Sunday afternoon: Busy is as busy does . . .

1. I love this. I absolutely love this. I am getting more folks bursting into the Liamverse! It's like Christmas, or better, the week after Pennsic!

Please welcome thatpotteryguy, bow_bitch vesta_aurelia, de_chanson and palespider!

Welcome folks. Thanks for coming aboard.

2. How busy? The original title of this post included the words "Friday evening." Hours upon hours of teacher certification testing yesterday.

3. I am looking for help from someone who can format in WordPress. Nothing overly complicated. A couple of custom headers and help setting up some pages. Will barter.

4. Who is going to Winter War next weekend in Potsdam, NY?

If you are from Ealdormere and know someone going, tell them to say hello to me.

6. Seriously, baseball just shouldn't need to do this.

It's common sense!

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Major League Baseball has a new message for players and employees this spring training: Keep guns, long knives and explosives out of the clubhouse.

Signs have been placed in spring training locker rooms stating ''individuals are prohibited from possessing deadly weapons while performing any services for MLB.'' The rules apply to employees of the commissioner's office, other central baseball businesses and to teams, including players.

6. For those who attend Northern Region War Camp, this, from the Glens Falls Post-Star. is good news:

* The (Warren County Board of Supervisors) rejected an offer of $61,500 for the county fairgrounds property in Warrensburg. No bids were received for vacant land across Route 9 from the county Municipal Center in Queensbury.

7. I find stories like this ineffably sad:

Toronto Star

John Babcock, Canada’s last World War I veteran, has died at the age of 109.  A 16-year-old when he went in search of military glory, Babcock was the last of the 650,000 men and women Canada recruited to serve in the “war to end all wars.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper saluted Babcock Thursday, paying tribute to “Canada’s last living link to the Great War, which in so many ways marked our coming of age as a nation.” The men and women who served, Harper said, “paid dearly for the freedom that we and our children enjoy every day.

“Today,” he observed, “they’re all gone.”