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A bright shiney happy new day

Sort of.

Before we begin the proceedings, I'd like to welcome a new smiling happy face to the Wierdos community. Rachel, I'd like you to meet:

Aj (She who is seen once in a blue moon, but whom we all love anyway) Cheri (She who we see once in a blue week, but whom we all love anyway) and Brian (He who loves Cheri the most, but whom we all love anyway).

A blue week, in this case, being a week in which you see the color blue at least once.

I know you know Cheri. I know she knows you. I even know she knows you know she knows you. But it isn't polite to introduce only some people. "You can't introduce some of the people some of the time, but you can introduce all the people all the time."

Rabbits. I used to own a rabbit. His name was Floppy Lettuce Rosenfeld Broccoli Kramer. With I think some other names tacked on.

I am sort of half-heartedly trying to arrange some sort of get together. Possibly even tonight, if enough people are free and clear and open and available and carefree and I and think and I and have and run and out and of and appropriate and adjectives. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Um. Yeah.

So, anyway, as I was saying, I... what was I saying?

Get together. Yes. Anyone free?

If not, I may do something on Saturday. Have to see.

Hmph.

I repeat, for those of you in the audience who didn't quite hear the first time:

Hmph.

I repeat, for those of you in the viewing audience who are clueless and/or silly:

Hmph.

I repeat, for myself, basically just to hear myself speak:

Hmph.

(Yes, Rachel, he really does write long, bizarre, totally random emails at all hours of the work day when he has projects that need to be completed in the near future. Pity him.)

No complaints about The Initiation. It will happen. Eventually. But, judging from NO PARTICULAR EXPERIENCE, eventually is a long time.

Yes, Rachel, there is an Initiation to this particular gang of thugs and hippies. It came about when I was sending emails to Aj and Cheri, and then decided to add Brian to our Kommunist Kapitalist Kollective. Aj asked for an Initiation quest of some kind, and a scheme sprouted in my head out of nowhere. The Initiation consists of three parts: The Heroic Quest (which may or may not consist of both a Quest and a Geas), The Declaration of Heroness, and The Ritual Initiation.

Brian's Quest is this: the Geas is during a day of his choice (sunset to sunset), before speaking to anyone, he must perform a short but meaningful cleansing ceremony on them, consisting of both an audible and a somatic component. In conversations with multiple people, it must be performed once on each of them. Once per person per conversation. In telephone conversations it must be performed on the telephone. The Quest itself is that during this 24 hour period, he must go to the local Masonic Temple and find out all he can about becoming a Freemason. Promotional literature if possible.

He hasn't yet chosen an appropriate 24 hour period, because he's still job hunting. Once he a) gets a job, and b) gets a day off, he will finally perform his Quest, and the rest shall follow in due course.

I'm thinking of assinging Quests for the rest of us just so that we can get a Ritual Initiation in the near future. But there's no real massive incredible hurry.

Laterity.