9001 – Monday

Hm… Archie McPhee has some nifty zombie toys. I wonder how they’d look on my desk at work? I wonder what other folks would think?

Tigger gaining weight – put her on diet kitty food… I wonder if she thinks that she needs to stock up, in case of being on her own again? She’s not as svelte as she used to be. I think Newt and Pye need to visit her, and give her a running around the house partner or two.

I was creaky this weekend, but am feeling better this evening. A severe case of stumble-thumbosis overcame me this weekend, possibly due to poor sleep on Saturday? Well rested today, and things seem much more in control.

We opened up the pickles ! While a trifle mushy, they aren’t nearly as over-spicy as I’d feared. I wonder how Miz Pix is doing, speaking of pickles?

Final counts on the 2007 summer Icehouse game competition are in – Pylon , Subdivision and Zamboni Wars won the challenge. I’m surprised that Penguin Soccer didn’t do better. All the victors have valid games, but PS just had a fun theme and a reasonable set of rules, especially the 2-player option. I think that it seemed a little skewed, given that they didn’t penalise missing entries.

More pictures of yesterday’s shenanigans – A Corn Cop, Bunnies, and a pumpkin patch.

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And an eye-eating monster.

1 year ago – Zombies, Acronyms, RSP, eudcedit, Roddy w/silly string,

2 years ago – bro rehab issues, fun in 2nd life, riverwalk, 404 fun, spidey song, pinwheels / world peace day pics, reggae

3 years ago – MM issues, water, C-Mon & Kypski’s – Shittybum, Ookla, picture meme.

4 years ago – IHOP with Kev & Bheesh, Rose, Zombie Pinups, Space Art in Kids books, Title caps.

5 years ago – mental fog, Finn & Chupa aren’t loved, sculpey, eraser clay

6 years ago – Fussing sans A/C, Word association poll, KFC Japan

7 years ago – The Laundry event, Newt, Cherry Coke, Quit the Everway Group

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9000 – Sun

First day of Autumn! As Lileks put it: The trees have started to tip; the quotient of green diminishes daily. I wonder if we’d love fall less if the colors were ugly; do we like the colors simply because we’re used to them? If everything turned turquoise and pink one year we’d be horrified (well, maybe not BHK) , but if they’d been turning those shades all our lives we’d see nothing wrong. It makes you wonder how much of our fall routines are owed to long-buried instinct. Perhaps we wear brown because there’s an ancient piece of brain-code telling us we should blend in, because there might be tigers about.

To celebrate, we got iced pumpkin coffee drinks and muffins, went to a school supply store to buy cool dice. (Got some for me to game design with, and a few as gift ideas.) Included in the loot were triple dice,(I picked ones with three different colors inside – a red, white, and blue) double dice, foam dice and blank dice (just white cubes you can draw things on), not to mention a few gel pens, index card pads, and other school-supply type goodies.

Went on a tour of a corn-maze, got a pumpkin right out of the patch, petted some goats / sheep / bunnies and pigs, rode a tractor!

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Irrigation guns look like doomsday devices to me.

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Also went to Aardvarks, and almost bought Apples to Apples (BHK will probably get that with one of our target gift cards this week), Stonehenge and / or Blokus, but instead picked up Carcassone: Discovery and Pre-ordered Zombie Fluxx.

current music – It’s business time – the conchords

1 year ago -cathead theatre – hamlet, hard sleeps, catsitter, trirail wifi, steve irwin, whipa, elephants

2 years ago – tech stuff, lj adds schools, where’s george, batman macaron chacarron, life poll, cute animals, comfort eagle

3 years ago – doodle of eyeball-yoink!, Egyptian soul-view, farting dog, comfort eagle, libras.(librans?)

4 years ago – monkey-pops/injustice, free movies, more on Ohio case, Nosy coworkers, lovely chat

5 years ago – Peace Corps dream, Conan O’Brien smells bad, palm doodles

6 years ago – fisher King, Flag treatment, cyborg roaches, bring back art nouveau

7 years ago – lots of private thoughts and writing, dispatch

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