Just To See If Anyone Notices

This site will be down for a few days as the server migrates to Colorado (quite physically, as in the back of a truck) from its current home in a backyard shed in East Texas.

Seriously.

Making Lemonade

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Continuing My Language Immersion

Today i overheard my first example of the correct usage of the inverse interrogative doubleplural, as in: "Why all y'all didn' weld that right?" In other observations, i have noted that the accent is difficult to perfect, requiring the speaker to relax every facial muscle possible and at the same time speak very quickly at a somewhat higher volume than might otherwise seem reasonable. I must practice with diligence.

Come The Revolution,

toy poodles will learn the real meaning of the words natural selection.

Marital Communication

Wife: [scrutinizing me] Sweetie, weren't you going to take a shower?

Me: Yeah, i just took a long one.

Wife: Are you sure?

Me: Reasonably, yes.

Wife: Um, but did you use water? [pause] And what are those big black smears on your towel?

Me: [pause] You know, i'm not really sure.

Wife: Sweetie, and you know i don't mean to be critical, but do you have any idea how all that gritty rust-colored dust gets into the bedsheets?

Me: Wait, do you hear that? Sounds like a fire alarm, babe, i gotta go suit up....

Hot Late-Breaking News From The Aging, Crash-Prone Compaq

If you're, y,know, into the whole newsletter thing. Our newest newsy newsletter is newly posted under Old News.

um,

yeah.

Hot Late-Breaking News From The Chamber Of Commerce

Men's Journal* has ranked Mobile among its 50 best places to live.

Perhaps our area wasn't on the tour.

*I don't read it, really i don't

Rain

It doesn't seem to rain much around here. But it doesn't seem to stop when it does. When my parents were here visiting last Friday, we had a twenty-nine-hour thunderstorm, and no one could leave because there were six inches of water in the parking lot and well over two feet in the street outside. Fortuitously, we were on a ship. Although that would not have helped us with that string of barges out of control that missed us by no more than fifty meters a little before lunch. The ship moored behind us wasn't as lucky, although the impact appeared to have left only a large dent.

Anyway. Thunderstorms and flash floods again today, so i finished up my day in Hold 1 with a grinder, on an officially sanctioned mission to go around cutting off pieces of steel that looked like they didn't belong. David, whom i discovered and joined working down there below the waterline, remarked upon how unpleasant it would be for us if, at that particular moment, a poorly captained tug-and-barge were to tear a twenty-foot gash in our hull like that one two weeks ago did to the wood-pulp carrier Star Drivanger, which proceeded to sink in the channel within sight of us. (news stories here and here; see also a photo on another crewmember's blog.) Fortunately, this river isn't all that deep.

But, i mean, come on, people. Shipyard. We're here to fix the holes.

A Quote, Upon The Occasion Of Departure From Daylight Savings Time

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.

Let us begin.

--Mother Teresa of Calcutta