Want to talk about everything - and anything - other than politics?

What are you doing today that has absolutely nothing to do with voting, campaigns, or the polls?

I have to organize our new "Pro-Pay" web site area ("Performance Pay" for public school teachers)...exciting stuff...

And then later today I'll be stripping (wallpaper off my kitchen walls) and watching the election results (oh yeah, no politics)...er, I mean I'll be watching cartoons and listening to The Current to see if Lady Sovereign matches up with an old Donald Duck cartoon like "Dark Side of the Moon" matches up with "Wizard of Oz"...

Onie, will you set up a watch-the-paint-dry web cam? Or are you [gasp of horror] reapplying wallpaper?

Breakfast for dinner tonight, Charles B., sweet! That's one of my favorites. Any thoughts on your new glasses? Going Buddy Holly or Bono?

then later today I'll be stripping

W00t!!

(wallpaper off my kitchen walls)

Rats.

I'm gonna build a city on Rock and Roll. And if that doesn't pan out, maybe finally rake the boulevard in front of my house.

Frick, knee deep in the hoopla or knee deep in leaves, it is all the same to us.

So noted, Charles B., so noted ;-)

Onie, will you set up a watch-the-paint-dry web cam? Or are you [gasp of horror] reapplying wallpaper?

Actually, I CAN do this...

I'm schtripping ze vallpaper...zen I am paintink after ze vall dries...

A nice "light mocha" color in the kitchen...It'll look nice.

That's a classy color, Onie. Will wait for the web cam!

Charles B., that was kinda Yoda of you!

Looks like it wasn't the only opp I missed out on... sorry to hear of your disappointment Zeldapie.

Aw, that's okay, Julia. I can get him to strip pretty much any time.

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[this is the perfect moment for a Groucho Marx comment, but I'm at a loss...]

The Star Tribune always prints something non-political on the editorial page each Election Day. Today, it's an excerpt from "The Final Problem," in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle kills off Sherlock Holmes.

This story made me cry, the first time I read it (I was about 10). After moping around the house, close to tears at the loss, I sought out my dad, who had lent me his copy of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."
"Dad! Sherlock Holmes is DEAD! I can't believe it! He and Moriarty killed each other! I can't stand it." He laughed and said "Don't cry... there's another book - lots more adventures to read." I was REALLY relieved when he found the second book for me.
I sometimes dreamed that I was the only woman Holmes would want to marry. I liked to picture myself with him at 221B Baker Street (without all the smoke - of course, I'd put a stop to that. Ha.)
I was an odd child.

Charles, I thought it was a "Freudian slip" or maybe a comment on all the testosterone in these elections? ; ) Anyway, it gave me cause to smile.

I already voted, so now I get to work, pay the bills, grocery shop and call the school about their new fangled computerized lunch program that allows my daughter to buy junk and pay for her friend's junk too (why, oh why, do they have to make it this hard?). Life goes on : )

Except for the local news, for the last two days, I have kept my cable TV on a channel that just plays swing and big band. What I call feel good music. It works for me. Sick of all the politics and name calling. Went out and voted but that is all the politics I want for now.

Indian Summer............

Warm weather, dry brittle leaves.....time for an afternoon spent walking and talking with my daughter.

Zeldapie odd kids are the best. And look how you turned out! No one here will blame you for a crush on Sherlock Holmes - you've probably got company.

Way to go Kat. Big political campaigns have nothin on the battles over school lunches. Good luck with that!

Swing out Ronnie M.! That's great, great music. It is a sound that makes for good company. Any faves?

Greg there you go with your poetic nature. *grin* Enjoy the time with your daughter.

Work, then I'm going to a wake.

I'm working today, too, per usual.
No wake, though. Auntie, who passed away?

My mother's cousin. I don't know him all that well, but she was an only child, so her cousins were kinda like brothers to her. It's one of those situations where it's something of a blessing, he deteriorated so badly. They still don't know what he had, some kind of degenerative nervous system disease. He was 65.

Julia, the most romantic song to dance to in my humble opinion is Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller. But I like them all Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, etc.

Juni, that sounds like such a sweet day...take the rest of us along!

Might have to agree with you Ronnie M. Truly his signature and an incredibly romantic song.


Peace and strength to you and your family, auntie.

Ronnie, I love swing and big band music! Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw... their recordings are fantastic!

I agree that Moonlight Serenade is the most romantic dance tune. When I was a kid, I always thought I'd dance with my true love to that song.

Oooh, one of my faves is the live Carnegie Hall recording of "Sing, Sing, Sing" (B. Goodman et al).

Swing/Big Band music RULES!!!

I even have it on my iTunes/iPod...right next to Beck, The Dandy Wahols, Bealtes, Tenacious D, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Devo....

The Bealtes were the Scottish equivalent to The Beatles...

mmmm parsnips. I like celery root too, juni!