{"id":7948,"date":"2011-11-03T12:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2011-11-03T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T19:44:07","slug":"a-post-wminimal-kardashian-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=7948","title":{"rendered":"A Post w\/Minimal Kardashian Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I haven’t been keeping up with the news, what with company and road trips and the standard family competition for the TV at night, so yesterday, after our company left and things were quiet again, I called up Mediaite<\/a>. Foolish me. The first ten entries all had to do with Herman Cain.\u00a0 Like a prude averting his gaze from the naked female form, I hastily clicked over to Google News<\/a>.\u00a0 The first headline there was about Kim Kardashian.\u00a0 You know what?\u00a0 I give up.\u00a0 World, you just roll along without us Americans, okay?\u00a0 We have our own version of the “news,” and it don’t got nothin’ to do with you.<\/p>\n

Company.\u00a0 Let’s see … after Terry and Judy left, our friend John from Australia rolled in, and the day after he left we picked up our goddaughter Natasha at the airport, along with her husband Natale and their four-month-old baby daughter Giorgianna.\u00a0 They visited for a week, during which we took a three-day road trip to Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon, and Sedona.\u00a0 They left yesterday, just in time for me to come down with a chest-plugging cold, the same one I get every year about this time.\u00a0 Bring on the Sudafed!<\/p>\n

Just not too much of it, that is … according to my friendly Walgreen’s pharmacist, Arizona shoppers are now restricted to one package of Sudafed a month, lest we amass enough to make meth.\u00a0 Look, I said, I don’t want to do spring cleaning in November, I just want to get through this cold with minimal suffering.\u00a0 To take my mind off the cold (and yours as well), here’s another Grand Canyon photo:<\/p>\n

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Donna, Natasha, and Giorgianna at the South Rim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The birthday iPad is getting a workout.\u00a0 So far I’ve downloaded the Nook app, the iBooks app, and the Kindle app.\u00a0 I snagged some free iBooks and used a birthday Amazon gift card from Natasha to download a few Kindle books.\u00a0 I’d read half a novel on my Nook before my birthday; I finished it on the iPad.\u00a0 Actually I slightly prefer the Nook as a reader; I’ll continue to read Nookbooks on it, using the iPad for iBooks and Kindle books.\u00a0 There are a couple of things I can’t get right on the iPad, and retrieving and sending POP email is one of them.\u00a0 That is irritating … I’m sure I have the POP email accounts set up correctly.\u00a0 Oh, well, I’ll figure it out eventually.<\/p>\n

Now for two weeks of relative peace & quiet before the next adventure, a Thanksgiving road trip to Las Vegas, where we’ll visit our son, daughter in law, and grandchildren.\u00a0 Are we bringing Schatzi?\u00a0 You betcha!\u00a0 And speaking of Schatzi, here’s another photo of her in her Halloween outfit:<\/p>\n

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Paul & Schatzi, Oct 31 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hey, I feel better now.\u00a0 And it’s not the Sudafed … it’s Schatzi!<\/p>\n

Last-Minute Update:<\/em><\/strong><\/span> I feel even better now.\u00a0 My son Gregory called to tell me we’re going riding again in Nevada the Saturday after Thanksgiving: he on a new BMW K 1300 S<\/a>, me on a new BMW K 1600 GT<\/a>.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 I’ve been lusting after the new six-cylinder bike, so I’ll be sure to write a thorough ride report afterward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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