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Got a message to my website from someone who had seen the URL on the back window of my car. (That vinyl sign is the best thing I ever did for the car.) He said my car is "off the hizzi fa shizzi." What the heck does that mean? Based on context -- the next sentence is "your car is so cool" -- I think it's something good.

I kind of wonder if the message isn't a friend of mine having me on. Because they said they saw me Friday morning in Wellspring parking lot. But I wasn't there Friday morning; I was at home working. On the other hand, I was at Wellspring Friday evening around 5. Maybe it was just a typo.

I turned in my application for the Houston art car parade today! Actually I faxed it to my friend Tim Klein, of the spectacular yarn car. We're turning in our applications together and asking them to place us together in the line-up. Our plan is to run webcams from both cars, but he doesn't have a cell modem. We're going to try staying close enough together that we can keep a wireless network running so he can connect through mine.

I'm really excited about the parade. Our dear friends Peggy and Chris are going to ride with us again, and this time we're also going to spend a little time with them in Austin either before or after the parade. We were worried about Georg getting extra time off, but if we can push the drive a little harder and make it in two days instead of three, that will give us a couple of days extra without needing more time off work.