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A building directly across from us, on Lake Union, just caught fire. When we first noticed it, we just saw great billows of smoke, but it wasn’t long before we could see the blaze. And who do you think had the presence of mind to take pictures? EvilDeb! That’s right. Although, she was chanting “fire! fire! fire!” while she did it.
Here are the pictures, click the thumbnails for bigger images. Really BIG images. Probably too big to see in your browser window. Sorry.



The green house boat, next to the burning building did catch fire, but I don’t know how much damage was done. See the police boat, angling up to the buildings, with the spray of water shooting out? He saved the day. I don’t think the street fire trucks could have gotten down there so quickly. The fire boat didn’t show up until the fire was out.
So my whole dept stood, with our noses pressed to the glass and watched the whole thing. From smoke to ash. And now work seems anticlimactic. I think we should run over there and visit the firemen!!

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Unlike profiling serial killers, writing is a lonely and depressing profession.

I finished reading Poppy Brite’s Exquisite Corpse last night. Kinda wished I had started on one of her other books, for an introduction to her stuff. This book was not scary, to me, but it was very disturbing. And very gory. I can handle gore, but this sort of went over the top for me. It quickly made me numb, and by the end of the book, while I was still icked out, I was thinking “yeah yeah… have sex with a corpse, ok… sure, fry his thigh and make a sandwich, good thinking.” Silly serial killers. I never felt the fear of the victims, so it failed to grip me. It did, however, prevent me from eating anything while reading. Still, I’ll probably give her other books a try later. Much later. After my stomach has settled.
I’m going to see a movie tonight called What the #$@! Do We Know. I’m really looking forward to it. I really don’t know how to describe it, you should go to the website. But it’s got quantum physics in it. I love physics. Don’t know anything about it, or often understand it, but I find it fascinating. And it’s got stuff about the brain. I love stuff about the brain. Anyway, it’s supposed to “rock my world” and I am really excited about that. Mr Moon knows someone that has seen it 8 times. Maybe it hypnotizes you! While it rocks your world. I don’t know. We’ll see. I’ll let you know.

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