Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 10: 1969–1970 by Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, continuing. The red-haired girl moves away without Charlie Brown having the gumption to say Good-bye. Snoopy is a hockey player and a checkout worker -- hangs out with a bird who is finally named Woodstock -- is reported by Frieda to the Head Beagle for not chasing rabbits and has a stint AS the Head Beagle -- and we have the return of "A dark and stormy night" as Snoopy takes up writing entirely. Lucy pursues Schroeder and sees Charlie Brown -- and Snoopy, and Woodstock -- at her booth. And more.

The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 9: 1967-1968 by Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts rolls on. The kite-eating tree finally appears, after all his adventures with kites. Baseball games with some interaction with Peppermint Patty -- she joins the team with a new character Jose, briefly -- and with the usual slew of loss. Linus tells his blanket-hating grandma that she has to give up smoking for him to give up his blanket, with the expected consequence. Camp -- actually that was more Peppermint Patty as tent monitor and her three charges. Snoopy as a flying ace, and a sequence with him skating and planning on the Olympics (until he tries to go and discovers there's an ocean in the way) and some as a vulture. He interacts with a single bird a lot -- still nameless, though. Linus's measles shot has him panicking. And more.

Ghost in the Amulet by Jonathan Moeller

Ghost Night book 3. Spoilers ahead for the earlier books and for the earlier two series, too.

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Holy God, we praise Thy Name;
Lord of all, we bow before Thee!
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The gray clouds lay across the sky in waves, rising and sinking, and cross-wise, a spread of ripples, like a breeze blowing over ocean swells. Then my route turns and the clouds look like a mass of intricate hills.

By night, the apple tree is a dark silhouette outlined in brilliant white after the freezing rain

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Ghost in the Glass by Jonathan Moeller

Ghost Night book 2. Serious spoilers for both the first book and the prior two series.

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There's a character, and in a scene, another character is contemplating what she, by name, would do -- if that's really her name -- it's probably not --

At which point I realized that the character thinking this can't be going by her real name.

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The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 8: 1965-1966 by Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts rolling along. Charlie Brown goes to camp for the first time; later, so does Linus. Snoopy becomes a WWI flying ace -- and "A dark and stormy night" makes its first appearance, for a sequence of about a week, after which he, having dragged his typewriter to the doghouse in the opening, gets rid of it. Peppermint Patty is introduced taking over the baseball team. Linus evades his blanket-hating grandmother by mailing his blanket to himself, and it goes wrong.

D&D has its little spell lists.  The odds that any moderately realistic world would have them thus limited are very stiff indeed.

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According to Herodatus, Thracians shot arrows at thunder and lightning.

A British legend held that ships sometimes heard the Christmas peals even though far, far, far out to sea. This was thought to herald good fortune.

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