Mrs. Lincoln on General Grant's cigar smoke: "Land's sakes, how did all that smoke get in here?"--Abraham Lincoln
Dreamed of the Duck Lady, someone who actually posted in the Mr. Cranky forums, waiting for a newspaper in Amherst, N.S.; reading on the Internet that she'd died and reporting it in the forums; her turning out to still be alive; a computer game in which you're about to be sacrificed to a man-eating beast, but if you flip a rare coin the beast will attack everyone else instead; watching a TV channel broadcast in HDTV, with a poor signal [this was almost a decade before we actually bought an HDTV set]; seeing the 1980s TV show The Edison Twins, but with twin girls instead of boys.
Headache.
Baked rye bread.
We went to Revue and rented a couple of Videos.
Filled out my tax form. I should be getting a $97.30 refund. (When I stapled the bank statements together, the stapler came down on my thumb. Ouch!) I forgot to inclue a $250 Canada Savings Bonds statement and had to mail them an amendment.
Dinner was roast chicken.
Saw the video of the Catherine Parr episode of The Six Wives of Henry VIII, written by John Prebble. The parents thought it the best episode yet.
Then we saw D.W. Griffiths' Abraham Lincoln. Like many of the early silent movies, it was slow and awkward to the point of unintentional humour. Walter Huston played Lincoln like a pantomime.
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