“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and the temperature is 22°. Tonight we’ll dip to 13°. I’ve had enough. I’m asking for only one day of warmth, deck weather warmth. That would hold me for a while.
Two of my travel magazines arrived in the mail this week. Their pages were filled with advertisements showing pictures of people enjoying the beaches of some tropical isle surrounded by water so blue it didn’t look real. All along the seaside were houses painted in bright colors and market wagons selling baskets and vibrant clothing trimmed in reds and blues. I felt like one of Pavlov’s dogs.
We played our weekly trivia game last night at the Squire in Chatham. It is a fun night we look forward to every week. We have dinner, a few drinks, a lot of laughs and a few friendly arguments over possible answers. Generally we’re in contention every week. Two weeks ago we won, last week we were third and even though our team was smaller than usual last night, only four of us, we won again. Other than the first round, we were ahead all night. We won a $50.00 certificate to the Squire and bragging rights for the week.
When I read the paper or do crossword puzzles, I see potential trivia questions. On Sunday, the capital of the gem state and the first chimpanzee in space were two of the crossword puzzle answers. I knew neither but figured them out from the clues around them. I won’t forget them now, and I won’t tell you either.
We used to play Jeopardy. One of us would be Alex giving the answers while the rest of us were the contestants with clickers instead of buttons. That worked for only a little while. My father was a clicking maniac and often answered even though he hadn’t clicked first. He drove us all so crazy we got rid of the clickers, and Jeopardy became a pencil and paper game. We still had fun.
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March 3, 2011 at 1:48 pm
I´m glad we don´t have it as nasty cold as You have it right now. Even if it is cloudy and misty here the temperature reached 35F today. It feels like spring is just around the corner, but I know it can change in a day and turn cold again all the way in to late April here.
I saw a documentary about that monkey not long ago, but I just can´t remember his name and I, as a swede, have never even heard the name Gem state before. But Now I´ve looked it up 🙂
Have You had problems getting in to Your blog today? It just stopped working while I wrote in mine today and it has been almost impossible to get in to it again to finish it. Really annoying even if it´s bound to happen sometimes.
Have a great day now!
Christer.
March 3, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Christer,
Tonight is really cold, and I can’t keep my hands warm. It feels more like the middle of winter than its last gasps.
I did have problems getting the new post page, but I didn’t have long to wait. It was later in the day than when you write yours so maybe that’s why it was a short wait.
March 3, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Well, I knew which was the Gem State, but couldn’t remember the capitol.
As to the first chimp in space? When I looked up the answer and found I was 14 when he made his journey I began to feel too old to care.
March 3, 2011 at 9:42 pm
John,
I loved watching everything to do with space probably because of my science fiction reading. The irony of that was the landing on the moon. I was in Africa and had to listen on the radio.
March 3, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Oooops!
“capit-A-l”
After all my trips up to Madison’s Capitol last week I automatically use that spelling
March 3, 2011 at 9:44 pm
John,
I just let it pass; capitol is like stationery and a few other homonyms. They’ll easily mixed.
March 3, 2011 at 7:43 pm
What about “Albert II”, 14 June 1949?
Cheers
March 3, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Minicapt,
He was our first monkey in space. The first chimp was Enos.
http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/this-day-in-space-monkey-history-enos-becomes-the-first-to-orbit-the-earth/
March 3, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Ohmygodalmighty!
Yep,
I was alive for him too,,, and also Albert I.
Now I do feel old!
March 3, 2011 at 9:51 pm
John,
I too was alive for all of them but I have a different take. It’s not that we are old, it’s that technology took giants leaps very quickly.