Ridiculous, what I save

The odds and ends.  Just found a ticket that proves I was in Florida at Disney in the end of April, 1983.  And a letter from Jack ("Jock") McKernan when he was a Representative thanking me for my views on the International Fund for Agricultural Developement - only, he had my name on it, but it was addressed to "Mr. D.W. M____."  And a program from when we did "Mame" in high school.  I think I was running spotlight, so my name doesn't appear in the program.  But rowantree's does!  And several of my step siblings.  And a girl I had a crush on.  There was a rumor she was a lesbian, but I wouldn't have even dared to try to get to know her, even if I could have figured out a way.  I've never been any good at maneuvering to get to know someone, and I was terminally shy.  I was pretty much convinced I was a dork and a loser.  I was starting to come out of that in high school, but every time I looked at her I felt it all over again.  She was playing Vera in "Mame," and a few days ago, when I was doing that huge sorting of old junk until late into the night, I happened to come across the lyrics to Vera and Mame's duet, "Bosom Buddies," where they sing "I'll always be Alice Tokeless, if you'll be Gertrude Stein," and I threw that away as I knew that, with the wonder that is the Internet I would be able to find those lyrics again (yup, they're here), but I wondered if that was intended to imply that Vera and Mame were lovers...?

There's some really good art in this box of papers, and I wish we had put our names on stuff.  I guess we thought we would always remember, when we were handing the paper back and forth and everyone was doing whatever part of the picture they were good at.  rowantree, some of this stuff is probably your work, and perhaps M's.  Some was definetly P's.  (He goes by Tree, now, BTW, isn't that odd?). 

It must be the time of year for cleaning house.  eor scanning like mad and chucking the old paper out, noelfigart is giving away a jacket and someone on ljmaine has monitors she's trying to get rid of. 

So Cool.

I suspect I did literally do a little stamping-foot dance when eor told me about this one.:)

Fly-eating robot powers itself

( I'll save the text here in case CNN moves the article off. )

grades, wood stoves, ice falling from the sky.

eor decided to also scan my report cards from nineth grade.  He was surprised to find that I did well in everything except Art.  Even Math was about the same as everything else, he says, although I assured him that was only because I took the very easiest Math. :)  Typical of me.  I think I got a C, if not lower, in the first Art course I took in college.  I suspect that may have been because I was very focused on line drawing and didn't enjoy being distracted by paints, clay, collages, etc. 

I'm going to say it again - I think wood stoves should be banned from in town. We don't have an option of opening a window on the other side of the house, but when we open the window in order to get some cold air in, the smoke from next door comes in as well.

I at about 5:30 I set out to the grocery store and heard this odd hissing sound as I walked to the car on my way out. Tiny ice pellets falling from the sky. Not much at that point, but by the time I got out of the store (a matter of ten minutes, perhaps) it had increased to the point that even just walking was a little slippery. I hope it's not horrible tomorrow morning.