Congratulations / Preparations / Oddities

Leonard and Sumana are marrying one another. Everybody wins!

Today I applied for my passport way later than I should have. It will work out anyway; I'll be able to pick it up two days before I leave. I'm pretty sure that's everything done that I need to do before I go* (and that I'm currently able to have done), and also the last of the things I was working on that I basically dropped on the floor when my computer died.

* Crucial exception!: I'd like to hang out with all or as many as possible of the various local friends that I by necessity won't be seeing for the month of May. Perhaps some sort of 'get-together' is in order; what do you think, local friends?

The Vancouver Public Library has a book return drop which is a rectangular concrete metal tube, with a hinged lid, jutting out at an angle from the sidewalk at the less used back side of the building. You lift the lid, drop your book down a chute inside, and watch it vanish smoothly underground; I have no idea how it gets from there to the library area proper, but I fondly hope the journey is convoluted. It brings me an unreasonable amount of joy.