When I was a kid, and ran out of things to read, I would pick up the dictionary, try to increase my vocabulary. Granted, I didn't pick up that many to use in most every-day conversations, but I could generally kick butt in Scrabble.
This blog has a feed down a bit in the left-hand navbar, a Word of the Day from Dictionary.com, and I've never heard of today's entry, valetudinarian
From the website:
valetudinarian \val-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un
noun:1. A weak or sickly person, especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health.
adjective:1. Sickly; weak; infirm.2. Morbidly concerned with one's health.
I loved this example they gave:
Other than the Holy Scripture, he cared for no book as well as the book of decay, its truths written in the furrows scored on the brows of old men and women; in the sagging timbers of decrepit barns; in the lichenous masonry of derelict buildings; in the mangy fur of a valetudinarian lion.
-- Simon Schama, Rembrandt's Eyes
I can use that in a sentence:
"I was the valetudinarian of my senior class."
October 28, 2007
valetudinarian
Christmas Commercials
Heard the first Christmas advert just a minute ago on the tube.
Have they no shame?
October 27, 2007
Republican Candidate Poll
This is a weekly poll in a political forum to which I belong. I seldom post in there, but always go in on Thursdays to participate in this poll. I'm pleased to see that Duncan Hunter, the man I'm supporting and HAVE been supporting for the Republican nomination since he declared, is slowly gaining some traction, at least in that forum.
It's interesting to see people's preferences with these polls and read what they think of each particular candidate. Of course, with my own "slanted" view, I've always known what politicians think of US.
Just turn your head to the right and view the above graphic; you'll see things MY way.
October 26, 2007
My Odometer
Not bad for a four-yr old pickup, huh?
That photo is a few weeks old; I think it's got 8900 miles on it now.
Been drivin' the wheels off here lately.
