Wednesday, May 16, 2012

To Err is Only Professional


"The ex wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. was found dead this afternoon.  Film at eleven"  "Film of WHAT - - - her afterlife?"

I decided not to talk about paragraph one in a Tweet this evening - - so if you look and see an entry NOT there, you'll know it's Me.

"We don't have a private morality problem in this country.  We have a public morality problem.  And today's church don't want to touch THAT one with a ten foot pole"

Call this chapter of today's soap opera 'Marcus dodges a bullet".  This afternoon just after three I went down to the office "Just to check with Yadera if she remembered I gave her a dentist's referral a week or so ago and did she follow up?"  I was greeted by the news from Yadera that I had five minutes to brush my teeth before headed off to the Paradontist, ironically on "Romneyia" street.  I didn't like the name.  "I like pulling teeth".   Anyhow it seems my local dentist misread her tea leaves and I didn't have any paradontal disease and my tooth was fine.  This guy seemed alltogether more of a cheerful continence than my own dentists, who often comes off as a worry wart.  Now the only question is who is going to pay the hundred dollar fee.  On the way back home I knew I'd be in time for dinner after all, which I was.  And I thought of the Biblical adage of "Let not he who puts on the armor for battle boast like he who takes it off afterward".

Not to dispute with Wickipedia or anything but I believe I have them in a bit of a math error.  As you remember Bones demonstrated to me how the Wickipedia formula was just WRONG on multiple dimensions and faces of ninety degree cubes.  Now they are wrong again on the whole 55 thing.  They talked about "Conbinations' verses "Permiutations".  I never knew what a permuitation was before. My English teacher Mrs Davis once said that "Life would be rather dull and drab without adjitives.  In fact you could not even use the words "dull" and "drab" to talk about it".  It's interesting that words like "nuance" have an ironically precise meaning even though the word alludes to things that are anything but conceise.  Ya dig? That's when combinations of numbers have to be in a certain order.  The - - actually I guess it's Google where there is a big of an "error in posing the question.  Under the system I use, there is no bar to picking the same number twice as in Doninoes and the double nine, for instance.  Under the Choose option, once you have "chosen' something you can't Choose it again.  If you want to debate either of these two things, Stu Baby would be happy to come over to your place and argue with it for about a half hour.

"Well I'll be dog gone".  We all know about the Custody Battle of Knuckles the dog between two estranged lovers.  A similar thing happened with me and Robin in January of 1977 with Pete Richards as the "referee" in this conflict.  Robin decided she wanted the dog back after nearly eight months of living with us.  I'm sure the dog, Tobias, would have been perfectly happy at either house and I would never call Robin a "bad mother".  And Robin has been with the dog longer.  But as you know I and Pete won the battle, not that Pete wouldn't have just as happy if Robin had taken custody.  It makes you wonder how history might be different if - - - .  Jump forward to September of 1987 when the cat, Bones returned to our neighborhood and was run out of our back yard in a battle with Oscar.  Although Bones had the more macho reputation, when it came to a head to head battle, Oscar won the day.  I imagine Bones even today isn't happy talking about this.

Joe Drisco said there would be a partial eclipse of the sun today at five thirty in the afternoon.  I checked on the calendar and Joe is in error as I thought.  The next even possability of such an event is this Sunday.  Joe added just now "totality will be between Redding, California and the Oregon border and will be eighty percent here".  That's interesting to know.  It's not the sort of thing that happens every day.  Joe claims he heard it on the news, but I haven't seen or heard anything about it.

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