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We had an excellent and convivial dinner at the Keg last night.  Then we came back and watched Sideways, which was the perfect way to end an evening.

I leave for Toronto in a week.

Dr Filk is reading SF, Jeff’s finished the vacuuming and watching footsball, and I’m hauling biscotti out of the oven.  Brother Jerome just called so there will not, after all, be a reunion of the lunch bunch today, but I can expect Tom and Mike later (and Heather’s coming too, woo hoo).

Chipper sends me this lovely video.

later……

Darwin was here.  Katie and Brandin are here. Lexi made a cake that was so good I nearly died and I’ve eaten three pieces and it’s a thousand kinds of chocolate cooked with love by elfmaidens.

And she made me a crocheted baby Cthulhu.  Woot!

Peggy dropped by and gave me chocolate and a calendar.

I love the world.

A ninety-year old woman’s blog.

Pics I took yesterday.  ScaryClown took me to lunch and we admired the amanita together.  The other pic is the view from my window, which I am about to lose because my beautiful company is moving me again for reasons I would LOVE to publicly limn, but will maintain a discreet silence on.

Flu shot today, gotta wear short sleeves.

Why does one grandmother feel closer?

“Barack Obama is going to singlehandledly redefine political humour.  Is there nothing that man can’t do?”

I bought a LOT of toys this weekend – I got a proper set of headphones and two different camera mounts and a USB mike.  Anyway, while playing with the flexible tripod (it is SO cute) I took this picture of me and pronounce myself pleased.

Why do certain wavelengths of light trigger my migraines?

Where does the feeling I get when I’m working on a song come from?

Out of 100 married or common law men, who are married to or cohabiting with women, how many are actually gay or bi and not telling their spouses?

If I really could physically transform myself into a man, and knew I’d be able to go back to being female, would I do it?

Is Justin Trudeau going to be the next leader of the Liberal party, despite swearing that he isn’t?

Is Gregor Robertson going to be a good mayor?  (He’s sure doing the Obama get out the vote thing.  And you know, frankly, any guy who gets busted for farescoffing is gonna be five-by-five by me.)

Am I ever going to have a lap cat again?

Are you coming to my birthday party? (sing out if you haven’t been invited).

How the hell do you save a Garage Band file as another kind of audio?  Oh.  Okay, I figured it out. But don’t expex to be able to play it unless you can convert it to MP3.  And DON’T convert it unless you want to hear a minute long shoegazer song that sounds like I’m being backed up by that chick from the Star Trek theme song and two werewolves.  Truth in advertizing.

Is anybody else as grateful as me for the break in the weather yesterday??? It was warm enough to sit outside and have coffee, and it wasn’t peeing rain.  Yes, I saw Dax again yesterday.  He’s doing much better and he didn’t mention Katie at all.  He laughed his ass off when I described what I am doing with Garage Band.

Is Keith ever going to get over his love affair with GTA IV?  Yesterday was “I will crash into everything” day.

Is Allegra going to remember to keep her liquor store receipts in future?  The ******* Stella Artois was skunky.  I said **** this for ***********, I’m going to get more Lion Winter Ale.  And I did, too.

How many disgusting figurines will ScaryClown make on his two weeks of vacation?  I’ve seen one from his facebook links, and he still hasn’t answered my question about where he’s hosting now so I can repost the link to his homepage.  Anyway, the most recent one is either an aborted alien fetus or fresh Hellmouth spawn, and yet it is strangely cute and inoffensive, like all of his work.  There is a tension between his touching innocence and his stated and raging depravity that is reflected in his art.

Anybody know about a good USB mike?

What do you say to somebody who has an amazing life and committed friends and doesn’t understand or appreciate it?

How do you help a moron?  This is actually a different question that the last one. Which reminds me of a joke – how do you make a sword invisible, answer, let a coward wear it.

Do you think there will be anti-atheist rioting in the US within the next four years?

Do you think the Mormons know what they have done to their church by their successful efforts to kill Prop 8 in California?  (Sample banner : No more Mr. Nice Gay).  I really don’t think it’s a fair fight; queers have been substantially more discriminated against for longer.

Did you eat a good breakfast?

Are you going to do something good for the world today?

Look! Somebody is proposing happiness as a disorder!

Satire gets more subtle every year….

Megrim is a variant of migraine.  I’m going to shut off the computer and see if I can clear my visual field up before work.

I know it’s better for the world as a whole that Obama won, but it may not be extra cool for Canada, what with more protectionism and all.

Uncaptioned lolcat.

Keith visited last night; Kevin slept over.

The rain this morning was so torrential it woke me up.  It seems to have dissipated somewhat, but I spent a good five minutes being happy that I’m safe and warm.

Jeff and I will be out visiting various folks today – ScaryClown in the morning and Doug & Elly in the afternoon.

I ran a report on broken links on my blogroll after Chipper noted that ScaryClown’s site is missing (I’ve since emailed him and asked him to send me the new link).  On the ScaryClown front, he’s off for two weeks and I’m hoping to a) creates some more of his incredible and crazy-ass sculpture and b) gets together with Jeff.

As always, if there’s something broken in any of the most recent stuff, say for the last month, let me know.  Links are rather ephemeral but the most recently posted ones should – should – work.

Eddie and Bear, the downstairs neighbours’ cat, have been fighting.  Eddie got the best of the last encounter, but there’s a lot of black fur swirling around the bottom of the stairs.

We had HORDES of kids.  If we’re here next year (which I’m not planning on, but who knows) we will get WAY more stuff.  The neighbour kids (east side, not west side) showed up with no costumes, so I made them sing.

more pix later, but here’s me at work yesterday.  Note the ‘take the shot from above so you can’t count my chins’ look, but ya know I kinda like this pic!

Why would anybody be surprised at this news?

And why does a newspaper have to do the research…?