A sample of the pumpkin soup at TJ's actually made me put the carton back! Too sweet for me.

I add a swirl of balsamic vinegar, and that balances out the sweetness really well. (Also for their butternut squash soup.)

Dang. Are you getting gentrified?

It's a good idea to fire up the furnace before you really need it-- if you wait until the first really cold day and it is broken, all the furnace repairpeople will be very busy. Ditto for furnace parts that are back-ordered.

The sole ac unit removed and stored ( but not way down in the basement, learned that lesson well.) Bring on the hot&muggy spell...

Soon as the washers done, trip to Ace.

I'm currently weirding myself out by realizing that I'm just about the same age as Lorelei Gilmore in the first season of Gilmore Girls. When the show originally aired, I was just a little older than Rory. (Although, now that I look it up, I see that it actually premiered in 2000. I was sure it was 1998. So, OK, I was 19 when it started, not 17 like I thought.)

At least that's less obscure than my last weirdout: made a "Number Five is alive!" comment to the lifeguards regarding the new pool vacuum (seriously, looks like one) and while the more senior guard immediately got it, took the younger one a bit. At which point we realized she wasn't alive when Short Circuit came out. And I'm only a year younger than her mom...

I had the furnace guy out and under the house last month. So the thing turns on. But I'm not sure it turns off unless I turn it way down. Which is a working method.

I am trying my best to be a good Big Bang artist. But if I've already drawn more than the minimum (minimum for the mini bang is one 500x500 picture), it's a little pushy of the author to be all "didn't you say you would...." no matter how subtly she does it. Becaucse I never said I would. *She* said she'd like it if I did.

Anyway, she has a title card, two section separators, and two illustrated scenes. It might be time for me to pay attention to my other author, who wrote a big bang, and therefore I owe her more (she only has a title card, an illustrated scene, and a text separator. She's supposed to get twice the art. At least I have until November for her.

I just got deluged by a barrage of text messages. Colin's making a brief LA stop before a month or so in Halifax, so his GF invited me over to see them. 45 seconds later, Colin invites me over to see them, and in the ten minutes of texting, none of us work out that these are two independent conversations.

Anyway, Once my head clears up, maybe I'll go over today. That will leave tomorrow clear for job searching and drawing.

For now, hydrate more, and find a good reference pic for two men waltzing.

I hope you get to send time with them.

New plate permanently mounted on the birdfeeder.

Cats are already perching on radiators even though they're not on....

I want to see the Bowie exhibit again. I'm hoping that it will come to the EMP.