On being awakened at 4 am, and the results thereof....

weather report: It rains. A lot. As in "the cats woke me up at 4am asking if we had a raft handy" kind of raining. And not even any thunder or lightning to go with it, which totally sucks. If we're just going to get boring precipitation, it needs to be a lot colder, and be called 'snow.' Okay, Universe? Are you listening?

However, I've managed to be almost annoyingly productive since then, including a minor update to the website (pending a complete overhaul, whcih is still in the works for early 2006, yes), a lot of line-editing, much feline-cuddling (the feline_four taking shifts, to limit the territorial hissing and shoving), and some dread spreadsheet stuff.

And a little web-surfing, yes. What else is one to do when it's 4 in the morning and the f-list is dead-sleeping across all known time zones?


Oh, and speaking of the Universe, this one's for Jules and Karen, for obvious reasons.

The 30-second "Highlander." With Bunnies.

A belated RiP

because attention must be paid to the passing of quiet voices of laughter and love, as well.



Jerry Juhl, whose Emmy Award-winning writing gave life to Jim Henson's whimsically irreverent Muppets on television and film, died on Sept. 27 at a hospital in San Francisco. He was 67 and made his home in Caspar, Calif.

The cause of death was complications from pancreatic cancer, diagnosed five weeks earlier, said his wife, Susan Doerr Juhl.

Mr. Juhl was the head writer for Muppets programs including "The Muppet Show" on television and, in some capacity, all the Muppet films, from the first "Muppet Movie" in 1979 to "Muppets From Space" in 1999.

more at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/nyregion/09juhl.html