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[miko2]

Today I brought a tupperware container.

Haven't ridden my bike in days, but I still try to walk the Interurban trial on the days I don't ride of course. Thursday was payday, and after driving up to Kent to deposit my check I parked at a different spot on the trail and walked from there up to 277th.

Friday I stayed 2 hours late at work billing to help out the night crew (overtime!). Then I went home and didn't really exercise that night -- I was bad. I didn't write anything either.

Saturday I felt sick part of the day, which may or may not have been nothing more than a headache from lack of caffeine and/or lack of sleep. I made some tea in the afternoon and took some aspirin, but I felt bad until the evening when finally everything went away and I felt fine.

I was lazy and spent the whole weekend mostly playing City of Heroes or reading. I read through Top 10 vol. 1 & 2 again, and then the Smax graphic novel, and then Top 10: The Fourty-Niners. Somehow I had been putting off reading this because I thought it was something different -- they did a Top 10 story/series that was not written by Alan Moore which I collected in comic form, but it was pretty bad. I admit I didn't read all the way through it so it may not have been as bad as I remember, but with Alan Moore each character has a distinctive personality and sharp dialogue, and I could really tell the difference. But the Fourty-Niners, as it turned out, was a Top Ten story I hadn't known about -- it's an origin story of the beginnings of the city and the police force there, with a few characters that are familiar from the later Top Ten series. It's very well written.

After that I read through Terra Incognita vol 1 & 2, Tom Strong vol 1, and then Fables: The Good Prince which Michale had leant to me. I've missed a couple of the Fables volumes before this one, but it was a good story, and one with a happy or upbeat ending for once. I'm reading through the rest of Tom Strong. I was happy to realize that I own all the volumes of Tom Strong and also of the collected Grimjack. Sometimes I'm kind of careless about how I pick these things up, and I leave them lying around in the living room or the bedroom and don't remember if I have all of the volumes I need or not. For example, I tend to forget which of the Fables volumes I'm missing still.

Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yes. The tupperware container. There are lots of blackberry vines everywhere I walk, along the Interurban trail and along the road near my house all the way up to the park. Every day I've been noticing ripe blackberries and blackberry pickers, and I think "I need to remember to bring a container next time so I can pick some of these". And to be honest I thought that in August and September of 2007 and in August and September of 2006. So today I have tupperware containers. My plan is to stop on my walk and fill them up, and then go home and make something. I've printed out a few recipes for blackberry pie and blackberry cobbler, and one of them is even supposed to be a diabetic version, although it still calls for sugar and regular flour. But I figure using whole wheat flour and a sugar substitute I could come up with something that works pretty well.

I got an e-mail from Dana last night, who will be in town this week and may attend writer's night. I guess Gene sent her to me, since I can probably pick her up on my way North. Of course, I replied to her before being reminded by e-mail that writer's night is in Everett but that still shouldn't be any problem.