Work, and a long weekend

I’m sorry I haven’t posted much here recently, but I’ve been writing up two or three storms. “Real” writing, that is… working on this humungous great redrafting project I’m working on, plus a Hayat column on Saturday, plus a CSM column yesterday.
Longtime readers of JWN may see some familiar arguments– more elegantly stated– in the CSM column which will come out Thursday. You can check their website for it then.
I did have a bit of time for some fun stuff over the long weekend, however. On July 4th, we went to a great evening party at our friends Chip and Betsy Tucker’s place. Here’s me going down the Slip ‘n’ Slide. (I’ve never been on one before. What a blast!)

Just to prove that I do occasionally act with decorum, here’s a picture of me a little later, upright, and with our friends Lynette and Otto Friesen:

On Sunday evening, we got to go to a fabulous concert given here by John McCutcheon. John played many of his beautiful traditional instruments, sang some Woody Guthrie songs, and many, many of his own. He’s a really engaging performer.
The new(-ish) song of his that I liked the best was “Ashcroft’s Army”. Here’s the main gist of it:

I wanna be in Ashcroft