It Finally Happened!

Our house in Danbury, CT is sold! We are now back down to a single home, which has wheels and an engine. We are now, officially, full-time RVers. Unreal. It only took about 15 months to bring it to fruition after its inception in January 2008, when Ellyn came home and said she could not take any more of here current work environment and that we should sell our house, buy and RV, and travel for a year. Well, that year, which now looks like it could be as long as 2 years, begins today, 4/17/2009.

Right now we are camping near Asheville, NC, on a beautiful hilltop. The sun just went down over the Blue Ridge Mountains and I am sitting at our picnic table. Just an hour ago we were enjoying a great meal of sausages from the grill and couscous from the microwave. Now a breeze is kicking up a bit, to switch the aerodynamic vents on the RV, as the air cools down from the wonderful 70+ degree day we had. Tomorrow we plan to do a little kayaking on the French Broad River.

Song Parody

I started having the Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There" running through my head the other day and a few alternate lyrics started showing up. Soon I had nearly an entire parody mapped out so I wrote it down. Here it is. Enjoy.

 

I Saw That Sandwich There (to the tune of "I Saw Her Standing There" by the Beatles)

Well it was twelve seventeen

If you know what I mean

And my hunger pains

were way beyond compare

So how could I dine on another,

Oh, when I saw that sandwich there

Well I ordered up some fries

and a Diet Coke besides

And before too long

My meal would be prepared

I couldn't dine on another

Oh, when I saw that sandwich there

Well my stomach crooned

When I crossed that room

And I held its hard roll so fine

Oh it was seasoned oh so right

And I savored every bite

And before too long

My hunger was more spare

Now I'll never dine on another

Oh, while they have that sandwich there

(Instrumental bridge)

Well my stomach crooned

When I crossed that room

And I held its hard roll so fine

Oh it was seasoned oh so right

And I savored every bite

And before too long

My hunger was more spare

Now I'll never dine on another

Oh, while they have that sandwich there

Yes, while they have that sandwich there

Oh, yes I love that sandwich there

Funniest "Tom the Dancing Bug yet"

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Spot The Frog

Sadly, one of my favorite cartoons (that I read online using the Comic Reader by Evan Reynolds) ended a 4 year run in September of last year. I was a bit slow on the uptake and did not check up on why they were running reruns of old ones until recently. That was the bad news, although I am still reading it because I missed most of the first two years of these cartoons.

However, I also discovered that the creator of "Spot", Mark Heath, has his own website, Nobrow Cartoons, which has a very large number of non-Spot comics he has done over many years. These are all single panel cartoons which are usually puns (like the one with a hippopotamus sitting on a guy who is thinking he is cold, numb, and irritated, and the caption says "hippothermia") and are very funny, and some may not be appropriate for all ages. I have not found one yet which is not at least chuckle-worthy.

The site will bring up a new cartooon at random each time you access it, or you can use "Dr. Mueller's Panoptical Cartoon Engine" to dial in a set of three criteria and generate a new cartoon which meets this set. Very ingenious.