Aline and I went to see the season-opening show of the Third Wall theater company tonight. An adaptaion of Dangerous Liasons. Very well done with great mood lighting and good performances by the principal leads. Impressed enough that we bought tickets to the rest of their season.
So turns out our new telephony provider is able to offer us free training on our telephone system as part of the warranty package they provide us. Nice little additional benefit on top of the superior price they offered us. I mention this to my colleague and he replies that …
My parents Joe and Sue were born and raised in Prague, Czechoslovakia. But surprise, surprise, they grew up not to keen on the idea of communism and defected in 1967, a year before Russian tanks rolled through the town crushing the Prague Spring. I came along four years later and …
Old Man Fookwire is a grump who only likes to paint pictures of birds that visit his backyard. The problem is, they fly south every winter, leaving him sad and lonely. So he decides to get them to stay by putting up beautiful birdfeeders filled with seeds and berries. Unfortunately, the squirrels like the treats, too, and make a daring raid on the feeders. The conflict escalates-until the birds depart (as usual), and the squirrels come up with a plan that charms the old grump.
My take: How can you not like a book where you get to say Googlie Mooglie, raise your fist and yell “Those darned squirrels”?
