What made you smile today?

Jeez, John

I just thought you'd gone into hiding after some less than glorious rugby results lately!

No Margo. ----- It's a tough game & we have to live with games lost. As long as lessons are taken onboard and inwardly digested, then things will turn round.
It was a very good tournament & some great rugby was played by all teams, except the Sweaties.

This has been a kickass week! A very important client has hired me on retainer. Not only is the thrill monetary, altho' we're very excited about THAT cause the villa is in need of s few repairs, but this particular organization is important and meaningful and I feel that I'm doing something really important in the big scheme of things. It's fulfilling and I'm happy. And then today I learned that my godson has been accepted at Morehouse College in Atlanta. We've talked about this for years and the whole family is thrilled but especially his mother, my first cousin, who was like a sister when we were growing up. She wanted him here, knowing that I am here, minutes away, to keep watch over her only child. Hooray!!!

I smiled ever-so-breifly at a baby on the subway today. Only because he was frowning though, which I found quite amusing. He just cocked his head, and instead of giggling nonsensically the way most babies do, he just shot a glance at me like "what, bitch?" He was a gangsta baby.

Honestly, I smiled because you smiled, be it ever so briefly. ....Did I just see a crack in the armour of the lion of Judah? Heaven forbid.

Seeing Letty's post always makes me smile ... if she's on the computer I know all is well:)

No.

almost!

I'm on vacation, just arrived in San Diego (Oceanside actually) and am having a great time visiting with my friends.

Who, strangely, seem very happy to see me.


next week it's up to SF for the A2K gathering.

Misti, all is well today.

and as for the Lion King--didn't your mother ever tell you that your face would freeze that way? Obviously, you didn't listen to her either.

jjorge. Nothing strange about friends being glad to see you. Our Town revisited.

Letty, you got that right girl!

Have the bikers left DB yet?

oh..a marycat smile, thats a nice thing

Yeah, I was a rebel.

I think he smiles all the time - in secret!

o.k., so this happened the other night, but it's still making me smile.

Cleo and Bailey and I were out for our evening promenade. Cleo is an easy dog to walk - she stays very close to my side at all times. Bailey's a bit more of a wanderer, up and down the sidewalk, across the lawn, up the neighbour's steps, wander wander wander. So my attention is generally on keeping Bailey within sight - ya know - raccoons and skunks and cats and squirrels in the city to contend with.

I suddenly realize Cleo's leash is stretched out a bit behind me, and when I glance back I can't see her. What?

Garbage was collected late that night, and there were garbage cans on their sides on the lawns and sidewalks. In her glee to discover easily accessible garbage snacks, Cleo had walked right into a garbage can.

She's the original garbage dog.

ok so it was 2 says ago driving home from the Great San Francisco Gathering and we are passing thru Elko Nevada looking for a place to spend the night and pull up at a Casino and Diane goes in the lobby to get us a room and comes out a few mins later so I unload the car and find a parking place and walk back and Diane is standing out front with a mad on her face. "Get the car" she says, so I go back and bring the car around and while loading the luggage back into the car she tells me "Fred is not welcome here" (Fred is me parrot) so off we go in search of another room and she says "the hell with them, we will get a room and they don't need to know about Fred"
we got another room at another casino. Me thinks Diane has gotten attached to Fred.

Well, the parrot does have a certain charm when he isn't pooping on my shoulder.
Dys makes me smile all the time, but he was especially funny in San Francisco with a cab driver who was familiar with Firesign Theatre. They riffed off each other for the entire ride. I wish we could have stayed in the cab for the constant repartee. Oh, and a waitress from Russia who could keep up with him without cracking a smile, made me smile. She was amazing, like a little waif that was tough as nails.

ehbeth, bailey and cleo stayed with us in kingston over easter . i think it was saturday night and bedtime. usually cleo and bailey stay with mrs. h and me in our bedroom when they are "on vacation" in kingston. ehbeth stayed in the rec-room with cleo and bailey on friday night. so saturday night mrs. h announces in german that it's time to go to bed ( "zeit ins bett zu gehen "); cleo and bailey (we were all in the livingroom watching t.v. ) promptly got up, looked around and not seeing ebeth making any attempt to go to the rec-room , marched off to our bed-room and made themselves comfortable in our beds ! stretched themselves out as much as possible ! those two are bilingual for sure ! hbg ... they did eventually follow ebeth into the rec-room after they assured themselves that she was truly going to bed !

Using only my considerable wit and this rather innocuous anecdote, I aim to resurrect this thread from the bottom of the page.

I was riding the bus home from class today, debating whether or not to put cheese on the salad I was bound to make for lunch, when a cell phone starts ringing. It was the driver's.

I don't much cotton to bus drivers talking on the phone while they navigate a multi-ton vehicle through dense traffic, but it got worse.

The bus driver's face falls.

"What do you mean, bad news?"

I was paralyzed. A bus driver, receiving bad news on a cell phone, while driving, with me as a passenger, was not, as they say, 'koo'.

My life flashed before my eyes. It was brief, of course, being relatively young (compared to, say, old people) and not particularly illuminating. I arrived at no conclusions, other than, "I hope I have a chance to make this flashback longer someday."

Then the driver laughed. "Well," he said, "Why didn't they just paint it green?" He laughed again, and hung up the phone.

I decided not to put cheese on my salad.

I could have smiled. But I didn't.