"Nothing is done until it's overdone." - Liberace

Unless you know who Liberace was that quote at the top doesn't make a lot of sense. He was the king of showy excess. An entertainer for whom everything was over the top.

I learned today that gantlet is an acceptable (and older) spelling of gauntlet. Technically a gauntlet was the path past people someone was made to run while they got beat with sticks and a gantlet was a glove. Hence, you ran the gauntlet and threw down the gantlet, but now the two spellings are considered interchangeable.
Saw that odd-looking spelling (gantlet) in a Politico headline and looked it up.
You gotta love the internet.

This just in: Politico changed the headline to read gauntlet. I guess they took flack from the grammar nazis.

In the process of researching that issue I came across the name S. I. Hayakawa. I'd forgotten about him. He was huge back in the day and had some potent things to say about the use of language that now seem prescient. See: "Language in Thought and Action."

It's been raining for about three days now with occasional breaks punctuated by serious downpours. I realize that by March this pattern will have long since grown tiresome (or worse) but for now it's almost entertaining.
The goats aren't big fans of it. They stay in the barn all day long. Wusses.

Yesterday Brett took me on a bit of a tour. We went down the the HQ for "Lane (county) Leadership Foundation," something UFC participates in pretty heavily. The LLF gives office space to a start-up church that's three years old and that UFC helps financially. The pastor is Rick Reeves and I really enjoyed visiting with him.
He was saved as a teen out of an apparently pretty rough life. His next act was as a professional cage fighter! Here's the web site about him:
http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Rick-Reeves-16557
Gotta love this new believer's (at the time) fighting name.
And from pro cage fighter to pastor. And he's still huge.

We've just finished dinner and I have to stay awake for another 3 hours or look like a 6-year old. This is going to be a challenge.
I started with a 6 a.m. appointment that I was (intentionally) an hour early for. Meetings and appointments the rest of the day got me home about 4:00. Walk Buddy, feed the animals, dinner, and...crash.

buh-bye