Frog and Goat

Why is it that you can’t make a decent living staring out the window? I don’t know why not. I’m really good at it and have plenty of experience in doing it. I’m at the top of my game, really.

Speaking of staring out the window, when I was in the 5th grade my Language Arts classroom (which was also my homeroom) had a really long wall of windows. By looking out the window you could see the main road. And, let me tell you, looking at cars going by was pretty interesting.

I was one of the lucky kids who sat right next to the line of windows. All the kids in that row developed a really neat trick of pulling on the string of the blinds and smacking the string back and forth without having the blinds raise or lower. The teacher either didn’t notice or didn’t care that we spent time smacking the string as long as it was a quiet activity. Unfortunately, every once in a blue moon, your string would get out of control and the blinds would crash down. I wrote lots of sentences that year as punishment for letting the blinds crash. Remember when punishing kids meant they had to put pen to paper–is there any wonder that some people loathe writing?

The other night I decided that I wanted to figure out how to turn off comments on old entries. I figured that would be a good way to stop some of the comment spam I’ve been getting. I didn’t want to totally turn off comments because for the handful of people who come here I wanted them to be able to comment if the mood struck.

Since I am not the brains behind the organization, and I did look in my config file, I asked the better-half to flip the switch for me. Alas, it wasn’t as easy as I thought. There is a lovely hack out there but if you are using the Berkeley database it doesn’t work. The better-half modified a hack and I asked him to explain what he did.

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Our friends R & J visited.
The rain held off while we were at Arts in the Park.
We drove around neighborhoods that the better-half and I hadn’t seen in awhile (R used to live in Richmond and wanted to drive around a bit).
We went to Krispy Kreme on Saturday night and got donuts right off the conveyor belt.
We laughed and laughed.
We ate dinner at Acacia which is one of our favorite restaurants. The food was delicious and I ordered softshells which is a dish that always brings back great memories of stalking the wily crab during my childhood and eating them shortly after catching them.
We got tickets to the Eric Clapton concert in June. I can’t put into words how excited I am.

Tuesday night I had a dream that the Indigo Girls didn’t have a place to stay after their concert. I told them they could stay at our house. I was really excited. When we got home, I was about to burst with excitement and ran down the hall to tell Diana Ross that they were spending the night.

Did you get that?

Diana Ross.

I don’t think she was all that excited that they were staying with us.