Damn, I forget about this blog thing. I post over at LJ all the time, and this place just gets neglected. The big newses du jour - we're looking for a house to buy and we've got a trip to England planned in just over a month. Smaller news = my brother, Hawk, will be visiting in the end of March, since he'll already be on the East Coast (he lives in Seattle, currently) for an interview. If he gets this position - a physician's assistant internship, I believe - he'll be working in The Bronx. Our youngest brother, Eightball, lives and works in New York State, I'm thinking only an hour or two north of the City. We'll all be on the East Coast again, which might be a sign of the coming Apocalypse! :)

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(I posted the following on my LJ the day it happened...)

Working in the baggage area a couple of days ago I heard the call of 'heavy bag' to warn the unloader to watch out.

"Did I just see you toss that bag up there with one hand and then call 'heavy bag'?" I asked Duffy.

"Yes."

"When you're my age and your shoulder gives out, don't talk to me about it."

Duffy gave me a mischievous grin. "When I'm your age and my shoulder gives out I'll go to Sweden, have them clone me, and get my brain put in the new body!"

Brat. :)

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Bee1982 responded to the above with:
and the funny thing is he's not joking and he's about the only person I know who could afford it too!

and I replied:
Hee! :) Well, he might be able to afford it, though by then, who knows?

(That makes me recall, though, the way Granny Goose commented, "That's an expensive looking car he drives. I wonder what he did to get that." And I just kind of looked at her, completely unable to tell if she was implying he might have been a drug runner or what... I debated asking her if she thought he was a prostitute. ;))

I suppose the point, though, is that he feels getting to my age will take a looong time, so therefore I must be older than dirt.

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Eor and I went out with Bee and Dre yesterday evening and played some pool. I thought it was a very pleasant time. :)

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Today was a very dull Monday, for the most part. The highlight of my day may have been discussing "Music Man" with Jaeger as an cautionary tale about people who try to scare you and those who would restrict your media inputs without knowing whereof they speak. It's really an oddly little subversive musical. I wanted to write a fanfic about Marion the Librarian and how she actually got the old miser to leave all his money to the library, and as I told Jaeger I lay awake most of a night thinking about it, and then decided it would be rather boring, really.