No "Foul Play"
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Applebee's
I want to start off, this morning, by passing along the URL for the Applebee's Restaurant chain. They're offering military personnel and military veterans a FREE meal on Veterans Day this November 11th.
That URL is APPLEBEE'S.
CHOW DOWN!
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What On Earth...
The FREE MEAL offer from Applebee's got me to thinking about this unique little alarm clock offer from catalogue retailer WHAT ON EARTH. What patriotic American home could be complete without one of these in the master bedroom...?
In case you'd like to check out their website, just click on Clock.
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Veterans
And, while I'm on a roll, I always think of my own two little "veterans". This snapshot is from the Friday the 13th Vietnam Veterans Parade the three of us marched in, way back in 1986, when the City of Chicago played host to about 200,000 veterans of the Vietnam Conflict. Do they still call it a "Police Action"? It felt like a war to me.
If your're interested, here's one website with plenty of pictures from that day:
WELCOME HOME!
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Update
And now, an update on an "alleged" asshole.... I first blogged this sad story a few days ago. I wish it had ended more happily, for the young woman at its center. But, maybe there will, at least, be justice served in the end....
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In Other News...
I guess it's true that "looks can be deceiving". I always looked at women in these hijabs as victims of oppression. But, I've been reading that in Egypt, women are actually fighting for the "right" to wear "tablecloths" (How I see 'em...) in public. Yep. There are even female teachers who are upset that they're being told they can't wear 'em in class. They see it as a "right" in their religion.
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Full Moon
I have to wonder if a full moon might have an effect on women who choose to wear those hijabs in my previous post. I was watching one last night, from our front porch. This is representative of how it looked, peeking thru the leaves of one of our Japanese Red Maples...
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In God We Trust
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4 comments:
Regarding the moon shots, seriously, great shots. I've had several opportunities for phot's like that but I can't get my digital to take night shots because of the auto features, and the manual settings don't seem to help. Very good shots mate!
I'm sure you checked 'em out... thinkin' you were gonna see some fat chick's keester. But, actually it was quite simple. Pay attention!
1. Full automatic...
2. Used a tripod...
3. Turned on the porch light, just to light up the leaves, so the camera could focus, mainly on them...
4. Didn't have a few beers, first...
5. Tried to center the moon and slowly pushed down the shutter...
6. Explained to the cops that I wasn't a peeper (that time)....
Love the last line... :-) I have a Cannon Power Shot A570 with enough various settings to confuse a computer programmer, however, after having read BOTH freaking instruction manuals, and trying just about every setting (AND using a very necessary tripod), I still cannot take a shot of a harvest moon rising over Oneida Lake. Most frustrating!!
Give me a good old 35 mm with manual settings for F-Stops and shutter speeds and I'll win several awards (as I have done in the past BTW). Digitals- Bullshit!
(Grumble... Grumble...) Have you tried an artist's sketch pad and one of those little boxes of eight... or so... crayons?
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