This flyer was on my door last night:

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After the A&C fly-in in Denver, we flew to Montana. We did the self-guided tour of the state capitol in Helena. We didn't find any handbaskets in Helena.

We had lunch at the Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park.  We saw a few glaciers there, but they were small.

Also, due to the hydroelectric dams, the "Electric City" of Great Falls has no ( Read more... )

The day we returned the rental car (a Ford Focus), we noticed a strange button:

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We went to the Paradox Store, but they had no paradoxes. I can't decide if that's paradoxical or not.


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My mother was born in Illinois, so I can bad-mouth the place. The New York Times has "In Illinois, a Virtual Expectation of Corruption" as a headline. Even here in California, when I search Yahoo! News as of today, the Sponsor Results are still offering me my own chance at bribery ( Read more... )

Honey Wolfson said that "And" is the hardest call in square dancing. I guess it's not so easy in the English language, either:
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OAKLAND - Southbound I-880 lanes remained closed today following a massive tanker truck crash and gasoline ( Read more... )

Last weekend, we visited Jonathan's parents in Arizona. In the Tucson airport, the recorded security announcement had a mild intrusive R accent. We were supposed to report any suspicious activity to the appropriate "lore enforcement" authorities. I imagined that those are the officials who protect us against myth-behavior ( Read more... )

At the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel this weekend, the toiletries had pretentious names. The "hair wash" was shampoo, the "boot buffer" was the shoe-shine sponge, and the "bath hat" was the shower cap. That made me think of ass-hat, a term for someone with their head up their butt (i.e., wearing their ass as a hat ( Read more... )

Thursday night I saw Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage. It was inventive and artsy in staging. In particular, there was quite a bit of microphone choreography, which was sometimes clever, but sometimes seemed forced ( Read more... )

I went to a presentation about using FedEx in our purchasing system. They handed out containers of cute little paper clips, shaped like airplanes. How clever! How darling! And how phallic they look when they're actually being used!


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