It’s a little silly how we concentrate, today, on the things that we have in abundance. We should do it every day, all year. And maybe you do, and this is just me. But I could do it more.
We went for a morning run, the now traditional turkey trot.
It was, of course, a neighborhood run, an unofficial trot, if you will. It was still good to get outside to do it, and I only survived by thinking of the food I’d get to enjoy this evening. And the food was wonderful. We made a delicious turkey breast that cooked and cut nearly perfectly. The Yankee found a new recipe for sweet potato casserole, messed up the proportions for the toppings and we found that we preferred it that way. I had some of my mother’s patented and traditional dressing:
We had green beans, just to change the color scheme of the plate.
Did a video chat this afternoon, and phone calls and more video chats this evening. And this is what I am abundantly thankful for: while we were not today with the rest of the people we care about, they are all safe and healthy and happy. That’s our greatest abundance.
I hope you and your family are safe, and that you have a lovely Thanksgiving.
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Do you know what this building is? It is quite important around here. And there might be just enough context clues to make a good guess. But do you know?
If you click on the image you will get your answer. It’s a part of our long-overdue and oft-forgotten historic marker section of the site. (Click here and you can see them all.) The goal was to ride my bicycle around to see all of the historic markers in the county where I live, take pictures of them and the locale or place being featured and share them on the site. Because the people demand weird combinations of what interest you! And, further, the people also insist you forget about the project for several years at a time, having assumed you’d just uploaded them all.
And, well, I did all of that. I rode my bike around, took the pictures, started uploading them, and then assumed I’d done it all and forget about the thing entirely. Two weeks ago I was deleting stuff off my phone — or as I like to think of it, a device that’s always telling me it’s memory is completely full — and I found some of those marker pictures. I cross referenced the site and felt immediately chagrined for the two or three people who have clicked through or stumbled in some how.
There were, I noted when I began my comparison, four historic markers and sites that had not included on the site. So I have a month of Thursday content! And in looking at all of this I was able to delete a few subdirectories of old marker photos from my laptop — or as I like to think of it, still another device that’s telling me it’s memory is full.
There is also at least one new marker. It is a replacement for one that wasn’t on display the last time I rode around looking for these. And there are, the state’s official list tells me, one other recent addition I need to cover and, hopefully, not forget entirely.
Anyway, that building above is the locale and structure featured in the second week of far-too-late updates. And, for the locals, it’s an important spot for a few other reasons, as well.
Two more markers are in the hopper and those other two new ones will wind up here eventually, as well.
After that I’ll have to start riding into neighboring counties or move entirely.
Let’s see, this county is surrounded, contiguously, by six other counties. And in those …
These are doable, some of them easily so. Another thing added to the to do list.
And if you aren’t here for that, maybe you’re here for this. It’s the late night show the students produce. The monologue is about making the jump from the kiddie’s table at Thanksgiving.
Sebastian has a point.
I like to tell the students that a lot of these experiences they are building will one day become anecdotes in job interviews one day. Tell me about a time when something broke under deadline. What’s one example of how you handle conflict in a working group, and so on. No one thought “One year I had to write/deliver/shoot/direct monologues in a mask” was going to come up.
In the other studio the sports crew did two shows tonight. And tomorrow I’ll have an interview and then more TV studio time to round out the morning. Thursday nights mean a quick turnaround, so, we’ll see you for tomorrow’s after action report.
Speaking of studio things, I have been derelict in my embedding duties here in the past few days. Let’s catch up!
Here’s last week’s sports show:
And here’s a show which talks about sports, and, in this episode, the clothing of sports:
This is the morning show. They recently had witches on as guests:
And here’s the election show from the other night:
More tomorrow. Until then, did you know that Phoebe and Poseidon have an Instagram account? Phoebe and Poe have an Instagram account. And keep up with me on Twitter. Don’t forget my Instagram. There are also some very interesting On Topic with IU podcasts for you, as well.
We were in the studio tonight. Look! Here’s proof!
Meredith will graduate this year, and then she’ll start her path to taking over roughly everything. She’s teaching herself the jib in that photo. She learns everything. She does everything. She’s going to take over roughly everything one day.
This was during auditions for a next semesters talk shows. We shot two full shows tonight and then ran three test segments and it was one of those times when everything felt like a smoothly-running machine. It’s really great when that happens.
It rained most of the day, and we’ve needed it. Felt unusual to reach for the umbrella. I had to remember which stick on the side of the steering wheel held the windshield wiper controls. It’s been a while.
And with that in mind we talked candy seemingly all day.
This seeding is questionable, at best, but it works out like this.
(It works out differently if you don't put like vs like in the FIRST ROUND.)
And I’ve now added candy to the list of things people will fight over with no provocation. Mind you, this isn’t about possession of the last treat, just your preferences. People have different tastes or favorites in some parts of life, but not in everything, which is weird. You have a favorite restaurant in town, and I don’t like it? That’s fine. Ask two different people familiar with the place where you should go on your next visit to New Orleans. It will devolve to name calling. You want to talk about plumbers or house contractors, any one will seemingly do. People really vie for selling you on their car mechanic though. Differing choices in candy? Fighting words.
This is me: you can like candy corn or you can hate candy corn. Do you have a strong, loud, vociferous defense about your candy corn preferences? You should reconsider your stance.
Also me: whoever created that seeding doesn’t understand how tournament seeding was intended to work.
Finally, one of my friends is covering this over in Ohio today.
Hey, America.
You're inundated. I get it. It's nasty.
Don't let people hoping to scare you with voting tactics ever try to tell you what we are. You look around and you'll see the best of us everyday.
