Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Lioness
Friday, September 24, 2021
It is September, After All
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Not So Much Moving Now
I've had a blistering headache since the weekend, so staying still has been a necessity. Here are some non-sequiturs I've been saving:
You unwrap a head of lettuce, right? You cut/tear the amount you need for a salad. There is now less lettuce, yes? Then how come you can never get the remaining lettuce completely re-covered?????? I didn't cut off any plastic wrap!!!!!!
My "trick" for spelling "Mississippi" is reciting the words of a Bobbie Gentry song. None of the "crooked letter / humpback" stuff. And yes, I sang the lyric as I typed the first sentence.
My best friend's younger brother once told us how to remember the difference in spelling "dessert" versus "desert." You'd want two desserts --- hence, the two s's --- while one desert --- and one s --- would be plenty.
I was embarrassingly old when I realized the remarkable meshing of my mother's maiden name: England, and my father's middle name: Briton.
If it's taking you to a lower floor, shouldn't it be called a "de-escalator"?
Does anyone else sometimes use the reverse on your phone camera as a mirror?
If you forget to take your neuro/memory boost tablets, isn't that a sign that they aren't working?
How I got to him is a long, curvy story, but I've found out that Hermann Rorschach (yes, of the test) was kind of cute.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Movement
Yesterday, I moved a lot of the furniture in the den around. On a complete whim. No, there won't be many photos because not everything is truly settled, and the carpet needs work. (Indentations and little stains you forget you'd covered over.)
You probably know that one wall in the den is this:
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Today, I Am Sad
I don't know why. Nothing has happened --- or not happened --- that would cause me to feel this way, but I sure do.
Monday, September 13, 2021
After-Action Report
A good subtitle for the contest would have been "The Running of The Jasons." (Bateman, Momoa, Sudeikis)
Matching photos was surprisingly non-stressful this year, mostly because forbad myself to spend hours (yes, plural) looking for good ones.
The trickiest photo pairs were between one nominee who seems to smile all the time and one nominee who seems to not smile all time. LOTS of pairs put me in that jam.
One of my favorite match-up picture sets was Jason Bateman vs. Prue Leith. It looked like they were each giving the other a skeptical side-eye.
I liked the Scottish poetry of McGregor vs. McTavish. And, yes, I tried to have photos of both of them in kilts. The way CrowdSignal formats photos, though, none of the pictures would come through clearly.
Nicolaj Coster-Waldau's last name is fun to type. His first name, not so much.
Somewhere, there are black and white portraits of every nominee, allowing me to use them in the contest. This is my hope.
I'm still working on a name for the bowl. As the successor to The Fedora of Fate, it deserves something special.
Sunday, September 12, 2021
By a Single Vote. . .
. . . The winner of the first Knitters' Companion:
Friday, September 10, 2021
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Yes, I'm Keeping Things From You Now
No more real-time results available to you.
Don't give me that look.
Here --- here's a juice box and some graham crackers. Do your homework.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Monday, September 6, 2021
Feeling Froggy? Then JUMP!
For those of you who might have had Labor Day off, we here at HQ hope you had a good one. Ideally, you kept up your stretching regime so that hitting various keys or mice or screens won't cause physical problems.
Here they are, the last of The Sixteen:
Sunday, September 5, 2021
Happy Monday --- Sweet Sixteen
That's right, we're down to 16 folks. Not this round, but the next, will not show real-time voting results. I usually wait until the Semifinals to do that but thought I'd change it up.
Here you go!
Saturday, September 4, 2021
Friday, September 3, 2021
The Last of the 32
So, if I have this right, this last group will decide the last people to be in the Sweet Sixteen. We'll have the first Knitters' Companion chosen before you know it!
Thursday, September 2, 2021
It's Not Really Downhill
The contest itself isn't going downhill right now, but it's sure picking up its pace --- at least on my end. I have to have quick turnarounds posting each day's pairings. Still, it's fun, isn't it?
Let's see where today takes you.
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
One
One video.
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. . . on wood. Madeleine is back to her usual self. Even eating some dry food, though still preferring bisques and other lickable things.
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In addition to the much-too-expensive tooth business (honestly, if I had known that one tooth was worth that, I'd have pulled some more ...
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Collaging has shown me that I am a bad gluer. This pains me more than it should. On gluing, how many of you recognize this? You had to slic...