April 22, 2010. Thursday.
Situation: Work tonight, and I take Mway out about 2 pm. I bring along the old “pro-quality” fetch stick, mainly to test my theory that it’s a little heavy for Mway and to see if she only fetches it a few times.
State of the Path: There are more dandelions in the yard, and the lawn looks pretty with the dandelions, the violets, and the gill-of-the-ground growing amidst the grass. We haven’t yet had any dandelion blossoms to eat, and I wish Moi, on the two nights that she cooks, would treat us to some. The path right now is very easy walking, and the only plants that crowd the path are the honeysuckle and Russian olive shrubs and the multiflora bushes, particularly on the side path near the boxelder tree and along the creek, just down from the deer stand and in the middle near the oaks. But all along the path, I see shoots of goldenrod and other weeds that I know will eventually crowd the path as the season goes on. Among the pin oaks before the creek, I see a tree with peculiar blossoms – the blossoms looks like candlesticks attached to the branches, so the tree looks like a candelabra – I’ll have to keep a watch on this tree to see if I can eventually identify it. I walk most of the path, seeing the violets, the gill-of-the-ground, the wild mustard, the dandelions, the jack-in-the-pulpits, the may apples, the cheeses, the few remaining trout lilies, the point blue eye grass, and the yellow star-like flowers which I still haven’t identified, thinking that I have seen no new wildflowers, when coming up along the strawberry field, I look down and lo and behold – there are some blossoms on the strawberries.
State of the Creek: It rained a little last night, and there’s a little more water trickling in at the swale from bug land, but the water in the creek is not any higher than it has been. With the grass now growing in bug land, the puddles in it now make bug land look like a marsh.
The Fetch: Two fetches -- supporting my theory that the “pro-quality” stick is a little heavy for Mway’s liking. Yet she fetches the stick without complaint – only giving me that eye when she runs past me, which seems to say, yes, I love fetching this stick for you but give me a break on this one because the stick’s kind of big and heavy don’t you know.
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When would you want to start doing this?
Tomorrow I’ll post the title page for Part ? The next day you follow with your first question. One question per day till we cover the material. You don’t need to follow the standard format for interviews, stating your name followed by a colon. The Blogger comment boxes will suffice to introduce interviewer and interviewee (although it’d be nice if we could tweak them to say “Sisyphus Gregor asks” and “Anonymous replies” – you don’t know anyway of doing that, do you?) M.
No, I don’t know how to do that. By the way, the first sentence of your last comment should end, I believe, with a period: Tomorrow I’ll post the title page for Part ?.
By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent – 1 hr 9 mins ago
NEW YORK – Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq.
Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil servant, the Nobel-winning Egyptian accuses U.S. leaders of "grotesque distortion" in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, when then-President George W. Bush and his lieutenants claimed Iraq possessed doomsday weapons despite contrary evidence collected by ElBaradei's and other arms inspectors inside the country.
The Iraq war taught him that "deliberate deception was not limited to small countries ruled by ruthless dictators," ElBaradei writes in "The Age of Deception," being published Tuesday by Henry Holt and Company.
Following is an abstract of a recurring event of most of 2010, which I refer to on January 22 but did not have or take the time to mention much in my journal. I include the abstract here, as a framing device, because the event has some sort of relation to the journal’s central action.
Court of Common Pleas
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Sisyphus A. Gregor
Conditions of Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program
Condition #8 “The defendant will report regularly to his Probation Officer, as directed. Your reporting date is the [22nd of the month].
Each month you will phone the CALL-TRACK number. When you call the automated system, you will be asked to enter your social security number, then state your name. The questions are answered by pressing the appropriate key to respond “yes” or “no.” If your answer requires clarification, you will be prompted to respond.
1. “Has your home address changed in the last 30 days? If your answer to this question is “no,” press 1! If your answer to this question is “yes,” press 2!” [Defendant presses 1.]
2. “Has your phone number changed in the last 30 days? If your answer to this question is “no,” press 1! If your answer to this question is “yes,” press 2!” [Defendant presses 1.]
3. “Has your employment status changed in the last 30 days? If your answer to this question is “no,” press 1! If your answer to this question is “yes,” press 2!” [Defendant presses 1.]
4. “Have you had any contact or been arrested by any law enforcement agency since your last call? If your answer to this question is “no,” press 1! If your answer to this question is “yes,” press 2!” [Defendant presses 1.]
5. “Have you made your required payment toward fines, costs of restitution since your last call? If your answer to this question is “yes,” press 1! If your answer to this question is “no,” press 2!” [Defendant presses 1.]
6. “Are you in compliance with your recommended counseling? If your answer to this question is “yes,” press 1! If your answer to this question is “no,” press 2!” [Defendant presses 2.]
“You have answered “no” to this question. At the tone, please state your current status within the program.” [“I have not yet been able to schedule the DUI – the DUI driving class, with Jolene – the person, the scheduling officer – Jolene Bowersox, but I hope to soon and am in the process of keeping in touch with her to schedule this class in the future.”]
7. “Please be advised that any information provided by you which is found to be false will be considered a violation of your Conditions of Supervision and may result in your return to this Court for this violation. Do you understand this requirement? If your answer to this question is “yes,” press 1! If your answer to this question is “no,” press 2!” [Defendant presses 1.]
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