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Ray made her first real whistle last night. Ecstatic am I.

This comes from my brother Matt, a graphic designer and doer of all things newspapery.

My minimum required daily allowance of delight was met today upon finding out that Lee’s boss (who lives in an apartment) has a pet duck. “Almost as big as a goose,” says one source.

I can embark on ten-year garden projects. If I want to.

Name five books, music CDs, or movies, if any, that would you rather buy someone a copy of rather than loan out your last copy. Yours truly: Annotated Alice, Lewis/Tenniel/GardnerCollected Fictions, Jorge Luis BorgesFLCL (anime)Master Li and Number Ten Ox Novels, Barry HughartThe Sandman series …and I would be pretty itchy about any Tom Waits

[Spoilers below.] Agatha Christie writes, in At Bertram’s Hotel: There had, of course, been many other hotels on the model of Bertram’s. Some still existed, but nearly all had felt the wind of change. They had necessarily to modernize themselves, to cater for a different clientele. Bertram’s, too, had had to change, but it had

***Dave says, “It’s just hard to be spontaneous when you have little kids around (which is deeply, deeply ironic, given how spontaneous *they* are — Conservation of Spontaneity?)” Just so.

Woot! This spring, I wrote a murder-mystery game expansion pack for the “Way out West” game for Freeform Games. Playtesting was wrapped up a few weeks ago, and the game has been published on the website. OoOoOoOo!

So I’m sitting here, folding clothes, considering whether to ask Lee to help, when I realize that what he’s doing will be far more productive in the long term: reading a home-improvement book and taking notes…

Er…or just a reason, really. Every Day with Rachael Ray has a section every month with a recipe you can share with your pet. This month’s is Pumpkin Barley with Turkey. If When we get a dog, I’ll try it out.