bird calls, curiosity, & esquire

I've been Googling!

Is that a word, googling?

I'm on holidays from work for a total of 10 days, 10 wonderful sleep-filled days!

The other day someone in my family said that the long alternating pitch bird noise that can be heard in my hometown belongs to the robin. O and I'm aware that whatever noise it is may be heard in other communities other than my own :) It's a slow sound, and the tune goes up and down repeatedly, sort of reminds me of the melody to "I Saw Her Standing There" by the Beatles. Maybe that example was unhelpful. So anyway, I looked up the tune that a robin sings! Here is what I listened to on BirdJam, which by the way is an awesome name for that website of bird songs. Unfortunately, the specific call I was thinking about, I don't hear on this clip. I'm not a bird watcher, but I guess I enjoy them enough. I like feeding them and taking photos, and I always am jacked up to see a bald eagle or an osprey! After getting the link I clicked on a few more birds. The Black-capped Chickadee sound in the first few seconds is almost like it, but it doesn't go up and down.

Holy crab-apples, new show alert!! It's called "Curiosity" and it comes on the Discovery Channel!! The first episode was this last week, and it was about Stephen Hawking's idea (and book) that God was unnecessary to the creation of the universe. I'm not going to get in to anything much about what my beliefs are, but whatever they may be, I am not ashamed or fearful of saying this stuff is interesting! He was explaining the universe, and really, it made me feel like a speck of dust. It spoke about matter and space and energy and how the universe is the positive energy and space is the negative, and there's so much space because the universe is so big. Is a universe a galaxy or are there multiple galaxies in space and that whole thing is the universe? Okay I'm not looking that up, the point is, I enjoyed it, even if I did get a 78% in  high school physics. I blame teaching. I was looking up specifics (like the name of the show, I had forgotten it) and this ABC news website page has a tiny creature sweeping up the bottom of the window. Just throwing that out there!

Also looked up the definition of the word "esquire" this past week. I hear it after people's names, and it somehow came up in discussion. I don't know how, I don't even know where I would have ever heard it. I think maybe at least once in some kind of watch commercial? Merriam-Webster says: Definition of ESQUIRE: a member of the English gentry ranking below a knight; a candidate for knighthood serving as shield bearer and attendant to a knight; used as a title of courtesy usually placed in its abbreviated form after the surname (John R. Smith, Esq.); a landed proprietor. I wonder what Urban Dictionary has to say about this... :) It's all pretty norm, except for this gem: "The friend of a hooker. Derived from the merging of the words escort (high class hooker) and squire (used as a term of endearment towards a friend)"

Take care pals!

-AMB