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Our Daily Thread 1-22-15

Good Morning!

On this day in 1771 the Falkland Islands were ceded to Britain by Spain.

In 1824 the Asante army crushed British troops in the Gold Coast.

In 1874 a patent was issued to Samuel W. Francis for the spork. 

And in 1973 the Roe vs. Wade decision legalized abortion.  😦

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Quote of the Day

“The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightning.”

Richard Blackmore

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 Today is Steve Perry’s birthday. From journeyVEVO

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Anyone have a QoD?

47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-22-15”

  2. L. started the new semester Tuesday at our local public school. She hated the small, private school she attended in the Fall and asked (begged) us to let her transfer… I hope we made the right decision… The school is very large–it looks like a junior college campus.

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  6. I am awake way too early But it’s so cold in my house (well, only 60, but it feels colder) that I will be forced back into my bed and under 5 pounds of covers shortly.

    I don’t have to be in to work until around noon today, covering a 6-8 p.m. meeting that’ll keep me working late.

    How are things with your folks, AJ?

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  8. Good morning. I feel like my cold has returned or maybe it’s a sinus infection 😦

    I was out and about a lot yesterday and even made it to Walmart to return a few items. It is a good place to get in some walking. Maybe if I alternate walking and riding the stationary bicycle my knees can tolerate that.

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  9. Annms, i know your family has been through a lot trying to get to the best school situations. That is difficult having to adjust to so many changes. Prayers that this will be a good one for L.

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  10. BG had an accident yesterday. She got in the right turn lane to turn south to go to school. She was behind a large pickup truck pulling a trailer, so as soon as she could she got in the right lane. He didn’t see her and pulled over on top of her. She was afraid to call her father, and I guess she didn’t think about me, so she called her Nana. The house is only 4 houses from that intersection, so Nana was able to get there quickly. When she asked BG who hit her, it turned out that it was Nana’s cousin who lives next door. He told her the accident was completely his fault. Her driver’s side door won’t open and the car will need some repair work, but all in all everything was good. When I talked to her father he said now that it was all over he was kind of glad it happened—put a little fear in her.
    I told him it was his mother’s fault this happened. Last week when I talked to her she said that out of all three grandchildren BG was the only one that hadn’t had several fender benders by now and what a safe driver she was. He laughed and said she also caused him to get hit by a Volvo. (When he was 16 she was on a motorcylce that he wasn’t supposed to be on and a Volvo hit him causing quite a bit of damage) that just the week before she had bragged that neither of her children had ever had a broken bone.

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  11. Ooh, glad she’s OK. I had a similar accident in my early driving years — I was getting ready to turn right when a large truck to the left of me swung into a gas station (and into me) before the corner. I think it was my fault, though, if I remember right. 🙂 Maybe because we were in the same lane (a large right lane) so I was basically scooting by him on the right.

    I notice a lot of the big trucks now have signs on the back warning drivers that they have to make wide turns so to be cautious and avoid passing them on the right near an intersection …

    Learned my lesson, I’ve always been very aware of large trucks that could turn into me ever since. I typically avoid being in that position, I either drop way back, change lanes, or somehow make sure they’re not about to turn right with me in the way.

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  16. I like the titmouse. That’s one of my favorites. If he were a child in school, he could get away with anything he wanted. If the teacher questioned what he did, he could just look at her with those big eyes and say innocently, “Who, me?” and he wouldn’t get punished. Last winter we had two of them coming; this winter we seem to have six. It’s a little hard to count once they get to that many, though, since they’re in constant motion and you’re never sure if you’ve counted the same one twice!

    Ooh, Kim, sorry about the accident, but so glad she’s OK!

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  18. Glad she was ok, too, Kim. I hope she realizes now she can call either of her parents when she needs help! It is great she has a grandmother who will be there for her, too.

    I was glad when one of my daughters went too fast on gravel and ended up in the ditch. She was able to drive right back out, but it taught her some valuable lessons. I was afraid before I even started driving. Watching the mandatory video, “Death on the Highway,” made me never want to drive. I did learn, however, and past the test the first time with no problem when I was sixteen.

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  19. And I was glad when daughter took the turn a bit fast, turning onto the gravel road coming back to the house. All of the five olders were in it. She slipped on the ice and they all thought it was going over onto its side. It righted itself and they all learned that ice can be unexpected and is slippery.

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  24. I need some energy and a better mood — feeling like I want to just go back to bed for the day, but I’m not really sick & I have so much to do it would be impossible anyway (the thought of which is probably what’s making me feel so tired already!).

    At 2 I’m heading to the home of a widow who will be receiving items the military recently turned up from her deceased husband who died in 1945 when his plane went down in WWII in the Philippines.

    Thankfully, I won’t have to turn it around as a daily, I’ll have Friday to write it for the weekend. But there will be a lot of family members present so interviews today won’t be all that easy. I’ve interviewed the widow and son by phone last week, though, so that gives me a head start. It’s always hard trying to interview people in group situations, keeping people & quotes straight in my notes.

    At 6, I’m off to cover a public meeting that’s sure to be crowded and loud … then I’ll have to write that up from home afterward, so it’s going to be a late night. And the meeting location is not far from where there’s going to be 5,000 people marching in a pro-union waterfront demonstration right about the same time, complete with flyovers & politicians, so the streets might be packed and tricky to navigate.

    At least the meeting got me out of covering the march, 2 other reporters are having to do that one. Union demonstrations are always loud, chaotic and full of political posturing and bluster. Not my favorite atmosphere.

    I’d better go drink a cup of coffee now … Maybe 2.

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  28. When i started reading your comment, Jo, I thought you were saying that a spork is your measuring rod until i read the rest of what you wrote. 🙂

    Donna, sorry to hear that you are not feeling as good as you would like and need to feel. That does sound difficult to do the group interview. I was trying to take notes during the rally i went to which had thirteen different speakers in an hour and that seemed to be getting a bit ‘jumblesome.’

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  31. Eighteen year old daughter has gone up to Moscow to move in with grandpa and grandma as needed. If they want a bit more space, she can stay with my brother and his wife as well. So far, my dad is quite pleased with daughter’s experience and ability and willing for her to stay. That is all good. Pray for them all.

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  35. Survived the interview, which was actually very good (although scattered, by necessity, with a lot of people, but I managed to isolate the 3 I needed most).

    I have a pretty good system for note taking when there are more than a few people talking and I can’t really remember everyone’s names — I pick out something distinctive (RED for someone wearing a red blouse; BEARD for a guy with a beard, etc.) and then at the end I match up the names with the nicknames in my notes.

    But sometimes the discussion flies and I’m left wondering “who said that?” — the system is good, but the execution is open to flaws. 🙂

    And adding to the complexity nowadays, of course, is that I also need to take video snippets as the photographer focuses on stills.

    Just a lot going on for these intense assignments, but all in all, I think we got what we needed (though probably not everything we would have liked).

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  36. A month ago I had ten goats. Today I have seventeen. In the next couple of weeks, four more does may be giving birth to up to three each. Do the math.

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  37. And I do sometimes use the iphone recorder, but sometimes that can be more cumbersome, especially when you’re also using the phone for random video snips.

    Argh. I need at least 2 more arms

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  39. So the spork wasn’t a recent invention? Who knew that people in the 1870s had a use for sporks! Though it is a great idea. If I had known about them when we married I would have suggested just getting them instead of spoons and forks.

    Another new kid here. Another boy. Boys go in the freezer.

    That reminds me of some friends who had dairy cows and four daughters. The girls wanted to name the calves so the parents agreed. The females got names like Blossom and Buttercup. The males got Baloney or some other food name so the daughters would know they were going to get butchered.

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  40. Good evening all. Since I usually let you know how cold it is up here, I thought I should tell you that it went up to 46F today – paved roads are melted clear of snow – still snow on the gravel roads. Twas a beautiful day!

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  43. And now it’s clear, this is why I wanted to stay home today.

    It’s almost 10 p.m. and, after covering a mind-numbing public meeting that stretched for over 2 hours (with much of the testimony in Spanish and the presentation filled with eyes-glazed-over government budget figures), I’m trying to write a coherent story.

    Waaa.

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  44. finished around 11:30. The only high point was reading my colleagues’ story on the 6,000-member union rally that I didn’t have to cover tonight. 🙂

    Small blessings.

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  45. And finally got everything posted on fb/twitter — videos from this afternoon wouldn’t upload until I got home and had a decent wifi connection for the phone.

    Tired.

    But tomorrow IS Friday, right?

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