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Yesterday I mentioned that the pussy-willow-tree I received for a housewarming present has many leaves now, though some of the catkins are falling off. I also promised a picture, so here it is. Not one of the better pictures I’ve taken, I think, but it’ll probably make the giver happy to know that I haven’t managed to kill the plant yet. The hop plant I received at the same time may not be so lucky. I stuck it in the room under the front stairs down in my basement, thinking it would stay dormant down there, but apparently the warm weather has been warm enough to wake it up, so it grew some sprouts. Oh well, I watered it, and put it back into the dark. I figure one more cold snap to get through, and then I can set it in the garage until the ground thaws enough for me to plant it. I’d put it in the garage now, but that would virtually guarantee some really cold weather to kill the plant and make Steph unhappy, and we can’t have that, now can we?
- Hey, tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. Guess I’m missing Mardi Gras in New Orleans again, and only 40 more days until Jebus rolls back the stone. If he sees the Easter Bunny’s shadow, we’ll have 40 more days of lent, right? I guess it doesn’t really matter that much to me, since I gave up Catholicism for Lent a number of years back.
- On a somewhat related note, Nader Emerges, Sees Shadow, Portends Four Years Of Bush. Then again, in How’s He Doing? it would appear that perhaps the Nader campaign doesn’t have an awful lot of momentum. [101-280]
- Says here Molly Quinn’s will be reopening a week from Friday. That’s a good thing. I don’t get down there real often, but I still like the place.
- Yesterday I linked to an article regarding the proposed “Homeland Security” bill in Rhode Island. Jim thinks it’s a good article, but misses the point. The bill in question amends the existing statute that makes advocating anarchy a crime in Rhode Island. It simply adds “terrorist acts” to that statute. See all the criminals at Rhode Island Anarchists and more of Jim’s commentary here.
- Finally, the start of Lent (and the fact that pitchers and catchers reported last Sunday) got me thinking about spring and baseball. So here are the St. Paul Saints home, and road schedules. If you’re using Mac OS X, you can subscribe to them both in iCal, too (home, road). It’s kinda spooky having much of my summer already planned, but what’s a guy to do?
- The Saints are also holding PA Announcer Auditions with Acme Comedy Club. You need to get your tape in by this Friday (Feb 27th) if you want to audition. I think Tim would make a fine PA guy.