Happy Saturday!

[susandennis]

This is a really random entry.

soapbox\ Cellphones are really wonderful miracle tools.  I spent many years waiting by the phone - waiting for a call.  I love that I can empty the garbage, run an errand, go to South Carolina and still be available if someone needs to reach me.  And I love that I can get stuck somewhere and help is an easy phone call away. 

I have read recently blog entries, news articles and seen two news stories on TV about how horrible cellphones are.  Life was so much more simple before technology.  No.  It was not.  And cellphones are miracles.  People who don't know how to use them appropriately should be the target - not the technology. \soapbox

A bunch of months ago, I stopped using a top sheet on my bed.  I use a fitted sheet and my duvet with cover.  I am now very pissed.  I spent years - years - doing unnecessary laundry, buying sheets I didn't need and waking up in the middle of the night tangled up in that stupid top sheet.  The experiment is a total success.  I'm thinking about how to take two of my now-not-needed sheets and sewing them into a nice bed coverlet/light kind of duvet for Summer.

treebreeze called this morning - he's in Seattle and is coming over tomorrow to see Susan Dennis Head Quarters.  He's also going to get a nice shot of Seahawkiness.

TV news has been covering Seattle trash talk and the culture of 'Carolina'.  Apparently there is no need to differentiate between North and South.  And the various definitions of and supposed derivations of a tar heel are hilarious.  Our local NBC affiliate last night actually really explained that a moon pie was what Southerners called a pie that is so good it 'sends you to the moon.' 

Very sad.

From last week's Seattle Times about my Mr. Seahawk:

Fan on wheels
Just beyond the entrance of Qwest Field's north lot, Jerry Martinez will have parked his Seahawk Express motor home. A rolling billboard illustrated with all things Seahawks, the decorated RV definitely stands out. And with a 24-foot boat behind it and a giant blow-up doll of a Seahawks lineman above it, it's also impossible to miss.

"If somebody did, they'd need a proctologist because they would have to get their head out of their posterior," said Martinez, 56, a retired federal worker.

Martinez of Sequim drives the RV to every home and away game, having logged 130,000 miles over the past three years. When the Seahawks played at New England last year, a local police officer graciously escorted the Seahawk Express to a parking spot.

He returns the goodwill, offering his extra tickets at Qwest Field to visiting fans from opposing teams. He has given three tickets to today's game to Washington's famously flamboyant "Hogettes," whose costumes include dresses, sun hats and pig snouts.

"I have this philosophy: I root for my team but I never, ever knock the other team," Martinez said.

I have work to do... doesn't have to be done today but why not?!