Frivolity Break: A Spider Spinning its Web

Apropos of absolutely nothing, besides a discussion with The Other Half about cobwebs vs. spider webs (if you're curious), I happened upon this YouTube video of a spider spinning a web from scratch. He's a talented little booger! Now I feel guilty for all of the webs I've destroyed. Kinda.
 

Random Thoughts. . .

We're knee-deep in holiday weekend, and the blogging inspiration still isn't there for me. I had two Thanksgiving dinners (Part I: The Beginning, and Part II: The Revenge), followed by an amazingly uncomfortable attempt at sleep, and awakening to a scratchy throat and general achiness! Hazzah!

Anyway, while I don't have a topic in mind for a blog post, I did have some free-association, Larry King-like thoughts rattling through my brain last night. Let's see if I remember any of them. . .

Greenlee Gazette's Random Thoughts (post-Thanksgiving digestion edition):

- Early morning "Black Friday" shoppers are weird. I thought all you hyper-Christmas fans got your shopping done months ago.

- Liberals aren't "scared" of Sarah Palin. We are scared that a large enough percentage of Americans will nominate and/or elect an unqualified, ignorant, ex-beauty queen wack-job to be President. And I ain't talking about Carrie Prejean.

- If you leave turkey leftovers out on the edge of a table, and you have a table-height dog running around, he will eat all the turkey. And it isn't his fault!

- Computer death, and the loss of your files really isn't much of a tragedy. Unless you have precious photos with no backups, priceless gallies of text for your memoirs/novel, or some other desperately valuable thing saved in your hard drive--and only on your hard drive--losing your data is really no big deal. I'm quickly finding that a clean reinstall is worth the hassle of putting back your old programs, and tweaking your settings back to how they used to be. Because hours of fussing and fretting, and downloading "fixes" and trying virtual CPR is often not worth the time and effort.

- Trying to avoid a cold or the flu when living with someone who is sick, is rather pointless. Go ahead, try to keep the remote controls, faucet handles, door knobs, telephones and pets germ free or untouched by sicky and healthy. Unless you're OCD, the only thing that will save you is a strong immune system. And while we're on the topic. . .

- I ain't buying that Vitamin C, zinc and Air-bourne will stop a cold or flu in its tracks if you "catch it" fast enough. Bull pucky. If you're gonna be sick, you're gonna be sick. I'm not saying those things will hurt you, but I don't believe they help much--if at all--either.

- A house feels 50% cleaner if the kitchen is clean and the beds are made. Not so good with the bed making, but once the kitchen is cleaned up, I feel so much better. Ours is a disaster at the moment, and I don't even wanna go in there.

- On a long weekend, sleeping in, and then staying in your pajamas into the afternoon can be a great thing. On the other hand, getting up early, getting your coffee, getting cleaned up and dressed before it's even 9:00am can also be a great thing: "look how much DAY I have left!" Remember, in the winter, if you don't get moving until afternoon, you've got like 2 or 3 hours of light before it is dark again!

Weekend Blogging

Oh, dear. I've stayed away from blogging today, mostly because I just wanted a little down time. I watched a couple of movies Superman III, for some reason (worse than I remembered) and The Invasion, which is not the best of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers' many versions. Beyond that, I didn't do much.

So, I decided to sit down and write a couple of posts, to keep the blog current. But I can't find anything! Seriously, did anything happen today? Most of my favorite blogs are apparently off for the weekend. Nothing I have found has yet inspired me to opine about.

I was struck by a personal anniversary, and that got me a little introspective. I realized that in just a couple of weeks, I will have lived in the same house--with The Other Half--for ten solid years. It got me to thinking about other dates. This year,

- I will have been blogging for 2 years.

- I will have driven the same vehicle (1998 Jeep Wrangler) for 9 years.

- I've been with The Other Half for 11 years.

- I'll have had the same job for 12 years.

- I'll have lived in the same town (Las Vegas) for 15 years.

That's a lot of "the same" in a lot of major life areas! Of course, there have been changes along the way, like furnishings, electronics and appliances. We of course have a new President, ending a period of sameness that we are eager to see change dramatically. I got married last year, and while it remains to be seen if the voters of California will be (unbelievably) allowed to revoke it, we intend to keep the anniversary.

Those things that remain the same are a good thing for the most part, even if I sometimes have to struggle to avoid inertia, and getting stuck in a rut. Painting rooms, and moving things around is one way to do that. Taking a day off from blogging is another. And here we are back where we started!

That, dear reader, is what happens when I can't find anything to post about. I just start typing, and you all get a glimpse of how my brain works, where it wanders, and how far afield I get from what I was originally talking about! But somehow, it all ends up in a fairly neat package. I hope you're all having a great weekend, and enjoy the Super Bowl tomorrow. Meanwhile, I intend to find something newsworthy, interesting, entertaining and/or funny to put up on the blog before bedtime. Wish me luck!