At the Angel's Command (A Party)
Last year, on Thursday 26 July, Rachael persuaded me to take her
home. In fact, she prevailed on the good samaritan in me by
pretending to be drunk. We talked late into the night, and
sometime in the small hours of the 27th we decided to try a
relationship together. She stayed over that night, and
subsequent nights, and moved in after a few weeks. She has
turned out not just to be as fine a young lady as any chap could
want, but also she has become, in a very short time, my closest
and most faithful friend.
To celebrate the first year of this successful relationship, and
looking towards the future, we are asking the rest of our
friends to come and visit us on the evening of Saturday 27th
July at our home. Food and drink will be consumed, music will
be played, and one or two bits of gossip and general good
tidings will be tided. It should be fun.
Some of you will be receiving this directly, and others reading
it in a public place. Feel free to share it with absolutely
anyone you think might want to be friends of ours. If you have
not received it directly, don't worry: I have got the E-mail
list by looking at the people that have E-mailed me in 2002.
It's a mechanistic rule, not an emotionally significant one.
As we have become aware that there are some people who might
wish to be friends of ours but feel reluctant for one reason or
another, let me state clearly: anyone is welcome if they wish to
be friends of ours. (And anyone who doesn't, of course, is
welcome to stay away.) There is no intention to make conflict
or to cause bad feeling. This is intended as a celebration of a
good thing, not a re-examination of bad things. Any and all
past bad things will be considered, well, past.
If you wish to come but are unable, due to prior commitments or
any other reason, just let us know. (Next time we decide to
celebrate our relationship, we'll give more notice. Promise.)
If you do not wish to come, we will understand, and you need do
nothing - and that will be the end of the matter. As they say
at the bottom of other spam, "this is a one-time mailing".
And of course, any questions, let us know.
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Party, evening of 27 July 2002 at our home.
Choose to:-
- attend
- tell us you'd like to attend but can't
or, if you'd rather not be mistaken for friends of ours
- ignore this, and hope it will go away (it will)
Simon
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"If everyone used the same version of the same operating system, a single
security hole would let hackers into all the computers. [...] Just like
genetic diversity, which prevents an epidemic from wiping out a whole
species at once, diversity in software is a good thing."
- Clifford Stoll, in "The Cuckoo's Egg", 1989