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Stumpage Reports
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Thursday, March 18, 2004 :::
Not a Whole Lot . . .
. . . of stuff to blog about. I've had a couple phone calls from the Real, Live, Actual Girl. I have a CD of hers (doesn't that always happen when you break up with someone?) She wants to get together so I can give it back to her . . . I'm putting space between the periods in my elipses because I have an interview for an editing job today and that kind of thing is very important to those people . . . still reading Lincoln's Last Months, I can't recommend it enough . . . taking a break from that to read "USCT Veterans in Post--Civil War North Carolina" by Richard Reid. It can be found in Black Soldiers in Blue . . . USCT stands for United States Colored Troops for you yokels out there . . . lately I've been listening to The Ramones' compilation disc All the Stuff and More, vol. 1 . . . I'm hoping for another expedition this Saturday with The Garage Sale Vikings . . . History nerds on the road: my boss and I are hoping to take a road trip soon to go to an Abraham Lincoln Symposium at the National Archives facility in College Park, Maryland. Now, if we can just figure out a way to have it count towards work and get paid for it . . .
Quote of the Day:
At noon of Sunday, the 6th of July, the fiesta exploded. There is no other way to describe it. People had been coming in all day from the country, but they were assimilated in the town and you did not notice them. The square was as quiet in the hot sun as on any other day. The peasants were in the outlying wine-shops. There they were drinking, getting ready for the fiesta. They had come in so recently from the plains and the hills that it was necessary that they make their shifting in values gradually. They could not start in paying cafe prices. They got their money's worth in the wine-shops. Money still had a definite value in hours worked and bushels of grain sold. Late in the fiesta it would not matter what they paid, nor where they bought.
--- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926
::: posted by tom at 9:24 AM
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