~Friday~ Today, Bob and I had the honor and pleasure of attending the wedding of our very good friend Michael, and his partner of 23.5 years, Terry, as they got legally married in Washington, DC at the historic Dacor Bacon House. The house was built in 1824-1825, and during the years 1831-1833, Chief Justice of … Read more
~Thursday evening~ Bob and I had decided to wait until we got to DC to buy a wedding card for Michael and Terry, since we knew it’d be infinitely easier finding one there than back in Raleigh. After checking in to the hotel, and waiting for Carole — a friend of Michael’s who had ridden … Read more
~Saturday~ I got up earlier than I anticipated, and as beautiful as that king size bed looked, its mattress was not as firm I prefer and my back was hurting a little. That, together with breathing through my mouth instead of my nose all night, which resulted in waking up once at 2:30, again at … Read more
~Saturday~ As briandrdu predicted several months ago when this same thing happened to another limb, “If that’s a Bradford Pear, it’ll happen again.” Sure enough; this is what it looked like yesterday: I went for a walk around Lake Johnson and when I left, a service was here to clean up the mess. When I … Read more
~Saturday~ Evidently LiveJournal has introduced a search tool. Thank goodness! Not having one has long been one of the very few things that I don’t like about LJ. I’m not quite sure why I didn’t see an announcement on it; I found out via an e-mail from my friend Casey (cpeel): Howdy John, You’ll be … Read more
I thought up this pastiche this morning after seeing the video below. “If a woman loses pace with her companions, perhaps it is because she hears a different drummer. Let her step to the music in which she hears, however measured, or far away.” ~Henrietta Davida Thorette~ For some reason this reminds me of Annie … Read more
I was up at 8:00 this morning, and did just a little more work on grants for our Manbites Dog board meeting. Specifically, I looked at applying for a Google Grant for our organization. Getting that grant, we’d also get free access to Google Checkout. I headed to Durham at 9:30, actually leaving enough time to make … Read more