Caffeine’s Revenge, Plus: Links

I will not drink iced coffee after three pm ever again…Rough night.

Some dribs and drabs for you this morning:

HoCoGov has announced the addition of beer to Wine in the Woods and already someone has suggested the monicker “Beer in the Bushes”. This alliteration thing - - we just can’t escape it.

The County Executive has an announcement/press event scheduled about Camp Ilchester with members of the Girl Scouts and various electeds at the George Howard Building today at 11 am. You can read the press release on Delegate Courtney Watson’s Facebook page. I’m pretty excited about this one.

In just the past several days, two local musicians have released music videos. Have a look and listen.

Sarah Beth Driver, Letters from Mars

Jay Money Hackett, Remember

I’ll be writing more about these two in the near future.

If you are looking for something serious, this post from 2020 about the partisan nature of local board of education races still feels painfully relevant:

Here’s the Context

Facebook memories reminded me that this is the three-year anniversary of someone accusing me of being a member of “the radical left”. Good times. The best part is that I can’t even remember who it was.

If you simply want to start your day feeling more human, you can’t do better than to immerse yourself in some recent posts THREW Mikes EyEz. This one in particular got to me this morning.

Nada, Mike Hartley

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Teacher Gifts

Today is the last day of school before the Winter Break. It’s a good time to remember the far-reaching nature of our public school system. You may not have children. You may have sent your children to independent schools. It matters not. You will be impacted one way or another. Yesterday I read a long thread on Facebook about several waves of illness in the schools right now. There’s influenza A and norovirus, I believe. And of course there’s COVID. Apparently in some individual schools the rate of illness is high enough for school admin to notify parents. When I was little the acceptable holiday gift for a teacher was one of those lovely floral handkerchief squares. (I don’t know what it was for male teachers. They were rare in my elementary years.) These days the range of teacher gifts is wider and I have fond memories of Target gift cards which I have written about before. I think it’s safe to say that giving one’s teacher Influenza, norovirus, or COVID is not the ideal holiday...

They Can Wait

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Columbia Chance Connection

Last night, as my husband and I were about to sit down to dinner, our front door swung open and a cheery voice announced, “I’m ba—ack!” We weren’t expecting anyone. Clearly the only people who’d walk right in to our house would be one of our offspring. I had my reading glasses on so I wasn’t seeing too clearly. It seemed too tall for our youngest, but we knew our eldest was at work. I took off my glasses to see a friendly but confused face scanning our living room. When her gaze landed on us we all had a sudden realization. We didn’t know eachother. “Oh I’m so sorry! I’m in the wrong house! My daughter just moved in and she needed hooks for the kitchen so I ran out to get them.” She waved the package. “All these houses look the same and I don’t know the neighborhood yet. I thought this was my daughter’s house.” We were all getting a bit giggly. “That’s okay. For a quick second we thought you were our daughter,” said my husband. I told her our names and said she should defin...

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