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Book Meme
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

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Well, like a few have already said, Pennsic land-grab was beautiful!  We left DC Saturday morning at around 11am to get onto the battlefield for troll line-up at about 4pm (stopped once for gas and lunch).

By the time we got trolled in, the storm was moving in...fast, but we were moving (luckily) a little faster, and we got the pavilion and the ( Read more... )

"It's not everyday that one gets to hold a Viking sword," was what the curator (Dr. Jeffrey Forgeng) at the Higgins Armoury Museum said to me on Thursday afternoon before handing me the almost 1400-year-old blade.

Yes, I had a spectacular time at the Higgins.  Dr. Forgeng (who's work on translating period fighting manuscripts and making them widely ( Read more... )

Normally this building is all a bustle with about 26,000 people walking the cooridors each day, but tonight (or, I guess, this morning) as I walked through the cooridors I saw only one other person ( Read more... )

To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity

1. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice. !

2. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that.

3. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

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