The friday five

1) This weekend will be my first weekend at home since May 7th. GM has a plan to fire up the smoker, and I'm going to weed the garden before my poor basil plants give up entirely. 2) The funniest thing I've read all week, Towels or Chicken, time to decide. 3) Half my coworkers are angry, and half are doing the I-told-you-so-Dance. Best quote so far:

Why am I not in charge of these things? The serial commas is a good thing—good for readers. Sometimes the last two items in a list constitute a pair, and sometimes they don’t, and readers shouldn’t have to waste even a single brain cycle figuring out which case it is. 

4) The trencher project continues apace. I've almost completed reviewing all the sets I saw in England. I am so glad I live in the age of Google and searchable bibles. If I had to find all those verses in hard copy I would have given up by now. I was dimly aware renaissance bibles had more books in them because of all the paintings of Tobias With His Magic Fish and Suzanna and The Pervy Elders, but there's another book I'd never heard of, Sirach. 5) GM wants to go to the SCA's Board of Drirectors Meeting and BBQ on the 9th. Are any of ya'll thinking about going?