WooT!

This morning, I hung one window. It's here in the office, and it's been getting a wee bit chilly. I still have to nail in the tin strips and replace the wood trim, well, and maybe renail the sash cord on one side, but the window is in and down. It's not been there all summer. Should have respackled it, but hmm...

Thong keeps turning off my electric log. I keep thinking that all the blinky lights should keep it warm, but while LEDs cast a wicked glow, they sure don't warm the air much... unless there's a lotta them.

Wot they told us in high school wuz all lies!

Those Brilliant Fall Outfits May Be Saving Trees
By CARL ZIMMER

"As trees across the northern United States turn gold and crimson, scientists are debating exactly what those colors are for.

The scientists do agree on one thing: the colors are for something. That represents a major shift in thinking. For decades, textbooks claimed that autumn colors were just a byproduct of dying leaves. "I had always assumed that autumn leaves were waste baskets," said Dr. David Wilkinson, an evolutionary ecologist at Liverpool John Moores University in England. "That's what I was told as a student." "

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/science/19leaf.html?pagewanted=print&position=