Delayed Post

I meant to post this a few weeks ago.

A Few Thoughts for the New Year

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. – Bill Vaughn

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. – P.J. O'Rourke

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. – Jay Leno

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. – Joey Adams

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. – Eric Zorn

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. – Mark Twain

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. – W.H. Auden

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. – F.M. Knowles

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that. – Judith Crist

Why I Vote

As noted in Doris Stevens’ book Jailed for Freedom, originally published in 1920, more than 500 American women suffragists were arrested during the movement to win voting rights. Many were arrested but never brought to trial. Others were convicted but had their sentences suspended or appealed. This is the list of women who served jail time:

MINNIE D. ABBOTT•MRS. PAULINE ADAMS•EDITH AINGE•HARRIET U. ANDREWS•MRS. ANNIE ARNEIL•BERTHE ARNOLD•VIRGINIA ARNOLD•MRS. W. D. ASCOUGH•MRS. ARMY SCORR BAKER•MRS. CHARLES W. BARNES•MRS. NAOMI BARRETT•MRS. W. J. BARTLETT•MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT•HILDA BLUMBERG•MRS. KATE BOECKH•MRS. CATHERINE BOYLE•LUCY G. BRANHAM•MRS. LUCY G. BRANHAM•MRS. JOHN WINTERS BRANNAN•JENNIE BRONENBERG•MRS. MARY E. BROWN•LOUISE BRYANT•LUCY BURNS• MRS. HENRY BUTTERWORTH•MRS. LUCILLE A. CALME•ELEANOR CALNAN•MRS. AGNES CHASE•MRS. PALYS L. CHEVRIER•MRS. HELEN CHISASKI•MRS. WILLIAM CHISHOLM•JOSEPHINE COLLINS•MRS. SARAH TARLETON COLVIN•BETTY CONNOLLY•MRS. ALICE M. COSU•CORA CRAWFORD•GERTRUDE CROCKER•RUTH CROCKER•MISS L. J. C. DANIELS DOROTHY DAY•EDNA DIXON•LAVINIA L. DOCK•MRS. MARY CARROLL DOWELL•MARY DUBROW•JULIA EMORY•MRS. EDMUND C. EVANS•LUCY EWING•MRS. ESTELLA EYLWARD•MARY GERTRUDE FENDALL•ELLA FINDEISEN•KATHARINE FISHER•MRS. ROSE GRATZ FISHSTEIN•ROSE FISHSTEIN•CATHERINE M. FLANAGAN•MARTHA FOLEY•MRS. T. W. FORBES•JANET FOTHERINGHAM•MARGARET FOTHERINGHAM•FRANCIS FOWLER•MRS. MATILDA HALL GARDNER•ANNA GINSBERG•REBA GOMROROV•ALICE GRAM•BETTY GRAM•NATALIE GRAT•MRS. FRANCIS GREEN•GLADYS GREINER•MRS. J. IRVING GROSS•ANNA GWINTER•ELIZABETH HAMILTON•ERNESTINE HARA•REBECCA HARRISON•MRS. H. O. HAVEMEYER•KATE HEFFELFINGER•MRS. JESSICA HENDERSON• MINNIE HENNESY•ANNE HERKIMER•ELSIE HILL•MRS. GEORGE HILL•MRS. FLORENCE BAYARD HILLES•MRS. J. A. H. HOPKINS (ALLISON TURNBULL)•MRS. L. H. HORNBBY• ELIZABETH HOFF•EUNICE HUFF•HAZEL HUNSINS•JULIA HURLBUT•MARY INGRAM•MRS. MARK JACKSON•PAULA JAKOBI•MAUD JAMISON•MRS. PEGGY BAIRD JOHNS•WILLIE GRACE JOHNSON•AMY JUENGLING•ELIZABETH GREEN KALB•RHODA KELLOGG•MRS. FREDERICK W. KENDALL•MARIE ERNST KENNEDY•MRS. MARGARET WOOD KESSLER• ALICE KIMBALL•MRS. BEATRICE KINKEAD•MRS. RQBY E. KOENIG•HATTIE KRUGER•DR. ANNA KUHN•MRS. LAWRENCE LEWIS•KATHARINE LINCOLN•DR. SARAH H. LOCKREY• ELIZABETH MCSHANE•MRS. ANNIE J. MAGEE•MRS. EFFIE B. MAIN•MAUD MALONE•ANNE MARTIN•MRS. LOUISE PARKER MAYO•NELL MERCER•VIDA MILHOLLAND•MRS. BERTHA MOLLER•MARTHA W. MOORE•MRS. AGNES H. MOREY•KATHARINE A. MOREY•MILDRED MORRIS•MRS. PHOEBE C. MUNNECKE•GERTRUDE MURPHY•MRS. MARY A. NOLAN•MRS. MARGARET OAKES•ALICE PAUL•BERRY POTTIER•EDNA M. PURTELLE•MRS. R. B. QUAY• MRS. BETSY REYNEAU•MRS. C. T. ROBERTSON•MRS. GEORGE E. ROEWER•MRS. JOHN ROGERS, JR•MARGUERITE ROSSETTE•MRS. ELISE T. RUSSIAN•NINA SAMARODIN•MRS. PHOEBE PERSONS SCOTT•RUTH SCOTT•BELLE SHEINBERG•MRS. LUCILLE SHIELDS• MRS. MARTHA REED SHOEMAKER•MRS. MARY SHORT•MRS. LOIS WARREN SHAW•RUTH SMALL•DR. CAROLINE E. SPENCER•MRS. KATE STAFFORD•DORIS STEVENS•ELIZABETH STUYVESANT•ELSIE UNTERMAN•MABEL VERNON•MRS. ELSIE VERVANE•IRIS CALDERHEAD (WIFE OF JOHN BRISBEN WALKER)•MRS. ROBERT WALKER•BERTHA WALLERSTEIN•MRS. BERTHA WALMSLEY•MRS. WILLIAM UPTON WATSON•MRS. C. WEAVER•EVA WEAVER•MRS. HELENA HILL WEED•CORA A. WEEK•CAMILLA WHITCOMB• SUE WHITE•MARGARET FAY WHITTEMORE•MRS. HARVEY W. WILEY•ROSS WINSLOW• MARY WINSOR•ELLEN WINSOR•MRS. KATE WINSTON•CLARA WOLD•JOY YOUNG• MATILDA YOUNG•

Too Much Chlorine Inhalation?

I LOVE THE OLYMPICS! I just want to be clear about that in case anyone thinks I'm being too critical.

Saturday night during the men's platform diving finals, one of the Chinese divers missed a dive and left a tiny tiny window open for the Australian guy to possibly win a medal. The announcers didn't think it could happen. In fact, one of them thought it was inconceivable. Except he tried to say unconscionable (which is not the right word but it would have been close enough to make the point). Except what he actually said was unconscious. "He would really have to do something unconscious here to have a chance at a medal."

If someone can do a double twisting triple somersalt in the pike position off a 3-story platform while UNCONSCIOUS, they deserve the freakin' gold medal!

Peter seems to be having a location identity crisis.

35th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival

All 205 photos from Telluride are now available for viewing! Be sure to click Options at the bottom of the slideshow page and choose "Always show title and description" so you can see all my comments. Enjoy!!

Kentucky Blue

Two months before Telluride Bluegrass, we saw bluegrass of another kind...the kind that grows in Kentucky. Here are some pictures of our trip to visit with friends Marybeth & John and their furry brood.

Cold as the Rockies

Despite appearances, this is not an ad for Coors Light. Instead, it's a fun Colorado fact that we learned on our trip to Telluride. Every morning, we awoke to a breathtaking view of the Rocky Mountains. Turns out we were looking at Sunshine Peak - the image produced on every Coors Light label!

Actual Colorado pictures (not just beer labels) coming soon.

Help Starts Here

Thought I would give a little shout out to all my fellow social workers. Keep fighting the good fight.

"Nice chandeliers...those new?"

Once in a blue moon, I treat myself to a little mani/pedi at a local nail salon. It's not a super deluxe place, but it's decent enough that I think my chances of getting a staph infection are fairly low.

So I walked in to the place today and was immediately struck by the brilliant light of three chandeliers (yes, three) hanging from the ceiling. Keep in mind that the entire establishment could fit into a one-car garage. It was something to behold. And did I mention that they were hideous? Obviously a top seller at the Ugliest Chandeliers Ever Made Showroom.

If the price of the mani/pedi had increased to cover the light bill, I would have thrown a serious tantrum and probably ruined my polish. Fortunately it didn't come to that.