"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife

-chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's compete because it's ended here.' " from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

So I've been sadly neglectful of my 2.5 readers, haven't I? Other than reading Dune, searching out the other books of the series, and planning a trip to Williamsburg I really haven't been up to all that much. However Williamsburg is kind of a big deal for me.
When I was nine or ten I read the American Girl series. They are a series of ... series about girls about that age, but in different time periods throughout American history. It used to be really cool because there are dolls for each of the girls (I have Kirsten) and six stories each, now Matel owns it and it's gone all lame and corporate and politically correct. Anyway the colonial times were by far the most interesting in the series.
Later, when I was twelve or thirteen we got a book of states. Yeah - we rarely (okay, never) got non-educational "toys" when I was a kid. Each state had a spread about all the facts and mottos and a brief history as well as an article about what is special about that particular state. When I got to Virginia the article talked about a town called "Williamsburg" where people dressed in period clothing and the entire town was basically a historical site. This was just about the coolest thing I'd ever heard of and I've been wanting to go ever since.
At first I think I thought it was more like a 24-hour thing where people had resigned themselves to live in squalor and fantastic costumes but I have had many years to resign myself to the fact that there is probably running water and some Nikes. Either way I hope that it is a good trip. I don't care about seeing everything yet, I just need to go and see what there is to see.

-- G 'Bye, Sonya --

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