On dining out

The following is prompted by a friend's journal entry describing a recent trip to a restaurant. The service was bad, the room was painfully loud, and she said there pretty much wasn't anything that they'd ordered that she would order again. What puzzled me was her statement that she wasn't sure she would go there again.

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Slow going.

I didn't do as much as I would've liked today on the Tosenin kosode because crouching over a table in a dormered room for four hours going tap tap tap with a brush that has a bristle diameter of less that 1/8" is damned tiring, even if one has Gilbert & Sullivan patter to tap along to.  However, these should give an idea of where I'm going with this. Step 1: stencil the basic lozenge grouping. Step 2. Fill in a single lozenge in each group with flat gold. Step 3. Stencil in one of the overlay patterns.....

 

Harry Potter Spoilers

http://www.masquerademaskarts.com/memes/harrypotterspoiler.php generates plot spoilers for the new HP film but I'd rather write my own.

Harry drops out of Hogwarts to backpack across Eurasia with Tumnus the Faun and Tenzing Norgay.

Ginny Weasley has dyed her hair a black not found in nature and has gone completely Goth.

George and Fred Weasley are in negotiations with the BBC for a British version of "Mythbusters."

Neville Longbottom and Cho Chang have qualified for the World Ballroom Dancing competition at Blackpool.

In a classic, yet predictable twist on the kid who converts to paganism to Piss Off The 'Rents, Draco Malfoy is Born Again and runs away to Detroit to pursue his dream of singing with the Winans.

Severus Snape, fed up with years of putting up with spoiled children who don't do their damned homework, accepts a job in the private sector with Genentech in Vacaville, California. When last seen, he was sporting a ponytail and wearing a Hawaiian shirt and almost smiling. Well, it was a Friday, after all.

Ron Weasley owns a Ford dealership in Tunbridge Wells.

We've been going about it all wrong!

Today a message from the Known World Players hit the SCA_BARDS Yahoo Group, announcing that they had raised about half of the $2000 they needed to do this.

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