John Roberts is the one

Babe frames the new begonias and painted fern purchased today at Northeast Nursery for the shade garden.

Such a day, a lovely old-fashioned day of just having fun together, mostly away from the monster that is our love/hate relationship with the machine. Tuck and we stopped by Maurizio's for dueling haircuts cum espresso and Sambuca (that's Italian!). Then on to the Northshore Shopping Center in Peabody for a short list of things we could no longer do without, including summer socks in the colors of the season and a new Kenmore Toaster Oven Broiler (photo below). The main event was a tête á tête at the local pub, Joe's American Bar & Grill, with dry martinis, burgers and fries for two:

Seems like old times, having you to walk with
Seems like old times, having you to talk with
And it's still a thrill just to have my arms around you.
Seems like old times being here with you.

How about those sox? Three new pairs poised atop the box of our new Kenmore Toaster Oven Broiler.

Brilliant orange, green and yellow are the season's fashion colors of choice.  You see them writ large in every department at Macy's, Filene's, Sears and all the little stores anchored by the big three. We don't care for such boldness in major garments or objects but adore them in flashes of color when we want to show a bit of ankle.

Another one of those beauty-in-unexpected-places moments caught our eye this morning beside the new computer, with an AquafinA bottle refracting the sunlight and a corner of the iMac G5 User's Guide laid open on page 2, "Getting to know your iMac 5," lending an air of mystery.

Major purchase of the day was the Belkin 4-Port Cable/DSL Base Station Router that would allow us to have both the new iMac G5 -- recently of China, purchased to replace our main computer, Gomer-- and the funny no-name rebuilt PC computer with Windows XP purchased the other day from geekmaster Greg to replace Tuck's old workhorse, Adele on line. The most fun was that we did all the hooking up and unplugging and replugging outlined in the router's booklet, inserted the disk and were told by the software that it wouldn't work, even as the computers themselves figured it all out, and both are now online.

"There must be an international norm of zero toleration for terrorism," said Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee yesterday during his joint press conference at the White House with the Leader of the Free World.

Meanwhile, as members of the MSM obsessed over what Karl Rove knew and when he knew it, the leaders of two of the world's handful of democratic economic powerhouses laid out geopolitical "stratereries" for the coming years. They mentioned that following the press conference they would be meeting with the most creative business leaders of both countries and that the President favored transference of nuclear technology to India. Gigantic issues that warrant debate, but what did our puerile White House Press Corps want to know?"

Are you displeased with Karl Rove?

A more apt question:  Are you displeased with the White House Press Corps?  It's 8:45 p.m. here, and we're about to hear the Poker-Player-in-Chief's pick for a replacement of Sandra Day O'Connor on the SCOTUS.

Carl Cameron of FoxNews says John Roberts is the one.

Comments

[goomp]

"Sounds like old times" as the song goes. Glad you enjoyed such a wonderful day. Now if only MSM would move on to getting real and face up to the real threats to democracy that face us in the 21st century.

[Mr.Kurtz]

Now there's a name from my Mesozoic childhood. Even with the Red Menace, the Bomb, and walking home alone in the dark after seeing "The Thing", nothing scared me as much as Filene's Basement.

[Minh-Duc]

The visit of the India PM is one of the most important event this week. The implication of this visit is far reaching for many years to come.

However, MSM barely touched on the subject. Many on the Left accuse this administration of poor diplomatic skill. But few mention that US-India relation the warmest in history. They do not get that India being the most populous democracy is far more important than France.

[Sissy Willis]

Absolutely, Minh-Duc. Thanks so much for your comment. GW's enemies, believing their own narrative about the President's stupidity, never fail to be surprised at how smart he is.