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MAKE magazine and the SciFi channel and DVICE.com are all sponsoring a “Make your own Cylon” contest where the contestants will use whatever materials they can find to create cylons. There are some amazingly talented Battlestar Galactica fans out there!

(are too!)

One guy made a very intimidating cylon easter bunny, as well as a cylon unicorn.

I can’t wait to see what else these people come up with!

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Very little really.

1. On Sunday we went to the Whole Foods Market and picked up a couple of things.
2. Did a little shopping at the Burlington Mall - got some new drink glasses from Crate and Barrel.  Liz took Chloe to Sephora (a makeup place).  Unbelievably it took an hour to purchase one tiny bag of products.  Which is fine, because I took everyone else to the Lego store and Sharper Image.  They’re going out of business and have some GREAT deals.  I got a $100 lamp for only $35.  I don’t want to debate the merits of the $100 price tag, but I thought it was a fine item for only $35.
3. Me and Chloe and Grace took the dogs to Sheepfold in the Middlesex Fells for an hour on Sunday.  Its a large dog-park, really.  Actually its just a massive pasture where dogs go romping around.  My dogs zoomed in large circles and sniffed a lot of doggy-bottoms.  It was a fun time.  I’m hoping that the extra “socialization” will decrease the howling and barking they do at other dogs while we’re out walking.
4. Chloe and I watched a little baseball, which was kind of nice.
5. Tomorrow evening is Grace’s first t-ball practice.  Although I am doubtful that she will really take to it, I’m willing to throw myself in to it with her and volunteer to be an assistant coach and will practice with her.  Maybe she’ll be the one who takes to sports.
6. I had a parent-teacher conference with Grace’s Kindergarten teacher this morning.  We all agreed that Grace is terrific and we wouldn’t change a thing.
7. I am thinking about finding a used projector somewhere for use in a backyard theater.  It would be fun to have people over to watch a movie or a game or something.  I would need

1. a digital projector of at least 1000 lumens to make sure its bright enough. 
2. a couple of speakers with some significant “oomph” to them.
3. amplifier (cheap and used is ok in my book)
4. Screen - home made probably

We hit on the idea while we were disucssing what to do for Chloe’s birthday.  Its towards the end of May and she would like to have a bunch of people over for a showing of a Bon Jovi concert.  While I am not crazy about the music it might be a good way to get some fun stuff in the backyard. 

Any ideas about this would be appreciated.

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I thought that since the horrific rodenticide incident last week things would quiet down some.  They did, for the most part.  But over the weekend I heard Grace in the backyard scolding Buckaroo and telling him NO!

She explained that he had eaten a mouse.

Great.

I often don’t believe kids the first time they tell me something.  In this case, I suspected that he might have eaten something else and she was just mistaking it for a mouse.  We talked about the color of it and what its tail was like.  We talked about how big it was - she couldn’t say really because she only saw the back half sticking out of Bucky’s mouth.

The whole time Bucky is prancing around the house with a big ol’ mouse-eating grin on his face licking his chops!

I tried to trip her up on a couple of details, but her story was very consistent and I think Bucky really ate a mouse in the backyard!

I hope the others learn from mouse-murder and stay the hell away from my house.

Incidentally, the other squirrels in the area have not learned their lesson from the loss of one of their own.  On Saturday I saw one had returned and was taunting the dogs again.

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