Start of weekend!
Hey, Saturday already!
Did I mention that Cathy gave us tickets to see Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know live radio broadcast today at 10:30 AM? I did? Oh.
Well, it was fun! We got there early to be sure we had time to pick up our tickets at the box office and be admitted before 10:30. We were plenty early!!. New Jersey Network, an NPR affiliate, was sponsoring the event and they gave away plastic magnifying strips, something I can really use.
Anyway, Feldman - who looks a bit like Robin Williams - had three guests: Marc Mappen, a former NY Times columnist and co-editor of "Encyclopedia of New Jersey"; Charles Webster, political writer for the "Trentonian" ; and Janet Evanovich, author of the "Stephanie Plum" adventure novels that are set in the Trenton of the 1950s. Mappen was a very humorous source of NJ arcana and Webster was much more sophisticated than I had expected of an employee of the local mud-slinging tabloid. Evanovich was in town to participate in "... the inaugural Stephanie Plum Daze Festival", sign autogroahs and sell books. She has VERY red hair.
Feldman interviewed a white-bearded man from the audience who insisted that he met his wife while working as a lawyer at a homeless shelter. He said that he had picked her out, cleaned her up and took her home with him, and she turned out pretty well. She said that while they met at the homeless shelter, she was actually its director. The man bragged of their "intergenerational marriage"; she quipped that he had neckties in his closet that were older than she was!
A man identified as "Grumpy" by the logo on his denim shirt and a telephone caller won the grand prize when they were correctly able to answer 5 consecutive questions, the last of which was "What event in history is associated with Washingtons Crossing Park in NJ?". (By the way, he was a very pleasant man who explained that "Grumpy" was the name he had chosen for his grandchildren to call him -- after the character from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, not his disposition.)
Yesterday a neighbor and I played in a bridge tournament in Cherry Hill. We were doing well (in our class) until the last four hands and Idonwannatalkaboudem!
Tomorrow is our second car rally of the season and I'm looking forward to eliminating the dumb mistakes we made in May. And not looking forward to the dumb ones we will make!
I'm trying an experiment. I suffer from the ocassional leg cramp, generally when I stretch when I'm half awake. I had an excruciating one in the wee hours of Friday morning and it was sore all day. So last night, I put a bar of soap under the bottom sheet as recommended by our local newspaper's medical correspondent. If I don't mention leg cramps in future posts, you'll know it worked.
Did I mention that Cathy gave us tickets to see Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know live radio broadcast today at 10:30 AM? I did? Oh.
Well, it was fun! We got there early to be sure we had time to pick up our tickets at the box office and be admitted before 10:30. We were plenty early!!. New Jersey Network, an NPR affiliate, was sponsoring the event and they gave away plastic magnifying strips, something I can really use.
Anyway, Feldman - who looks a bit like Robin Williams - had three guests: Marc Mappen, a former NY Times columnist and co-editor of "Encyclopedia of New Jersey"; Charles Webster, political writer for the "Trentonian" ; and Janet Evanovich, author of the "Stephanie Plum" adventure novels that are set in the Trenton of the 1950s. Mappen was a very humorous source of NJ arcana and Webster was much more sophisticated than I had expected of an employee of the local mud-slinging tabloid. Evanovich was in town to participate in "... the inaugural Stephanie Plum Daze Festival", sign autogroahs and sell books. She has VERY red hair.
Feldman interviewed a white-bearded man from the audience who insisted that he met his wife while working as a lawyer at a homeless shelter. He said that he had picked her out, cleaned her up and took her home with him, and she turned out pretty well. She said that while they met at the homeless shelter, she was actually its director. The man bragged of their "intergenerational marriage"; she quipped that he had neckties in his closet that were older than she was!
A man identified as "Grumpy" by the logo on his denim shirt and a telephone caller won the grand prize when they were correctly able to answer 5 consecutive questions, the last of which was "What event in history is associated with Washingtons Crossing Park in NJ?". (By the way, he was a very pleasant man who explained that "Grumpy" was the name he had chosen for his grandchildren to call him -- after the character from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, not his disposition.)
Yesterday a neighbor and I played in a bridge tournament in Cherry Hill. We were doing well (in our class) until the last four hands and Idonwannatalkaboudem!
Tomorrow is our second car rally of the season and I'm looking forward to eliminating the dumb mistakes we made in May. And not looking forward to the dumb ones we will make!
I'm trying an experiment. I suffer from the ocassional leg cramp, generally when I stretch when I'm half awake. I had an excruciating one in the wee hours of Friday morning and it was sore all day. So last night, I put a bar of soap under the bottom sheet as recommended by our local newspaper's medical correspondent. If I don't mention leg cramps in future posts, you'll know it worked.
RED SOX IN FIRST PLACE!!!
posted by Pete Holsberg @ 5:28 PM
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