Back to my place. Turn on KBCS 91.3 FM for Hawai'i Radio Connection. Then it's Rick Steves - Palestine Tourism; No Opportunity Wasted. Pizza for lunch. Watch Outer Limits - The Brain of Colonel Barham.
The brain becomes extremely powerful and megalomaniacal. We Are Controlling Transmission.
Movie - Final Destination 2. Poor Even. His fish fries catch on fire. The microwave explodes because that magnetic letter "H" falls into his meal. He escapes his apartment. Ultimately, he's impaled by the fire escape ladder. But he's too cute to die!
Back to my place. Watch yesterday's Rachel Maddow.
Switch to Politics Nation. Looking for WMD's under the couch lately, Bush? Reverend Al talks about the Bush Legacy - Iraq, Torture, Katrina. Shhhh! We're not supposed to talk about those things at the Bush Library dedication. Oy! He seems so proud of his wars.
Watch KOMO News. We're going to have spectacular weather. High: 70° A GORGEOUS day as that off shore flow builds. Walk up Westlake to work. Spend 3 hours with the Sea Otters. One of the kids has a fever. So, I call his mom to send him home. We share the infant playground with the Seahorses. It's busy, but it works. It's nice and warm. No coats! (No bubbles.) Lunch and naps. They go out fast. Over to Starfish. It's a magical nap time for them. Then to Ducklings. I stay with a napper while the others go outside to play. We put on some sunscreen and we're all outside. Walk to my place. Change clothes. Walk up to Cal Anderson Park. Seattlites love a warm sunny day.
Well... It's Capitol Hill, boys.
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Adrianne lived in Seattle. Walk up Westlake to work. A lot of people are out, but I'm not spread out too thinly. I float back and forth between the Sea Otters and Starfish. Listen to Kenn read Say Hello.
Watch Abomination and Venomous. Who is the Kanima? Jackson is the Kanima!
Ramen and fried chicken for dinner. Short walk around d'town. Conk out while watching Monty Python - The Meaning Of Life. I can't even make it past the Pirates of The Crimson Permanent Assurance.
Potatoes and ham for breakfast.
Listen to Rick Steves. There are stone circles everywhere. A review of Stockholm. I get to know more about Djurgården than I ever wanted to know.
Short walk up to B'way and back. It's a cloudy but dry day. Watch movie - Terminator Salvation.
There's Alice In Chains - Rooster... In the movie. Seattle grunge!
About a million people in the Boston area are locked down. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving suspect as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass.
Need my umbrella for my walk to work. I'm with the Starfish. We love making Mr. Potato Head with multiple arms. Arm for a hat, for example. The kids are so creative with Mr. Potato Head. Over to Sea Otters. We feel adventurous. We take the kids out to play in the rain. Actually, the rain lightens up. It's playable rain. Happy to be in the rain! Nap time is challenging again. Streetcar to d'town. Listen to NPR on my way.
5:44 PM Pacific - the suspect is in custody. Alive and captured.
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Ride the streetcar to d'town. The rain arrives. Watch KOMO News and MSNBC. There's All In With Chris Hayes. Cool! Fall asleep with Rachel Maddow.
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Ham sandwich for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Steph, Hal and John rocked the Chicago Theatre at Sexy Liberal. I wanted to go.
Cool. Somebody did Yo-Yo for the show. What's that? I can't help to look it up.
Walk up Westlake to work. I'm mostly with the Starfish and the Seahorses today, but I start with the Trailblazers for a 15-minute break. Oh those rowdy kids. Down to Starfish for a few short breaks. Join the Seahorses in the Bike Room. (No outside time for us this morning.) All 8 kids are here. Some of them are cranky. When I go on my break, I check HuffPo. My heart sinks. No link to go to.Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Beans and franks for dinner. Watch more MSNBC. Fall asleep watching Rachel Maddow.
Spaghetti for breakfast. Watch last night's Saturday Night Live with Vince Vaughn. Then Up With Steve Kornacki. Obama and the cause of deficit reduction. A few questions for Mark Blyth - the author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea.
Back to Todd. Todd uses a time-traveling paraplegic student as a taxi to the future, where he sees what the world could become without him. It's The Toddyssey, dude!
Walk up Westlake to work. It's a rather fun Friday. Photos show it best.
The rains lets up, so I take a short walk around First Hill. Ouch... my back. I feel like such an old man. Check NPR. More harm than good, Thatcher? NPR - For Some Britons, Thatcher's Death Provokes Celebrations.
Watch KOMO News. I know of something similar at 2200 Westlake. It's a sunken boat skulpture. I like this more... A boat in a Seattle traffic circle.
Spaghetti for dinner. Watch movie - Across The Universe... since Beatles music seems to be following me around. How did they film that underwater dream scene?
Watch Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil - Simply the Beast. When cheerleaders start disappearing from the school hallways, leaving only their shredded uniforms behind, the gang becomes convinced that they've been eaten by a mysterious creature called The Beast. Todd shows off his martial arts skills.
Walk up Westlake to work. Art, art and more art. The kids work on an art project here. "I want yellow."
Walk up Westlake to work. Join the Dolphins for a couple hours while Sarah does some planning time. Time flies with these kids. We head out to the playground. They seem to surround Cristin. I take a couple boys inside while I set up lunches. They eat lunch early. I set out the nap mats while they eat. Over to Sea Otters. Mellow group. We read Tough Boris before nap time. They love it when I say, "He was MASSIVE!"
Over to Seahorses. All 8 kids are here. Someone is upset about mommy going back to work. I expect chaos but everything works out fine. Back to Dolphins. They're all awake... doing art, reading books, etc. Streetcar to d'town. #550 bus tunnel to Uwajimaya. A little shopping. I see some Mariner fans shopping, too. Game tonight. #72 bus tunnel up to my place. Turn on KOMO News. Seattle police chief John Diaz is resigning. The police department is a mess. Most people are saying, "They should have thrown him out a long time ago!"
Watch the next 3 episodes of Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil... starting with The Ghost of Chet Sukowski.
Then The Phantom of Crowley High. At last, Checkmate. Todd is the Pure Evil One come to bring about the apocalypse? No way! Teriyaki salmon and spicy Chinese eggplant for dinner. Watch movie - Beach Party in honor of the passing of Annette Funicello.
Season 2 finale: Beside The Dying Fire. Sweet dreams, everyone.