Surreality meets Shakespeare

Yesterday was in general an excellent day.

After Adventure Club and church last night went over to fordprfct and kattelyn's place for Movie Night. Jacob was there too. Had a nice meal and watched "Rosenkranz and Guildenstern are Dead", which I'd never seen before. That... was literarily bizarre and really cool. The questions scene on the badminton court and the scene with Polonius and the arras were just marvelous! We were almost MST3King parts of it - others we couldn't, they were doing it for us!

A good evening with wonderful company. Purrr.

knitter's cake

http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2006/04/06/airport_blogging.html the perfect knitter's cake!

gusset done

Green sock #2 has the gusset finished.

Hah! Progress. I'm looking forward to wearing these. First ones I've done with the shaping at the back of the leg.

birth day meme

Swiped from rolanni

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year. However, rolanni did three of each, and being Welsh, I shall follow suit.

Notable Events

1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1929 - The Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.

Births

1737 - Thomas Paine, American patriot (d. 1809)
1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
1880 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)

Deaths

1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar;reigned from (1582-1589)
1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)

it's apparently a rough day for Russian tsars!