Wednesday
Average midweek day.

Stopped in to see this morning. We chatted for a bit. On the way home, I popped in to say “Hullo” to ; she had said that there were a couple of things at the store that she wanted to show me. So, I went. And I came home with a couple of magnetic strips. Hopefully, this means that I’ll have a way to keep the beer fridge closed.

, and Christopher came over for dinner. They brought a bottle of wine with them – a white wine with raspberry juice whose name eludes me. It was good – very sweet, but good. After dinner, we sat around and talked. And somewhere along the way, a poker game broke out. We introduced Christopher to Texas Hold ‘Em; he liked it. He might be joining us for poker on Mondays.

NPR and Other News
Morning Edition: Devil’s Club: A Medicine Cabinet for Alaska Tribe
Morning Edition: Tips to Avoid Internet Identity Theft, E-Mail Scams
Morning Edition: Ideology Shifts Among Calif. Vietnamese Immigrants
All Things Considered: Medical Schools Lag in Obesity Training
All Things Considered: Adapting to an Obesity Diagnosis
All Things Considered: State Makes Schools’ Start Date a Matter of Law

Stray Toasters

  • sent me links to this and this. Oh… my.
  • By way of : Charleston Daily Mail – Jury says girl responsible for injuries from fall
  • And, by way of :

    You Know You’re From Maryland When…

    You know more than 10 people who own boats

    and they all park them at the same marina in Annapolis

    You can pronounce and spell “Pocomoke,” “Mattaponi,” “Accokeek,” and “Havre de Grace”
    You pronounce “Bowie” BOO-ie not BOW-ie or BAUW-ie

    1 hour is an easy commute to work

    You have more than three recipes for crabcakes

    French fries just don’t taste right without Old Bay
    There are more than two crab places in your town
    Even your high school cafeteria made good crabcakes

    You got your first lacrosse stick before you were six years old

    You call all turtles “terrapins”

    You refer to your state as “Merlind”

    Your mother shops at Hecht’s

    You still call Six Flags America “Adventure World”, or even “Wild World”

    You still remember the Wild World commercial (Wild World’s the cure for the summertime blues!)

    You can tell the difference between the smells of septic and marsh.

    You not only know how to eat hard crabs but you also know how to catch them, cook them and tell the males from the females.

    You don’t think that Assawoman Bay is a strange name for a body of water.

    You know perfectly well why Rehoboth is called “Little San Francisco”

    M R Ducks makes perfect sense.

    So does C M Wangs.

    You think Salisbury is a big city.

    You think of dumplings as wet slippery squares of boiled dough.

    You and your boss take off of work when the fish are running or the ducks are flying in.

    You’ve eaten muskrat at a church dinner but think it’s better the way you fix it.

    You think of “Dairy Queen” as a pageant title and not a place to get an ice cream.

    “Formal wear” is a ball cap, a flannel shirt and Timberlands.

    You still root for the Orioles even when they suck

    You’ll never understand why tourists come to DC.

    When in Florida, you can only laugh when you see signs saying “Real Maryland Blue Crab Cakes!”

    You color with “Crowns”, take a “Share” with “Wooter” and think the president lives in “Warshenton.”

    You know the difference between Glen Burnie ghetto and Catonsville ghetto.

    Your whole family lives within a 200 mile radius of your town.

    Dale Earnhardt’s accident was a close personal loss to your father

    At least one man in your family is a waterman

    You plan for “The Festival” a year in advance.

    During the summer, you spend more time in Ocean City than at home.

    Margret Heater, Hedspace, Jepetto, Outside Joke and Mary Prankster are people you think are “Famous”

    Your radio dial is stuck on 99.1

    You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maryland.

  • With these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
    Nothing remains quite the same
    With all of my running and all of my cunning,
    If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane…
    If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane…
    If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane

  • Found through C2F Cinema: Soybean
    (Check out Milton Pool’s website, too.)

  • Reason #475630 of “Why is going to be a welcome addition to the family” : Plotting ways to make members of our families squirm during the wedding. We have come up with some truly insidious methods of torture. If this were a D&D setting, we would have not only crossed the line into “Chaotic Evil” alignment, we would have dived in after a sprinting towards the line.
  • Alright, , you remember Mulligan Stew but do you remember seeing Disney’s Johnny Tremain films in school?

Artist of the Day
Audrey Heller was one of the artists whose work was on display at the Park City Arts Festival. Take a look at her gallery.

Namaste.