So, a lot of coffee and other hot and cold nourishing items consumed in this household, and we could be better with doing the dishes... Harriet and I have our own containers of choice, and my first choices tend to be three surviving glass mugs that go back to the days of the Carolyn departure.
After that, a gift Tutankhamun (1343-1323 BC)
mug from Cliff many years ago (Nevada's Luxor actually has done reasonably good homework re their Las Vegas property and products),
then one o' The [James Jarvis Raymond, 1820-1869]
New York Times (1851) gifted by Bette, and now -- thanks to Nathan, Joyce, and Claire -- this clever Star Trek (1966) device
which, particularly when filled with
Thomas Johnstone Lipton (1848-1931)
Cup-a-Soup (1972), liberally sprinkled with
Margaret Fogerty Rudkin (1897-1967)
Pepperidge Farm (1937) Pizzafish (extremely rare in Northern California, available only at Pinole Safeway to present knowledge)
Voila! Uhura, Spock, Kirk, and McCoy beam
down from the Transporter Room,
onto a rocky
planet.
Ah, heat transference!
Thanks to the good folks of The Unemployed Philosophers Guild, which offers a variety of amusing items (sorry to be such a shill, but can't rtesist),
including a
Passport to Hell (the term first appearing in Old English, AD 725);
witty,
artistic
banners (one referencing the Raphael Sanzio da Urbino [1483-1520] School of Athens [1511]);
[Sigmund] Freud[1856-1939]ian
Slippers
plus parody at expense of Roger Waters (b. 1943) et al
and
other dreams;
an
Edvard Munch (1863-1844)
Screaming Scream [1893] Doll;
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Finger-Puppet Magnet;
and
Egotist-Liar (b. 1946)
Trumpzilla wind-up.
Leisurely
across
Alamo
for
errands
in
the
late afternoon / early evening,
17th day of spring, high up 5 to 61 (tying w/ 1/13 as third highest of month, surpassed only by 1/9 and 12 @ 64 and 62 respectively -- .17 additional precip for 10.84 since July 1). Edit 29 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, finish
The Decameron, Op. 289
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Tenth Day / Novel VII - King Pedro, apprised of the fervent love borne him by Lisa...
[5 pages total] and produce
Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290
IVb3. Basse Dance (Jouyssance Vous Donneray)
Also quite impressed by the Colin O'Brady (b. 1986)
solo trip across
the land mass of Antarctica to the South Pole from the Ronne to
Ross Ice Shelves (finished on December 28, 2018, a trek in apparently reasonably friendly rivalry with Louis Rudd),
featured on PBS
(including an interview with O'Brady and his wife and expediention manager Jenna Besaw),
an amazing feat which is nevertheless not without controversy...
Of course, quibbling that the endurance athlete used GPS, cellphone, plane flights to-and-from the Ice Shelves, and the
South Pole Traverse (a smoothed-over, crevaces-filled-in, flag-marked snow route), and was therefore "assisted" -- one could further point out that he did not grow his own food and make his own clothing. Indeed, we are all assisted, pretty much all the time (although we'd like to think we are breathing, thinking, etc., independently... but you never know)....
