It's so pleasant and relaxing to sit stroking a purring cat for 20 minutes or so.

Afterwards I looked down at my lap.


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It was sometime around 47 years and 3 hours ago that I realized that the previous twelve or so hours were something more than an enjoyable afternoon and evening with a really nice girl. She, OTOH, had recognized something analogous about twelve hours earlier, but her reaction to the realization was more like "Oh, no! This?" -- not unreasonable, ( Read more... )

I just made Level 6. :-)

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I slept in till about eleven. Then I poked around doing mostly this or that, not feeling pressured.

Late in the afternoon I drove down to the central Philadelphia Free Library to renew my card and get a copy of C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces to read this evening. My Alumni Assn's (St. John's College) Philly chapter is having a seminar on it ( Read more... )

Last Friday I went to the absolute premiere performance of a new comic opera, "Biennale".

The poetry of Shakespeare and the art of the Italian Renaissance meet the video games of the 21st century in this comedic multimedia opera by composer Paul Richards and librettist Wendy Steiner. Biennale follows a women's magazine editor as she enters an ( Read more... )

This year I played Queen Esther, in a dress (and bra) of Rene♡s (with bubble wrap stuffed in the cups):


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We had a block cleanup and party, and neighbor Nick posted the pictures he took. My friends know where they can find me: at the Scrabble game!


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So, all the repaving and reconstruction they've been doing in front of where i work ... Well, something nice is beginning to take shape.

Some of those big concrete squares they laid down were cut off at the corner, and the corner filled with a triangle of plywood while the concrete was poured and setting. Now they're filling in those corners with a ( Read more... )

(Dr. Whom and the clef were fighting it out for rights on this post. The clef won, maybe because I can listen to the show while typing, with the video in the corner of my screen.)

from kai_mikael:

I don't know if this is visible outside Sweden, [it is] but it's absolutely fantastic: the finals of the Swedish quals to the Eurovision Song Contest - in sign ( Read more... )