To all yee spooks and goblins, I say bye. To everyone else I say hi!
I played Mr Mover this week. Laurie is loving Asheville (North
Carolina), so much so that she has decided to stay down there after her
6 month house siting job is done this spring, so she no longer needed
here apartment here. I offered to help pack her stuff up for the
movers, so I took a few afternoons off last week and randomly
distributed all her stuff into 30 boxes, taped with 200 feet of packing
tape. It is now in storage at the storage place a few blocks from here,
awaiting her next residence. She had fun telling the movers that her
ex-husband and his new girlfriend had happily volunteered to pack her
stuff for her ... apparently this is not how ex-husbands usually work.
Zach finally got a chance to auto cross his Miata, last race of the
season. He went up to the cities, to a big event with 50+ cars,
including 20 other Miatas! But they were no match for the amazing
Zachman, as he had the lowest time of all the cars in his class! In the
first picture you can see Dinoman, rather Dinoguy, ... no thats not
right either ... Dino-thing? ... no ... lets just say the Dino (you car
guys can appreciate that reference) ... you can see the Dino admiring
Zach's 1st place trophy.
The 2nd picture shows Zach explaining the wonders of his super-sticky
racing tires to Helen. I don't think she is quite ready to auto cross
here Subaru outback, but she does know how tires work now.
The 3rd pictures is of the last breakfast that Helen and I made for the
2 actresses that had been staying downstairs on weekends for the last
few months. They had come been traveling down from the cities for a
local Shakespeare production. In the background, you can see 'the
Dino' at his new post as the guardian of the deck. I had to put him
outside as he was eating too many invisible cavemen.
We finally got our experimental dried corn ears re-hydrated! Soaked it
for 3 weeks, then boiled if for a day. The 4th pic shows Helen debating
the health benefits of rehydrate, slightly burned, corn. I voted to
have the squirrels test it. They buried it, so maybe that tells us
something.
There is a growing community of people who work/play in an online
virtual reality program called Second Life. I created a character
there, but wasn't something I got into much. The silly grins you see on
those 3 boys in the next photo is what you get when you let them undress
your Second Life character and parade him around the various venues buck
naked. For free characters, like mine, you don't get the detailed body
features that you can get if you pay some money. So my guy was more
like un-buck naked, but that didn't stop them from trying to get my guy
to flirt with girls at a dance club.
The last photo shows a daemon eyed Zach instruct his friend Travis how
to snort a V6 engine. Note, snorting V6 engines is not a recommended
activity for small children. But for a big guy like Travis, it seems to
have worked, as the car disappeared from my driveway shortly after that.
Hmmm, come to think of it, so did Travis!
Bruce
