When you sign up for an account at CMT.com (Country Music Television) you get four choices for Gender: Male, Female, Other, Unspecified.

Iknowwhyyouwentthere. Iknowwhyyouwentthere. Iknowwhyyouwentthere.

Sadly, I was too loathe to sign up so I didn't vote.

Oh, you know exactly why I went there!

Traveling Library - for lighthouses!

Lighthouses were often time located in remote areas and as such had no access to city services such as libraries, opera houses, entertainment, etc. that most people enjoyed who lived in a town or city. As light keeping was a lonely profession in most cases supplies were brought to them by lighthouse tender ships. One of the items the tender supplied was a library box on each visit as pictured to the left. Library boxes were filled with books and switched from station to station to supply different reading materials to the families.

In 1876 portable libraries were first introduced in the Light-House Establishment and furnished to all light vessels and inaccessible offshore light stations with a selection of reading materials. These libraries were contained in a portable wooden case, each with a printed listing of the contents posted inside the door. Proper arrangements were made for the exchange of these libraries at intervals, and for revision of the contents as books became obsolete in accordance with suggestions obtained from public library authorities.

The books were carefully selected from books of a good standard appropriate to the families who would use them. While largely fiction, other classes of literature were included in reasonable proportions including technical books when requested. The books and periodicals contained in the libraries remained the property of the Light-House Establishment and each was marked in the front with the official Light-House Establishment bookplate. The beautiful 3" x 4 ½" bookplate label bears a wonderful image of an iron pile lighthouse and Minot’s Ledge Light, and a lightship and bears the words "The Property of the Light House Establishment".

I am here to report: Trifle good!

So if you were wondering if I could fuck up putting cake, whipped cream and strawberries into a bowl, the answer is no. I totes pulled that one off.

I just ordered a pair of running shoes. The next step will be actually using them for their intended purpose.

The next step will be actually using them for their intended purpose.

You can run away from assholes who call you "babe."

Or, you can run at them at high speed and stab them in the ear with an icepick.

We used to go to the big Thanksgiving and Easter buffets at the Holiday Inn, after all the cooks in our fam died. Which was fine except for no leftovers. BUT the dessert table! PIE CAKE and TRIFLE.

Had no idea was it was, and were discussing it the first time we saw it ("Is it a shortcake? A pudding?" and the lovely ex-pat English lady comes up and graciously tells us it's trifle. She took the job, and added trifle to the dessert bar, and I bless her for it. Sherry soaked ladyfingers, real whipped cream, blackberry preserves, strawberries, blueberries, American vanilla pudding, lots of walnuts and raisins. HEAVEN.

I told Dean Devlin that if Zenyatta wins her 20th race at Churchill Downs in November, I'll change my screen name to Zenyatta.

(She's a racehorse. A 6-year-old undefeated mare: 19 starts, 19 wins.)

I will be spending the next four evenings with Billy Connelly and on Saturday I'm going to see Macbeth at the Lyric Opera. I may be suffering from some cultural whiplash by the time I start work on The Gin Game on Sunday.

What does one wear to the opera? I may have to shop this week.

That's spiffy aurelia. Do people still wear opera gloves to the opera? That seems like a must. I mean, how often does one get the opportunity to wear them?

Last MiL update for the night: He reports that his mom is doing well, talking and everything. Phew!