“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”
Today is wintry cold and damp. It has started to spit rain as my mother would say. The sky is a light grey but will darken as rain is predicted for the afternoon. It is another day to stay close to hearth and home.
When I was a kid, this week after New Year’s meant going back to school. We were usually ready. Everything gets boring after a while.
All of Christmas has disappeared. The tree is on the front lawn. Bins are stacked in the cellar in the Christmas corner, big bins to small bins. The outside lights are down except for the star and its trail, a single strand of white lights. Skip, my factotum, and his friend Bob already knew what needed to be done. They even swept the needles and took the trash and the tree. My house is bare.
My dance card is totally empty for January. It will be a bleak month. I have a few appointments but they don’t count.
Gnats have been around. When they land on my computer screen, I squash them; however, I fear vengeance is afoot. A few gnats are dive bombing me.
Television needs to ban the use of fake cups of coffee. The cups make a hollow sound when placed on a table. The actors pretend to drink the fake hot coffee even to the point of swallowing. I’d have burned my lips. The powers that be might as well ban food on TV next. I watched an actor take the tiniest bite out of ice cream. The bite didn’t even mar the surface, but that actor chewed for the longest time then took another bite which wasn’t a bite. My last complaint for today is cold weather on TV. Hallmark is the worst offender of fake cold weather. When the characters talk, there is no cloud of cold in what must be warm air. All the snow is fake, even looks fake. I pity the actors in coats, hats and mittens.
It is pass lunch time. I’ve only had coffee all day so I’m hungry. Peapod came yesterday so the larder is full. I wonder what I’ll have. It is so good to have choices.
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January 8, 2019 at 6:21 pm
Hi Kat,
Re your opening quote: the first time I saw the Volvo Ranger commercial my immediate thought was “Oh, that’s the Queen of the Night’s aria from the Magic Flute. And she’s doing a fine job of it too.” I do think of the Lone Ranger when I hear the William Tell Overture. 😀
I saw an interview with a caste member of Downton Abbey some while ago. They were talking about the difficulties of filming dinner scenes mostly because the director insisted on using real food. After so many takes and retakes, the food would get a bit nasty sitting out there under hot studio lights. Especially the fish course. Maybe that’s why fake hot coffee is used. And the ice cream was probably mashed potatoes or some equally unmeltable substitute.
Today started with a dusting of graupel snow, those tiny little balls of white stuff. Then it changed to very light rain and all the snow disappeared. It’s a damp, chilly, grey day.
Enjoy the day.
January 8, 2019 at 9:55 pm
Hi Caryn,
I also think of the Lone Ranger when I hear the Overture. When I was a kid, I just figured it was the intro to the Lone Ranger music and was shocked when I found out it was so much more.
They don’t even use any coffee. My complaint is the cups make an empty sound when put on a table. They could put water inside the cups, anything so they sound full.
We had rain then no rain then rain again. I don’t know what it’s doing now. Henry’s fur is my weather barometer.
Have a great night!
January 8, 2019 at 9:40 pm
Hi Kat,
January has no redeeming value except to keep December and February from falling down. 🙂
The stupid government shutdown is starting to affect my company. The FAA doesn’t have enough air safety inspectors to give flight checks to all the pilots industry requires. The FAA designates some of our instructors to check our clients, however our designated examiners must be observed annually by the FAA to continue checking our clients. Already several of our designated examiners privileges expired at the end of December and several more will expire at the end of this month. When this happens our clients can be trained but not checked. We will have to pay to send those pilots home and then bring them back when the examiners get recertfied. The recertification process requires that an FAA inspector must observe our examiner delivering a check to a real client. The airlines have the same problem and their examiner’s authority will begin expiring as the government shutdown creeps on. 😦
Today a cool front came through and dropped our high temperature from 74 yesterday to 65 today. We had on morning low temperature last month and none since nor forecast for the next ten days. Don’t believe in global warming? Come to Dallas that’s imitating Tampa. 😦
January 8, 2019 at 10:00 pm
We had on morning with a low temperature below freezing last month and non since nor forecasted for the next ten days.
January 8, 2019 at 10:29 pm
It will e in the mid to low 20’s the next couple of days. It got into the 40’s today.
January 8, 2019 at 10:15 pm
Hi Bob,
You’re right about January. It is mostly a nothing month. MLK Day is a day off, but that’s it for the month.
I had to read your second paragraph a couple of times. I kept mixing up who did what, but I have it now. The shutdown will affect so many more as it continues just as you’ve been affected. I totally understand why people start not going to work when they are not being paid. It is difficult to be enthusiastic and hungry.
We have had a warmish winter too. Boston’s had .2 inches of snow. Last year at this time it had had 22 inches.
The cold is coming tomorrow, down to the 20’s.