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Laborless Days
J: We—and by "we"
I mean various amorphous pluralities of people... and Ginohn—spent most
of our weekend hanging around the town's Labor Day Festival. I didn't
go on any rides or try my hand at any of those rigged games like "pop the balloon with a ping pong ball". (I swear
that game is rigged. Well, there was this one guy who popped a balloon
with a ping pong ball but I suspect he was a shill. But anyhow.) I did,
however, entertain myself with one of my favorite festival pastimes:
checking out all the strange carny folk. Very interesting. A fascinating
collection.
We also perused a big pile of used books at the PTA book sale, and ate
funnel cake. We saw grand performances by Peter Noone of Herman's
Hermits and Peter Tork of The Monkees, both of whom are excellent
entertainers. Peter Noone was horribly heckled by some of the town
drunks, so on behalf of the City of Greenbelt, I apologize, Peter. No,
I wasn't one of the drunks and even if I were I would never heckle a
hermit. Please, Peters, do come back next year; we need our culture
fix. I'll even buy you a beer.
At work I've started playing with "lasers" (the big kind that you strap
to barracudas). We actually managed to run a few tests without burning
the lab down, but just barely. those big black safety curtains smell
lousy when a laser is burning a hole in them.
But my really big accomplishment this week was that I gave myself a
haircut! All by myself, even! Well, it wasn't really that even, but it wasn't that bad
for a first try, either. I used two different length settings on the
same electric shears that Gina used on my head a few months ago, and I
buzzed my noggin over the bathtub. Later Gina found a few long
straggler hairs on the back of my head and snipped them off with
scissors. I'll get better with practice. Now that I've baptized myself
into the wonderful world of mowing my own head, I feel a
renewed sense of self confidence.
Oh, crap. Ran out of time. Um, Franklin's! Yeah! And mushroom soup!
Hah! And poker! Wahoo!
See y'all next week!
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