Aprille is the crueleste month - part deux
1. The snow must go on: We had 5.3 inches of heavy, wet, nasty, slushy snow yesterday, plus another inch last night. Many schools (but not our district) were closed across Wisconsin yesterday; darling daughter asked yesterday a.m. if we could move VERY QUICKLY to another district so she wouldn't have to go to school. LOL I said no. When I picked her up from tae kwon do, she said the teachers at school said there was a 90% chance of a snow day today. She would have liked that, but school is open today. So I'd better go make her lunch soon and find her snow pants, unless she plans to stand around and do nothing during recess today.
2. Is this a coffee shop or a rock music club? I had a meeting with two co-workers at 10:30 a.m. yesterday at a coffee shop near where I work. The place sells wine and coffee. It ought to have a pleasant, relaxed atmosphere, right? Well, the barristas (a couple of young guys and 1 girl) had the "background" music turned up so loud I couldn't hear the people at my own table very well :( So I finally got up and asked them to turn it down some. They seem startled that anyone would actually want to, you know, TALK in a coffee shop o_O
3. I knew I shouldn't have started titling these in bold: Last night I was helping darling daughter get to bed. I'd just finished reading a short story to her when I thought my nose had suddenly started running. She said, "Is your nose running or bleeding?" I touched my upper lip and sure enough, blood was pouring out my right nostril. So I ran to the bathroom and grabbed some TP and clamped my nose shut. Fortunately the nosebleed stopped pretty quickly. I hate random stuff like that. I get a random nosebleed a few times a year; I guess I was overdue.
4. R.I.P.: Kurt Vonnegut has died at age 84. This makes me sad. He was a great writer. I've read a bunch of his novels and always found them articulate and challenging; he had a unique way of blending satire and fantasy into some great "black humor". Slaughterhouse Five was one of the great anti-war novels ever written, IMO. He will be missed.
2. Is this a coffee shop or a rock music club? I had a meeting with two co-workers at 10:30 a.m. yesterday at a coffee shop near where I work. The place sells wine and coffee. It ought to have a pleasant, relaxed atmosphere, right? Well, the barristas (a couple of young guys and 1 girl) had the "background" music turned up so loud I couldn't hear the people at my own table very well :( So I finally got up and asked them to turn it down some. They seem startled that anyone would actually want to, you know, TALK in a coffee shop o_O
3. I knew I shouldn't have started titling these in bold: Last night I was helping darling daughter get to bed. I'd just finished reading a short story to her when I thought my nose had suddenly started running. She said, "Is your nose running or bleeding?" I touched my upper lip and sure enough, blood was pouring out my right nostril. So I ran to the bathroom and grabbed some TP and clamped my nose shut. Fortunately the nosebleed stopped pretty quickly. I hate random stuff like that. I get a random nosebleed a few times a year; I guess I was overdue.
4. R.I.P.: Kurt Vonnegut has died at age 84. This makes me sad. He was a great writer. I've read a bunch of his novels and always found them articulate and challenging; he had a unique way of blending satire and fantasy into some great "black humor". Slaughterhouse Five was one of the great anti-war novels ever written, IMO. He will be missed.