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Thoughts on the Day (3/30 and 3/31)
Mar. 31st, 2007 09:49 amYesterday was:
Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day
I'm sure this was done as a joke. The odd thing is it's right. The philosophy that color's your sight where you are, will continue to color you sight when you move some place new.
I am in Control Day
I don't put a lot of faith into Tarot cards. It's not so much a disbelief as it is a mistrust, especially when other people are involved. I don't trust that the cards or the people who interpret them will have my best interests at heart. How do I knew that the forces moving the cards or directing the reader aren't being led duplicitous motives? You know, people mistrust other people all the time -- people that they can see, watch and judge. But bring in mysterious, unproven forces that foretell the future and some of those same people just eat it up. I don't understand that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it's all evil, I'm just saying that when dealing with such supernatural phenomenon it would be prudent to be at least as cautious as you would be dealing with real life.
Pencil Day (Pencil with Eraser patented in 1858 by Hyman Lipman)
My mom uses pencils for most things. She doesn't like the standard no. 2s, though. She things they leave too much of a mark when you erase them. She's not wrong. She switched to using no. 3 pencils. They are very hard to find and we hit office supply stores just to find them. She's recently found a pack of no 4 pencils and it now planning on using them instead. I told her that soon she would start moving up to lead to hard that she could just use old sticks to write with, as they would leave just a much a mark. I prefer the automatic pencils, no. 2.5, 5 mm. lead. Myr uses an automatic pencil for school, the requisite no. 2, but she uses .9 mm lead in it.
Take a Walk in the Park Day
Merrill is known as the "City of Parks". And we really do have quite a few of them. We're a small town and the Prairie and Wisconsin Rivers run though it. The Prairie used to be dammed, but when the paper mill closed down the dam was removed and the Prairie River 'Lake" went away. The newly exposed land is being made into a long park with walkways and the like. As all of the waterfront properties and accesses to the "lake" had been privately owned and there was no way for the average Joe to use the old "lake", I like this new way better. It was quite a controversy for a while, though.
Today is:
Bunsen Burner Day
Oh. A *bright shiny* day for scientists. Although, how much are bunsen burners used in this day and age? I would think that there would be a more precise way to heat things up. Although the whole "working with fire" thing may be too big a draw to give up.
First Map of the U.S. Patented
And now we have on-line maps that will find a house immediately. You could always find your way to where you wanted to go, it just takes less work now. I love the satellite view that you can get off of Google. The once around us is, predictably, out of date and not as detailed, but that's because I live in the boondocks. Still, it's cool.
National Clams on the Half Shell Day
Ew. I dislike clams. In fact, I'm not really found of any of that type of seafood. I like a good fish fry. Someday I will go to a oceanside community and see if it really is better there. Oddly enough, I do like some kinds of sushi, so it may indeed be just a case of living too far away from the source.
Tater Day
"Po-ta-toes!". Potatoes are a mainstay around our house. They taste different depending upon how you make them. Wisconsin is a big potato growing state. Well, right around our area (Antigo especially) there are big potato farms. We always try to buy local. Good potatoes are hard to come by this time of year because they are all starting to seed out. You know, potatoes are easy to grow. Just take an existing potato, cut it up being sure to leave at least one eye in each cut and drop them into the ground. Once they start growing poking through, you hill them over and wait. After they bloom and dry up, you have potatoes. Mind, you may also have potato bugs at some point. You need to pull them off and burn them. Ew. But better than pesticides for small crops.
Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day
I'm sure this was done as a joke. The odd thing is it's right. The philosophy that color's your sight where you are, will continue to color you sight when you move some place new.
I am in Control Day
I don't put a lot of faith into Tarot cards. It's not so much a disbelief as it is a mistrust, especially when other people are involved. I don't trust that the cards or the people who interpret them will have my best interests at heart. How do I knew that the forces moving the cards or directing the reader aren't being led duplicitous motives? You know, people mistrust other people all the time -- people that they can see, watch and judge. But bring in mysterious, unproven forces that foretell the future and some of those same people just eat it up. I don't understand that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it's all evil, I'm just saying that when dealing with such supernatural phenomenon it would be prudent to be at least as cautious as you would be dealing with real life.
Pencil Day (Pencil with Eraser patented in 1858 by Hyman Lipman)
My mom uses pencils for most things. She doesn't like the standard no. 2s, though. She things they leave too much of a mark when you erase them. She's not wrong. She switched to using no. 3 pencils. They are very hard to find and we hit office supply stores just to find them. She's recently found a pack of no 4 pencils and it now planning on using them instead. I told her that soon she would start moving up to lead to hard that she could just use old sticks to write with, as they would leave just a much a mark. I prefer the automatic pencils, no. 2.5, 5 mm. lead. Myr uses an automatic pencil for school, the requisite no. 2, but she uses .9 mm lead in it.
Take a Walk in the Park Day
Merrill is known as the "City of Parks". And we really do have quite a few of them. We're a small town and the Prairie and Wisconsin Rivers run though it. The Prairie used to be dammed, but when the paper mill closed down the dam was removed and the Prairie River 'Lake" went away. The newly exposed land is being made into a long park with walkways and the like. As all of the waterfront properties and accesses to the "lake" had been privately owned and there was no way for the average Joe to use the old "lake", I like this new way better. It was quite a controversy for a while, though.
Today is:
Bunsen Burner Day
Oh. A *bright shiny* day for scientists. Although, how much are bunsen burners used in this day and age? I would think that there would be a more precise way to heat things up. Although the whole "working with fire" thing may be too big a draw to give up.
First Map of the U.S. Patented
And now we have on-line maps that will find a house immediately. You could always find your way to where you wanted to go, it just takes less work now. I love the satellite view that you can get off of Google. The once around us is, predictably, out of date and not as detailed, but that's because I live in the boondocks. Still, it's cool.
National Clams on the Half Shell Day
Ew. I dislike clams. In fact, I'm not really found of any of that type of seafood. I like a good fish fry. Someday I will go to a oceanside community and see if it really is better there. Oddly enough, I do like some kinds of sushi, so it may indeed be just a case of living too far away from the source.
Tater Day
"Po-ta-toes!". Potatoes are a mainstay around our house. They taste different depending upon how you make them. Wisconsin is a big potato growing state. Well, right around our area (Antigo especially) there are big potato farms. We always try to buy local. Good potatoes are hard to come by this time of year because they are all starting to seed out. You know, potatoes are easy to grow. Just take an existing potato, cut it up being sure to leave at least one eye in each cut and drop them into the ground. Once they start growing poking through, you hill them over and wait. After they bloom and dry up, you have potatoes. Mind, you may also have potato bugs at some point. You need to pull them off and burn them. Ew. But better than pesticides for small crops.
