Friday, September 26th, 2003

Time	Event
10:28a	Happy New Year 5764! Thanks to goljerp for the date, I'm just passing it on. I've always been able to get behind the concept of starting the year in September, probably because that's when the academic year starts, and summer is over. I can also support starting it in March, the Old New Year, when winter is over and everything is starting to grow again -- well, here that would be May, but never mind. January is a silly time to have New Year, and so is February, though Lion dancing is sufficiently cool that it doesn't matter -- but I'll celebrate all the new years I can get. (10 Comments | Comment on this)
10:46a	( about that space battle... ) (6 Comments | Comment on this)
1:25p	Thud OK, that's the extra exchange done and the dates fixed. Words: 1127 Total Words: 18297 Files: 5 Music: Brandenburg 1,2,3,6 Tea: Spring Tea Reason for stopping: Battle. Alien motivation. (Comment on this)
2:04p	Poem. The wind blew hard and it howled and cried on the night when the Lord Protector died, and the force of that wind was measured and kept in the yard where the schoolchild, Newton, leapt. The world and seasons and people go round, and we stopped counting time from when old kings were crowned, it's not where you start, it's the way you begin, so take up your yardstick, and bow, and join in. Note: who would believe that I got the information for the first time this week that Isaac Newton, as a child, measured the force of the great gale that blew the night that Cromwell died by leaping into it and measuring the difference the wind made -- but that I got it twice, this week, from two different sources. It was in Tomalin's Peyps biography, and also in Quicksilver, which I haven't finished. This is kind of a Quicksilver poem, but not as much as you might think. It just fell out of my head like that. (3 Comments | Comment on this)

<< Previous Day

2003/09/26 [Calendar]

Next Day >>