As ypawtows already mentioned, we had 166 trick-or-treaters last night. Decorations were the same as last year (orange bulbs in the porch light, cat-eye overlays in the front windows, and a spider hanger over the door.

Still have some leftover candy, though. Might save it for the next game.

The three P's were at the Seattle-area satellite rally for the Stewart/Colbert Restore Sanity/Fear rally in DC. Was much fun; this rally alternated between watching the main rally on a single jumbo-tron and routines by local comics. Many fun signs ( Read more... )

Anyone who lives in WA state and has a land-line probably knows how they have been ringing off the hooks with attack political ads lately. According to the paper, WA is something like #3 in political ad money, mainly because of the senate race is seen to be flippable even if 538 doesn't think so ( Read more... )

And this pretty much proves it.

It is a fun read. If you want to skip to the cute bits, see the last paragraph of Pt I (page 4) and Fig 2 (pages 7 and 8).

This is mostly for people back on the east coast- anyone planning on going to the Stewart/Colbert rally at the end of the month? As I tend to live by the concept of "can't we all just get along?", the idea of a rally dedicated to NOT being angry and upset about things is attractive. Not to mention that Stewart and Colbert are two of my favorite ( Read more... )

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dpawtows and I spent some time at the NWC storage unit yesterday; this year's round of repairing art forms is done. Made a total of ten panels over the summer, all of the newer lightweight variety. Not sure how many lightweight panels we have at this point, but it may be close to half. Loading and unloading the forms gets easier every year ( Read more... )

Those who have been over lately may have noticed that the downstairs toilet wasn't doing all that well. So, today was the day to take care of it- took it off floor, rented a sewer snake, and ran the line. Just like in the old plumbing days. I had forgotten how much effort it was. Was also appalled at how cheaply made the rental snake was as ( Read more... )

Geeze, it's hot out there. Daniel and I went down to the storage unit to work on art forms: we only made two before deciding that it was too hot to continue. Need five more to get the count up to the desired 100; may try again next week.

So, here are a few shots from the cruise that I mentioned earlier.

( There be ice )