Allegra Rivett Sloman's blog

http://members.efn.org/~bch/songs/habitraillyr.html   I just LOVE the tune of this, and I intend to sing it for my mother some day.

One of my lurkers is decrying my radio silence.

Every time I think graphene is the strangest thing ever, the boffins at UManchester kick my brain’s ass. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/news/display/?id=7895 Anyway, if you are a science fiction writer this new finding should jar loose some awesome ideas.

Atheists in conversation. Me : Mocking religious people “God exists because I can feel him in my heart” Katie:  “Honey that’s called BLOOD.”

We are going to be talking about accommodations, because her house hunting is not going well.

Not enuff rehearsal!!!  

Soup lunch went okay, but the really exciting news was the very tasty guitar stylings Paul threw on top of the new choon. The Bed I’ve invented a bed, though no patent’s been applied for and it’s the kind of bed (hint hint) … that is to die for If there’s one thing that I [...]

I have really bad vertigo.  And I’m committed to take a soup lunch in to church today.  Bleaugh!

I have a metric crapstack of stuff to do before Conflikt, so I hope I keep my wits about me this weekend.

A new poem. It’s been ages since I wrote one.

“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies, etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.” – Robert Anton Wilson

… free in Yemen, and Oaxaca, also free to you and me Not speaking of who pays for it , but of human liberty The Internet is free!   Lobbyists take sand and pound it Leave the net the way you found it We will learn to route around it! The Internet is free!   [...]

I’m at the Wet Spot on Kingsway waiting for my snow tires. I think I’m one of two people who cleared the walkway of the six inches of slush that fell from the sky. Now I feel like I can cross town for the housefilk without taking my health and safety too much for granted.

Beautiful… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBAL__X7lqY

So I’ll be having lunch or dinner with Carol and Sue sometime after mid February regarding the transition to becoming Secretary for the church.  I think Carol is very relieved to be going off the board – Karen is too.  Everybody is so busy and tired but the meetings are very cheerful and energizing and [...]