Monthly Archives: September 2004

Crashing the show about Crashing the Parties

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PBS was supposed to be airing a show last night or tonight, depending on location and station, called “Crashing the Parties 2004″. Hmph, it didn’t air on any of the stations we can get. We have DirecTv again now, and at least two local PBS stations.

It irks me since PBS has it online as a feature being aired, but no DirecTv aired station is showing it EVER! It’s the ONE show on a political theme I was looking forward to seeing, and the ONLY ONE I had planned on even looking at on purpose.

“Hmph” is the best word to describe how I am feeling about it. It’s pretty much like the ballots in GA, totally OUT of my control. Totally NOT having what I want on them. My choice being limited to bad and bad, nothing at all related to what I’d choose. Hmph.

I’m really, really getting frustrated over the politics this year. I support Peroutka, and encourage y’all to vote for him too. He’s not on the ballot here, and local TV won’t air a special about the third-parties and their impact on the election. Hmph, hmph, hmph.

Ode to the Ale – A Poem

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Ode to the Ale

By Marysue Meints*

Crazy Maisy loves Corsendonk Pale
Red Tail, Red Brick, ale, ale, ale!
Give me a brick and a tail, and a tale
Abbey, micro, [home?] brewing ALE! ALE! ALE!

* a.k.a. Crazy Maisy

© 2004

I wrote this poem Saturday, September 18, 2004, on a whim. That’s the way I write poetry. I don’t even write most of it down, not that there is much in the first place. At any rate, this I DID write down :)

Inspiration for it is obvious, Ale! All the things mentioned are actual brands, as well has homebrewing.

Corsendonk Pale is a Belgium Tripel Style Ale, imported from Belgium.
Red Brick is an Amber Ale, brewed in Atlanta, GA by the Atlanta Brewery
Red Tail is an Amber Ale brewed by the Medencino Brewery, the distribution we have is from the brewery in New York State.

We have several friends from church who homebrew.

Jeanne, Jeanne the water machine

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Jeanne was here and now gone. Tropical Storm Jeanne is the third such type of storms in the last month to go through North Georgia. We really needed the rain! Thanks be to Almighty God for his provision.

I understand that it will seem I’m endorsing the destruction that came before … but I’m not. It’s in God’s hands, the storms and the paths they take. It’s in God’s hands to direct what happens in a storm. May we all learn the lessons that God would have us learn.

So we had Frances, then Ivan, now Jeanne.

In Florida Charley was before Frances, but we didn’t get any of Charley, and they didn’t get any of Ivan.

Frances gave us lots of rain and some gusty wind
Ivan gave us lots of rain and lots of wind –pretty steady pounding
Jeanne gaves us lots of rain and some gusty wind

According to a city near us, they got “almost” 4-inches of rain from each of the three storms. I think we got more than that locally, at least 4-inches, but I have no scientific readings to base it on, just the stuff on the deck that fills up with water, not rain gauges just other “stuff”, as well as seeing the rain come down one can “gauge” fairly well.

So we are in too-much-rain-this-monthism, but in not-enough-rain-in-previous-months-itis. How does September stack up to reduce that deficit? Not sure yet. I have to look and find that data.

It’s a blue sky sunny day today, after a rainy all day Monday, and a Sunday morning before that which was the last the sun was seen until today. The Sun came up Sunday morning with the fringe clouds of Jeannes furthest North tail showing right behind. Those clouds moved ever closer in, but weren’t thickly dispersed, and the sun peaked in and out of that floaty stuff. But by afternoon the soppy tropical air had arrived. The eveneing we saw some sprinkles come down on the windshield as we drove home from church. Later that night light rain began, and it got heavier and heavier the next day, and was the heaviest in the afternoon/early evening. Then it was mostly light down to sprinkles and we awoke to a clear sky this morning!

I don’t know what happened in our region, we were under flood warnings, of course, so those close to creeks and such might have encountered flooding. Also, invariably trees snap or fall over from all the rain and wind. We haven’t seen any such in our little subdivision though.

Me Big Eyed!

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:grin: Oh it was funny! Just a minute ago, I’m sitting here reading something on another site, and Russell came up the steps from the basement and was standing there and tried to get my attention.

I looked at him, he proceeded to show me how to do a loop.

Shaked his body back and forth kinda funny, mostly in the middle, then proudly stood and smiled. :redface:

He meant he thinks he knows how to keep a Hoola Hoop going. In any case, it was just so funny, it was SO very personal and something that I wouldn’t dream of doing in a million years, perform like that in front of anyone. Even as a child.

We don’t have a hoola hoop, and never have. He must have seen it on some kid’s show.

Sigh. It’s nice though, he has a good view of him and me and has no shame in being real. Sigh. :wink:

:smile:

Virus/Cold and stuff

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I’m feeling miserable. Asa was first in line. A few days before his birthday he sounded kind of stuffy, and worse each day, and is now doing better. I, on the other hand, began feeling weird a few days after his birthday, and have been drowning in it badly since Saturday. Initially I only had a bit of a scratchy throat and maybe it was an allergy, it felt. But then I was feeling that itchy thing in my chest, just lightly tickly, bad news. After that is when my sinuses went under, and though I’m breathing, you could fool me into thinking I was breathing under water, like in a swimming pool, nearly.

So I’m tired and dragging and super under-par, but not goodly so enough to go to bed. Bed is the worse place of all, sleep is hard to come by with draining tickly sputtery coughy suddenly overwhelmingly visitingness — when it feels like it popping in. I finally fell asleep last night, well this morning, sometime after 3 or 4am, and awoke just before 9am. So I did get some heavy sleep to sleep that late, just not much of it beforehand, so it wasn’t “extra sleep” that sleeping late brings other folks. That’s the way it usually is with me anyway, getting to sleep between 10pm and 2am regularly, so sleeping until 7 or 8:30 is not sleeping late to me.

So in spite of feeling horrid, I updated something on this blog. I installed a plugin that “guesses” one’s country, for those that leave comments. It uses the IP to guess. So I have it displaying a Flag of that country, with the name of the country reflected in the title that mouse-over pops up. Glad it didn’t take rocket science to figure out. I did have to mess with some php coding to get it to show up how I wanted it too.

Secondly then, the other day I attempted to install another plugin, but it’s incompatible with the preview feature I have installed for comments already. It’s a threaded/nested plugin, that’s really nice, I just couldn’t figure out making it work right with preview installed. I can say that another day I’ll tackle it again and succeed, I just wasn’t doing well enough, with this cold, to piece the right codes together, hacking the plugin and HACK together, in essence.

Well I hope to be feeling better soon as I have much more online work to tackle as well. I need to re-do my church’s site, re-vamp and create new stuff too. It’ll take top mindform for me to do though, and in that task I’ll include getting rid of every last vestige of Movable Type on every one of my sites. Yippee! Good ridance!