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We made out all right where I am. Some people lost power during the storm but it's mostly a case of some messy roads here and there. When I woke up this morning there were some sections of blue sky and almost no wind. Surprise! If the weather's still calm later, I might drive to one of the piers on Lake Ontario and see how things look.
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Recently my parents were at a conference where they received a number of party favors. My mother showed me something that looks like a metal barrel pen, but it unscrews to show screwdriver tips in the inside, which can be attached to the "pen's" tip. If you click the top end, a flashlight comes on. All I could think is, "somebody's trying to create sonic screwdrivers".
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As Halloween is coming, I've been skimming through the PotO novel. The part where Christine is telling Raoul about her first abduction by the Phantom is hair-raising. But this is the part that cracks me up:
Context: Raoul, who's a pretty ridiculous guy in the Leroux novel, hears of the Angel of Music and thinks that Christine is cheating on him. ("As for Christine, she was a brazen, satanically deceitful creature.") He runs home and--I can't recap this, you get the direct excerpt. "When he went into his room, he thought only of throwing himself on the bed and stifling his sobs. But his brother Philippe was there, and Raoul let himself fall into his arms, like a baby."
I love this book.
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Recently my parents were at a conference where they received a number of party favors. My mother showed me something that looks like a metal barrel pen, but it unscrews to show screwdriver tips in the inside, which can be attached to the "pen's" tip. If you click the top end, a flashlight comes on. All I could think is, "somebody's trying to create sonic screwdrivers".
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As Halloween is coming, I've been skimming through the PotO novel. The part where Christine is telling Raoul about her first abduction by the Phantom is hair-raising. But this is the part that cracks me up:
Context: Raoul, who's a pretty ridiculous guy in the Leroux novel, hears of the Angel of Music and thinks that Christine is cheating on him. ("As for Christine, she was a brazen, satanically deceitful creature.") He runs home and--I can't recap this, you get the direct excerpt. "When he went into his room, he thought only of throwing himself on the bed and stifling his sobs. But his brother Philippe was there, and Raoul let himself fall into his arms, like a baby."
I love this book.
