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Good morning, Moosekind. TGIF!

At least I’m posting from Friday morning. To prevent a temporal anomaly, any of you who are reading from late Thursday night please close the diary and return when your time zone catches up. Because temporal anomalys are bad. Very very bad. Just trust me on this – do NOT mess with the space time continuum. Or perhaps I just need some caffeine.


  PLEASE Do Not Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Recs on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

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Friday Coffee Hour and check-in is an open thread and general social hour. Come back when time allows through the day – the conversation continues.

It’s traditional but not obligatory to give us a weather check where you are and let us know what’s new, interesting, challenging or even routine in your life lately. Nothing is particularly obligatory here except:

Always remember the Moose Golden (Purple?) Rule:

Be kind to each other… or else.

What could be simpler than that, right?

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  1. iriti

    Scheduled to plummet all the way down to 53 (which should be the daytime high not the nighttime low!) before heading back to a balmy 73 degrees in the drizzle.

    Since I’m cranky about being awake, I’m trying to decide between returning to bed or just going with the flow.

    Happy Friday, Meeses!

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  2. DeniseVelez

    Looking forward to my morning class – teaching about Neo-Paganism – druids, wiccans etc. in my Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery class today

    Since it is Samhain still, it’s a perfect day.

  3. JanF

    Ha!

    To prevent a temporal anomaly, any of you who are reading from late Thursday night please close the diary and return when your time zone catches up.

    Excellent advice! However, most bloggers can never quite get that “close the diary” thing. Sometimes the diary causes wailing and gnashing of teeth, high blood pressure events, bad words and dark thoughts … and people still can’t close it. 😉

    It is 41 degrees here, expected to get to 47 degrees. Yesterday we had quite a bit of rain and it put a (real!) damper on trick or treating. The plan to hide in the basement did not work well, a disaster that involved a broken DVD player (and diagnosis of same), an attempt to use the upstairs DVD player by disconnecting it from the upstairs setup and bringing it downstairs to hook it up there, and then trying to reconnect it (while tired and hungry) when it still wouldn’t work (the DVD was BlueRay, apparently stuck in the DVD bin at the rental place). I decided to assign all that to last year and my new year started angst free (although there was some lingering trauma memory this morning … exacerbated by a frozen computer).

    I have a busy Friday. However right now I am thinking my own dark thoughts about federal appeals court judges.

    In New York, the 2nd Circuit blocked Judge Shira Scheindlin’s ruling on Stop and Frisk and removed her from the case:

    The judge had ruled in August the city violated the Constitution in the way it carried out its program of stopping and questioning people. The city appealed her findings and her remedial orders, including a decision to assign a monitor to help the police department change its policy and training program associated with it.

    In Texas, three judges from the 5th Circuit reinstated the law that closed down 1/3 of Texas abortion clinics, pretty much wiping out the right to choose for many Texas women (unless they have money, which has always been the case since forever):

    A panel of three Republican judges, all of whom were appointed by President George W. Bush, granted the state of Texas’ request Wednesday night to reinstate a law that will force many of the state’s abortion clinics to close their doors.

    And yesterday, Republicans filibustered the nomination of Patricia Millett to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and called attempts to fill the 3 vacancies “court packing”. No. President Obama has the right to leave his own mark on the federal courts by appointing intelligent, decent judges who won’t push their extreme views on the rest of the country. Hey, Harry Reid, nuke ’em!!  

  4. Diana in NoVa

    in Northern Virginia. Got up to find a warmish darkness outside. The plastic pumpkin had been blown off the porch, the ghost  blown down,and the fake tombstones torn in two, but the jack-o-lantern in the real pumpkin was still grinning fiendishly.  I couldn’t blow out the candle, had to get Dearly Beloved to do it. It’s 67 F. right now, going for a high of 75 F.

    Very tired but happy after a wonderful ritual last night. We honored our friends and relatives who have passed through the veil.  My mother Anne passed through five and a half years ago. One of her favorite maxims was:  “Never miss a chance to eat or go to the bathroom.”  We all laughed when I repeated that, as all my Circle sisters knew and loved her.

    Today kicks off National Novel Writing Month! What a daunting task–50,000 words in 30 days! Have two or three characters in mind, no idea how to fill those 5,000-word chapters!

    Oh, well, it’ll be a good exercise in frustration, no doubt. 🙂

    Beautiful Wimberley, Texas, where I received a sharp nip on the leg from an unfriendly goose in April 2012, received 14 inches of rain!  Arggh, hope everyone there is all right. The goose is probably riding high on the Blanco River.

    Hope everyone will have a good day!

  5. ilovecheese

    Apparently his service screwed up with a message I left on MONDAY! Well, at least I got an answer.

    It’s 64 degrees on Long Island, but very windy and dark. Rain is expected.

    Bullwinkle and I have had breakfast and are content.

    Have a good day y’all!

  6. anotherdemocrat

    Brr! It’s 48 degrees! Before you laugh – this time yesterday it was in the 70s. Wearing long pants & shoes with socks was uncomfortable (warm + humid from all the rain). Tomorrow at this time, it’ll be 63, I’m going to wear long sleeves to the ungodly hour workout.

    Second application of the chemo cream & no burning or scaling so far. Yay!

    I got more sleep last night than the night before but I’m way tireder today. Hmmmmm

    Anyway – happy Friday!

  7. JG in MD

    Here Near DC: The kind of wind that’s low and continuous, grim, more than a breeze but less than a threat. No sky at all, just grayness. Below room temperature but not exactly cold. Not raining but will be any nanosecond now.

    I’m glad I don’t have to go out until time for a party at 6 pm. Maybe the weather will be tired of weathering by then.

  9. pittiepat

    diary in GOS rec list by nebraskablue titled Chuck Hagel Throws the Gauntlet Down.  It is the ultimatum Hagel gave to the 9 AG’s of states refusing government IDs to same-sex couples.  It really is worth reading cause the DOD is going to truly drop the hammer on those states.

  10. princesspat

    It  was a nice neighborhood Halloween last night….cute kids with their parents out having fun and just a few middle  school kids excited to be out on their own. Best of all RonK has just enough Snickers bars left over 🙂

  11. bfitzinAR

    in 3 groups last night – $4.50 in quarters – these guys were so little they had to ask what they were supposed to do with quarters, but a mention on video games got their attention 🙂 – ironically, I was the one mentioning video games.  Their moms said said “you can buy candy” – sigh.  Enjoy the holy day.  {{{HUGS}}}

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