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Sunday
Happy Father’s Day to all LJ fathers out there.

Today has been a good day.

I called my father and stepfather this morning to wish them a Happy Father’s Day; all is well with both of them. One of my stepsisters and her family went to NC to spend the weekend with the folks; I spoke with her, too. I haven’t talked with her in a very long time, which isn’t good because we have always gotten along well. But, she works for Northwest Airlines and has apparently flown through here a couple of times, so the chances of me seeing her in the not-too-distant future are pretty good.

, , and I headed to Park City for brunch and store/gallery-hopping. We ate at The Eating Establishment. After that, we walked down and up Main Street. There were a couple of new galleries there and some of the stores that we have previously visited have changed a bit. We stopped for refreshing beverages at the No Name Saloon before heading back. We “met” (I neglected to get his name) and chatted with a guy who lived in northern Virginia. He was funny. And he has season tickets to the Ravens. *swoon* I don’t know if he was serious or not, but he offered me the use of the tickets if he wasn’t going to use them and if I was in Maryland. It was too short a trip… but that just means that next time, we’ll stay longer.

came back to the apartment with us; she offered the use of her truck so that we could take a load of boxes to the house. We loaded up the truck and the car and were off. She was our first house guest! We unloaded the vehicles and headed back here. We were going to swim, but we realized that we were hungry, so we went to dinner.

NPR and Other News
Weekend Edition – Sunday: Sunday Puzzle
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Stray Toasters

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• Linked by Heartless Wonder (We need to go out for drinks one night when I come back to Greensboro): Godless devil-worshipping evil computers

It’s fairly early and I can’t decide what I want to do now. I could play a game (which one?!) or have a cup of tea (Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.) and read while relaxing in a hot bath or both or… something else.

Namaste.