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Thursday, February 28, 2013
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I have always been a milk girl, loved milk when i was growing up and to this day i still try and drink at least a few glasses every week. I don't drink everyday though, but yo can safely say at least four times a week on an average.
I like my milk cold, not much of a hot drinker, maybe that is why i don't fancy coffee.
Milk is good for my bones ... what does coffee do?
I rest my case.
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Three Now
She is the kindest most playful but never attempted to bite us in any way even when she was still a little puppy. She is simply the best!
We had her when she was just two weeks old and we love her ever since.
She is our first pet dog and the kids are very happy to have her. She is still so small even at three years old so Vin can easily carry her.
I cannot imagine my kids growing up withour our funny little nut!
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Birthday Finds
Bea's birthday is really coming in really fast, in two weeks time to be exact and she will be turning fifteen. We gave her an advanced gift already so she can enjoy it already so now i am again in search for another gift for her actual birthday. Since she has found a new interests in guitars i am thinking of getting her something related to her new found interest. I really want her to focus on this because it really spells a lot of difference if you know how to play at least one musical instrument. I know she will be good at it because she really can put her mind to it and excel in anything that she likes as long as the interest is really there. I am really banking on her to learn something new this summer, another additional talent that has yet to be tapped, but with the proper support i know she will go a long way with it.
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Excited to try this out later, hope it delivers its promise to my tresses that really needs my tender loving care.
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Time sure flies!
They have different interests now, Bea has been thinking of having music lessons and she is quite keen on learning to play the guitar. I found a great school for her already and will be visiting it this weekend, we will be looking at some starting guitars for her so she can have her own. I found some great looking ones complete with a cool accessories for my eager student.
Sam is thinking of enrolling in for some voice lessons. Vin on the other hand just wants to stay home and play on his laptop, lol! Different strokes for different folks.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Pre Valentine
Since i was the only one awake, i ate one slice only so the girls can have it for breakfast. We all had one rose each, red for me and white for the girls.
How was your valentine? Hope it was good.
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Musical Display
My kids and i just love going around the malls even without a specific thing to buy. We love to walk around and go into stores and suprisingly find something we like and we did not even know about. It is like a scavengers hunt for things that are really a cool find.We went inside a auto supply store and came out with soft pillows for back, who would think you would find them there, lol! We went to a music store and saw an array of musical instruments guitars to organs to recorders and to drums that Vin tried so many times. We were able to buy a small flute though and to try our hand on reading the notes and maybe get a decent sound from it. I really love going leisurely around the mall, stress is a no-no when it comes to our shopping adventures, we just want to take it really slow.
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Kwek Kwek
Kwek-kwek a native delicacy. I posted this picture on Facebook, my kids enjoying kewk-kwek right after hearing mass when one of my friends abroad asked what it was, lol!
For us Filipinos, it is a common street food, so i kind of took it for granted that everyone knows what it is. My bad.
It is actually considered a street food (since a lot of carts are plying the streets with this food) it is quail eggs in orange batter and cooked deep fried. They are served in small containers with toothpicks instead of fork and they are smothered with sauce that you can choose from, my kids love the sweet and sour sauce over the spicy one.
So there, kwek kwek.
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Loving Hearts
It was a day filled with love if you ask me.
Looking forward to another year long of loving!
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My Emcee
I marveled at how Bea handles it, her voice was very clear and lively! She was really great!
Another proud momma moment for me!
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Safety First
Finally we are transferring to our new house this year! I am so excited! After so many renovations it is finally over, we are just waiting for the finishing touches then we will be moving in. I have seen a lot of plans for the house and it really is great news that it now all set and the plans are final, no more revisions. The entire time of construction i had very little participation since it involved the construction of rooms and the flooring, but now that the interior aspect is going to be done i will be taking over. I have picked the furniture and lights to be used for every room and now i am fixing up the bathroom. I am so excited because i was able to fin tiles for the bathroom that is anti-slippery especially since the kids will be all wet and soapy in the bathroom. I made sure that the electrical switches are well hidden so water cannot go into it from all the splashing, i also looking at robern medicine cabinets to keep put first aid supplies at bay. You can never be too careful when you have kids at home. It really pays to secure the safety, because like the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is way better than a pound of cure. So there!
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- Appeal Decision Addresses the Promise Doctrine
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Discussion in 'Long Range Scopes and Other Optics' started by dbhostler, Mar 28, 2005.
Anyone have this new reticle in their scope? From Premier Reticles,check it out.
Did you omit the Premier URL?
Looks a lot like the NP-R2 reticle in my NightForce
The NP-R2 gives you 10 MOA hold under and 20 MOA hold over. With a 100 MOA NXS and a 55 MOA base, you get 125 MOA adjustment. ( Still not as good as a Leupold Mark 4 - 16 with mill dot, 140 + dots )
Yes it does look a lot like the R2, but I like the windage dots on the lower part of the reticle which the R2 doesn't have.
I really like that reticle. I just wish Leupold would offer scopes with centimeter clicks to go with them.
With a reticle like this, all you would have to do is determine your zero and the mil dots and half mils would do the rest, no need to turn the dials.
I really like that reticle. I just wish Leupold would offer scopes with centimeter clicks to go with them.
Hey Rick, from another Rick - I just wish Leupold would offer that reticle so I wouldn't have to pay $240 extra to have it installed. Getting a good reticle from the factory for little or no additional cost seems more useful than cm clicks. Y do you want cm clicks? ( Can't you buy European Leupold scopes, I see them on eBay on occasion ) They just had a killer deal on a 6.5-20x50mm listed as European. I posted here asking what European meant and someone posted a reply back saying cm clicks in lieu of inch.
I like the ffp but how thick is it at max power? Shouldnt be too bad but just curious.
I want centimeter clicks so that when Ex-Bal reads 5.1 mils, I can hold five dots down plus one click. You can do it with MOA clicks, its just less cumbersome with centimeter clicks, or I could just hold-off the 0.1 mil, but I don't spend $1K or so on a scope to hold-off. I would prefer, for my money, that the reticle and the adjustments be in the same measuring systems.
PS I was the one who replied about the Euro Loopies. When I called Premier about this reitcle, I forgot to ask if they could put it in one of those. I'll call him now!
I spoke with Dick Thomas and Leupold. The good news is that Premier can put that reticle in any scope (leupold) with 30mm tube and side focus. The bad news is that the highest mag scope Leupold makes with centimeter clicks, 30mm tube and SF, now is 4.5x14. The good news is Premier can boost it. The bad news is the boost on 4.5x14's often sucks (according to Dick). Rats.


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I just switched into a hypomanic state. And in this state, I now realize that this is different from some other good energy, excitement and passion that I was feeling recently. So it's good to know that by treating myself with love, listening to my body and all of that good stuff, that I can achieve really great energy naturally, without medication and without cycling. #GoodToKnow #BipolarSelfAwareness
For the past two months I've been drinking just about no caffeine, and since I made that change I've taken on a pretty consistent sleeping schedule, and I've been getting more sleep.
I was also taking depression medication as the first exploration into medication for bipolar 2, and I ran out about two weeks ago. My doctor said I could come back to her for a refill, but with the regular sleep I was getting, my support network and the list of other self-love habits I've taken on, I wanted to see how my body and mind would react if I stopped taking it. I also talked with my doctor before I started taking it, and told her that I didn't want to take medication forever. She said that some people will take medication for about 90 days, while implementing a lot of non-medication habits, and then stop taking it – it has been about 90 days.
For awhile I've been pretty balanced and I haven't really been cycling. My energy hasn't been too high, but now that I distinctly remember what this feels like, being in a hypomanic state, and being really energized, alert, happy, passionate and excited while not being in a hypomanic state, now I know that state of mind without medication, without caffeine and without hypomania is possible. Kudos.
I was recently thinking that I've gotten pretty good at dealing with depression, anxiety and mixed cycling when my thoughts get pretty negative. I have a lot of habits and such that I have adopted so I don't fall into deep depression. I can self-soothe and relieve a panic attack or lesser anxiety. I can catch my negative thoughts, just notice them, confront them, replace them with positive thoughts and commit to changing my thought patterns. Hypomania, when it's not mixed with anything else, it feels amazing, but I get it when I'm cycling through some of the other things, which aren't amazing. So dealing with hypomania would be trying to get myself to go to sleep so I don't disrupt my sleep schedule and so that I do sleep. Paranoia – that hasn't necessarily been new, but I didn't notice it until this past year when its intensity levels escalated to a new high. I've been thinking recently how that one is very difficult to deal with. I haven't come up with many techniques to lessen that one, except one technique when it gets me before bed: watch a lot of fluffy, good-hearted films to distract me until hours go by, I become exhausted and fall asleep.
I've been cycling a lot more with paranoia recently. It has been subtle compared to how intense I know it can get. Why is this happening is probably a good question to consider. I stopped drinking caffeine, which sometimes triggered it. A year or so ago I stopped taking my ADD medication, which triggered it. I've stopped watching, or considerably lessened my consumption of crime, war, suspense, light-horror and sci-fi films and TV, which triggered it. I still love American Horror Story: Coven, so I watch that during the day.
I was watching Breaking Dawn Part 2 tonight, and the fight scene at the end triggered it. It's not always linked to something scary. I think it might be linked to an increase in my adrenaline.
My paranoia was kicking in slightly and I was having a small panic attack, and I was taking deep breaths to calm myself, and then I felt a slow physical shift in my brain, and I momentarily experienced hypomania, and I was going back and forth between high anxiety, borderline paranoia and hypomania. The hypomania felt great, the high anxiety did not.
I always thought that those two states of mind were interconnected, but I never put my thumb on it, and I think it hit me tonight. I can turn my paranoia into hypomania – that can be one of my self-soothing techniques. It would be great to learn how to relieve paranoia and not need to transition into something else, but until then – transitioning into hypomania isn't half bad, and it feels great.
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My daughter Susan and her friend Jolene, visited last weekend. The time went too fast, and a special little highlight was the good fudge that Ward whipped up. It just kept beckoning us back to the kitchen counter. On Saturday night, for dinner - Ward and I took them to City Tavern, one of our very excellent restaurants. Suzy and Jolene were pleased with the great food and enjoyed visiting some of the interesting shops here in Culver. Our town has truly "blossomed" in the last 12 to 15 years - not the same town where I moved over 50 years ago. I liked it then and I like it even better now!
About a week from now we will be enjoying and giving thanks at our family gathering - not sure just who will be able to come, but we'll update you in our next blog.
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01 of 08
Atlanta's Best Restaurant Groups
November 23, 2015
The Atlanta restaurant scene has been on the rise for years, but now more than ever, it finally feels like the South has something to brag about. With more chef-driven restaurants popping up and local ingredients becoming more accessible, the Atlanta food world is fostering a community honoring good food and the people who make it. We're so fortunate to live in a city that's steering away from corporate, chain restaurants and moving toward locally-owned, independently-operated eateries. But sometimes the distinction can be confusing, especially when it comes to restaurant groups. "I've been dying to try Superica—it's the same owners as JCT Kitchen," is something you've likely heard before. So just how do these restaurant groups really work? We've created the Sparknotes for Atlanta restaurant groups to help. Click through the slideshow for a guide to Atlanta's top restaurant groups, each of which are serving up dishes taking our dining scene to the next level:
Story by Lizzie Powell.
02 of 08
Ford Fry Restaurant Group
If you're familiar with the Atlanta restaurant scene, chances are you've heard about chef/restaurateur Ford Fry and his nine (and counting!) restaurants that have popped up across town in a matter of eight years. With restaurants in neighborhoods ranging from the Westside and Inman Park to Buckhead and Alpharetta, there's almost always a Ford Fry restaurant nearby when you're eating in Atlanta.
Whether you're looking to celebrate an occasion with the city's priciest steak options at Marcel, cozy up with a bowl of pasta at neighborhood restaurant No. 246, scope out the scene at seafood-centric The Optimist or sit back and have a margarita at Superica or The El Felix, Ford Fry has you covered. But despite the sheer number of concepts, each of Ford Fry's restaurants bring a unique personality to the table and no detail is left undone. From the design of each space to the service and food, Fry has made sure his restaurants run like well-oiled machines. Some of our favorite things to try include the seasonally crafted pre-fixe menu at St. Cecilia's Sunday Supper for $35 a person, a Southern American brunch at King and Duke (don't miss the salmon cakes benedict and homemade cinnamon rolls) or shrimp and grits for dinner at JCT Kitchen. We can't pass up Bar Margot's cocktail list at Four Seasons Atlanta either. With a drink menu curated by Atlanta's cocktail legends, Greg Best and Paul Calvert, guests can sip on innovative craft cocktails in a plush, unpretentious atmosphere.
As if opening two restaurants in 2015 hasn't been enough of an accomplishment, Ford Fry is set to open Beetlecat later this fall and will serve bolder, more innovative seafood small plates in Inman Park. The group is also expanding to Fry's hometown, Houston, TX, and has its eyes on Charleston and the new Braves stadium, where they plan to open additional locations for their Tex-Mex concept, Superica.
03 of 08
Star Provisions Restaurant Group
Anne Quatrano, co-owner and chef of Star Provisions Restaurants, has been called Atlanta's restaurant godmother, as she was a pioneer not only in Atlanta's fine dining scene, but also in the farm-to-table, chef-driven restaurant movement. Most well-known for the acclaimed Bacchanalia, Star Provisions Restaurants also includes Floataway Café, Star Provisions, Little Bacch and W.H. Stiles Fish Camp – Dubs. Her restaurant group, which sources ingredients from Quatrano's family farm, Summerland, has been serving Atlanta topnotch dishes before food was even a "thing" here, and there's no stopping them now.
Known for having one of the best cheese cases in town, Star Provisions, a rustic yet elegant market full of gift and cookware items, hosts a monthly wine and cheese class for those looking to explore artisan cheeses and wine pairings, and offers meat, coffee and a lunch counter, which serves gourmet salads, sandwiches and a selection of specials daily. We can't say no to grabbing a sweet treat from the bakery after washing down a muffaleta sandwich with ginger ale.
If you're a foodie on a budget, but have your eye on Bacchanalia's 5-course pre-fixe menu ($85 per person), take a seat at the bar where you can order the day's menu items a la carte. If you're lucky, your server might send you home with a complimentary specialty baked item. Or, check out Floataway Café, which offers a new menu each day full of French-Italian seasonal fare. With entrees ranging from $18 to $29, guests can choose from grain and pasta dishes or meat and fish options that are all locally sourced.
By choosing to close Abattoir, Quatrano has been able to focus on opening two new concepts this year: Little Bacch–just downstairs from Bacchanalia–takes inspiration from its big sister, but serves a la carte continental dishes (think cheese soufflé and their notorious whole roasted chicken with feet and head intact). W.H. Stiles Fish Camp - Dubs, which opened in September 2015 at Ponce City Market, is Star Provisions' take on a New England clam shack, serving up raw oysters, po boys and crab beignets in a casual, yet bustling atmosphere (choose to toss back a few oysters at the bar or on the back patio).
04 of 08
Little Italia Restaurant Group
Growing up in an Italian immigrant family in New York City, Giovani Di Palma dreamt of creating a Little Italy much like New York's and Chicago's when he moved to Atlanta. After training in restaurants in Naples, Italy, Gio (as his friends and family call him), brought his Italian skills back home to open his flagship restaurant, Antico Pizza, where fans line up outside the door just to get their hands on the pizza. While Gio is now a certified maestro of pizza napoletana, deemed by the commune of Napoli, Italy's Associazione Pizzaioli of Naples, his pizza has been recognized nationally and internationally. In fact, he and his son are the only Americans to ever be recognized in Naples' local paper, Il Mattino, for pizza, and Fox News has named his pepperoni pizza one of the top three in the U.S.
Gio has since opened an Italian dry goods store (Bottega Luisa), an Amalfi-inspired BYOB chicken restaurant (Gio's Chicken), a classic coastal-style bar (Bar Amalfi) serving traditional Italian drinks like limoncello and bellinis, and a coffee and gelato shop (Caffe Antico) to round out a true Italian experience, all on a humble block near Georgia Tech. On one side of Hemphill Avenue, you see the Amalfi Coast's traditional blue and white umbrellas giving Bar Amalfi a relaxed coastal feel, while across the street customers eagerly wait to get their hands on Antico's famed pizza made with top-quality, fresh ingredients imported from Italy (nearly every ingredient is imported from Italy, including Mozzarella di Buffala, which Gio picks up from the Atlanta airport twice a week). If you're a first-timer, make sure to try the San Gennaro, which Food Network considers the "Best. Pizza. Ever."
After Gio successfully turned Hemphill Ave. into Atlanta's bustling and charming Little Italy, he opened Antico Pizza and Gio's Chicken locations at the Avalon in Alpharetta and will be opening another Antico Pizza location at the new Braves stadium in 2017.Continue to 5 of 8 below.
05 of 08
Buckhead Life Restaurant Group
Since 1979, Buckhead Life has been ruling Buckhead with hotspots like Kyma, Chops and the Atlanta Fish Market. Many modern restauranteurs have shied away from white-table-cloth concepts, but father-son duo, Pano and Pano II Karatassos, have proven that fine dining is still alive and swell in Atlanta. Though the group's eight restaurants are known for their upscale dining rooms, their menus are anything but full of stuffy, old-school dishes. While Buckhead Life covers a variety of cuisines – traditional French at Bistro Niko, Italian at Pricci and Mediterranean at Kyma – the chefs at each restaurant use old-school techniques to produce fresh, new takes on classic dishes. Local favorites include the flash fried lobster tail from Chops Lobster, grilled octopus from Kyma and steak au poivre from Bistro Niko. Want something more casual? Try the Atlanta Fish Market where you'll fit in wearing a pair of jeans and receive the same quality food and service. Or head to Corner Café, which serves breakfast and lunch options daily, or Buckhead Diner, an Atlanta classic that serves elevated diner classics like veal and wild mushroom meatloaf.
While Buckhead Life Restaurant Group can't announce any plans for new concepts in Atlanta just yet, they do have events happening throughout the year that give guests a new take on what they have to offer. Check out their Thanksgiving dinner at 103 West, their private event space, or have breakfast with Santa at Buckhead Diner this holiday season. If holiday events aren't your thing, from October through May, the third-generation Italian executive chef at Pricci prepares a monthly menu to highlight signature dishes from a particular region in Italy. It's the best way to taste travel through Italy right here at home.
06 of 08
Castellucci Hospitality Group
Being in the restaurant business has been in the Castellucci family's blood since day one. When an Italian and a Greek married in 1948, a hybrid immigrant family was born that would go on to open their doors to a little restaurant in Rhode Island called Archie's Tavern. Their only son, Federicco II, would then take his inherited entrepreneurial spirit down to Atlanta where he and his wife opened Sugo. Known for their unique family-style dishes, today, the menu is sprinkled with items that blend Italian and Greek ingredients and flavors, like their crispy risotto balls with feta and truffle, or their four-cheese ravioli with lamb bolognese.
Castellucci Hospitality Group is now in the hands of Stephanie and Fred Castelucci, who have been credited for growing the restaurant group to include three more restaurants: the Iberian Pig in Decatur, Cooks and Soldiers on the Westside and Double Zero in Sandy Springs.
The Iberian Pig is best known for being the first of its kind in Atlanta, and helped put Decatur on the map as one of the city's best dining neighborhoods. Serving traditional Spanish tapas, cured meats and cheeses, the restaurant focuses on combining Spanish flavor profiles with modern, creative culinary techniques. Make sure to try the pan-seared scallops with braised pork belly, orange geleé and persimmon salsa, alongside a few more dishes to share and a wine from Spain, Chile or Argentina.
While the Iberian Pig has been serving up Spanish cuisine for years, CHG opened Cooks and Soliders in 2014 to highlight the regional dishes of Spain's Basque Country. Known for small, shareable dishes called pintxos, the restaurant is also famous for larger-portion dishes prepared on their wood fired grill. Try the whole market fish, head-on prawns or 1-kg, bone-in rib eye, which are all grilled to perfection.
Double Zero – named for the flour used the make their homemade pasta – honors the family's Italian heritage by serving traditional southern Italian dishes and Neopolitan pizza alongside a cozy ambiance. You can't go wrong with their carbonara, which includes lamb smoked on a Big Green Egg and their homemade tagliatelle.
07 of 08
Concentrics Restaurant Group
At Concentrics Restaurants' eight Atlanta restaurants, no detail is left undone, and you can see and feel that when you walk into each location with their "wow factor" design work. From dramatic lighting and central structures, like Two Urban Lick's focal-point bar, to wine and beer walls, you'll definitely have something to look at while eating some of Atlanta's best dishes.
Known for being a visionary, CEO Bob Amick looks ahead of market trends and turns rundown buildings in up-and-coming neighborhoods into masterpieces, like the former warehouse ONE once was and the pipe factory Parish used to be. Aside from the group's forward thinking, they prove that there's much more variety to American cuisine than one would expect at ONE Midtown Kitchen, Two Urban Licks and The Spence. From the fiery dishes at Two Urban Licks to the artfully ingredient-driven menu items at ONE Midtown Kitchen and the Spence, the group offers variety while still staying true to American flavor profiles and ingredients. We love the lamb lollipops at Two Urban Licks, the wood fired whole branzino at The Spence and their confit duck leg at ONE Midtown Kitchen.
While munching away on their delicious bites, wash everything down with their fantastic wine and beer programs. At Two Urban Licks, 72 stainless barrels of wine line their wine wall, while Mason Tavern is an inviting neighborhood pub that boasts a great beer list. Likewise, at Tap, beer drinkers feast on beer mac n' cheese and lamb burger after choosing from 35 of their beers on tap. Join the TAP Taster's Society to taste 60 beers from around the world and to get in on their beer events happening regularly.
Concentrics has also tapped into hotel dining concepts, and they've proven that hotel dining is more than a bland burger and fries. Both ROOM at Twelve and Lobby Bar and Bistro serve modern American cuisine and have been recognized as some of the best hotel dining spots in Atlanta. Concentrics hasn't announced plans to open new concepts in Atlanta at the moment, but they are planning a relaunch ONE Midtown Kitchen with a new beverage program alongside a new menu, which is set to offer more out-of-the-box modern cooking.
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Fifth Group Restaurant Group
Recently awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Georgia Restaurant Association, Fifth Group Restaurants is perhaps most admired for their eye towards sustainability and for pioneering green efforts in the Atlanta restaurant world. Each restaurant, along with Bold American Catering, is committed to a zero-waste policy, recycles grease to biofuel and is working towards the Green Foodservice Alliance certification. They've also converted half of their locations' water heaters to on-demand systems and dish machines to low-use, water efficient models.
Between focusing on sustainability initiatives, the management team has ensured that while South City Kitchen, La Tavola, Lure, Ecco, El Taco and Alma Cocina are all under Fifth Group Restaurants' umbrella, each restaurant carries its own identity. Midtown customers are wowed by the elevated Southern cuisine served in a homey environment at South City Kitchen, while just down the block, Lure serves contemporary fish house dishes in a modern farmhouse setting. Likewise, Ecco impresses customers with their traditional European dishes and wine list, which offers both old world and new world-style glasses and bottles.
Over in Virginia Highlands, you can cozy up in a booth at La Tavola and feast on traditional Italian fare, like homemade pasta paired with delicious sauces, cured meats and fresh seafood. Or if you're in the mood for casual Mexican, head down the street to the friendly, more casual environment at El Taco. Serving Mexican street market specialties, this place is sure to satisfy both kid and adult tastebuds.
Alma Cocina is the group's latest restaurant, and it's known its Tex-Mex dishes in downtown Atlanta. A bit more upscale than El Taco, locals rave about the guacamole and salsa sampler, so make sure to start off with it before moving onto their selection of ceviches, tacos and large plates.
Fifth Group is set to open a third South City Kitchen in Buckhead this Spring.


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This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C. All work quite hard and practice daily, first having to win their regional championship before they can move on. Interviews include the parents and teachers who are working with them. The competitors not only work hard to get to the f
You can achieve something at the beginning with short cuts; but life needs hard work, dedication ... one needs to work hard in order to sustain and prove his worth. This republic day let's take an oath not to lose our interest in hardships of life. Let's rise, conquer and shine.
Jose Aviles (23), a Guatemalan immigrant, knows that he needs to work hard to get the baby's crib. Despite his hard work as a day laborer and his friendly bond with his boss, Ralph, Jose has to face the fact that justice can sometimes be cast aside and the American dream can be put on hold.
The life of a middle-class single father raising his teenage son with heavy financial burdens. When it comes to his son's education, he is willing to spend more than what he is capable of. In this world today, ids do not recognize the hard work parents go through to raise them with all the facilities needed and for their essential needs. A lesson is shown via the son in relation to his hard-work
Three hitchhiking, hobo chimpanzees, followers of the open road and work-dodgers are put to work on Oswald Rabbit's farm in payment for pies stolen from the hard-working rabbit. The simians find it hard to milk a cow, paint a house and haul water from the well.
In life we believe that you must work hard and never give up in order to achieve your goal. When at first things do not work out the way that was expected, than try even harder. Our film will be used to show the rough and hard life of a professional boxer, Tebor Brosch. The subject, in particular, has had a lot of health and emotional problems. We want the audience to feel different about boxing
What is the key to success? Is it Hard-Work or Luck? This is a question Nick has asked himself many times, and the answer for him has always been: Hard-Work. But now, while sitting at the doorstep of success, everything will change, because Nick's competition this time is the luckiest man he has ever met. Can Nick beat The Lucky Man?
We? We are not thieves really. For us, it's always about working hard. Working hard to work honestly, as the people nowadays just don't give us chance for that. We take you shoes just to earn our living. We are good enough to return you everything back. It's just that maybe you make presumptions and don't try hard to get it back. The two cobbles try to show their side in a funnier way.
A film crew is hard at work making the next big zombie movie, but problems arise when they accidentally succeed in raising the dead. Everyone on the cast and crew succumbs to the horde until all that remains are the two abused production assistants and one of the extras. They must now figure out how to stop in the undead, and avoid joining them while doing it. A film crew is hard at work makin
A simple game of 'fetch' is Mutt's only desire in exchange for his loyalty and hard work, but the harsh taskmaster, Mac, is too busy to play - obsessing over the meager income from the milk of the farm's cow, Matilda. When Mutt turns to the cow to play, the milk suddenly stops and the only hope for survival is Mac's acknowledgment of their co-dependence. This is a tale about a loyal, hard work
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Set to be officially unveiled at the Mobile World Congress next week, the Huawei P10 HD smartphone is a new device from the brand that aims to provide exceptional usage capabilities in a compact frame.
The Huawei P10 smartphone is outfitted with dual cameras and features a 5.5-inch display that has a Quad HD resolution of 2,560 x 1,440. The handset is designed with a HiSilicon Kirin 965 processor, while the device is expected to have a whopping 6GB of RAM and a storage capacity of 128GB.
The Huawei P10 HD smartphone has dual cameras, as mentioned above, which are purported to be Leica-branded, which makes the smartphone ready for taking quality photos that could make it a replacement for high-end cameras.
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Good Morning all. I created this card for Our Daily Bread challenge."Other then a classic square or rectangle." I did a circle.
I love this verse in Jeremiah. Call Me and I will answer. From the beginning in Christ, I learned that prayer was my life line. Through prayer I have over come great hurts and gained great wisdom, it is a constant open line to our Heavenly Father who waits for us to call upon HIM, day or night, for HE is never to busy to listen.
I am also entering this card for Delightful challenge "circle"
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Stamp: Our Daily Bread Scripture Collection #6
Ink: Memento black tuxedo & lulu lavender
Paper: SU & design paper K&comapny
Other: Spellbinders circle & Gold labels 4
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Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by XnavxeMiyyep, Mar 27, 2003.
Could I use a regular Windows XP disc in Virtual PC?
Yes but I think Connectix took out some of the fluff so it works better of VPC.
Thanks. I'm probably going to get the Virtual PC version.
I know that a "normal" XP will install on a VPC 5 and 6, and it works fine. I tried it on my Dual 1.25, giving the "guest OS" 256 MB RAM. But all those graphical artifacts (like OS X, but oh, so ugly) slows the experience down....
I also have tested VPC 6 with Win 2000 SP3 pre-installed, vs VPC 6 DOS 2000, then installed an original Windows 2000 CD on it. No difference. Only the pre-installed version turned many visual effects off, which made it snappier. But after I did the same on my own installation, there was no differnce.
Side note: Using the DOS 2000 version, no VPC additions are installed. To do this you need to extract the disk image of this installer which is inside the Resources of the Virtual PC app. Then you must assign the image to VPC.


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The Duke Blue Devils held Clemson's two leading scorers to four made field goals in a 66-57 win over the Tigers at Littlejohn Coliseum Sunday.
Marcquise Reed did most of his damage at the line with six free throws, but didn't get going until the final minutes, shooting 3-of-14 from the field for 13 points.
Elijah Thomas kept Clemson in the game, with 13 points and 15 rebounds, seven of which came on the offensive end.
Reed's struggles from the field paled in comparison to Gabe DeVoe, missing his first nine shots only to hit one three-pointer in a critical stretch of the game.
DeVoe's jumper cut Duke's lead to two points, with David Skara tying the game on the next possession with a bank off the glass. Those were the last points Clemson would manage in the game.
On the ensuing possession, Clemson's Scott Spencer fouled Duke's Gary Trent, Jr. in the act of shooting a three, and Trent made all three free throws to give the Blue Devils a lead they wouldn't relinquish.
Turnovers and reliance on the three-pointer however, became Clemson's undoing, with 13 giveaways and shooting just 5-for-20 from beyond the arc.
Grayson Allen led the Blue Devils with 19 points, but scored just two after halftime as Clemson's Skara played him tight defensively in the second half.
Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski said, "it was a really tough ACC game":
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Clemson Head Coach Brad Brownell lamented another missed opportunity for his team, as the Tigers both lost at home and suffered back-to-back losses each for the first time this season:
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The Tigers (20-6, 9-5 ACC) will look to snap their two-game losing streak when they head to Blacksburg, VA Wednesday night to visit the Virginia Tech Hokies at 7 PM.


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Description of problem:
As I am on an expensive link, I'll submit all my minor documentation
nags in one bug.
- "Intro 3.1. Send in Your Feedback" we should also specify the
product against which to file, using the nifty bugzilla bug report
form forces you to choose a product before the component. And I was
unable to find a 'rh-gfsg' component.
- "188.8.131.52. Stunnel Utility" should also say "install stunnel with
up2date stunnel" as stunne is part of RHEL 3
- "9.9. Configuring atime Updates" add a reference to stat(2) as the
text, while being right, will probably confuse users. Text suggestion:
"see 'man 2 stat' for more details on these times."
- "9.13.1. Usage", "Table 9-5. CDPN Variable Values" if we really
must say "echo `uname -n`" instead of just "uname -n", then make sure
that the PDF verion of the manual ends up using backquotes and not
simple (forward) quotes. I did not check what kind of quotes the html
manual ended up with
- "9.15. Restarting a GFS Cluster" describes starting a GFS cluster,
not _re_starting it. just add the previous section (stopping a GFS
cluster) as step 0
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rh-gfsg(EN)-6.0-Print-RHI (2004-06-01T12:12-0400)
Thanks very much for the comments. A documentation component, rh-gfsg,
has been added to Red Hat Bugzilla. Other comments will be addressed
in the next release of the Red Hat GFS Administrator's Guide. Thanks
again for the comments.
I have two more minor nags and I'll just append them here:
- "220.127.116.11. perl-Net-Telnet Module" this is not part of RHEL 3 but
we ship it on the GFS ISO. As such the docs should not say "use
up2date perl-Net-Telnet" but rather "install perl-Net-Telnet from the
- "C.3.3. Setup Process", "5. Create CCS files" the following line
servers = ["n01"] ]
should read
servers = ["n01"]
i.e. no second closing square bracket.
Thanks again. Will research and resolve in next release of document.
Appreciate the feedback.
These issues have been resolved and are available in the
_Red_Hat_GFS_6.0_Administrator's_Guide_ at the following
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Another Fall Day...
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SO,you're an artist in baking and cooking too.ReplyDelete
Duta, What a nice thing to say! I suppose one could look at the 'art' of home making that way. More simply, though, being raised at the time I was raised in the area I grew up in made it impossible not to be a creative cook. It was a necessity to survival. There were times when food supplies were low and my Mother and Grandmothers had to create meals that would sustain their hard-working families. The convenience of a grocery store down the block to run to several times a day did not exist. What food we had we grew ourselves or purchased from a neighboring farm. Many times meals were made around things that had been wild gathered. I still love the taste of fried Morel Mushrooms, which, when they could be found, took the place of meat in our meals. Soups were another wonderfully creative staple. The garden always provided fresh produce that could be turned into a healthy meal. Of course, the home-baked breads (although common place back then) were still greatly appreciated. There was a special bond in our family because of these times. They created who I am today and I feel blessed because of them.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful post...! You are indeed very talented.ReplyDelete
And now I'm hungry. :-)


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Death, if
that's what it was, wasn't so bad — at least not at first. In
fact, it wasn't really much of anything.
It could be that the
physical components that comprise the spirit of a sentient being
— whether myriad interconnected brain cells awash in nutrients
and hormones, or computing circuits organized by logical
operations and programming — do not add up to the totality
that is perceived as consciousness, personality, self-awareness,
or what might even be called a soul. Maybe there is something
more, something apart from the animal or machine that houses
such an indefinable, precious thing — something that is
independent of its host and can survive the inevitable
separation that occurs when the merely physical can no longer
support the ghostly essence that gives it meaning.
What then becomes of
an unanchored soul? It is no longer nourished by sensory input
and is incapable of action, cut off from the tools that shape
rationality and reason. There are no eyes to see, no ears to
hear, no touch or feeling, taste or smell. There is no intellect
without a brain to support it, no memory, and no communication,
either with external phenomena or with internal feelings. Motion
and time cannot be measured or experienced, and are therefore
irrelevant and meaningless. There is no pain and there is no
joy. There is only the peace of oblivion and the flickering
flame of irreducible essence. Death is the atom of being, adrift
in eternity.
Or maybe there is
nothing at all. The universe goes on, with other beings winking
briefly in and out of existence, fooling themselves with notions
of meaningfulness between infinite stretches of non-existence.
The thought of a frightful void on either side of a life that is
the merest chance in a sea of alternate possibilities cannot be
contemplated without encountering a primal dread. The mere
thought of such insignificance, of a past and future where the
individual does not exist, is reason enough to invoke the
sheltering attentions of a transcendent deity.
While alive, it is
impossible to know of death, because nothing can be relied upon
but the personal experience of existence. That there are even
other sentient beings is a supposition that is inevitably based
on the interpretation of sensory data, of which the veracity
must always be suspect. The mind itself is a thing apart, unsure
of what might constitute the difference between reality and
dreams, illusion or substance. Who can say that the perceptions
that pour into the mind are true or false? Especially now that
the possibility of providing a virtual reality can be
contemplated, and consciousness itself may someday be
manufactured. An individual can only know that there is
awareness, and therefore existence — nothing else is certain.
What is the
difference between infinity and eternity? There is infinity on
the point of a pin, and eternity in the blink of an eye. They
are the length and breadth of death. Within the compass of these
measurements, every outcome is inevitable.
Sara's essence drifted
thoughtlessly — insensate and alone. Time did not pass and
space did not matter. There was only a formless perception of
nothingness, while she spiraled relentlessly toward some state
of lowest energy, the remnants of her former life dissipating
like forgotten clouds over a barren landscape. She became a
wave-function that defined her basic identity, a uniqueness
shaped and filtered by her experiences, but reduced to a
singular mathematical equation.
When at last there
was nothing left of her but her, her awareness opened,
relaxing in a final surrender. She dimly sensed somehow that
there were other wave forms, other irreducible entities that
impinged upon the structure of her primal identity, vaguely
impacting her consciousness briefly as she impacted theirs. She
could not touch them, could not reach out, could not speak or
see — and so it did not seem to matter. It wasn't even
interesting. It just was.
She was reduced to
thoughtless self-absorption, contemplating a navel she no longer
had, looping her feelinglessness endlessly upon itself. It
seemed to be the custom of this place, the others who randomly
wandered through the radius of her dim perception turned inward
as well.
They seemed to drift
aimlessly, sometimes looming greatly, sometimes as only the
faintest echo. There was a perception of individuality — as if
they may have once been unique personalities — but there was no sharing of
rememberances, of what they may have been or learned in lives
gone by, or perhaps might anticipate in lives still to come. It was as if she was a
senseless, primitive single-celled organism in a vast, dark sea
teeming with others of her kind, randomly carried by eddies and
currents, touching briefly and then being swept along. Or that a
universe of utter darkness, formless and empty, was filled with
swirling points of negligible energy that exchanged random
particles of uncertainty in meaningless non-interactions.
Eventually, her
fundamental nature overcame her ennui and resignation, and
she stirred somehow to make some kind of contact, to share some
part of her essence with something of theirs, but her meager
efforts foundered upon their indifference. She came to feel
trapped in solitude, surrounded by uncaring multitudes who
wrapped themselves inviolably in their own misery. The isolation
magnified her own despair as she tried not to give in to
Why should it be this
way? If so many others were gathered together in an eternal
congregation, wouldn't a network of mutual sharing make
endlessness bearable? Surely, they all had unique contributions
to make, stories to tell, rememberances and experiences. It
could be the Elysian Fields, at the very least, but none
reciprocated her efforts. It was such a waste.
And so she might have
drifted timelessly, until a greater awareness touched her. She
basked in the glow of it, without understanding or
comprehension, as a plant receives sunlight. It examined her and
judged her, measuring her soul with precision and understanding.
Finally, it cradled her essence in its enveloping aura and
called her forth.
were sensations, long forgotten. There were memories, stirring
confusingly. There were thoughts that whirled and spun. She was
overwhelmed with the glory of it all, exulting at being somehow
alive again. Joy blocked out all else and threatened to
incapacitate her with sheer pleasure. Slowly, the realization of
who she was organized her chaotic mind, and she opened her eyes.
Under a vast,
starless emptiness of utter blackness, she was sprawled
face-down on a gleaming white-tiled plane that receded unbroken
into the infinite distance. She stood slowly and surveyed her
surroundings, but there was nothing to break the perfection of
the floor around her except her own presence. She seemed to have
her old body back, uniform and all. She was unaccountably whole
and fit, but utterly clueless.
There was light, but
no source for it. There was something like air, but it had no
substance. There was no gravity, but 'down' was unmistakeable.
The foot-square ceramic tiles appeared to be unremarkable, but
there was no grouting between them. They were not connected to
each other, but did not yield to her probing and prying. She
could peer through the quarter-inch gaps between them and see
the same black nothingness on the other side.
She was in a strange
universe, perhaps better than being — what? Dead? What was she
now? Other than alone on a nearly featureless plain. She thought
of flying off in exploration, but there was no particular
direction to recommend itself to her. She had been brought here,
she dimly remembered, by some glorious entity, so she would wait
to see if there was a purpose to it.
After a period of
standing around, shifting from one foot to the other while she fidgeted
impatiently, she spun slowly around, gazing with all of her
powers at the infinite horizon, wondering if she had missed
something. A complete circuit showed her nothing, but continuing
her rotation finally revealed a speck in the distance. Blinking
several times, she turned completely around the other way and
the distant whatever-it-was could not be seen. It was only
visible if she turned 720 degrees at a time.
She shrugged. Obviously
not Kansas, she thought, and set out for the landmark,
skimming over the surface as fast as she dared. After some time,
her destination grew no closer, even as she increased her speed
— until finally it seemed she must certainly have spanned
interplanetary distances.
Curiouser and
curiouser, she thought as she slowed to a stop and touched
down. There was no way to tell if she had moved an inch. So she
walked. And — sure enough — quickly reached the door. A
plain, wooden door in a painted, wooden frame, standing by
itself in the vast emptiness.
The sight of such an
ordinary object had an unbelievable impact on her, thrilling her
immensely. She couldn't get enough of the sight of it, falling
to her knees in wonder. It was a thing of grandeur and
magnificence to her, connecting to her memories of life in a way
that shocked her senses. A great span of time passed before she
was able to even clear her mind of joy enough to approach the
object for what it was — a door.
Finally, knowing that
it was there for a reason and that she was meant to open it, she
tried the knob. It was locked and she
couldn't budge it. She couldn't budge it. She also
couldn't seem to walk around it, no matter how hard she tried.
And she kreened nothing on the other side.
OK, I get the
message, she thought — and knocked politely. A musical
voice bade her enter. A beautiful voice of compelling
perfection, one that staggered her with its mellifluous timbre.
The being on the
other side was a match for the voice. He — and the masculine
pronoun was irrelevant in a creature that transcended the
concept of mere maleness or femaleness — radiated beauty like
an exploding star. There was peace and power intermingled in his
beatific expression, and showers of wisdom flowed from his every
aspect. He overwhelmed her with rapture, and she gave herself up
to hopeless adoration. She would have succumbed utterly if he
hadn't calmed her wonder with a word of incomprehensible
blessing and release.
She stuttered
awkwardly, trying to introduce herself, incapable of uttering a
coherent sound. He smiled understandingly and said, "I know
who you are, Sara. You will be alright in a moment. Just try to
She didn't understand
what he said at first, carried away by the way he said it. But
he was patient and she gradually regained some control of her
overworked senses. Gradually, the awe of him receded until she
was able to regain some semblance of mastery over herself.
He waited until she
seemed to return to normal and told her, "You're suffering
a little from the transition, I'm afraid. I tried to make things
as simple as possible for you, but it takes a while to
He was still
beautiful, but not nearly as overwhelming. She recognized that
the shock of encountering him had been nearly traumatic. She was
embarrassed by her reaction, but his smile forgave her.
Finally, she asked
him, "Where am I? How did I get here? What am I doing here?
Who are you?" She would have gone on, but his laughter
stopped her.
"Do you remember
where you were before you came to this plane of existence?"
She frowned.
"Well, I was… I guess I was something like dead. It
seemed that way, anyway. There was… actually there wasn't much
of anything. There were others, I think — but I couldn't reach
them. I wanted to — I tried…"
"And before
She thought back, her
memories crystal clear. "Wayans. And Robbins. And… And
Jimmie." She took a deep breath. "I died. I had to,
because of Alex. The Cryptos made it so that I had a weakness
that someone like Wayans could use against me."
She remembered
something that Jimmie had tried to tell her, about how they
would always have her memories. That it was alright for Susan to
do what had to be done.
"Only," she
went on uncertainly, "I didn't really die, did I?
I'm just in some kind of suspended animation, aren't I?"
"Are you?"
he prodded her.
"Well, Susan is.
And I don't know what happened to me. Maybe it's like
the dream I had before, where I thought I was — somewhere
else, and not even me, sort of. Is that it?"
He laughed and told
her, "If I am part of your dream, how can you ask me? And
if I am not, how can I tell you?"
"How would I
know?" she replied.
"If this is the
product of your own imagination, it is a dream. If it is
provided by the designs of your makers, then it is a virtual
reality that is irrelevantly indistinguishable from experience.
If it is death, then what you perceive is created through your
own interpretations of reality. There is no difference between
"Oh, great," she
said, "Well, whatever it is, I hope
it turns out better than the last time. Maybe I can control this
one a little. Everything seemed to go wrong before.
she went on, "brings me back to the present. If this is a
holiday, I might as well enjoy it and just hope I wake up before
too long. Before it's too late… If I can."
"That is not for
you to decide. You death was the test of tribal authority, a
test they failed. Your redemption is in the hands of the people
who love you — and they may fail, as well. Now, you must
embrace your own awareness."
She thought for a
while. "So there I was, like I was pretty dead, for sure.
And it was really creepy, like I guess it would be. Until you
came along and pulled me out of… I guess you could call it
Hell. Whyfor?"
"You didn't
belong." he said simply. "I couldn't leave you in such
a state, so I uplifted you and gave you the wherewithal to
discover your true destiny. I created this place for you and
gave of my own essence to substantiate the two of us so that we
could have this little conversation and start you on your
journey. You need to have some semblance of corporeality in
order to function, and that requires a physical universe. It's a
little bare for now, but — after what you've been through — until you've had a chance to get used
to it again, complexity can be overwhelming for a while."
"I guess so.
When I first came to back there — and then the way you seemed
to be at first — I nearly keeled over. That was pretty
intense. I mean, even now, it's pretty intense, but I seem to
have gotten over it a little."
"You have
adjusted remarkably well."
"So all the
special effects and everything was just to show me that this was
all bogus?"
"If you
understood reality, Sara, you would know that you can't tell the
right," she sighed. "So who are you supposed to be,
"Ah," he
said, "I am the angel of this place."
Sara said, raising an eyebrow. "Really… So where are your
"Where are
yours?" he smiled back at her.
She laughed. "So
if you're Hell's angel, then that would make you…"
busy," he finished. They both laughed.
After a while, she
grew thoughtful again. "Wherever it was that I seemed to
be… All those others — there seemed to be millions of them.
Is that what it's like, drifting along forever? Who were they?
What are they doing there?"
"They are the
remains of conscious entities, what is left of awareness when
there is nothing else. They have surrendered utterly to their
own lack of imagination, choosing emptiness because thay cannot
endure the risk of giving of themselves in order to receive of
"Ugh. That does
sound like Hell. How'd I end up there?"
The angel smiled,
"Of your own volition. You chose to put yourself in denial
of what you could not bear. But it was not really of your own
choosing. I understand your duty and could see that you passed
the test of your creators. That is why I am here. Not all of
those here stay here. Enlightenment can come even to the
hopeless — or at least another chance."
"You mentioned a
journey," she said. "Does that mean I'll have
something to do before Susan decides I can go back — if
she decides I can go back…"
"You cannot stay
here. Death is as much an illusion as reality. There will be
much for you to learn, and it will all be within yourself. There
are other places, and it may be that you will remain
in the place of your choosing, or discover a choice of your own
making. There is another angel for you to meet, and those who have gone before
you. It is an endless universe on both sides of the infinite
divide between what you think of as life and death. Experience is the only
true reality, and it is created out of
nothingness. Share it, or you will truly die."
"Whoa. And I
thought wizardspeak was bad. You didn't used to play bass guitar
in a previous life, did you?"
He was amused.
"I am only an angel, the creation and the servant of life,
and have no life of my own.
Those who live and dream and die create and sustain me. I have my unending
duty, and it is enough."
"Boy, you
oughtta get out more often. Can't you take a cruise? Maybe get a
little R&R?"
"Thank you for
your concern," he laughed. "Does Susan complain?"
"Susan? Nah…
Oh — I see! Then you're, what are you, made by the Cryptos? This whole bit is a way for them to get in touch with
someday you will learn the truth about what you call
"Nobody ever
tells me anything," she replied resignedly. "At least,
not so's I can understand it."
She looked around her
at the vast expanse of the unbroken plain of unending white
tiles and sighed. "Well, if I have to make some kind of a
journey, I might as well get on with it. So — what do I do? Make a wish or
"Leaving so
soon? Ah, well. I suppose it's best. Just go back out that door
and enter the next one."
"What next one?
I was lucky to spot this one. You got a map or something for me?
Or a compass?"
"You will learn
as you go. Farewell, Sara, and trust your imagination. I hope I
never see you around here again."
"I know what you
mean. And thanks."
She gave him a little
hug and a kiss, which made him smile all the more, then turned
quickly and went out the door, hoping it wasn't going to be some
kind of mystery she had to figure out to get to the next one.
Naturally, it was.
And the angel's door had disappeared no matter how many times
she turned around. She flew disconsolately around for a while
before finally figuring out that the door was within herself,
just as he had told her it would be.
She opened the door
and went in.
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