Our band was Spank Me, a group that seems to have started with us and branched out to play at other venues as "Mr. Spankee" (the name change was at the insistence of other dance organizers hoping to avoid offending delicate dancers). A silly tradition of Leopard Print and mock S-M has grown up around them, so our Saturday night costume ball was all about the leopard, with marvelous and silly results.
For some unknown reason, I wore a skirt for most of the weekend (no, not the same skirt; I have more than one).
And it was very very wet; it's been raining for days, and there was a lot of walking between buildings. Fortunately, at the last minute, I threw my giant Muck Boots and my giant umbrella (I worked at IBM and all I got was this rather nice umbrella) into the car. So I was dry and happy and able to splash in mud puddles all weekend.
I was also able to dance a lot; my ankle held up well and was only slightly tender when we got home. I had scheduled an acupuncture session for yesterday, but there wasn't actually much for my Li.Acc. to do, fortunately. What a difference from a few years ago when I barely limped through five dances in an entire weekend (and that's dances, not sessions).
Anyways, food was decent, sleeping was good (note to self: always bring a furry husband and a warm quilt on these weekends), dancing was fun and high-energy, and the company was terrific (note to self: always bring 100 of your favorite people on these adventures).
*****
The rain continued through yesterday. A few areas to the northeast received over a foot of rain, and we're hearing a lot about flooding and evacuations. Our house is up the hill from the closest river, and we're surrounded by wet lands which sponge away the moisture. But a friend had three feet of water in her basement, and last I heard, another friend who lived three houses from a river was probably going to be evacuated.
I drove by our local river yesterday and crossed over it a few times. It's definitely high, about as bad as some of the worst spring-melt floods. But we'll be fine for a while longer. And today, the sky has a strange blue tint, an unfamiliar look. I'll take it. That is, before the next storm approaches, perhaps tomorrow.
One side benefit is that we've had a lot of wood stove fires lately, which makes the evenings even cozier. And they take a bit of chill and wet out of the air.
*****
Lately, I've developed a fondness for a particular blog. The writing is swift and impressive, and the stories leave me on the edge of my seat wanting more. Each story has been fairly plausible, but I think it's the number of fantastic coincidences and amazing connections that have raised suspicions for some people. One person on the web has led the charge to debunk the blog, and has been particularly nasty about it. Some of his "evidence" is believable; some of it is circumstantial. And at this point, the blog has shut down, possibly to return, but likely not.
I've always read the blog and connected to it as I did to the Armistead Maupin stories -- always hungry for more, never really caring whether the stories were "true". However, I think the debunker felt personally betrayed; he'd started up a correspondance with one of the three blog writers (though his contention is that there's just one person writing as three separate friends). To discover that an e-friend, one to whom you've developed a real attachment, is somehow a "fake" must be a blow indeed.
Brings to mind that old cartoon...
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