Pug’s Place

Saturday night we had a pumpkin-carving party. Barry, Jo, John and Amy G and we three all carved various masterpieces. In the above picture, left-to-right the pumpkins are:

• Quasimodo, by Chris
• Happy Pumpkin, by Amy
• The Great Evil, by Barry
• Tux, by me
• Canada, by Joanne
• Happy Cat, by Amy G.
• Monster, by John G.

(Lots more pictures are online here)

Barry and I independently made our pumpkins. I, Tux. He, the “scariest pumpkin possible in a house of Linux users.” I must say we were all very entertained by the resulting duo! I’m rather impressed with myself, being able to carve Tux’s likeness so passably. And of course, all honor to Larry Ewing for creating Tux.

Prior to the pumpkin-carving much dinner was had, including Chris’ should-be-famous chili and tasty salsas.

In other news, I’ve decided to move into my own apartment in the next couple of weeks. I’ve found a place in Tempe considerably closer to work (and without cats). More about this later.

I’ve been meaning to donate to Ron Paul’s presidential campaign and haven’t gotten around to it. Lo and behold I find that a fair number of people have decided to donate on November 5th. Of course the day one donates doesn’t make much difference in the Ron Paul campaign, but it seems like as good a day as any and it gives me a specific day to do my donating, so I won’t put it off as I’ve been doing.

So… remember, remember the Fifth of November.

P.S.: Graphs are impressive.