…by the Washington State Republican Party refusing to count all the votes before calling the state for McCain.

Methinks Flickr needs to update their geotagging imagery.

Two days ago, Anita Rowland died. She’d been battling cancer for quite some time, but her family thought she had 6 months to go, until last week, when it went down to a month — and then a few days over the weekend. She passed away on Monday, as her husband held her hand. He has a memorial thread over on his LJ.

She was one of the first Seattle bloggers I started following, and the organizer of the monthly blogger Meetups in Seattle and on the Eastside. I swiped many a link from her for this blog. :-) I first became aware of her, I think, when I heard an interview on KUOW about blogging. (Mine existed at the time, but I wasn’t doing much with it.) If I remember correctly, I listened to it while delivering pizzas in Woodinville.

She and Jack cared for her grandson, R—-. Ael and Erin met him once at a Meetup at Crossroads, and instantly hit it off.

While browsing around flickr just now, I came across this shot.

Wish I had gotten it myself. :-)

Ael stayed home from school today, thanks to some lingering queasiness from last night (too much lactose, I think). I decided that muffins would be good for breakfast, so after I dropped Erin off at school, I walked over to Paradis.

I was pleasantly surprised to spot Krusteaz muffins on the shelf. It’s hardly rare to see Seattle companies (besides Starbucks, of course) on the shelves around here, but they’re nice to find anyway. :-) It was over $2: the Betty Crocker muffins were .89. Easy choice, right?

Wrong.

After looking again at the price tags, I noticed that the unit price for the Krustez muffins was actually lower than the Betty Crocker ones. Checking back of the boxes, I found that the Krusteaz mix made 12 muffins, while the Betty Crocker mix made…

Five.

Anybody here have a muffin tin with 5 cups? Raise your hands, please. Go ahead, I’ll wait….

Eep. The girls didn’t like riding the ferries anymore after a late-night safety drill proved a bit too unnerving.

No way are they getting anywhere near this plotline anytime soon….

Laura points out that there’s more wind heading for Seattle. Good luck, folks…

Bothell beat Pasco in nine overtimes Friday night, in the field between our two places of residence in Bothell. I don’t know if we would have been in the same neighborhood if we had stayed in WA, though…

Well, for various reasons, we’ve decided that it’s time to move back to Maine, so we aren’t 3000 miles away from our families anymore. We’ve been preparing for a couple of weeks, choosing the stuff that will go with us, and the stuff that we’ll try to sell before donating it to St. Vincent de Paul.

We’ll be leaving on the 15th, since our landlord needs to start getting ready to rebuild on this site. Since we had to move anyway, we figured we’d do it right. :-)

I’ll miss Seattle a lot, but watching sunset from Cadillac Mountain should help make up for it. :-)

Smithsonian Magazine has opened up their annual Museum Day program to the public, instead of just subscribers. Go to a participating museum on Saturday, Sept. 30, and get two free admissions.

Hmm, I’ve never been to MOHAI before… Thanks to Raymond Chen for the timely notice.