(UPDATE: It is Sunday, the last day of the Boston Comic Con. I hadn’t meant to go dark the past few days, but I’ve hardly had a spare moment. In fact, I think the past month or so possibly has been the busiest of my life! That’s not a bad thing, and I’m not complaining, but I’m ready to slow down. As for BCC, I know you expected more in thee way of live coverage, but I will at least recap it for you in the coming days. I do want to say, I have met some wonderful fans from the Boston area, and I thank each of them for coming out. The Comic Con isn’t necessarily the easiest ground to navigate!)
Things are about to get a little crazy around here. Delta permitting, I will leave for Beantown tomorrow morning, where I will be on exhibit at Boston Comic Con Friday-Sunday. I know it costs to get in (I don’t get a cut of that; I’d let my readers in free if I could.), but I hope some of you in the Boston area will come by and see me at table D915. Autographs and handshakes will be free. I ship more books to Massachusetts than any other state, and I’m looking forward to meeting some of you. Also, I will be in Burlington, VT, two weekends later for the Vermont Comic Con. This is an experiment for me. I expect to be the old geezer in the corner fielding questions such as, “Is that strip still around?” It’s true, I’m in the corner, the southeast corner. I don’t know how much time I’ll have, but I definitely plan to send you updates here.
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GR 😉 what can I say…..
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Saturday, Sunday, it’s all the same to me…..
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My comment wouldn’t post. Oh well. Mark we’re thinking about you buddy. Debbe, my grass (no relation to the song) is about a foot high because we get a downpour every day and it stays too mushy to cut. Is that kid playing Willie’s guitar?
Dickenson has been doing CPR for hours trying to keep me awake and breathing. Now that I am, he has gone back to sleep under my shoulder. Wonder if I can do the same?
Good morning all. Skipper is out in breezeway yowling to either go into kitchen or out to yard if he can decide. He prefers the house.
Somehow I am not anxious to open the laundry or kitchen this morning.
Watching Desi Linden take the lead at the Women’s marathon. I have been friends with her coaches Keith and Kevin Hanson for the last 20 years. It’s a very long course but it’s nice to see her in the lead at least at some point of the race
Why does Hal do that? Dickens is typed and he changes it. I hate that.
She says they’ve moved to Paris [about the latitude of Vancouver, BC] because everybody recognizes her in Finland. Doesn’t mention the long winters or short days 10 degrees farther north. Peace,
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From today’s weekly A.Word.A.Day Mail:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/08/lauren-collins-learns-to-love-in-french
Peace,
Morning Village 🙂
Awoke to a list of National Weather Service Alerts: Flash Flood Warning, Flood Warning, and my new favorite, Hydrologic Warning. Seems a section of horse trail has tumbled into a creek tripping the Hydrologic Warning. The cheery note out of all of this, Houston is getting heat relief and needed rain while in Louisiana rainfall is slacking off a smidgen.
Have a blessed Sunday.
Here in Utah we sure could use some of your excess rain. Want to send a few clouds our way, Debbe? I know you ladies have some powers we guys don’t…
“Sometimes when things have been that way for a long time, we accept it as normal because it has become so.” So true, Jackie. I think it’s an adaptive measure allowing us to function in changing conditions. But it’s so wonderful that those negative changes sometimes can be reversed. Hang in there, Mark. That goes for all Villagers facing challenges. You’re in our thoughts and prayers.
Nancy, the story about your husband’s name is terrific! I have to share it with someone I know who looks like Scotty…he may want to borrow James P. Kirk’s response.
Jimmy, we look forward to your stories when you get back here. It’s great you’re getting a chance to interact with your readers face-to-face. We’re not jealous of them…not much…
I want to know how tall Jimmy is. He looks tall and young in photos. And not much like Arlo.
Just got off phone with Mark who woke me up which was fine. He is doing better today and sounds great. They nicked a lung in surgery so they put in a drain and they are watching it because it is losing air, like a slow leak in a tire.
He will be going into a rehab facility after discharge to continue his recovery but will stay in hospital until lung is resolved
He said his aide is tall good looking blonde. I said get name and phone number for recovery period. He is particularly noticing all the good looking nurses which is good sign.
My wife says the best looking female nurses came during the first 2 days after my SCA that I don’t remember. Once my brain was fully functioning they went to the B team. 🙁 She says the better looking men showed up then.
If I call 911 can I get a young pretty nurse sent to my son in Orlando? I know that men’s clocks tick slower, but he’s 27, muscular, good looking, does martial arts and gymnastics, speaks 3 languages plus American sign language, plays piano and has been all over the world. He also has a great job with Disney. Other than that he’s ok I guess.
GR6, think you will like the Comic Con pics Jimmy posted this AM.
Only one in tight costume. What was she? Maybe Jimmy does look like Arlo with brown hair? I read a quote that said Reta is spitting image of Janis and Arlo was self portrait.
But you know how Internet is. You can read anything.
Have last load in washer and everything folded but sheets. Started cleaning and rearranging clutter, got flowers cut and arranged. Moving back to uncluttering the kitchen. Can’t believe I was once such a happy housewife one upon a time in a land far away.
Seems like a fairytale. Or someone else.
‘Maybe Jimmy does look like Arlo with brown hair?’ Maybe Arlo at the start, but Arlo now has a delightful but impossible schnoz. Peace,
Just went and looked at the photos from JJ’s current venue. Saw the sign saying that one who bought a $25. item could get a second item free…and there was Janis. So, were I to fork out $25 for, say, a book, I could get Janis as a bonus??
Nah. At best, just a drawing of Janis…but that sign can be misconstrued.
eMb, I do not understand you today @8:32 and don’t see the point of the LONG 8:47 post, either. Feel free to elucidate if you wish.
Hello, all. Im hanging in there. Surgeon talked to me briefly. Wants me to go to rehab to strengthen as no one to help me at home. Sou.ds good to me, probably have consult tomorrow and know more later. Thank you Debbe for your comments and the cat humor.
I certainly hope they keep Mark in hospital for a while. One does NOT want to have a pneumothorax. Note to Debbe 😉 Your 10-dollar word for the day, hon. Or was it 5-dollar word? Well, anyway, inflation is good with lungs, bad with money.
Good sign Mark is noticing the scenery of the female persuasion. And they say general vascular circulation improves following coronary bypass surgery. 😉
Off to check the Comic Con pix.
Oops, and there he was, while I was posting. Guérissez bientôt, Mark.
About to comment that Jimmy appears to have a longer shaped face and perhaps a larger nose and the bangs over his forehead that might have stuck out some. So perhaps the commentator who said the characters began as exaggeration of Jimmy and Rhetta may have been right?
Lil Ghost did not like his antibiotic and eye drops this morning one bit. I got them all over myself via spit them out.
Mark, I hope they will keep you as long as possible. You’ve no one to take care of you and going into that smoke filled house will be bad for both your heart and lungs.
I sincerely doubt anyone in Village smokes but if you do, think what your second hand smoke does. Mark’s mom is a chain smoker every minute she is awake. Mark has never smoked but he reaps the damage as much as she does.
Sermon of the day. If you smoke, quit for yourself and those around you. Pox be upon you.