On this morning’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me During a musical challenge section, they played three songs to represent three of this week’s news items:

  1. Louis Armstrong’s Do You Know What it Means for a reference to Hurricane Ivan.
  2. The Eurythmics’ Would I Lie to You for Dan Rather and CBS’ memo gaff (about the Shrub’s service record)
  3. The Pretenders’ Back on the Chain Gang for Martha Stewart’s request to start her jail time immediately.

After the third song ended – and halfway through the question – the audience was howling with laughter.

Fait accompli.
It is ended.
Thanks to the assistance of , a chainsaw and two pairs of pruning shears, the lilac bush is no more. Neither are three of the four shrubs below the living room window. There are a few stumps marking their former places, but the foliage and branches are no more. Selah. I didn’t get around to trimming the blue spruces, but they aren’t too problematic. Now, there is a large pile of treeless branches and remnants on the RV pad. Soon, they too shall be gone.

Light… glorious, natural, bright light… is streaming through the window of the HCC. This is a very good thing.

Stray Toasters

  • The twins met for the first time today; he hasn’t been able to visit since helping us move in June. They seemed to fall in love with him. After sniffing him and getting the “he’s okay” vibe, they pretty much hung around him whenever we were inside. It was cute. And funny.
  • A friend from back home pointed me (indirectly) to this. After watching it, I shared it with and with the comment: “See if you can figure out why I’m amused by this…”
  • : I was going to try and collect these in an email, but someone else put them on a page…. which makes it that much easier on me.
  • By way of Slashdot: George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes

I’d better get a wiggle on. I have a few things to do before heading to bowling. And I don’t know what scored this week, either. *shrug* I’ll just have to do what I can.

Namaste.