Archive for June 29, 2007

At the TOR: Smile, You’re on Camera!

Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on June 29th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

sctor1.jpgLive blogging at the SC TOR… There’s three open wifi connections here at the SC TOR, one of them strong enough that I can sit here in the TOR room and write this entry.  Some don’t realize they’re about to become “internet celebrities”.

The photo on the left was taken early in the evening during the dinner lull.  Most didn’t know that Chris Jensen was going to make a Domino’s run a little later on.  The crowd wasn’t bad with the big room allowing lots of space for folks to mill around and socialize.   The room was refrigerated to “icy cold”, at least to me.   Since it was in the low 90s here today, that’s good.

 

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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln


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Earning the Bird Study Merit Badge?

Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on June 29th, 2007 at 3:44 am

finch_eggs.jpgI never did earn the Bird Study merit badge when a Scout.   At least to me, it’s becoming obvious why.

Thursday evening I was standing undereath the gazebo on my deck just after a thunderstorm was passing by.   I was sitting there on the phone with a friend, talking about a few things.    On a table I have a couple of potted plants.   I reached into one to see if it needed watering, since the rain did not hit it.   As I reach into the plant something flew out, hit me in the chest and flew away.   It surprised me.

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"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house."
Groucho Marx


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