The good news is that I have today off. The bad news is that it starts out with a trip to the vet for two of the varmints, and continues tomorrow with the other one. The last trip was 3 weeks ago and it set me back $300, as Peggy tested positive for Lyme and therefore required not only the $30 yes/no test, but the more expensive $80 test that gets sent to the lab. Bud was already positive and still is, so he got his first lime vaccine, and gets his booster today, while Peggy gets her first one and her other vaccines, after having had 3 weeks of antibiotics. The it’ll be back to the vet in three weeks for her booster. Fritzi goes tomorrow, and I have no doubt that he’ll test positive as well, so I recon we’ll do it all again with him. I’m diligent with the FrontLine Plus and I check for ticks all the time but I guess that’s not good enough. I really hate ticks. We never used to have this problem up here, but I guess it’s just the way things are gonna be now that Al Gore has perpetrated the whole climate change myth on us.
Now that we’re fully into graduation season (because there’s a dearth of actual news around here, the lo-cal paper website is filled with prom photos – I guess I’m getting pretty old, because they look like a bunch of little kids playing dress up, except I don’t remember the girls looking like that when I was in high school. Must be the hormones in the beef), I would like to impart one simple word of wisdom to our new high school and college graduates:
FROM
From, as in “I graduated FROM college.” It’s not “I graduated college.” You don’t graduate college, the college graduates you. I’m not sure why this irritates me as much as it does, but for some reason the words “graduate college” are like fingernails on the blackboard (do they actually have blackboards in school anymore?). If they include this in the common core test, then the test is 100% worthwhile. In fact, I don’t don’t think you should be allowed to graduate from high school (let alone college) if you don’t understand this.
Two things: it’s “NEW-CLEE-UR” and “graduated FROM college.” That’s it – everything else is just extraneous information.
Oh well, time to go check the skimmer basket for frogs, I guess.
Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY VERNON!
Pj, you really need some guinea hens. They plowed through our ticks like wild fire.
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At least it will keep him quiet for 8 hours.
Speaking of graduates…
The not-at-all-a-teenager graduates tomorrow and we are in DC for the celebration!
Congratulations to you and the post-teen.
Congratulations to the No-Longer-Teenager who is graduating FROM College!! Have a wonderful time in D.C.
Conratulations. Just don’t tell me it was Georgetown, because as Ed and Patsy Bruce once advised us, “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Hoyas.”
I think it was GWU.
Ha! GWU it is and we have another JD among us. Thanks everyone!
Well thank goodness for that.
These colors don’t run. But Toby Keith’s Bar & Grill sure does – in the middle of the night like a thief.
Marc!
WOW! I’m happy he has had so much success.
The show is up on Fresh Air now and should be up on WTF extended tomorrow. The boy done good.
This Billionaire Tried To Get University Scientists Fired For Doing Their Job
Despite a growing body of scientific research connecting oil and gas activity to a dramatic spike in earthquakes across several U.S. states, some industry leaders are fighting this characterization. Harold Hamm, billionaire CEO of Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources, told a dean at the University of Oklahoma last year that he was so displeased by the university’s research on the topic that he wanted certain scientists dismissed, Bloomberg News reported. […]
I read in the NY Times, today, that in order to rate the teachers by the kids’ tests, at least 16 children in a class must have been tested. Because in many places there were not the required 16, Gov. Snotball says not to sorry. They’ll use test scores from other classes in the school to do the rating. So, now the teachers will be rated on the tests of other teachers’ students. But, Gov. S. says it was not a political miscalculation to make the tests an even greater part of a teacher’s rating. The opt out movement was to be expected when there is a change. (Funny, but with all the changes over all the years, it has never happened before.) Meanwhile, the legislators, in the words of the NYT, are “falling over themselves” to pass legislation that tells parents that they are not required to have their children take the test. This should be fun to watch.
Hmm. Is that in NYC, or in all of NY? I could see 16 students being a relatively small percentage of a class in a large school, but a fairly large percentage of students at a small school. I’m betting there are teachers in schools “Up North” (as we say) that only have 20 – 30 kids total in a given course. But then again, maybe not.
That is for all NY State. Here, on Long Island, Some districts had an 80% + opt out rate.
I think Seder said his daughter Myla was in because she liked the acheivement challenge but they may have a talk about her future involvement.
If you wonder about my avatar…
This Hanks kid also made a new doc about Tower Records I have to see. They provided me a lot of income and lifelong friends, not to mention a couple of tons of rekkids.
That is a sweet little film, thanks Vern!
Those were sucky years full of fights in the stands, as I recall. Beer drinking was de rigueur. I remember one Dodger game at the Stick, towards the 8th Inning (read, “everyone was shit-faced”) a Giants fan yelled at this rotund man sporting a Dodger hat, “What the hell? Are you on the Tommy Lasorda diet or what?” A massive brawl insued. Ahhh games at the Stick were legendary.
Knew you would get it, OKat. The ‘stick is almost all gone.
You’re a piece of shit, Obama. Cover your nose on that one and breathe in, douchebag.
Come to Seattle, fly over my house and make fun of me some more, asshole.
Have the Blue Angels drop some of their contrail concoctions to make it rain and hail over my place, too — like last year.
You stole a TV dinner, too. No shit. That’s a real teachable moment.