What made you smile today?

we were just coming up our driveway when a nice springshower started. the birds were ecstatic ! all kinds of birds were hopping wildly across the lawn and picking at anything looking like a morsel to them. spring seeems to have arrived ! hbg

Ted Nugent won his lawsuit against the city of Muskegon for cancelling his 2003 concert at their fair, because of "racist" remarks he supposedly made on a Denver, CO radio program. I don't like people who choose to be retarded, and Muskegon is apparently full of them.

Good for you, msloga. For me it is the opposite - two more days and then its uni for a whole 2 months plus two weeks of tortorous exams and then another two - four weeks of dreaded waiting for marks and THEN its holidays...

Thanks, pragmatic. Too bad you have to jump through all those hoops before your break, hey?


As for moi:


Yippee, I'm a holiday girl!

But a very, very tired one.



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Talking to the BPBear on the phone today made me smile.

We had a chili cook-off.
People think I'm smiling, but it's just gas.

Guy who came to repair my boiler, 37-year old geezer, turned out to be an Elvis fan, told me about the 138 CDs he had of his (or was it 158?). Had gone to Graceland and everything ...

Also, hearing the reggea I was playing, started waxing about the UB40 concert he'd gone to last month: everyone was stoned, nobody noticed who was what race or anything, everyone relaxed ... (all this in the category, if you like reggea you must be into smoking joints as well, so I can tell ya about it ). Actually, it was cute.

FIGHT NIGHT IN THE SOUTH
One of my employees is in a Goth band. Goths tend to be pretty helpless, hapless people, but tonight we're going over the mountain to watch Micah, one of the other band members, box at some club Three one-minute rounds. Micah is a pretty sturdy looking guy, but why would anyone want to do that? And pay $50 to do it?
We don't have cock fighting that is legal anymore and fox hunting is out of favor, so tonight we'll pay $15 to watch a friend fight a stranger.
Does this sort of thing go on where you live?

hmm, don't think i'd pay for that.

what made me smile is a book that finally arrived in the mail: "Never Threaten to Eat Your Coworkers; Best of Blogs". Some funny and witty stuff collected in there.

I've always said "it's the small things in life".

During my meter reading rounds today, as I approached this one house, I noticed that the blinds were shut. Nothing wierd there, but as I came closer, and I'm sure it was coincidental, a cat suddenly poked it's head through the slats. It just happened so quickly and took me by surprise, that I burst out laughing. The cat looked so casual, like it was an everyday event. I would have loved to have taken a picture!

Like I said, it's the little things....

Reyn, you have such delightful cat encounters in your line of work!

Just to conclude a storyline. And Dag, I appreciate your reluctance to pay $15 to watch guys who have paid $50 each flail at each other in a very amateur boxing match.
I enjoy writing and I guess I could write about how amusing cats are if I had to. But, my god, when I decipher my notes and sketches from last night at Expo-land (today's schedule includes a tractor pulling contest and a demolition derby), it was $15 well spent.
Some of the images did indeed make me smile. I saw some things that troubled me, so perhaps this message and my original one are on the wrong thread. Sorry. I'm done except for noting that, by the way, Micah KICKED ASS!

Well, I do love cats! So, I guess I take the time to pay particular attention to them. We have two black and white rascals of our own.

Ah.
Very discerning person, this Reyn!

The wonderful summer weather thats been going on outside for a few days already, the pink blossoms fluttering down from the tree ...

loved realJohnboy's anecdote about the sparing match. Made me smile.

Not smiling because RealJohnBoy cannot access A2K

Why is that, letty?

Gus, he didn't say why, but he lost his old identity and reenlisted, so to speak. Now he can't get back in with his new identity. I posted a help thread on the proper forum, and sent him the moderations' e-mail. So far nothing. Need to get Virginia John back in here.

Yeah, he's a cool guy. I talk to him over at the scrabble site on and off, but haven't seen him around here lately.

Thanks for the heads up.

BBB
Two friends of 15 years came to visit me today. I haven't seen them since I moved to New Mexico in 2002. I invited Dys and Diane to have lunch with us. We all had good conversation and a great time. It was so good to see my friends---they even pulled the weeds in my front yard garden. I should have invited them for a week; they could have cleaned up my read yard garden. :wink: Friends like that are hard to find.

BBB