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Frakkin’ CylonDavid made another beautiful pumpkin.
ARGH image uploads simply don’t work anymore, I’ll put it on Flickr in a second…
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Good Tuesday Morning findI bought this game at Tuesday Morning on Saturday. It was $9.99, but it was on 25%-off sale, and then it was on clearance for 10% off. So it was six dollars and seventy-four cents.
And it’s really, really beautiful. I don’t care if I ever play it. I would’ve bought it as a tactile art object.
I also bought a different Fun Thing for Lisa for her birthday, which is next Thursday. Shhh!
pantone autumnchrisglass posted a photo:
All from the same tree I should add.
Some backstory / inspiration is included in this journal entry
Blue Mistmaxedaperture posted a photo:
Another early morning shot of the Shenandoah River near Skyline Drive in Front Royal, VA. The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to return soup at a deli.
Best viewed large.
Me and Noah at the Zoodalee18 posted a photo:
TV convergences, the endYou remember how I was all amazed for months and months at how the same good character actors keep showing up on all the same good shows, primarily CSI?
That shit is over. Guest star on the one tonight? KEVIN FRIGGING FEDERLINE. It’s his second acting credit ever.
I don’t understand. Why on earth would the most-watched show on television need to pull a stunt like that? Ugh.
Oh, ALSOThe new bed came today. I spent some time on it this afternoon figuring out what my actual Sleep Number is. In the store they have you lie on your back, and we came up with a 55 for me—twice—but I can’t actually sleep on my back. On my side I’m apparently a 45.
The bed is very light and looks very nice. I don’t know whether I’m going to put the bedskirt on it or not. I have less storage space underneath than I did before, but my comforter-storage boxes still fit, so that’s all that matters. The air pump is very quiet, the remote is backlit, and the bed is very comfortable. It weighs a lot less than a regular mattress, and it was easy to put sheets on once I inflated it to 100 (it’s hard to make up when it’s partially filled).
I’m very glad I paid for the installation. The manual has the assembly instructions in it, and they look hard!
Anyway, it sure is pretty. I’ll let you know tomorrow how it feels.
Some pictures you need (?) to seeThis is the Harry Potter poster in the frame I so skillfully painted. Surely you’ll agree that this poster looks better in silver than it would have in black.
“Skillfully” may be the wrong word. Really, I just got lucky. It looks almost exactly like powdercoat. These are the things I sprayed to get this. First at least four thin coats of silver chrome paint:
then a couple thin coats of this matte finish, which worked amazingly well to take the shine off the silver without changing the color at all:
This is the sewing machine store in the same shopping center as the Chili’s where Lin and Max and I had dinner the night before I went to the hospital. SEW are my mother’s initials, which is one of the reasons I took this picture. The other reason is that I don’t know what the name of the store is. Is it just “SEW”? There was no other sign!
This is the letter from the condo I posted the other day, so you can see it’s real.
These are the darling daisies Julie sent me.
And this is your reward for reading this far. Deborah has the Brain Age game for the DS, and one of the activities in it involves drawing a picture of a specified object or animal. After two users have drawn the same things, it shows both side-by-side, for hysterical comparison. Please use the comment form to enter a guess as to what animal the game told us to draw to get these results. My try is on the left, Deborah’s on the right.
I’ll give you a hint: the answer is neither half-stepped-on lizard, which is what my entry appears to be, nor cat-pig, which is what Deborah drew.
Washington Post Sunday crossword, April 30 (contains answers)
Title: Creative Proposition
Theme entries: two-word phrases redefined as though they were three words, the middle word being “pro,” related to a job or career
Examples:
31A, McEnroe antics?: NET PROFITS (net pro fits)
69D, Milker’s collection tube?: DAIRY PRODUCT (dairy pro duct)
Things I learned, with web links so you can learn them too:
18A, Diva Mitchell: LEONA
24A, Runner of myth: ATALANTA [note the connection to the Medea/Argo entry below]
35A, Actor Herbert: LOM
78A, Country’s McCoy: NEAL
96A, “Patterns” poet Lowell: AMY
101A, Teeny bit: SKOSH [I would have guessed Yiddish, not Japanese]
110A, Trattoria treat: TORTONI
123A, Waterloo fighter: PRUSSIAN [see, I always thought Wellington won that shit by himself; I’m sure people educated in continental Europe hear it differently]
1D, Ashcan School painter: SLOAN
10D, Scuttled WWII ship: GRAF SPEE
85D, Genteelness: POLITESSE
94D, Farquhar innkeeper: BONIFACE
100D, Jacques of deconstruction: DERRIDA
116D, Reasons to sue: TORTS [I’ve never known what this word actually meant]
118D, Medea rode in it: ARGO [I can never get interested enough into this story to retain its details or characters]
Overall:
I changed only one square (but I got two wrong) and looked up 15 things.
The wedding cake, Meri and Elly’s Weddinglloydi posted a photo:
