Between saying and doing, many
a pair of shoes is worn out.
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| via Writing Women |
Jean Iris Murdoch
Sunday, September 03, 2017
Friday, September 01, 2017
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Harvey Update
Bay City has largely been spared the worst of Harvey. We had plenty of strong wind and rain early on, but limbs/trees down and power outages were, for the most part, the extent of our troubles. Local officials ordered an evacuation just before the storm hit. Clare headed for Dallas and I stayed behind to watch over the Button mansion.
Then, the number-crunching bureaucrats entered the picture. They projected up to ten feet of water in downtown BC! People lost their minds. Same local officials pushed panic button and reminded those of us still in town of the catastrophic flood that was bearing down on us as they spoke.
NBC added to the hysteria with this:
I kept telling family and friends it wasn't going to happen. Some Facebook comments asked if they'd really meant ten inches of water in downtown. Still, I was begged to hit the road. After loading up, the dogs and I left for Brenham very early Monday morning.
In a Tuesday briefing, we learned that projections now indicated a much lower crest on the Colorado River. So, back to BC we (Dixie, Sable, and me) went.
Things are starting to return to "normal" around here as businesses open back up and residents return. River should finally crest today, but only property close to the Colorado will be impacted. Looks like we'll be back to school on Tuesday.
Areas around us, though, need a lot of support. Media is covering the larger stories north and east of us (Houston, Beaumont, Louisiana, etc.). Smaller cities & towns are having a tough go of it.
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| via Victoria Advocate |
Victoria is in rough shape. Lots of trees down, roofs damaged, power/traffic lights out, and long lines at the few gas stations that are open. On top of that, the Guadalupe River is flooding.
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| via Facebook |
Schools are shut down and many Friday night openers have been postponed/canceled.
I know y'all are anxious to see foosball return to their regular schedule. In the meantime, I'll re-post something from about ten years ago that might bring a smile to your faces.
Warning! If you're easily triggered, click on the second link!
I'm a big boy/girl/other and am not easily triggered by locker room humor, so I'll click here
I'm a self-righteous weenie who runs to my safe space whenever triggered, so I'll click here
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Quote of the Day
The hurricane flooded me out
of a lot of memorabilia, but it
can't flood out the memories.
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| via New York Daily News |
Thomas John "Tom" Dempsey
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Quote of the Day
If a guy's got it, let him give it.
I'm selling music, not prejudice.
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| via Oak Auctions |
Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman
Friday, August 25, 2017
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Quote of the Day
I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
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| via Hooked on Comedy |
Joseph Levitch, a.k.a. Jerry Lewis
Monday, August 21, 2017
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Friday, August 18, 2017
Quote of the Day
Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington
lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our
families have values, but our government doesn't.
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| via Breitbart |
William Jefferson Clinton
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Quote of the Day
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine
or new propaganda, is a weakness still
dominating the human mind.
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| via Radcliffe Institute |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Quote of the Day
Winning becomes easier over time as the
cornerstones of confidence become habits.
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| via Academy of Management |
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Quote of the Day
Real generosity toward the future
lies in giving all to the present.
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| via The Irish Times |
Albert Camus
Monday, August 14, 2017
Quote of the Day
I realised from a very early age that God
gave me a gift and that gift was to run, and
I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.
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| via The Courier-Mail |
Elizabeth Alyse "Betty" Cuthbert, a.k.a. Golden Girl
Sunday, August 13, 2017
New Look Poll Results
A week ago I tried to change blog scheme a little. Thought I could get back to old look anytime I wanted. Wrong!
Ended up losing links and having to set up a new template. Was able to use Google to find cached page and redo links. Probably won't try any more changes for a while.
Results of the poll:
Quote of the Day
The free man is he who does not fear
to go to the end of his thought.
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| via Encyclopaedia Britannica |
André Léon Blum
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Quote of the Day
Individual experiences being limited
and individual spontaneity feeble,
we are strengthened and enriched by
assimilating the experience of others.
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| via Jim & Ellen |
George Henry Lewes
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Sunday, August 06, 2017
Friday, August 04, 2017
Yes, it's pretty ugly!
Tried to make a few changes. Ended up losing links and adding hideous colors. Be patient, my twenty-nine (29) readers. This will take time...
In the meantime, view the Google cache here
Thursday, August 03, 2017
So Many Great Swim Pictures...
...so little time...
Check out the latest at Andy Ringgold's flickr page
p.s. Brett went :49+ twice yesterday at the US Open
Quote of the Day
I've always felt like the underdog, and
I'm comfortable with that label.
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| via ZOMG Talk |
Alecia Beth Moore, a.k.a. P!nk
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
Quote of the Day
I saw the angel in the marble
and carved until I set him free.
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| via Harvard Health |
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Quote of the Day
Good God, if our civilization were
to sober up for a couple of days
it'd die of remorse on the third.
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| via That's How the Light Gets In |
Clarence Malcolm Lowry
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Quote of the Day
The idea is not to block every shot.
The idea is to make your opponent
believe that you might block every shot.
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| via NBA |
William Felton "Bill" Russell
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Quote of the Day
A man always has two reasons
for doing anything: a good
reason and the real reason.
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| via linked in |
John Pierpont "J.P." Morgan
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Quote of the Day
A certain amount of opposition
is a great help to a man. Kites
rise against, not with, the wind.
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| via Wikipedia |
John Neal
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Quote of the Day
I'll never get sick of zombies.
I just get sick of producers.
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| via Screen Anarchy |
George Andrew Romero
Monday, July 10, 2017
Sunday, July 09, 2017
Quote of the Day
We started off trying to set up a
small anarchist community, but
people wouldn't obey the rules.
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| via BBC |
Alan Bennett
Friday, July 07, 2017
Quote of the Day
It's not the daily increase, but daily
decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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| via Bruce Lee Bio |
Lee Jun-fan, a.k.a. Bruce Lee
Thursday, July 06, 2017
Quote of the Day
Rather let us suffer for speaking
the truth, than that truth should
suffer for want of speaking.
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| via Wikipedia |
Eliza Cook
Sunday, July 02, 2017
Quote of the Day
The more is given the less the people will
work for themselves, and the less they
work the more their poverty will increase.
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| via world's most boring website |
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, a.k.a. Leo
Tolstoy
Saturday, July 01, 2017
Git ta yer safe spaces!! Them Free Speechers is on the loose!
Sure wouldn't want to hear anyone at UC Santa Cruz exercise their First Amendment rights, now, would we?
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| via UCSC |
Critics are calling her performance "Laugh-out-loud laughably laughable" and "Ding-dand-diddly D-U-M Dumb!"
Seems Dr. Willer has been axing coaches left and right, as she gives the Banana Slug athletic department her version of a "restructuring".
...all assistant coaches will have to reapply for their positions, which will now be limited to six-month contracts.
Read more here
Among the costs the university must factor into its budget is a salary for an athletic director. That position has been vacant since Cliff Dochterman was laid off as part of a cost-saving measure last October. In a statement at the time, Andrea Willer, executive director of the Office of Physical Education, Recreation and Sports, said she made the decision to eliminate the athletic director “because it had the least impact on the overall program.”
What a genius! She was able to dump him, fill the power vacuum, and wipe out athletics!
Students had voted in favor of a referendum supporting athletics. Coaches who backed that referendum were, coincidentally, given the old Lead Handshake.
Rather than be kicked to the curb, swim coach Kim Musch was able to retire.
“I’m the lucky one because I can retire,” Musch said. “I can step away and not be at the mercy of them anymore.”
“To do what they did to them is just dishonest and slimy,” Musch said. “To get up and have students go above and beyond, to have assistants go above and beyond and just knock them down is so slimy.”
Them there slugs kin git really slimy...
UCSC coaches protested yesterday with signs that didn't say anything about "Trump" and "Russia" - a first in California this year.
Read much, much more here
Musch, despite his recent retirement, showed up to support his colleagues.
“I need to help the coaches who were laid off, the assistant coaches whose jobs were ended,” Musch said. “This is a situation where, I’m going to be blunt, there’s a cancer on campus and that cancer is at OPERS. I have trouble sitting back and watching an entire department get destroyed by one person. Anything I can do to help change that, I’ll do. Being retired is one of those things that frees me up to speak my mind because everybody else are, you know, by agreements or under contracts, can be fired at will. I’m free to say this is intolerable. This is a toxic situation.”
Take a few minutes and read through the articles linked above. This UCSC thing is pretty high on the crazy meter, even for California.
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| via Pinterest |
Biggest fear among UCSC athletes? Vincent Vega? NaCl? The Big One?
Nope, they're afraid Andrea Willer is dismantling their entire athletic program...
Quote of the Day
The buried talent is the sunken rock on
which most lives strike and founder.
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| via Hymnary |
Frederick William Faber
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