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Good Morning, Kittens! After two days of cleaning and organizing and cleaning some more and then a little grocery shopping, the 8th Annual BYOP Pumpkin Carving Party: BYOE Unfortunate Economic Situation Edition was Loads o' Fun. I forgot to make an official tally, but about 12-15 people came, several pumpkins were carved, copious amounts of boozy punch and margaritas were drunk, and Mike (Who Makes Cakes) made the fabulous jack-o-lantern cake pictured. Isn't he the cleverest? Here are a few of my favorite photos: A party at my house just isn't a party without the requisite Ice Ring: Mmm. Punch The punch was cranberry-apple cider. The Ice Ring was made of lemon sorbet and cranberry juice. Pumpkin Guts (and a World Famous Blogger ) Are you sensing a theme? Ray's Intricate (and OCD) Pumpkin Ray und Me The rest of the photos are on Flickr . The final guests left around 1:30 or so. I cleaned, uploaded photos, and finally crawled into bed around 3AM. Sunday? Very. Hung...

Good Morning, Kittens. Behold the (much belated) photo of my Seattle souvenir from K-Factor. I wonder, does one have to be from the Washington Metro Area to find it funny? Yesterday, I went for a run. I managed about 2 miles before collapsing into a heap by the side of the road, hoping that one of the Cute Jogger Boys would take pity on me. No such luck. Some of the neighbors are trying to convince me to run the Turkey Chase on Thanksgiving morning. It's a 10k ... which according to this handy online metric conversion tool is ... (insert dramatic pause) ... 0.00 Light Years! OMG! Why am I running if I don't even have to move? I think I'm going to start measuring all distance in Light Years. My house is 0.00 Light Years from my parents' home: "I *did* come home for Thanksgiving last year. I traveled all 0.00 Light Years to see you. I am such a good son." Meanwhile, there is some (mildly optimistic) news on the job front. So, keep sending good vibes ...

Can someone explain how one can get up about 45 minutes early and, yet, almost be late for work? Hm? I was up at 6AM this morning to go running. I took a picture on my cell phone, but decided against posting it. VUBOQ at 6AM is not pretty . And VUBOQ does not want to break the innarnexts. That would be bad. Luckily, one of my neighbors was also going running at that time, so, if no one believes that I was actually up that early, I can get a signed sworn affidavit from her. So there. HA! I ran/walked for about 30 minutes or so, came home, checked email, took a shower, had coffee and a scone, then ... um ... crawled back into bed for a cuddle with Y. Ah. *cuddles* It's amazing what getting a good night's sleep will do, because, when I got up again (at 7:30) to get dressed for work, someone was feeling a leeeeeeeeeeeeeetle frisky . Which probably explains why I was running late for work. But I think a good morning fork [and it was good ;-)] is well worth the bus fare and ...