Well, here's something pretty exciting: I'm in a book: Ahiman: A Review of Masonic Culture and Tradition
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I've been growing my moustache for 10 or 11 days now, and it's gotten to the point where it's looking like maybe I missed a spot shaving on purpose for many days. Actually it's starting to feel sort of hairy up there. It's hard to describe, if you've never had a moustache, but there's a point at which you can just sort of feel hair doing curious ( Read more... )

I have been smoking Rattray's Accountants' Mixture, which arrived in my tobacco shipment yesterday. It actually got here after I did, as I'd been up north doing some stuff. On Thursday I went to the sessions for the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Oregon, which was nice but sort of dull. After that I drove up to Roseburg to visit my ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I’m headed to Seattle for some Masonic business which I’m not going to share here, because it’s sort of special and secret. It’s a great honor, though, and I’m definitely excited about it. I’m not too thrilled about driving for eight hours, but at least it will be with a good friend of mineAnyhow, I’m leaving early, so if anybody is ( Read more... )

On Friday night I got home to discover that Tarzan, my favorite and oldest cat, was sick. He was acting like he was in a great deal of pain and was hunching his body up in strange ways. Remembering past unpleasant events with injured and sick cats, I immediately was overcome with worry. Was it some horrible cat-sickness? Cancer? Ruptured ( Read more... )