"Somebody's calling out, come hear it again..."

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Right now it's Chaos 5, Peg 2, but the day is not yet done and there is plenty of coffee near to hand.

In the meantime, Things That Make Me Happy, Friday edition:

It's 62 F in Nashville right now.

Dumpstering the recyclables hogging up the trunk of my car on a day without the rain pouring down...

... along with a dozen-plus other Nashvillians ranging from their 20s to 80s doing the same...

... and then lunch at Kalamata's: tuna kabob special (on a bed of spinach, with fruit salsa). So good, and less than ten bucks, plus mango and guava nectars and pistacho-phyllo pastries that I brought back to the BYM...

... and hearing the Middle Eastern dude behind the counter drawl, "I loooooooove cornbread!"

Sparkly keyboard goodness on WPLN: Rameau's Concert No. 2 in G for flute, violin, and harpsichord, and Icom Bilson playing Mozart's No. 21.

Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000, and the interlibrary loan department that scored it for me. This is a big, beautiful book -- not only is it supplying the leads I need for my Gertrude Rush aticle (footnotes! Yay footnotes!), it's just fun -- lots of photos, history about the history, stories about the social/volunteer clubs as well as about the Underground Railroad (and who used it, and who didn't), and so forth.

Seeing this in the social pages of one of the neighborhood papers: "The Cohens (members of Maimonides Lodge of B'nai Brith) and Kelleys (Council 544 of Knights of Columbus) held their 36th annual interfaith social dinner, known as The Cohens' and Kelleys' Night, at the Cathedral of the Incarnation..."

The BYM is feeling better, and sounding much more like himself -- which is to say, half cranky-analytical and half matter-of-fact-a-la-deranged-scientist demented, which the dog finds reassuring (since that's what she's used to from him) and well, I do too (ditto. Well, that and it makes me laugh).