Friday: Looking forward to the weekend . . .

1, Welcome to trimguy . Yep, it's Drix, so we have trim and Latin Lessons in equal quantity.

2. The meatloaf came out just fine. ;) Tonight's an all-local dinner of steak, potatoes and corn. I apparently need to buy corn in the dozens for my wife.

3. I did the first part of the Pennsic packing last night (after getting the dishes done). Kakuru "helped." I have a load of washing to do before I can move on with the packing. We're going to do some pre-packing stuff with the car this weekend. I do wish I could be there for tomorrow.

4. Speaking of the weekend, with all the event stuff and Alethea working a couple of Saturdays, we haven't really been able to have a "date day." 

Tomorrow we will head to Nothampton, Mass., sho she can go fondle yarn at Webb's. Northampton/Amherst is a bit of a beer nexus, which three local brew pubs, two (or more) great beer bars, other breweries, and at lest one outstanding package store. There are also bookstores, and we will likely hit Trader Joe's the get Pennsic supplies, The really cool part is that Theresa and Mike are going to meet us there. Perhaps others might show up. We are getting to Webb's at noon.

5. Very important pimpage: A number of my friends -- "Hello, Team Venture!" -- and one of our computers are taking part in Blogathon beginning at 9 a.m. tomorrow. My frirend Shadesong sums it all up here: http://shadesong.livejournal.com/3605043.html There is a wide array of causes from which to choose.

6. I leave you with a quote from Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1960s.

"Baseball is the background music of America."

Friday evening: Tired and ready for bed

1. Things always mushroom when I am around.

Tomorrow, at noon at Webb's in Northampton, Mass., you could see me, alethea_eastrid, theresat, l3barcelona, kyttle, zarhooie and possibly rtropeano.

Sure you do not want to come.

2. If you are doing blogathon, do not worried that I have briefly taken you off my friends' list. You will be back on there Sunday. I just get waaaay too much LJ as it is.

3. More from the New York Times' Entitled Gits' section.

I love it when they parody their readers, who don't know it's parody. Then, maybe the Times doesn't know, either.

4. However, The Times does a really nice historical piece on the U.S. state that never was.

5. No, it's not all-Times, all the time, but cool story about U.S. Olympic team horses.

6. Tor is offering free downloads until Sunday on a couple of dozen science fiction books, including John Scalzi's "Old Man's War," which is one of the best science-fiction books I have ever read. Lots of free cover art, too.

7. The reason I found that was because I went back to John Sclazi's blog so I could link you to the drama going on there and bleeding, badly, over onto cf_hardcore, which is not a sex blog.