Still got a ton of work to do, but I did more writing on my zine story last night. Not much more, but more!

Mishmash of things I keep meaning to share, but keep forgetting at the point I sit down at the computer. Noted all of these on a notebook last night from bed.

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Baby birds! Come see our Raptor Cam. Baby birds! Sometimes that feed doesn't load, but there are videos and stills to peruse, as well. They've been nesting outside this window for years now.

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Traveling gnome on Mt. St. Helens' Johnston Ridge Webcam
Sadly, he's gone now, but his note changed a few times. :) (you may have to register; it's free.)

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LIBRARIANS!! How heinous of a crime would it be if I took a nice, pretty yellow highlighter and marked typos in professionally published books? Really bad? Karma bad? Or justified? Gah....

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Two FEEL GOOD sports stories from my local area:

Incredible moment at softball game stuns crowd

READ this. One of the best sportsmanship stories I've heard in a long while. College softball, player's first ever home run, injures herself at first base. Her team cannot touch her or she's out. The other teams asks the umpire, "can we carry her?" Ump says yes. Opposing team carries player around the bases, lowering her down to touch each one as her knee swells with her injury. Touch home plate, they win 4-2, she scored her first home run, and the opposing team is out of the playoffs. TEAR INDUCING. Read the story.

And in Little League:

Little Leaguer allowed to play again with his oxygen tank

Basically, he'd been playing with it for a long while and then at one game, the umpire said it wasn't approved gear and he couldn't play. He missed three games until the National level ruled it allowed. Lots of responses to Little League from parents and fans helped get this case overturned. The thing about LL is that it's about teaching the kids to be supportive, good players, good sports, and kind. Ruling him ineligible negated that. The tank is small, it's strapped to his back, it really doesn't interfere with batting, running, catching, and he needs it to live. The point of tanks like that are to allow people to continue to live their lives, and this kid loves baseball. It's not professional sports, it's little league, and we're all about teaching our kids to be good players and good people.

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And finally! Someone called in to the radio station earlier this week, talking about those checks we 'Mericans are getting as part of the Economic Stimulus package, and how she was going to send some of hers to the food bank. I talked to Roy last night about it and we've committed to sending 20% of ours to the Oregon Food Bank, whose shelves are pretty damned bare.

Thus, a challenge! Donate a portion of YOUR check to your local food bank and truly help folks out with these checks.

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And I think that was all the stuff I'd saved up! Today, Karl is off to the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center for the Fourth Grade Field Trip today. I have to pick him up after school because they'll be back too late to catch the bus home. :) Then piano, and then tomorrow morning, we have to have Katie to the train station by 7am for the writers' convention. Then Sunday is Karl's Alpenrose game and we have a 50th anniversary party to attend that Roy and Karl will miss due to the game.

Gah.

Off I go, I gots work to do! Have a FRIDAY!!!

I got caught up at work on the damned log in errors! **dances**

I have shut down the work puter. It's my weekend, so I'll have to turn it on again this weekend, but for now I'm DONE.

*YAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY*

What is it about Gordon Lightfoot?

My If You Could Read My Mind vid is having a steady resurgence. At one point I recall it hanging out consistently in fourth place for popularity on my channel, and then it started to slip a wee bit, down to sixth at one point, then crept back up to fourth where it's been again for a while.

It's now within 25 views of taking over third. Third is Something to Talk About, my pimp-iest vid.

WTF? Is it about Gordon's voice? The lyrics? The story in the vid itself?

I've never really thought of this vid as one of my better ones - it was more playing around with telling a story without it necessarily being a S&H specific story, if that makes any sense. But it's sure well liked! I have no complaints - just curiosity.

It's the third most popular at Imeem, behind Tubthumping (go figure!) and Best of Times.

My flist jumps from 2pm my time to 8pm my time. Everything in between Simply. Isn't. There.

I know, because I wrote for flashslash. If I go to the comm, I see it there, posted at 5:3pm my time. It showed up on my flist earlier...

WTF?