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Under Another Rainbow...
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stephl) would do well to go immediately to read "The Hollow Man" by my friend sister_wolf. On a Sunday night it's not getting half enough attention. It's true that I helped beta it, but it's all sister_wolf's story-telling on parade...
1. The family party for my niece's first communion (not confirmation as I wrote previously -- I may have been a tired or something, because I know the difference, really) was pleasant and fun, and I made a point of table-hopping along the long table so that I got to spend at least a little time with everybody, including sitting down on the floor with my niece and reading some of the Calvin & Hobbes collection that I got her as part of her presents, with her. She had a white party dress, a pearl tiara and a veil-y head scarf, and was blowing blue bubblegum bubbles for part of the time which was adorably cute.
2. She's just turned 8 and can read most of the C&H captions without stumbling.
3. I managed to miss the sign for the strip mall where the restaurant was located, and go about five miles beyond before doubling back... and then missing it again, this time from the other side of the highway. After I'd pulled in to the next most promising looking mall, and was going through my Palm Pilot trying to find my brothers' cell phone numbers, my s-in-law called me up, and gave me more exact instructions.
4. I don't know how I missed the mall, because the sign was as big as could be and I was looking really hard.
5. For the soon-to-be-graduating-high-school nephew, I got a book called Where's Mom Now That I Really Need Her which looks like it has some actually common-sense advice about cooking and laundry and stuff like that. The nephew seemed really pleased and complimented, actually.
6. For S-in-law #2 (mother of communion niece) I got Cooks Illustrated: The Best Recipes, since she's a very good cook already but I am assured, byreadsalot among others, that they do great things with food writing and experimenting at that magazine. Besides, #2 deserves random presents now and again, and she'd put together this whole celebration. (At least she gets to sit and eat with the rest of us at a nice restaurant brunch buffet, so good....
7. The drive back to MA was slower than I would have liked, about 5 hours, though I did stop three times altogether, mostly to reset the iBook so that another CD of Krakatoa would play correctly in iTunes. We've still not gotten to the big eruption, but we're into the months beforehand, with minor eruptions and earthquakes, so it's only a matter of time.
8. Strangely enough, Encore Action is showing Krakatoa, East of Java this Wednesday. I've set the TiVo accordingly. I also went and looked up a map of Sumatra and Java to try to fix the geographical reality in my head, because listening to it isn't making me "see" it all that much more.
9. Speaking of seeing things -- Just about when I crossed the border into MA, I saw another rainbow! Not quite as spectacular as Saturday's, this was only a half-arc and not as bright... but I could make out the faint, secondary rainbow. Seeing just one rainbow in a year is extraordinary around here... seeing two in two days is damn amazing!
10. Back to work tomorrow. Thank goodness it's a three-day weekend coming up -- I'll need it to recover....
stephl) would do well to go immediately to read "The Hollow Man" by my friend sister_wolf. On a Sunday night it's not getting half enough attention. It's true that I helped beta it, but it's all sister_wolf's story-telling on parade...1. The family party for my niece's first communion (not confirmation as I wrote previously -- I may have been a tired or something, because I know the difference, really) was pleasant and fun, and I made a point of table-hopping along the long table so that I got to spend at least a little time with everybody, including sitting down on the floor with my niece and reading some of the Calvin & Hobbes collection that I got her as part of her presents, with her. She had a white party dress, a pearl tiara and a veil-y head scarf, and was blowing blue bubblegum bubbles for part of the time which was adorably cute.
2. She's just turned 8 and can read most of the C&H captions without stumbling.
3. I managed to miss the sign for the strip mall where the restaurant was located, and go about five miles beyond before doubling back... and then missing it again, this time from the other side of the highway. After I'd pulled in to the next most promising looking mall, and was going through my Palm Pilot trying to find my brothers' cell phone numbers, my s-in-law called me up, and gave me more exact instructions.
4. I don't know how I missed the mall, because the sign was as big as could be and I was looking really hard.
5. For the soon-to-be-graduating-high-school nephew, I got a book called Where's Mom Now That I Really Need Her which looks like it has some actually common-sense advice about cooking and laundry and stuff like that. The nephew seemed really pleased and complimented, actually.
6. For S-in-law #2 (mother of communion niece) I got Cooks Illustrated: The Best Recipes, since she's a very good cook already but I am assured, by
readsalot among others, that they do great things with food writing and experimenting at that magazine. Besides, #2 deserves random presents now and again, and she'd put together this whole celebration. (At least she gets to sit and eat with the rest of us at a nice restaurant brunch buffet, so good....7. The drive back to MA was slower than I would have liked, about 5 hours, though I did stop three times altogether, mostly to reset the iBook so that another CD of Krakatoa would play correctly in iTunes. We've still not gotten to the big eruption, but we're into the months beforehand, with minor eruptions and earthquakes, so it's only a matter of time.
8. Strangely enough, Encore Action is showing Krakatoa, East of Java this Wednesday. I've set the TiVo accordingly. I also went and looked up a map of Sumatra and Java to try to fix the geographical reality in my head, because listening to it isn't making me "see" it all that much more.
9. Speaking of seeing things -- Just about when I crossed the border into MA, I saw another rainbow! Not quite as spectacular as Saturday's, this was only a half-arc and not as bright... but I could make out the faint, secondary rainbow. Seeing just one rainbow in a year is extraordinary around here... seeing two in two days is damn amazing!
10. Back to work tomorrow. Thank goodness it's a three-day weekend coming up -- I'll need it to recover....
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