Odds and ends, 5/18/09

Got my first sunburn of the year yesterday, and I got it the same way I have the past two, three or four years. I've lost count. I gave my mother-in-law's yard its first good mowing of spring. In some places, I had to cut the high grass with a string trimmer before I attacked it with a push mower. So now my neck and my nose are a bit too red. C'est la vie.

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I see the mayor plans to resume paving soon. Doesn't he know this isn't an election year?

6th Avenue needs some street lines. The old ones have faded so much they're almost invisible.

Some folks want the asphalt taken up and Huntington returned to a city with all brick streets. They probably haven't seen some brick streets that have gotten too much traffic and too little maintenance.

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My daughter attended her first prom over the weekend. All that work and expense, and she and her friends got caught in a thunderstorm walking from the car to the front door. Next year maybe they'll get there early enough to find a parking spot closer in.

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My older son loves Chuck Norris jokes. This weekend I came across this one:

Chuck Norris was bitten by a cobra. After five hours of excruciating pain, the cobra died.

My son didn't like it when I told him I had done something I had never heard of Chuck Norris doing. A month or so ago in a cooking mishap, I managed to stain stainless steel.

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After watching a few minutes of a CNN news show this morning around 5:30 a.m., I'm still glad I'm not Nancy Pelosi. I'm also glad I'm not a member of the Republican leadership. If politics were baseball, those guys would play catcher and they would lead the league in passed balls.