Martyrs

there was a wildness there, a wodewosenness, a green, pagan thrill which spoke of ancient things, of high glittering stars and the gyres of falcons wild and a king tangled in thorn and ivy, deep in the unending forest of Albion.

I love this little passage so much....

I scheduled my shingles vaccine a few days after my favorite LYS owner DIED of complications from shingles. I didn't know that could happen.

Now I do.

I fell in love with Much Ado About Nothing thanks to the 1984 BBC version with Cherie Lunghi and Robert Lindsay. Watched so many times that many lines are engraved in brain. I never here "In comparison..." without thinking "Comparisons are odorous."

I had a boss once who told me about having many shelves of National Geographic magazines. He also started having structural problems in his house because of their weight on the shelves.

So say we all.

Hibernate well, be safe, healthy, and happy, Darth! We'll miss you!

I left my equipment repair job at IBM in 1993, and I STILL occasionally have nightmares about having to go fix something that I don't know anything about/don't have the tools for.

So, sympathy.

My brother and I once rode an old car hood down the snowy side of the mountain. We fell off at the end, but survived with minor scrapes.

"You'll be visited by three spirits"

the three spirits:

I remember the first part. So glad I've lived to see the last part, maybe hoping to see the 20th...

#HappyCrying

Also the part about a bat bite that YOU MIGHT NEVER KNOW ABOUT until you die of rabies.

ME TOO!!!! I've never forgotten this since I first heard it.

Exactly

Holy cow, I thought at first that this was the cover of an SF novel. Seriously.
Cool drain cover.