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Stumpage Reports
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Sunday, February 15, 2004 :::
News and Notes
I'm learning how to play cribbage and its a pretty cool game.
It was slow enough at work for awhile on Saturday I had enough time to leaf through several U.D.C. scrapbooks from 1917 where I found some wonderful Confederate monument photographs, some children's drawings of Civil War scenes, and a photo of Robert E. Lee with a hand-written caption describing him as a "Christ-like man." I love my job. I also found out we have the log book for the Confederate commerce raider the C.S.S. Shenandoa. I wanna look at that thing.
Quote of the Day:
By 7:00 the panoply of colors on the horizon has shrunk to a bitter orange line on the western horizon, as if furnace fires had been banked beyond the edge of the world. In the east the stars are already out. They gleam steadily, like fierce diamonds. There is no mercy in them at this time of year, no comfort for lovers. They gleam in beautiful indifference.
For the small children, bedtime has come. Time for the babies to be packed into their beds and cribs by parents who smile at their cries to be let up a little longer, to leave the light on. The indulgently open closet doors to show there is nothing in there.
And all around them, the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire's time has come.
--- Stephen King, Salem's Lot, 1975.
::: posted by tom at 7:27 PM
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