Next They’ll Be Taking Our Children
Posted on | July 30, 2008 at 5:04 pm | 7 Comments
Today, I’m going to indulge myself in a brief session of What’s Up With That? Note: This entry has been sitting in my Draft Posts since the weekend. This is the first day I’ve been able to use it without more urgent blog topics getting in the way. In other words, I got nuthin’ today.
- I was at a barbecue last weekend where a wasp kept stealing food off my plate. I’ve never, ever seen a wasp do that before in my life. The first time, he carried off a piece of potato salad. Then later he came back for a piece of chicken. The pieces of food were almost as big as he was. At one point, he tried to take a piece that was as big, or bigger, than his body, but he couldn’t fly very far with it and had to put it back. Since when did wasps start eating chicken and potato salad? Does this have something to do with climate change? Their traditional food sources aren’t available, so wasps are evolving to eat our food? Is this going to be a plot of a future SciFi Channel monster movie of the week?
- Lately, I seem incapable these days of correctly typing the word I’m. I keep putting in a quote instead of an apostrophe: I”m. Something is no longer wired correctly between my brain and my fingers. Unfortunately, Firefox’s spelling checker doesn’t even mark it as an error. Though I manage to catch most of them as I type them anyway.
- N and I were shopping at a local mall on Sunday, and the whole place closed down at 6pm. Since when do stores close at 6pm, even on a Sunday? I guess I”m not used to shopping outside of the holiday season, when stores and malls seem to be open 24/7.
- Why has the second season of Mad Men started already, when I still haven’t finished watching the first season? It’s stacked up on my DVR. I’ve watched through episode six, I believe. I can’t even read any articles about the show, because they all divulge things that happened in the first season, and I want to be surprised. Why is there so much good stuff to watch?
Okay, time to stop typing and start viewing…
Latre.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “gozilla extras matthew broderick costume”. Totally awesome. I think I’m going to get myself a Matthew Broderick costume and make N get a Sarah Jessica Parker costume.
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7 Responses to “Next They’ll Be Taking Our Children”
July 31st, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
You must not get out enough. Malls have closed in CO since I was knee-high to a chicken-eating-wasp! My wife uses that as evidence that we’re just not civilized out west! At least we got rid of the pesky booze sales on Sunday ban.
As for the putting in a quote instead of an apostrophe. I’ve noticed many weird spelling errors that I just seemed to acquire in the last few years. Heck, sometimes I put in apostrophes where they don’t even belong!
Has to be age related brain cell loss. I keep hearing a commercial on the radio reminding me that I’m losing thousands of them per day. Can’t seem to remember the product they’re selling, though.
July 31st, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
When will I learn to proof-read before posting? I meant to say malls have been closing at 6 on Sundays….
July 31st, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
There is something I have wondered about for years that is related to your first post. Why do people like to eat outside? Do they like picking bugs out of their food? Is it a cravin’ for a little extra protein? Don’t they consider that the fly landing in their barbecue beans may have recently landed on dog poo? I just don’t get it.
July 31st, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
I like it best when the wind blows your food off the table.
July 31st, 2008 @ 7:51 pm
Lisa: For the most part I’m with you…except that sometimes I’ll eat outside because the places have the A/C up so damned high it’s like eating in a walk-in cooler. I mean, if I pick up the fork the thing shouldn’t freeze to my fingers, should it?
July 31st, 2008 @ 8:50 pm
My fingers get “know” and “now” confused all the time.
August 6th, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
> Why is there so much good stuff to watch?
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/list_of_things_man_wants_to