This last Thursday I found myself getting ready to take off on a flight when I overheard the flight attendant telling another passenger about their TV service. She said, “For only $5.00 you can watch cable TV the whole flight.”
Cable TV. Ha! That’s a long cable.
Evie said, “I can say Mobile Street: Mobile Street.” Yeah, that’s pretty cute.
My buddy Dave Warren and the late Douglas Adams have said about the same thing. Here’s Douglas Adams on the presidency:
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it…anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. – Douglas Adams
I have never heard so many conservatives and liberals so angry about their presidential candidate options. There is not so much a sense that one is better than the other but rather the people I continue to talk to are angry about the failure of character of the two primary candidates. Comment Survey: do you feel that the candidates have shown their true character and that they’re both nasty, or instead do you feel like my exposure to opinions is just unique and uncommon?
Originally uploaded by RandyPeterman.
We went to the Pumpkin Festival yesterday at the Denver Botanical Garden’s southern location in the foothills of the Rockies. This sheep lives there and I thought that I captured the captured sheep in a rather nice photograph. Here you go 🙂
Good grief! Its been a long time since I was thankful on a Thursday. So I’m going to be thankful today for three Nadias. In alphabetical order 🙂
Our WorldVision child is named Nadia. We get periodic stuff about her well being, but after hurricane Ike caused a lot of trauma, I’m glad to hear that she is well. I’m thankful for the opportunity to sponsor a child and and that she’s growing up and maturing with health and food and a family. We need to send her a letter to tell her that. I’m a bad sponsor in that department, but I’m thankful for the opportunity nonetheless.
My second Nadia to be thankful for is my niece. When I look at these pictures I just smile. She’s getting bigger and bigger and soon she’ll be getting married talking to me instead of just smiling at me. I’m thankful she’s growing and is generally a healthy well taken care of baby girl.
Lastly, but not leastly: our friends daughter Nadia just makes us smile (and sometimes cry – in a good way) when we get to see her in person and online at the YouTube. I’m thankful for our friends and their amazing care for not only their daughter, but so many others directly and indirectly.
Thank you to all three Nadias. You bless us.
Evie came into my office, crawled up onto my laps and then asked, “Where are your singers?”
“My what?”
“Singers.” She gestured with her hands covering her ears. “For music.”
Oh! Headphones. Headphones that faithfully reproduce the sounds of singers. I love this little girl.
Dear cougar at the bowling alley,
Your pants were not hip huggers, I’m afraid they nearly gave all of us access to your reproductive organs, which I’m pretty sure none of us at the alley wanted to see. Your hair was massive. Massively awesome. It complemented your cleavage which was out there for all of us to see. Your hair and cleavage said, “I’m a respectable woman who is wholesome, full of character and available for the low price of $4.50/hour for things that are illegal.” I’d recommend putting your warez away and considering that the rest of the public is not interested in your pubic regions. At all.
Instead my family and I desired to see you and your friends having a good time in a G-rated, or possibly PG-rated manner wherein maybe your shirt was slightly low cut, but not designed to let your nearly college graduate boyfriend take regular peaks from over the rim of his beer glass at what were surely nearly aged bosoms as those he weened on two decades ago.
I’m trying to refrain from calling you a whore because that sounds negative, and I don’t want you to think I think that of you. I’d prefer that you just understand that I don’t want to know you in that way, my family doesn’t want to know you that way, and I don’t want my young impressionable children to think, “Mommy, why don’t you dress like a cheap whore?” Mostly because there are great women out there that they could be like.
I’m going to predict you won’t read this, but if you do, know that I don’t hate you, but instead, I want you to just put some clothes on. I’ll only show you my bowling balls and you can just show me your bowling balls, but that’s not to be a double entendre, its just me saying that at the bowling alley, we only need to see the sport implements. Get a Burqa.
Yours truly,
Randy
Today is Friday. The day after Thursday, which is the official day of thankfulness around here, but since my posting is as consistent as a politician in a tough week of financial news, I’m just going to post a bit of thankfulness today.
One Set of In-Laws are in town and I’m thankful for them. They really are swell folks and I’m enjoying the time with them.
My mom had her birthday Wednesday – she’s a great mom, and I’m thankful for her a lot.
Abby is growing up a lot the last couple weeks. We put her into a charter school program and we really, really like it. I’m thankful for her
My sister-in-law who is living with us constantly makes us smile. She’s a blessing and we hope that we can get some more time with her before she finds a scad of friends and leaves us in the dust 😉
Time with friends. We’ve also had some friends over in the chaos of the last few weeks and enjoyed their company.
Time with family. My brother’s family came into town a few weekends ago and I’m finally getting to blog about it in tiny micro-bits: We love them and had a great time. Pictures should be forthcoming some time this year.