You know, I think the thing that most killed my blogging buzz

lately was all the stories of rapes and murders in New Orleans. I suppose I have a moral right to rant about the faulty news coverage, but I'm just too relieved to find out that most of them never happened. I hope the duped reporters exact terrible revenge. Right after they extract every possible lesson from this mess about how to find news.

While those things weren't going on, I was at Rendezvous in Pine City.

I competed in a few contests: took a major whuppin' in the Men's Footrace, had a decent showing in the stone toss, but didn't place... I guess it was only two.

I went to the Sunday Service at the Blacksmith's tent. He talked about how and why to live right. He seems to be doing it, which is a plus.

I spent a lot of time with him - he invited me to make a hook for hanging lanterns on the tent pole. It's pretty cool to pound on red-hot iron and make it into something useful. I'll have to get some batteries for my digital camera and show it to you.
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Eric, I'm still thinking about the 10 Big Things Meme and what you said.

My life goals at this point are to Be a Great Father, make 10 mil, learn seven languages and master Aristotle. Do any of those count?
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Took me six days to write this. Can you tell?