Historic versus Historical

The proper usage of these words came up at dinner on Wednesday night (we bought our retiring office manager a mirror that had illustrations of old buildings in Melrose and said "Historical Melrose" on the bottom). I was curious what was more proper in different contexts.

Here it is:
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980218

Yes, I'm a dork :)

My husband, the girl

Here's some of an e-mail from Brian (RE what we have to bring to the costuming panels that our groups are running at the Museum of Science tonight):

"aside from last minute fett stuff, i'm all packed. and yes, 1/2 the house IS coming with us ;)

2 suitcases, 2 bags, 2 helmets a jetpack and a gaffi stick. and the camera, but that's little.

we're bringing:
- your at-at stuff for the armor table.
- my fett costume
- my spare fett parts
- parts of my tusken
- jedi boots for garrett

. . . tia's x wing stuff is packed"

And this my friends, is why we sometimes say I'm the guy in this relationship. I prefer to fit what I need in a dufflebag that I can carry myself. :)

Our house should be an interesting (and crowded) place this weekend. We'll have a wookie, a (for real) 7 months pregnant Padme (and their 3 year old, the babysitter bailed apparently) and 2-4 of their friends (tbd) staying with us until sometime on Sunday.

Katie Johnson

Some of you were following Katie's illness last year and donated generously in our Arisia 2005 fundraising raffle. I thought you may want to see a site that her Dad has created: http://www.katie.albinjohnson.com/

Warning: it probably will make you teary

A meme

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