Eric S notapenguin's blog: "Blog 2 of the Days of Flightless Bird"

which in turn was no one's fault but my own, and despite a resolution to avoid just such behavior... well... now... (One does learn. In bits and pieces. Hopefully not fatal ones, to paraphrase Robert Heinlein.) Have plans when not doing other things this weekend btw to use those alerts.php files I saved from the last few months ;^) to see who are -some- of the people who've rated my stash and photos that I just have not gotten back to. Have also been reading many more of the short stories that Saki wrote before his death in 1916 fighting in WW1, and am - more and more impressed. There's one that I read before in an anthology, I think (The Interlopers) with its hard-to-forget ending; many of the others will stay in mind too. ("Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more." - Mrs Panstreppon of the title character of Hyacinth, pub in the posth. collection The Toys of Peace (1919))