"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Checkin In...
Not posting much since I'm putting almost all of my time into my budding eBay business, and the holiday season requires me to work sometimes 12 hours a day or more. Doesn't leave a lot of time for blogging.
I'll go back to a more frequent schedule after Christmas.
In the meantime, I'll post a few snippets as we go along, starting with today's sign that I think should be policy at all retail establishments:
Sis Boom Bah! During the debate over a bill to designate the frontier chuck wagon as the “official state vehicle,” Texas State Senators got a bit out of hand. The bill’s sponsor, Kel Seliger of Amarillo, was upset that fellow lawmakers weren’t taking his bill seriously, interrupting him with silly questions (“Should we call it the Charles Wagon?” and “Can we also designate the low-rider as the official state urban vehicle?”) When yet another senator was about to interrupt with his own one-liner, Seliger fumed, “I’ve already yielded more than a cheerleader at a drive-in!” The entire chamber went silent, not believing he would diss the revered cheerleaders of the state. Seliger later blamed “incipient Tourette’s syndrome” for his outburst, and suggested “the next bill I do will be for motherhood.” (Austin American-Statesman) ...Isn’t that pretty much what already happens when the cheerleaders “yield”? Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
