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The Best of The Week

It is now October 1, 2024 server time, but for me it is still September 30th, and I want to include this under this date, especially because I have come to a revelation lately.

I am bored.

I was reluctant to admit this, even to myself, because I have no reason to be bored. And really, being bored is a privilege that a lot of people would like to have. First world problems, and all that. I am also in a place where I get to do fun, interesting things: bicycle up into the Bitterroot Mountains and explore beautiful natural areas that some people pay thousands of dollars for a chance to get to visit for a week. And if I don't have quite the gumption to do that, I have an entire internet of fun and learning, I can chill out by watching hours of YouTube videos where I might actually learn something...or, if I lack the gumption for that, I can very easily hear people lay out their deepest secrets. I mean, that happens even if I don't want to. I have A Big Ball of String here and I

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Norwegian violinist, composer, conductor. 1840 - 1911

Born 30 September, 1840 in Christiania (now Oslo), Johan Severin Svendsen grew up in a musical environment as his father was a military bandmaster and music teacher. Certainly by age nine he already had shown some talent, having learned the violin well enough to be playing in local orchestras, and he joined a military band at fifteen. By the time he finished his schooling he was touring as an orchestral violinist. It was during

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News for Noders

October 1: Oh no! It's The Halloween Horrorquest!

October 17: Happy Birthday gnarl!

October 31: Something spooky will probably happen today. It usually does.

October 31: prepare yourselves for the XVIInd Iron Noder in November!

If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.