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Happy Birthday, Shah-Hala!!

Happy Birthday!
Her birth was a great present to us all. Many thanks to her parents!!


Something she’d like, I’m sure – murder scenes scaled to dollhouse size, used to teach forensic science in the ’40s.


It's the Gray Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!Gray Pumpkin forwarded a link to me about Mary-Sues (the phenomenon where an author somewhat unwittingly makes a character in their story who is basically the author, or an idealized/fantasy version of the author.)

The Original Fiction Mary-Sue Litmus Test

We were both reminded of a person in our old group who hit almost all of these points with her fiction.


Went out with Danny last night to Ugly Tuna Saloona. We didn’t have the interest or time for a movie, but we enjoyed the hangout quite a lot… its a quiet joint in the early evening, and the servers were very attentive. (We had the same server we had last time, and I think that we were remembered from our last visit about a month ago.) I think we’ve found a new hangout! We still need to check out the new casino.

Big Kahuna called right as we were sitting down … she wanted me to go back to the office and burn a cd, but fortunately it can wait until this morning.

I do my follow-up presentation at Kiwanis today, too.


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