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The sun is up, the plows are singing! They have a sort of rumble and beep motif, like whales.
I wrote a post Saturday and forgot to post it. Oh well, it was just about snow. I was going to mention that while I was out at the laundrymat I saw a girl skiing down the sidewalk. It looked fun, and an awful lot more sensible than slogging around in shoes, as I was doing.
"Psmith in the City" continues to enthrall me. I'm nearly done, though, oh no! All winter Mike settles in to working in the bank, and spending his evenings going out (or not) with Psmith... that leaves lots of space for people to write scenes. Oh, and one of the crudest phrases I've read in a Wodehouse novel so far! Psmith tells the bank manager, Bickersdyke, that he doesn't have grounds to fire Psmith (who's been very politely being a nuisance in his off time, but putting in fine work at the bank), but that if Bickersdyke lets him stay on he'd undoubtably eventually screw up and then Bickersdyke would "have me where the hair is crisp." I had to read that several times before I believed it. I remember when I was a kid asking what the phrase "had by the short hairs" meant, and my father telling me it was the short hair at the nape of one's neck. The hair is not crisp at the nape of one's neck; it's soft.
I wrote a post Saturday and forgot to post it. Oh well, it was just about snow. I was going to mention that while I was out at the laundrymat I saw a girl skiing down the sidewalk. It looked fun, and an awful lot more sensible than slogging around in shoes, as I was doing.
"Psmith in the City" continues to enthrall me. I'm nearly done, though, oh no! All winter Mike settles in to working in the bank, and spending his evenings going out (or not) with Psmith... that leaves lots of space for people to write scenes. Oh, and one of the crudest phrases I've read in a Wodehouse novel so far! Psmith tells the bank manager, Bickersdyke, that he doesn't have grounds to fire Psmith (who's been very politely being a nuisance in his off time, but putting in fine work at the bank), but that if Bickersdyke lets him stay on he'd undoubtably eventually screw up and then Bickersdyke would "have me where the hair is crisp." I had to read that several times before I believed it. I remember when I was a kid asking what the phrase "had by the short hairs" meant, and my father telling me it was the short hair at the nape of one's neck. The hair is not crisp at the nape of one's neck; it's soft.