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No clue. This photo interface is giving me major problems and has for over two hours so I’m giving up on that one for now. That will have to wait until tomorrow.

There will be a major music festival for three days that will shut down our street. In the meantime I heard from my college advisor whose twin brother died yesterday. I wrote him two notes (one email, one US mail) and sent a small contribution to his department.

It’s interesting when you realize that athletes et al are younger than you. The world of possibilities gets smaller and smaller until you hopefully find your niche. Or hopefully you found it out beforehand.

On The Tonight Show this evening was Shawn Johnson, who had Arsenio and Jay Leno on a low balance beam. Unfortunately I only caught the last minute. I really like her spirit. And they were good sports.

Gymnasts, swimmers, skateboarders, I love seeing what I can no longer do. That’s why the Olympics are so important.

Jim bought a dulcinea watermelon that I might even pair with yogurt for smoothies. Still he’ll need full breakfast but I won’t.

From our seats. First is early on in the game, from the cell phone. Second, look up on the upper right #7, Craig Biggio’s number, was retired today. Blurry scoreboard but fun game.

Hope y’all had a great weekend! Note: this is directed you you, personally, as all y’all it TexSpeak for all of you readers. Things one learns… Dee

OK, I admit I’m straying from blog concept but then I’m the blogger and often you like my going out of bounds.

Two major banks announced major losses today, WaMu and Wachovia. All because they were supremely greedy in the sub-prime glory days.

Do you think all the big banks got together and said “Let’s announce all our major losses in Q2?” First, because the media would lump them all together and forget who did what; and second, so that the Feds (meaning our wallets) would bail them out to the tune of $25 billion.

I’d rather the Feds, after bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and putting them on a tight leash, have them take over these delinquent loans providing homeowners some security from these banks’ collective avarice. Then leave the banks to manage their own troubles, sink or swim.

Whatever gets us out of this debacle before full-scale recession. Helping the banks will in no way help these homeowners who’ve been taken advantage of by slick salespeople.

You might know that my background is way more than cooking. Righty-O.

Note: This message was approved by no one, not even the dog. It is not an endorsement for any banking product, subprime loan et al.

The chapel was amazing. We had to take a train, two buses and walk by

The apprentice pillar

They used to get 3,000 people a year but now get at least 100,000 and it’s a very small place. All due to the Da Vinci Code book and movie, of course.

If you look behind the altar there are three pillars. Behind those pillars on the left is the master artist’s pillar with vertical columns and to the right is the apprentice pillar with a diagonal design.

Story is the master went touring Europe to see how to craft this great pillar and while he was away his apprentice carved his own. Once he returned he saw the greatness in his apprentice and killed him.

The Chapel is incredible, begun by a historic French family including Knights Templar. Masons carved nearly every inch of the structure with pagan, Christian, Jewish and Latin enscriptions.

If you do go and want to enjoy viewing it, please go in the winter when crowds are sparse. The restaurant in the hotel on the corner made a great soup and sandwich so that was a bonus. The cow pasture had just been manured and 1/2 hour of walking was an assault to the nostrils.

But if you don’t mind driving on the wrong side of a car on the wrong side of the street through multiple “roundabouts” that go the wrong way, go ahead and drive.

Check out the Rosslyn Motet online. Researchers looked for clues in the carvings and wrote a Motet based on them. Our friends from Scotland went to see a performance at Rosslyn Chapel.