|
Friday, June 24, 2005
What Is This?
Just before I ran the last Where's Dave contest, I threw out this challenge to a friend of mine. He had pushed me for
something harder after the first photo of the London Eye. So I said, fine, what's this?
Well, he finally passed the challenge on to a rather interesting network of my friends with this setup...
The hints are that it is near the Thames, and it's made out of trash.....now is
it in London, or is it ANOTHER Thames, perhaps a bit closer to home? We don't know the answer to that. But it's probably the
British, not the US Thames. Only HA really knows.
HA
here stands for me, AKA, 'heir apparent.' It's a long story. Let's not go there now, OK?
So I'll pass this challenge on now to the wider audience as
well. In the process, I'm showing a different picture to give the original participants another clue. I have told some people
in both the UK and US offices that I work in about this little ruse, so there are going to be some people who know. I wonder
who they are?
Send your answers to...
Thursday, June 23, 2005
When It Rains, It Pours...
Tuesday turned into Wednesday, and Katherine got conjunctivitis. So she's now on eye cream and cough medicine.
Alex is still on anti-biotics. Kara is feeling quite ill, with a terrible sore throat this evening. Advil and Tylenol
(not at the same time, obviously). So I just spent a half hour medicating the entire household including myself (Prilosec).
Yikes. It's like a hospital ward around here. It's a miracle I haven't caught anything yet. I will tell you one thing, though.
I am bringing meds to London this week, just in case. Lemsip and Lucozade are one thing, Night Nurse is a pretty much
Nyquil, but Paracetamol is some nasty stuff, let me tell you. I'm not taking that again.
Monday, June 20, 2005
It's Not The Diapers
...in the trash that attracted the racoon. It was an old veggie. At least, that's what I found on the stairway a few
hours later. I tried repeatedly to drive it off, but it wouldn't give up. When I saw this guy poking around the trash cans
behind my house I grabbed the camera and ran out the front. I switched the autofocus to full auto and checked exposure as
I walked up the driveway. When I got around back, both trash cans looked fine. I walked around for a moment, confused, and
then began to suspect that not all was as it seemed. A few moments later, the bandit is revealed.
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Finally Settling In...
Whew. I think we finally got a handle on Katherine, but it was dicey there for awhile. We had to pull out the prednazone.
That stuff is bad news, man. The last time we gave it to her, she was up all night. This time, we got it right, and she was
really exhausted, so she slept last night. She woke up once tonight coughing and I had to go in and give her cough medicine.
Oh yeah, and I slept on the trundle bed last night.
Tonight, though, Alex is better. Katherine should be out, and I'm about to join them. Since I finally feel back in town
from the last trip, I'll share an interesting photo. When I looked more closely at this photo, I realized that the perspective
is really interesting - the result of being just a few stories up above ground.
This is, in fact, Boston Harbor, by the way. The only problem here is that the ship is clearly not under any kind of
sail, but yet is puttering across the harbor. Hmm. It's definately had a little work done.
|
