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| Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | | 9:48 am |
What a way to start a Monday. As almost everyone who has gotten online before me this morning has already posted, George Carlin has passed. Requiescas in pace, George. <voice="stoned-hippie">"Tonight's forecast: Dark. Continued mostly dark tonight, changing to widely scattered light in the morning."</voice> Got any favorite Carlin quotes (from stand-up or movies) you'd like to share? | | Friday, June 13th, 2008 | | 4:18 pm |
A menagerie for my late father-in-law ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) montuos's father was born on Friday, June 13th. The last birthday he celebrated alive was on Friday, June 13th. It is again Friday, June 13th. So I raise a glass in his honor. Hippo birdie two ewes, Hippo birdie two ewes, Hippo birdie deer montuos's Papa, Hippo birdie two ewes! Current Mood: birthday cake-ish | | Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | | 12:53 pm |
It happens like this to nearly everyone I know, as well as to us. Yesterday's mail included a check from the IRS. (Tax refund, economic stimulus, doesn't matter.) Yesterday, one minivan refused to start (admittedly, the starter has been fading slowly for a while now), and the other minivan's driver's window derailed when montuos tried to close it. Coincidence? You must be *&^%$#@! kidding. Current Mood:  annoyed | | Thursday, May 29th, 2008 | | 11:40 am |
| | Monday, May 19th, 2008 | | 11:17 am |
A not-unreasonable synopsis of what I've been up to recently
"So, he and his friends, and his friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends' friends, and some rather less good friends of theirs who happened to own a major stellar trucking company, put in what now is widely recognized as being the hardest night's work in history, and, sure enough, on the following day, Magramal was no longer visible." - Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything
Well, maybe not just one night. More like 3 evenings and 2 days... so far. EDIT 24May08: 7 evenings and 3 days.There is residual stuff left to be done, but the stuff that was marked to go to the new place is now there, and everything else is either in storage, freecycled, or pitched. | | Friday, May 16th, 2008 | | 1:51 pm |
Coolness at church
For Western Christians, this past Sunday was Pentecost, celebrating the day that the Holy Spirit came and descended upon the apostles, and they started speaking in tongues. However, as we were reminded, it was NOT like the modern glossolalia associated with Pentecostals and other evangelicals. The modern stuff involves people speaking in odd languages nobody on earth can understand. The Biblical story involved the apostles speaking in such a manner that ALL could understand -- that they started to proclaim the Good News, and each person listening heard it in his/her primary language.
I was at Sharon Chapel for the service, and they did something I thought was very neat... at the end of the reading of the Pentecost story, members of the congregation got up one by one and repeated the first bit of the reading in a different language: Spanish, French, Hindi, Latin, Akan (Ghana), Russian, Italian, Swahili, and Biblical Greek. (There would have been a German rendition but the speaker got sick at the last minute.) During the sermon, the pastor made mention of this, and someone in the congregation said "I dunno, they all sounded like English to me..." (Yes, we all laughed.) | | Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | | 10:59 am |
Wedding weekend alienor and fenrir1323 got married this past Saturday. I had the privilege of being in the wedding party, along with soucyn, kfitzwarin, lady_guenievre, melaniesuzanne, Talina, Brittney, Steve, Malia, and Fletcher. I must admit I was a bit apprehensive about it; among other things, I hadn't met fenrir1323 yet (the bride-to-be had asked me to stand up for them), and I honestly didn't know if I would know too many people present, and was anxious about being a fish out of water. (Curiously, it appears I wasn't the only one who was feeling that way about themselves.) I made arrangements with Bruce and Cheryl to crash at their place, as I didn't want to deal with the distance home, *and* the Beltway between home and the wedding would be under severe road work all weekend. Things started on Thursday, with a truly ugly trip through traffic to the opposite side of the Beltway, where Steve's house was the rendezvous for the bachelor party (to be held up near Baltimore). That went fairly smoothly, though it was amusing that halfway down the road we were suddenly going 120 mph, with a stone cold engine running at 0 rpm, and no gas in the tank. (That van apparently is known for having wonky dashboard wiring.) The trip back was made in pouring rain, but the tornadoes went south of us -- I gather those at the bachelorette party were a little nervous for a while. Friday, while the ladies did their bridal shower, we ran about Prince Georges and Charles Counties picking up tuxen and other stuff needed for Saturday. We then retreated to the bride and groom's house to shower and dress for the rehearsal dinner. After dinner I drove a bunch of people back up to Bowie, then retreated back south to Bruce and Cheryl's to crash. The bridal party converged upon the Mix House Saturday morning to decorate the place. The men then went back to the house to dress, accompanied by Brittney to make sure we got stuff right, while the other women changed on site (there being only room enough for the women to change). Once dressed, we returned to the Mix House, and took pre-ceremony pictures inside. The ceremony itself was brief but wonderful. The reception was the first time I'd really felt a bit out of place; Brittney invited me to sit at a table with her, which helped. And there were quite a few people there that I knew; beyond the wedding party there were Scott (aka Hubbyfink), duchessmel, mmcnealy, azpapillion, and I know there were others but I'm blanking. Once the reception was over and we'd cleaned up the hall, we changed into casual clothing and headed over to the bride's parents' home for a post-revel after-party with BBQ, tropical drinks, a half-keg of cider, and other potables. I drank a fair bit, but made an effort to stay at the point where I could sober up on an hour's notice, since I was driving back to B+C's afterwards. Others drank more. Some drank a *lot* more. Significant hangovers were reported the next day. However, nothing got ugly, everyone appeared to have fun, and only two glasses got broken (from being dropped). We scattered to our various homes or crashpads around 1 AM. Sunday I said my thank-yous and goodbyes to B+C, went to sing at Sharon Chapel (about which more later), and eventually got back home mid-afternoon. Then in the evening, I met montuos and killernurd to see Iron Man; see this post for things I said while watching the movie (only vaguely semi-spoiler-ish). | | Monday, May 12th, 2008 | | 9:41 am |
| | Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | | 11:38 am |
| | Monday, May 5th, 2008 | | 5:43 pm |
| | Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | | 10:03 am |
| | Monday, April 21st, 2008 | | 4:18 pm |
| | Friday, April 18th, 2008 | | 7:58 pm |
Briefly surfacing... Happy Belated Birthdays to dagopher, liamstliam, tynieallen, demonlurking, mrgoodwraith, hersir, and isenglass! I have given good birthday wishes to may of you already, either in your own blog or someone else's, but for all of you I hope your birthdays were good ones. For various reasons I haven't been posting much this month. Being sick and doing taxes were significant factors. I'm even nearly a week behind on *reading* LJ, though I am caught up on today, having read from last night through to the present. More details will probably come next week, but for now here's the short version... The week after Easter we traveled to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, to attend the Mudthaw event and watch alphaggek get Flipped The Bird. Various people either had, or were just coming down with, some sort of bug; I caught it, but montuos and stefsoap managed to avoid it (for which they were quite grateful). I was unwell for most of the week that followed, and would have been utterly miserable in the cold and damp conditions that pervaded Atlantian Coronation the following weekend. So while montuos went down to Way Southwestern North Carolina, I stayed in the FedroSplat. I went to gaming at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) chez_turtle on Friday the 4th and to Megan's birthday party on Saturday the 5th. For the first part of the following week, bunnyjadwiga crashed with us while attending a conference in the area; she caught the bug rather more heavily than I had, and still looked and sounded pretty bad off. Last weekend I went up to PA, as I needed to visit my credit union up there, and had been invited to dinner as well. This past week has been taxes and more taxes; VA state income tax returns aren't due until 1 May, so I waited until after the fed returns were done to do the Virginia taxes. And that's the quick version of what I've been up to. Blessed Passover for those who celebrate it, and a happy weekend to everyone! | | Monday, March 31st, 2008 | | 4:05 pm |
Blatant shameless plug (jewelry) I've bought a couple of jewelry items in the past year from Falling Leaf Arts. I would buy (or even commission) more except that my budget is shot all to hell. Well, right now the artist is having a sale. The sale runs through this coming Sunday night. I strongly encourage you to go look at her work, and buy it to whatever extent your budget allows. | | Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 | | 10:09 am |
| | Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 | | 2:34 pm |
IASBT Moment from yesterday (22 March 2008) For those of you who haven't read about this in montuos's post yet: Yesterday, we drove bronx_baroness to Defending the Gate VII / Stierbach Baronial Investiture, since her husband fuzzface00 was in Chicago, trying to catch a plane that would actually take him to Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, where their car was parked. This effort took most of the day but was ultimately successful; as we were packing up at the end of the event, she contacted him to find that he had, in fact, gotten as far as Virginia in the car, and might even beat us to their place in Sterling. We finish loading up the van, and start the drive home. Gas prices are better than average down in the Fredericksburg area, and we'd gotten close to an empty tank, so just before getting on the Interstate we stop to fill up. We pull in, and I'm fishing around for a wallet in order to extract the appropriate credit card, as a gray Honda Element pulls up in the other direction to stop on the other side of the same gas pump. bronx_baroness says, "Isn't that fuzzface00?" There are lots of gray Honda Elements in this area. But experience has taught me that the Divine *really likes* to play practical jokes on our circle of friends. So I hop out of the car, zip around the pump, and sure enough, it *is*. We break into hysterical laughter; Fuzz is wondering how the hyenas got there. I wave to Fuzz, who sees me, and *facepalm*s in his signature "oh maaaaaaan..." way of his. As if that weren't enough, he's talking on his cell phone to bunnyjadwiga via maziemaus's phone, and he'd said something like "I don't be-&^%$#@!ng-lieve it". Apparently she didn't believe it either, so he hands the phone to me. I confirm that yes, by some strange quirk of the Universe, he and we have managed (despite coming from two very different directions) to pull in to the SAME GAS STATION, AT THE SAME TIME. Hysterical laughter ensures on the other end of the phone call as bunnyjadwiga relays this to the rest of the family. Back at the gas station, the phrase "I Am *SO* Blogging This!!!" is heard. After filling up our gas tanks, we rearrange the stuff in the Element such that bronx_baroness can ride home with her Husband Deluxe, whom she hadn't seen in two weeks except for an hour at the Atlanta airport last weekend. Later today we will finish transferring stuff (primarily her scooter) back to them, and if fuzzface00 is lucky his luggage might arrive, preferably in a place where he can drive 5 minutes (not 5 hours) to pick it up. Current Mood:  giggly | | Friday, March 21st, 2008 | | 9:56 pm |
Good Friday
Vere languores nostros ipse tulit, et dolores nostors ipse portavit; cujus livore sanati sumus.
Dulce lignum, dulce clavos, dulcia ferens pondera,
Quae sola fuisti digna sustinere Regem Coelorum et Dominum
(Truly He has borne our weakness, and carried our griefs; by His wounds we are healed.
O sweet wood, O sweet nails, sweetly bearing the weights,
That wast solely worthy to uplift the King of Heaven, the Lord.)
(This is what we sang at the end of the service tonight. The English translation is my own, though informed by a number of different sources.)
Current Music: "Vere Languores Nostros" - Tomas Luis de Victoria | | Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | | 9:45 am |
weekend in PA: Nove Schola Semi-obligatory name-dropping from Saturday: math5, siobhan1214, merricke, bunnyjadwiga, Becka, h3salthea, degrimm1, aliwodehalle, beckishadow, bertana, joef_johnm, kandy_elizabet, Corwin, Scolastica, John, Arpad, Marti, Carowyn, Apollonia, and I am forgetting the names of several others that I did talk to. ( Nova Schola )We were pretty wiped when we got home Sunday night, but I had to stay up to deal with a significant problem in the front yard. At least it wasn't raining, but my back was not at all happy about it, and poor-quality sleep has been an issue ever since. | | Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 | | 3:58 pm |
Wiseasses "Я" Us maziemaus: biab, have to install ram dr_zrfq: as opposed to installing ewe? ;-P Current Mood: mischievous | | 12:41 pm |
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