Un Jour Comme un Autre
Thought for the Day:
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Clive Barker, Jihad (man, I just love that thought)
On Reading:
Well, I am just finishing up on some Kipling I had around the house, I had not read him since I was a freshman in college, in the course of a year I read most of Kipling, all of Hemingway and Faulkner. Faulkner became a trusted friend to this day, even to the point of making the pilgrimage to his home several times (that and they make some good BBQ down in Oxford). Since its winter now, I think I will jump into some Russian writers (1880 till say 1917).
Still managing to go through a book or two a week, however I have been longing for some “chewing gum for the mind” reading, I have not had any of that since I read the D-Code, which I understand is now going to be a movie.
On Gifts:
I recived from my dear friend a gift of a 9mm handgun today, its was her fathers and she wanted someone to have it that wouldnt "stick-up someone with it". It is odd how life works, eh what? Pastor Bob and I are going to go out and put a few rounds downrange, he got an AK last May and has been wanting me to go shooting with him. Funny, but a fruitcake would have been just as nice.
On Music:
The following is what I have been listing to non-stop for the past few weeks (I play a CD to death and then don’t listen to it for years, and yes this was most recently observed with Roger Miller).
(At home, in a heavy rotation)
Charles Caldwell- Remember Me
Georges Brassens -Je M'Suis Fait Tout Petit
Junior Kimbrough - God Knows I Tried
Enzo Enzo - Juste Quelqu'un de Bien
Van Morrison-Best of Van Morrison
Green Day-Nimrod/Dookie
(On the road, in a heavy rotation)
Tom Petty (Box Set)
Counting Crows (Box Set)
Johnny Cash-Folsom Prison Blues
Steve Miller (Box Set)
Warren Zevon (Box Set)
*yes, someone gave me a bunch of box-sets; look for most of them to be in a garage sale next spring.
On Movies:
Well, most recent viewings were as follows;
Hero
(martial art, but a well told story)
Worth the rent
13 Moons
(artsy, very good)
Worth the rent
My best Two Years
(about Mormon boys in Holland)
Ok, if you want to see what being a Mormon boy is like, fun but have a coupon.
Saved
(Teenage bible-thumpers)
Fun but have a coupon
Apocalypse Now
(Directors Cut, The first 10 minutes of this movie are still the best, wait till TNT runs it.) Don’t rent it.
Dr. Strangelove
(I was trading lines out of it with my friend Matt the Heating Guy a few weeks ago, had to rent it)
Always a good time, esp. if you have ever had your vital fluids poisoned.
Anarchists Cookbook
(Punk rock slackers etc)
Your better served by saving your rental fee and buy'en the real book, given the times we live in.
On Weekend Plans:
Well, for the most part I am flying solo, other than football and the wine tasting, I did get invited to Bachelor’s party for a lieutenant of the FD this Friday night, so I hope my health is build up enough by then to go out and destroy it. Waste not want not, I always say. Also, Major Steve just got back from overseas might hook up with him and see how the war is really going.
On Food:
I have been cooking a lot of East African food, and an awful lot of Ethiopian. I find that I am becoming very interested in this country; it is after all the world’s oldest Christian county. It’s been a nice break from the “holiday fare” you run into this time of year. I have all the stuff to make borsch but since I have been sick, I have been eating about 1/3 of what I normally do (hell, of a weight loss plan, and I wont even go into med side effects, gee its good they have not closed down the local VA or I wouldn’t have access to the quality medical care I have grown so accustom to. Other than that, my friend with the gun also gave me a bunch of marlin so at some point soon I will be cooking fish.
Today’s Bar Trick:
MAGIC SAUCER AND GLASS TRICK!
Take a lighter, four match sticks, a small saucer, a lemon wedge, and a rocks glass. Put water in the saucer and tell your guest at the bar that you can put all the water in the glass without touching the saucer, just using the items mentioned above. Here's how its done: Stick the 4 matches into the sides of the lemon wedge, with the matches pointing up. Put the lemon, peel down, on the saucer. Light the matches and place the glass over the lemon. The lack of oxygen will extinguish the flames and suck the water into the glass. This Trick is cool to do, great effect
Today’s Poem:
We live in deeds . . .
WE live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.
Philip James Bailey
Word for the Day:
Burbulating: What's "burbulating" means what's happening? How's it going? Similar to "marinating."
Quote of the Day:
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915
US novelist (1873 - 1947)
Saint of the Day:
ST. BIBIANA: Bibiana's father Flavian had been prefect of the city of Rome in early Christian times. He and his wife were known as fervent Christians. In fact, when Emperor Julian left the Catholic faith, he began persecuting it. That is when Flavian was arrested. He was branded on the face with a hot iron and then exiled. After he died, his wife Dafrosa was also made a prisoner in her own house. This was only because of her good Christian life. Then she, too, was put to death. Left alone with her sister, Demetria, Bibiana tried with all her heart to trust in God and pray. Everything they had was being taken from them. Then the two young women were brought to court. Poor Demetria was so frightened that she dropped dead at the judge's feet. Bibiana was handed over to a sinful woman, who was supposed to make the girl as evil as she was. This woman tried by sweet words and many clever tricks to make Bibiana fall. However, the saint could not be moved. She was brought back to court and beaten. Yet she held to her faith and purity as strongly as ever.
St. Bibiana was beaten to death with leaden scourges. A priest buried her at night beside her mother and sister.
(hey, I am Catholic, we dont do happy endings)
Today’s Bill:
I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I pray you know me when we meet again.
William Shakespeare
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)
I remain yours so very truly,
JQP
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Clive Barker, Jihad (man, I just love that thought)
On Reading:
Well, I am just finishing up on some Kipling I had around the house, I had not read him since I was a freshman in college, in the course of a year I read most of Kipling, all of Hemingway and Faulkner. Faulkner became a trusted friend to this day, even to the point of making the pilgrimage to his home several times (that and they make some good BBQ down in Oxford). Since its winter now, I think I will jump into some Russian writers (1880 till say 1917).
Still managing to go through a book or two a week, however I have been longing for some “chewing gum for the mind” reading, I have not had any of that since I read the D-Code, which I understand is now going to be a movie.
On Gifts:
I recived from my dear friend a gift of a 9mm handgun today, its was her fathers and she wanted someone to have it that wouldnt "stick-up someone with it". It is odd how life works, eh what? Pastor Bob and I are going to go out and put a few rounds downrange, he got an AK last May and has been wanting me to go shooting with him. Funny, but a fruitcake would have been just as nice.
On Music:
The following is what I have been listing to non-stop for the past few weeks (I play a CD to death and then don’t listen to it for years, and yes this was most recently observed with Roger Miller).
(At home, in a heavy rotation)
Charles Caldwell- Remember Me
Georges Brassens -Je M'Suis Fait Tout Petit
Junior Kimbrough - God Knows I Tried
Enzo Enzo - Juste Quelqu'un de Bien
Van Morrison-Best of Van Morrison
Green Day-Nimrod/Dookie
(On the road, in a heavy rotation)
Tom Petty (Box Set)
Counting Crows (Box Set)
Johnny Cash-Folsom Prison Blues
Steve Miller (Box Set)
Warren Zevon (Box Set)
*yes, someone gave me a bunch of box-sets; look for most of them to be in a garage sale next spring.
On Movies:
Well, most recent viewings were as follows;
Hero
(martial art, but a well told story)
Worth the rent
13 Moons
(artsy, very good)
Worth the rent
My best Two Years
(about Mormon boys in Holland)
Ok, if you want to see what being a Mormon boy is like, fun but have a coupon.
Saved
(Teenage bible-thumpers)
Fun but have a coupon
Apocalypse Now
(Directors Cut, The first 10 minutes of this movie are still the best, wait till TNT runs it.) Don’t rent it.
Dr. Strangelove
(I was trading lines out of it with my friend Matt the Heating Guy a few weeks ago, had to rent it)
Always a good time, esp. if you have ever had your vital fluids poisoned.
Anarchists Cookbook
(Punk rock slackers etc)
Your better served by saving your rental fee and buy'en the real book, given the times we live in.
On Weekend Plans:
Well, for the most part I am flying solo, other than football and the wine tasting, I did get invited to Bachelor’s party for a lieutenant of the FD this Friday night, so I hope my health is build up enough by then to go out and destroy it. Waste not want not, I always say. Also, Major Steve just got back from overseas might hook up with him and see how the war is really going.
On Food:
I have been cooking a lot of East African food, and an awful lot of Ethiopian. I find that I am becoming very interested in this country; it is after all the world’s oldest Christian county. It’s been a nice break from the “holiday fare” you run into this time of year. I have all the stuff to make borsch but since I have been sick, I have been eating about 1/3 of what I normally do (hell, of a weight loss plan, and I wont even go into med side effects, gee its good they have not closed down the local VA or I wouldn’t have access to the quality medical care I have grown so accustom to. Other than that, my friend with the gun also gave me a bunch of marlin so at some point soon I will be cooking fish.
Today’s Bar Trick:
MAGIC SAUCER AND GLASS TRICK!
Take a lighter, four match sticks, a small saucer, a lemon wedge, and a rocks glass. Put water in the saucer and tell your guest at the bar that you can put all the water in the glass without touching the saucer, just using the items mentioned above. Here's how its done: Stick the 4 matches into the sides of the lemon wedge, with the matches pointing up. Put the lemon, peel down, on the saucer. Light the matches and place the glass over the lemon. The lack of oxygen will extinguish the flames and suck the water into the glass. This Trick is cool to do, great effect
Today’s Poem:
We live in deeds . . .
WE live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.
Philip James Bailey
Word for the Day:
Burbulating: What's "burbulating" means what's happening? How's it going? Similar to "marinating."
Quote of the Day:
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915
US novelist (1873 - 1947)
Saint of the Day:
ST. BIBIANA: Bibiana's father Flavian had been prefect of the city of Rome in early Christian times. He and his wife were known as fervent Christians. In fact, when Emperor Julian left the Catholic faith, he began persecuting it. That is when Flavian was arrested. He was branded on the face with a hot iron and then exiled. After he died, his wife Dafrosa was also made a prisoner in her own house. This was only because of her good Christian life. Then she, too, was put to death. Left alone with her sister, Demetria, Bibiana tried with all her heart to trust in God and pray. Everything they had was being taken from them. Then the two young women were brought to court. Poor Demetria was so frightened that she dropped dead at the judge's feet. Bibiana was handed over to a sinful woman, who was supposed to make the girl as evil as she was. This woman tried by sweet words and many clever tricks to make Bibiana fall. However, the saint could not be moved. She was brought back to court and beaten. Yet she held to her faith and purity as strongly as ever.
St. Bibiana was beaten to death with leaden scourges. A priest buried her at night beside her mother and sister.
(hey, I am Catholic, we dont do happy endings)
Today’s Bill:
I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I pray you know me when we meet again.
William Shakespeare
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)
I remain yours so very truly,
JQP
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