I’m Still Howling!!

Posted on the Merc recently:

Police: Teen makes mistake of trying to rob former U.S. Marine


“…The boy said, “Old man, give me your wallet or I’ll cut you,” Bair said. The man told the boy he was a former Marine who fought in three wars and had been threatened with knives and bayonets, Bair said.

“The man then put his bags on the ground and told the boy that if he stepped closer he would be sorry. When the boy stepped closer, the man kicked him in the groin, knocking him to the sidewalk, Bair said. The ex-Marine picked up his grocery bags and walked home, leaving the boy doubled over, Bair said.…”

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Now playing: Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me (Live BBC Sessions) ["One Night Stand" Version]
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Rain Numbers - 29 March 2008

.02", for today
.14", for the storm
.35", for the month
36.86", for the (rain) year

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Now playing: Anonymous 4 - Vision 3 "The fiery spirit": Et imago
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Rain Numbers - 28 March 2008

.12", for today
.12", for the storm
.33", for the month
36.84", for the (rain) year

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Now playing: Steve Petrunak - Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
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Inspiration

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

He guides and inspires me every moment of the day. Just when I need it, a new light shines on my problems.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: Cyprian Consiglio - Third Divertissement: The Visitation
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A Blessing

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being.

-Apache Blessing

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Now playing: Grateful Dead - Attics of My Life
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Exquisite Imponderability

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

-Eknath Easwaran

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Now playing: Bryn Terfel, Gareth Jones, Meinir Heulyn, The Black Mountain Choir, The Risca Choir & Welsh National Opera Orchestra - Hiraeth
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Friends’ View

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:



A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
— Wilma Askinas

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Now playing: Yolanda Kondonassis - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
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It’s That Sudden Stop…

Spotted in a .sig, on a genealogy list (thanks, Kenny!):

Age is relative - when you’re over the hill, you pick up speed :)

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Now playing: Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy - Hares on the Mountain
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Truth In Advertising

Spotted on a Celtic (of course) list:

The presidents of Budweiser, Miller, and Guinness brewing companies all go to a bar for a drink after work. The president of Budweiser orders first. “I’ll take a Budweiser,” he tells the bartender. The bartender serves an ice-cold Bud from the tap.

The president of Miller orders next. He says to the bartender, “Make it a Miller”. And the bartender once again taps out an ice-cold brew, this time a Miller.

The president of Guinness then orders his drink. “I’ll have a big tall glass of ice water,” he tells the bartender. The other two men look at him. “Water???” one asks in disbelief.

The president of Guinness replies, “Yeah. If you guys aren’t drinking beer, then neither will I.”

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Now playing: Mary McLaughlin - Seacht nDólá Na Maighdine Muire
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Teach Your Children Well

The quote on The Literacy Site today:

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

-John W Whitehead

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Now playing: Voices of Ascension - Missa Papae Marcelli - Kyrie eleison
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Life Lessons

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

- Rachel Carson

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Going Up

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

It is your arms, Jesus, which are the elevator to carry me to heaven.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: G. Palestrina - Lamentation 2
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Faith

A quote from St Cyril of Jerusalem, whose feast day it is today (thanks to AmericanCatholic.org’s Saint of the Day):

“It is not only among us, who are marked with the name of Christ, that the dignity of faith is great; all the business of the world, even of those outside the Church, is accomplished by faith. By faith, marriage laws join in union persons who were strangers to one another. By faith, agriculture is sustained; for a man does not endure the toil involved unless he believes he will reap a harvest. By faith, seafaring men, entrusting themselves to a tiny wooden craft, exchange the solid element of the land for the unstable motion of the waves. Not only among us does this hold true but also, as I have said, among those outside the fold. For though they do not accept the Scriptures but advance certain doctrines of their own, yet even these they receive on faith” (Catechesis V).

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Now playing: Donald Brinegar Singers - Ubi Caritas et Amor
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Not One of His Fables

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

-Aesop

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Wonder

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words.

-Joanna Macy

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Now playing: The Tallis Scholars - Credo
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Wrack and Ruin

Lo and behold: rollerderby???? can fill the Civic. From the Senile this morning:

“…More than 1,000 people got to see the wreckage, and even more wanted to. A long line of people looking to buy tickets for the sold-out event started forming near the Civic’s box office an hour and a half before its scheduled start.…”

Say what???

Lowest common denominator strikes again…

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Now playing: Herbert Von Karajan, Luciano Pavarotti, Michel Sénéchal & Wiener Philharmoniker - Madama Butterfly: Act I, "E soffitto e pareti"
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Quacking About

Just as I woke up this morning, I heard an odd noise out the bedroom window; sounded suspiciously like quacking. Sure enough, the mallards (a pair of them) from the river were back in the big pond, paddling about like they owned the joint.

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Now playing: Amanda Jane Kelley - Let It Be Done To Us
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Rain Numbers - 15 March 2008

.12", for today
.21", for the storm
.21", for the month
36.72", for the (rain) year

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Now playing: Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia/Stephen Layton - Ave, dulcissima Maria
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In the Mood

Went to see In The Mood at the Santa Cruz Civic with Kelly last night.

Wow!

Now, I’m not really a fan of big band/swing, but this was a spectacular show! The singing was pretty good, the dancing was great, and the orchestra, String of Pearls (rightly described on the Web site as sensational) made the show!! A great time was had by all.

I didn’t notice before the show (Kelly and I were busy chit-chatting), but was utterly gobsmacked to notice afterwards that the place wasn’t even half full… Santa Cruz, you missed a great time!

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Now playing: Andrea Bocelli - O Sole Mio
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Rain Numbers - 14 March 2008

.03", for today
.09", for the storm
.09", for the month
36.60", for the (rain) year

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Now playing: Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross
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