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Tour of Bogachiel
It was quite the full and sociable weekend. Here's the short version:

Friday evening: a visit from muzzybee, and then from colitis, whom I persuaded to stay for dinner (mmm, nachos). We introduced him to Daria, that wonderful ironic 90's cartoon.

Saturday: Ben and I discovered that the Cow-Fundraising Picnic (which had been postponed due to inclement weather) was un-postponed. We were caught a bit short, so faffed and got ready eventually, and I made a pasta salad. We made it to Cornwall Park about 1:30. It was very pleasant in the shade, and lots of friends were there. Nice to finally meet mirabrito, though - we have been missing each other at gatherings for about a year now. When the weather started to pack in we all headed off to doc_spatial's pad, and board-gamed there. Well, I played 'Greed', which is a dice game, but it was mostly board-games.

Sunday: Ben went off to the art gallery and thence to a DQ meeting while I took it easy at home (and wrapped his birthday present). Then once we came back, mid-afternoon, we went off to the Cock and Bull to help a friend celebrate her birthday - her husband had organised it, but he'd cunningly organised it a week early (he got his Wednesday's mixed up). Still, it was pretty cool. We only stayed an hour, as the small children (all under 3yo) nearly outnumbered the adults. It was quite disturbing really. So many peers breeding! Ah well - they make up for us deciding not to make use of our loins in such a fashion, I guess.

Capnodium Birthday
Today is Ben's birthday! He is 34.

The plan was for a lovely sleep-in until 9am. That was cruelly circumvented by Mama Bear 'reversing the flow' (ie: upchucking) at 6:30. I wasn't with it, and Ben cleaned it up before I could think enough to get up and do so. However, I made him tea, and attempted to crush his groin by dumping his (wrapped) present on his lap once he was back in bed.

He is astonishingly impressed with his gift - 40-odd issues of 2000AD monthlies from the 80's and 90's. Those'll keep him occupied for a while. The monthlies are good as they collect complete stories, which would have been spread over quite a few issues of the original comics. He tells me that generally they're re-printed in the monthlies 6-10 years after originally coming out, so it doesn't detract from the sales of the weeklies. Me, I'm just glad I got the right things :)

Tonight I'm taking him out to dinner at Da Sette Soldi, one of our favourite restaurants. Should be lovely. And then, an early night!

Wikipedia Baldwin
1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click Random article. That is your band's name.
2. Click Random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click Random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

Band name: Harry Streett Baldwin

Album Name: Shaw Prize

Tracks:
1: Mimetoidea (I love this word ...sounds like a family of miming spiders)
2: Alex de Angelis
3: List of historical anniversaries (Lenny Bruce was convicted of obscenity on my birthday)
4: Torgeir Brandtzæg
5: Bogachiel River
6: Capnodium citri
7: Blackpool Transport
8: Reynolds analogy
9: Blumer (This word is fun to say out loud)
10: Isotopes of thulium
11: Neodactylota (sounds disturbingly like a dinosaur. Thankfully it's not)
12: Kabul City Center
13: Creative Science Systems
14: Audio converter
15: Tour Of Duty (I had the soundtrack for this ...)