My brother just returned from a long trip abroad, which means his dog, Yoshi, has gone back home. Yoshi really missed Kyle while he was gone, but he and Schuyler have become a tight little pair. After Yoshi left, Schuyler sat by the front door for a while, waiting for him to come back, which was so sad. She snapped out of it when I showed her that she no longer had to fight for toys – everything was hers again! Still, I’ll occasionally catch her looking at me like, “Um, where’s Yoshi?”
(And I know you’re going to tell me to get another dog, but considering how often my brother has to travel it already feels like we have two!)
Around The ‘Net
~A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Save Georgetown
~How the World’s Heaviest Man Lost It All
~Robots attend school in place of sick kids, thanks to one giving boy
~When you’re poor, life’s little annoyances actually ruin your life
~As NCAA money trickles down, even tennis coaches are outearning professors
~Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years
~‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
~What happens when you don’t use a toilet seat cover?
~The 10th Circle of Hell is Southwest Airlines
~Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone
~This house in upstate New York is completely encased in ice
~50 Years Later, Heinz Approves Don Draper’s ‘Pass the Heinz’ Ads and Is Actually Running Them
Ham Fans
My friend’s daughter is a huge Hamilton the Musical fan, so I got her a bunch of cool Hamilton things for her birthday.
~I want this Hamilton historical coloring book for myself. So nerdy, so fun.
~I also want to put this Hamilton pin on a jacket.
~Annie really wants this poster for her new “Broadway” bedroom.
~And Peggy (of course).
On Your TV
We were invited to a sneak peek of a new movie theater for kids last week (it has a giant playground inside the auditorium), and Annabel and I ended up being interviewed by a news station about it. I was NOT expecting that to happen, and I’m just glad I actually took the time to brush my hair before we left, LOL. I also wrote about it here. I have to say that I think the theater has a lot of potential – potential to be fun, and potential to be a DISASTER. We enjoyed ourselves, but I can see movies in that theater either being a great experience or an awful one, with absolutely no middle ground.
Happy Sunday, everyone!
Amy says:
I was watching the news in Madison, WI and saw Annie!
Becca says:
The theater has a playground in it? As in, in the lobby of the theater or in the actual movie-playing-theater itself? I’m having a hard time envisioning the latter.. The playground behind the seats? Hmm.. interesting idea, though!
Becca says:
Literally just noticed the link to the article about the theater. Juuuuust a little slow on this Monday morning. lol
Maddy says:
The article about small things to some people being life destroying for others reminded me of something Terry Pratchett wrote in one of his books that I think sums up what that author was saying quite succinctly –
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness”
Leah says:
Thanks for linking to the toilet seat cover article! I hate those things and they seem to do little else than cause people to leave a giant papery mess in the toilet for someone else to deal with. Better if we all were just polite and wiped the seat for other people.
Stephanie says:
I really, really hope Schuyler’s ears stay the exact same way as they are in that picture.