I like post offices with gift shops. The Elderburg post office has a nice gift shop. They had all sorts of collectible things. I bought a postcard set. And Edgar Allan Poe stamps.<\/p>\n
I bought a picture frame. My mother gave me a photograph of my grandfather; it’s from the early 1940’s, and he’s in his Navy uniform. I didn’t have a frame for it. Situation rectified.<\/p>\n
I have stocked up on alcohol. I have a case of Guinness Draught for Tuesday. I also bought a six-pack of Clipper City<\/a> Gold Ale.<\/p>\n I wish I could find anything<\/i> from the Highland Brewing Company<\/a> up here in Charm City. I’m particularly fond of their Tasgall Ale. And their Oatmeal Porter was good, too. But they’re strictly local to the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Georgia. Bugger. :-\/<\/p>\n I wrote. Seven hundred words thus far.<\/p>\n I slaughtered Orcs mercilessly with Lord of the Rings: Return of the King<\/i>. (Seriously, if you ever<\/i> need mindless slaughter, the “Southern Gate” level is perfect. You can kill hordes of Orcs for twenty, twenty-five minutes.<\/p>\n I watched the Cubs :cubs: on WGN. I really like Len Kasper and Bob Brenly in the broadcast booth.<\/p>\n I’m going to kill some more Orcs, then come back to the writing. And then<\/i> crack open a Guinness. Or a Gold Ale. I’ll flip a coin.<\/p>\n I’ve figured out the starting point for a Watchmen<\/i> sequel. I’ve also decided I need to write down my ideas for a Jason Todd comic series.<\/p>\n That’s been my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I like post offices with gift shops. The Elderburg post office has a nice gift shop. They had all sorts of collectible things. I bought a postcard set. And Edgar Allan Poe stamps. I bought a picture frame. My mother gave me a photograph of my grandfather; it’s from the early 1940’s, and he’s inContinue reading “On Random Saturday Things”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4081,4093,146,147,4102],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-baseball","tag-life","tag-post-office","tag-stamps","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}