The title of this week's Friday's Five is "On deck."

Hey, wait! Wasn't "On deck" the title of last week's set? Yes, it was, but in that case the phrase was used metaphorically, while this time the questions are literally about various types of cards. [And, in fact, the FULL title of this week's set is "On (a different) deck."]

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Last week's Friday Five (it's "last week" once we reach Monday, right?) ask about the stuff I'm "into." This sounds potentially MUCH racier than any answer from me could ever, ever possibly be, alas.

Having thus lowered your expectations, I shall begin. ( Click! )

[She lives! Yes, here's a post from me, for the one or two readers I might have left, after more than two months of silence. I'm not sure why I disappeared -- I mean, yes, I was as busy as ever, but that never stops me unless I let it. I'm thinking that maybe therapy has replaced blogging as my emotional outlet, at least for the time being. Still, ( Read more... )

Today's Friday Five wants to know how I cope. Do you? ( Then click. )

Swiped from Lazygal, whom I first met almost 20 years ago at an online reading community site called TheReadersVine (one of the old CyberSites communities). She got it from Terry Teachout, who posted his answers two years ago under the above title and identifies the source of the meme as Hannah Gersen. Ms. Gersen created the set, she says, along ( Read more... )

This week's Friday Five can be characterized as a catch-all set.

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( New 'Daybook!' )

AWOL
So I haven't posted in a while -- it's been six weeks, if you go by the date on the most (now second-most) recent entry here. Of course, that's a bit misleading, since I did actually put something up in July ... but I took it down in short order because I realized it was too personal and I didn't want to be teased for it (sometimes you forget ( Read more... )

( Probably boring, but it is my blog )

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