Waiting

For those who inquired, I found a nice little web page that tells a bit about ornamental gourds. The American Gourd Society, which I didn’t even know existed until I went looking for specific gourd information, has more information than I ever knew to ask anyhow. For those who simply want to cut tot he…

Crap. I have to face the mystery package in about two hours. (See entry from two days ago Guilt from the past. if you don’t know what I’m talking about.) I know it’s just guilt, but I’m starting to feel very uneasy about this. I especially don’t want to have to open this package in…

[Obligatory note: If you read this as a personal attack on your participation in sports or in a sports event, then you haven’t read what I’ve written. I may not understand the point of sports, but I don’t understand the point of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches either. I will still defend to the death…

Today would have been my father’s 83rd birthday. He’s been dead for twelve years now, but I haven’t yet forgotten his birthday when it comes by. He hated birthdays, or any fuss being made. He hated anything that departed from routine. He didn’t even like taking vacations away from the house. He was a tough…

The Professor and I saw “AI” yesterday afternoon. I wanted to see it before there was a lot in print about the movie. I’d heard there were some interesting plot twists to it, and indeed there were. The Prof and I spent a fair amount of time last night finding flaws, inconsistencies and unexplained jumps…

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. Andrew Lang I suppose I can buy into Andrew Lang’s description of the Cat for part of the time I have difficulty picturing Buddha playing at unrolling the toilet tissue or having conversations…