Thanks once again to our host Larry D. at Acts of the Apostasy, who rocked my world this morning when I saw his post on Picaken. I’m not certain if it’s more like a penance or a deadly sin, but, wow. Just wow.
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Sarah R’s secret plot is a secret no longer. She’s started a word-by-word series on the Hail Mary. You can read about “Hail” here, and “Mary” here. My word, like I said the other week, is “women”, so I have a little bit of time. Sarah assures me that my getting selected for that word was purely dumb luck the grace of God. Or just the way the list of bloggers happened to line up with the list of words.
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If you didn’t already sign up for the online Catholic Writer’s Conference, today tomorrow is your very last chance until next year. [Updated because yes, I’ve been writing the wrong date all day long. Registration goes until Feb 29th, and is closed come March 1st.]
Don’t cry when you read my post coming soon to CWG about pitch sessions, and say to me, “But I didn’t know!” Because you know what? I told you. Today. This blog is not exactly a no-whining-zone, but I do limit the topics.
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The Fulwil-inator must be getting nervous, Larry, because she’s making a move for Wednesdays. The Curt Jester has already aired his contribution. My main writing location was shown here way back during the homeschool photofest, but maybe if I am goofing off feeling diligent, I’ll get an official entry for tomorrow. Or not. Just how industrious a minion am I?
3.5
. . . wasps.
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That’s my 3.5. Last week’s open-link session did just what I’d hoped, and if you were smart you clicked on my friend Sandra’s links, because she’s the one who sends me 90% of the cool things that land in my inbox.
If you read here and have a link to your own work or someone else’s, consider this your invitation to just post it in the combox, rather than suffering that long horrid process where you e-mail me and then pray I don’t get sidetracked before I remember I wanted to tell the whole world about that cool thing you shared, but I forgot, and now you wonder if I hate you or hate your link, when actually, I just forgot.
[So far, no people that I hate have ever e-mailed me, so I promise you’re safe. I’m having a hard time thinking of anyone I do hate, and that’s a sign of something good, I think, but let’s not get too precise about whether that’s referring to my spiritual condition or just my cave-dwelling lifestyle. Maybe it’s that you who e-mail me are just that awesome.]
–> Post as many links as you like, but only one per comment, because the evil anti-spam automaton will gobble any post that has more than one link, and we don’t want that.
If you do get stuck in the spam dungeon, you have my permission to e-mail me and tell me what happened, and I’ll wade into the mire and fish out your comment and hit the approve button. I’m going to quick drain the moat before I publish this so it won’t be quite so stinky down there.
The Fulwil-inator must be getting nervous, Larry, because she’s making a move for Wednesdays.
Looks like I’ll have to come up with something for Thursday, and keep the pressure on…
Soon very soon, there’s going to be one of those meetings with the Pope, and a globe, and the two of you deciding who gets Brazil. Or something.
We already had a meeting at Castel Gandolfo. We ate sauerbraten and potatoes with a bit of gelato, played some The Sound of Music SceneIt! (his Holiness won), and laughed over some of my funnier posts. And Jen does a drop dead perfect impression of Nancy Pelosi. So funny!
But we never got around to dividing up the world.
His Holiness was no doubt looking for an excuse to invite you back for another trouncing.
I got 404 errors when trying to click on:
{You can read about “Hail” here, and “Mary” here.}
Oh nuts. Let me check and fix.
Okay fixed them, and the other broken link hiding in there too. We should be down to just egregious typos and bad writing.
I feel like responding but couldn’t find the words but I did find a pic 😉
http://www.finerminds.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/33/files/2011/01/404-cat.png
Plus I think I could get the hang of finding a cool link and adding when commenting on your blog. 😛
And for the ultra tech savvy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/sets/72157628409467125
The cats rock, Sandra. Thanks!
Yes, every Tuesday. It’s just gonna be your link day. I have a folder in my inbox that is called “Beautiful and bloggable links”, but I’m always in a hurry and put off linking until next week. This way is better.
[Other people can post links too. Lately I’ve been getting these “gee we should collaborate” links from people who don’t, apparently, read here. Since they’ve missed their cue. Two weeks in a row now. If they read here, they’ll know their appointment time and turn out to post their info. If they don’t, maybe we aren’t collaborating so much, eh?]
Saw a cool link to a youtube video today..that made me think “Jen would get a kick out of this”… so instead of emailing it to you here it is… that and I didn’t want to wait for next Tuesday.
It is the “Lord’s Prayer” spoken in Old English then in Middle English and then in Early Modern English. The overall video is not fantastic but it gives you subtitles as it is spoken but the description section also has it.
Now I have never sat down and researched the historical wording, spelling and pronunciation of this prayer…so Im hoping that it is in fact a good video.
http://youtu.be/-1cBRDAX00Q
Seriously cool. Like you, I’m no judge of OE and ME. But, still, major cool factor. Thanks!