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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

officially my ramblingest entry ever. or at least in the last few days. yes, I just made up the word "ramblingest" all by myself.

It is too darn hot. Omigosh. And what really bites is that the weather service keeps teasing us, saying that in two or three days we'll have a couple days of coolness. Except the expected relief stays two or three days away. It will be Christmas, I think, and it'll be a hundred degrees on my front porch, and the NWS will say that it should only be ninety-four in three days. (What the heck kind of state IS this where we're all grateful and hopeful about NINETY-FOUR DEGREES, by the way?)


Our county fair is this weekend. (that'll help all you stalkers who haven't quite got it yet.) I entered some sewn things and a crocheted doily. The kids entered some pictures, and LT also entered some very spectacular Lego creations. Plus there will be all the rides (LT, with his gargantuanism genes, is too big for kiddie rides and too scared for big-person rides, poor boy) and the food oh heavens the fry bread! the Chinese food! the miniscule $4 cups of soda with no lids or straws! (must remember to carry in bottles of water this year).


In the comments for my last entry, mom-on-roof said something that kind of scared me. New colors? Do I have... new colors? Does this diary look the same to you? If not, please tell me. I would hate it if mom-on-roof was being sarcastic about the fact that every computer but mine has suddenly started rendering this page in violent yellow, chartreuse, and puce*. Speaking of which. Years ago when we were engaged, T had a really badass computer -- a 386 with TWO MEG OF RAM, wow, TWO WHOLE MEGABYTES -- and it had a monochrome monitor, which yes, actually was manufactured on purpose. That still happened in the late 80's and early 90's. I know it's hard for most of you to believe but it is true. Anyway. He had this monochrome monitor, and he made a really nice soothing attractive monochrome color scheme for Windows 3.1 in it. When we got married and I moved in (in that order. People still did THAT in the early 90's too. I swear it's true), we combined computer systems to make, oh wow, a really REALLY badass 486 with FOUR MEG of RAM and my color monitor (cue heavenly Monty Python chords here). We used his hard drive and so when we started up the newly refurbished machine for the first time, up popped the most wretched color combination that you could ever possibly imagine. Even the clothes I wore in elementary school couldn't top the heinousness of that color scheme. It hurt our eyes. But we saved it, so that we could laugh at it.


*WHAT IS PUCE? When Sully looks at the paper in Monsters Inc. and says, "Oh, that's puce," why didn't they show us what color it was? Because some of us still don't know and we feel really stupid about that.


Update: I just googled it (Dear Google, I swear, I actually do sometimes sit around and ponder how I ever satisfied my raging curiosity on so many of life's little questions before you were invented. Love, your adoring fan. XXXOOO) and apparently puce is a kind of lavender sort of grayish color. No wonder the name is so alarmingly similar to "puke." Which word I accidentally used the other day in front of my kids, and now it is their very very favorite. Oh well, it could be worse.

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