The Daily News

1  We are at Tuesday. Garbage Day.

2  Always romantic. Thank you, Mr. R. for taking my garbage out in this weird meme. I'm too busy to hunt down another, but thanks for making it yet another beautiful day. You and Bono. I just heard a bird chirp. Just now. Just lovely. 

Maren and Isla: "You've been all over, and it's been

all over you!" --Bono

3  I got to see the babies yesterday. All day. I loved every minute of it.

4  They were a little off from traveling and visiting, but still, the smiles and giggles destroyed me all day long. They had me laughing, even though I was also tired, exhausted in fact.

5  I got up early and walked a few miles, just to get myself going. 

6  I really was going to visit for a bit, go home, get a bunch of chores done, and return in the afternoon. THAT was the plan.

7  Then I saw this:

Maren and Isla on Monday.

8  A work of art.

9  I wunt goin' anywhere.

10  They were a bit out of sorts. I was a LOT out of sorts. 

11  Lonnnnng weekend.

12  I loves me thems babies!

13  Moving On, Part One: The world moves faster than I can ever hope, so I'm pretty glad this will all be over on May 27. 

14  I'll tellya one thing: I have new appreciation for news reporters who put themselves out there every day.

15  I do have a question for any of you who work with the craft: is it akin to sneezing in a blizzard of soapflakes?

16  Somewhere I could prove to you that sneezing in a blizzard of soapflakes is what Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. feels the word schizophrenia sounds like. 

17  "Nay, I do bear a brain..."

                                 ---Nurse, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Sc. 3

18  I'm not quite sure if today is Teacher's Day or not. Google seems to think it is, so if Google thinks it, it must be so.

19  So Happy Teacher's Day to that one teacher. 

20  Ah, the importance of apostrophes...

21  Once again I find myself lifted high in the air by a huge ocean wave, and dropped in the middle of nowhere.

22  It's again late last night as I hurry my deadline along. 

23  Thank goodness this will all end soon.

24  Trying to get exercise AND know what is going on in the world are opposites that repel. 

25  Further, when I fly at this speed, I naturally misspell more words. The word "opposites" in item 24, for example, I spelled "opposities", like it's a great place to look for a job. 

26  Blogger, or whoever, caught it, but refused to correct it. It pointed out with a red line that a misspelling had occurred, but it didn't give me the correct spelling so I could simply copy/paste. It directed me to "look it up."

27  Is it just me?

28  It is 12:50 last night as I put this middle section of the DN together. 

29  I had a pretty heroic thing going, when suddenly I found myself sneezing in a blizzard of soapflakes. 

30  The online copy/paste for that soapflake image, btw, refused to allow me simply to copy/paste. It had what looked like Mickey Mouse's hand suddenly appearing and replacing the cursor. Huh? It's a pretty famous quote. Bleh. I was travelin' fast last night and that one put it all to a halt. 

31  SOMEWHERE in the guest room lies a copy of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. It is dog-eared, and an orignal paperback.

32  I KNOW, I KNOW. 

33  I wrote "orignal" instead of "original." It popped up and said, "Look up orignal."

34  Man v. Machine. Dude. It's a stupid BLOG for gawdsakes. No one cares. Twelve people might read it on a given day. It's a lark. Oh, sometimes I think I must go mad. 

35  From Horsefeathers:

Professor Wagstaff: Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.

Professor in Wagstaff's Study: But Professor, where will the students sleep?

Professor Wagstaff: Where they always sleep: in the classroom.

36  Moving On, Part Two: I have a bazillion things that climbed all over me last night late, but I'm afraid I've run out of time here.

37  Too bad, but what can I tell you?

38  So I'm again cutting this DN short, for no other reason than I don't wish to be exhausted when taking care of babies today. 

39  So I don't have the leisure any longer of looking up which day is Teacher's Day, for that one teacher.

40  Every day is Something-or-other Day anyway.

41  And as much as I love teachers and all they do, I also love all educational staff members. I've seen the work some of these folks do and it astonishes me. 

42  So I'd like to throw huge props to everybody working in education today, and in particular all support staff. The teachers know what they do, and I know what they do. That is a given. 

43  But all the office people, custodians, tech people, food people, and I could go on and on, but EVERYONE who works to support schools is my hero. 

44  Thank you for all that help, now, and over the years. 

45  Okay.

46  I'm under the gun here. 

47  More to come.

48  I gottago.

49  See you again.

50  Have a GREAT Garbage Day. Hope this was fun. Gottago. 

51  Peace.

~H~

fin.

DISCLAIMER

from the

New Oxford American Dictionary

disclaimer |disˈklāmər|

noun

a statement that denies something, especially responsibility: the novel carries the usual disclaimer about the characters bearing no relation to living persons.

"Huh?"

---Every freshman boy who ever lived.