Random crap with Uno.

[Buster's Uncle]

It's been wet here, too.

[Unorthodox]

Does that mean the draught came to an end?

insert spelling joke here.

Not exactly. 

Yearly average, we're still in drought conditions, and the reservoir is so low they had to close it to boats, but I haven't needed to water for a month and the associated humidity is letting mildew go rampant.  Wet summer was expected due to the el nino/la nina/whatever.  We're also expecting a crappy winter of little snowfall, so drought continuing. 

[Geo]

Does that mean the draught came to an end?

insert spelling joke here.

Oh hush.
Turn it into a Halloween boardwalk.

[Buster's Uncle]

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[Buster's Uncle]

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[Unorthodox]

Hail. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Are you saluting or announcing weather?

[Unorthodox]

Been meaning to get around to this for a while, and finally got my parents to dig out ye olde photo albums.  I should be shocked at the lack of photos of my first haunts, but...I'm not.

Well, I've spoken before how Halloween at our place was something mom hated.  She was thrilled when I started haunting the front porch and she didn't have to do anything, and I started building my own costumes at 8, because I got tired of THE BOX she would pull out each year that we had our choice of a couple stock costumes.  Still, I would generally wear one of the stock costumes to school because I didn't want to tip anyone how I'd be dressing to scare them later. 


So, a little Unorthodox in the making:

My parents early camera had...issues.  Water in the lens or something, they don't remember...so...well, pics sucked. 



I was clearly THRILLED at being Dracula.  Stock costume #1.



I remember this costume well, as it become my go-to school costume as I got older.  It was not in the stock box at the time, and was the first costume I built myself (with a heck of a lot of help from grandma).  No idea what's up with that hat...I loved hats, guess I decided if I was a ghost I was keeping my hat. 

Brother the stereotype...



Stock costume #2. 



This is what happens when you're my younger brother and you want to be a robot and your 9 year old brother decides if mom's going to refuse he'll do it instead. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Interesting.  I was designing my own costumes, too, at that age.  I've always wondered how people whose mothers don't sew manage...

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[Unorthodox]

Interview with Boeing Friday wrapping up a busy interview week.

[Unorthodox]

That new fossil skull don't look right on many levels...

[Buster's Uncle]

It really doesn't.  I don't recall ever before noticing that the Taung Child had to have been a pinhead.

[Buster's Uncle]

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[Buster's Uncle]

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