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Veronica has not been at our restaurant long, but she has made a big impression on me. She works hard, being chock-full of hop-to-it. She is dependable and uncomplaining. And she started something with me, performed when one or the other of us is leaving for the day, that is most endearing: she shakes my hand vigorously and says some encouraging thing, like “It’s been a pleasure working with you” or “Have fun and see you on Friday.”

When I asked her for a brief summation of her philosophy of life, and gave her the examples of Erika (“Live each day as if it were your last”), Michael (“Living the Dream”) and Martin (“Boredom Kills”), she asked for some time to think about it. Later she handed me a slip of paper with her answer. She wanted to be represented by “Dieu n’est pas l’auteur de la mort.” This roughly translates to “God is not the author of Death.” She said she saw it in Paris while visiting the Parisian cloisters.

I told her I wanted this one to be the best of the series to date, and I think it is. She deserves better, though! 🙂

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In this day and age, “this day and age” may be an obsolete term. Things are shifting and blurring. Is it the Information Age? the WMD Age? the New Age? the Toast Age, thaks to global warming? Perhaps “these uncertain times” fits more.

On this day and page, I announce Project Paris, with my stated intention to be in Paris, France on my 60th birthday, which is 450 days from now, and (this is crucial, and the only real reason for Project Paris) in the company of my awe-inspiring Girlfriend, Denise. Paris is the gift I wish to give her.

Upcoming posts will put more flesh on the Project Paris bones. Meanwhile, here are the words to the triple acrostic:

Demonstrated decadence & scorn: Age Noriega
Dilettantes & fops & wastrels: it’s an Age of Sega
Draft The E-Shop Age & there’s no place for a Bodega

Ancient P I O N E E R S & MOVERS shook a willing leg
Artisans & kings & serfs all laid a feudal egg
Add a Renaissance or two & take us up a peg

Yarrowstalks’re meeting & conferring at The Hague
Yesteryear’s passé & yet Eternity is vague
YES to Fine/Tuned Here & Now & NO to Shock/Awe Plague