Oops, never posted today, did I? I got landed with a couple of humongous tasks due
in two workdays, along with the usual busy-ness.
We spent this
morning getting the Orange Crush behatted again with three boats, and stuffed with
riggers and assorted other paraphernalia - we were planning to put all our boats
on the club trailer, but AussieCoach is being a prat and wanting to load up and
leave so late that we'd miss the race meeting, eat dinner way too late, and be
exhausted by race time. (Maybe this will give us an advantage over the people who
are loading with him ....) The good news is that we've *finally* found a race
schedule and they've done a great job sorting the races out -- "great" in this
context means that they've divided things by age so that none of the races we are
in has heats. She-Hulk and I each have two raes and Rudder has three, as opposed
to the five (!) he had two weeks ago. The last race any of us is in is supposed to
be at 3:48, which means that even if the whole race is on time, we won't be packed
and leaving until 6, so we'll get home around midnight. Feh.
When
Rudder got the Hummer, the dealer had put chrome letters in the embossed H U M M E
R on the back bumper. They keep falling off -- the dealer replaces them every time
they service the vehicle (oil changes and such are free there) but they just fall
off again. Currently it says UMM R. Good thing Rudder got the rear-mounted spare
tire, which hides it.
Grammar question of the day: when did "cliche"
become an adjective? I've been seeing it used that way a lot lately, as in, "I
know it's cliche but I really believe it was meant to be." It's true and I think
it's a good thing that English words (even ones so recently borrowed as to still
be often spelled with an accent) move easily among parts of speech but somehow
this move seems wrong. I keep thinking that "cliched" would be more proper, but
I'm not sure why -- I can't think of other good examples of words morphing from
noun to adjective.
No, wait, I have. You can say, "It's music," or
"It's cardboard," in a way that you can't say "It's bear," or "It's car," and in
the first two cases, come to think of it, you really are using those nouns in an
adjectival way. Interstingly, my Webster's lists an adjectival sense for carboard
but not for music, though I would argue the two uses are parallel.
Interesting.
And yes, I do think as I write.
A minute
ago I somehow deleted all the above by mistake and was able to rescue it by right-
clicking in the boax and picking "Undo". That may be my entire ration of magic or
luck for today.