8:51 PM >> New Glasses and New Words

New glasses are one great excuse to have a drink. I just got some new tumblers, well actually, they are very old tumblers. They were hawked from my Grandma's attic, so they're prolly older than me. But upon opening the box and blowing off the dust, I said "Damn, I need to take this baby for a spin." So I ran it under some hot water, threw in 3 cubes, and poured a little whiskey. I was watching an old ganster movie at the time where everyone was drinking whiskeys every five seconds, so that was also a big push in the decision to try out the tumbler.

New words are cool. I just came across some new words and decided to look them up to see what I found. Again, actually, they aren't new words. They were dug out of the dusty attic of Brian Wilson's Smile album, which puts them at 37 years old, I think. But they're good words, fun words, so here, take a gander >>

roun·de·lay (round-l) n. A poem or song with a regularly recurring refrain.

grange (grnj) n. 1. A building for storing grain; a granary. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes. And eke an officer out for to ride, To see her granges and her bernes wide. --Chaucer. Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid. --Tennyson. 3. A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited. [Obs.] 4. A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors. 5. An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867. [U. S.]