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Oct. 20th, 2009 15:46Wednesday October 14, 2009 Picked up NAPS food at Waite House. (Nutritional Assistance for Seniors; I suspect P stands for the ghost of "Program.")
***I now have a solid beginning for "Down Among the Sane Men."
***I dreamed passages from _Gone With the Wind_, a book I've never read. I'm not sure how much like the waking-world book this version was. I don't think Margaret Mitchell's male aristocrats had an elaborate whistle language.
If Confederate officers had had a whistle language, some American Civil War battles would probably have gone differently. Which ones, and how, I don't know enough to speculate about.
Thursday October 15, 2009 When Rainbow supermarkets were bought by Roundys (a Wisconsin company), one change was the abolition of Rainbow's rewards cards. A few months ago, Rainbow instituted something new -- rewards cards. At that time, the only reward to be earned was ten cents off on up to 12 gallons of gasoline at BP stations. (Note: American gallons are 4/5 the size of Imperial gallons.) I don't drive, and I'm unlikely to be near a BP station.
There were to be other rewards later, I was told. I got the card. ( Read more... )
***I now have a solid beginning for "Down Among the Sane Men."
***I dreamed passages from _Gone With the Wind_, a book I've never read. I'm not sure how much like the waking-world book this version was. I don't think Margaret Mitchell's male aristocrats had an elaborate whistle language.
If Confederate officers had had a whistle language, some American Civil War battles would probably have gone differently. Which ones, and how, I don't know enough to speculate about.
Thursday October 15, 2009 When Rainbow supermarkets were bought by Roundys (a Wisconsin company), one change was the abolition of Rainbow's rewards cards. A few months ago, Rainbow instituted something new -- rewards cards. At that time, the only reward to be earned was ten cents off on up to 12 gallons of gasoline at BP stations. (Note: American gallons are 4/5 the size of Imperial gallons.) I don't drive, and I'm unlikely to be near a BP station.
There were to be other rewards later, I was told. I got the card. ( Read more... )