While I was hanging out with Donna in Bowling Green back in March, we came upon this truck. I believe my comment at the time was, “THIS is why I bring my Lomo everywhere.”
Multimedia Amusement
I’ve gotten some highly amusing animated gifs and video files as forwards at work lately. So, if you’re ready for a page to load up several megs’ worth of bitch-slapping, fire-eating, and other random carnage, read on.
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Kindergarten Ethics
I have vivid memories of singing this song in my Kindergarten music class, back in 1981 or so:
I have a little pussy
Her coat is silver gray
She lives down in the meadow
Not very far away
She’ll always be a pussy
She’ll never be a cat
‘Cause she’s a pussy willow
Now what do you think of that?
Meow, meow, meow, meow,
Meow, meow, meow, meow—
Scat!
I came home and sang the song to my Mom. She was bothered by it, but I really didn’t understand why.
I don’t remember singing that song very much after that.
Waterville Community Garage Sale 2005
Last year, we got a fairly decent haul. The year before was crap. The couple years before that were phenomenal.
This year? Good. Definitely good.
As with last year, we started out at the St. John’s Jesuit High School Garage Sale. Unlike last year, both Aaron and I found some stuff of interest:
+ The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction, Edward L. Ferman, Ed.
+ Star Trek: Legacy by Michael Jan Friedman
+ World’s Best Science Fiction: 1971, D. Wollheim and T. Carr, Ed.
+ Galactic Empires, Volume 1, Brian Aldiss, Ed.
+ A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney by Andy Rooney
Yeah, we’re sci-fi geeks. *shrug*
We got to Waterville around 10:30am, which is impressively early for Aaron and myself on a Saturday. We started around the Kroger, which is a different end of town from our usual haunts. Good thing, though, because we ended up finding a *fantastic* neighborhood with tons of sales. We must have walked for an hour or more without even moving the car. Finally moved to a different ‘hood, then got lunch at Kam Wah (excellent Chinese food), then tried to hit a few more sales, but were just too saled-out to keep plugging away by 3:00 or 3:30pm. But we got a righteous haul this year:
+ PlayStation console, no cables, works, $1
+ Palm IIIc with accessories, works, $15
+ small apple basket (which served to carry sale items)
+ mechanical metronome (not the electronic kind)
+ Game Boy Secret Codes
+ random assortment of terra cotta clay pots
+ metal watering can (to be used as a planter)
+ Sam Kinison VHS tape
+ Tae Bo VHS tape
+ two 45’s and eight LP’s
I must be forgetting something… Anyway, yeah. Good haul, beautiful day, great weather, and (as always) quality time with my Honey Muffin. 😀
:: ZZZzzz ::
Man… I get tired so early anymore. It’s not even 9:30 yet, and already I’m primed to go flop down on the couch with a book and some sort of snack and chill out for the evening. I’m such a lightweight. *sigh*
On the agenda for the weekend: Tomorrow is the Waterville Community Garage Sale, which has become an annual Schnuth expedition. We’re planning to start on a different side of town this year, though, because the neighborhood we frequent every year is getting a little stale.
On Sunday, we’ll be doing our laundry and shopping a little earlier than usual, so we can visit Sheryl in her packed-up apartment in Perrysburg and bring her some empty boxes. And drive her to get packing tape and trash bags and other randomness. And go to dinner with her at Chili’s or some other sit-down place. Good stuff.
But for now, I’ll be heading upstairs to crash on the couch with my book, dissatisfied with myself for not having done anything of import this evening.