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Submitted entry: Sage has left for town - her first trip away from here without Paul. She’s pretty excited about it. ” Me, I was excited to make it happen and be able to spend some time with Paul. We made pancakes together, eating them as we went then read several stories. When he asked to nurse I reminded him that his mom wasn’t here and he seemed to get it. Since he’d eaten and had enough to drink I figured he was sleepy. Good guess. I put him in the sling and walked through the woods and in about 15 minutes he was asleep. I brought him back to the yurt and put him to bed allowing me some time to write this.

Meanwhile in other news, I’m in the middle of setting up a LAN here at the house. Everyone’s tired of time-sharing the internet so I’m setting up a network with a proxy server (our PC) to administer the dialup networking connection. It’s being pretty fun. I’ve always enjoyed doing stuff like this. There have been a few hardware problems but all in all it’s gone pretty well. We’ll have the PCs working together in a day or two then we’ll run the cable this weekend. In the meantime I’ve set up all the computers in the same room to ensure that it all works.

We’re going to be having guests over on Sunday - our friends from Eastwind are coming over for an afternoon hike and probably dinner. It’ll be nice to see some of our friends here. Casey and Crow usually invite their friends over from the womens’ land every Sunday night but the social contact isn’t the same as you can imagine.

Seems like we’ve been making a town trip every day this week. Two days ago we went to do grocery shopping but forgot cat food so yesterday we went for cat food (and also to sell some of the walnuts that Kitey gathered - $10 for every 100 lbs you gather (after hulling)). Well, we got home from that and as I was cooking last night I used the last onion (nearly everything we eat has onion in it), today I used the last of the flour and last night we used the last of the chickpeas. Seems like we could get better at this shopping thing to make life a bit easier! So I wasn’t up for town today but Sage was and that’s where she is as we speak. She should be arriving back soon, though. It was a relatively short trip she was planning. I’ve joined a few of Meadowdance’s working groups this week. It’s been a lot of fun reading the posts, participating in the discussions and getting to know the other members. I also plan to do their weekly ICQ chat next week which I’m really looking forward to. I am, however, a bit crabby about getting ICQ. It seems so trendy or something. What can you do, though?

I’m almost finished with my next book so hopefully in a few days I’ll have that review up. Sage has also read a bunch of books and I’m bugging her to write her reviews so you might actually see them soon.

So that’s about all the news for now. Hope everyone (at least in this hemisphere) is enjoying the lovely fall weather that we’ve been getting! ”

Blustery and looking like rain (!)

So at least in the interpersonal sense…