Scorpio!

November first, full on, and in Scorpio, because I am one. that's why. Guess what? That's what! hah! So the little boy is sick, and so begins the scooby-doo-ing of his illness. I thought that I wouldn't ever do it, I see so many who do. Little Johnny gets illness x, an so the Mrs. calls all her known friends and mother's of little Johnny's friends (usually these two groups are identical.) and lets them know every detail of the boy's sickness. Snot colour and volume, constancy, every nuance of the cough, vomit, if there is any, and don't forget the poop. Much of early childhood discussions are about poop. How much does your kid make? How often? What did it eat? It got all over what? And how did you get it out? My kid is sick, and so he gets to watch the star wars trilogy as he lays on the couch and eats one piece of toast all day long. Original trilogy, not the prequels, and not the special edition with all the new improved Wampa blood and extra explosions. He's the whinenenest kid when he's sick, weather it's the flu or just a snotty nose. Doesn't matter, the world is over and he's too sad to do anything. Oh well. In a few years it'll be Godzilla movies all day long, if he turns out to be like me. I still don't understand this compulsion to try and track down the patient zero, but I do call around. Mostly to warn others we may have exposed in the day or two before he got sick, to let them know they may be infected with some monkey pox or something, like it'd make any difference to know after the kids have traded snot. Like the chicken pox episode of South Park. The boy will never get chicken pox! He got a vaccine! Imagine that. I remember the chicken pox as a week of Godzilla movies, although I'm sure my mother remembers it differently.

books currently: Everything bad is good for you: done. So cool!
Demolition writers club: Famous authors write secret short stories. eh.
three or so were really good, the rest were so-so.
Foundation: I just picked up all five books at the library second hand shop
for $$2.50! I am so stoked, I haven't read them since high school.
The god particle: So trashy! I'm only half-way through, but man! It's
fairly drek-y on the side of the Da Vinci Code. I think it would make a better
movie. I'm sure the Davinci Code will make a great movie. Full of car chases
and explosions. I wonder if they'll get Ron Perlman to be the Albino?

Knitting currently: L's poncho: 1/4 of the way done, in a orange-gold-red boulce, very
autumnal. It's a big thank you for her generous loan of some very fancy
bedding her company makes that we used for our open house.

Husband socks: Sadly only part way through the leg of the first sock. It
is the smallest project, so it winds up being the travel project. Only
worked on buses and trains.

Test sweater: done! and I fitted it to her this weekend, to tweak the
pattern to her specifically. Now we must buy the yarn. Something nice
with a good drape. I'd love to do it in silk at around 6 sts per inch.
but of course, that'd be even more expensive.

Found: A new yarn store! It's called Sheep City USA, and it's only open 12-6
Wednesday, Thursday , Friday, and Saturday. Difficult.

Brain Balm: Lost is beginning to annoy me. A repeat already! And far too little
information is being given in each episode. too many re-hashes of scenes
we have already witnessed. I don't need to see the same exact thing three
times to get a lead-in to a different perspective. And why the hell isn't
Bernard trying to get to his wife???? I didn't see if the shark logo was
different from the 'swan' version of the dharma logo, did you?

Surface: The same thing as lost. Too little is actually happening in the
show. Did I really need to see the kids chase the lizard around the
PigglyWiggly for 30 minutes? No. No I did not.

The Daily Show: It scares and amazes me every time I get actual news
on this show. I have got to try to stay better informed. But there is such
a thing as Hufu, and that scares and amazes me too.

Adult Swim: Is always refreshing and soothing. Samurai Champloo, Fooly
Cooly, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Aqua Teens, Squidbillies... Only 12 oz.
Mouse and Scryed are really a let-down. And let's all give it up for Space
Ghost and Cartoon Planet. But of course, my favourite is Sealab. The
'waking quinn' episode was on last night, and that is the best episode ever.
EVER.