Woke up this morning at an early-for-Greg hour of 6, hit the computer starting at 6:30.

I wrote six words in Codex and Word sprouted an error about how I had too many grammar and spelling mistakes and it had to shut off autocorrect.

I felt judged and also great for having enough raw material to break a word processor.

The Minnesota recount has revealed a stunning sea change in electoral politics within America: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/  I, for one, am surprised that our new reptile overlords are humoring us with the vote, when they could easily enforce our slavery via nuclear-powered ray guns.

Being tired of doom-and-gloom news that is anathema to resolving the problem, I wrote a greasemonkey script that changes all instances of “economy” or “economic” on a page to “doughnuts” and “doughnuty,” respectively.  And then I saw that “the doughnut is shrinking” and nearly wept.

This year’s Halloween party was great.  My sister-in-law, brother-in-law, wife and I threw it jointly, with me as the chief decorator – it all came together beautifully.  Highlights: the wall of eyeballs (styrofoam balls cut in half, and each half painted and backed with double-sided tape) and the horrible spider-skeleton that lived in the center of a glass table.  My costume, the Joker, went over well – at least five people told me to stop “doing that tongue thing” at them, and several guests got a picture with the Joker threatening to cheer them up and make them grin. Zelda went as Strife, complete with a golden apple, and we made a striking couple.

Ricki, ever the star of the show, was very popular in her red lobster costume.

The second Urgoth the Defiler is presently being read by a team of crack proofreaders, and Codex Nekromantia moves forward again now that Urgoth is in the home stretch.  Huzzah.