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May 18, 2007

I'm beat, people

I am very very tired. It has little to do with all the laundry I did this evening. Very little to do with being swamped at work this week. Just a bit to do with getting a call from work this morning at 6:30 to fix something. Less to do with a similar call yesterday (that was supposed to have been left as a message but I'd forwarded my work phone to my cell, stupidly, so it rang at home, in bed). More to do with being unable, generally, to sleep well this week (and that is a true rarity).

It has a lot to do with my smoke alarm having gone off around 2 a.m.. The one outside the upstairs bedroom talks when it goes off — it says fire or carbon monoxide in that voice that the computer on the Enterprise used to use when the self-destruct was counting down. And when it goes off it has an odd effect on a person. You go from What the hell is that to I know there's not a fire to Dammit, I forgot to replace that batteries when the time changed in fairly short order.

Still, you have to check the house and, in my case, the cellar. And I mean cellar like in the Wizard of Oz. I had to go outside (in a light rain), yank up the door, trudge down the stairs, and take a look in the cellar to make sure the furnace hadn't burst into flames. If you are wondering, I only stepped through one spider web.

When I got back to bed I had trouble falling to sleep. And then, of course, I got an early call.

I just noticed that WADLL is down. I won't go into all the details but this means it has been down most of the day but only to the outside world. I was able to get to it today when I was running tests for something work-related, but the fact it wasn't working fully sort of screws my test results.

Anyway, today we'll share some photos. Some you've seen before, some are new.

Jack at baseball practice. He's practically a blur.
This is the group of pictures I put together before finding that My Heritage would make an auto-collage.
A full-size shot of TDHG and Me. I look a little bit like I'm afraid she may bite. (That's not a bad rule to live by whenever you are around a woman. And, of course, biting is not always bad.)
There's a lot of this in Ohio.
Big Fat Delmer
Me, very young and very thin.
More of Jack at Baseball
The Yard Club in Hilliard. A lot of people say it looks like The Ringlestone Pub in England.
Mel's Diner in Hilliard.
Me.

Sammo's Birthday Cake.
Nick Nolte's Mug Shot

Of course, that is the Ringlestone Pub. I think it's pretty close to the Henge I'm in line to inherit in England.

Oh, and I replaced the batteries in the smoke alarm today (For those concerned the alarms are connected and wired to house current. The batteries are for backup.) I also got some extra house keys; I managed to lock myself out of the house twice last week.

Posted by delmer at May 18, 2007 12:30 AM

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Cool pics :)
The "there's a lot of this in ohio" reminded me of Wall Drug - http://conspiracy.cia.com.au/Holidays/2004_USA/html/day12.html
Like the "before and after" photos too :)

Posted by: Kazza the Blank One at May 18, 2007 4:05 AM

Great pics Delmer! I almost lost (yet another) keyboard when I saw that Pub picture - I thought it looked familiar...it's about 3 hours drive from The Henge so practically next door in US terms.
How is it that Gorgeous George doesn't feature on those "My Heritage" shots? You made the earlier ones up didn't you?!

Posted by: Pen at May 18, 2007 10:46 AM

Pen didn't mention the picture of TDHG. My green-eyed monster detector is going off! Nice going Delmer, the bigger picture of TDHG caused me to make that tongue-trilling sound that Roy Orbison does in the song Pretty Woman (vicariously for you, of course). You know, the same one I make whenever someone mentions Lindsay Lohan (the post-Herbie Fully Loaded version, not the Parent Trap version, that would be sick).

Posted by: Icy Mt. at May 18, 2007 11:37 AM

I had buried that image of you in that running outfit from your younger days. I had completely forgotten about it.

Thanks so much for returning it to my memory banks.

Thanks a lot.

Posted by: The Phoenix at May 18, 2007 11:41 AM

Kazaa: I followed the link you have -- those are some pretty nice pictures of the South Dakota and The Badlands. So many miles away ... and yet, so much like home.

Pen: I could have put up current me and George, but I really wanted to give Danny Kaye some face time. If you'd ever get the chance to see a movie, and you are dying to see Danny Kaye, I recommend The Court Jester. (See Dressed to Kill with E. Izzard first, of course.)

Icy: Well, I've passed you in the hall already, so anything I put here would be superfluous.

Phoenix: If that singlet were off me and if I were in some 80's era red short shorts I'd be the image of the guy they arrested in Sedalia; as you can see, I was quite the threat.

Posted by: delmer at May 18, 2007 12:12 PM