Yay on the new house, Robin!
And Noah is such a wee hungry little noodle--so cute!!
I am agog that there are Buffistas who had not heard of Emperor Norton before today.
Me, too. I was into reading all those trivia-filled "encyclopedias" that were popular in the late '70s (People's Almanac, the various Reader's Digest guides to American culture/history/etc.), so I first heard about Emperor Norton when I was still in junior high. Also, the guy who was the mega-conman in the first half of the 20th century (I think Tony Curtis played him in a film) who sold the Eiffel Tower multiple times, among other things.
I've got another half-day here, so I'm going to try and go for a noon swim again (at least, there's no potential of lightning storms on the radar at this point), and then taking the cat in to get her claws trimmed and then my second interview at Barnes & Noble.