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These red wine glasses are based on the 7 deadly sins. Each glass encapsulates a sin, which is revealed through the ritual of drinking. The ‘7 Deadly Glasses’ are about celebrating passion and encouraging the user to be sinful in a theatrical fashion.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It's like you've stumbled upon the
Cosmic Lost and Found Office, Sagittarius. Whether or not it happened
"by mistake" is irrelevant: It's an opportunity to recover good stuff that
prematurely disappeared from your life. But keep in mind that your
valuables may be mixed in with abandoned and forgotten junk, both yours
and other people's. You might initially feel discouraged at the prospect of
having to wade through all that meaningless dross in order to locate your
treasures. Don't give up. Your diligence will ultimately be rewarded.

• I have clean sheets and a freshly-laundered quilt on my bed right now. My skin is already tingling in anticipation of crawling in between the sheets.
  
  
• We have all three Pirates of the Caribbean moves this weekend. Watched Curse of the Black Pearl last night. Tonight, it's Dead Man's Chest, of course. I lust after Johnny Depp but by God, Geoffrey Rush just steals scene after scene in At World's End.
  
  
• Bathroom deconstruction progresses well. My role is mostly clean up right now while M does the technical stuff that takes his know-how. As soon as he finishes getting the drywall up, I'll be doing the taping & joint compound thing -- reminds me, we need to grab a texturing thingie next time we're in the hardware store...
  
  
• A guy showed up out of the blue (=heh=) today to talk to M about hauling off a lot of the old appliance husks and scrap metal that he's been storing here against the day we had the extra funds to haul it all off ourselves. He's starting tomorrow -- I'm stoked!
  
  
• On Friday poor MacDuff got his pads run off chasing the disc in a parking lot during our all-day ordeal in Eureka. Well, just one pad actually, and one of his claws worn down into the quick - that dog will run himself into the grave if there's a disc or a ball or a stick involved, I swear. We got him home and cleaned up and he's been a very good boy about not licking it like crazy. As a result, he's almost back to normal today -- though I must confess it's been kinda nice to have a couple of days of mellow MacDuff...
  
  
• Did I mention Russian Orthodox Church music yet? Oh yeah huh... The Chorovaya Akademia is an all-male choir singing these hymns a capella and the vocal ranges involved are enough to take your breath away. One of these tracks ends in one of those chords where the contrabasses are singing the lowest notes you can hear (seriously -- any lower in pitch and only the dogs could hear it) while the contratenors are up in the stratosphere somewhere and the baritones and tenors are filling in everything between with mathematical artistry... makes me choke up and get hard goosebumps every time I hear them hit that final chord. The CD is entitled Ancient Echoes, for those interested. I highly recommend it.
  
  
• Cycling back to movies for a bit, I started my very first-ever list of movies to own, and movies to rent, in my Treo last night. We finally got fed up with getting into the video store and going "duuuuurrrr.... what did we want to see, again?" Hopefully, if I've got my Treo at hand, we'll never have another of those embarrassing moments again. ;)
  
  
• I still don't watch enough movies to join the community creativedv8tion was just journaling about though. Sorry to say.
  
  
• I made a kick ass pasta salad with a balsamic vinaigrette as a side for the leftover cold fried chicken from last night. Had a very sharp bite, it did, but it offset the relative blandness of the chicken just perfectly...
  
  
• In addition to spear-heading the bathroom thing, M is also on point for the MediaWiki installation and integration thing at LCG. I love this man -- I could do neither of these things as quickly or as well as he does them, I swear. :)
  
  

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September 1930

They were waiting for me when I arrived at the tiny flat I'd taken in Fribourg, two slabs of stupid whose primary attribute was every muscle except the one between their respective ears. I'd never been handled roughly in my life to that point; one of them grabbed me, the other slapped me and my world spun dizzily for several moments. The next thing I remembered was snapping to acute awareness in the cool air outside and seeing a lone man walking across the street.