Mowed the lawn. At least, tried really, really hard to. Haven't mowed it since the zenith of last summer's drought; it took me about 20 minutes to do our postage stamp sized front and back yards. Today, it took me 1 hour, 20 minutes. Why? Well...
- The mower took 15 tries to start (and wrenched my shoulder pulling the cord -- Tommy John surgery, here I come)
- While it was sunny and has been for a week now, the ground was still a mudbog. So the mower kept getting stuck, the power-assist front wheels were useless, and it stalled when it overloaded with wet grass. And did it stall -- the front lawn (which is probably 10' by 30') stalled the mower half a dozen times.
- And yeah, remember how I said I hadn't mowed since the drought started? The grass was as high as an elephant's eye. OK, a marmot. But wet, tall grass and mowers just don't mix.
This afternoon, we were in the living room with Annabel (who's been sick) when were heard this loud THUD in the other room. The super-giant Kirkland Signature jug of laundry detergant had been thrown off the dryer by the spin cycling washer and was discharging liquid laundry detergant all over the mudroom. It took all the towels we had and a lot of vigorous mopping to get the floor to something less than a skating rink.
While I was mopping up the mess, the Seahawks, in desperate need of a WR who can CATCH AND HOLD ONTO THE BALL, drafted a center. Just when you think the Mariners are run by the biggest idiots in town, the Seahawks remind you that they've been the local leaders in idiocy for ten years running.
Meanwhile, yesterday's end of day smackdown of Meetup has been picked up by Scoble and Winer. So now, it's going to be a race between Meetup to get back across the bridge too far and the racing, teeming hoards of bloggers fuming in the red mist of insta-outrage. And they're all going to converge on my monthly web hosting bill.
Part of the plan today was to complete and roll out the new templates for the site. Unfortunately, until the traffic dies down I'm going to have to belay the work.
And I think it's supposed to rain. Or hail. Or something. The clouds roll in, the sun comes out, and a minute later the clouds are back, just as the sun peeks out. Nice day, though.
And the Hawks just drafted a WR in the second round. HA! I MAKE FUNNY! They picked up an ILB instead. Wonder what these guys are like at home.
"Dear, could you go to the store and pick up some sugar?"
"Sure, dear."
(30 minutes later)
"Honey, I'm back from the store. Rice-A-Roni was on sale, so I bought a dozen boxes."
"Did you get the sugar?"
"Do we really need it? Because Rice-A-Roni is The San Francisco Treat(TM)!"
"Remind me again why I stooped so low as to marry a moron like you."
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OTOH, you'll get to watch one of Janet's former students play. I was surprised he went that early, but he's a really good guy. He used to be her protector at school, made sure the thugs knew not to mess with her.
Posted by: Harry | April 23, 2005 07:45 PM
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But Harry, can he CATCH AND HOLD ONTO THE BALL?
The bigger problem is with the Seahawks already having a center signed just recently. Seems a waste to have someone as good as him sitting on the bench for two years.
Posted by: dw | April 23, 2005 10:01 PM
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That's Seattle, if you don't like the weather wait ten minutes it will probably change.
Posted by: Robert Nelson | April 24, 2005 08:12 AM
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If you really have a postage-stamp sized yard (I do), get rid of the gas mower entirely and just get an old-style push (reel) mower. You won't regret it. Total expenditure of energy is about the same over the total getting-out-of-garage/starting/mowing/putting-back-in-garage activity, and it's a lot quieter to boot.
Posted by: M1EK | April 25, 2005 07:32 AM
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Or get an electric mower like Kat and I have. It's useless for anything other than postage stamping and I'm thinking seriously about just getting a push mower... but, it is push button start.
Posted by: ben | April 25, 2005 08:18 AM
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No catch the ball. But I thought you guys has Jerry Rice for that. And that Largent kid?
Posted by: Harry | April 25, 2005 06:04 PM
