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The following headlines made the front page of the Flint Journal‘s Sunday Edition this week, instead of a public housing debacle requiring immediate attention.

Spirited: Rock ‘n’ roll pastor’s church shakes walls, stirs hearts, fills seats
School snitch programs a bust here
Messages in a bottle arrive seven years later

215 families are losing their housing subsidies they’ve already been promised due to mismanagement by the Flint Housing Commission (which does not even leave a phone number at which to be contacted).

COMMENTS:
– Looking for Scav Hunt ’05 resources? They are posted here.
– This Past Weekend. Friday, I got out of work early and headed back up north to get some things done around the apartment. Instead, I took a two hour nap, but woke up stress free, which was to be a major theme of the weekend.

COMMENTS:
– Looking for Scav Hunt ’05 resources? They are posted here.
– This has been a modest week, blogwise, both in terms of output and substance. I blame it on having caught the Post-Scavhunt Hacking Death Plague.

COMMENTS:
– Looking for Scav Hunt ’05 resources? They are posted here.
– Weathorr report: Nationally, it’s a little weird, if mostly unexciting can count as weird. The Canadian front that drew meek thunderstorms over Chicago yesterday morning will continue to move over the Appalachians and New England, causing general misery.

The last several days, I’ve expended so much energy on catching up at work, trying to chronicle Scavhunt, and shifting gears for the wedding and grad school that there honestly isn’t much to report. I’ve mostly failed at trying to catch up on sleep, and instead I think I’m coming down with a cold.

As Scavhunt Withdrawal sets in, things will gradually return to normal in the world at large and at Blue Skies Falling.
I am, however, compiling a list of resources for anyone interested in learning about Scavhunt.
Please send me any links to relevant articles, blogs, and websites at connor at afterdusk dot org, or leave a comment.

There is a subjective element to judging and so we made a decision on judgment to consider any difference in scores of at or under 1.5% the most points earned to be a tie. This ended up being the number 60.

JUDGMENT DAY, PAGE BY PAGE

Item #2. Liver, fava beans, and chianti, to be consumed by someone in a straitjacket and Lecter mask. [6 points]

Palevsky’s perennial Scavvie, Joan, performed this item, demonstrating a powerfully disturbing voice despite no familiarity with the book or movie.

And by last night, I meant this morning.

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JUDGMENT DAY

ROAD TRIP

We woke up early and drove down to Ida to begin judging.
First, the Judges who had planned the Road Trip judged the Road Trip items.

I’ll be finished blogging the Hunt by this evening.

By tomorrow, I hope to provide links to official information, news coverage, and participants’ blogs and website.

That means if you were involved in the Hunt in any capacity, send my your web info, and you’ll get a link for free!