oh! I need a flight jacket! Yessirree. Find of the day. Everything anyone ever could need in the NASA-spaceflight-astronomy line. Some other good ones: Solar System Tie (would that I wore a suit), Apollo Baseball cap, Moon rise T-Shirt. What about this halloween costume for your child? Go get 'em!

On the excitement range of 1-10 I have to say this is real excitement about a book I just got. So that's a ten. A real ten. It's Viggo's (can I use his first name? be casual? sure.) book "Recent Forgeries." Out of print unless you go to the publisher. (The site says 3rd Edition but my copy says 5th edition. What a good movie will do!) It comes with a CD which I haven't looked at yet. I'm anticipating joy. I'm on page 45 of the book. It's like being in the same room with Viggo. Probably because there's a picture of one of his rooms right up front. It's almost like being there—looking at the scribbles and scratches and reading the poetry. I'm like a 12-year-old and it's good.

Good art changes everything. It brings out the spirit of art in me. Suddenly I can see that spirit in everything—dust balls, napkins, the way my feet move, a torn envelope. I wish I could put that into art. Instead I capture weak images that look like pale shadows. See. I even get trite. But I don't feel trite.

Well, this is the second time in 7 days that we are without email at work. Maybe I shouldn't say where I am. Anyway. We also had about 5 hours of no network or internet or intranet. So here I am at last, blogging away since I have completed all the work I had to do. It usually bothers me that I have such a short turnaround on the work I do, but at times like this it's really great that I get it done and then wait for more. So I'm waiting. I've been over to Alexthegirl.com (now that internet is back—no email yet, hence no new work to do) and revisited some of my favorites links that I haven't had time for since the last email failure. Alex is now beginning to join Viggo Mortensen in asking that people not email her. Wow. What a blog can do. Fortunately that hasn't happened to me. I do get plenty of junk email from bots that crawl my site and pickup all the mailto code. Wonder if I can make them backfire?