47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-15-16”

  3. I think it was Peter who pointed out that yesterday was Pi (don’t have the symbol on my keyboard) day. Today is the ides of March.
    So beware.
    Don’t worry. That only applied to Caesar.

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  6. Good morning Lassie…or is it Misten? Cute, cute header. Beautiful Miss Tennessee Lady Lass.

    Art dropped one of his many pills this a.m. so instead of making his lunch we were scrambling around trying to locate the pill before our black and white Pill, or Miss Bosley, found it. We search and searched but still did not see it. I did find another one though so that was good. Perhaps he only thought it was the blue one and it was really the white one he dropped. Miss B had to constantly be giving stage directions to the search party. When I called in the big guns, the vacuum cleaner, she resigned her duties. I hope the vacuum found that blue pill. Art ended up carrying a can of soup for lunch instead of what I had planned to fix. 😦

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  7. Good Morning Everyone. It is going to be busy around H-House today. I am treating myself to a house cleaner. I have used her in the past. I am no slouch when I really get into cleaning a house. I get a little obsessive and wipe all the base boards and window sills down with Lysol water and really scrub but I haven’t had the time nor inclination and Mr. P’s sister arrives tonight. Even with my house cleaning abilities I cannot compete with the woman I have hired. When she cleans it is CLEAN! We call it (Her First Name)- Clean!
    In the midst of all this I also have work to do.

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  8. Re the header photo: my lassie was jumping for a snowball thrown by my hubby. She used to like to chase them, but she doesn’t have the energy she once did, and now she prefers that they be thrown close to her, and then she jumps or moves to try to grab it. (She rarely succeeds.) It’s hard to time it to get the snowball itself in the picture, and this was the best one of the dog herself.

    The other one, I just liked the furry-animal-in-the-snowy-wilderness feel of it, nothing but her and her tracks behind her. The snow isn’t as deep as it looks (just two to three inches), and I cropped out a couple of trees that were on the horizon to have the photo be nothing but snow and my girl.

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  9. Hey, someone watch this video and explain to me why they make any mention of the possibility of the driver in front being cited. They say that it wasn’t the safest choice to decide to tap the brakes. Personally, I’ve done that lots of times–it tells the driver behind you that they’re dangerously close, and need to back off. The fact that it ended badly for the driver in back (who was not injured) does not change that fact; to me it reinforces it. The accident could have been far worse, if the driver in front had had to do serious braking. And the idea that a driver should, instead, call the police ignores the reality that picking up a cell phone and dialing is not really a safer move when someone is tailgating dangerously. (My husband has blue tooth and can dial by tapping his steering wheel, but I think he’s the minority on that. I’d have to dig in my purse for a cell phone and dial it, and sorry, I’m not doing that. I’m gonna tap my brakes, like this driver did.) And are they really going to send an officer because someone reports a tailgater?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tailgate-caught-on-video_us_56e776a5e4b065e2e3d71f35?hpcrime=y

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  10. Well first of all there was plenty of room in the right lane, so if some one came up on you riding your bumper you should move over.
    Second it is the tailgators fault for the accident.
    I would imagine any citation to the first vehicle would be for cruising in the passing lane.

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  11. Kim, personally I never change lanes for a tailgater–there is simply too much chance that as I am changing lanes, he is going to impatiently whiz around me and cause an accident. If he backs off, I’ll change lanes. If he doesn’t back off, then he’ll have to go around me himself. Plus, he may well be blocking my view of whether it’s safe to change lanes. But basically, I tap the brake (or flash the headlight, which looks like tapping the brake), and if he backs off, then I move over; if he doesn’t back off, then I keep driving and he can do what he likes.

    I don’t think we know how fast either of the cars was going. It may be that the car in front was already 10 miles above the speed limit–but maybe there’s something I don’t see, and it’s a good point that he or she probably shouldn’t have been there if not actively passing someone. (But not every state does “passing lane” driving the same way. I think that was Kentucky, based on a sign, and places in Kentucky are rather aggravating about using both lanes as driving lanes. And the tailgater may well have been too close by the time the front driver got around whatever car he or she was passing.)

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  12. Great “winter action” shot of Misten! 🙂 🙂 Beautiful girl.

    My gravatar was taken years ago when i was getting ready to throw the tennis ball for Tess.

    Slow Monday yesterday, we had an oil spill in the harbor I had to follow up on but it wasn’t overly significant. A ship carrying cars left the mess as it came in to dock, last I heard they had to take 3 birds in for cleaning/treatment, but it was contained pretty quickly and crews were busy cleaning it up and getting it out of the water the best they could.

    Today we have a staff meeting, probably mostly discussing our ‘stalking horse’ bid to buy a neighboring newspaper group to the south and east of us. I guess it will be good if we can get it.

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  13. If someone’s following close and I can move over, I do, especially if I’m in the fast lane on the freeway and the car behind me (obviously) wants to go faster.

    Easier than ticking someone off by staying put. 😉

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  15. I mostly stay out of the fast lane, only using it for passing. I never tap the brakes. Because I never use cruise control, I do simply let up on the accelerator and slow down, but not drastically or suddenly. Tapping the brakes seems dangerous, though it is the fault of he tailgater. If I am uncomfortable with somebody behind me and I am in the slow lane, I don’t mind slowing more. Fast lane is for people wanting to go fast. Maybe they ought to leave point A two minutes earlier so they don’t have to rush.

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  16. I don’t know Cheryl, the other driver could have used the signal to indicate moving over. I drive a lot on back roads that are two lanes. If someone is riding my bumper I do tap my break and if I see them getting ready to pass me I will actively slow down so they can get around me. (Did I mention I already drive fast?). If they are in that much of a hurry I help them out. I know the roads and the speed traps.
    Our portion of I-10 and I-65 are handling way more traffic than they were ever designed to handle and need to be expanded. We have tunnels going under the Mobile River and there is talk of a new bridge, but that is years away. There is an accident in the tunnel or on the Bayway almost every day.

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  17. Also going back to look at the video it looks like the first driver was trying to get over. They moved over towards the end of the video.
    I still say the fault lies with the tailgator

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  18. I still say the incident was hilarious and I am glad nobody was hurt but hopefully it will open some eyes. Driving a few thousand pounds down the road with just a few inches of contact is a major undertaking of responsibility.

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  19. Teacher question: speaking of diplomas. As our fourteen year old continues to work through her school books, we will want to reward her work at the end. How exactly are diplomas given to special children? She will go through all of the books answering most of the questions, getting either A’s or F’s on her work. But if you ask her tomorrow what she learned, she won’t have a clue. And if you give her the same page to work, she may or may not be able to do it. We would like to give her a finishing the years of school symbol but not one she can take to the Navy recruiter and say she graduated.

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  22. I agree with a lot of what the Organic School offers. I believe a lot of schoolwork should take place out of doors, but this child writing research papers….she does them, but plagiarism is her forte. She does say where she gets the info, but all of it comes from her sources, word for word. So, though we give home school diplomas here that Mike makes up, I want the diploma to signify to the people thinking of hiring her that it is a nontraditional education beyond homeschooling.

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  26. Mumsee, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever asks to see a high school diploma. (I did have one part-time job that required a college degree, and they asked to see the diploma.) I believe she is more likely to be asked what grade she completed, so somehow you will need an answer to that. That’s my hunch.

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  27. Just last week, one of the just fledged returned asking for a copy of the diploma as well as the transcripts, at the University’s request. We have never run into that before.

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  28. Re: Driver- In Illinois it is illegal to be in the passing lane longer than necessary. I think they allow so many minutes or miles to get around a slower driver. Personally, if I am going over the limit I don’t move over in town, but do on the highway. But I always use the turn signal a few seconds before doing so in case the other driver is too impatient to wait 2 seconds.

    re: diploma- our school offers a completion/attendance diploma for Special Ed students.

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  31. Just love reading reports like this: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2016/03/muslims-turning-to-christ-in-denmark/

    The organization Inner Mission, whose conference I spoke at, does much of the evangelism work in that supposedly secularist country. Staffers told me about how they are being overwhelmed by Muslim immigrants and refugees who come to them wanting to learn about Jesus and asking to be baptized.

    I was told about a Muslim couple who showed up at a Mission House for the weekly Bible study. The next week, 14 Muslims attended. The next week, 50 crowded into the facility. This is happening in Mission Houses across the country.

    The inquirers are told up front that their becoming Christians would in no way make a difference to the Danish government considering their applications. “We don’t care. Tell us about Jesus.” And if you get sent back, you would be in severe danger as apostates to Islam. “We know. Baptize us!”

    Inner Mission staff encourage them to continue with the Bible studies. In the meantime, they are taken to a conservative Lutheran pastor for catechesis and eventual baptism.

    Cheryl, wasn’t it you who once said that a friend of yours, when speaking about the large numbers of unreached Muslims, said that if we did not go to them, God would bring them to us?

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  35. Is it true the top three presidential hopefuls are all 68 or older (in other words, all in spitting distance of Reagan’s age for either his first or second run)? Reagan wasn’t too old for the job, but Reagan was a rare bird. There are many, many things that make this a really bad mess of choices, but that is one of them.

    We started this with so many good contenders on the Republican side, and it was our election to lose. And we end up with three characters who aren’t fit to be dog catchers. This isn’t the best this nation has. They aren’t even in the top 50%. Or I sure hope not.

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  46. All right, I am seriously annoyed. A few months ago our mail included a really trashy retail catalog addressed to my husband. Every single outfit showed lots of cleavage, from dresses to bathing suits. He wasn’t home, so I simply called the number and told me “Take me off your mailing list.” When they asked for my name, I used his; I represent him, and when he is dealing with companies for me, he uses my name (contacting my camera company about the warranty, for example). It has been months now, and we’re still getting the catalog, and I’m still throwing it away. My husband doesn’t look at porn or anything, but if nothing else I just don’t want the mailman thinking that he put himself on such a mailing list. (I’ve known men who like getting Victoria’s Secret catalogs.) Even as a single woman, any time I got on a mailing list that showed half-naked women, I called on my way to the trash to cancel, and I don’t want to be getting them now.

    Anyway, I looked through it for an e-mail address, figuring that the phone number didn’t work, so I’d try a different route. Sure enough, it has an “unsubscribe me” e-mail address. I asked my husband if it was OK if I e-mailed and cancelled using his name, and he said yes, but why don’t I call them, and I said I already did and it didn’t work.

    So I just checked my e-mail and there’s an e-mail from them saying I sent my e-mail to an unmonitored e-mail and why don’t I click on this link. Uh-uh. I wrote from a “junk mail” e-mail address on purpose, but I’m not clicking on any links. But I’m sorry, two attempts to get off a mailing list for soft porn shouldn’t meet with dead ends. If your catalog says send an e-mail here to unsubscribe, then it should work!

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