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September 08, 2007

Steel City Bound

I spent all day wrangling with Volume 10 and feel I made some progress. Often I do my best and most lucid thinking while running and so I ran twice today. On both runs I had some good thoughts, but on the second, I had an idea that will, I think, tie the whole the thing together. There is still a lot of tinkering to do, and I may yet discover that this supposedly good idea is little more than an unworkable stopgap.

I will have plenty of time to work on things tomorrow when we drive to Pittsburgh to celebrate the impending nuptials of Christian and Emily. For those who don't know, Christian spent some formative years in Pittsburgh, and a lot of his family still lives there. We went to Pittsburgh a few years back to see our friend David Turner in a play there. Robbi, a small town girl by nature, was beguiled by the place. "It's so clean," she said with wide eyes. "It has interesting architecture," she went on. "And there's nobody here!" she concluded, "I love this place!" We were in the heart of downtown, and I must admit, it was fairly deserted. Since that day, whenever Pittsburgh is mentioned, Robbi gets all excited and repeats the three sentiments outlined above over and over.

As a refresher, here is Christian:

And here is Emily:

This picture was taken mere moments after she was proposed to (notice the engagement ring, featured prominently on the offending finger).

As I said, they intend to wed.

And I rather think that it's going to work out.


Posted by bogenamp at September 8, 2007 01:03 AM