If you have ever wondered what that guy who pretends to be a statue does when it’s raining… the answer is, he hangs out under an awning and plays words with friends.  Tag name: creepy_statue1982

Funniest email I’ve received all day, from Netflix.   Yes, Netflix, Lassie arrived safe and sound.  A day later than I was expecting, but thanks for checking.

The librarians at the branch library near our house keep renewing the Darth Vader chapter book that Jack picked out one day.   At night when I was reading to him, he would get bored after about half a page, but for some unknown reason, I would secretly consider reading the rest of the book on my own time.  But I didn’t, and when it was time to return the library books, I gathered it up along with everything else.  So I was surprised to see it in the basement 5 minutes later, in Jack’s secret hideout.  I thought to myself, I need to do something with that book right this instant or it will end up getting lost.   Long story short, I keep trying to just pay the library for the damn thing and they keep renewing it and telling me to keep looking.  I have looked everywhere.

While this has been going on, I have been reading a book about Mary Magdalene.  It isn’t really my style, it reads more like a lecture, with a lot of the authors voice piping in with “I’ll address that in the next chapter” type of comments.  And I don’t read a lot of scholarly biblical studies (or any) so there were a lot of concepts that I really sort of glossed over.  But the premise of the book was really fascinating, and it presented another way of looking at a lot of Jesus’ teachings that made a lot more sense to me then the way they seem to be presented by mainstream Christianity.  It really made sense, except for all the parts that didn’t make any sense at all.   When I wasn’t reading it, I would think I should just return it and read something easier, and more my style.  But when I was reading it, I couldn’t stop.  Soon I was close to the end, and I decided to finish it.  Sadly, at some point in time over our trip to Breckenridge, Dave’s* coffee was spilled all over it.  I took it into the library to see what to do about it, since the coffee is just sort of on the edge of the pages, and I knew there were a ton of people on the wait list to read this after me.  Long story short, I now own it.  And I still have yet to settle the score on the Darth Vader book!

I was going to offer it up as the prize for the comment contest, but then I realized I am trying to encourage, rather than discourage comments.  Maybe it will be a consolation prize.  Who knows!

Have you ever had to buy a library book?

* I don’t blame Dave for the spilled coffee, I just had to mention that it was his coffee because I never put down my coffee until the mug is empty.  Camping and library books do not mix, and I told the librarian that for my next vacation I was going to Amazon.  She looked impressed until I added the “dot com.  I’ll go to amazon.com and buy a book first so I don’t ruin another library book.”)

It has to be really really hot for me to swim, and as you might be able to tell from Luke’s picture here, it was only 85.  I need about 110 to get in the Eldorado Springs Pool, because the water isn’t very warm, and you freeze when you get out into the dry air.  But I took some cool pictures from my spot on the side.

Did I get that awful song in your head?  Sorry.  It just came to me when I started thinking about how the boys are back in town.  (Towwo-ahoawn.)  And now I am going to use it as an excuse not to write anything else because I can’t get that song out of my head.

Lest you think my beach pictures paint a less than rosy picture  due to my hipstamatic filter (Laura), I give you the above, undoctored photo.  The sea was angry that day, my friends, etc.

But here is some exciting news!  I was planning to get back into blogging this month in honor of the Fourth Annual July Commenting month.  And what better way to generate comments, than to post everyday?  And the NaBloPoMo theme for July is “swim”.  Day 1, done.  And the prize for the best title to yesterday’s picture is that I will work the winner into a short story that I post one day this month.  Then I will submit that post to Blogher and possibly get featured there, and paid $50, and become famous.

Perfect storm people, perfect storm.

Details:

Comment on yesterday’s post with a title for the picture.   If you win, I’ll dedicate my horror movie style short story/post to you.  (Winner chosen not at all randomly by me.)

July Commenting Month:  For every comment during the month of July, you get one entry in the comment contest.  The name is drawn out of a hat, by Luke.  Past winners have won a book store gift certificate, a coffee mug, and chocolate.  I usually buy the prize on my vacation, so it is still TBD.

Welcome to July!