The Neon Nurse's Charting

I did a lot of posting on LJ today, but lots of it was silly quizzes and stuff. In order not to clog up people's mailboxes, here are the highlights.
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11:15 When I woke up this morning, I was having a dream where there was a commercial playing in the background, and one of the voices on it was Walter Brennan. So I had to lay in bed for an extra five minutes trying to remember what TV show he had famously starred in when I was a kid.... (That was one of the quizzes.)
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2:15 Whew, I just reassembled our smoker on the patio and then inserted a large beef brisket, with the intentions of feasting tonight before going to the fireworks show. It's sunny out there!
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3:30 OK, HERE'S a site that will keep a television fan enertained for hours:

http://www.poobala.com/crossoverlist.html

Because of chatting with Armoire_man and also my clone, another odd factoid bubbled up in my brain. Had I not heard that the three shows Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies were located in the same TV universe? Yes, it was true--and also Hogan's Heroes!!

But there are lots and lots and lots of shows where there were crossovers written in. Go and look and be amazed!
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3:45 Someone else had a meme going around asking you to list happy things.
I liked how my happy things I posted for my friend Dawn came out, so I am posting them here too. She asked for sensory pleasures:

Sight: As an amateur photographer, I can be entranced by how light falls on and/or shines through just about anything. With a thunderstorm every night for a week now, we've been seeing some really good mixed clouds, sometimes with rain, sometimes at sunset.

Sound: Hmm. Maybe I will stick with my storm week theme. We have a metal roof, so when it rains, it sounds AMAZING.

Touch: Mike sometimes comes in and snuggles me to wake me up. He sys, "I want some of your warm skin." The other night we were sitting on the porch watching the approaching storm, and we scooted close so we could both get some of the other's warm skin.

Also, just as it is starting to rain after a hot day, if you walk on a sidewalk the sun has been shining on, wisps of warmth and steam rise up around your legs, sort of playing tag with the cool breeze coming off the storm front. That's neat.

Taste: If there was hail with the storm, the bruised green smell is so strong it's almost a taste. (Wait, I should have saved that for Smell!)

Also, I once said good sushi tastes like a kick in the nose feels. Except in a good way. I like sushi.

Smell: I live across the road from an alfalfa field. When it's in bloom and the wind is from the south...well, heaven must smell just like that.
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7:20 We have had to transfer the brisket to another venue. Partway through the cooking process the heating element in the smoker burned out. Oh, well, I paid $5 for it 13 years ago (I remember the auction because I was hauling newborn Mike around in one of those chest carrier thingies) so I can't say I didn't get my money's worth out of it.

On the plus side, the radar is showing clear skies from here to the mountains, so barring any big changes the fireworks show should be a go. Also, we have achieved cherries.

Excellent holiday proceding on schedule.
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10:45
We are back from the mad fireworks extravaganza, over near the Sand and Sage fairgrounds. It was the usual reasonably good show, slightly different this year because they seemed to have deployed some of the lesser light-ups in alternate launch spaces, possibly to give a more surround-sound look and feel to the show. We weren't sure about this, but our county (maybe the whole state?) has restricted personal fireworks to things that do not fly up in the air or make a seriously loud noise. And yet there were HUNDREDS of those kinds of fireworks going off all over the designated area, and surely not EVERYONE went down across the border to Texas to buy illicit firepower?

Anyway, probably 1/4 of our 9,000 citizens were parked all around the ballfield, fairgrounds, high school, ALCO parking lot and all the streets in between, lighting off their own stuff while they waited for the real show. Which wasn't bad, really. I even saw one I don't think I've ever seen before--a sphere with a secondary charge that formed a perfect green cube inside it.

Anyway, we found a great parking spot where there weren't any street lights shining in our eyes, it didn't rain, the breeze kept the bugs away and the only thing bad at all was Mike got his fingertips pinched in the car door a little.
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Hope yours was just as fun and fulfilling!