Monday Meanderings - 4.25.2011

Much earlier than desired, we are at the point of having to put the sun shade up in the windshield whenever we park the car. That's a practice that you really don't want to begin here in April.

At Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind) we read a wide variety of books, mostly text books, as I have mentioned. At the break, we discuss among ourselves the books we are reading, and usually we comment on how well (or poorly) the book was written, in addition to what it is about. If we say a book is well-written we usually mean that the author uses words considered to be common in usage, writes well-constructed, grammatical sentences that hold up well when read aloud. You would be amazed how infrequently that occurs in current text books. You would also be amazed at the grammatical errors, incomplete sentences, and typographic errors that occur.

One of our readers was so upset with a book a couple of years back that he wrote the publisher and laid out in great detail all of the errors in the book. The publisher wrote him back and asked if they could hire him as a part-time editor. He accepted, and now has a lucrative job working at home as an editor. So take note, all of you English majors.

Regrettably, I had to tell William and Kate that we just couldn't make the wedding. I think they took it pretty well.

I use the Google Reader to manage the blogs that I read, and on that page is an option for scanning an assortment of blogs gathered from the vast resources of blogdom. I confess that that is where I find most of my weird photos and stories. Theoretically, you can "tailor" the list to your likes, but something has gone horribly wrong. That list currently thinks I like blogs about - horses. And let me tell you, there are more Horsey blogs than Mommy blogs!

And every Horsey blog is looooong, with 20 or 30 pictures of their horse, or of their newest saddle, or of what to do about really gross-looking problems with their horses hooves! Being long is a problem, because in theory you can scroll down to the bottom of the blog entry and check that YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED and Google is supposed to get the idea that you DON'T WANT TO SEE ANY MORE PICTURES OF HORSES!! I think in reality there is a guy at Google who is looking at all the horsey blogs I have ix-nayed, and says to his fellow workers, "You know what would be really funny...?

Ran into a waiter at Pappadeaux named Josiah. We told him he would fit right in with our family.

I usually try to end with something humorous; this short little video is instead rather poignant. But I really like it. I can't embed it, so you'll have to click over to YouTube to watch it.