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Another bout of musings
Jun. 7th, 2019 08:41 pmIf you wish to read about my recent SCA activities, here's the link: http://ladypatriciaoftrakai.blogspot.com/2019/06/two-events-one-site-year-so-far-part-2.html.
In other news, today was moderately productive. I cleaned the bathroom, took care of some freelancing paperwork, and got my passport renewal application in the mail. It's just in the nick of time, as you're supposed to be able to renew a U.S. passport by mail only if it was issued within the past 15 years and mine was issued in June 2004. *sigh* It has occurred to me that every time I get a new passport, we have had a Republican president, each one worse than the last ... though the incumbent toddler-in-chief is his own special kind of awful. Yesterday I tried to distract myself from his grotesqueness by thinking of my late ex-landlord Jack, who was a U.S. Army medic in World War II. He was sent to England, but at the time of D-Day he was still recuperating from a bad bout of pneumonia, so he didn't get selected for the first wave of the invasion. He was sent to France about three weeks after D-Day, when Allied troops were still ridding France of German soldiers, so I'm sure he saw his share of action then.
And for anyone who's wondering, no, I don't have any plans to travel outside the U.S. anytime soon. I just want to have a separate photo ID that's stashed away in case my wallet gets stolen. That's especially important for someone like me who has no immediate family left alive.
And speaking of the calendar ... today my cousin Tim's grandson turned 13 years old. A tall teenager!
Tomorrow the boy toy and I plan to go to a "colonial market fair" at the Benjamin Banneker site just across the river from Ellicott City. The 18th century isn't exactly the 16th century, but somebody might be selling some relevant historically adjacent supplies, like ribbon or linen thread. The boy toy and I also like supporting the Ellicott City area because of the recent years' floods.
In other news, today was moderately productive. I cleaned the bathroom, took care of some freelancing paperwork, and got my passport renewal application in the mail. It's just in the nick of time, as you're supposed to be able to renew a U.S. passport by mail only if it was issued within the past 15 years and mine was issued in June 2004. *sigh* It has occurred to me that every time I get a new passport, we have had a Republican president, each one worse than the last ... though the incumbent toddler-in-chief is his own special kind of awful. Yesterday I tried to distract myself from his grotesqueness by thinking of my late ex-landlord Jack, who was a U.S. Army medic in World War II. He was sent to England, but at the time of D-Day he was still recuperating from a bad bout of pneumonia, so he didn't get selected for the first wave of the invasion. He was sent to France about three weeks after D-Day, when Allied troops were still ridding France of German soldiers, so I'm sure he saw his share of action then.
And for anyone who's wondering, no, I don't have any plans to travel outside the U.S. anytime soon. I just want to have a separate photo ID that's stashed away in case my wallet gets stolen. That's especially important for someone like me who has no immediate family left alive.
And speaking of the calendar ... today my cousin Tim's grandson turned 13 years old. A tall teenager!
Tomorrow the boy toy and I plan to go to a "colonial market fair" at the Benjamin Banneker site just across the river from Ellicott City. The 18th century isn't exactly the 16th century, but somebody might be selling some relevant historically adjacent supplies, like ribbon or linen thread. The boy toy and I also like supporting the Ellicott City area because of the recent years' floods.
