Woolly Mutts

Random Sunday

A few random things for Sunday:

*So Friday I was doing my usual volunteer hours at Just Goods.  Which, by the way, you ought to take a visit to the website cause it's starting to take shape. This is a not-for-profit store and our webmaster volunteers his time, so I want to give him all kinds of kudos for a super great job.  The pictures on the site have this cool zoom function so you can got a better look at what is in the store. Anyway, there is a farmer's market that takes place across the street on Friday afternoons and the store is pretty busy with cross traffic. There are probably 10 or 12 people in the store and the manager has left me alone while she runs over to the market.  A dude comes in....maybe 50ish in age.  Not looking homeless, but could use a bit of sprucing up.  I notice that he has a backpack and a ball cap on with several buttons on the front.  He looks pretty harmless, but I keep an eye on him, just in case.  After a few minutes he comes up to the jewelry case that I'm standing behind and bends down to look into the case.  I tell him the usual "if there is anything I can help with..blah, blah" and as I finish his finger comes up to point at one of the buttons on his hat that says: "O*al s*x is a nice last minute gift.  How about now?" (you got that right?  I don't want to give fodder for nasty searches).  And he looks up at me with this sort of funny smile.  I look him straight in the eye, point to the door and out he calmly walks. That was the first time anything like that has happened to me!  Not to worry, I was perfectly safe and one of the men shopping in the store caught the whole thing and came over to see if I wanted to call the police, which I will if it happens again.  Never a dull moment at that store.  (In a good way!)

*On Saturday we took a quick trip up to Madison to see the new Harry Potter film in IMAX.  Just as good the second time...perhaps a bit sadder, and as we are leaving the theater we get behind a mother, teenage son, and I'm assuming the grandmother.

Grandmother:  Well, that was enjoyable.  That guy....the one in black.
Grandson: Snape
Grandmother: Sneep?
Mother: Snape
Grandmother: Sneed?
Grandson: SNAPE!

This continued on as we walked away.  It was so funny that I had to laugh out loud.  Poor Snape just can't get any respect.

*Smart phone users, have you tried the new browser, Bolt? It was recommended to me by a facebook friend and fellow Ravelry user.(Thanks, Sara!) I downloaded it onto my Blackberry last night and it.is.awesome.  No more zooming in and out or moving the screen around.  You can actually navigate a web site with functional success.  It's still in beta testing, but it is free.  Go forth and Bolt!!!

*Japanese beetles, in addition to being a scourge on the planet, smell terrible.  Just in case you were wondering. :-)

*The last few days I find myself pining a bit for Fall.  I realize we have at least a good month left of summer and have actually had a pretty temperate month of July, but I'm almost ready for crisp evenings and sweaters and candles lit all around. 

That's it.  Hope you're all having a simply lovely weekend.

Legos and Eddie Izzard

So today I'm sitting here at the computer feeling like a limp blob.  As is my usual MO after not enough sleep and too much stress I am congested and exhausted and not a little bbblllllaaaaahhhhhh.  Actually, quite a lot blah.  Anyway, I'm killing time, trying to talk myself into doing the dishes, and catching up on my blog reading when I go to Time to Knit where she has a cute little YouTube video to watch.  A half hour later I am still sitting here laughing myself senseless after watching every little video YouTube has with Eddie Izzard and legos.  An odd combination, to be sure, but hysterically funny.  I'm going to post the same video Lori did, but I highly recommend heading over to YouTube and checking out the rest of the Izzard\Lego vids, especially "Death or Cake" and "James Bond".   Whoever the dude is that spent countless hours setting up legos to make videos, thanks Man, and to Lori....You Rock, girl.  I think I can carry on now. 

It is with hysterical pleasure that I give you The Death Star Canteen.

I wanna have a terminal case of Hipatitis.

The following information arrived today in my email box and it was so amusing to me that I had to share it with you.  My favorites are 10 and 12, but they are all extremely creative.

Here is the Washington Post 's Mensa Invitational which once again asked
readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,
subtracting, or changing one letter - and supply a new definition.

       The winners are:

       1. Cashtration (n.):
   The act of buying (or building) a house, which
renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

       2. Ignoranus :
   A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

       3 Intaxication :
   Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize
that it was your money to start with.

       4. Reintarnation:
   Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

       5. Bozone (n.):
   The substance surrounding stupid people that
stops bright ideas  from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately,
shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

       6. Foreploy :
   Any misrepresentation about yourself for the
purpose of getting laid.

       7. Giraffiti:
  Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

       8. Sarchasm :
   The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and
the person who doesn't get it.

      9. Inoculatte:
  To take coffee int ravenously when you are
running late.

       10. Hipatitis :
   Terminal coolness.

       11. Osteopornosis:
   A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

       12. Karmageddon :
   It's when everybody is sending off all these
really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes and it's a serious
bummer.

       1 3. Decafalon (n.):
   The grueling event of getting through the day
consuming only things that are good for you.

       14. Glibido :
   All talk and no action.

       15. Dopeler effect:
   The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.

       16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.):
   The frantic dance performed just after you've
accidentally walked  through a spider web.

       17. Beelzebug (n.):
   Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into
your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

       18. Caterpallor (n.):
   The color you turn after finding half a worm in
the fruit you're eating.

Once upon a time.....

....I played a harp.  Don't get too excited, it isn't a concert harp.  I don't even have a vehicle large enough to carry a concert harp, much less the funds.....my god, do you know how much those things cost?  More than the car it would take to haul them around.  But, as usual, I digress.  My harp is a folk harp, and it is a lovely thing now residing under a pretty blanket in the basement.  Go ahead, give me the lecture.  I need more guilt in my life.  ANYWAY, I used to play this harp with another woman who also played a harp.  She, however, was a MUCH superior harper (concert harp players are harpists.  Folk harp players are harpers.  Do not make the mistake of calling a concert harpist a harper unless you're ready to have your ears boxed.).  This being the case, she would carry the more intricate melodies, while I handled the base chords or arpeggios or anything else that maintained balance while she moved those fingers to create magic.  We did a lot of weddings which means we did a lot of Pachelbel's Canon in D.  You know it, even if you don't think you know it, trust me, you do.  The basis for Canon in D is 8 quarter notes played over and over and over and over. After playing those notes as many times as it takes to get a bride down the aisle I began to wonder if Pachelbel wrote this song as some soft of punishment. It's actually very cleverly written and I still am fond of hearing the piece, especially since I no longer have to play it.  When I found this YouTube piece I though I would laugh myself silly.  He seems to agree with me.  Hope you enjoy it!

I know, you've seen it a zillion times, but once more can't hurt.

Doesn't that just crack you up?  It's so ridiculous.....in a hysterical sort of way.  Go ahead.  Watch it again.  It gets funnier the more often you see it.

I apologize in advance

But really, you just have to go here.  Happy Friday!