Humpday:
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- Day 10: The Fascist Regime Blames a Plane Crash on Nonwhite People
Thanks for that perfect pic, Andi.
So after last night, I’m thinking Palin-Jindal 2012 would be a 21-month laff riot….
I’m going to be egotistical and put up the link to the bigger version again. The humps are more impressive full size. 🙂
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Maybe Jindal plans to win by performing an exorcism on taxes.
I’m glad you posted the bigger one…it was perfect for today.
I think Jindal’s trying to wrap up the Mister Rogers preschooler vote…”Can you say tax cut? I knew you could.” That was just incredible, and so tone-deaf. Same-old out of touch GOP BS.
Big excitement this morning- were off to the orthodontist to get CBtY’s braces fixed. I told him not to chew gum because it loosens the brackets, and he did it anyway, and pop! off came the bracket.
When will they learn that Mom is always right? 🙂
I’m still amazed at braces that can pop off instead of needing a raft of torturer tools to be removed.
He has some of those ones in his mouth too, but the majority of them are little brackets glued onto his teeth, which is what popped off.
CBtE only has one exam this morning, so he’ll be home early today, and after tomorrow, he’s off school until late March. Oy.
That’s weird — is this an extended semester break? How late does he go?
It’s spring break for him; school ends on May 30th.
The private school calendar is more lenient with the days off. Of course, he goes to school until 5 pm every day, because sports/activities (from 3:30 to 5) are a required part of the program.
It’s working for him, so I won’t complain. 🙂
I am surprised at that — PA doesn’t have a minimum number of days in school requirement?
Public schools = 180 days. Private schools = their own rules. When CBtE was small, he went to a Friends school that not only started later and ended earlier in the year than the public school, they also got out an hour earlier on Fridays, so you could start your weekend early. Working from home and spending most of my weekends back in my hometown at my Mom’s, I thought that was totally cool.
Does Indiana have a minimum number of days that applies across the board?
That’s interesting that private schools don’t have to meet the minimum number of days requirement.
The b2 boy has the same thing with his braces. And there are those cool bracket colors of course.
I love the cool colors, and how they can change the colors at every visit.
Hot pink and lime green seems to be among the favorites at our house. How about b2boy?
He’s had yellow and blue ones.
Humps are always better full size.
Morning everyone!
And even better when they’re not virtual.
Imho, that depends on the humpers.
I share that opinion — even when virtual.
What nice humps you have (the shadows too)!
Oh, God. I think it would be more like a 21-month bout of convulsive ergotism.
“convulsive ergotism”!
I just can’t think of a better way for the GOP to broadcast their stupidity, irrelevance, and ineptitude than to run Palin-Jindal as a team. The repressed librarian/moose-hunting cat-scratch cheerleader and Mr. Jindal Rogers, ringer for Kenneth the page on 30 Rock? You couldn’t make that up if you tried.
I can well imagine the Oval Office conversations.
Can you say nukular? I knew you could ..
Wow! That’s a pretty wild phenomenon – at least as far as I know. Is it drift?
A lovely image, in any case — though I do miss your
conventionally-sized humps.
Hope everyone’s enjoying a good day.
Nope, not drifts. It’s just the way that hillside eroded. We get that pattern pretty often but the large number at that spot is unusual.
Snow is all gone here. Are you thawing out yet?
Hi.
We’re trapped in a continual snow-thaw-freeze cycle this year. It’s causing havoc with ice jams on both streams & buildings. The icicles are champs, though. Wish I could show you! No luck on a new OS, though. I’ve got the disc, but my computer won’t read it. Feh.
Had snow last night — big, soft flakes — & now comes the thaw: rain, sleet & slop. Can’t wait for Spring!
The high today is going to be 63! Yeah, yeah SN, I know you’re not impressed. Unfortunately, neither are the weather gods because the low tomorrow is going to be 26.
Oooh! Yay! It’s like pretend spring!
Yeah but why can’t pretend longer?!? ::whines::
Morning.
Morning Andi and CG.
Isn’t it spring already? We almost got up to 80 last week and 70’s this week. Plants are blooming, windows raised in the house….God don’t you love Feb. 🙂
Yeah but look at the pretty picture snow up top. Get any of that this winter, did ya? Neer, neer.
First blooming here is usually daffodils in very late March or early April.
Hiya Andi.
Nope no snow down here this year. We had daffodils blooming in the back yard last week, but we had a few days of the lows in the 20’s and they’re gone now. I’m figuring we’ll have a lot more opening up here very soon.
March is my least favorite month because I am so ready for spring but I know it will be weeks before we even get the hints of it.
How’s the back doing?
By March I’m already thinking next month it’s going to start getting hot. I do need a summer home up North somewhere.
The back is much much better. I’m sort of like an old car as when one thing breaks down, you’re waiting for the next thing to happen. I was supposed to have another stent put in my right leg on Tuesday, but they had a problem with the referral. So I’m waiting for Dr’s office to call and tell me when everything is on again.
Hope you and Jim have been doing good.
Yeah, I know that geezer falls apart feeling — though not as bad as you’ve been having it. Hope the doctor gets everything settled pretty quickly.
Geezerhood has its ups and downs I guess.
Once the new stent is installed I’m going to start training for a marathon. Yeah sure. 🙂
You can just let Bebo do it for you — I figure I get great exercise just watching her run all over the place (I figure she goes 10 times farther on our walks than either Giddy or I do).
George has started his whinning, so I have to take him outside.
Sorry I missed everyone else, but everyone have a good day.
Have a good day, FM.
Before I start getting ready for the day, I thought I would put this cartoon up. This is what someone from down here would probably think if they went up there.
See ya’ll later.
Ha ha. Very amusing, FM. Just wait ’til mid-April & the snow thaws. I’m gonna find my ass, come on down there & give you a spanking.
Good to see you!
The diary is here and the theme of the week is Random. Surprise us!.
Good morning! Where is everybody today?
Sleeping? Being late for work? Doing something fun that they’d didn’t include us in?
Present and accounted for. Getting ready for the big snow?
Is it going to be a big snow? I just heard “chance of some white stuff”, but I wasn’t paying much attention.
CBtE will be happy: he’s supposed to go snowboarding with the GF and her family on Sunday.
The first report that I heard called it a Nor’easter. It’s supposed to start later on Saturday and go into Sunday. No doubt that the panic shoppers will cause milk and bread shortages for miles around.
Yeah, we’re supposed to get it too. Rain and wind tomorrow changing over to a sleet/snow mixture by Sunday. Raleigh will be closed until further notice.
CbtE is due to go skiing on Sunday, so I’m sure he’ll be happy about the weather.
Good morning.
We’re supposed to be up in the 70’s today, but severe storm are coming through. Right now it’s a little North of us, but later we’ll be getting it. And as the weather gets even crazier, we’re supposed to have snow showers Sunday morning. Go figure.
Other than that, just hoping the electricity doesn’t go out.
Hope everyone is doing good today.
Hi FM! We’re getting snow as well. More time to slack!
TFSMIF! I’m recovering from a long stay in the hospital ER last night. No, I didn’t have an accident or anything like that. My mom had a small stroke about mid afternoon, so we took her to be checked out. The hospital staff finally got her to a room around 10:00 and I got to sleep at 1:00 a.m.
There was plenty of entertainment in the ER, with a woman who was pretty drunk in the treatment space next to ours who, despite being in bad shape due to what sounded like some nasty complications of advanced alcoholism, had a loud and varied vocabulary of swear words like I haven’t heard since I was on active duty as a sailor. Her boyfriend’s loud description of the digital exam the Dr. was doing was, um… quite colorful as well. The tirade rose and fell for hours, with numerous loud confrontations with the boyfriend over possession of the cell phone, car keys and do-it-yourself removal of the IV, which apparently offended her greatly.
ER nurse, upon her return from wherever it was she had disappeared for a few minutes, “You’ve ripped out your IV! I hope we won’t need it for anything.”
The ER staff was really tolerant about the whole thing and they all kept their pleasant bedside manner.
Mom ignored it all as if it wasn’t there and spent the hours eying the nice looking young people working there and asking anyone wearing scrubs who came close if they were a doctor. She was reading all the peoples’ name tags aloud too and asked if I knew anyone who worked there several times, “Yes Mom, but they aren’t on duty right now.” Later, as an orderly pushed the gurney up the hall to her hospital room, she looked up at me, grinned slightly and said, “Oh give her the f__kin car keys!”
Mom is 91.
Ah, I love that. That’s how I’m gonna be at 91…knock on wood.
Hope your mom recovers fully and with speed.
Thanks! She is one very cool lady. Loved your pix over at the flog. I’m just too pooped tonight to post over there.
You mom sounds like a charmer. And I’m glad to hear everything seems to be okay.
Plus it’s always good when the floor show at the ER turns out well.
Glad she’s okay ID. It’s a stressful situation, but sounds like your ER experience offered some distraction, lol.
I’m glad all is well, ID. Hope your Mom continues to feel better.
Hope your Mom continues to improve ID. Take care of her and take care of yourself.
Thanks for the good wishes everybody! From what I can tell, Mom’s underlying philosophy of life has always been “C’est la Vie”. Her serenity amazes.
Just chiming in with get-well wishes for your mom, ID. She sounds like a treasure.
Thanks CG! She is.
Good morning everyone.
Since last night we’ve been going through severe thunderstorms, tornado watches and warnings. We’ve got another row of bad weather that will hit here in about 30 minutes. I’m still amazed that tomorrow morning they’re predicting 80% chance of snow showers. I really do wish the weather would make up its mind.
Well you’re not going to turn down snow, are you, just for a little weather consistency?
Morning Andi.
I’ll always take snow. It’s just these damn high winds and thunderstorms I could do without. Well at least during the middle of the night when I’m trying to sleep.
Gotta go. Lighting starting to get kind of bad.
See ya.
Hope you made it through the storm without any problems.
Hey, no golfing for awhile, OK? Hope all’s well with you (or if not, at least a little better).
See ya later, FM.
I’ll tell you what, the birds love it. They’re all tweety and cheerful this morning. Probably not so much when it changes to sleet tomorrow.
If I put out birdseed, the birds will be all tweety, even if there’s a blizzard going on.
Me too but this is tweetier. Usually it’s “get out of my pecking way!” tweeting. This time it’s “hot damn this rain feels good!” tweeting.
Well after the extended drought you’ve had, the rain probably does feel really good.
not to my sunroof that doesn’t close completely :/
any dkos members here, give me some love. 🙂
Woman strip searched…
I did, shortly after you posted (you were still high on the ‘recent’ list) – great to see it on top. Congrats.
Nasty story, btw. I hope the extra attention can help avoid a full cover-up. Maybe even get to the truth…
Thanks, ask. I’d forgotten how much traffic there was…
So why do they keep remaking crap like Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Last House on the Left when there are real horror stories out there?
I can’t understand why anyone would go to one of those movies let alone make one. I have this thing about putting ugliness out into the universe…
Yeah, there’s enough of it out there already, and who wants to have that coming back to themselves anyway?
I’m wondering if there’s a good possibility of a federal civil rights action here. It would certainly seem so. Any attorneys want to weigh in on it?