I don't want to alarm y'all but something strange has happened to the sky. It's gone a soft grey color.
I don't remember ever seeing anything like it and I'm not sure what it could mean...looks ominous.
I can't see the sun. There are patches here and there of illuminous white but no sun.
This is creepy.
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I hate to do this but I'm afraid it's necessary. After talking with one our regular readers this weekend :coughthesistercough: I'm worried that my posts are sometimes confusing.
There isn't actually anything wrong with the sky...it's just clouds. The above is just a little joke about how we've had the same bright day for months now...do not panic.
Hopefully, the post hasn't been deemed too wordy...and the reader :coughsistercough: was able to make it to the explanation...and isn't hiding under the dining room table.
P.S. Nat...don't you dare say a word about Breaking Bad. We haven't seen it yet.
Thats funny, very ominous as we saw the evil yellow face last week, but he's gone again now and I can go outside again.
ReplyDeleteIt's gotta be in 70's....and there's a breeze. I got nothin but short sleeves.
ReplyDeleteshit, I know you said the pacce of life was a little slower down there, but I didn't think you meant 40 years behind!
ReplyDeleteI always got short sleeves, in weather that'd probably have you in a duffle coat, retro man.
I bought a sweater.
ReplyDeleteWould any of you let an Agent of Satan baby sit your children?
ReplyDeleteFor a night off, sure, anything really.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming for such a title, you are refering to a dear friend or close family member?
Just before dropping off her sons in my care...The Sister sent me the following text...
ReplyDelete"You are an Agent of Satan."
Keep in mind, unlike her, I was willing to watch them boys on the night that she needed me to. Good thing I, unlike her, didn't say no.
By the way Adam...I was referring to 70 degrees Ferenheit...as you very well know.
ReplyDeleteWe have not gone over to any of those robotic, mechanical, sterile, Europeanish...forms of measurements.
We still use the old human ones.
Here in the UK, well, what can I say? Grey - or to romanticise in terminology that recalls past naval military superiority - "battle ship gun grey" is the sky colour here everyday, accompanied with the ever-present threat of the occasional drizzle, which may turn at any moment, to downpour and wet shoes and socks and squelching. Talk about living on the edge.
ReplyDeleteI've recorded Breaking Bad, but I'm not good with tension - watched about six episodes and I had to keep pausing it to make cups of tea and calm my nerves. I've got them them all and will blast through the rest when I feeling less timid. All credit to the writers and actors - can't recall another show where the main character goes so far off the moral compass and I actually care what happens to them.
Hell, my comments are confusing to myself, but I accept that as the price of admission to my own mind. And it offers me no favouritism or refunds in return. But I insist on visitation rights, though am reluctant to claim full custody.
ReplyDelete"Agent of Satan" is kind of a back-handed compliment: lot of bad press to deal with and people like to "shoot the messenger"; but on the upside, some of the groupies are hot (even if they have a tendency to too much mascara and black hair dye) and He also acts as unofficial producer to a lot of good bands. I'm just saying, hell yes, there's a lot glamour, but that doesn't make it easy - big skills set required: multitasking, crisis mismanagement and often public credit is misplaced as "natural causes".
ReplyDeleteAs a theological side note: Satan - Lucifer - according to certain scholars, wasn't always viewed in such negative terms, but once seen on a par with God. A counter-balance, if you will. In the Old Testament, God occasionally adopts both roles - the story of Noah is a good example, for, under a certain light, it's hard not not to see that story as a genocidal solution to His previous mistakes.
ReplyDeleteI like those Old Testament stories, as they are often very humanising and the lessons often surprisingly subtle. The Noah story warns against the temptation to "reboot" as a "final solution" - indeed, Noah and his progeny go on display the very same failings as exemplified by his precursors. In short: you have to deal with what you've got, not with what you'd like.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds
Small price to pay.
ReplyDeleteWe are gonna have to delve further into the business about the flood.
ReplyDeletePlace the wrath of God on the moral spectrum.
The story of Job is the most interesting to...as far as the subject of Satan is concerned.
ReplyDeleteI always try to read your posts, but sometimes there is too much football for me to understand. So, I thought I'd pipe up on this post and say, uh, that I at least understood this one! I think.
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Hey Lorraine.
ReplyDeleteI have had tried to post over on your blog...any time there's talk of Debbie cakes I'm there...but I haven't been able to since the change.
Just the usual with me and technology.
You wouldn't be trying ot goad me there would you mr Bartlam, I mean, really, whats the need for the temerature post there? Fair dos.
ReplyDeleteI mean imagine, something so bizzarre as a temperature scale based on 0 being the freezing point of water, and 100, being the boiling point of water... I mean, thats so far out of the realm of human experience and cognisance it untrue. scientists and their crazy ideas!
However, having 0 set at a achievable scientifcally stable level based on a mix of brine and ice, and ammonium chloride, 32 degrees set at those without the ammonnium, and 96 at body temerature, I mean thats human that is, thats not creating a scale based on scientific, robotic, sterile levels, merely to obtain measureable points, no no. Thats human that is, based on common frames of reference that we likely encounter on a day to day basis like, oo say, BOILING WATER, or I dunno, going outside in winter and finding a bucket of water frozen.
Sure Celcius doesn't have the historic origins of Farenheit, I mean 1724 was a long time ago, and 1742, well thats practically yesterday, these jonhhy come latelys!
Your sisters right about you :P
anyways I got proper stuff to do this weekend, ttfn!
Exactly.
ReplyDeleteOne is obviously the product of a human mind. While the other is cold observation.
Before you run off for a weekend of chores The Boy has a question that maybe you can answer.
He has two obsessions. One is the rocknroll. The other is heavy equipment...especially garbage trucks.
A couple of weeks, ago I bought an app for him that's basically a book about trucks, cherry pickets, excavators, etc....and rubbish lorries.
"Rubbish Lorry???"...."that's not a rubbish lorry. It's a garbage truck." he just couldn't get over it. I told him that's what people in England call it. He was flabbergasted. He keeps askin "Who came up that?" "Rubbish lorry?" and then he breaks up laughing..."who came up with that?"
Who came up with the rubbish lorry?
A rubbish lorry is a lorry that is simply not very good. A garbage truck, on the other hand, is a truck, on indeed bandwagon, that engages in trash talk AKA McCain's "straight talk express" (not be confused a "sanitisation facilitation vehicular unit").
ReplyDeleteGlad to be of service.
You're welcome.
Oh that won't work.
ReplyDeleteJust the mention of the John Mcain's name sends him into a purple rage.
I understand: it's difficult to comprehend how a man who was a bamboo caged captive, starved and tortured within an inch of his life, a hero in an unnecessary war, ended up an enabler and facilitator to far more dangerous neo-con trash with itchy, on-the-nuclear-button-can't-wait-around-for-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse, fingers. But then politics can do worse things to man's soul than war. I guess.
ReplyDeleteThere were times when I was almost impressed by his noble worlds, but then he'd always manage to undo that impression by being a complete, back-tracking douche. I guess being a man of principle is harder than being an enemy captive; however, on the surface of it at least, I'd have thought it would have been the other way around. Suppose I'm naive to ways of this world.
http://youtu.be/o-zoPgv_nYg
Mainly he just sees McCain as the main reason the "Kenyan Marxist" got elected.
ReplyDeleteI keep trying to tell him there's no proof that obama was born in Kenya.
LOL. Wallstreet's favourite "Kenyan Marxist" - he takes from the poor and gives handouts to the stinking rich. Makes my laugh when they describe Obamaman as a "socialist". Funnily enough, it draws a chuckle from Tim Geithner and Larry Summers too - though I suspect for different reasons - all the way to the bank.
ReplyDeletePeople sometimes ask "what happened to the Mafia kings?" Simple, they went legit, at least on fiat paper.
But wait, it's easy to be cynical sniping from the sidelines natetin, but what if McCain had really won? Well, I searched the alternate time lines, saving you the leg work, and I think I've found you your answer ...
http://youtu.be/H7GwtjivYJs
No idea why I rolled Wall Street into one word, must be the power of monopoly.
ReplyDeleteKenyan Marxist is my favorite of all the nicknames...makes me chuckle every time.
ReplyDeleteWhen you consider some of the things you bring up and others the f word might be more appropriate..
The boy wanted me to tell he doesn't think there would have been much difference with McCain....and that's why he gets so bent about him having been the nominee.
ReplyDeleteI'm just tellin him that Adam P. came up with it.
ReplyDeleteLOL.
ReplyDeleteRed lorry yellow lorry.
Now say that fast.
Nat it's you and Adam...Vandy v. Georgia tonight.
ReplyDeleteGeorgia is one of the few heavies in The Conference that Vandy has had recent success against.
Anchor Down....Hunker Down!
Georgia on my mind, and in my sniper scope, coincidentally. "At my signal unleash hell."
ReplyDeleteOh Nat...Nat, Nat, Nat...so close last night. With less than a minute to go, trailing by five points, Vanderbilt blocked a Georgia punt....all they had to do was pick it up and take it to the end zone.
ReplyDeleteThey tripped each other up trying to get it. With seven seconds left they had just enough time to run two plays....so close, a pass went right off the finger tips.
Then there was almost a brawl at mid field.
Rubbish Lorry; :D
ReplyDeleteI do know the difference between Rubbish and Garbage, One is Anglo French (Rubbish) and the Other is Dutch/German in origin (Garbage), which makes send Americans using it.
I think lorry and truck stem from the railways originally. A guy writing an article on the Railways in Carlisle once told me that Lorry descended from a verb to 'pull/haul' which makes sense, but I'm not sure where truck comes from, probably latin, but my latin isn't great unless its carved on stone about dead romans?
cherry pickets? Is that a type, or you really called cherry pickers, cherry pickets?
And your just being obstinate with the temperature thing. I see where you are going; the arbitrary scale of measurement as the product of the human mind is 'human'; we are complex creatures, we try to create a complex method to measure things, attempting to apply logic and human reasoning. But all measurements are observational in nature, even farenheit was based on observations. But surely you should go with the most 'human' measurement of all; Kelvin? I mean, what more 'human' method is there to distill things in the human mind to a point of abstraction, or to remove things to an objective form *cough*.
Use what you like, just stop pretending your logic has any more sound basis, or makes any more sense that the shit the rest of think. :P
^^ We are only about 10 miles from Leyland, the homes of Lurries, as they get called round here. your boy'd love that, Isaacs big into diggers atm, and cooking :-O.
ReplyDeleteYou started it....robot.
ReplyDeleteThe Boy thinks you invented it now....and he thinks your crazy for it.
He gets this bemused look on his face, shakes his head, and say Adam P******'s crazy.
Hahahaha aha. I heard your name about 100 times this weekend.
Rubbish you'll sometimes hear around here...actually you hear a lot of it...but never lorry. I've even heard the trunk of a car referred to as a boot but I've never heard lorry.
I'm in Hattiesburg and there's a big Cat dealership down here. The Boy calls diggers Big Ones....who knows...whenever I tell him I'm coming down here he says Hattiesburg has Big Ones!
He loves to help Martha bake.
Yeah Cherry Pickers.
ReplyDeleteYou know I'm winding you up about the temperature right...I've never thought much about it except that F is better for hot places. We have three digit temperatures here. It gets a hundred...not 45 or whatever.
ReplyDeleteBUT...I do have take a philosophical stance against the metric system. I hate that *****.
Meters? I gotchyer meters right here.