First, Idol Survivor continues over at Dreamwidth, with the current voting round ending today (Friday). All eliminations are team-based, which makes things especially painful. My team lost a fantastic writer and friend last week, owing to a family crisis.

So, if you can, please go to the poll here and vote for me and ALL my teammates:
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Now that the "Grow-it-yourself" Homeropus is out of the water, he's slowly shrinking:

Today (6 days of shrinkage) Maximum size
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Just in case you've been waiting for news on our rubbery, immersible, self-growing friendIt's been two weeks now since I first put this creature in water, and he hasn't gotten any bigger in the last couple of days, so I think it's fair to say he's reached his maximum size ( Read more... )

A progress report on our little home experiment:

Today (Friday) Wednesday

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Ughhhh. It's been oppressively hot and/or smoky here for 4 1/2 weeks now. On the few days where the highs have been < 93o, there's usually been too much smoke to exercise outside. I've only been able to ride outside 5 times over these many weeks. FIVE. :O ( Read more... )