First day of Autumn! As Lileks put it: The trees have started to tip; the quotient of green diminishes daily. I wonder if we’d love fall less if the colors were ugly; do we like the colors simply because we’re used to them? If everything turned turquoise and pink one year we’d be horrified (well, maybe not BHK) , but if they’d been turning those shades all our lives we’d see nothing wrong. It makes you wonder how much of our fall routines are owed to long-buried instinct. Perhaps we wear brown because there’s an ancient piece of brain-code telling us we should blend in, because there might be tigers about.
To celebrate, we got iced pumpkin coffee drinks and muffins, went to a school supply store to buy cool dice. (Got some for me to game design with, and a few as gift ideas.) Included in the loot were triple dice,(I picked ones with three different colors inside – a red, white, and blue) double dice, foam dice and blank dice (just white cubes you can draw things on), not to mention a few gel pens, index card pads, and other school-supply type goodies.
Went on a tour of a corn-maze, got a pumpkin right out of the patch, petted some goats / sheep / bunnies and pigs, rode a tractor!
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Irrigation guns look like doomsday devices to me.
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Also went to Aardvarks, and almost bought Apples to Apples (BHK will probably get that with one of our target gift cards this week), Stonehenge and / or Blokus, but instead picked up Carcassone: Discovery and Pre-ordered Zombie Fluxx.
1 year ago -cathead theatre – hamlet, hard sleeps, catsitter, trirail wifi, steve irwin, whipa, elephants
2 years ago – tech stuff, lj adds schools, where’s george, batman macaron chacarron, life poll, cute animals, comfort eagle
3 years ago – doodle of eyeball-yoink!, Egyptian soul-view, farting dog, comfort eagle, libras.(librans?)
4 years ago – monkey-pops/injustice, free movies, more on Ohio case, Nosy coworkers, lovely chat
5 years ago – Peace Corps dream, Conan O’Brien smells bad, palm doodles
6 years ago – fisher King, Flag treatment, cyborg roaches, bring back art nouveau
7 years ago – lots of private thoughts and writing, dispatch
