Hearts and Daggers

[furtech]

Valentine's Day is a peculiar holiday: if you're in *luv* it's more wonderful than your birthday and New Years and the 4th of July combined; if you're single, it's like being Jewish at Christmas: excluded through no choice of your own and pounded by ads, events and celebrations that have nothing to do with you.

It's easy to be bitter when you're single this time of the year: the media and advertising blitz all seem to be pointing their collective fingers at you and saying (in a perfect Nelson voice), "Haaaa-haaaa!" Still, I'm a hopeless romantic and know that at -some- point I'll be hooked up again and be able to release all that pent-up mushiness. As fine a companion a dog can be, they have no appreciation for mushy cards, jewelry and romantic getaways: Rondo would be just as happy with a long walk by a city dump and a new cow-hoof (plus he's a boy!). Granted, he's a lot cheaper (so was Frieda), but that's not the point...

Until that time comes again (gu-ril-furend-o!), I console myself by avoiding restaurants (like Clam Humper's 4-hour wait tonight) and remembering the "Oh, yeah." part of having an S.O. (accountability, teh-krazy, etc. of not-so-good relationships). And getting Rondo a new cow-hoof.

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[fishbliss.livejournal.com]

On the radio (NPR or PRI) yesterday they said that the fifteenth was the day that Father Valentine was put to death - by being beheaded.

Note that I'm too lazy tonight to even google for a more authoritative answer.

Tonight I went to a talk at the Computer History Museum on Social Computing.
Holidays? There's important stuff to talk about!
Like computers and dogs!

Why not get a whole cow for Rondo and just dole out pieces slowly?
Lulu Bell would like that.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Actually, we're both right: he was beheaded after a beating and a stoning didn't kill him. Could have been the 14th or the 15th... Would have been a cooler saint if he'd had his heart ripped out by hyenas...

Coincidentally, the 14th was also the day of a Roman "love lottery" (boys, girls, sex-- usual Roman thing). As they did with holidays like Christmas and Easter, some pastors slapped Valentine's day on the 14th to annex that holiday and celebration (you can guess that it was pretty popular).

Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy and unhappy lovers (I guess this latter patronage covers the rest of us w/o SO's).

[furtech.livejournal.com]

On Rondo: not all cow-parts are allowed in the house...