Not one, but two entries are up in September for the England travel journal. I’m slowly learning to work with images, with the help of the new book. I think I messed with one of them too much, and will fix it later.
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A typical Sunday at Holy Moly. We had a substitute priest, as Fr. Lundberg is on the beach in Florida somewhere. Our choir party-piece went off all right (a simple round: “When Jesus Wept”), although I blew the last line of the third repeat. However, I was singing third voice (of four) so I doubt anybody but Scott, the Ineffable Bass, noticed. Bob the organist played a variation on “Hylfrydol” by Ralph Vaughn Williams for the postlude – that seemed to go off well. After the service, he asked me to look into getting a small amount budgeted so he…
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I’m going back to bed. I went to bed really, REALLY early (it started out as an afternoon nap). I woke up a couple of hours ago; my back was hurting so much that finally I came downstairs for a sandwich. As much as I liked our mattress when we got it, I have to admit I’m not getting the kind of back support I need out of it. It’s a pillow-top… probably should have gone with something firmer. Dammit. On a related note, we went out and bought a new sofa and chair for the family room. It was…
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Seen in “Get Fuzzy:” Rob’s wearing the livery of the Eye of Mordor. In these post-movie days, if you want to make an obscure LOTR reference, it had better be something from the book that didn’t make it on-screen.
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It wouldn’t be a travel agent’s desk without some wacky promotional cows, now would it? Here are a few from my personal herd, courtesy of Millennium Hotels. They represent London, Los Angeles, and Beijing. Why cows? Because Millennium’s code in agency computers is “MU.”
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Via AKMA and others, the Church of England announces the formation of a virtual parish and is looking for a “web pastor.” And just what is St. Sam’s? Chopped Liver? (yes, yes, it’s the ANGLICAN mailing list, but their nickname is “The Anglican CyberParish of St. Sam’s)
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A selection of B&B’s in Salt Lake… Wildflowers Anton Boxrud House Saltair House Ellerbeck Mansion Based on this review at Splendid Table…
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See? And about 10-15 years ago, I would have been able to keep up with them for a while (not the running, but the drinking)((well, maybe the running for a while, but I was only good for about 3-4 miles)) I wonder if my niece Holly would fit in with this group? Quite possibly. Must ask her about this.
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So, more tinkering with the stylesheet and main index, but nothing earth-shattering. After discovering the joys of RSS feeds and reading in an aggregator, I discovered the heartbreak of excerpts-only feeds. So anything that offers a full-text feed is now linked via the aggregator, and anything that offers excerpts-only is linked via Blogrolling. Also, some blogs are nicer to read directly rather than via…(hark at her!) Oy, I’m such a newbie still. COMIX! Oh, joy!! Mutts is online. Yesh. For now I’ll be reading via email updates, but an RSS feed may soon via available via Tapestry.
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I’m not kidding, this is what a woman caller said to one of the agents today. The call was evidently not going well, and the woman was balking on some point of the corporate travel policy. Then she interrupted the increasingly frustrated agent with this cryptic comment: “I’m not trying to be a jag-off.” So now we’re trying to figure out if she really said “jack-off”, which would be a a really weird and shocking thing for a woman executive to say in a business environment. The agent got a good laugh out of mimicking someone that sounded a lot…