End-of-the-month wind-down + start of school + Colts game + Blackwater + 2 meets in one month + whatever = thinner but still companionable turnout on Sunday. Present were Shermlock & Mrs. Shomes, Roberta X, and yrs truly. Amongst topics of discussion: Why a Single Point of Failure is a Bad Thing, Especially when it Involves Air Conditioning, the merits of different methods of popcorn popping (Oh look, here’s a steam engine used for driving a popcorn popper... Steam-powered popcorn- kewl!), and Why School Should Not Start Until After Labor Day. Good time was had by this participant and, I see, the others.

Roberta X promises enhanced advance notice re: September’s date.  Watch this space (or this one).

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(Thanks again to Roberta X for the artwork.)

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The semi-official Indy BlogMeet will meet Sunday, 17 August at 3:00 pm at Broad Ripple Brew Pub.
The semi-un-official Bloogmeet will be a week later: 24th, same time, same place.

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...and exhausted.

Made a quick trip southward to assist Aged P and WS in moving house (which had been put off for a week by delays re: closing).

Unfortunately, first project on arrival was to uninstall all the routers and TV boxes for return to the phone company. (New place comes with CATV, internet will be DSL^[1], needing a different set of boxes.)  Result: No internet for the last 5 days (not that I had any time for it, anyway).

More later.

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38 posts in July, still trending downward after June’s 43 and May’s 45, but also still ahead of March and April (both 35) and far better than the lowest month YTD: September 2007 (28 posts).

The July linklist is below the jump...
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