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Well, the COLD has mostly gone away. For several nights now I've been able to sleep without cough medicine. And I can now sing for half an hour or so at a time. I still cough occasionally, but that's hayfever.

So I'll be getting those CDs out Real Soon Now. :-)

I also have to get serious about the Microbiology book; I'm not quite halfway through it, and I only have about a month left to get up to speed. Plus I need to do the taxes this week. But I'm caught up on the laundry (the last couple of days have been cold, but at least they've been dry) and pretty nearly caught up on the dishes, even after the extravagant Easter dinner I made (Cornish game hen, brown rice pilaf, Portobella caps grilled with butter and cheese, carrots microwaved in a dab of butter and brown sugar, yum.)

Happy Easter, people. A holiday for candy, flowers, eggs, chicks, duckies, and bunnies (often chocolate bunnies, even), named after a pagan goddess. What's not to like?

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Quite the dinner. :)

Chocolate bunnies, perhaps, but most of them tend to be milk chocolate... give me a good dark chocolate bunny and we'll talk. :)

I actually like milk chocolate better. But to each their own, and I agree there is a shortage of dark chocolate bunnies out there.

So I'll be getting those CDs out Real Soon Now. :-)

I eagerly, yet patiently, await mine. I really enjoyed the quadrophonic version on the way to FKO.

The quadrophonic version is definitely better. But the monophonic version is on its way to you now.

Excellent! If I'm lucky, I could get a

catsittingstill CD on the same day as a

quadrivium CD. That's what mailboxes were made for.

Mimmoth question, since you are now a world expert on mimmoths: I know mimmoths are from Girl genius, but I haven't spotted any in the comics themselves, in spite of my loyal readership of the online comic. I've got Dave's 5 Girl Genius books now--is there anyplace I should be looking to find mimmoths in the background?

I have the misfortune to have an infestation of mimmoth (yes, one mimmoth is an infestation) but I would hardly say that makes me a world expert. While I seem to recall seeing mimmoths in the comic, the only specific instance I've been able to remember is when Agatha joins the circus (the first time). While she's being shown around, Krosp the cat King begins sniffing thoughtfully and wanders off. A few panels later he's seen in the background, chasing a herd (flock? muster?) of mimmoths. A while after that we hear that he has been enlisted by the animal tamer to catch her a new herd (trample? trumpet?) because all her old ones have disappeared. I'll see if I can find the page number for you, but it may be a while. I only just got caught up on the online comic today.

I just found a pair of mimmoths in book 2, after Agatha and her fellow hostages/students on the flying castle sneak a look at the hive engine, and then go running so they aren't caught. One of the characters pretends to be a mimmoth exterminator, and sure enough, careful inspection of the page shows them hiding atop some sort of cabinet.

And, I will add, your CD arrived today alongside Mary's.

Might I enquire to ahsk the significance of "I promised Eli?"

The ones I was talking about in the previous post are in #11 of the original comic, (early in Book 4, I think). I'll check out your mimmoth sighting too.

I'm glad to know that my CD got there safely. Happy listening! It's called "I Promised Eli" because I originally started recording to make a CD I'd promised to Eli (of Prometheus music) of my new songs. So when I started trimming my recordings (because theres's always a few extra seconds involved in getting to the recorder and turning it off) and transferring them into iTunes, I kept them all on a playlist named "I Promised Eli," that being shorter than "These are the songs I promised to send to Eli." I just never came up with a better name, so that one stuck.

Speaking of playlists, do you have one you can post so I can print it in an insert? I'd like to know the titles!

Okay, I'll post a playlist. I also have a few more mimmoth sightings for you
Book 2, page 20, top left corner--Gil is in his lab working on his flying machine; while rooting around in his toolbox, he pulls out a startled mimmoth. I have no idea what became of it, as he was in the middle of an argument with Agatha at the time.
Book 2 page 66 has the mimmoth exterminator ploy you mentioned. Good catch on the mimmoths there--I wouldn't have spotted them on top of the cabinet like that.
Book 2 page 100, von Zinzer is holding a glass jar, with what appears to be a very concerned mimmoth inside it. I am not sure whether the mimmoth is alive or dead.
Book 3 page 46, in the large picture of Agatha and Gil in the lab, on the floor between and behind them, next to the wall, are 3 mimmoths apparently being herded by a clank twice their size.
Book 3 page 50, in the picture of Agatha putting together a sandwich, on the floor behind the table is a mimmoth being chased by a clank (possibly the same one) wielding a ball peen hammer.

That's all I've spotted so far.

I'll keep my eyes peeled for a playlist. I've been enjoying the CD alternating with Mary's.

Book 2 page 100, von Zinzer is holding a glass jar, with what appears to be a very concerned mimmoth inside it. I am not sure whether the mimmoth is alive or dead.

I figured it was a preserved something head when I saw it a day or two ago (I'm reading through them in spare moments and have finished book 2). I didn't recognize it as a whole mimmoth.

I'd like it better if it wasn't a moving target!! I have enough trouble keeping after the holidays I have to take seriously, all of which are on a calendar so complicated that the only person I know who can calculate it in his head sounds like he's doing advanced algebra when he tries. I ask you, how is a person supposed to know when all the chocolate goes on half-price sale if the date keeps moving like that?

I've never understood why Easter, and no other nominally Christian holiday, should be on a lunar calendar, but it is.

Lots of calendars mark Easter for a given year--you could try checking those, then mark the day after as Chocolate Sale day.

I managed to miss the original post about the CDs. If you're still looking for a distributor in the greater DC area, Steve & I would be glad to help. We have multiple CD/DVD burners.

If not, no worries. I'll look forward to hearing it eventually.

Well, one more wouldn't hurt. E-mail me with your address (cat hwaet org); you know what goes in the spaces. I'll send you a copy.

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