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You know what I love about bagpipes? Among many things: the drone. I love the underlayment, but more, I love the way it comes on just a bit before the first notes appear. It's like the whistle of an incoming shell. "Music coming! Get down!"

What's on my calendar--March?

What do I bother year after year to write on my calendar for March?

2nd: Dr. Seuss's Birthday (1904)

6th: My Birthday!

14th: Pi Day
Albert Einstein's Birthday

17th: Festival of Eros

20th: Vernal Equinox

23rd: Charter Day

25th: Erick Wujcik Day

30th: Vincent Van Gogh's Birthday (1853)

( In which I explain much of the above )

Fair enough, fair enough...

If I were God over LiveJournal... by shinikami
Username
Jesus would be	kit_kindred
The four archangels would be	naudiz
and	tnh
and	ambersknave
and	obadiah
The Blessed Virgin would be	colomon
Satan would be	aiyume
The antichrist would be	badgerbag
And YOU would be	Just nobody
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After all, aiyume did introduce me to the Sandman books, from which I picked up at least one key bit of my non-Christian life philosophy... I went to the reading and signing Neil Gaiman did at Cody's for _American Gods_ (it was amazing, if you ever get a chance to see Neil Gaiman do something, don't miss it, he's thoroughly splendid). In fact, praise for Neil's in-person events slips the bounds of parentheses. He read the bit of _American Gods_ set in the Haight... "Wednesday, he's blushing! You brought me a blusher!" Absolutely beautiful. Anyway, so then Neil signed for everyone in the line, which was hours long; I got up to his table near the very end, and was able to thank him personally for helping me to crystallize a bit of my philosophy. I think he even heard, though by that time he was very glazed-over looking. ;)

Anyway, where was I? Oh, right. Jesus. C'mon, you know kit_kindred. Does it not fit? Eh? Eh?

Honestly, the whole thing is just very very fitting. Quite pleased.

Lichen? Spruce? Sounds like towels..

I'm going through and naming photos, so I can burn them onto CDs and have some space on my hard drive into which to pour more photos, so I can take more photos on my camera... Livin' on the edge, oh yeah.

The main holdup at the moment is that, since I still haven't written up quotes for ACNW, I've forgotten the names of many many people, and I don't want to burn CDs full of photos named things like "nicelady.jpg" and "3unknownpeople.jpg"...

So I skipped on, to photos from Thanksgiving. There was an extremely silly one of me taken just as a goldfish cracker was escaping me. Once I clipped out everything ridiculous, it became a good study in why I can't name my eye color...

( check it, if you like )

I mean, what the hell is that? Looks like the endless permutations of bluegreen that make up about 80% of the non-dithering browser-safe colors. Except with grey. I don't mind it; it's just not something for which I've invented a one-word description.