adaxial shade button lady

I don't know the correct translation, but button is probably accurate. Why does it even know words like adaxial? Maybe the source text has typos.

Plato has an IMDb Page! There is no contact info, nor is there a section for allegories.

There are fireworks right outside the window at work. They're a lot closer than the ones the city put on in July.

sesquicentennial

It seems like the quasquicentennial was barely 25 years ago. I hope there's cake.

"dueling frusta"

"retro digital watch." And it wasn't even an LED watch. I feel old.

moribund

No burgermeisters were harmed in the making of this word.

"They couldn't have been spies. Look what she did with the hydrangeas."

a neighbor of Cynthia Murphy

Aprium. They are available slightly out-of-season here, but you have to show ID. You can combine them with pluots to form a terrible Star Trek episode.

Happy 981st anniversary to Zoe the Macedonian and Romanos III Argyros!