More Mishmash
More Mishmash
EDIT: Chris has posted a virtual tour of our new place in this post.
"Who knew that recreating could be such hard work?" - Calvin to Hobbes. Classic comic strip.
Well, I'm not exactly recreating yet, but in gearing up for my first real vacation in 2 years (and my first time off the North American continent in almost 20 years!), I'm finding that I know nothing. Seems that every day, a more experienced traveller will casually ask a should-be-obvious question that I had no clue about. I need a Travellers newbie (n00b) 101 course or something. Fortunately I'm making use of a couple of packing lists I found online: Rick Steve's, and Enjoy Europe's part 1 and part 2.
Combining this with an increased workload trying to get things set to go at the office, and trying to make sure all the ministry responsibilities will be taken care of, and unpacking and cleaning the new place, I'm in a constant state of tiredness with a nightly bedtime of 2-3 am every night this week. I'm so looking forward to finally getting on the plane and leaving everything behind for a while.
The Spurs are loaded. Who'd have thunk that one day, good players would take less money to play in San Antonio? Credit Popovich, Duncan, and everyone else in the front office and the roster for making a top-notch organization that people want to be a part of. Sheesh, the Spurs reserve unit (Van Exel - Finley - Barry - Horry - Rasho) would probably make the playoffs in the Eastern Conference. I like the two new additions because there is no Payton-Malone-on-the-Lakers illusion of entitlement, where the chemistry of the ballclub was so affected that in the playoffs, the old guard actually approached Jackson and asked to put in the old starting lineup. No, in San Antonio, everyone knows their role.
In lieu of actual content in this post, I found the following wordplay to be brilliantly clever... not surprising considering it's the Mensa Invitational. I think Danny is a Mensa-level intellect. Anyhow, if I don't write in this space again for a few weeks, check back for some Spain memories, along with a long-overdue part 2 of reflections from Mexico.
My favorites are in italics...
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter*, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stop bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
10. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
11. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
12. Glibido: All talk and no action.
13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
14. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
15. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
EDIT: Chris has posted a virtual tour of our new place in this post.
"Who knew that recreating could be such hard work?" - Calvin to Hobbes. Classic comic strip.
Well, I'm not exactly recreating yet, but in gearing up for my first real vacation in 2 years (and my first time off the North American continent in almost 20 years!), I'm finding that I know nothing. Seems that every day, a more experienced traveller will casually ask a should-be-obvious question that I had no clue about. I need a Travellers newbie (n00b) 101 course or something. Fortunately I'm making use of a couple of packing lists I found online: Rick Steve's, and Enjoy Europe's part 1 and part 2.
Combining this with an increased workload trying to get things set to go at the office, and trying to make sure all the ministry responsibilities will be taken care of, and unpacking and cleaning the new place, I'm in a constant state of tiredness with a nightly bedtime of 2-3 am every night this week. I'm so looking forward to finally getting on the plane and leaving everything behind for a while.
The Spurs are loaded. Who'd have thunk that one day, good players would take less money to play in San Antonio? Credit Popovich, Duncan, and everyone else in the front office and the roster for making a top-notch organization that people want to be a part of. Sheesh, the Spurs reserve unit (Van Exel - Finley - Barry - Horry - Rasho) would probably make the playoffs in the Eastern Conference. I like the two new additions because there is no Payton-Malone-on-the-Lakers illusion of entitlement, where the chemistry of the ballclub was so affected that in the playoffs, the old guard actually approached Jackson and asked to put in the old starting lineup. No, in San Antonio, everyone knows their role.
In lieu of actual content in this post, I found the following wordplay to be brilliantly clever... not surprising considering it's the Mensa Invitational. I think Danny is a Mensa-level intellect. Anyhow, if I don't write in this space again for a few weeks, check back for some Spain memories, along with a long-overdue part 2 of reflections from Mexico.
My favorites are in italics...
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter*, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stop bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
10. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
11. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
12. Glibido: All talk and no action.
13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
14. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
15. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
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