The blogz are back in town

Wow! What a great day - summer was back and things were good. My Cascadia class watched Princess Bride today - it still holds up. I did a lot of teacher-work and taught tonight at AUS - a rollicking good class. Yowza, yowza.

And the blog cup runneth over. Johnbai checks in after a week's absence with another tripblog. Wheylona has reached foreign shores (even more foreign than California) and joins the East-Atlantic corps of our blogging community. Speaking of which, Neds leaves off ranting to show more purty pictures. And Jonbrit adds a shiny new flash clock to his political musings and personal updates. What a swell group!

I have been particpating a bit more in some other blogworlds. There are a few comix-related blogs that I have grown used to reading. One in particular, Absorbascon, focuses solely on Silver Age DC comics - that is, comics from the Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman house from the late fifties through the sixties. This happens to be just the group of comics that turned me on to comics, and to reading in general, and to science, and which formed the basis of the ethical principles that are still important to me today. A great site, and it's the home if Superhero radio, too!

Will Shetterly is an author who wrote one alternate history comic that I really liked, but he's not a "comics guy." He has a classy blog called It's All One Thing.

Alas is a cool co-blogging venture with with a decided leftist/feminist/GBLT twist. I would love to take a whack at a co-blogging deal.

LDL News: I have not heard anything from Group Health. This is probably good news: their practice is to call immediately if things are not good, and to contact by mail if things are fine. I think this means that things are fine; I will post numbers when I get them.

What's the opposite of he who hesitates is lost?

I was going to go out on a bike ride to Antioch this morning, but it was cloudy and cool, so I took my scooter instead, planning to bike later. It turns out that was the best decision to have made: the sun has come out and it looks great, so in a few minutes, when Otis goes to her study group, I will be off to run some errands on the bike. As Hannibal would say to the A-Team, "I love it when a plan comes together."

I have been teacher-man today, reviewing papers and such. I also got a call from a teacher at Antioch who seems to want me to team-teach a class with her for the AUS graduate program in the fall. It's a communication design class, and looks to be based on rhetorical approaches, so it is a pretty good match. I don't want to say no to anything, and my annual budget for 2005-2006 is still unbalanced, but I have a pretty full plate for fall already. I'll have to scope out exactly what she wants.

Otis and I will be heading out for the weekend on Thursday. We hope to do the Oregon coast, and stop in Portland for a show that Lizzie is in, and make it back in time for (drumroll please)

Scotty's Wedding on Sunday!

That's right, our pal Scotty Magic is getting married to a purportedly (by him) lovely woman named Becky. The ceremony will take place in the Pike Place Market at 11:00 am on Sunday, August 7, 2005, and all the buskers and street performers will be in attendance.

See you there!