In Love

Still!

So, Here's Your Sword

Found while cleaning out the spare room... if it is yours please let me know. I have a vague feeling who wrote it and whom they intended it for, but I cannot rightly remember and would hate to mis-attribute this droll little verse.

The prophesy is now fulfilled

the sword which once the mulch had tilled

'twas taken by the rightful queen

in order to protect her spleen.

She gave it to the goddess fair

who said "oh my, what have you there?"

"A sword" she spoke, "and rightful took

come see now, won't you have a look?"

The goddess she agreed to keep

the sword and would not say a peep

she spied this act, this deviltry new

she keep the sword of that there hoodoo.

But now the game we once have played

is done, the purpose which we stayed.

Now here it is, sir, take, enjoy,

so, here's you sword.

You know you are not talking to a Finance Major when...

He tells you that the funds were disembursed yesterday.

Tag: Fun with Books

Although the Heart was tagged by "Chad, Joanna, & Emmie", we all know that my (The Brain's) reading list is more interesting, in a duller than a butter knife in a sandstorm, drier than frozen carbon dioxide, denser than iridium at zero Kelvins in a black hole sort of way :-)

The Rules: Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)

• Find Page 123.


• Find the first 5 sentences.


• Post the next 3 sentences.


• Tag 5 people.

First Attempt: A Guide to Evidence in Virginia. Problem: No page numbers, just sections. I am not going to count.

Trying Again: Virginia State Bar 2007-2008 Professional Guidelines, Including amendments through September 1, 2007. Problem: Sentences are so long that there are not 8 complete sentences on page 123 (page dimensions 8.5" x 11", single space 12 point font).

Number Three: Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Vol. 14. Problem: Pages are grouped by state; turning to the first state in this volume, Vermont, there are not 123 pages. There are 21. 123-21=102, so I will look for page 102 of Virginia. There I find, starting at the top of the page, "Bowles, Wittenouer & Steffen, P.C., (BV)...9401 Battle Street, Boyce, William C., Jr., (AV)... '50 '85 C.1090 B.S. L.1209 J.D. [Weimer&B.]*PRACTICE AREAS" and so forth. Not exactly sentences, so I can't really count to 5 before starting.

I have also had to reject, for many of the same reasons, the next books my hands found, grand titles such as Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrpreneurial Transactions, First Day in Practice 22nd Ed., QuickBooks for Small Business, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, and Virginia Senate Journal, 2004 Regular Session, Vol. I (Pg. 1-1399). This exhausts the non-privileged reading materials sitting on my desk, and I forthwith head to the firm library to see what I can find.

...

Ok, I am back. Finally, I have discovered one that will work, and I herewith present, from Virginia Family Law: A Systematic Approach, with the caveat that nothing herein is legal advice, that your individual circumstances may require a different approach, and that the information may be out of date, inapplicable, or otherwise inadequate for what you want to do, and that this in no way constitutes an invitation or attempt to form an attorney-client relationship with anyone.

In a name-change pursuant to a divorce, the wife may only revert to her maiden name or a previous married name she has used. She cannot pick some new name she has not had in the past. Note that all former names are to be listed in the order.

I will let The Heart do the tagging of other individuals in her response.

If you catch him, he will give you wishes!!

It seems there really is a White Stag!!

"So they lived in great joy and if ever they remembered their life in this world it was only as one remembers a dream. And one year it fell out that Tumnus (who was a middle-aged Faun by now and beginning to be stout) came down river and brought them news that the White Stag had once more appeared in his parts- the White Stag who would give you wishes if you caught him. So these two Kings and two Queens with the principal members of their court, rode a-hunting with horns and hounds in the Western Woods to follow the White Stag. And they not hunted ling before they had a sight of him. And he led them a great pace over rough and smooth and through think and thin, till the horses of all the courtiers were tired out and only these four were still following. And they saw the stag enter into a thicket were their horses could not follow. Then said King Peter (for they talked in quite a different style now, having been Kings and Queens for so long), "Fair Consorts, let us know alight from our horses and follow this beast into the thicket; for in all my days I never hunted a nobler quarry."
"Sir," said the other, "even so let us do."
So they alighted and tied their horses to trees and went on into the thick wood on foot."

~The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe chapter 17 by C.S. Lewis

Leucism
White deer are often mistakenly thought to be albinos. In fact their unusual condition is caused by leucism, a rare genetic pattern that causes a reduction in the pigment in the animal’s hair and skins. Unlike albinos who have characteristically red eyes, deer with leucism have normal colouring in their eyes.

Looks like their antlers are still brown.