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Aug. 14th, 2014
It is gloriously foggy out this morning. We are creeping into susandennis season. I am having to turn my headlights on to get to the pool at 6:30 am and my solar powered LED lights on the terrace are now lighting up way before 10 pm now. And the cool. Ahhh. We have a few warmer days coming up but not hot. We're on the downside sliding into the seasons of me.
There is no baseball game today. The Mariners are winning way more games than they are losing and it is so much fun. I hope the day off does not fuck up the momentum. But, it will enable me to do a little TiVo catch up.
I do have most of all days to watch TV but I have this habit of only watching tech podcasts and maybe a little HGTV during the day and saving the evening for scripted shows. Doesn't really make sense.
But this current audio novel has me in its grip so there will likely be more book listening today than anything else.
Swimming at 11 and, really, that's it. On the list of things for me to kind of follow right now are:
- making sure the contribution to my niece gets made by my investment group - they have kind of gone radio silent on me and I'm a bit nervous about it.
- toilet guy said his son would be sending me stuff yesterday and he didn't. this means I'll need to call again.
- watching to ensure an annuity that matures at the end of this month, gets properly rolled over
- tracking several packages that don't have tracking numbers to make sure they all get here
OMG a new restaurant just down the block from here - one of THE most pretentious places I have ever been in (and that's pretension with nothing to back it up) just got a Bon Appetit nomination for best new restaurant. London Plane has nothing but pretention - it's noisy with ridiculously priced menu (I had 2 poached eggs with nothing else - no toast, no nothing and the eggs were not even poached well - $14.) Note to self - steer clear of all Bon Appetit winnners!
I think I'll listen to some of my book before I get up, dressed and on with my day.
There is no baseball game today. The Mariners are winning way more games than they are losing and it is so much fun. I hope the day off does not fuck up the momentum. But, it will enable me to do a little TiVo catch up.
I do have most of all days to watch TV but I have this habit of only watching tech podcasts and maybe a little HGTV during the day and saving the evening for scripted shows. Doesn't really make sense.
But this current audio novel has me in its grip so there will likely be more book listening today than anything else.
Swimming at 11 and, really, that's it. On the list of things for me to kind of follow right now are:
- making sure the contribution to my niece gets made by my investment group - they have kind of gone radio silent on me and I'm a bit nervous about it.
- toilet guy said his son would be sending me stuff yesterday and he didn't. this means I'll need to call again.
- watching to ensure an annuity that matures at the end of this month, gets properly rolled over
- tracking several packages that don't have tracking numbers to make sure they all get here
OMG a new restaurant just down the block from here - one of THE most pretentious places I have ever been in (and that's pretension with nothing to back it up) just got a Bon Appetit nomination for best new restaurant. London Plane has nothing but pretention - it's noisy with ridiculously priced menu (I had 2 poached eggs with nothing else - no toast, no nothing and the eggs were not even poached well - $14.) Note to self - steer clear of all Bon Appetit winnners!
I think I'll listen to some of my book before I get up, dressed and on with my day.
courtesy titles
Aug. 14th, 2014 01:15 pmWhen I come out of the locker room at the pool - on Tuesdays and Thursdays - I'm right in front of the training pool where several lifeguards are teaching pre-schoolers. One of the lifeguards, a while back, starting telling the kids, when I came out, "Say Hi to Miss Susan!" and they would chime in tiny sing songie voices "Hi Miss Susan!" So now, every Tuesday and Thursday, I am greeted, the minute, I come into the pool area by a chorus of HI!! Miss Susan!!!! And there is one little boy who does not swim but is always on the side playing with toys and after I say Hi! Fishes!!, he says in a quiet voice "Hi, Miss Susan."
I grew up at a time when Courtesy Titles were required. All of my friends' mothers were Mrs. xxx and their fathers were Mr. xxx. There were maybe 4 or 5 adults were were allowed to call by their first names. If you didn't know whether the woman was married , you used Miz xxx. This was the 50's in the South - way before Ms.
But, as late as the 80's - mid 80's, they were a problem. I worked at IBM in New York. The New York Times had a rule that everyone had to have a courtesy title. My job required me to be interviewed by the press. When the New York Times called, because of their rule, they required me to, in effect, give them private information that in no way affected the content of the interaction. They could not use my quote unless I told them whether or not I was married. If they could not use my quote, I could not do my job. (I'm proud to report that IBM backed me up 100% - they left it up to me with no penalty. And the NYT finally adopted Ms. a year or two later.)
Since then, courtesy titles have annoyed me no end. When I am required to select one in filling out a form, I nearly always select Dr. or Mr.
But, somehow, those little kids calling out Hi Miss Susan is way more endearing than Hi Susan so now I'm having to rethink the whole thing.
I grew up at a time when Courtesy Titles were required. All of my friends' mothers were Mrs. xxx and their fathers were Mr. xxx. There were maybe 4 or 5 adults were were allowed to call by their first names. If you didn't know whether the woman was married , you used Miz xxx. This was the 50's in the South - way before Ms.
But, as late as the 80's - mid 80's, they were a problem. I worked at IBM in New York. The New York Times had a rule that everyone had to have a courtesy title. My job required me to be interviewed by the press. When the New York Times called, because of their rule, they required me to, in effect, give them private information that in no way affected the content of the interaction. They could not use my quote unless I told them whether or not I was married. If they could not use my quote, I could not do my job. (I'm proud to report that IBM backed me up 100% - they left it up to me with no penalty. And the NYT finally adopted Ms. a year or two later.)
Since then, courtesy titles have annoyed me no end. When I am required to select one in filling out a form, I nearly always select Dr. or Mr.
But, somehow, those little kids calling out Hi Miss Susan is way more endearing than Hi Susan so now I'm having to rethink the whole thing.