The State Association
 had declared a convocation
At a well-located hotel
 here upon a certain date.
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I've set up a DW site as countrycousin, primarily to keep in touch with some folks who may move there entirely.

ETA: They're gone now.

I've been given a couple of invite codes.  If you want one, say so and leave email/contact instructions.  Comments are screened.

a novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows,  published in 2008 by the Dial Press.

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Sunday evening I was in the middle of a construction project, holding some pieces with wet glue and an absolute disinclination to remain in the position which destiny had decreed they assume when my wife walks in and says that the Director of the Senior Center has decreed that she produce me at the Senior Center promptly.   Hmmm.   This was ( Read more... )

It is nice to have a bit of music while doing dishes, but tonight I made the mistake of putting on the Stratford DVD of The Mikado.

The music is, of course, superb.  But so is the acting and choreography.  I kept sneaking rather extended peeks and my chores were thereby extended.

The Stratford G&S DVDs are indeed a blessing.

I posted in July that we'd be moving, and various consequences have kept down my posting, although rather a lot has been happening.  One thing is implied in a profile change:  I am no longer a Village Trustee, although I have agreed to help them out with electrical matters for a while, and I spent an hour on the phone today with non-electric ( Read more... )

1037 at 10:45 am, not all absentees fed in yet ( Read more... )

From many on my FL*:  I don't do this much, but, because of various activities, particularly Q8, CA:

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.I could go on about this - I, personally, think there would be virtue in ( Read more... )

We had a spate of Vorkosigan quotes. A re-read of  The Curse of Chalion cries out for a spate of others.

One particularly appropriate for full-moon time in October:

"My chosen god is, dare I say it, fiendishly ambiguous at times . . . "

by Roger Zelazny 1993 ( Read more... )