En bref, as some people say around here--

Yesterday, walking in to work I passed a pale-green - er, make that "Silver Pine Mica" - shiny-new Prius parked downtown ( Read more... )

NB: I wanted to get this up while it was still at all relevant, so I will be updating the post w/links as I resize and upload my photos. You won't be hallucinating if it morphs over the next hour or so.I went to the polls at about quarter to seven this morning - I'd meant to be there when they opened at 6, but I didn't wake up for my first alarm, ( Read more... )

I haven't been doing much political wonkery this election cycle, because of not being able to follow too much of it, and because my opinions with the wheel still spinning and none of us being able to see all the croupier's hidden levers didn't seem too relevant. Plus, my general feelings about the Primary being subsumed under work/weather/health ( Read more... )

-in this case, the glass of a camera lens-Firstly I want to say "thank you" for all the moral support and otherwise; being part of the wider world via the internet is what keeps me going these many years now (zounds, was it really back in aught-ninety-seven that I discovered Usenet, and was able to use polysyllabic words in conversation for the ( Read more... )

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by flooding due to a freakishly-strong autumn storm and of course the place it ripped through was in one of the poorest, remotest parts of the state, which had already suffered from previous years' floods washing out roads and bridges and other infrastructure. Four people were killed, dozens of homes destroyed and hundreds of people displaced that ( Read more... )

...is not going very well, I'm afraid--

I need an icon that skillfully combines "Bwahahahah!" and "WTF?!?!" somehow.

All in this past week,

- the Authorities confiscated an illegal wallaby from an apartment building on my side of town (and no, it wasn't mine, which would have been even weirder I suppose ( Read more... )