Someone used that phrase in an e-mail that I received yesterday, and it cracked me up. I will be using it more or less non-stop for the next two weeks. At least. It’s also appropriate for this round-up of things that I missed over the last week. I found myself in Seattle for work, but my laptop’s power chord stayed home. This left me with three hours of battery time to ration over the week. C’est la guerre. Plus, I was in Seattle. Onward:

  • First, please don’t forget that Monday is the second official event in our Baby Got Books Reading Series - or BGB2. Author Hillary Jordan will read from her excellent novel Mudbound, and there will be live music by the Wayne Fishell Experience and Hope for Agoldensummer. Read my review of the book and get all of the details over here.
  • The Tournament of Books continued without me. See how your favorites are doing here.
  • Visionary Arthur C. Clarke passed away this week.
  • You can now be a fan of The Wren’s Nest on Facebook. Neat. They already have more friends than I do.
  • There is a work session this Saturday to help our neighbors who were hit hard by last weekend’s crazy tornadoes: “If you can lend a hand, please plan to meet at the Cabbagetown Community Center 177 Estoria, at 10 am. Projects will be lead by the Cabbagetown Initiative. Volunteers will be divided into work groups by street and go house to house.”