Monday Meanderings - 8.15.2011

Well, it finally happened. They had me read a phone book at Recording for the Blind.  No, not the one with everyone's numbers - the one that comes with your phone, the user's guide. This was for a Samsung smartphone; I told them that if it had been for the Apple iPhone the recording would have been only 4 pages long instead of 128 for the Samsung phone.

The dental hygienist that Barb and see (when we need some guilt and verbal abuse) recently entered an Iron Man competition in Austria - and won it! Not sure what age group she competes in (she has grandchildren) but the fact that she finished the competition is awesome enough. This qualifies her for the big one in Kona in October. The bottom line is, when she says "Open wide" you do exactly that.

I find it odd that okra - long a staple in the below-the-line family's diet  - costs $2.00 a pound.

Bad pre-season football is better than no football at all. But just barely.

Weatherman says today is the "tipping point" for temperatures; on average temperatures are lower after this date. Good to know since the forecast calls for 105 degrees today.

So. Governor Good-Hair has entered the presidential race.  For someone who claims to dislike Washington so much he sure seems to want to get there.