“Summer… turns me upside down…”
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Today is the Summer Solstice, marking both the longest day of the year and the first day of Summer.
Last night, SaraRules and I went for a post-dinner walk. We headed to the neighborhood 7-11 for Slurpees. Rather than double back, we took the long way home, making a rather large (1.5 mile) loop home. It was a good walk and the weather was perfect for an evening stroll. Back at home, we rounded out the evening with Top Gear… and a bedtime story for the proto-twins. Last night’s story: Seven Little Postmen…
… which actually does a fair job of explaining how mail gets through the USPS mailstream. (Of course, the book was written decades before REC sites came online, so there are a couple of differences, especially with reference to sorting technology.)
Stray Toasters
- I should have my review of Green Lantern ready for tomorrow’s post.
- SaraRules! and I watched “33,” an episode of Battlestar Galactica, last night. In many ways, it reminded me of “Year of Hell,” from ST: Voyager.
- Report cards, grades get worse during recession
- From NPR Music: What Are Your Sounds of Summer?
- Utah Symphony presents: Summer Community Concerts
- Utah Symphony presents: Summer Community Concerts
- The Mix: Jazz in the Present Tense
- Despite the loss of a leg, Army Ranger is back in the fight
- Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone
- From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…?!” file: Rob Zombie’s Woolite Commercial
- Good Humor Ice Cream Truck, 1938
And that’s a wrap.
Namaste.