Not really. CtE is on restriction until his grades come up, and we’ll be spending some time tonight putting the expectations down on paper in contract form (ugh). I’d like to go for a bike ride along the Lehigh River if the weather’s decent, but nothing big in the works. How about you? Just relaxing at home before next week?
Yeah, I have some work stuff to finish up before the end of the month too.
CBtE and I will live…and hopefully he will realize that he needs to study as well as do his homework on time if e wants to go to the mall on Friday night. I don’t remember school being such a big deal when I was a kid.
Say you are in favor of Senator Lautenberg’s Amtrak Bill … or if he’s a Replicant, you are in favor of the Senator Lott’s Amtrak Bill … and you don’t want him voting for any amendments trying to kill Amtrack.
Good morning Andi and ask! Our last two big rains added 3″ of much needed moisture to our garden. This is the last chance to move the house plants inside, as it looks like we may get a frost Sunday night.
We drove over to Morgan-Monroe Forest last night to pick up a load of cider for the volunteer fire dept. fish fry and saw some beautiful trees along the way. For some reason, the colors seem brighter along the ridgetops. I’m curious about that and will check the soil types on the county’s GIS map sometime to see if there’s a pattern there.
Also, there’s a pair of hard maples next to the newspaper office in town that have been favorites of mine since childhood. I’m constantly petrified some developer will come along and decide they’re in the way.
We have a few good spots of color — mostly where the woods are more open so I think that has more to do with the ridgetop being more colorful than the soil would.
Good morning, Id!
Glad to hear that you’re getting much needed precipitation. I don’t mind it here either, except we may not be going to the Dog Halloween parade in Tompkins Square Park today.
Yes, the dogs are dressed up – here: I googled some images from a prior year.
Heading off to California (not around the fires) today so triple ugh for the business travel, the beige conference room of death, and the 3 hours difference. Here’s hoping that I won’t be around the next few morning because I’ve actually managed to wake up at “normal” west coast time.
I’m doing fine, just a little hectic with things around here.
We’ve been having some very nice weather here. 70’s/40’s and clear days. I thought yesterday with the cold coming no more grass mowing. Then I looked at all the oak trees and thought about getting all the leafs up. I want two feet of snow down here. I don’t want to be able to see the yard.
The problem with leaving the windows open when it gets down to 40 degrees and throwing the down comforter back on the bed, is that it’s really really difficult to get out of bed in the morning. We’ve got the same 70/40 thing going on this week. The days are just perfect and after the tons of rain we (finally) got this week, the grass is growing like April.
30 minutes until dawn here. The time change is coming up soon isn’t it? Finally my wall clock will tell the right time. Well at least for half the year. 🙂
Hi FM. I’m feeling ambivalent about the time change – glad that CBtY won’t be going out to wait for the bus in the dark, but sad that daylight will be gone so early in the afternoon.
Warmer here today than yesterday; going up to the 60s.
Good for you on getting back to sleep. Now to make you feel more at home, you need to go out into the hallway and see if any of the other guest need to go for a walk. It won’t be the pack, but heh, you take what you can get. 🙂
Well I had to stay up to 1 a.m. real time to do it. 🙂
I’m only here for 2 days. It’s just a pain because it days a total of four days since the travel takes all day (left the house at 11 a.m. EDT yesterday and got to the hotel at 10:00 p.m. EDT)
Shit, that was fun. A bit difficult to chose among some of those alternatives.
Anyway – here’s my score:
Your Liberal Breed: Peace Patroller
You are a Peace Patroller, also known as an anti-war liberal or neo-hippie. You believe in putting an end to American imperial conquest, stopping wars that have already been lost, and supporting our troops by bringing them home.
You are an Eco-Avenger, also known as an environmentalist or tree hugger. You believe in saving the planet from the clutches of air-fouling, oil-drilling, earth-raping conservative fossil fools.
You are a Social Justice Crusader, also known as a rights activist. You believe in equality, fairness, and preventing neo-Confederate conservative troglodytes from rolling back fifty years of civil rights gains.
You are a Working Class Warrior, also known as a blue-collar Democrat. You believe that the little guy is getting screwed by conservative greed-mongers and corporate criminals, and you’re not going to take it anymore.
You are a Reality-Based Intellectualist, also known as the liberal elite. You are a proud member of what’s known as the reality-based community, where science, reason, and non-Jesus-based thought reign supreme.
You are a New Left Hipster, also known as a MoveOn.org liberal, a Netroots activist, or a Daily Show fanatic. You believe that if we really want to defend American values, conservatives must be exposed, mocked, and assailed for every fanatical, puritanical, warmongering, Constitution-shredding ideal for which they stand.
See the Guide to Liberal Breeds to find out how you compare.
Sounds like you’ll have your hands full this afternoon. Since there’s no kids in the house and it’s only FMom and me, I plan to turn the lights off and listen to the crowds pass by. Bah humbug! 🙂
Might be fun to do that with a “nanny camera” and see what people do. 🙂
Most kids in this neighborhood trick or treat with parents (the houses are far apart and there’s no streetlights), so I imagine that helps people be honest. The older kids go to friends neighborhoods, where they can go by themselves (and go to more houses in less time, which I don’t really like; it’s a greed thing).
We’re one of the neighborhoods in town that everybody hits. The houses are fairly close and I’d estimate we have from 100-150 kids and family come through. The last time we did the candy thing, what got me is the number of adults that showed up at the door.
I’ve never understood why when you get more sleep you feel so tired afterwards. Of course someone with my skillfulness for sleeping doesn’t have that problem to often. 🙂
Good thing it’s sunny and mild. Nothing worse than trick or treating in the rain.
It was like being on a platform standing next to a train. Everybody must e pretty blase by now because no one even stepped out of their rooms. Oddly enough, this wasn’t the biggest earthquake I’ve experienced — oddly enough that was in Evansville, Indiana.
I said over at Olivia’s place that I think you’re becoming an earthquake magnet. I wonder if the one in Evansville was from the New Madrid fault in Missouri?
I’ve always found it odd that most people don’t know the strongest earthquake to hit the U.S. was in the center of the country instead of on the west coast. I’m just waiting for the next big one to hit.
Yeah, when it happens it’s going to be a huge disaster because none of the cities along the fault are at all prepared and the buildings are not earthquake-ready.
My favorite trivia from the 1811 earthquake is that it made the church bells in Boston ring.
I was just thinking about the bells too. I saw something on the History channel about if/when it happens again. Memphis and St. Louis will be in shambles. What got me after reading about it were that very strong aftershocks were felt for months afterwards.
We got through Halloween last night, but I haven’t been outside to see if we were left any tricks. I’ll throw George out the door, and if I don’t hear any screams from him, then I’ll know it’s safe. 🙂
Otherwise it will probably be a lot of cleaning up on the yard today.
I still think we need a national slack day. No prep, no getting dressed up, no moving from the couch. The physical part would be flipping channels on the remote. Since there’s no winners, you could nap, flip the remote and yell for someone to bring you food all day. Of couse I’d have to figure out points for grading the apex of slackatude.
Here’s a brand new cafe!
Old cafe here.
How is everyone this morning? I’m so glad it’s Friday…
Are you still in Mass, Andi?
I see you saw I said I was back home in the last cafe (hmm, ‘I see you saw I said’ sounds like a tongue twister).
Got a good weekend planned?
Not really. CtE is on restriction until his grades come up, and we’ll be spending some time tonight putting the expectations down on paper in contract form (ugh). I’d like to go for a bike ride along the Lehigh River if the weather’s decent, but nothing big in the works. How about you? Just relaxing at home before next week?
Poor CBtE and poor you. I’ll probably spend some chunk of the weekend working because I’m running a bit behind for next week’s delivery.
Yeah, I have some work stuff to finish up before the end of the month too.
CBtE and I will live…and hopefully he will realize that he needs to study as well as do his homework on time if e wants to go to the mall on Friday night. I don’t remember school being such a big deal when I was a kid.
Good morning, CG – hi again, Andi!
Full moon in the west.
Weekend with no big plans ahead.
How about that moon? I woke up around 4:30 and thought I had overslept, it was so bright out.
No plans? Sounds like a relaxing weekend ahead.
Good morning all. Looks like a soccer rainout for the b2 boy this weekend. We do need the rain.
… Call your Senator … emails are too late now, let alone letters.
Say you are in favor of Senator Lautenberg’s Amtrak Bill … or if he’s a Replicant, you are in favor of the Senator Lott’s Amtrak Bill … and you don’t want him voting for any amendments trying to kill Amtrack.
(A little) more info at my diary over at Big Orange, but call your Senator first.
Enjoy.
Good morning, Andi!
Great light in that image. It looks nothing like that out the window here – and it’s pouring down.
Doesn’t look like that here right now either — it won’t look like that till around 8. Except it won’t since it’s raining here, too. Yay!
Good morning Andi and ask! Our last two big rains added 3″ of much needed moisture to our garden. This is the last chance to move the house plants inside, as it looks like we may get a frost Sunday night.
Yeah, the rain has been wonderful. And I’m looking forward to the frost — I think fall is finally here (even if the colors aren’t much this year).
We drove over to Morgan-Monroe Forest last night to pick up a load of cider for the volunteer fire dept. fish fry and saw some beautiful trees along the way. For some reason, the colors seem brighter along the ridgetops. I’m curious about that and will check the soil types on the county’s GIS map sometime to see if there’s a pattern there.
Also, there’s a pair of hard maples next to the newspaper office in town that have been favorites of mine since childhood. I’m constantly petrified some developer will come along and decide they’re in the way.
We have a few good spots of color — mostly where the woods are more open so I think that has more to do with the ridgetop being more colorful than the soil would.
Ah – hence the color along the open road.
Good morning, Id!
Glad to hear that you’re getting much needed precipitation. I don’t mind it here either, except we may not be going to the Dog Halloween parade in Tompkins Square Park today.
Yes, the dogs are dressed up – here: I googled some images from a prior year.
Great costume! That would turn a few heads anywhere.
Good morning all. It’s nice and cool here, 50s I believe. Quite a change from yesterday’s warm and humid theme.
Good morning, boran!
Yup, low 50s and bright, blue skies.
Now, if I could manage to get the asklets out…
Morning all.
Heading off to California (not around the fires) today so triple ugh for the business travel, the beige conference room of death, and the 3 hours difference. Here’s hoping that I won’t be around the next few morning because I’ve actually managed to wake up at “normal” west coast time.
Yuck. I hope your flight goes smoothly, and that by some miracle you’re able to sleep in till normal time while you’re there.
We’ll miss you.
Thanks for the good thoughts — I hope the flight gods and the sleep gods are listening to you. 🙂
Here’s hoping those gods are kinder than the Fickle Gods of Blogger ™…
I can’t believe October is almost over already. And Halloween is Wednesday. Next it will be Thanksgiving.
and the Hanukkah and the Christmas and then before you know it’ll be summer vacation again — w00t!
Good morning, Andi and CG!
Lot’s of travel for you lately, Andi. Hope you get a break soon.
Only 39 this morning, is true fall finally here to stay?
My travel seems to come in spurts. I think this will be the last major trip for awhile.
We had frost last night — I think fall is here.
Good morning, ask.
Cold here today, but rumored to return to the high 60s in time for Halloween. I’m thinking this is just a preview of ‘winter’.
Good morning Andi, CG and ask.
Andi have a safe trip, and I hope the beige conference room from hell isn’t too bad. Hope everyone is doing fine today.
Thanks and see ya. I’m going to go take a walk and then I’ve got to get going.
Enjoy the walk, the trip, the beige room and the time difference. 🙂
Morning, FM!
I was wondering where you’d been the last few days, and here you are!
Hope all is well.
Morning ask.
I’m doing fine, just a little hectic with things around here.
We’ve been having some very nice weather here. 70’s/40’s and clear days. I thought yesterday with the cold coming no more grass mowing. Then I looked at all the oak trees and thought about getting all the leafs up. I want two feet of snow down here. I don’t want to be able to see the yard.
The problem with leaving the windows open when it gets down to 40 degrees and throwing the down comforter back on the bed, is that it’s really really difficult to get out of bed in the morning. We’ve got the same 70/40 thing going on this week. The days are just perfect and after the tons of rain we (finally) got this week, the grass is growing like April.
Morning SN.
Glad you finally got some rain and lower temps. Yep it is hard to get up in a cold room, but I much prefer that to a hot room.
Good morning all. After a warm and clammy Saturday, it’s our first frost today. 31 degrees!
Morning Boran.
Congrats on the frost, I think. Ours will be a long way off.
Good morning, FM. Hopefully you won’t see it for a while, leafy lawn and all.
I’m ready for the freeze, the snow, even a mini ice age would be OK. I’m still remembering those 100 plus days from summer.
Good morning, boran!
Wow, just a few miles up the valley and that much colder.
Good morning, ask. What a difference 40 or so miles makes.
Well, it’s cold enough here – someone forgot to turn on the heat in curly’s building. See you later – heading out.
It will be a lovely Tuesday here today. Right now it’s still dark outside and I can’t really tell.
Good morning, FM!
Dawn is done here; cold, gray skies this morning.
Morning ask.
30 minutes until dawn here. The time change is coming up soon isn’t it? Finally my wall clock will tell the right time. Well at least for half the year. 🙂
Hi FM. I’m feeling ambivalent about the time change – glad that CBtY won’t be going out to wait for the bus in the dark, but sad that daylight will be gone so early in the afternoon.
Warmer here today than yesterday; going up to the 60s.
Morning CG.
Since I go to be kind of early, I don’t really mind this time change. That’s good though about CBtY not having to wait in the dark.
We’ll be up in the mid 70’s today.
I’m enjoying the cooler weather, but it’s a little hard to get used to after our extended summer, isn’t it?
Greetings from California. I woke up at 2:30 but was able to go back to sleep till 4:30 local time. I’m feeling very accomplished.
Morning Andi.
Good for you on getting back to sleep. Now to make you feel more at home, you need to go out into the hallway and see if any of the other guest need to go for a walk. It won’t be the pack, but heh, you take what you can get. 🙂
Finding someone to go for a walk, probably not a problem. Finding a woods to walk in within an hours drive, priceless.
Well just think that it’s one day less in the beige room. Are you going to be there over Halloween?
Yep and I expect I’ll get the same number of trick-or-treaters as I do at home.
Who knows there might be some wild party you can crash. 🙂
Hi Andi,
I guess it is usually crowded at your door in your busy neighborhood…
I’d be more than happy to send over a few of ours. We literally get dozens.
I’ll take ’em. I really miss it. We’ve lived here since 1979 and in that time we’ve had two trick or treaters (in 1982) and that was pre-arranged.
Wow, that’s like 7:30 in real time. Bravo!
How much longer in beige conference room land?
Well I had to stay up to 1 a.m. real time to do it. 🙂
I’m only here for 2 days. It’s just a pain because it days a total of four days since the travel takes all day (left the house at 11 a.m. EDT yesterday and got to the hotel at 10:00 p.m. EDT)
Ugh, and then you need Friday to recuperate from the multiple bouts of airline-induced dehydration.
I’m really good about drinking a lot of liquids when I travel. My bigger problem is the air-travel induced sore muscles form sitting too much.
Take the liberal quiz. I’m a social justice crusader.
works for me: social justice crusader
lTMF’sA
Shit, that was fun. A bit difficult to chose among some of those alternatives.
Anyway – here’s my score:
Your Liberal Breed: Peace Patroller
You are a Peace Patroller, also known as an anti-war liberal or neo-hippie. You believe in putting an end to American imperial conquest, stopping wars that have already been lost, and supporting our troops by bringing them home.
You are an Eco-Avenger, also known as an environmentalist or tree hugger. You believe in saving the planet from the clutches of air-fouling, oil-drilling, earth-raping conservative fossil fools.
You are a Social Justice Crusader, also known as a rights activist. You believe in equality, fairness, and preventing neo-Confederate conservative troglodytes from rolling back fifty years of civil rights gains.
You are a Working Class Warrior, also known as a blue-collar Democrat. You believe that the little guy is getting screwed by conservative greed-mongers and corporate criminals, and you’re not going to take it anymore.
You are a Reality-Based Intellectualist, also known as the liberal elite. You are a proud member of what’s known as the reality-based community, where science, reason, and non-Jesus-based thought reign supreme.
You are a New Left Hipster, also known as a MoveOn.org liberal, a Netroots activist, or a Daily Show fanatic. You believe that if we really want to defend American values, conservatives must be exposed, mocked, and assailed for every fanatical, puritanical, warmongering, Constitution-shredding ideal for which they stand.
See the Guide to Liberal Breeds to find out how you compare.
Kind of fits, I guess.
Peace Patroller here, too.
New Left Hipster here.
I guess that’s what I get for wanting to preserve “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” for posterity when the Earth ceases to exist…
That may be why; I picked Gore’s book.
I welcome the domination by our rodent overlords – they couldn’t do any worse than the ones we have now
Oy, I think I blew a gasket last week. Can’t take politics anymore. Makes my heart and head hurt.
It’s Halloween, oh joy. I see they had a quake out where Andi is/was. I don’t know if she left yesterday or today.
Anyone got big plans for tonight?
Hi FM! Woo-hoo, it’s Halloween. Half-day of school for CBtY, and all his buds coming over to play before they go trick or treating.
Should be a wild afternoon. 🙂
Morning CG.
Sounds like you’ll have your hands full this afternoon. Since there’s no kids in the house and it’s only FMom and me, I plan to turn the lights off and listen to the crowds pass by. Bah humbug! 🙂
I’m not sure what I’m doing, since everyone is going trick or treating in a friend’s neighborhood (better lighting and less walking).
Probably put the bowl out front with a little sign again.
Using the trust system? I’m afraid if I put a bowl with a sign out front, the candy, bowl and sign would be gone by morning.
With everyone gone and a bowl out front, you might be able to relax this evening.
We’ve done the bowl out front (with the instructions “Take 2”), and never had a problem; we even come home to leftovers sometimes.
I might give that a try just to see what happens.
Might be fun to do that with a “nanny camera” and see what people do. 🙂
Most kids in this neighborhood trick or treat with parents (the houses are far apart and there’s no streetlights), so I imagine that helps people be honest. The older kids go to friends neighborhoods, where they can go by themselves (and go to more houses in less time, which I don’t really like; it’s a greed thing).
We’re one of the neighborhoods in town that everybody hits. The houses are fairly close and I’d estimate we have from 100-150 kids and family come through. The last time we did the candy thing, what got me is the number of adults that showed up at the door.
Update: They are sitting on the couch, calling GIRLS and using the speakerphone so they can all chat.
Whatever happened to playing video games and building forts outside?
Try laying out some color books and crayons and tell them to amuse themselves. That should be good for a big laugh or five minutes of coloring. 🙂
Gotta take advantage of all that new technology – hooking up was never easier….
Are you trying to make me cry?
🙂
Welcome to my world…
(I get the phone bills, I see what’s going on…)
Good morning, FM and CG!
Slept straight through until 6.30 – now I feel totally knocked out (?).
Great day for the kids, sunny and mild.
Morning ask.
I’ve never understood why when you get more sleep you feel so tired afterwards. Of course someone with my skillfulness for sleeping doesn’t have that problem to often. 🙂
Good thing it’s sunny and mild. Nothing worse than trick or treating in the rain.
Well not quite central but close enough. I just thought of it as another inspiration to make me want to fly away home. (How’s that for a segue?)
I was wondering if you got a little shaken. That’s a lovely picture. Obviously not from CA. 🙂
It was like being on a platform standing next to a train. Everybody must e pretty blase by now because no one even stepped out of their rooms. Oddly enough, this wasn’t the biggest earthquake I’ve experienced — oddly enough that was in Evansville, Indiana.
I said over at Olivia’s place that I think you’re becoming an earthquake magnet. I wonder if the one in Evansville was from the New Madrid fault in Missouri?
Yep, Evansville is on the New Madrid fault. I don’t know about being a magnet — that’s four in a a 30 year time period.
Well maybe not a magnet. 🙂
I’ve always found it odd that most people don’t know the strongest earthquake to hit the U.S. was in the center of the country instead of on the west coast. I’m just waiting for the next big one to hit.
Yeah, when it happens it’s going to be a huge disaster because none of the cities along the fault are at all prepared and the buildings are not earthquake-ready.
My favorite trivia from the 1811 earthquake is that it made the church bells in Boston ring.
I was just thinking about the bells too. I saw something on the History channel about if/when it happens again. Memphis and St. Louis will be in shambles. What got me after reading about it were that very strong aftershocks were felt for months afterwards.
So do you get to go home today?
George is ready to go out and FMom is up. Got to get the day started.
Hope everyone has a good day. Be safe out there Andi.
Have a good day, FM!
Thanks Boran and you too.
No I don’t like red-eyes so I’ve got a 6:30 a.m. flight out tomorrow.
You must stop taking pictures like that. I’ve only got so much space on my bedroom wall.
to stop being so scenic. 😉
We got through Halloween last night, but I haven’t been outside to see if we were left any tricks. I’ll throw George out the door, and if I don’t hear any screams from him, then I’ll know it’s safe. 🙂
Otherwise it will probably be a lot of cleaning up on the yard today.
I still think we need a national slack day. No prep, no getting dressed up, no moving from the couch. The physical part would be flipping channels on the remote. Since there’s no winners, you could nap, flip the remote and yell for someone to bring you food all day. Of couse I’d have to figure out points for grading the apex of slackatude.
Did everyone have a good Halloween last night?
Hi FM.
We survived Halloween too, but there is too much candy here…
Bye CG and FM. Gotta get myself going and off to the airport. See ya tomorrow.
Have a safe trip Andi.