Trip Stuff…

… that is probably of no interest to anyone but me, but I’m posting it anyway. I’ve been pretty happy with how this trip has been working out. Of course, there have been problems. The way my bank card provided a feast for a local bank machine was somewhat annoying, really. (And Marvin’s right to urge people to pee on the accursed things when they see them—though I was informed not only Bank1One but all newer bank machines in the USA are configured in this way, to magnetically destroy the stripe if the card is retained.) But overall, meeting so …

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Embarrassed by the Church (er, plus some Victorian kids)

I’ve spent some of the day catching up on my bloglines subscriptions, and come up with a few things worthy of interest. One is just a really interesting info site on the lives of orphans and street kids in the care of The Children’s Society in the Victorian Era, which I’m sure will be an interesting for my next big writing project (involving, well, I’ll say very generally, refugees and slums). And the other interesting thing is regarding the Church and American politics. A link on a heresy charge that a Catholic lawyer is filing against John Kerry. What the …

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