Hmmm. Well I got the interview up on the site, it is with Z. Budapest who talked to us about her new book, Celestial Wisdom.

Also went and finally got J. a chair for his desk - he'd been using a plastic lawn chair, and he's happy now he's got a swivel leather job. But he can't use it until he's finished his history homework!

Which reminds me, we have a Parent Teacher Conference on Tuesday, to discuss why his math grades suck, why he got detention last week and why they cannot be consistent in handing out homework assignments.

What else? Went to Flight of The Phoenix, and bought R. a new Athame, so I get my old one back now. Went to Lone Star Comics to just to look around. There's a bunch of new D&D stuff I want to get but can't. I mean what's the point? When K. comes down next, the four of us will probably play the last game ever... K. doesn't want to play, J. prefers playing online, and anyway I'm too busy with other stuff to plan out the kind of campaign I want. Ho hum.

I still haven't heard back from Wizards of the Coast yet on whether or not they'll let me use some of their artists' works to flesh out the Norse pantheon in the deities section of the site. The artists are all for it, but they sold the rights to the pictures to Wizards, so I'm probably SOL.

This is another picture from the rolls I got developed yesterday. This one is last weekend, when we had R's. family over. R. and J. are on the jungle jim.

J. just asked me what popular sovereignty is, so I looked it up for him. In case you don't know, it was the doctrine under which the status of slavery in the territories was to be determined by the settlers themselves. Although the doctrine won wide support as a means of avoiding sectional conflict over the slavery issue, its meaning remained ambiguous, since proponents disagreed as to the stage of territorial development at which the decision should be made. Stephen A. Douglas, principal promoter of the doctrine, wanted the choice made at an early stage of settlement; others felt that it should be made just before each territory achieved statehood. First proposed in 1847 by Vice President George Dallas and popularized by Lewis Cass in his 1848 presidential campaign, the doctrine was incorporated in the Compromise of 1850 and four years later was an important feature of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Douglas called it popular sovereignty, but proslavery Southerners, who wanted slavery extended into the territories, contemptuously called it squatter sovereignty.

Now you know - and so does J. :>

Alright that's enough for today, I have to send out notes about the website changes.

Today's website:

PaganNews.com - Because we've got the Z. interview up :>

Today's Scary Ass picture:

Today's puzzle clue:

Alright you guys are definitely on the right track! Yes, the show is Coupling, but what does the picture refer to? To help you out, it represents a list of items that someone named at a dinner party. What was the list, and who named them?