Wandering through E-Space

D.W.Q.M.: the Second Doctor: "If only I could find my recorder, I could play you a little something to pass the time." the Brigadier: "We should be thankful for small mercies." Ahh, here we are, half way through the Feast of the Assumption. Two days behind us, two days ahead. It's been a rough week-(not even Feast related). But hopefully things will start to calm down soon. The Feast has been fun, though-the weather has been great-not too warm in the evenings. Tonight there is a 50 percent chance that we may be rained out, so we'll see. Hopefully the weather will be nice when we do the procession tomorrow morning. The first night we were at the home of one of the shut-ins, playing some music for her, when, right in the middle of Tik Tok Polka a lady in the house next door slammed her window shut. Half the band nearly lost it while playing. LOL. Oh, well-at least the woman who we were playing for enjoyed the music. ;) Suprisingly, after two nights of the Fe

D.W.Q.M.: Duke Juliano: "There's this man in Florence claims that by arranging ground glasses in a certain order, it's possible to see the moon and stars as large as your hand." Marco: "Is that a good thing?" (from the Fourth Doctor story, the Masque of Madragora ) I've decided that if I don't get to the night sky posts until the middle of the month, I'll still write about events that happened in the past. Today's astronomy post is brought to you by Sky and Telescope. Sky Events August 2nd: Jupiter reaches quadrature (90 degrees east of the Sun) August 7th-10th: Mercury is 2 degrees below Venus near the eastern horizon at the first hint of dawn twilight. August 9th: Full Moon August 10th: Neptune in opposition. August 11th-12th: This morning and tomorrow, Venus forms a nearly straight line with Castor and Pollux. August 12th: Perseids peak, but the moon interferes (see below). August 16th: From now until the end of the month-10:30pm-1

D.W.Q.M.: "Eureka!" -the Third Doctor Apparently, the same thing made me and Michael happy today. It's finally official!!! Both the BBC and the SciFi Channel have confirmed that series 2 of Doctor Who will air on the SciFi Channel starting at the end of September! YAY! New Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica on the same night?! I'm in scifi heaven. Perseph and Foofy-better make room on the couch! I'm comin' over!!!! (oh, and the Twins won again last night! They won the series against the Tigers! Woo-Hoo!) *Romana does the happy dance all the way home.*

D.W.Q.M.: "You know, I am so constantly outwitting the opposition, I tend to forget the delight and satisfaction of the arts... the gentle art of fisticuffs." -the First Doctor Things that make me happy: Good sports days- Twins: 4 Tigers: 2 Yeah, baby!! The Twins are currently in Detroit-playing the best team in the league. I have to admit-the Tigers are kicking some major butt this year. So at the start of this series, all I asked was that the Twins don't get swept-let them win just one game and I'll be happy. Last night I got my wish! It's so hard being a Twins fan here in Cleveland-the only time I get to see them play is if they are playing the Indians or the White Sox (thanks to WGN.) So last night I spent the evening surfing through all the channels that show scores-and when I saw the Twins score, I couldn't help it, I shouted "YEAH!" and jumped off the couch. ;) So I got my wish, and I'm quite happy. Of course, if they win again tonight-

D.W.Q.M.: "There's no point in being grownup if you can't be childish, sometimes." -the Fourth Doctor Oooh! Two days in a row! No matter how hard I try to change (well, I don't really try that hard)-I will ALWAYS be a kid at heart. ;) Today Sharon and I were reminscing about Sesame Street, and I found this-my favorite Sesame Street sketch/song EVER! "MUSIC!" Ahh, that never grows old! I still get a silly grin after watching it. ;) I had a vinyl LP of Sesame Street with this song on it-it was my first record-and I just love this song! Of course, on the record, it ends with Harry telling Cookie that he does know about up and down. And Cookie replies, "Well, of course I do!" So Harry asked why he was looking up in the sky for his cookie, and Cookie says, "Because I dropped it and then a birdie came and grabbed it!" (or something along those lines.) I remember seeing it on tv while I was in college-I was flipping through the channels,

D.W.Q.M.: "How about a trip in the TARDIS? I'm just off." -the Fourth Doctor Hmm...well, it looks like this is going to be a weekly entry, rather than a daily-or maybe every other day... :) Happiness is... Road trips! Friday Perseph , Jerm and I went to Orville to visit Smuckers, and explore the area. Smuckers was fun-I love the big Doughboy they have in the middle of the store. Krismutt came too-and I hope I have time to update his page soon(I haven't updated it in ages!). The ladies and Smuckers loved him-I was taking a picture of him writing on a chalkboard table, when they came up and said, 'Oh, how cute! I wish my dog behaved that well.' LOL. We also got some cute shots of him hanging around town. :) Of course, when you're in Amish country, you have to stop for some cheese-I bought some yummy smoked Gouda, and some Norwegian Jalsberg-YUM! :-D We also stopped in a store called World Crafts-they had some really cool stuff. All of the items in the sto

D.W.Q.M.: "It takes all sorts to make the galaxy." -the Fourth Doctor Last year, I participated in the August Blog challenge-where everyday (or most days) I'd write about something that makes me happy. Michael has challenged us to do it again this year, so I'm certainly going to try. (btw, this is Michael's 3rd year for the challenge) What made me happy today? Unexpected kindness from a cashier. Sometimes there are just days when you get the cashier who is tired, grumpy, and had a bad day. They toss your stuff around like they don't care, and have a serious attitude problem. I always try to be nice to the cashiers, but if you're rude to me and I didn't do anything to deserve it, well then... So, anyway- Perseph and I had to run to "the evil" Walmart today, and we both managed to forget a bag at the counter. We discovered our error several feet from the door-I turned around to go back from them, and there was our cashier, running after us s