or blunder?Used to be wonder but now I just blunder
L - Languages: English.
M - Most valued possession: family photographs
N - Name (named after?): Shirley. Named after my grandfather, or maybe after my father's ex-girlfriend, or maybe after that curly-haired moppet. Anyway, one of the last so-named. That name died out in the early fifties.
O - Outfit you love: Black skirt, red top
P - Pizza toppings: ham, bacon and pineapple
Q - Question asked to you the most: Is there a way that the computer can....?
R - Relationship: Old maid amanuensis.
S - Sport to watch: Michigan State University Spartan Football
T - Television show(s): CSI, Survivor
U - Unsavory characteristic: Too touchy
V - Video: A River Runs Through It
W - Webpage: dreamwest.org
X - Xylophone (or other instrument): Piano, violin, and a little bit of gittar picking
Y - Year born: 1952
Z - Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Saturday, July 06, 2002
Ah, yes. Today a picnic at Gun Lake. My paternal grandmother's childhood stomping grounds. My father's childhood stomping grounds. My childhood stomping grounds. Dang! I should have had kids, if only to pass on the tradition. Oh well.
Friday, July 05, 2002
Well, we're halfway through the long holiday weekend. The store was open today, but with minimal staff, so I was fortunate to have time off today. First time I've done the extend holiday thing in a long time...feels good!!
Sharp Park has fireworks on the third. We usually go to those fireworks, as Mom's Great-Grandma is the Sharp for whom the Park was named. Old Elizabeth was quite the girl. She came to the United States from England with her two sisters in 1855. She married Edward and had two sons. He died (caught cold building the capitol) and she married a Mr. Huxtable. She had two sons with him. Mr. and one of the sons died in the 1860s.
But our Elizabeth kept on. She and the boys cleared the land, and until her dying day she cherished her physical strength.
Come to think of it, Elizabeth represents for me the best of America: a land of opportunity, a land of people who don't quit, a land of people who think outside the box.
I'm messing up big time this morning...better go back to my book.
Second Hand, by Michael Zadoorian.
This is a GREAT book! It is a first time novel, about a second hand dealer, set in Detroit, and it illuminates human nature superbly! Highly highly recommended.
Second Hand, by Michael Zadoorian.
This is a GREAT book! It is a first time novel, about a second hand dealer, set in Detroit, and it illuminates human nature superbly! Highly highly recommended.
Wednesday, July 03, 2002
and it's...tadah...the Second WEDNESDAY WHAT. Hop right over to Lynn's and pick up YOUR copy!
1. WHAT in the world of the Internet, do you find most fascinating about it? The fact that you can interact with real people through the internet, that you can see how the man or woman on the street is coping with life and gather encouragement to carry on. I thought the internet would be more about information, but it actually is more about people.
2. WHAT in the world of phobias do you think would be the worst one to have?Phobias are tough. I think the worst would be agoraphobia though. To not be able to go out at all...argh.
3. WHAT in the world of truths is the strangest "fiction" you've ever heard? Ummm...ummm...can I get back to you on that?
Lynn also points to the 1000 words a day site. All you photographers might want to check it out!
1. WHAT in the world of the Internet, do you find most fascinating about it? The fact that you can interact with real people through the internet, that you can see how the man or woman on the street is coping with life and gather encouragement to carry on. I thought the internet would be more about information, but it actually is more about people.
2. WHAT in the world of phobias do you think would be the worst one to have?Phobias are tough. I think the worst would be agoraphobia though. To not be able to go out at all...argh.
3. WHAT in the world of truths is the strangest "fiction" you've ever heard? Ummm...ummm...can I get back to you on that?
Lynn also points to the 1000 words a day site. All you photographers might want to check it out!
Tuesday, July 02, 2002
Not to be crass, but there actually is a market for fireflies. That luciferin is pretty valuable stuff.
Monday, July 01, 2002
Monday Mission 2.26 via promoguy.net, naturally
1. In the United States of America, it was recently ruled that the phrase "one nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. Do you agree with this ruling? Should the phrase "under God" be removed? Why? I haven't read the ruling to understand the fine points of it. However, I believe there is a lot of precedent for leaving it in (and I do understand that it was added in 1954) starting from the original Declaration of Independence and moving right through our history. But again, I haven't read the specifics of the ruling. I also have to ask...why now? Why did this lie dormant for 48 years and all of a sudden pop up? And to me, it seems that the people who object to the phrase also object to the pledge as a whole. So...why don't they just not say it? Anyway.....
2. When was the last time you took a road trip? Where did you go and what did you do? Up to Boyne City to see the relatives in February. Stopped at Hartwick Pines on the way up, Jordan River Valley on the way back. (oh yeah, we say up for north and down for south here in Michigan)
3. Do you have any vacations planned for this summer? Already gone? Where to and what? Going to Montana, In August, Can't wait. Glacier Park, Great Falls, The Start of the Missouri...you know, good old Lewis & Clark stuff.
4. What is the most drastic change to your appearance that you have ever made? Are you brave enough to post a photo? Accidentally when I had surgery on my neck. Here, but try not to be scared.
5. Tell me about something to which you are committed? I am committed to helping people learn to read better. I am a Literacy Volunteer. Oops, that reminds me, I have to call my new victim tomorrow.
6. Now tell me about something you just flat-out gave up on.Figure Skating.
7. (new saga) I've had it, this place is just wearing me out. You too? We need a break! Let's head out and go someplace new. You make the plans, I'll get things ready. So what do you have it mind, and did you want me to pick up anything special to pack for the trip? Oh, yes, let's go to Good Harbor Beach up in the Little finger. It is so beautiful, overlooking the Manitou Islands in Lake Michigan, and so ... so.... uninhabited. Do lets go. I'll pack a hamper of finger food, would you bring the frisbee and the suntan lotion?
BONUS: Where is my hairbrush?
Wherever you left it.
1. In the United States of America, it was recently ruled that the phrase "one nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. Do you agree with this ruling? Should the phrase "under God" be removed? Why? I haven't read the ruling to understand the fine points of it. However, I believe there is a lot of precedent for leaving it in (and I do understand that it was added in 1954) starting from the original Declaration of Independence and moving right through our history. But again, I haven't read the specifics of the ruling. I also have to ask...why now? Why did this lie dormant for 48 years and all of a sudden pop up? And to me, it seems that the people who object to the phrase also object to the pledge as a whole. So...why don't they just not say it? Anyway.....
2. When was the last time you took a road trip? Where did you go and what did you do? Up to Boyne City to see the relatives in February. Stopped at Hartwick Pines on the way up, Jordan River Valley on the way back. (oh yeah, we say up for north and down for south here in Michigan)
3. Do you have any vacations planned for this summer? Already gone? Where to and what? Going to Montana, In August, Can't wait. Glacier Park, Great Falls, The Start of the Missouri...you know, good old Lewis & Clark stuff.
4. What is the most drastic change to your appearance that you have ever made? Are you brave enough to post a photo? Accidentally when I had surgery on my neck. Here, but try not to be scared.
5. Tell me about something to which you are committed? I am committed to helping people learn to read better. I am a Literacy Volunteer. Oops, that reminds me, I have to call my new victim tomorrow.
6. Now tell me about something you just flat-out gave up on.Figure Skating.
7. (new saga) I've had it, this place is just wearing me out. You too? We need a break! Let's head out and go someplace new. You make the plans, I'll get things ready. So what do you have it mind, and did you want me to pick up anything special to pack for the trip? Oh, yes, let's go to Good Harbor Beach up in the Little finger. It is so beautiful, overlooking the Manitou Islands in Lake Michigan, and so ... so.... uninhabited. Do lets go. I'll pack a hamper of finger food, would you bring the frisbee and the suntan lotion?
BONUS: Where is my hairbrush?
Wherever you left it.
New Pacman high score: 20,050 22,750 on 7/7. See what happens when the Monday Mission isn't ready when I am????
Oh great, I seem to have a problem here. I seem to have developed insomnia, but ONLY ON SUNDAY night?!?!? I've been in bed for 45 minutes, but no dreamland yet. ARGHHHH!!
I tried cutting out caffeine for the weekend, thinking that would might be the problem. No such luck.
Maybe it really is that I just can't face Monday Monday!
Well, friend Google has something to say about Sunday Night Insomnia.
There is this from MedBroadcast.
The common experience of "Sunday night insomnia, Monday morning blues" is caused by ignoring this rule. The sleeper goes to bed at progressively later times during the weekend, and sleeps in the following morning. By Sunday night, the adapted circadian rhythm is expecting to begin the sleep period beginning at, say, 1:00 a.m. and end at 09:00 hours. However, on Sunday night the sleeper wants to go to sleep at 11:00 p.m. and awaken for work at 07:00 but is unable to fall asleep until the reset time of 1:00 a.m. Thus, he or she awakens, relatively sleep deprived, at 07:00 with "the blues." Ruhro...they may have caught me.
Sleepnet has the same suggestion.
And DoctorJob takes a smiling look at the problem.
The joy of the 'net...the answers are only a click away.
Oh, and a reminder from Q...first day of the month.
Rabbit, rabbit. There, that should do it.
Good night!
Do not believe that post-time over there -->
It is really 1:11 a.m. on Monday. The wizard can't tell time.
Good night again!
I tried cutting out caffeine for the weekend, thinking that would might be the problem. No such luck.
Maybe it really is that I just can't face Monday Monday!
Well, friend Google has something to say about Sunday Night Insomnia.
There is this from MedBroadcast.
The common experience of "Sunday night insomnia, Monday morning blues" is caused by ignoring this rule. The sleeper goes to bed at progressively later times during the weekend, and sleeps in the following morning. By Sunday night, the adapted circadian rhythm is expecting to begin the sleep period beginning at, say, 1:00 a.m. and end at 09:00 hours. However, on Sunday night the sleeper wants to go to sleep at 11:00 p.m. and awaken for work at 07:00 but is unable to fall asleep until the reset time of 1:00 a.m. Thus, he or she awakens, relatively sleep deprived, at 07:00 with "the blues." Ruhro...they may have caught me.
Sleepnet has the same suggestion.
And DoctorJob takes a smiling look at the problem.
The joy of the 'net...the answers are only a click away.
Oh, and a reminder from Q...first day of the month.
Rabbit, rabbit. There, that should do it.
Good night!
Do not believe that post-time over there -->
It is really 1:11 a.m. on Monday. The wizard can't tell time.
Good night again!
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