Numbers, travels, and books....

Long time readers, (if there are any left -  I hope so), will remember in the formative days of the Bottom Feeder, I became enamored of messing around with the date of the year, or the month, figuring out fiendishly clever formulae with dates like if you multiply the day of the month times the year and you subtract the number of the month, you get……  Well, my days of being fiendishly clever have passed, but in honor of those days, I have to point out that today is what has become to be known as “Pi Day”. Today is the fourteenth day of the third month, so at three o’clock (or, if you like, at one o’clock), some minutes, etc., you get the number Pi to a certain number of digits, 3.141529… etc.

I thought it appropriate to point that out, being somewhat esoteric and of interest to people, while maintaining my reputation as strange.  Well, I went out and got the morning paper (Enterprise) this morning while retrieving the trash tub, and found a front page article about the day.  Sigh…  and surprisingly enough, there isn’t a google doodle, I thought odd.  Anyway enjoy dividing your circumference by your diameter.

Well, now, what is this?

Are the flutters leaving the digs?  Is somebody moving in?  what IS all that stuff??… well, it goes back to last year and a (long not recounted here) story about a live auction at a local charity event.  It ended up that we rented a house on the Outer Banks for a week in which we will celebrate our 50^th wedding anniversary (of last year).  We’ve invited family to join us, so planes, trains (well, not really), and automobiles will find the FOJ’s assembling over the weekend for the week.  We will also host our Grand Dog “Stanley”, who will be participating in his first competition on the way to the OBX.  More on that later (we don’t know the story yet).

Anyway, as our alert readers on the right coast know, the outer banks are relatively sparse when it comes to “stuff”, and so MFO has assembled and packed enough necessities so we can be pretty much self sufficient for the week.  Hence the mound pictured above.   Fortunately, it will all fit into the MOMSTER II, and we are starting tomorrow morning for the town of Salvo.  The house is supposed to have a network so hopefully I can post some pictures and descriptions for your enjoyment.

Book note:

And lastly (gotta get going this morning), an alert that this weekend is the annual Friends of the Library Book Sale, which generates funds for the libraries benefit when you come and buy the books (hardcovers for two bucks, paperbacks less).  Today (Friday (Pi Day)) is members only, but you can join on the spot and get first crack at the books.  Noon to eight today, ten to five tomorrow and noon to three on Sunday..  It is at the same place as ever, the St. Mary’s County Fairgrounds.  I will be doing my usual job today as cashier in the Non – Fiction building.  (that’s where the cooking books are!).

Okay, that’s a short one for today, and although I’m not sure there will be the opportunity, our packing includes the capability to be

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