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May the 4’s be with you
Figures I’d close the last lounge and open this one. Hi, all!
But now everyone will get to hear what you have to tell me.
More phone sex?
Naw, it was much to nice a day here for that. No, if you love baseball, what’s the best way to enjoy the game? Watch your favorite big league team? Good — Coach your kids at little league? Better — PLAY! Best!
Yep, my pickup baseball (and I mean baseball, 90-foot bases, hardball, overhand pitching, the whole bit) group got together for our first Sunday game of the year. Much to everybody’s surprise (especially mine), I actually hit a double (some of the younger guys could have stretched it to three, but I barely made two). The memory more than compensates for the fact that I can barely walk today.
I would have picked option #1 since girls didn’t play baseball when I was young and I have no kids to coach.
BUT I do understand your excitement. Baseball in February! You beat pitchers and catchers — they don’t report until Thursday.
What position do you play? And what’s your spot in the order?
Mostly right field and first base, though there’s a lot of changing around of positions. It was such a nice day we had about 25 people out yesterday, so everyone sat out a few innings in the field. For example, I sat out the inning after my hit — gave me a chance to catch my breath. Batting order is sort of random, though consistent for the game. Same with the teams. Basically, whoever is in the field warming up when we decide to start playing is the home team, and whoever is hanging around the bench is the visiting team.
Did you guys play all 9 innings? I’m impressed if you did.
Damn, now I’m frustrated. It’s too cold here to play baseball, or watch the guys playing baseball when I take my walk. I was reconciled to spring training starting this week, but now I want real live baseball players.
Yep, we do. It’s basically more fun than should be allowed.
You know what. I think next time you play you should bring back pictures and post them here. It will make the rest of the winter seem shorter. We’ll have our own personal BB players.
Can I tell you that I really thought you were going to tell me about Nancy Pelosi. Baseball was a complete surprise.
Now that you mention it, I did end up shaking her hand (not at our baseball game, though). I decided to go with the theme of keeping up the pressure on checks and balances relative to domestic spying, and on the Patriot Act. Her reaction was interesting. The way I read her, she wants to make an issue of domestic spying, and may still be trying to work out the best way to do it. So hopefully my one voice in favor of making it an issue helped. More voices, I’m sure, would help more.
I was waiting in line to get in. I’m glad a new place opened.
I went to an IEP meeting today for one of my guardian kids, and we all sat around on these teeny little preschool chairs. Too funny. At least I was able to get back up. I was kinda worried about that.
I know what you mean. One of the many reasons that having small children is a young person’s sport
My husband teaches kindergarten (when he’s not on leave) and he spends large portions of his day bent over, kneeling down or in those chairs.
It was just so funny – I took the wrong exit and got lost and frantically rushed into the room looking straight ahead, and there were the teacher, principal, social worker and grandmother at about knee level all looking up at me. I burst out laughing.
It wasn’t so long ago that my kids were that small, but you forget how little everything is.
Lockers look tiny in elementary schools, too.
At the end of the meeting, did everyone put the chairs on the desk?
No, but we sang “If you’re happy and you know it” – it was beautiful.
clap your hands (clap clap)
How is he liking the stay at home dad thing, btw?
He’s great and he seems to be doing well. He’s still a little shaky in the kitchen – lack of confidence, mostly.
practice, practice, practice.
That’s what I tell him. Honestly, I miss cooking.
AFter so many years of cooking so many meals, I absolutely love anything that anyone makes for me. Just the luxury of having someone set a plate down in front of you is priceless.
I guess you could point him toward your favorite cooking magazines…or maybe you could enjoy cooking on the weekends? After he’s already done the grocery shopping, of course… 🙂
or he could use my motto: indifference, indifference, indifference.
you married women
praise
praise
praise
whatever he makes is the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten and you can’t wait to taste the next thing. Soon it will be HIS kitchen and you won’t be allowed in (which is my goal in life). You won’t even be allowed to do the dishes because you “put them away wrong.”
How is it you are still single if you know all the cool tricks?
staying single IS a cool trick
I’m single this week. 🙂
How IS the UPS man?
Clothing difference between teaching 3rd grade and 6th grade: my knees wore out of my pants first in third grade; now my cuffs wear out first.
My first precinct meeting in my new neighborhood was in those tiny chairs. I was a little unsure of where we were going at that point.
Hello Robert P and welcome to the cafe. Just jump right into the pond – everybody is friendly.
Thanks, I’ve been to part 1 and open thread, now my time is up for tonight and my battery is de……………
I see you found us. Hopefully Second Nature will close this cafe soon and put up a new one and talk will be easier (and load faster for those on dial up).
Toni,
Know much about the middle school in HT? They are looking for an AP, and I wondered what’s up there.
They are looking for an AP, but they will currently be sharing our (HHS) AP. Just for a numbers break down – KMS 900+kiddies with one principal and and a 1/2 time AP and HHS 900+kiddies with one principal and a 1/2 time AP.
I don’t know when this arrangement will be starting, perhaps after break.
are both schools together? That sounds awful! Way too many kids for two P’s and just 1/2 AP apiece. My husband’s school lost its AP and when the P is out of the building, as she is often, the kids just run amok.
No, the two schools are in two different building, maybe 5 or 6 blocks apart.
Hell, when my principal is in the building, the kids run wild. He lets them call him by a nickname – a shorter version of his last name. He high fives all the shit heads in the building. His lack of professionalism makes me want to leave.
Oh yes, “Your principal is your friend.” That always works so well.
I hope you know I am not serious!
Just thinking about him is making my head hurt. I think that I’ll turn in before I get depressed.
Night everyone.
I took the Nature boys out for a burger and you guys trashed the lounge. Here’s a fresh one with no sticky tables or cigarette butts.
Yeah, but you leave me to do the dirty dishes as usual.
but for which George is eternally grateful.
You can see he’s waiting for the next dish.
Good Dog George. (psst just don’t go outside if there is a lot of snow)
A champion plate cleaner.
I do love his teeth.
George thanks you from the bottom of his heart, and he feels his teeth are his best feature.
But Family Man, you’re just the best at it! I wouldn’t trust anyone else to do it.
Well since you put it that way….. No, no, no. You did that to me last time and I bought it.
And video games here. What could be better for Burnout, a game dedicated to crashing cars?
I’m working on some tequila, and playing some old school Nintendo games (like Blaster Master).
I considered playing Duck Hunt in honor of our veep, but…ah, ok, all those jokes have already been done today.
Perhaps Doom would be more appropriate for Darth Cheney.
Maybe I’ll just honor the President and his Chief of Staff and go play A Boy and his Blob.
Wow, I’d forgotten than one completely. It does fit though, doesn’t it.
LOL!!!! I wanted to share a design with you guys.
That’s lovely!
Really wonderful. Hmm. Wonder if Dan Qualye could be worked in somehow. . Nah.
Who is watching the Olympics and did you just hear that snowboarder girl and the first president she remembers? I’m so old.
I’m not watching but I’ll guess Clinton.
(sob)yes(sob)
OMG. I was kidding.
Oh maryb now I feel bad. I can remember Eisenhower. Sheesh.
I hear snowboarders smoke a lot of pot. I wouldn’t trust their memories anyway.
Hey,
How about this? I’m married to a college professor who remembers Reagan, but only from the reelection on.
is that legal?
Well, sure. Now. She’s actually thirty-three and just wasn’t paying attention early on.
Or she landed on her head once too often.
Maybe, but it’s probably just that presidents don’t matter that much to an awful lot of ten year olds–her age pre-Reagan’s reelection. Which, I must admit, makes me feel the five year difference in our ages all the more. That one makes me feel old.
Now I really do feel I need to take some Geritol.
It’s time to play who’s the oldest in the cafe. I was born in 1950. Are you younger?
Yep 1953.
I am not playing that game.
As my greatgrandmother Tennessee Belle (I am not making up that name) said, and often, “A woman who will tell her age, will tell you anything. . .”
Present company excluded, of course!
That is the coolest name! My husband’s grandmother’s name is Sadiebelle.
My Grandmother’s name was Fannie Belle.
So what do you want to know?
And I probably learned this from my bubbe, Minnie, who never held anything back in her life.
No woman is over 29 unless she wants to be. That is a Southerner’s way of looking at it. LOL
yeah!!! I am not the oldest. I was born in 1958. I am younger than god and older than dirt. LOL
Oh, well, there are things besides age that interfere with memory. I was just telling my studientes today about short term memory and too much of that grassy stuff. First things in go first – like the oldest prez remembered, etc.
I went to see a shrink a few weeks ago and at my first appt. he was asking me these questions to see if I was hearing demons speaking to me and to test my cognitive skills or something. He asked me what day it was (does everyone have trouble with this or just me?), what state is directly north of ours and who was president before this one. I said “someone better.” Hopefully that proved to him that I didn’t need a subscription to Schizophrenia Digest.
No, sorry, these aren’t “watch out, you might be crazy” questions. Just ordinary “mental status” questions about being aware of what day it is, where you are in place, and in time more broadly (e.g. the president question). Your answer, furthermore, gives you away as being smart, not just oriented to time and place!
Another funny thing was when he listed 3 random words and told me to say them back to him. No problem. Then we talked for a few more minutes and he says ‘by the way, what were those 3 words?’…duh..I couldn’t remember. But now I can – table, apple, ball. WTF?
Or maybe it was table, apple, clock. Oh well.
Oh, this is another classic party of a mental status exam. Did you have to subtract by 7 starting from 100? That’s the worst part, I think. Very hard to do fast, if at all.
I wouldn’t worry about the 3 objects. I always miss that, too, when students practice on me, and I know it is coming.
Yes, I did have to count backwards from 100 by 7’s. Wow is that hard! Even when you’re totally sane.
Try doing it on one foot with your eyes closed and your head back. Might as well ask about E=MCsquared.
Not to imply that I ever had to do that of course :o)
No, no, of course not. 🙂
Speaking of the grassy stuff (or not), just got off the phone with my mother, who tells me her husband — currently hospitalized for post-operative pain after kidney removal — has been hallucinating & babbling like mad. Turns out they’ve been giving him Marinol (synthetic cannibanoid, 99% THC), known to cause symptoms of full-blown psychosis in even small doses.
In other words, for all intents & purposes, he is mad. Thank you, Big Pharma.
Mom fully convinced that Mother Nature’s own medicine would be far preferable. I fully agree.
Alas, I’m steppin’ off line again — sitting at the computer seems to be aggrivating my sciatica lately, so my cafe’ visits are super-brief.
See y’all soon.
I think I’d have to list Reagan as well. I don’t really remember him being President…but I remember things that happened from his era. The first President I remember seeing speak on TV was GHWB.
I have vivid memories of Carter, fuzzy memories of Ford, and a lone picture of Nixon resigning, but I was very political very early.
Suddenly I feel very old and decrepit. Not exactly one of those square dancers, mind you – (shudder – I always think of the Cheney’s square dancing when I get really horrified at the Dickster. Somehow it brings him down to size).
Kidspeak don’t feel that way. I’ve got a Great Aunt that 98 y.o. Her mind is as clear as anyones and she get around on her own. She didn’t stop driving until she was 94. We were talking last week and she was talking about getting old. She surprised me when she told me not to die before her. She said she had already gone through 3 sets of pallbearers, and she was running out of relatives. Now that’s getting old.
Well that outta make Kidspeak feel better LOL
And with a great attitude to boot. May she live another twenty years.
Indeed, Supersoling. Now I really feel super young. I think I better go arrange my cremation right now! And be sure to renew my AARP extra-senior membership while I’m at it. Geeze, I didn’t mean to imply that I recalled the League of Nations.
Sorry, I guess that was a bad example.
Don’t worry about it. I’m mainly teasing. Your relative sounds wonderful – that’s what I want to be like at that age – which is, by the way, a long way off!
My earliest political memory was learning how to use voting machines…they hauled a couple of them in to my elementary school when I was in 4th grade, and showed us how to vote.
I clearly remember voting straight party-line Democrat, with Dukakis heading the ticket 🙂
I remember going to vote with my mother when I was quite small. We moved when I was 4 so it must have been right before that.
But my first real political memory was campaigning for Tom Eagleton for senate when I was 7. Those were the days when they would hook big speaker up to the top of a car and you would drive through the neighborhood saying “Vote for Tom Eagleton” and it would blare out. (My dad did, not me.) And then there was a song that we would play through the speakers. I can’t remember what the melody was but it had the words “Tom Eagleton” in it over and over and over.
You grew up in Mo! So did I (mostly) – in the Bootheel. Alas, my parents were Repubs, running in the family since the Civil War.
Earliest political memory for me was marching with Mom in Manhattan against the Vietnam War. I was 8.
I remember skipping school the day that Nixon resigned too and watched it on tv not feeling particularly interested at all.
…and I’ll be 43 for approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes more ;o)
Haaaaaaaaapy Birthday Super!
Thank you Sir
Sir? Super you’re starting to make me feel old.
Well I had to on Kidspeak’s behalf. Now we’re all even!
I thought we were to begin with.
We are….Sir
Always have been.
Happy Birthday!!
and thank you Mr. Youngster :o)
And many happy returns.
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes.
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes.
Hippo Birdie Dear Ewe.
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes.
Many thanks :o)
Super, quick, go to VB and take a look.
Happy Birthday!!!!
Thanks so much :o)
Linden Baines Johnson is the first I remember clearly from the vietnam era. Benn politically active since I was 8.
Boston – Big Brother Bob Emery Show…everyday we drank a glass of milk to a picture of President Eisenhower.
Next memories were stapling election campaign posters on stakes for my old man’s attempt at running for office (he lost…everyone was republican back then).
Next was staying up all night waiting for the Voting results on Kennedy. Why is it, all my Heroes are dead
You need to advertise for a new hero
I have high hopes for this one.
He has possibilities.
Who wins the Primary, but He would not be my first choice. Bold and Beautiful Words. The actual voting Record is not up to anywhere near my “hero” status.
Link
I haven’t agreed with all of his votes, but he does appear to be pretty consistent to me.
But I don’t want to turn the lounge all political and stuff…we’ve got years to talk about this 🙂
I don’t know..things were very innocent back then.
Today everyone wears their flaws on the outside. That’s good I suppose, but just like the change in women’s skirts…Sometimes imagination was better…lol
I got carried away and lost track of time… I just saw your comment in the last cafe.
I would love the size of (1024 x 865) or thereabouts, smaller is okay too.
Here’s what had me distracted (uploading… takes forever on phonelines …):
Calla lily, taken 2.13.2006 (view large)
Wow! The color is magnificent.
It’s such a neat flower. 🙂
As always olivia, you have such beautiful pictures.
Your comments are very much appreciated 🙂
Now that is simply gorgeous. Love the colors, the composition, everything about it.
They’re one of my favourites … These guys are such vibrant colours, so that makes them even better. 🙂
Olivia,
Thank you for remembering my favorite flower yesterday.
I was tickled :o)
… I did remember your comment from the photofair… 🙂
(((((super)))))
Beautiful picture olivia.
Because of the way I cropped it, the picture is 1024 x 549. Here’s the link
I’m on dialup too so I know the problem only too well.
I love the photo … I love the way you can see the water – the wetness of it – contrasted w/ the ice and the colour scheme … it’s just such a winter scene. Lovely! :*
You’re very welcome. A small payback for all pleasure I’ve gotten from your beautiful flower photos.
Well now that is lovulvaly 🙂
Hehe. I love you DJ! :*
Hey guys, all night lounge open.