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posted by [identity profile] don-fitch.livejournal.com at 07:52pm on 15/10/2014
You'll have noticed that I didn't specify the year of the Mercer's Day I expect you to achieve that goal.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:25pm on 15/10/2014
Also darn, now I need to add "look up when Mercer's Day is" to the list.
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posted by [identity profile] don-fitch.livejournal.com at 10:12pm on 15/10/2014
Oops! I thought you'd know. This Younger Generation... *sigh*. As I recall (it was probably a few years before I got into fandom... the mid 1950s, perhaps) U.K. fan Archie Mercer announced the deadline for an OMPA officers election as 31 April. the APA president, Walter Willis, announce that since he was allowed to settle all problems that arose (& not just those involving the Organization) he thereby declared 31 April to be Mercer's Day, to be followed immediately by May 2nd. Actually, what I was implying was that you'd get things all ship-shape on the (non-existent) May First. Some May First, that is.

Mind you, I've been reducing the height of the piles of Stuph (which fill all but a few isles in my suburban California house) by about foot per year, for the past two years. I calculate that, with luck, the Problem will be resolved in about six years, by which time I'd be 93 years old. Somehow, I do not find this particularly reassuring... mostly because I'm not a strong believer in Luck (except when I go into a used-book store).

And yes, I suppose your List involves many other Activities. Mine includes only a few, and I'm planning to get at them Real Soon Now, if the 4-month Hot Spell turns out to be genuinely over.

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