Category: General

Is it possible to make a lead balloon?

I was sitting in the waiting area of Burnsville Volkswagen looking out the window at the rain and was wondering; if April showers bring May flowers, then what do May Showers bring… and I decided, that they must bring mosquitos.

via email from Jim Teal, Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:10:26 -0800I bet these make Jeff Foxworthy proud…

If and when I get a cell phone again, I think I’d like the number +1 (651) 946-4688 which would be +1 (651) WING-NUT.  I wonder which carrier owns that block?

Took a little side trip to Maine yesterday, from helping my mother care for my step-father; while I was there, had a lobsta dinna with my cousin’s Martha and Linda.Martha took this picture.

…when Toby is bored or complaining, [his father] announces as if to an unseen audience, “The kid has the wim-wams.”Kinderscenen by John Updike in Harpers, December 2006, Page 82I always wondered what that was, but only since I read this short story, as I’d never heard this term before…

We noticed that the house behind us has had the shades pulled for a while and we hardly ever see any lights on.  We thought it was strange, but since we don’t interact with them, we really didn’t think much about it.  But the other day, I said to Jill, I wonder if she’s left…