It was niggling at the back of my mind that "inaugural" sounded a lot like another word I know.
Upon looking it up, I discover that there is a connection - which gives me pause, and leaves me thinking about augury.
Re - living in a store - shades of "Evening Primrose" which I heard as radio drama on an old time radio program (broadcasts of classic American radio shows.)
Lisa - Thank you for the FAQ page.
I think you are quite right in saying "some of these authors make things up and haven't the skill to write fiction, so they pass it off as fact." Along with that, some readers take *anything* in print as verified fact. As one person said to me, "They couldn't print it if it wasn't true."
The combination is most unfortunate.
Another entry for the "John Barleycorn" collection: Bok, Muir and Trickett on "And So Will We Yet."
Steve Gillett wrote:
"Someone silhouetted against clouds (which, yeah, means you have to be on top a mountain or something, with a nearby cloud or fog bank behind) will appear limned by bright light. What's happening is that water droplets along the line of sight send some of the sunlight back almost the way it came, due to a near-total internal reflection in the drop. (It's easier to explain with a drawing :)"
The same principle is at work in the retroreflective materials used in highway and road signs.
"Trade them for a single Interstellar Reply Coupon."
That made coffee come out my nose! Thanks for the laugh.
". . . but for people who have large-enough employers that are sufficiently responsible . . ."
Which I am lucky enough to have. The company pays enough of the montly premium that I can afford health insurance for my family. Looking a the numbers quoted in the thread, I am luckier than I ever realized.
"What is it that spurs people (or perhaps just me) to compare people to (current) celebrities?"
Unless you are one of those folks who has pictures of loved ones hanging around your living and working space, you probably see the celebrities lots more often than anyone you don't live or work with daily.
"What am I missing in not going to google every day?"
The holiday logos. Of course, you could just look at the archive.
Nishiko -
"I know I've got at least one or two characters who've taken up permanent residence in my brain (my friend Danielle calls them "head critters") and occasionally demand I Tell This Story of Mine RIGHTNOWthankyouverymuch. Yes, I know I'm hopeless. :)"
Oh, no. Not hopeless. Just like the rest of us with stories to tell. The occasional character who marches out of a story and sits down next to my desk with a cup of tea to demand that I Write It All Down Right Now livens up my life. Now if I can just get the silly words to stick to the page, and make some sense.
Off to chase those slippery little things. Maybe some superglue this time, hmm?
Wonderful links!
We had a capiz shell lamp in entry stairwell of the house my folks sold four years ago. Since they bought the house to go with the lamp, they left it hanging in the stairwell.
It was a kind of boxy thing, but quite lovely in its way. And the light was soft. I have moments when I miss it.
"A serif font will have a whatever-the-thing-is-called at the top . . ."
I thought all those little hooks were "serifs," regardless of where on the letter they occur. At least that was how they were referred to in the calligraphy classes I took.
Clark - the "too many markers" thing applies at sea, too. The first time I saw a harbor full of lobster trap buoys, I knew nothing about aids to navigation and couldn't imagine how someone could pick a course through what looked like waterborne confetti. I know better now. It is a lot like "not seeing" all the debris on the road, except to avoid hitting it.
We see more stars here in the mountains than we saw at sea. This surprised me. I have lived in dry climes all of my conscious life and did not understand what effect humidity has on visibility. The sea haze makes the fainter stars disappear, especially at dawn and dusk when you are trying to shoot them.
One summer evening in Colorado, a high school friend brought his Boston born and raised fiancé out to see the Royal Gorge. Afterward we visited another friend of mine on his small farm nearby. As night fell, the two astronomers started picking out the stars, until the Boston girl lost the familiar stars in the background. A few minutes later, even the Colorado native had trouble finding the constellations. We stood and marveled until full dark. I think that was when I first realized how full the night sky is.
Notes from another traveler.
On getting lost, mostly I don't when I use natural features as my markers. The tall buildings of downtown confuse the noodles out of me. It might help if all of downtown was not 45 degrees to the compass.
Having had mountains to the west for many years, I get a bit disoriented when the mountains are elsewhere. Flat land baffles me completely, but I have no trouble navigating at sea, where there are no visible landmarks except in the sky.
Wonderful news!
I admit that I checked both entries because of the time traveling dates. After all, if someone had really come up with a way to loop the time line, wouldn't we hear about it here first?
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