Ray's House of Love Vol III

I'm afraid I'll be missing it. I'm in Alaska, near Denali today.

My usual city will have something like 70% total, which is cool.

Know where I'd like to be seeing it? There's a cruise positioning its ship(s?) directly in the path, off the east coast.

How close to total eclipse is your city? Must be pretty close, based on my weak knowledge of geography.

Anybody else care to share how much they'll see?

Maryn, with a poor connection

Don't be too quick on that. Even though I packed fleece and rain gear, I had to
buy a warmer jacket here. In August!

I bet she takes blood pressur meds s. Lots have the side effect of making you feel cold.

In my city, there's a Bible-thumping guy outside at every baseball game, preaching about sin and salvation at the top of his lungs. Sometimes there's two, and if you observe them, you can tell they're competing and don't like each other to be there. I guess they have their spots, like homeless people and hookers.

Speaking of which, Alaska has a pretty bad homeless situation if appearances are to be believed. I can't think of a worse place to be without shelter, but the cops leave them be, at least. It's annoying to be a tourist approached with stupidly implausible stories that end with a request for money.

Sounds like fun! I don't really have any feel for how diverse your area is, but that they host a Worldfest says a lot.

Me, I'm deeply into stay-home mode. Travel for 17 days was too much, really, even though I enjoyed myself. Once I get a new hosting site lined up, I'll share a pic or two.

Maryn, ready to go walking so of course the rain's started up again

Do you get to wear a kimono to work?

Maryn, silly for lack of sleep

That's why there's kibuki makeup, silly!

Although I admit I can't quite envision you in it.

Kibuki makeup is one of those picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words things. You've seen it, even if you don't know its name. Click on this, this, and/or this.

We have a wasp infestation in back, and they've bored a hole in the siding. This means they're getting inside, although we're not sure where. We took down the wind chime and used its hook for an adhesive-type wasp trap and got well over a hundred wasps the first day. We hope to reduce the swarming population enough that Mr. Maryn can spray inside the hole with this deterrent stuff they hate, and in another day or two, patch the hole.

Man, with carpenter bees in front and wasps in back, maybe it's time to move!

Me, too, and I've never even been stung.

Russ! Long time no see, dude.

I want to get an exterminator involved. We've had five or six wasps inside in the last two days. They're inside the wall, thanks to the nice hole they've made, and have apparently found at least one gap in the internal wall. So far, they've been in two rooms, none of them the bedroom, but man, the idea of wasps while I'm sleeping freaks me out.

Hell, that's not even first on the list of things so dire they freak me out.

Maryn, drawing up plans for a bunker