The Day Life

` Hope you liked my madness and cola explosions. There's more on the way: I have a special post about scaring people in the corn field, but first, a couple of posts about normalcy in my life (which for some unlucky people, can be construed as weird).
` This one concerns the daylight hours, and it's basically some comments about all the Crappy Digital Photos (CDPs) I've been taking each day - and even ones I didn't.

` The first picture I have in this batch, shows my view from that one day I was stuck in traffic for half an hour. On the same block! If you look closely, you can see the football team undergoing dangeous training procedures!

` It is but one sign that the seasons are changing... another is that the protesters are now wearing coats!

` Besides a drop in temperature, the weather has actually been quite pleasant all month: When the sun is being blocked, overcast skies are almost never the reason. Usually, it's something really odd-looking, like this....

` Another sign of autumn, naturally, is that the leaves have continued committing suicide and jumping from the trees....

` You know, speaking of death, I typically see emergency vehicles while I'm on walks. Especially ambulances. In droves, sometimes....

` Once I even clicked the shutter button at a guy getting arrested, but the camera didn't take a picture because it was too bright. I hate it when that happens!!

` Oh, and I wanted to remind everyone that TallGuy has an important message for you all!!

` And he means it!!!

` Such are things you see when you're on your feet. In fact, one morning, I saw about ten dogs! I even ran into this one woman with a Pomeranian puppy, whom she says stays in her coat while she's fixing trains at work!

` I also saw these three Pit Bull Terriers! Aren't they sooo cute? They even liked me!!

` Arrrrrg! Then I ran into the notorious Mist of Downtown!

` Alarmingly, I discovered that Moonflower Magicks has melted! TallGuy has explained to me in his... unusual ways... that it may have been an astral war taken too far by a guy who calls himself Saturn.

` All of those bottles of essential oils must have gone BOOM! Luckily, nothing irreplacible was destroyed (such as the parrot), and in fact they're planning to have a Phoenix Sale!

` Something else I didn't expect to see that day was a swinging caterpillar, which I almost walked into! (It's to the left, above the airplane.)

` Silly insect larvae! Don't they know that's dangerous?

` And then - it must have been Saturday - I decided to document the contrast that happens when the sky is doing its weird 'I'll be sunny only for the people who aren't downtown' thing....

` And while I was pondering as to why downtown Everett is so undeserving of sunlight, TallGuy suddenly popped out of Vision Quest beside me. I was especially surprised because he didn't have as much hair as before!

` Both of us walked down to the bank - only to discover that it had just closed! Whoops. ...Alhough at least we got a good view of the sun through the Mist of Downtown!

` Isn't it crazy how dark it was?

` I shouldn't forget to mention that, now that we have all this lovely precipitation, the colors of sunsets are now visible through our eastern windows! Don't believe me? Observe!

` That must have been just before I went out to the Field of Screams. In the morning, however, I was surprised to see snow on Mount Pilchuck for once (between the trees)!

` But then I remembered how I'd just about frozen my hands off the night before, wearing heat-conducting chemical gloves for four hours!

` I did some laundry that day, and looking over to the north you can see that Baker's glacier is coming along quite nicely for this year!

` An even more shocking change was the time I was at a stoplight and - right before my eyes! - I watched a deli's soul be swallowed up by a Subway! It happened so fast, I almost didn't get the camera out in time!

` See? It had said 'Pacific Deli' when the Subway had suddenly engulfed the poor building! Isn't that just terrifying?

` Just yesterday, I was really feeling awful from working outside so late. Lucky me, my car's replacement emergency brake cables had come in and I drove down to get them replaced.
` Unluckily, on my walk back it was butt-ass cold! Whatever that means. Though I did get a nice view of the snowy peaks from the Municipal Campus!

` There are also a lot of tall buildings there. Which makes sense because you need lots of offices for a Municipal Campus.

` As I began to near home, I was so cold I could barely hold my head up, so I took it upon myself to search for leaf corpses and stomp on them. There were some awfully big ones!

` And then, to my surprise, McDonald's! It didn't stand a chance....

` On my way back to pick up my poor, ailing car, I happened to look over and see that a fish on the wall was trying to jump up and bite my hand!

` Damn wall-fish!

` Even weirder, as I was walking back over across the campus, I saw a guy dressed as Where's Waldo! However, I was by now feeling so awful and freezing that I was too miserable to whip out my camera, shout 'Hey Waldo, I found you! Now I get your soul!' and snap a picture.
` Yes, even though I immediately thought of it and had a twenty-second window! I just didn't want to! Can you believe that?

` Needless to say, I was feeling pretty sore and tired and generally down. Luckily, the good Doctor Demento had sent me a piece of fruitcake in the mail! You know... 'cause I'm a fruitcake!

` Once I ate it, I stopped feeling so sick. Now I just feel... funny. And that was such a horrible pun that I would like to not be held personally responsible for it! It was... the fruitcake! Yeah.

` And how do you like the weather today? I don't think I've ever seen it so wiggly!

` I suppose all the weirdness of my life which has been going on (you'll see!) must have finally broken the normalcy barrier and affected the weather!

` Yeah, because I just love making up superstitions!

` You may also be interested to know that last night, after the corn maze, Lou Ryan got to be a real-life Repo-Man! I think I forgot to mention that Danky - who ran from the construction job with $1,500 worth of tools, plus a borrowed $500 - also made off with a truck!
` The boss-man sent someone out to buy it back from him, but when he asked for the title, Danky totally freaked out - kind of like the time they were going to meet him at Home Depo and there were six cop cars there for some reason.
` Well, Lou got to drive the boss man and another co-worker to make off with the truck after midnight. I can just picture Danky running out of the trailer in the morning.... "What the...?" And he can't call the cops! Ha haaaa!