I’m old. I tend to be forgetful. I finally realized that two years ago I had done the whole ES3 bit on this blog. And here I am, beating that some dead horse again. Forgive me, readers. I won’t continue this examination of sentence structure.
It’s Sunday and our skies are overcast with occasional light showers. The humidity is way up but the temps are way down, only upper 80’s for the high today. Only two days ago it was a triple digity 111 and it felt like a furnace. Sunday morning, and I’m here listening to all the talking heads on Fox—Jimmy, Terry, Howie, Michael, and host Curt Menefee—and oh how they all love to talk. They’re almost salivating over the coming season. I guess I am too. Please, Arizona Cardinals, win this first one over the Rams.
We’ve recently been feasting on reruns of The Big Bang Theory. TBS and KUTP are showing as many as six episodes in a row and we’re amazed at how many we hadn’t seen. We dvr them and then watch them one after another. We both thought we’d watched them all from the first season up to now, but we were wrong. It’s a really funny show, and Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper is one of the funniest people ever on the tube. The whole cast is hilarious—Leonard, Howard, Raj, Penny, Bernadette, and Amy Farrah Fowler, even Howard’s never seen but always heard mother. I wonder if we’ll ever get to see her. Probably not.
I've always collected errors in diction, things people mis-hear, like "windshield factor" and "the next store neighbors." Years ago, one of my students wrote an essay in which she described the world as being harsh and cruel, "a doggy-dog world." I've since come to think she may have been more astute and accurate than those who describe it in the usual way. My Stories - Mobridge Memories -
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Most of what I've written has been published as e-books and is available at Amazon. Match Play is a golf/suspense novel. Dust of Autumn is a bloody one set in upstate New York. Prairie View is set in South Dakota, with a final scene atop Rattlesnake Butte. Life in the Arbor is a children's book about Rollie Rabbit and his friends (on about a fourth grade level). The Black Widow involves an elaborate extortion scheme. Happy Valley is set in a retirement community. Doggy-Dog World is my memoir. And ES3 is a description of my method for examining English sentence structure.
In case anyone is interested in any of my past posts, an archive list can be found at the bottom of this page. I'd appreciate any feedback you may have by sending me an e-mail note--jertrav33@aol.com. Thanks for your interest.
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