Dear You, Trying to Start on an "Up" NoteYou shoulda seen thehuge eerie gorgeous triangular herds of birds ricocheting around the narrow valley rippling and squawking and shitting this morning. (I'm trying to start on an "Up" Note before the whining begins in earnest) There are more birds now than in the future I'm sure of it Lucky birds --- high enough to see the food-filled flatlands My AdIt cracks me upthat when you reply to me your e-mail contains ads!!! Here's my ad! Bouncing MerrilyAfter the All-Company Meetingall day my mood was like the stuff on the pack mule in front of me . . . . . . gradually gradually gradually sagging until some bag of pancake batter or box of ammunition goes bouncing merrily down the creekbank and the whole company stops and swears and loosens all the ropes and tries to jam everything up high on the mule again I got into an utter depressing "What am I doing with my life?!" by mid afternoon The Gang Crossing a CreekFlip OutOne of the sweet Heavy MetalGoth Rock Kids flipped out today They sent him to me (like they often do} And Skip handed him the reins and let him walk beside me while I rode Nastibelle The Idiotic Protocol back here requires that Knights ride and Squires & Grooms walk (I'm playing Knight this month) . . . when the natural thing would have been to let the kid ride he was sobbing and hyperventilating it was terrible So I listened and tried gingerly to figure out what was up Turns out it's his sister's birthday and he's guilty he couldn't send her anything They were basically orphans together . . . anway, we patched him up and wrote her a funny poem that he sent tonight already on this laptop Our Story So Far. . . so's you can understand the impactof the bombshell Regine dropped today . . . 1) All last Spring and Summer we shuffled up and down the Po Valley between Greater Venice and Greater Milan looking cool, negotiating double deals, and trying our damndest not get into a fight. Meetings, meetings, meetings! 2) By Autumn when we finally inked a contract with the Viscontis of Milan it was the end of the fightin' season! Time to pack up the weapons and go to Winter Camp! Woo hoo! 3) Winter Camp in Switzerland: working out, sleeping, drinking, telling stories Did I mention being bored out of our minds? 4) Then they told us the only thing we'd have to do before going Home is make a ceremonial appearance at this big Visconti Wedding Party in Milan at the beginning of June Co-Ed Pee Break
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