INTERESTING?

Here are some things that I spent a lot of time thinking about this morning.

1. WORDLE

Yes, I know, the solution words for the last three days have been tough to solve, at least for me and my hobby is "words."  Remember that every six-letter word has a vowel or a "Y" and sometimes a letter can repeat in a word.

2.  SEYMOR SPIDER HAS REAPPEARED

He must have been hiding yesterday when a cleaning occurred. I do have some questions:

Is this really Seymor or is it his brother Sylvester?

Where is his web?  (He's perched on a cleaning brush handle.) 

Is this Seymor's ghost?

Am I seeing things?

Am I having fun with this? (yes)

This reminds me (true story):

3. Easter Message

For several years my late wife and I visited some friends at Easter-time. They lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

We always would accompany them to services at a local Catholic church to hear their old priest intone a fifty-minute homily related to Christ's resurrection. 

The church was rather small, and parishioners often fought over seating.  Sometimes they even came to blows. Something had to be done about the situation.

A solution was found when the church made a deal with Clemson University to hold their Easter service in one of their massive lecture halls.

As the parishioners sat restlessly in their itchy holiday finery waiting stoically for their beloved priest to deliver his usual long-winded Easter homily about Christ's resurrection, he raised up on his aging limbs, said, "HE'S BACK!" and sat down.  This was the first time I heard loud applause in a Catholic church.  

4. HYPERPOLYGLOT

Washington Post reporters wrote an interesting piece about a 46-year-old Washington, DC carpet cleaner named Vaughn Smith, who is fluent in 8 languages, can carry on conversations in 6 other languages and understands 31 other languages!

I thought that it was fun for me to learn 8 language and study a few others, but this guy has fun in 45 languages.

He could be earning a six-figure salary serving as a language expert for the CIA, NSA or the State Department, but he'd rather be doing other jobs, as long as they put him in situations where he can learn new languages, and there are many foreign embassies in DC that need their carpets cleaned.

 

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