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So much going on despite the pandemic.

TOASTMASTERS: At our last meeting (May 5) it was my turn to lead the Table Topics. Since it was the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard's historic suborbital flight, I didn't think twice about the theme. I just had to make the questions a bit wordier than "normal" because I wasn't sure how much the members of my ( Read more... )

Today the SCA is 55 years old. NOT 56 years old -- today is the first day of Anno Societatis LVI, or in other words, the Society is beginning its 56th year of existence. It's come a long way from that very first "international tournament."

And tomorrow is the 40th birthday of the Kingdom of Atlantia! Huzzah and Vivat!!

Today Atlantia actually had a ( Read more... )

So ... what have I been doing with the rest of my life, the part that isn't constantly doomscrolling about politics?

(Doomscrolling ... another word that has entered the language in the past year or so.)

The boy toy and I are still in good health. Although neither of us has been tested for covid-19, I don't think we have it. Certainly we have had no ( Read more... )

I can't think of any other year when *everyone* wanted to say "good riddance" to the outgoing year. In the past, maybe somebody who lost a job or a marriage or a family member would say "this year sucks," and their friends would nod sympathetically while secretly giving thanks for their promotions and pay raises and kids' college scholarships. But ( Read more... )

Yesterday the 18-year-old thermostat broke when we were switching off the A/C so we could open the windows for a bit (due to the nice fall weather). Of course, the A/C doesn't work at all without some sort of controller, and it gets stuffy in here at night with the windows closed. So today we went to Lowe's and got a new thermostat, a basic $20 ( Read more... )

Because everything is random these days ( Read more... )

On Saturday the boy toy and I cut each other's hair. As I explained in the previous entry, I've been cutting his hair for a while now, but this was the first time he trimmed mine. He ended up taking off about two and a half inches. My hair feels SO much better without all those split ends. It gets much less snarly ( Read more... )

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