On Friday nights there are usually too many cars, but tonight there was foot traffic as well. A sliver of moon was visible, stars in a cloudless sky, but we had to pick up the pace to atone for walks missed. Only one whiff of a dinner being cooked, the overriding smell much of the route being one of either a particularly noxious blooming tree/hedge, or pesticide. Two houses were decorated with green and orange lights. We weren’t sure of the significance of orange, but after a quick Google, now we know.

Talk ranged from homeland security stocks to internet security stocks to people with large, extremely round bottoms, and how they might cope with some of life’s more vexing problems.

Baked beans to go with the leftover ribs. Might make coleslaw, but that is a labor-intensive job. There’s a fresh pineapple in the garage, another difficult task. Could just run up to KFC, and buy the coleslaw, but then I would have to inhale the lovely smells. I did have the salad at lunch, and two oranges this afternoon. The crisper is full of apples, and I could saute some slices with cinnamon. Nah, that’s a lot of work too.

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Gets very congested at this time of the year.

Winners from the Best of Still Photojournalism 2004.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work through the eyes of Magnum photographers.

According to Briefing.com, for every year that a Star Wars movie was released, the Nasdaq went up, except for 2002.

Leftover meat loaf, and yes, I like ketchup now and then.

It’s bad, very bad. If you’re curious about the pollen outlook in your city, you can find it here.

The kids used to call it the ‘popcorn tree’.

If one is hungry at breakfast, as one is apt to be after a paltry dinner of rather dry chicken and half a sweet potato, one can not be faulted for ingesting at a faster rate than normal. Oatmeal at times will display a property not unlike that of a supercooled fluid, especially while still in the microwave, rising up and over the edge of the container. On a spoon, oatmeal will also overflow its boundaries, resulting in undetected accumulation of said material on the sartorial splendor of the diner. Luckily, there are few visitors to the home office, except for the tree removal estimators, and we’ve already talked about them.

And other things that you might not have around the house, like a theremin. But if you have a vacuum cleaner, some flowerpots, and a wooden salad bowl, you could have a very entertaining Friday.

The FDA approves a new procedure for those with knee injuries.