Thoughts on the Day (9/16):

Thoughts on the Day:

Collect Rocks Day
Mayflower Day 1620
National Working Parents Day
Yom Kippur
General Motors Birthday 1908
Road Runner's Birthday
Wiley E Coyote's Birthday
Wrinkled Raincoat Day

Road Runner and Wiley E. Coyote (Genius)! I love Road Runner/Wiley E. cartoons. I love the whole ACME thing -- I mean, could they ever make anything that works? And Wiley E. Coyote (SUPER Genius) is the most durable creature ever penned on cellophane. I always loved the little signs that Wiley E. Coyote (Starvatous Dumbous) carried around. As you can probably guess, while I think that Road Runner (Quickous Delicious) is necessary for the cartoon, Wiley E. Coyote (Dupous of ACMEous) is my favorite. I love him.

Myr collects rocks. Kinda. Sorta. finabair is the biggest rock hound of people I know. When we were on vacation in Missouri, we stopped in Hannibal to do all the Mark Twain-y stuff. The campground we stayed at was the Mark Twain Cave Campgrounds by, you guessed it, the caves that Mark Twain wrote about. At the camp ground they had this rock store. You would purchase a bag full of sand and rocks and then use the sluice to pan out the stones. It was fun. Of course, what I will do with the unpolished rocks I have... that's anybody's guess.

Well, since both Wil and I worked today, I suppose we celebrated National Working Parent's Day. I would think that not having to work would be a better way to celebrate it. I will refrain from pointing out that being parents is hard enough work as it is... and it was that way always. If you ever doubt that, travel back in time try doing everything a parent -- male or female -- had to do to just keep the family alive. I realize that the whole working parent thing is important, I just think people need to comprehend history just a little more.

Wrinkled Raincoat Day. I love the imagery of a wrinkled raincoat. There's something friendly and warm about it. Something durable and competent. Something used and dependable. It falls under the category of Stuff that Works. "Stuff that Works" is a song by Guy Clark that I really like.

Part of it goes:

Stuff that works, stuff that holds up
The kind of stuff you don't hang on the wall
Stuff that's real, stuff you feel
The kind of stuff you reach for when you fall

To me, that's what a wrinkled raincoat represents.

Stargate

My obsession with Stargate SG-1 has me reading fanfic.

I read a crossover that was good. It crossed Stargate with MacGyver and The Sentinel. Now, mind you, it was part of this persons extremely long and involved MacGyver/The Sentinel crossover universe (Mac is the father of Blair) that I actually ran into once before when I read a MacGyver/The Sentinel crossover with Early Edition....

Anyhow.

The story was good and the writing sound so even if I didn't quite buy into everything it was still a fun read. Jack even makes another appearance in another installment of the MacGyver/TS saga. What I'd love to see is this quality of writing done on a fic that focuses on just SG-1 and MacGyver.

However.

The best part of the whole fic was when Jack finds out MacGyver's name is Angus. From that point on whenever Jack talks to Mac, he calls him "Gus". The worst part is, I can hear him say it. With a half smirk, just daring MacGyver to say something about it, a little raise of inflection at the end of the name.

It's sad how much amusement that imaginary exchange between fictional characters is providing me.