Don't Be in Such a Hurry to Grow Up

Oldest daughter wants to work all summer and I'm making her take days of for two different girl scout camping volunteer opportunities. She's not in agreement, but unlike her I know these lazy days of summer for her are coming to an end sooner then [sic] I'd like to admit. - Lisa

Little Heaven by Nick Cutter

Horror at its best. Disturbing, emotional, and literate.

The Netherlands

Er, the ruling party in the Netherlands is capitalist, moderately right wing, and won because they took on Turkey. Plus it's a multiparty parliamentary system so the losing parties will still take part in a coalition govt. So all the Leftist rejoicing over their relection, citing it as a rejection of Brexit and populism, seems . . . misplaced.

Enough with ignoring or rewriting history. Andrew Jackson is the father of the Democratic Party and a pivotal and effective President (even if many of his moves are wrong in retrospect). You can't judge a man of 1828 by the mores of 2017.

Estimated two more days of me eating stuffed peppers for breakfast, lunch and dinner because my kids wouldn't eat it when it was made for dinner. I think I'm done cooking. Ramen, canned soup, ravioli, cereal, and pb&j is now on every dinner menu. - lisa

Little Heaven by Nick Cutter

 

Horror at its best. Disturbing, emotional, and literate.

Lisa's Done Cooking

Estimated two more days of me eating stuffed peppers for breakfast, lunch and dinner because my kids wouldn't eat it when it was made for dinner. I think I'm done cooking. Ramen, canned soup, ravioli, cereal, and pb&j is now on every dinner menu. - Lisa

 I preordered the new NKOTB EP last week.

Art by Junie

 Artwork by Junie....I asked "what does it all mean?" She said, "I dunno!" -  Lisa

Lisa's latest work

 

Falling Snow

It's pretty, but so is a mushroom cloud. Four inches or more in my alley, with 24 hrs of it left to go.

 

Shoveling out the blizzard

I've shoveled twice today to keep pace with the storm. Once before school with the kids, and by my lonesome at noon. My hip is throbbing. Wanna take bets on how crippled I'll be tomorrow?

No Agua

 So the city decided today to continue their water main break work in the middle of a blizzard. No H2O for #TeamSlap for the next few hours.

Shoveling

I've shoveled twice today to keep pace with the storm. Once before school with the kids, and by my lonesome at noon. My hip is throbbing. Wanna take bets on how crippled I'll be tomorrow?

A St. Patrick's Day Wreath

Lisa's latest work

 

Water Main work - in a blizzard

 So the city decided today to continue their water main break work in the middle of a blizzard. No H2O for #TeamSlap for the next few hours.

Agreed

 The paragraph about the army, corp, and classroom really drove home the point for me. - Lisa

 I watched the pilot episode of Quantum Leap Friday, and it was better than I remember - and my memories of it were fond. I wonder if it would have done well today; it seems too laid back and nuanced to hold someone's attention in 2017.

The Ghost Ship Festival - 2017

 With my buddy Tre at a diving/underwater archeological convention. Our second time in three years.

Quantum Leap

 I watched the pilot episode of Quantum Leap Friday, and it was better than I remember - and my memories of it were fond. I wonder if it would have done well today; it seems too laid back and nuanced to hold someone's attention in 2017.

20 Years

20 years ago today Biggie Smalls was murdered. RIP.

Also, damn I love The Who.

 Boxing trainer Lou Duva passed away at 94. RIP. 

While waiting with LuLu at a doctor's office today I approached a veteran wearing a hat from the USS Ticonderoga. I guessed his age at seventy and asked about his service in what I presumed was the Vietnam era. It turned out he was 90! and, at 17, was aboard her in 1944 and '45 as a machinist mate.

Woman: "The majority of mass murderers in the US are white males you know. "

Me (shrugs): Is it our fault we're good at stuff?

Adam Slapczynski

 I'm not sure if this is a relative or not. His DOB puts him as a contemporary of my Great-Grandpa - maybe a brother or cousin? (more likely the latter as he shares a name with my Great-Great Grandpa, and is six years junior to my Great-Grandpa). From the web: Adam Slapczynski was born in 1888. He studied mathematics at the University of St. Petersburg. After the outbreak of the revolution he returned with his family to Polish, he taught mathematics in secondary schools. In 1923. He was a teacher in the Gymnasium. John Śniadeckiego in Kielce. Already in 1939. Begins a secret teaching. He was arrested on July 9, 1941 r. After the auditions in Kielce prison, died in a railway carriage in a transport to Auschwitz on August 1, 1941.