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Our Daily Thread 9-20-13

Good Morning!

It’s finally Friday!

On this day in 1519 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.

In 1881 Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. after President James A. Garfield had died the day before.

In 1953 Jimmy Stewart debuted on the radio western “The Six Shooter” on NBC.

In 1977 the first of the “boat people” arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.

And in 1984 “The Cosby Show” premiered on NBC-TV.

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Quote of the Day

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”

Theodore Roosevelt

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Today is Nuno Bettencourt’s birthday.

It would also have been William Kapell’s.

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QoD

What have you got planned for this weekend?

45 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-20-13”

  1. Good morning, all. Good evening, Jo.

    Aj’s QoD: Becca has a friend spending the night tonight (yay!). Tomorrow, we are going to my MIL’s for a belated birthday dinner for L. Sunday, we’ll do church, tutoring for Becca, as well as a birthday party for one of Becca’s friends.

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  4. It is Friday evening and Term 1 is over!! Now I am going to spend tomorrow at school getting ready for parent conferences. I think that they may still want written comments for parents, so I need to go write them.
    Had a ginger beer to celebrate the end of term tonight.My first one and it had a good taste, not like root beer.

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  6. I will calculate the time the same way, Jo. Now, I just say, 7:23 pm +2 makes it 9:21 down there.

    I’m the one who overslept, but SWITW hasn’t even had breakfast yet. In this case “S” means “slowest”. So, I’m just waiting around.
    The paper hasn’t even come yet.

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  9. Good morning! Plans for the weekend: why, celebrate 6th Arrow’s birthday, of course! 🙂 She will be six on Saturday. Second Arrow comes home tonight and will be here for the celebration tomorrow, and my parents will probably be able to come tomorrow for it also.

    Off to Bible study this morning. The music looks good today, AJ. I’ll have to listen to it later when I get back home.

    Have a great day, all!

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  10. Plans? None that are definate. Whatever the weather allows. BG wants to go Homecoming dress shopping.
    Mr. P is in full on packing mode. Yesterday he packed his mother’s china and crystal. I put all my cookbooks in a box.

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  12. Plans for the weekend. Well, since we woke up to frost this morning, I guess I’ll be pulling the carrots and cutting the sunflowers – and everything that goes along with that.

    Jo, we don’t change time here, so I guess you and I won’t be any closer 🙂

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  13. Good Morning Everyone. Plans??? Hmm, lets see. I have to get my lesson ready for Sunday School tonight, so I can post it on Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth before Sunday. I also have to modify the enclosure for the VFD I use to Teach Basic Drive theory and operation, Oh and I have to disassemble and clean my AK-47 and tighten all the set screws in the receiver.

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  14. I was up early (6) today, had to pull the trash out to the curb. But I got to bed early so got my full 8 hours. Before work today I need to stop by the mechanic’s, my right turn signal is doing double time so something’s out (I think it’s the back, the front I can see still works by the reflection in the cars in front of me). My guy says they’ll get me out of there in 5 minutes, should be a quick fix — either a bulb or a fuse, i guess.

    Then I’m finishing up a story that will run with a large Obamacare piece on Sunday.

    Our clock is turned back on Nov. 3 this year, they’ve been stretching out the daylight saving time lately to where it starts earlier (March) and ends later than it used to.

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  17. Plans? We leave this morning to go to Boise where we will attend first daughter’s wedding. We return early next week. Some of the older boys will be staying home to keep things in order, under the care of the neighbor. They had better take excellent care of Jake or there will be words. None of the ones discussed earlier in the week.

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  18. Mumsee,

    Congrats to your daughter and her husband to be. 🙂

    Peter,

    I’ve been telling Eagle fans for years that Andy wasn’t the problem, that it was their players. Vick is a has been that never was. The new coach is OK, but he’s still stuck with the same Eagles team. I love being right. 😆

    So yeah, go Chiefs. Until next Sunday the 29th, then I hope they lose by 50 to the Giants. 🙂

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  19. Plans: Sat- take Mrs L to a baby shower. All the men will be in the basement watching the older children (oldest will be six). That’s in the morning, and I think lunch is involved. In the afternoon I’ll install a new ceiling fan/light fixture in the kitchen. Of course, D3 and her cousin will be making birthday cake, meaning I’ll have to wait until another time to do the job. Oh well, there is always college football! Sunday is D3’s 19th birthday. They sure grow up fast!

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  20. 6 Arrows,

    I always liked Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee. 🙂

    Donna,

    That’s a bulb thing. My Camry does that too, always the right rear. I just replace it and it’s good for another year. It might be the flasher unit causing it, but why replace that when bulbs are easy and cheap? 🙂

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  21. AJ- About last night’s game, which I listened to on the Chiefs radio network since I don’t get the NFL Channel, (nor any other cable channel): It sounded to me like neither team wanted to win. The Eagle’s 5 turnovers did not turn into many points for the Chiefs. Their offense struggled a lot until Jamal Charles finally got some legs.

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  25. Did I anonymously kill the thread? (11:28 was mine.) Oh, my! (Is that an acceptable interjection, even though it is one word short of an similar one?)

    Going to high school football tonight. Glad it is not scorching, but I hope it’s not too cold.

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  26. Peter, some of us are here.
    The second cartoon, about letting Obomacare fall of it’s own weight is misleading. Government will make whatever it is work for them. It doesn’t have to work for us.
    What will happen?
    It will be a disaster. Everyone will complain.
    Government will go to a single payer system.
    Mission accomplished.

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  27. I’d never heard “Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee” before. I was pretty well weaned from rock music by the early 90’s. 😉 I got a good chuckle from the title, though, and the music was quite humorous! I do tend to enjoy spin-off versions from classical music. 🙂

    Loved the medley Kapell played, too. But then you knew I would say that, didn’t you? 😉 I’ll confess to snickering a little when he was almost to the end of the Chopin piece, and the announcer thought that the long pause in the music signaled the end of the piece, and began to speak, then realized his error. Now if I had been at that recital and that had happened, it would have been way funnier because you don’t dare laugh! I hate it when that happens! 😀

    Much better to listen in the privacy of one’s home, giggle a little, if need be, then be done with it. 🙂

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  28. 6 Arrows,

    I must confess. I thought it was finished as well. 😳

    I like music trivia stuff too. I learned that he was born today and died in a plane crash at a pretty young age. I also learned that today was the day Jim Croce died in a plane crash. 😦

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  29. Re Nuro Bettencourt. I’ve never heard of him.
    He’s good at what he does. But when I saw the crowd and heard the pickin’, Iwoundered:
    Did they pay him money to do that?
    Maybe not, it took the shirt off his back to buy the guitar.

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  30. Peter,

    No, you didn’t.
    And in answer to your second question…..

    I have no idea, having just recently discovered that several things I sometimes say may or may not be cuss words. I thought I knew them all, but it turns out there are way more. I’m afraid to even talk at this point. 🙂

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  32. Chas,

    Here’s an acoustic song you may like better. This one shows his overall talent much better. Very Mariachi like style. Like I said, fast fingers.

    And he doesn’t seem to care much for shirts.

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  33. AJ, don’t feel bad about thinking the piece was done. 😉 The pianist did a couple things that made it seem like it was finished. He released the pedal, so that the sounds stopped ringing through the rests in the music (the edition I have indicates the sounds should be sustained with the damper pedal until the next chord), and he also took his hands off the keyboard and brought them toward his lap. Putting your hands in your lap is a signal that the music is over, and he nearly did that before bringing them back to the keyboard for the final chords. Combine that with the fact that the texture of the music was very thin — only two notes, one very high, and one quite low — and that the high note, which the ear is frequently drawn to, was on the third note of the scale, which is a common ending pitch in the highest voice. The only way I could tell the piece was not over was because the low note didn’t sound like the tonic (the first note of the scale, or the “home” tone, which is the normal ending tone for the lowest note of the final chord and makes the piece sound “finished”). But I’ve had years of music training, so the pianist’s choice to lift the pedal early to create complete silence, and to move his hands toward his lap wasn’t as misleading to me as it might have been.

    Does that make you feel better? 😉

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  37. Thanks for the early birthday wishes for 6th Arrow, Ann. She’s been counting down the days since about 20-something days before, and is very excited to be only one day away from it now! 🙂

    She’s been expecting biggest sister 2nd Arrow to be coming home for her birthday, but she was thinking it would be right on the day that sis would arrive (when actually she’s getting here tonight). Second Arrow called on the phone yesterday and asked to speak specifically to 6th Arrow. They had quite a conversation, and it was funny to hear youngest’s half of the conversation when sister on the phone told her yesterday, “I’m coming tomorrow”. But her birthday was still two days away, and she knew “tomorrow” means only one day. So when 2nd Arrow said, “I’m coming tomorrow”, 6th Arrow replied, with all the confidence of one about to turn six, “No you’re not”. 😀

    Anyway, the confusion is cleared up, and 6th Arrow is looking forward to two things now, 2nd Arrow home tonight, and birthday tomorrow. 😉

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  39. AJ, one other thing I forgot to mention. I’m impressed that you take the time to listen all the way through the music selections you post here. I do really appreciate the time and effort you put into everything you do here at the blog. Thank you!

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  40. Six is such a big age. I can’t explain why. Five still seems kind of little, but it just seems like six…well, babyhood has been left in the dust by that time.

    My husband was laughing today, reminiscing about way back when when he was about to turn forty. 😉 The day before his birthday, oldest daughter (2nd Arrow), five years old at the time, was crying about her dad’s 40th birthday being the next day. We asked her why she was crying about that. She responded to her dad, “Cuz then you’re going to have gray hair and a cane!” 😆

    She’s halfway to forty now, and I’m thinking she’s seeing from a little different perspective. 😉

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  42. I packed most of the crystal tonight. Nothing like liquor store boxes for packing that.
    We have two china cabinets and three sofas. Seems like we should be able to get rid of some things. We did decide to take the larger bedroom and let BG have the other bedroom witwh the 3/4 bath in it. We will use the larger hall bath.
    We have too much STUFF. I have gotten rid of a lot. We will have a two car garage that will not be able to have cars in them. One will have the utility trailer the other side will have “stuff”.
    I am going to inherit a desk that belonged to Mr/ P’s dad. It is huge.

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  43. Gray hair and a cane at 40. 😀 Not quite, but very funny.

    Kim, the desk sounds intriguing and worth finding a space for.

    AJ, the turn-signal bulb was replaced in minutes this morning — and they didn’t charge me.

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