My Dear I-miss-you You,

Scrubbing Up for the Wedding

This is it!
Only a few more hours and
the two-and-a-half-day-long
Official Wedding Party begins!

(it takes weeks/months of hard travel
for people to get here
so when they party
they really party)

There's an improvised bathhouse
right now
down by the cooking fires
in Louder's basement

One of Louder's super-cool
collector friends
brought over this super-cool
bit of Ancient Roman mosaic

(which says something
like "good bath")
along with some
Roman-style bath sandals
(like in the mosaic)

and everybody's going into
cool-shoe-extasy
down there

*laughs*

If only the baths themselves
were Roman ones!

No such luck!


Blue Company is Getting
A Great Reputation

. . . at least
in the courtesan/scholar community

It's been a non-stop stream of visitors
since yesterday

everyone's coming by Louder's to scope us out

We're stars or something

Everyone's gossiping about politics . . .
distant wars that might be starting
like India and Pakistan, according to your note

Oh yeah! ---
One woman said she
chit-chatted with Petrarch yesterday
She says he's really funny
A Petrarch sighting!

Then these maimed scary low-life
Free Lances came to talk with Skip

He's got some scheme going with them

Be careful, Skip.


You're Right About
'Taking it Slow'

I hope I haven't been too obnoxious
and getting too familiar with you
in these lines

I just really like you

But Yes you're right we need to
basically start from the beginning again
when I get back

So many of us Overtimers freak when they return
& get really depressed

It's a whole syndrome
they've told us about already


The Goose Grease Treatment

While I've been hanging out with Louder

Some other Blue Compagnards
have been doing useful things

Oscar the Economist

learned how to polish chain mail
with poultry fat
from the White Companistas

and he's buffing up
everyone's head and neck

which is really nice of him


Well . . .

See you, my tolerant patient friend

(I just like you, that's all)

*grin*

in just a short while . . .

. . . we'll be


On Our Way to the Party


down this spectacular Visconti corridor

Berto Alto