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[mightyjesse]

Still in Minneapolis, posting from my phone. My head is stuffed up and I'm all achy. I guess I caught whatever Zig had on Friday. At least I got to sleep in, but if Zig and his brother don't feed me soon, there is going to be BEHAVIOR. Sick and cranky is bad enough. Sick, cranky, and STARVING, will not do.

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cake.

Of course, I wouldn't have been predictably home to feed it to you. Ah well.

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

This trip was scheduled up to it's eyeballs, and we ran late for so much of it that I was rendered almost permanently cross. Had Zig's brother NOT been available, or had you been up for thrashing around in bars, I'd have called, but it was not meant to be. When you are more up to going to bars with eclectic dinner menus and listening to odd renditions of "music," I shall call and you can come keep me company as I watch the boys discussing such topics as "pickled chicken breasts" and "green health clubs."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I was off listening to the Finnish bagpipes and the Estonian bagpipes when you posted that entry yesterday. Do you know what the difference is? Estonian bagpipes are louder and MORE ANNOYING.

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

Bagpipes before noon?! That's some massochistic behavior.

On the other hand, I never knew that Estonians even HAD bagpipes, much less a fondness for them...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, not quite as you were making that post, then. I was on my way to the bagpipes, though. Eeeergh. (They only played them on a couple of tunes. The rest of the stuff was hardanger fiddle and nyckelharpa and harmonium, and then more normal instruments.)

Apparently the bagpipes disappeared from Finland in the 19th century. "So the Finns wised up," said timprov. So the fella I saw yesterday was the fella determined to bring them back. Perhaps quixotic. I kind of hope so.