Braaaiiinss!

Roger was playing with a plastic pirate hook for his Halloween costume and Bob said, "Don't pick your nose with that thing, you might get some brains!" Then Pauly said, "But he already has a brain!!"

Moonwalking Bird

I thought this was hilarious.

Killed by Communion

This afternoon Roger was trying to put a quarter in Rosemarie's mouth while saying, repeatedly, "Body of Christ." Luckily, she didn't open her mouth. Can we say "choking hazard"?

I cannot believe this

I just finished reading a book by Alison Weir called The Princes in the Tower which is about Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, and their murder, likely at the hands of their uncle Richard III. The whole point of the book is really that there isn't, or at least shouldn't be, any doubt that the murder was committed at the order of Richard III. I think the overall thesis is pretty solid, but the author was trying to pile up evidence upon evidence, and she took a serious mis-step at least once.

She quoted some fragments of a prayer handwritten in Richard III's Book of Hours

You have made me fron nothing, and have redeemed me by Thy most wonderful love and mercy from eternal dmanation to everlasting life. Because of this I ask You, O most gentle Jesus, to save me from all perils of body and soul and, after the course of this life, deign to bring me to You, the living and true God.

She then comments on this passage, "Richard praises Christ with heartfelt gratitude for having redeemed him from eternal damnation: what, one is tempted to wonder, had he done to merit such damnation?" One wouldn't be likely to wonder if one understoods the most basic elements of traditional Christianity. The passages she quotes from this prayer are not at all unusual in Christian prayer, especially for the time period. And yet she declares it to be "especially significant" and tries to use it to insinuate that Richard III must be guilty of something especially heinous.

Pauly the Corrector

Pauly was correcting Roger's pronunciation this afternoon at dinner:

R: Can I have some more, peese?
P: Say puh-weese, not peese.
R: Peese.
P: No, not peese, puh-weese.
R: Peese.
P: No. Puh-weese.
R. Peese.
P: Well, puh-weese is "peese" in 'Panish.

Never Mind!

You can ignore the last post. Bob is going to stay on working at Sara's through November. This will actually be better for us, as if he doesn't qualify for the grant money, we'll have time to find a way to beg/borrow/steal the money to pay for the training. Phew!

I was afraid this would happen

but Bob wasn't. Maybe I should have been more forceful in my reservations.

Anyway, we had decided that we would go ahead with this sheet metal training thing. I found out earlier this week that Bob had already given his notice at work, which made me very uncomfortable as we still hadn't officially enrolled him in the classes, etc. What if it didn't work out?

Well, yesterday Sara's hired a new employee, and Bob came home to a phonecall wanting information to enroll him for the first set of classes (through Hutchinson community college), which the lady says start Dec. 4. Ouch. He asked, "Everyone had said the orientation and tests were for the Nov. clases." Lady, "but those are already full!"

I guess this is what happens when several organizations (Hutch CC, WATC, Wichita Workforce) try to coordinate things.

So Bob might have to work somewhere else for a month, if he can't stay on at Sara's and he can't finagle his way into the Nov. classes anyway.