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02:50 am - viva Espana!
Hot today. Also still. It was the stillness as much as the heat that made it unpleasant.

Anyhow! I now have plane tickets for America in October/November. Go me. :)

And I do believe it's the World Cup final tomorrow. While I'm hardly a football enthusiast, I do have some interest in it, owing to (a) having had a work-team sweepstake on the football teams, and (b) being the one who holds the ticket for Spain. I have promised that I will use at least some of my winnings to buy cookies for coworkers. If there was voting involved, I believe that would have won me votes.

Also was rereading the Paksenarrion series, after having recently bought/read the new sequel to said series, Oath of Fealty. Am being struck by the fact that the heroine is courteous and polite to those around her, and as a result they are motivated to help her. I feel this attitude is lacking in a lot of modern fiction about cool trenchcoated or leather-bodiced loners.

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ARMA VIRUMQUE

"Ours is a Christian army"; so he said
A regiment of bangomen who led.
"And ours a Christian navy," added he
Who sailed a thunder-junk upon the sea.
Better they know than men unwarlike do
What is an army, and a navy too.
Pray God there may be sent them by-and-by
The knowledge what a Christian is, and why.
For somewhat lamely the conception runs
Of a brass-buttoned Jesus firing guns.

-- Ambrose Bierce

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From:[info]archangelbeth
Date:July 11th, 2010 03:07 am (UTC)
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Yay! You will get to see the cool stuff I've crocheted! (I think I cannot crochet the bedspread as one piece -- it gets too big to work on at all, really. So I will be finishing off one large square, and have already started another.)

Also, I will have to try to clean. Stuff. eek.
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From:[info]incandescens
Date:July 11th, 2010 01:53 pm (UTC)
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I look forward to seeing! And I do sympathise with the bedspread being too big to do in one piece -- I have more than one multiple-square project going on.

No hurry with the cleaning. Months to go yet!
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From:[info]archangelbeth
Date:July 12th, 2010 09:08 pm (UTC)
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*beth looks around and laughs hollowly*
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From:[info]letiwolf
Date:July 11th, 2010 09:12 pm (UTC)
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I read Oath of Fealty then went and reread Deed of Paks, then reread Oath...

Good stuff. WANT NEXT BOOK.

(And yes, Paks is an -awesome- character.)
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From:[info]incandescens
Date:July 11th, 2010 10:33 pm (UTC)
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I too want the next book, dang it.
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From:[info]flemmings
Date:July 11th, 2010 10:33 pm (UTC)
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COOKIES!!!

...though I really wanted the Netherlands to win, myself.
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From:[info]incandescens
Date:July 11th, 2010 10:33 pm (UTC)
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Sorry. But at least you know that a friend is getting cookies out of it?
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From:[info]flemmings
Date:July 11th, 2010 10:36 pm (UTC)
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This consoles me for much. (Seriously, it was just a passing thought of how chuffed my Dutch friends would be if their country won.)
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From:[info]incandescens
Date:July 11th, 2010 10:44 pm (UTC)
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I can sympathise with that, and I admit I would have been in a much more conflicted position had Spain been playing England in the final.

(Wait, what am I saying? That'd involve England actually getting to the final, which is not likely.)

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