The woman I called was a fairly enthusiastic supporter of the campaign, which was nice. Apparently. I have a habit of saying “Yay!” when I get good news, as the other folks phone banking giggled a bit.

It went fairly well. Then it was home for dinner and some geek stuff, and now off to walk the dogs.

It turns out they were referring to football. They are all fairly aware that I don’t have much of an interest in sports, so one of the programmers teasingly asked me if I had picked out my fantasy football team yet. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that probably mine would exclusively focus on the locker room, rather than on the field, and quite possibly might have already been done by Falcon Studio.

Again, we were all speaking English, but we’re not talking the same language!

Yup, that would be a Star Trek icthys, with the nacelles forming the fins. I didn’t catch what it was at first, but when I did, I guffawed.

When she opened the package, we found 6 skeins of lovely hand dyed yarn. I think skein is the word I am looking for.

The also inexplicably included a miniature set of handcuffs. The handcuffs came with a blue charm attached, as well as a skull and crossbones charm. You know, just because!

My brother likes skulls, so Mom gave the handcuffs to him. My brother has a cat, so not sure if there is weirdness in the offing.

I had gotten caught up on a number of other computer tasks, and then I headed out. It as a lovely time in Asbury Woods Playground. I had some small confusion finding which section of the park, but it worked out just fine. They were all very nice! (I happened to be the only adult male there.) Most of the kids were toddlers and fairly young.

At one point, one of the women was discussing going through various procedures to conceive with another woman. She looked at me and asked if it was too much info. I genuinely wasn’t freaked out. (I also thought in addition, it would be pretty rude to expect that the conversation should adhere to the lone male’s possible sensibilities.) I told her about the time I went over to visit some friends. I walked in the door as one friend, a recent mom, was using a breast pump, and her daughter had just had explosive diarrhea all over the lap of another woman, who hastily removed her skirt to clean it. So, it was pretty much an avalanche of female body parts. It didn’t phase me at all.

The kids seemed to have a great time playing, and everyone was really nice. It was a great afternoon, and I am glad that there are folks like the Rainbow Families around!

This morning, the dream involved 2 female friends. In the dream, they were both dealing with some serious health issues as a consequence of having had children. I seem to recall that they became pregnant knowing that they faced this as a possibility. In the dream, we were speculating about how their lives might have compared if they hadn’t chosen to conceive. In real life, one of the women is a mom (not aware of any related health issues on that) and the other woman isn’t.

Not sure if this is related to the recent spate of death/health stuff or what.

I also had a lovely chat with my Mom, and got most of the weekend domestic chores done/housecleaning stuff.

Then it was off to Andrea’s birthday party (of Kim and Andrea.) As always, it was an incredibly nice group of people, and I really had a good time. The were also nice about extending birthday wishes.

Sine I was on the east side of town, it was a relatively short trip up to Ripley for visiting with the coven. They sang Happy Birthday and Shari made me a lovely tie-dyed T-shirt. We had a school lunch themed potluck dinner, and then we had a full moon esbat. We went sky clad, so my birthday suit was my birthday suit. I thought that was fairly appropriate.

Deb got some time to work on Erie Gay News, which we are finishing this weekend. I am home now, and did some minor geek stuff. I should then be waling the dogs and probably going out to the Zone Dance Club.

Tomorrow should be finishing the newsletter + maybe some volunteering for one of the political campaigns and grocery shopping.

I missed a call from my sister, who just lost a beloved cat. She mentioned in the message that they got a new one. Sounds cool!

So, I got to do political stuff, GLBT stuff, Pagan stuff and family stuff. All in all, a fairly balanced, if rather busy day!

I then went out to the Zone, and bumped into my friend Chad, who was talking with a guy visiting from NYC. Mr. NYC was very friendly, and Chad explained that he was deaf. I tried speaking slower, so that it would be easier to read my lips.At one point, I was trying to make a point, and the music was slightly loud, so I leaned in to speak into his ear. I then realized that wouldn’t help, and would also make it harder for him to read my lips. Sigh.

Looking at a very packed weekend, so I should dash.

I have no clue who to root for in this tussle as I am not a fan of any of these folks.  And for WingNutDaily and Ann Coulter. In my best Mrs. Garrett voice from Facts of Life: “Girls, girls! It’s okay: you’re BOTH hateful!”

WorldNetDaily Dumps Ann Coulter

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The once-ubiquitous Ann Coulter can’t even get a gig with the wingnuts these days: WorldNetDaily has dropped Coulter from its Taking America Back National Conference after the conservative icon agreed to speak at a gay conservative group’s Homocon convention. "Ultimately, as a matter of principle, it would not make sense for us to have Ann speak to a conference about ‘taking America back’ when she clearly does not recognize that the ideals to be espoused there simply do not include the radical and very ‘unconservative’ agenda represented by GOProud," said WorldNetDaily’s founder Joseph Farah. Coulter responded by saying "That’s silly, I speak to a lot of groups and do not endorse them.” She will, however, keep her column for WND.

WorldNetDaily Dumps Ann Coulter for Speaking at Gay Convention – The Daily Beast