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Back, safe and sound. I got some decent stories and good pictures. Can’t put anything up now, but I’ll do a full update later tonight. Monday can’t go by fast enough.

Happy Halloween everybody! Hope ya have a good one. I’m off to Arizona. See ya Sunday. -R

What is it with little girls being so scary? Well I have the scariest one of all for you here… poor, sweet, innocent, yet so possessed Regan from the scariest movie of all time, The Exorcist! A righteous pick for being the very last going into Halloween. If you missed any of the previous backgrounds this October, you can find them all here for your viewing pleasure. Hope you enjoyed as much as I did.

So it looks like plans may be set for tomorrow night. No parties. No drinking. A couple friends and one of the friend’s kid is coming over to carve pumpkins early on. After, I think it’s off to Sierra Madre again this year for the festive fun and pumpkin patch. I’d much rather be doing the kids stuff than the adult stuff on Halloween.

Later that night, a friend and I are taking off to Arizona for the weekend to see another friend graduate to a full on firefighter on Saturday and to also see the NASCAR race Sunday. It’ll be nice to breathe some air that’s not ash-filled. Just gonna drive through the night and get there sometime tomorrow morning. It’ll be a nice break. Got 2 still cameras and my camcorder ready to go so I should come back with tons of drunk and naked pictures. I’m sure you can’t wait. Oh joy!

I’ll probably get my last scary movie background up tonight and have it stay like that all weekend. When I get back Sunday night, you should see a brand new theme that will most likely stick around until next spring. I’m pretty happy with it. Definitely my favorite out of the bunch. I’m not artistic in any way, shape, or form so it takes me a while to come up with something that I like. As it turns out, I tend to only like simple, functional designs (especially on blog-type sites), and this next one is no exception.

Tomorrow needs to come quicker.

As if you don’t already know Southern California is on fire. I didn’t really understand how bad it was until this last weekend when I checked out the images NASA is getting off of their Terra satellite. Check out the high resolution files to really understand how bad it is. Kinda scary.

Say hello to the young, but oh so troubled Samara Morgan from The Ring. Even though the movie was released 2 years ago, it’s already become my second favorite scary movie of all time. Can you get what the first one might be? Look for The Ring 2 to be released sometime next year.

Well it looks like we made it through the night. Good news for sure and just in time for me to head on over to The Apple Store in Pasadena last night. Why? Well to wait in line with all of the other devoted to pick up my copy of Panther of course. I got a whole bunch of images taken with both my camera and phone. As always, just need to find the time to put them up (along with every other gallery I’ve neglected over the past 9 months).

Panther is fast. I don’t know about the faster machines but on my dual 450 G4, it’s noticeable. iCal, Mail, and Address Book are surprisingly quick. If you used these before, you know how much of a slug they were. The new Finder is nice and Expos⁄, well, I don’t know how I ever lived without it. It’s a good upgrade and worth the $130. Go get.

This may very well be my last post ever. In fact, if we don’t make it out this alive, there will be a lot of lasts happening for many people. A huge solar blast that is estimated to hit the Earth right about now and pass over us for the next 12-18 hours. Yeah really, check out the front page CNN.com right now. It is expected to bring nothing “big” but disruption in communication and other electronic systems, but like one quote from the article states, “…like anything in nature, sometimes they don’t act like we expect them to.” Good luck to us all…

A friend just put up her visual account of the memorial in Los Angeles for Elliott Smith.