Word of the Day

Exsnoredinary - So incredibly boring that it makes you snore.

I don't know if I could truly give justice to a blog written about my day today. It was that ordinary. If I wrote about it, you would fall asleep. The weather? Warm and humid. Activities? We went out and had our windshield checked to see if it needed replacing or just patching. They're going to come and try patching it on Friday. If that doesn't work, they'll replace it. We went shopping. We ate lunch. We're back home and I'm blogging. See? A perfectly ordinary day.

So? I'm going to provide a funny that I read instead of blogging on and on about such ordinary activities day after day.

Funny of the Day

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".

Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Murphyism of the Day

Farrell's Law of New-Fangled Gadgetry

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

Update

Not so uneventful afterall. I must say that the weather today did feel like it could turn nasty. Hot and humid. The weather has turned nasty. Severe Thunderstorm Warnings! Baseball-size hail in Rice Lake. Tornado Warnings! I suspect #1 son got hearded to a safe place in his dorm tonight, along with his fellow dorm-mates. Yes, they had tornado warnings in Hennepin County. I took the dogs down to the basement though our county looks like it'll escape the tornado warnings. HTP and I are fine and I don't think we'll have to join the dogs but it's a lot faster for me and HTP to head down to the basement without having to juggle a dog kennel should it become necessary. HTP has been watching the radar on the laptop. We haven't lost power. Only a slight flickering and dimming of the lights. We only lost our TV reception for a short while. I love storms. I'll worry about any damage tomorrow. Nothing as far as I can see so far but HTP and I'll have to go check for fallen trees tomorrow.