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20824. Magoseph - 1/3/2007 1:58:40 PM Not a chance, Robert--the neighbors were likely at the party. 20825. judithathome - 1/3/2007 7:44:12 PM Is World Crossing down? 20826. arkymalarky - 1/4/2007 12:28:37 AM I'm looking forward to going next year. In fact, I'm looking forward to the whole Holiday Season next year, and that will be a great way to top it off. 20827. alistairConnor - 1/4/2007 2:40:21 AM Happy new year all you wonderful people. I have been awfully busy doing nothing much. Waiting for the snow to fall (it hasn't) and playing board games with my kids.
Some vague ideas about what to do this year. Insulate the roof properly. Decide what I want to do with my life. Stuff like that. 20828. Macnas - 1/4/2007 1:36:27 PM Hope everyone had a good time over Christmas, and here's to a better new year. 20829. Magoseph - 1/4/2007 5:51:09 PM Hello, Ali and Mac, and every Motie lurking or posting!
50 HI today and sunny, unbelievable weather--I'm going for a walk with Flexy right now while Butch is getting groomed in town.
20830. judithathome - 1/4/2007 6:52:47 PM Hey, guess what Psych Prof gave me for the holiday? He put my picture of the building up as the banner shot of the day at RI! 20831. Magoseph - 1/4/2007 9:08:55 PM Great picture, Judith! 20832. judithathome - 1/4/2007 9:13:10 PM Thanks! 20833. tmesis - 1/5/2007 10:42:36 AM What are you people passionate about? What do you want to explore more in depth this year? Let's bring more life to this forum.
Mine are to learn to play Inventions more passably, and brush up on Greek so I can finish the Odyssey.
And eat more fiber. 2007 will be a regular year. I can feel it. 20834. alistairConnor - 1/5/2007 1:36:47 PM What's Inventions?
Current board games are Carcassonne and Alhambra. The right level for me and my daughters. They will presumably have better things to do by the time we're ready for really clever stuff.
Greek is a noble ambition. I've been reading the classics in translation, off and on : Aristophanes most recently. Translations vary enormously, which makes one want to read the original, but despair of ever understanding it. Translation is very culture-sensitive. The last translation I read makes the plays seem like pornographic English pantomime. Laborious footnotes makes it even funnier, to me. 20835. thoughtful - 1/5/2007 3:24:48 PM Have you heard about lulu.com? I hadn't until a friend told me yesterday....seems I can publish my calendar and my book of pics when I make it. Don't know if anyone will buy it, but what the heck. Can't hurt. 20836. Magoseph - 1/5/2007 5:05:38 PM tmesis wrote: What are you people passionate about?
Nytimes: A record 90 women will serve in the 110th Congress: 74 in the House, including three non-voting delegates, and 16 in the Senate.
I’m happy about the fact that the Republican effort to pack the Supreme Court with enemies of women’s rights will not be as successful as it was in the past. I question whether the Congress would have swallowed the BS that promoted the Iraq war with a Congress that was fifty percent female.
tmesis, that’s what I will be passionate about this year: Women's politics.
20837. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 1/5/2007 5:27:01 PM Wrt Greek classics: I heartily recommend Robert Fagels' fine translations.
His latest, is now out in audiobook form . . .
My goals for '07 are to stay healthy and distill my vision down into a more abstract language.
20838. judithathome - 1/5/2007 7:22:36 PM I'm passionate about local politics and about my friends and this summer, I hope to muster up some passion about landscaping my back yard...the first summer without our beloved 100+ year old elm.
I'm smitten by my new kitten and her weird ways...and when she does something really mean I'm pretty passionate about trying to train her.
Today, I'm passionate about maintaining a grip on my cough when we go to the play tonight. After 2 weeks of this crap, I can rein it in so long as I don't laugh...but the play is a PG Wodehouse Jeeves & Bertie Wooster number so I am hoping for a miracle. And carrying a purse large enough to hold a bottle of cough medicene. 20839. alistairconnor - 1/5/2007 7:32:17 PM Hell, coughing can be forgiven during a Wodehouse. If it's any good, the laughter will cover it. Etiquette would not be the same for a Pinter or a Strindberg, no doubr... 20840. alistairconnor - 1/5/2007 7:32:36 PM erratum : "no doubt..." 20841. arkymalarky - 1/6/2007 1:02:02 AM I'm passionate about living without a deadline for a while--after Monday evening. I'll be passionate about meeting one until then. I promised everyone when I left work today (kids included) that I would be a different person on Tuesday. They're like "yeah, right." 20842. judithathome - 1/7/2007 7:34:52 PM We spent half the day yesterday taking the tree down...most of it spent by both of us corraling the cat as she thought she'd help out. At one point, Keoni turned to me and said "I'm beginning to think we're not cat people."
He created this fabulous box with compartments for all the tree ornaments and stuff...it's something I think he should patent! Every single thing fits in its own little slot...it's all protected so the balls and crystals won't break and the lights won't get all snarled...it's amazing! 20843. judithathome - 1/8/2007 8:46:34 PM I posted this elsewhere and didn't think I do any better job of telling it than I did so I'm copying it here, too:
Yesterday Keoni and I were puttering about the house and I had the radio on NPR. Suddenly I noticed there was violin music on and it was exceedingly irritating violin music, more like deranged "fiddle" music and I suggested Keoni turn it off...thinking he was in the kitchen where the radio is.
The music kept playing and I was beside myself...this stuff was worse than Chinese water torture...it was very fast paced and frantic Irish folk music.
Now I know some people love this stuff but my brain was not receptive to it at all. Maybe it's the sinus infection setting up on the right side of my head or maybe it's just that this music bores into my brain like a dentist's drill in the movie Marathion Man ...but suddenly I found myself running into the kitchen and slamming the button that turns the radio on and off. Keoni walks into the room about then and sees me gripping the counter and breathing heavily and asks what's wrong.
I explain in great detail and even flip the radio back on to shw him an example of the torturous, fiendish music and he says "I didn't even notice it" and blithely walks off.
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