pandiculation

The Word of the Day

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pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LEY-shuhn\

noun: an instinctive stretching, as on awakening or while yawning

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I've done this and got a charley horse so horrible it made me collapse from the pain, such a sudden shock I guess. It's taken me a long, long time to learn to do it gingerly, a little at a time. It also helps to stay hydrated, I think, because nearly every other time I've got a cramp it was when I was also thirsty.

Pandiculation isn't in my Firefox spell checker, and I didn't know the word.

10 Enjoyable Things To Do On Inauguration Day

From the email (recent) archives:

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1. Search for a second or third job to help pay your higher taxes;

2. Stage a Ronald Reagan Film Festival in your community;

3. Attend a women's professional basketball game;

4. Search your kitchen for recalled food products;

5. Play Halo 3 and/or Wii with your teenager(s);

6. Ignore all news media sources for 24 hours;

7. Shovel snow off your driveway;

8. Schedule a colonoscopy;

9. File your tax return; and

10. Stay in bed.

'Barack Obama Has Refused to Be a President'

Heads-up from JammieWearingFool about cloned Obama websites with the above title and having been outfitted with a computer virus.

The malicious websites originate from China. Whodathunkit? I thought the Ruskies and other ex-Soviet bloc nations had cornered the market on that sort of thing.

"Jammie" is one of my new favorite blogs I follow and a multiple winner of the famous Weblog Awards

They're not up there in searches for "sister's feet" like this one, though.

obscure

From this blog's Word of the Day feed:

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obscure \uhb-SKYOOR\,

adjective:
1. not clearly expressed; hard to understand

verb:
1. to hide from view; dim, darken

adjective:
1. not well known; not prominent
2. dark, dim, murky

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"Hard to understand" certainly would be the phrase to describe this blog. Used as a verb, "not well known" and "not prominent" would also fit.

"Dim" and "murky" describes this blog's author.

Kate Winslet's Golden Globes

I don't really follow entertainment news, but skimming through the news headlines a bit ago I saw where Kate Winslet won two Golden Globes this last week.

Wow. I thought she was born with 'em...or at least got 'em around puberty.

Quote of the Day 1/19/09

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Sallust

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I dunno 'bout "architect"; some of us are in demolition, running the wrecking ball.