Inhuman Swill

An update on the Human/Gee-Gnome Project, if you remember my mentioning it a few weeks ago. This is our undertaking to mail my sister two garden gnomes a week for the twenty weeks leading up to her fortieth birthday.

This is Week 4 of the Project, and today I launched the fourth pair of gnomes on their way. I've received one somewhat puzzled email from my sister so far, thanking us for the gnomes and wondering what the game is and how she can play. I wrote back:

We're not privy to all the movements of the Gnoman Legion, but it's interesting to hear that after the weeks they've spent massing, they've begun to make their way out into the world.... What their ultimate strategic goal is, I can't say, but I gnow that with all things gnomish what starts out as inscrutable behavior usually becomes clear in time.

She reported, sadly, that one of the gnomes arrived critically injured, so I'm investing rather more bubble wrap in the Project these days.

We've also begun soliciting gnome sponsorships and the opportunity to gname a gnome from my mother and siblings. Everyone wants to get in on the act! Only three unclaimed slots are left.