Friday marks the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and it looks like the Gulf Coast is about to get smacked again. This is the current projection for Tropical Storm Gustav:

As you can see, it looks like it’ll make landfall early next week. Reports say New Orleans can’t withstand a Category 2 storm in their current condition, and this already projects as a cat 3. It could also just sit in the gulf for another day or two and ramp up to cat 4 or 5. Governor Jindal in Louisiana is looking at starting evacuations as early as Friday.

If it makes landfall, and it’s gonna, but if it hits landfall hard enough to again breech the levee’s, we’re going to have to have a serious discussion about rebuilding one of the oldest and most flavorful cities in this country.

I like puzzles too. I’ve even done a Simpsons photomosaic before, and I consider it cheating to look at the box.

Look, you communist. It is not cheating to have a general idea of what the puzzle looks like! This one frustrated me, so I decided to show to kick its ass.

I’m a project person. I need something to keep me busy at night after work. Now that my walls are painted, I’ve turned to jigsaw puzzles. I went yesterday in search of new ones.

I found two very difficult puzzles. The first is a Simpson’s puzzle, 1,000 pieces. But it’s a photomosaic puzzle, and I have never done one of these before. Each piece has its own little picture, and they will combine to be a big picture of Homer.

The second puzzle is a Lost puzzle, and, in keeping with the spirit of the show, it does not show you what the puzzle looks like on the box. I basically have no idea what this thing is supposed to be. It is also made of 1,000 pieces.

And, because I am, apparently, a masochist, I bought these puzzles at Half Price Books. So I have no assurance that they each contain all of the pieces.

I’m an idiot.

I found another project, as well. I’ve been made a Team Coordinator for the Obama campaign in my neighborhood. I’ll basically be in charge of a team and a bunch of volunteers, and will coordinate things with our field director. It doesn’t pay anything, but I intend to go mad with power!

PS Our President is a tard.

Look at that.

That is one ugly looking foot. Thankfully, my very fetching walking cast covers the purple. Walking casts: They’re what’s in for summer 2008! Just like my totally kickin’ socks sleeves were last year!