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Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday

Since marquisdd called my Mardi Gras summary on his journal "minimal and stark ... pure Hemingway" (and since I'm a tired old fart despite only having had one Bloody Mary yesterday), I shall repost it:

We went out. We had fun. Here are a couple of lame pictures we took before leaving the house because we were too lazy to carry the camera around. Saw Rex. Saw Indians. Came home, watched the Rex Ball and the Meeting of the Courts on WYES while Chris fell asleep in front of the TV.

I did manage to do

7 Commandments For Parade Riders

I have assembled these over the course of an intense and strenuous parade season. There needs to be an equivalent set for paradegoers -- beginning with "Thou shalt not judge a parade solely by how much stuff they throw" -- but I cannot do everything at once.

1. Thou shalt forsake thy cell phone except to briefly ascertain locations of family members/close friends thou wisheth to bead-bomb.

2. Thou shalt put away thy digital camera. Thou art putting on a show for us, not documenting it for thine ow