Soup To Nuts & Friday Five

Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007 - 2:30 a.m.

I'm composing this in the very early morning of the last day of Summer.

There's some unstable weather around me somewhere. As I'm sitting up into the wee hours of Saturday morning, I just heard thunder. And as I listen to the AM radio here, I hear the crackling hiss of the lightning, and am finding that the lightning is eight to ten hippopotamuses away from me. Likely to the north or south and to the east.

We almost never get thunder and lightning here in San Francisco proper, because the hills here are too gentle for the clouds to scutter up against and cause the conditions that are optimal for this kind of weather.

Late Friday afternoon, though, during sunset, we had a nice fall of rain. The clouds didn't reach all the way to the horizon, so the setting sun blazing through the silvery raindrops made for a beautiful end to the day. I was not in a place where I could easily see if there was a rainbow, but if there was, I bet it was wonderful.

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Okay, here's a Friday Five:

1. Name one movie you wish everybody could watch.

It's All Gone Pete Tong.

2. Name two books you wish everybody could read.

Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes and The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown.

3. Name three goals you wish everybody could achieve.

Comfortable shoes
Knowledge of self
Being able to decipher the news, and sort the wheat from the chaff and the science from the fiction.

4. Name four places you wish everybody could visit.

San Francisco, California
The Sutter Buttes, Sutter County, CA
Crystal Springs Reservoir, San Mateo County, CA
Disneyland, California

5. Name five people you wish everybody could know about.

Harriet Quimby
Douglas Englebart
Sergei Produkin-Gorskii
Osamu Tezuka
Ida Craddock

This list was an unused Friday Five that was submitted to the LJ website, but not used.

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When I was a kid, we used to play 'From Soup To Nuts'. It was a word game that required you to turn the word SOUP into the word NUTS in as few words as possible, changing only one letter of each word at a time, with no names of people or places.

I did it with a total of nineteen words, including the two starter words. Can you do better?

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That's it for today. Have a good Saturday.

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