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Sunday, February 4, 2001
Wednesday, January 3, 2001
Non-Con North (ignore the date above)
What: An informal gathering of unschooling families
Where: Everett, WA
When: February 1–3, 2008 (dates flexible)
¡MUY IMPORTANTE! I continue to delude myself that I know who is showing up for this extravaganza. If you haven't yet informed me of your plans to attend, please send e-mail! Thanks!
Details:
* The latest update
* Friday
* Saturday
* Sunday
* Where to stay
* About Everett
The latest update
This section is for those who have already read the details and just want to see what's new (as of 1/26).
Thursday
- Is anybody arriving this day besides Harper and the Mayers? Let me know!
Friday
- When you get into town, come on over to our house! No need to call first. If you need directions, send me e-mail. (My e-mail address is at the bottom of this blog.)
- Dinner: We decided to do a sandwich/salad bar at our house rather than going out. This will make the fun easy to find.
Saturday
- Daytime will possibly find us wandering the town. (Trader Joe's, anyone? Or the nice little wine shop in downtown Everett?) Send e-mail if you need cell phone numbers to assist you in locating the group.
- At the party: In case you (Craig) had any doubt, there WILL be jambalaya. And King Cake. And costumes. And an eclectic playlist by MJ.
- Read the Saturday section to learn about the Found Items Raffle. Bring something cool!
Sunday
- Football Cliché Bingo is ON. There will be prizes!
- Cheapskate Gambling is also on - a betting pool you can join without breaking the bank (and also without needing a financial advisor to help with your winnings).
Friday
Unthemed gathering at our house. Sandwich/salad bar.
Saturday — Cajun feast/Mardi Gras party
This is the Big Party. With dancing! Be there or be square.
* Costume party! Anything goes!
* Bring some food to share, Cajun-style if possible
* Bring whatever you want to drink (we've obtained a liquor permit)
* Bring something for the Found Items Raffle (see below)
When: 5 p.m. to midnight (includes setup and cleanup times)
Where:
The Party Palace (aka Lions Hall at Forest Park)
802 E. Mukilteo Blvd. (directions below)
The Palace has tables and chairs, bathrooms, full kitchen, stage
Found Items Raffle:
* Help us defray the costs of the Party Palace!
* Bring something nice, fun, or funny from your household and put it up for grabs!
* We'll sell cheap raffle tickets so people can put in for lots of different items that interest them, and then later in the evening we'll have a big drawing and give everything away.
* Ideas: gently loved toys, paperbacks, art supplies, re-gifts, white elephants, homemade foods or crafts, decor items, CDs or movies you no longer want, etc. Just about anything goes.
* Unsold items can be reclaimed by the donor or left as part of a group charitable donation.
Directions:
* From I-5, take the 41st St. exit (exit 192).
* Head west on 41st (right turn from southbound 5, angle left from northbound 5)
* Go straight through the lights on Colby and Rucker/Evergreen.
* Curve left and then right up the hill
* Turn left into the somewhat subtle park entrance
* Head up the hill, then turn right past the Recreation Office
* Lions Hall is directly in front of you
Sunday – All Day Super Bowl party
Where: Frank and Ronnie's house (send e-mail to receive specifics)
* Kickoff isn't until 3:15 or so, but come on over whenever
* We'll eat Cajun leftovers or get some subs or something casual like that
* A football-free room will be available
* We'll play Football Cliché Bingo and have Cheapskate Gambling.
Where to stay
Best Western Cascadia Inn on Pacific Ave.
Hotel direct: 1-425-258-4141
Toll free: 1-800-822-5876
When you make your reservation, tell them you're with Non-Con North in Veronica Maier's party to receive a discounted rate of $85/night.
The hotel is about a mile and a half from our place, is adjacent to a Chinese restaurant and a Denny's, and offers a not-just-muffins continental breakfast each morning.
About Everett
* Everett is a sizable city with attractions of its own. Tour Boeing. Go to an event at the Events Center. Movies, shopping, restaurants, parks, beaches, etc.
* Seattle is 30 miles to the south. Pike Place Market. The Space Needle. Experience Music Project. Etc.
* Potluck food and drinks can be purchased here. There is a Safeway two blocks from Frank and Ronnie's house, and the Party Palace has a full kitchen.
Where: Everett, WA
When: February 1–3, 2008 (dates flexible)
¡MUY IMPORTANTE! I continue to delude myself that I know who is showing up for this extravaganza. If you haven't yet informed me of your plans to attend, please send e-mail! Thanks!
Details:
* The latest update
* Friday
* Saturday
* Sunday
* Where to stay
* About Everett
The latest update
This section is for those who have already read the details and just want to see what's new (as of 1/26).
Thursday
- Is anybody arriving this day besides Harper and the Mayers? Let me know!
Friday
- When you get into town, come on over to our house! No need to call first. If you need directions, send me e-mail. (My e-mail address is at the bottom of this blog.)
- Dinner: We decided to do a sandwich/salad bar at our house rather than going out. This will make the fun easy to find.
Saturday
- Daytime will possibly find us wandering the town. (Trader Joe's, anyone? Or the nice little wine shop in downtown Everett?) Send e-mail if you need cell phone numbers to assist you in locating the group.
- At the party: In case you (Craig) had any doubt, there WILL be jambalaya. And King Cake. And costumes. And an eclectic playlist by MJ.
- Read the Saturday section to learn about the Found Items Raffle. Bring something cool!
Sunday
- Football Cliché Bingo is ON. There will be prizes!
- Cheapskate Gambling is also on - a betting pool you can join without breaking the bank (and also without needing a financial advisor to help with your winnings).
Friday
Unthemed gathering at our house. Sandwich/salad bar.
Saturday — Cajun feast/Mardi Gras party
This is the Big Party. With dancing! Be there or be square.
* Costume party! Anything goes!
* Bring some food to share, Cajun-style if possible
* Bring whatever you want to drink (we've obtained a liquor permit)
* Bring something for the Found Items Raffle (see below)
When: 5 p.m. to midnight (includes setup and cleanup times)
Where:
The Party Palace (aka Lions Hall at Forest Park)
802 E. Mukilteo Blvd. (directions below)
The Palace has tables and chairs, bathrooms, full kitchen, stage
Found Items Raffle:
* Help us defray the costs of the Party Palace!
* Bring something nice, fun, or funny from your household and put it up for grabs!
* We'll sell cheap raffle tickets so people can put in for lots of different items that interest them, and then later in the evening we'll have a big drawing and give everything away.
* Ideas: gently loved toys, paperbacks, art supplies, re-gifts, white elephants, homemade foods or crafts, decor items, CDs or movies you no longer want, etc. Just about anything goes.
* Unsold items can be reclaimed by the donor or left as part of a group charitable donation.
Directions:
* From I-5, take the 41st St. exit (exit 192).
* Head west on 41st (right turn from southbound 5, angle left from northbound 5)
* Go straight through the lights on Colby and Rucker/Evergreen.
* Curve left and then right up the hill
* Turn left into the somewhat subtle park entrance
* Head up the hill, then turn right past the Recreation Office
* Lions Hall is directly in front of you
Sunday – All Day Super Bowl party
Where: Frank and Ronnie's house (send e-mail to receive specifics)
* Kickoff isn't until 3:15 or so, but come on over whenever
* We'll eat Cajun leftovers or get some subs or something casual like that
* A football-free room will be available
* We'll play Football Cliché Bingo and have Cheapskate Gambling.
Where to stay
Best Western Cascadia Inn on Pacific Ave.
Hotel direct: 1-425-258-4141
Toll free: 1-800-822-5876
When you make your reservation, tell them you're with Non-Con North in Veronica Maier's party to receive a discounted rate of $85/night.
The hotel is about a mile and a half from our place, is adjacent to a Chinese restaurant and a Denny's, and offers a not-just-muffins continental breakfast each morning.
About Everett
* Everett is a sizable city with attractions of its own. Tour Boeing. Go to an event at the Events Center. Movies, shopping, restaurants, parks, beaches, etc.
* Seattle is 30 miles to the south. Pike Place Market. The Space Needle. Experience Music Project. Etc.
* Potluck food and drinks can be purchased here. There is a Safeway two blocks from Frank and Ronnie's house, and the Party Palace has a full kitchen.
Tuesday, January 2, 2001
Previous quotes from the Quote Zone
Categories:
Attitude
Childhood
Education
Life
Miscellaneous
Politics
Work
Attitude
"Keep on rockin' in the free world." — Neil Young
"There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect." — Nikki Giovanni
"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.” — John Cheever
"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." — Kahlil Gibran
"So now man has the lucky jar in his house forever and thinks the world of the treasure. It is at his service; he reaches for it when he fancies it." — Friedrich Nietzsche, on hope (but his conclusion is not really a very hopeful one)
"It came with out ribbons! It came without tags!
"It came without packages, boxes or bags!"
And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store." — Dr. Seuss
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." — Vincent Van Gogh
"[There's] nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be, It's easy, All you need is love." — John Lennon et al.
"I am exactly where I need to be." — Amy Steinberg
"Just say NO to negativity!" – seen on a bumper sticker
Childhood
"My family... [was] always struggling to know more and be more. It always seemed there was more to know. It was never enough. If I brought home a 98 on a test from school, my father would ask, ‘And what happened to the other two points?’ I pursued those two points relentlessly throughout my childhood. But my grandfather did not care for such things. For him, I was already enough. And somehow when I was with him, I knew with absolute certainty that this was so." — Dr. Rachel Naomi Ramen, My Grandfather's Blesssings
Education
"Next to the right to life itself, the most fundamental of all human rights is the right to control our own minds and thoughts." — John Holt, in Instead of Education
"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." — Benjamin Disraeli
Life
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." — Lewis Carroll
"I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered." — Nicholas Sparks
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." — Freidrich Nietzsche
"...success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be." — Harry Lloyd
"Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with 'scary,' 'spooky,' 'haunted,' or 'forbidden' in the title." — Shaggy
"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived." — Hermann Broch
"Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us." — Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., My Grandfather's Blessings
"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hyrdrant." (unattributed)
Miscellaneous
"I will deliver, You know I'm a forgiver, Reach out and touch faith." — Depeche Mode, Personal Jesus (as covered by Marilyn Manson)
"Someday I'll stop procrastinating." — Grandma Pat (Ruppe)
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" — Captain Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca
"Many things—such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly—are done worst when we try hardest to do them." — C.S. Lewis
"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." — Henry James
"When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell." — John Dryden
"Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know...the birth of Santa." — Bart Simpson
Politics
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard." — Felix Frankfurter
"As disturbing as paranoia, disbelief or revisionism might be, each is better than simply insisting that a devastating report that reveals one's war-rallying cry is unmitigated crap actually confirms the unmitigated crap." — Keith Olbermann (referring to Bush's insistence that the 12/3 intelligence report that Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons program in 2003 should not derail his drive to wage war on Iran)
Work
"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one." — Oscar Wilde
"Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday." — Unknown
"My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it." — Dottie Archibald
"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!" — Yuri Gagarin
Attitude
Childhood
Education
Life
Miscellaneous
Politics
Work
Attitude
"Keep on rockin' in the free world." — Neil Young
"There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect." — Nikki Giovanni
"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.” — John Cheever
"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." — Kahlil Gibran
"So now man has the lucky jar in his house forever and thinks the world of the treasure. It is at his service; he reaches for it when he fancies it." — Friedrich Nietzsche, on hope (but his conclusion is not really a very hopeful one)
"It came with out ribbons! It came without tags!
"It came without packages, boxes or bags!"
And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store." — Dr. Seuss
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." — Vincent Van Gogh
"[There's] nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be, It's easy, All you need is love." — John Lennon et al.
"I am exactly where I need to be." — Amy Steinberg
"Just say NO to negativity!" – seen on a bumper sticker
Childhood
"My family... [was] always struggling to know more and be more. It always seemed there was more to know. It was never enough. If I brought home a 98 on a test from school, my father would ask, ‘And what happened to the other two points?’ I pursued those two points relentlessly throughout my childhood. But my grandfather did not care for such things. For him, I was already enough. And somehow when I was with him, I knew with absolute certainty that this was so." — Dr. Rachel Naomi Ramen, My Grandfather's Blesssings
Education
"Next to the right to life itself, the most fundamental of all human rights is the right to control our own minds and thoughts." — John Holt, in Instead of Education
"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." — Benjamin Disraeli
Life
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." — Lewis Carroll
"I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered." — Nicholas Sparks
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." — Freidrich Nietzsche
"...success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be." — Harry Lloyd
"Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with 'scary,' 'spooky,' 'haunted,' or 'forbidden' in the title." — Shaggy
"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived." — Hermann Broch
"Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us." — Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., My Grandfather's Blessings
"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hyrdrant." (unattributed)
Miscellaneous
"I will deliver, You know I'm a forgiver, Reach out and touch faith." — Depeche Mode, Personal Jesus (as covered by Marilyn Manson)
"Someday I'll stop procrastinating." — Grandma Pat (Ruppe)
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" — Captain Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca
"Many things—such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly—are done worst when we try hardest to do them." — C.S. Lewis
"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." — Henry James
"When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell." — John Dryden
"Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know...the birth of Santa." — Bart Simpson
Politics
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard." — Felix Frankfurter
"As disturbing as paranoia, disbelief or revisionism might be, each is better than simply insisting that a devastating report that reveals one's war-rallying cry is unmitigated crap actually confirms the unmitigated crap." — Keith Olbermann (referring to Bush's insistence that the 12/3 intelligence report that Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons program in 2003 should not derail his drive to wage war on Iran)
Work
"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one." — Oscar Wilde
"Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday." — Unknown
"My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it." — Dottie Archibald
"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!" — Yuri Gagarin
Monday, January 1, 2001
Why the Zombie Princess?
Once upon a time, there was a boat with a hardy Krewe who sailed her into hurricanes, wild Gulf seas, and conch-covered island chains. In true zombie fashion and despite Mother Nature's best efforts, she proved hard to kill. The morale of the Krewe didn't fare as well.
If you want to get the full story of the ZP, read the early months of this blog (July through November 2005). It's a pretty interesting story, taking you through outfitting a sailboat for cruising; surviving hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma; grunting out a Gulf passage; running away to DisneyWorld; and our ultimate decision to come home.
Here are some highlights:
If you want to get the full story of the ZP, read the early months of this blog (July through November 2005). It's a pretty interesting story, taking you through outfitting a sailboat for cruising; surviving hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma; grunting out a Gulf passage; running away to DisneyWorld; and our ultimate decision to come home.
Here are some highlights:
- Naming the ship
- Only one thing will kill a Zombie Princess
- The whole Rita story
- Passage notes
- And about the Dry Tortugas (and Wilma)
- What comes next
- The last cruise of the Zombie Princess
- Sale of the Zombie Princess
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