Luddite

My s-i-l gave me her old outdated deactivated blackberry, the one whose keypad has two letters per key, yes? With practice I may be able to use it as a pocket memorandum and address book, since I keep losing the slips of paper on which I write things. Right now I'm still trying to enter 'shopping list.' Have managed to enter 'sohp', which I suppose is progress.

Cut sleeves do *not* signify eternal parting

Spent a chunk of the morning googling to see just what Springen Autumn period thought of m/m, and found enough period Hideous Examples to be going on with, including the almost exact contemporary Ling of Wei (534-493; cf Gou Jian's reign of 496-465) and his ill-fated Mizi Xia.
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