lucius septimius 10/18/2019 5:30:20 AM

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revobob 10/18/2019 5:35:36 AM

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In #1 lucius septimius said: 42 degrees when I woke up this morning.  Fat Kitteh did not want me to get up.

I couldn't sleep, so I got up about 5:00. Thermometer showed 34 degrees here. Emma The Terrier Princess stuck her nose out from under the blanket and just snorted at me. She did come out of the bedroom an hour later, so we went out. After doing her business she headed straight for the door, and as soon as I unleashed her headed back under the covers.

lucius septimius 10/18/2019 5:40:22 AM

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Reply to revobob in 2: 

Clever Girl.

revobob 10/18/2019 5:41:07 AM

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revobob 10/18/2019 5:44:12 AM

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vxbush 10/18/2019 6:04:39 AM

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In #5 revobob said: Very much so- and she has us quite well trained. After being outside we always check her for ticks. Now when we tell her we need to do a tick-check, she sits up in her best meercat impression and sticks her 'arms' out for inspection.

What a smart girl! 

Morning, campers. Yes, it's cold enough that I had to start running the humidifier today so I could keep breathing. I rather like doing that--breathing, you know. 

revobob 10/18/2019 6:13:57 AM

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In #6 vxbush said: I rather like doing that--breathing, you know. 

One of my grandmothers figured out how to beat that. Each night she would pause a bit longer between breaths. Pretty soon she started taking longer baths too. Eventually she stopped breathing altogether. The feathery gill fringe was a wee tad off-putting though...Dad said she was just being neotenous in her second childhood...

buzzsawmonkey 10/18/2019 6:43:45 AM

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I just found a pile of early-grade song/music instruction books---eight of them, dating from the late '30s to the early '70s.  I neither read music nor have small children, so I've no direct use for them, other than to re-acquaint myself with the lyrics to some of the songs we were dragged through in elementary school music class, and/or to note the varying examples of "diversity" and "multiculturalism" from another age (inclusion of alleged folk songs from various lands, and songs attributed to Indians or Eskimos, and the varying races of the children in some of the illustrations).

If anyone can use them, for homeschooling or as an archive of one element of the pedagogy of decades past, they are welcome to them.  Let me know.

vxbush 10/18/2019 6:45:52 AM

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In #7 revobob said: One of my grandmothers figured out how to beat that. Each night she would pause a bit longer between breaths. Pretty soon she started taking longer baths too. Eventually she stopped breathing altogether. The feathery gill fringe was a wee tad off-putting though...Dad said she was just being neotenous in her second childhood...

Sort of like Directed Evolution instead of undirected. That'll show Darwin!

Occasional Reader 10/18/2019 6:51:34 AM

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In #6 vxbush said: I rather like doing that--breathing, you know. 

Jukebox

Occasional Reader 10/18/2019 6:54:06 AM

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In #8 buzzsawmonkey said: early-grade song/music instruction books---eight of them, dating from the late '30s to the early '70s.

Just curious, anything by John Thompson?  E.g. "Teaching Little Fingers to Play"? 

lucius septimius 10/18/2019 7:00:59 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 8:

When mom passes I'll inherit piles of sheet music from the 20s through the 40s.  In and amongst all of that is her homework from her composition course at Northwestern.  They had them write advertising jingles.  Always thought that was a great assignment. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/18/2019 7:14:39 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 11: Reply to lucius septimius in 12:

The books are:

"The American Singer," Book 2 (1944, 1950); Book 1, Second Edition (1954); Book 5, Second Edition (1955); 

"Another Singing Time," 1937; 

"New Music Horizons" ("for first grade children"); 1949;

"Singing Every Day," 1959;

"Music in Our Town," 1956; 

"Making Music Your Own," 1971

Most of them by the Silver Burdett publishing company

buzzsawmonkey 10/18/2019 7:21:24 AM

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In #12 lucius septimius said: When mom passes I'll inherit piles of sheet music from the 20s through the 40s.  In and amongst all of that is her homework from her composition course at Northwestern.  They had them write advertising jingles.  Always thought that was a great assignment. 

Cool stuff, especially if---unlike me---you can read music.  The classic sheet music should be a nice adjunct to your copy of the Variety Cavalcade.

revobob 10/18/2019 7:27:06 AM

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In #8 buzzsawmonkey said: If anyone can use them, for homeschooling or as an archive of one element of the pedagogy of decades past, they are welcome to them.  Let me know.

If no one else is interested, I believe our local library would appreciate them. I could pay shipping to get them here.

revobob 10/18/2019 7:28:17 AM

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In #9 vxbush said: That'll show Darwin!

My family would probably have upset Ole' Charles in a lot of ways!

Occasional Reader 10/18/2019 7:43:45 AM

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In #14 buzzsawmonkey said: unlike me---you can read music

That is a knowledge that I, alas, have lost.  Which is too bad, because Little OR is quite impatient to learn to read music (as he is to "decode" pretty much everything else in the world).  

revobob 10/18/2019 7:51:44 AM

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Alice in Dairyland 10/18/2019 9:14:42 AM

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Occasional Reader 10/18/2019 9:16:34 AM

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In #19 Alice in Dairyland said: I just hope he keeps the fight intellectual and not personal. 

Trump, ah, gets personal.  That's the way it is.  But as the refrain goes, "he fights"... and, usually, wins. 

Alice in Dairyland 10/18/2019 9:26:07 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:   I know, that's what people like about him.  He also seems to know what works and doesn't work.  Sometimes the "shooting his mouth off" method works best for him, it gets his message out there when the media won't.  He also knows when to be diplomatic.  Hopefully, he'll know when to use the appropriate tactic. 

Alice in Dairyland 10/18/2019 9:28:19 AM

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10/18/2019 9:41:36 AM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 21:

He is a master Troller. He rolls his message in with something he KNOWS the opposition will flip out over. Then he gets the media and opposition to repeat and repeat what he said. Rush does the same thing in a way. Rush will say, "I'm going to say something the media will repeat".... the next day the media is going off on what he said they would.

Alice in Dairyland 10/18/2019 9:57:21 AM

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Reply to Unknown user in 23:   I could say something about him being a masterbaiter, but I think the fish puns were a couple of days ago.  What you say seems to reinforce my statement above.  He know what things to say and how to say them.  Let just hope he knows when to say them.

Syrah 10/18/2019 10:25:54 AM

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Trump doesn’t always connect when he takes a swing at the opposition, but he swings, which means that he has landed a hell of a lot more blows on the opposition than the never swing (powdered wigs and lace cuffs) wing of the Republican Party has ever done. 

Reagan was gentle and clever. He was able to do it very carefully and controlled. 

Trump just swings.

i would prefer that Trump had Reagan’s way with words, but he doesn’t. I am just glad that he is willing to fight. 

buzzsawmonkey 10/18/2019 10:31:08 AM

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In #25 Syrah said: i would prefer that Trump had Reagan’s way with words, but he doesn’t. I am just glad that he is willing to fight. 

Said it before, will say it again: Whatever the faults of Trump's tweeting, it is the modern-day equivalent of FDR's "Fireside Chats."  Are the tweets eloquent in the Roosevelt mode?  No---of course not.  That's not the medium.  But he's connecting with "the people" with the technology of the day just as FDR did with the technology/medium of his day.

buzzsawmonkey 10/18/2019 10:33:57 AM

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Alice in Dairyland 10/18/2019 10:42:50 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 27:   Is he okay?  While I lurked an awful lot, I may have missed something.  I hope all is right with him.

revobob 10/18/2019 12:52:52 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 27:

Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 28:

I talked to turn a couple of days ago. He is alive and well and practicing being irascible (my word, not his). I think next he is likely to work on curmudgeonition (again me, not him). He says 'Hi' and may even be lurking beneath a nearby lily pad even as we speak.

doppelganglander 10/18/2019 1:35:38 PM

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Reply to revobob in 29:

I'm glad to hear turn is okay. His recent posts have been somewhat cryptic, but he sounds happy.

Kosh's Shadow 10/18/2019 4:12:48 PM

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In #7 revobob said: One of my grandmothers figured out how to beat that. Each night she would pause a bit longer between breaths. Pretty soon she started taking longer baths too. Eventually she stopped breathing altogether. The feathery gill fringe was a wee tad off-putting though...Dad said she was just being neotenous in her second childhood...

So she had some Innsmouth blood in her? A Deep One?