friends in Montgomery County

This is late notice, but better late than never (I hope).

Restaurant participating in the Thanksgiving in February program donate the proceeds of their meals from one meal today to local homeless outreach programs and other services in the Montgomery County area that help people who need short-term assistance.

Breakfast is past and lunch is proceeding, but if you have no plans that prevent it, you might consider dining out this evening at a participating restaurant.

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An interesting perspective on how to deal with the vicissitudes of life, from the pastor of my local UU church.

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One of the nicer things that's happened in the last year or so was my meeting my friend Eric. He's proved to be a really great addition to my small circle of gaming buddies, and we've become good friends as well as hobby chums. He's a good guy, sound on politics :-), intelligent, well read, has an entertainingly dry sense of humour and as voracious a wargaming appetite as mine. And, best of all, he lives not too far off, so we can get together on a weeknight, as we did this evening, have dinner, play a game, and have a jaw, all on a school night.

I miss my good friends who have moved away or dropped off the radar (redactrice and shy_kat, azbound, bidger, g_eisenhorn, and rockethokie plus numerous non-LJ ones), but I have been fortunate enough to pick up a few like Eric and our friend Phil, and to retain such invaluable local friends as john_arundel, gr_c17, ethanninis_mom, and soccer_fox. Bless you all. :-)