Yesterday I got caught in the pouring rain twice. The first time was walking from the grocery store home in the morning, and the second time was walking (jogging, unladen) home from church ( Read more... )

Wednesday night I helped clean the church, which really meant me washing chalices and ciboria and scrubbing a black incense holder till it was copper. I don't know if it was copper to start off with, but I concluded copper was better than black. My hands are still fairly grubby ( Read more... )

Wednesday was a day of firsts, and among the most noteworthy were my first time through Terminal 5 at Heathrow and my first trip to the Continent. Terminal 5 was more interesting than the Continent, but Terminal 3 still has a better collection of Dunhill ties than Terminal 5. At the end of the day I'm not sure where that gets us. I didn't buy ( Read more... )