Happy B-Day, GD#1

Recent free downloads of music offered by our local library include some classic Sam Cooke, the first Santana album, and Willie Nelson singing Gershwin songs. Before that was some Mountain, Kansas, and Gloria Estefan. As you can see, my tastes are a bit eclectic, but not as often modern. Salesman Son does still bring more recent releases to me that I enjoy, so that is fun, too.

I don't know if you have been checking, but there have been a few days when no blog post was published. Why? I have been a bit under the weather since last week. I finally decided I had to see the doctor and I have a viral bronchitis (it may have started as the flu late last week). Anyway, I am now on medication and the cough has definitely gotten better (meaning healing, not that I am improving my coughing techniques).

My college roommate has written a Rhyming Bible Stories book about Noah. We ordered a copy for reading the the GRANDS.

Have any of you ever considered trying to rearrange the US states but still fit them within the geographical constraints of the country? xkcd did.

I have a few more Twitter postings for renaming common things. How about an alternative moniker for a toaster?

A new name for insomnia?

It is St. Patrick's Day. Did you wear green today? If not, has anyone pinched you yet? Well, good luck. It is also the birthday of our oldest GRAND. We will be seeing her later today. Still, I hope she can start her day with us wishing her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Here is a music-making machine using marbles to play a nice little melody. Oldest GRANDdaughter, consider it a nice little birthday song. It is also a pretty incredible device.

Funny analogy for today: Marriage is like a deck of cards. In the beginning, all you need is two hearts and a diamond. But by the end, you wish you had a club and a spade.

Bad Pun Dog makes his final visit.

More chalk art:

I do not remember how my father taught me to shave. The first step, though, would be to apply shaving cream to face, right?

A Quidditch bicycle, perhaps?

You may have heard that there is a presidential election this year. One of the consequences of that could be a delay in replacing  Judge Scalia on the US Supreme Court. However, there is a good reason to actually confirm Obama's nominee.

Well, it's time for my inhaler to treat this cough. Sucks, right? Get it? Inhaler? Sucks? OK, maybe that is too much humor after a few days off. In fact, I will help you ease back into the blog by not publishing tomorrow. See you next week.