It’s  the last day of my lovely vacation, and I’m  going  to  take  this  moment at Tim Hortons  to talk a bit about relentless forces. Hurricane  Katrina. Me trying  to  win  a  trivia  tournament  spot. And then  there’s  Ithaqua. AKA as “He who walks  among the waste,” this Lovecraftian monster is  better  known  to  Native  Americans as a Windigo, or a cannibal monster. Eats to gain  the  strength  of its  victims.

Speaking  of  eating, we  had  dinner  at  one  of  those  LJS/KFC  combo  joints  last  night. When  a hush puppy  craving  calls, ya gotta  accept  the charges! Prompt service, got  our food quickly. Funny, about a year ago we visited similar  joint  in Staunton, VA. Waited  so  long  for  our  food we wound up getting refund. Probably  a good  thing, since that VA joint was so filthy we wouldn’t  have  wanted  to eat  anything  prepared  in  the  kitchen, but I digress!

Ithaqua is also a symbol  of winter and cold, which  brings  me  to  my  point…Jesus…what  is  UP with this wind? Couldn’t  do  a fire  last night, and the winds  show no signs  of abating. Had to be 40 mph winds Monday- we bundled  up and hiked  around Tawas  Point  during the day, but heavy winds by a campfire  ain’t  no fun..

We still  had a very  cozy night in our heated cabin, and watched  some episodes of Buffy.

Fuzzy pants!

Angel just had  sex with Buffy, which made him happy enough to lose his soul ( which a gypsy curse restored  to him 100 years ago or so to punish him. So now  he’s  a galloping murderous  asshole, and Buffy has  to kill him. She will end up sending him to Hell later,  but  it’s  all good because  he will get  his soul  restored, and more  importantly, his own series.

Next season we get to meet Faith (played  by Eliza  Dushku). Can’t  wait!

I plan  to do  a  trivia  game  tonight  at  Tower Inn. Also plan  to do recap of last  Thursday’s  game at OG. I’ll  close  this  post with  a sunset pic from town last night…