Eclectic

Another day and it’s beginning quite nicely. Coffee in hand and the fans running well, bringing in the cool morning air (58°). Of course it isn’t a perfect morning…I did have to reboot the computer as I had a message warning of ‘low virtual memory’ and that took a few minutes; minutes I used to wander around the back yard and enjoy the night sky.

And I’m thinking that I need to find a decent little boom box for use in the garage or wherever I’m working. I’ve been enjoying the tunes I hear on KPIG, though I have to work hard to ignore the commercials. Yesterday I heard a song by David Allan Coe, someone I hadn’t heard in years. The PIG is all about eclectic music, so you are never sure of what you’re going to hear.

These quotes might be called eclectic as well…

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. - Kurt Vonnegut

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. - Herb Caen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. - Woody Allen

On a different note… The swimming lessons are going as well as can be expected. What’s needed is a brain swap. Or mind meld. Abby won’t put her head under water and Steven delights in doing that. Steven won’t stand on the bottom; even though his head would be above the surface, and Abby loves to do that! The lessons are only for 30 minutes and that’s about as much the two of them can take of being hassled by the very patient instructors. The twins are almost always willing to try various other exercises, but once you mention ‘head under water’, Abby’s eyes glaze over and she simply refuses. Talk about floating and Steven looks around to see who you are talking to. It wouldn’t be him! But we try again in the afternoon (in our pool - privately) and we make a little progress each day

My own swimming skills consist of that which I was taught in Navy ‘boot camp’ a long time ago, survival swimming! Not pretty! And the reason for my lack of water skills can be traced back to a traumatic time in a swimming class at Alondra Park, where some unknown kid dunked me without warning. That’s a reminder that we have to be slow and patient…