Yeah, that's the grade I'm giving my weekend. I did not achieve all that I should have done. I did have the car inspected. I did build a pell. I did go fighing. I did laundry. I washed the dishes ( Read more... )

...again. I finished F. Androschunk's new book on Viking Sword, cleverly titled, "Viking Swords." I will have to read it again, since many of the issues to book discusses are very current in connection with swords. But first, more writing and another saga to read, I'm thinkin ( Read more... )

...but a greater ability to eat, with new dental work. For this I've bought a mouth guard for the whackity-whackity game. I'll see how it goes ( Read more... )

What? Next? What next? Summer. No jeans. Short sleave shirts. Heat. Humidity. Thunderstorms. People thinking about winter. Except for last winter, of course. Last winter was just too much ( Read more... )

May is often a particularly slow month here in Cell No. 42. The brain-feeding vo-tech institutions are usually not in session and so orders for information tend to dry-up. Fortunately for the Municipality of Oz May is a pretty nice month, even with the rain ( Read more... )

Gunnar Red-Boar of the Mid-Realm is trying to have a few people read "Egils Saga" for the month of May in hopes that it'll spark some conversation. For this I wrote a short commentary essay this weekend, which you might see floating about the web soon. The rest of the time I spent cleaning or fighting. The weather was great. I also napped ( Read more... )

is my mom's 80th Birthday, as many of you, dear readers, already know. I must call her ( Read more... )

Which is to say the grade I'm giving this past weekend. It began with a visit to the dentist. I expected to fitting for a new permanent crown on a tooth. I was wrong. The result was a 2 hour session in pre-paration for a bridge. The crown comes next. As a result, I am contemplating using a mouth guard for the whackity-whackity game. With ( Read more... )

...before anyone panics, the motherunit is fine, or at least as fine as possible. Possible is consideration; she turns 80 next week. This is cause for a full family reunion. All, I hope, will be there, including my brother, my sister, their significant others, and the law-school kid (my niece), I think. We'll have dinner at a nice restaurant ( Read more... )

...is hilarious!!! Ah, the advantages of city living! My beloved Patrikia and I went to see Eddie Izzard this past Saturday night. If I didn't have such a cough, I'd have laughed louder and a lot more.

On the whole the weekend was a very good one. Sunday I went fighting and managed to get into third gear a couple of times.