OBAMA FTW

Dinner with family watched the results come in....woot!
More talking heads but finally its over. Thank the flying spag monster.
All happy.

THE DECISION SWEEPING THE NATION

Should we adopt this dog?

Roo, and 3 month old Red Cattle dog with ice blue eyes.

In other breaking news, I bought this game second hand, to keep it from impressionable minds and morbid, sick curiosity.


Not even a worthwhile drinking game methinks.


These guys are the reason I can never again eat a banana without feeling like I need a shower afterwards...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMuIyBK5P4



Oh yeah, the HORDE and Azeroth are totally Obamafied.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

BE AFRAID

Well, haven't I been a slack little monkey?
Barely said a word about the awesome roadtrip through CA with Mum and Rob though I did put a bunch of pictures up on Flickr.
Check out Mum's blog The Zann Plan, she has been good about it.
I 'm Coz Rose and I endorse this blog.

Everything here is pretty good. Mum is settling in well. We got cable and a TV so we can watch Extreme Pumpkin Carving, Miami Dog Police and endless election stuff. I'm pretty interested in it all, and wish I could vote but I'm also (like the rest of humanity) just wish it was all over...only 5 more days.
Go Obama.

Work is mostly going well, except for a few annoyances which if don't get fixed then I'll have to rethink it. But being a optimist I'm sure it will turn out fine.
I don't feel right about talking about work in specifics, it not professional and is generally asking for grief. Its a small town and would be easy to work out where I'm talking about plus 90% of the time I'm happy with it.
Must stay focused on the puppies....
Speaking of...



We have a new foster puppy, Tazzie, who was found on the side of the highway. He is very cute, small and easy going. I think Mum would take him home if she could. He has perfected to art of snuggling up with her on the lounge while she knits. I'm thinking he will be hard to give back.

It's Halloween today, and I don't have a costume yet.
I do have candy to give up to freeloading rugrats and a skull and purple bat tinsel in the front yard.
Rob carved a spooky pumpkin last night to set the tone.



Jellyfish at the Monterey Aquarium. (the vid I took is on its side, so you have to tilt your head to get the correct angle)
Soooo soothing, I'd love to had a whole wall of these in my house. Perfect excuse to have a hot Jellyfish boy.

From various blogs via here

MISSED ME??!!1!!??.......

WELL I'M BACK

Drove 2500 miles (bit over 4000 km for the real world) in 11 days.
Picked Mum up at LA and met Rob in Walnut Grove for family wedding. Saw a whole lot in between.

From Flagstaff to Barstow to LA to San Luis Obispo to Monterey to San Francisco to Walnut Grove to Volcano to Yosemite NP to Madera to Sequoia NP to Death Valley NP to Las Vegas to Flagstaff to bed.


A write up and pictures on Flickr soon to come.

'DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE NEED?'
I casually asked the universe.

'WHAT WOULD THAT BE?'
answered a chorus of slightly androgynous but hot heavenly Seraphim

'A NEW EXPENSIVE SEASONAL HOBBY'
I answered, while trying not to stare at their flaming swords

'RIGHT ON SISTER'
they warbled.

Thus under devine affirmation, we trotted off to the Ski Swap under the big tent at Chili's carpark.

We were going to see if there was any decent second hand gear, but in the end we bought brand new boards and boots. If you believed the retail price vs the sale price, we saved a lot of cashola.
I chose the cheaper of the options given to me, I figured I don't need a uber 3leet board and also because it had the cutest picture.

Gnarly and cute

Last season we used rental which were all a bit bished up, so I didn't realise they had such a sharp metal edge ( will try not to run into any small children, could take a leg off) and I'm thinking of dragging it over some cinders to roughen up the bottom, so I get some kind of traction and control. It is all very slick and shiny.

New toys

The universe showed its approval by having it rain down here at 7000ft but snow up on the peaks yesterday.
I never thought I'd look forward to the cold....how this strange land has changed me.

WE DO THE WEIRD STUFF

The local Best Buys, a shop that sell electronic things, had a sign up
'Gamers..we need u, do u know games, we need yur skillz...'
i'm sure there was a LOL in there somewhere.
I'm thinking of applying and using the 'I was playing computer games before you were born' getting all teary eyed about the old days of UFO, Castle Wolfenstein and the first Doom' gambit.
I won't mention Pong, don't want to totally confuse the babies.

I'm 3lit33 at Wii now, mastered it in 3 days...kids of today get it so easy, no idea of teh mad skillz involved

Amanda sent me this link, happily proclaiming 'Flagstaff is in the news'....and this one

Evangelist Tony Alamo was arrested Thursday in Flagstaff, Arizona, on charges related to a child porn investigation, an FBI spokesman said

When his wife died of cancer, Alamo claimed that she would be resurrected and kept her body on display for six months while their followers prayed. It would be 16 years before her body was returned to her family.

On Saturday, he had said that for girls having sex, "consent is puberty."

oh joy....he sounds like a real charmer.
We do real cheap neuters at work...even do it for free.

I'm reading 'Under The Banner Of Heaven' by Jon Krakauer. All about the fundie LDS church, polygamy and their raping 14 year old girl ways. Some of these cult towns are not that far from here.
'As his 6th wife Debbie became spetmother to Blackmore's 31 kids, most of whom were older than she was (she was 15). And because he happened to be the father of Debbie's own stpemotherMem, she became a stepmother to her stepmother, and thus a stepgrandmother to herself'

It makes me feel all a bit ill.