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Last night we went to Ralph and Lori's for "Sunday" dinner. (They had other plans last Sunday, and this Sunday they'll be celebrating their first wedding anniversary.) We had very tasty grilled onion-burgers. I'm starting to think that it's time for Dani and me to get a grill, and patio furniture, and whatnot. I feel so domestic sometimes. :-)

Last night I also, finally, started to catch up on my D&D character's in-character "diary" entries over in ralph_dnd. I still have one or two more to go. I enjoy this aspect of the game; it helps fill in character back-story and make the whole world feel more three-dimensional for me.

Tomorrow is an SCA event. It should be lots of fun; I hope it's not too hot and miserable out. Aside from a choir performance and judging an arts-and-sciences competition, I have no specific plans for the day. Whee! I can make it up as I go along. (Some events are very scheduled...) This also means that I can attend morning Shabbat services first, unlike the last event where in theory I had to be there at 10am and "there" was near Butler.

isn't technology grand?

I just got one of the more bizarre phone calls in recent memory.

It was obvious that it was a recording, and thinking it was a telemarketer (such calls always had been, until now), I was about to hang up. But then the mechanical voice identified itself as the Sears repair service, so I didn't. (They have our microwave, which got damaged but not destroyed by the power surge.)

The rest of the call was completely automated and told us that our [pause] microwave is ready for pickup at the [click] Pittsburgh repair center and the charge is [pause] [some amount here] and they are open from [click] 8AM to [click] 5PM on... and so on, in that sing-song that comes from splicing digital voices together.

I wonder how long it will be before they can make these kinds of calls smooth and not choppy.