On Thursday I thought, “I don’t have to do anything Mohawk Valley-ish tonight: tomorrow is Lame Post Friday!” Today (Friday), I realize that, lame or not, I still have to actually write something. What the blankety-blank am I going to find to talk about?
I’m eating an egg and olive sandwich. I blogged about making egg and olive and how it turned out soupy. I fixed it by adding two more eggs, and now it’s pretty good.
Something I always wonder about is why they say you can’t have your cake and eat it too. When someone says, “Have some cake,” don’t they expect you to eat it? I may have mentioned this before. If so, sorry for repeating myself.
The Ilion Farmer’s Market is NOT closing for the season but runs all winter long. It is Friday and Saturday at Clapsaddle Farm on Otsego Street. I want to go there today and buy some pickles. I hope they have the garlic kind.
The sun seems to be shining for the first time in a few days. I hope it refrains from raining this evening, so I can take my dog for a walk.
And there’s another odd expression: “The sun is trying to peek out.” The sun does not really move much; we all know the earth rotates to create the appearance of sunrise and sunset. The clouds move in front of the sun. The sun has very little to do with it. In fact, I believe about a million miles separate the clouds from the sun. I would be very surprised to find out the sun considers the matter at all.
I have no half baked philosophy for today. It’s kind of too bad, because my usual Happy Friday Mood has eluded me for much of the day. I think some philosophy may have helped. After all, as the great Donald Westlake once said, “My philosophy is you have to be philosophical about it.”
And there’s your Friday post. See ya Saturday.
Mohawk Valley Girl 
I think maybe the expression was originally “You can’t eat your cake and have it too” meaning that you can’t do something that changes the situation but expect the situation to remain the same.
Westlake’s last words: “Whaddaya gonna do?”
Oh, I know what the expression about cake is supposed to mean. I just think it’s a silly way to put it. And now I’m thinking about having some cake…
The Westlake quote was actually spoken by one of his characters in the book “Somebody Owes Me Money.” Given that, it may not even be Westlake’s own philosophy, but I like the quote. Glad to know what his last words were. Classic.
Thanks for commenting!
I’m embarrassed that I added that definition. I started out to say that, because the original phrase was “eat your cake and have it too” rather than “have your cake and eat it too,” I like to conjure up the image of someone eating their cake and then going Wah, I want my cake back…
Also, my wife has a wedding-cake business.
And finally, I understand that right at the end, Westlake switched into his hard-boiled Richard Stark nom de plume persona and uttered his last words, which were, sadly, unprintable here.
I see what you mean, and I like the image of someone crying, “Wah, I want my cake back!” I usually say, “Wah! I want more cake!” which is not the same thing.
I’m only sorry Westlake has said his last words, and isn’t writing more for me to read. I love his writing.