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[ChasSmith]

It’s 50 here, too, with tomorrow supposed to be higher!

And then it drops.

[Jane]

New Year's Day greetings!  We rang in 2022 and I crashed almost immediately.  This morning I've been switching out calendars around the house.

I switched out one calendar two days ago and will do my second calendar this morning.

[Jane]

2022 is pronounced "2020, too."

Please let it not be a too.

[ChasSmith]

Seems like we should be changing the clocks, too. 

[Jane]

Rainy here with temps in the 50's.  This is January?

Here, too.  It felt like spring when I brought in the newspaper.

We are having unusually cold temps. 

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore is blessed with some wonderful neighbors.

[ChasSmith]

Right now I am lazily indulging in the tradition of lounging around in front of the annual Twilight Zone marathon on the SyFy Channel.

It is, of course, the worst way to watch the series, especially when you own the absolute best transfers. I just enjoy the ritual in an ironic way.

[singdaw]

Ironic is the way to go, definitely.

[elmore3003]

I checked my inventory of work necessities, and I ordered 12" rulers amd Liquid Paper strips. I'm down to about  six Paper Mate Liquid Flair Pens, Black, Medium point, and every place I googled is out stock or claims the product is no longer available. Now, in over 40 years of putting musical notes on opaper, I have been through many pens looking for the best one for my purpose, and these are my favorite. I've used them for maybe the past fifteen years, and if they are no longer available, there's going to be one really pissed off Paper Mate customer.

I can only find extra-fine point pens, which is too delicate for my heavy hand, and I'd buy the fine point pens if I could find any of the the mothers. I'd buy medium in blue or purple, since they will photograph as black, if I could find them. All I can locate are red. WTF?

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - was in bed by one-thirty or so and I think I was sort of asleep by two, but up at four with very Active Brain Syndrome, so much so that I got up and wrote a bunch of stuff down because I would have forgotten it. Then sleep was very fitful - maybe six hours.

[John G.]

Up from a nap.

[TCB]

If December was the highest posting total for the yet, I think all the credit should go to the return of DR Ron.

[George]

Bad night of sleep. I had a toothache.

Oh, no!

~~~Tooth Vibes for John!!~~~

[TCB]

I like that! (Cat pushes 2021 off the shelf)

[George]

That U.S. Time website is pretty cool, DR George.

I know!  They've changed it over the years, but I still have some screen captures from the early to mid 2000s on my computer (I just woke up so I'm on my phone now).

[elmore3003]

For dinner I had mashed potatoes, fried sauerkraut, and bratwurst. I've been craving black-eyed peas since DR ChasSmith brought them up.

[TCB]

~~~CAR VIBES~~~ for DR Jeanne!!!

Ditto!

[George]

I like that! (Cat pushes 2021 off the shelf)

Agreed!

[TCB]

So, we talked about my situation - she asked why I was occasionally heard screaming "fuck fuck fuck" at the top of my lungs - and I suddenly had a panic attack, fell completely apart, and cried like a baby. She held me till I calmed down, gave me some advice, and we talked about other things, and she left around 5:00.

Larry, what a powerful and emotional story.  I would think that would be a sign of better things in 2022.

[George]

With all this talk of books, I am reminded of this contemporary art exhibit. The piece is entitled: "The impact of a book."

Cool!

[George]

Seems like we should be changing the clocks, too. 

That's exactly what I was thinking!

[TCB]

There were a ridiculous amount of fireworks going off here all last night. Of course, at midnight it was the worst. Leonard hid under the bed.

I sure hope Leonard is a cat.

[George]

I checked my inventory of work necessities, and I ordered 12" rulers amd Liquid Paper strips. I'm down to about  six Paper Mate Liquid Flair Pens, Black, Medium point, and every place I googled is out stock or claims the product is no longer available. Now, in over 40 years of putting musical notes on opaper, I have been through many pens looking for the best one for my purpose, and these are my favorite. I've used them for maybe the past fifteen years, and if they are no longer available, there's going to be one really pissed off Paper Mate customer.

I can only find extra-fine point pens, which is too delicate for my heavy hand, and I'd buy the fine point pens if I could find any of the the mothers. I'd buy medium in blue or purple, since they will photograph as black, if I could find them. All I can locate are red. WTF?

Shades of Sondheim and his pencils!

[TCB]

Leonard is playing with a box of marbles and having a terrific time.

I really hope Leonard is a cat.

[TCB]

But since I don't, I'm taking my marbles and going home.

You can’t go home, you are home.

[TCB]

And it was too warm.

Rub it in, John!

[John G.]

If December was the highest posting total for the yet, I think all the credit should go to the return of DR Ron.

I was thinking something similar. Thank you, Ron.

[Ron Pulliam]

I am home from New Year's Day lunch at my cousin Debra's.  In attendance were her husband Rob, her stepson Lee, her real son Chad, her grandson Wyatt, and her daughter Becky, son-in-law Evan and granddaughter Audrey James.

Lunch was baked ham, sweet potato souffle, collards, black-eyed peas and cornbread.  That's Southern eatin', y'all.

I ate well.  We had some really good discussion at the table.

One thing I learned, that I suspected, but had confirmed: No one in that family likes to read.  It bores them to read.

I have to question my blood ties.  I love to read, and so did my mother.  My aunt read, too, but her children only read what they had to in school  After, nothing new gets read.  If it's made into a movie or mini-series, they prefer that.

Sigh.

[John G.]

[John G.]

That's huge, and I don't see a way to reduce it.