Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup --
Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup

Johnnies are much of a muchness. I go for people who are Very Good at what they do -- it thrills me to watch them Do it, and thinking about them Doing as Well as they Do makes me wiggle all over. I'm not Very Good at anything in particular. I'm a dilettante. I don't know if anyone can get the same thrill at well-done dilettantiness (which I'm still a long way from, even so) as I can at people who are Very Good, but that's how it is, I suppose. And we have our Place and our Function. {looks dignified} ({snerfle}) _ respond? 05:39:37 PM, Sunday 7 July 2002

I am in Baltimore! The Three Hour Rule served me in good stead, and I got here with a half hour to spare for my 11:00 appointment with the volunteer chick. Unfortunately, either I'm mixed up or she was mixed up, 'cause the place isn't open on Saturdays and nobody at the library next door knew anything about it. So, eh. That was a loss, but I have a whole day here in the big city, which is exciting. I've been walking around. I bought a blue tie, some water from some cute little girls (water? ha! when I was a kid, we had to mix up our own Kool-Aid if we wanted to get money by selling cold beverages. And none of that namby-pamby Kool-Aid in the big pouch with the sugar already added, no sir! We bought it ourselves -- six different flavors! -- mixed it up ourselves, and wrote the damn sign on our own damn chalkboard with our own damn chalk. None of this standing around with your mother keeping track of the money and using her big barrel thingie for a cooler! We carted those ice cubes from the kitchen to the streetcorner on our own backs, and we sweated our own sweat! Kids these days...), a CD holder thingie, and a pair of boxer shorts with multi-colored dragons on them. I sort of wandered around various neighborhoods and looked at houses and people and sidewalks and things. I'm enjoying it. Now I'm gonna catch a bus to nowhere in particular, and find something to put in my belly. I like big cities. More specifically, I like this one. It's got something in it that jives me. _ respond? 02:06:36 PM, Saturday 6 July 2002

I have great faith in the Three Hour Rule. If it was good enough for Napoleon... _ respond?