Make this list (Ok, check)
Update Coley Blease Blog
Finish note to nephew re software development
Finish reading book on Reconstruction
Organize photos on Coley Blease site
Research Blease speeches in The State at Greenville Library
Convince doctor on Wednesday that my high blood pressure is normal and non-threatening, really!
Make contact with old friend through Facebook or Twitter, whichever works
Read more Itallo Calvino in Italian
Finish (and post) blog entry on tight pants
Update Italian American Club site with officers
Figure out fencing for puppy in back
Contact cousins–long over-due
“What’s your social?” the clerk at the hospital asks me, as I’m registering for a blood test. You jerk! It’s my social security number, dummy, not my “social”. If you want a social, go to the church basement where the ice-cream social is being held. And why do I have to register for a blood test, anyway? This place is giving me the creeps.
Catholics feel guilty for having done the things they ought not to have done. Jews feel guilt for not having done the things they ought. Baptists don’t feel guilt, just shame. Atheists: “La, la la, la la…”
Who decided that Afghanistan would be pronounced with short a’s, as in taxi and cab, but Pakistan would be pronounced with broad a’s, as in father a bar?
Some of the only winners of the deepening financial crisis may be smokers in Atlantic City’s casinos. (nytimes 10/6/2008)
“SOME of the only”? Some of the few? A few of the onliles?
In a televised interview last spring, Senator John McCain , Mr. Obama’s Republican rival, asked, “How can you countenance someone who was engaged in bombings that could have or did kill innocent people?” (nytimes 10/4)
You gotta love this coming from a guy shot down in the course of dropping bombs on civilians in North Vietnam.
Moving blog to wordpress, in order to have permalinks. Under construction…
