Friday, December 06, 2013

Happy Feast of St. Nicholas (Imagine! A good bishop!)



              

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  1. Dean is First on this day of remembering those who give to help others!

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  2. Gosh, I had fun tonight, setting up the Front Page photos from now through Christmastide! :-D

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  3. Make that NEW Labour Party Manifesto...

    --Alan

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  4. We are having a spate of cold weather; could be a record.

    I must get back to reading The Left Hand of Darkness;" work (the curse of the drinking class) intervened.

    If I can get a certain client to pay up, I will order a nice grandfather clock such as Miyoko has been wanting for decades. If not, well, we will have to wait.

    --Alan

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    1. "Work, the curse of the drinking class..." Alan, you always give me a smile. That expression sounds vaguely familiar, though I can't recall where I might have come across it.

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    2. It's not original with me, but I can't recall where I first heard it either. Googling......OSCAR WILDE! Gad, how I love the Internet!

      --Alan

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  5. Parody or not, I like that.

    I'm Pink and I'm proud. *grin*

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  6. Audible link for The Dark Side. In my previous post about the book I mistyped the name of one of Cheney's lieutenants:should be Addington, not Addison.

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  7. Gonna get my hair cut tomorrow. I'm slightly apprehensive, since this hair dresser, a friend of Patty's, once gave me the worst perm of my life. I'm hoping she will do better with a simple bob. I also hope she and Patty don't hector me, trying to get me to agree to something mod. I want the simplest of simple bobs. But beauticians are never happy with simple, and Patty enjoys bossing me around. However,all in all I'm looking forward to the excursion.

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    1. Stand your ground, Cat! It's your head. Smile to yourself that you can come here afterwards and tell us how it went.

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  8. One of my earliest memories of political pink. . . .
    Helen Gahagan Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gahagan_Douglas‎
    Helen Gahagan Douglas (November 25, 1900 – June 28, 1980) was an American ... Alluding to her alleged "Red" sympathies, Nixon hinted that she was a fellow ... even had flyers printed up on sheets of pink paper, to underline the point.


    One of the people interviewed the night Nixon resigned was Mrs. Douglas. I was delighted to watch the interview. . . .

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  9. Up to now I have always been overlooked in news stories about cases in which I have testified, but my luck might run out this Monday. I will be testifying in a police excessive force case that is getting a lot of attention in the local newspaper--but so far it seems not to have been picked up by the wire services, which surprises me a bit. Well, there are things to be said for being below the radar.

    Work was insanely busy this past week--I could get some work done this evening, but will relax, go to bed at a reasonable hour, not set the alarm, and work tomorrow. In my pajamas and bathrobe, so there! Attorney conference and company holiday party on Sunday. Now a short documentary, and some more of The Left Hand of Darkness. (The protagonists are presently trying to work their way up onto the ice cap.)

    TTFN

    Alan

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