!Party baby --- agk's diary 1 November 2022 @ 15:50 UTC --- written on GPD Win 1 in green rocking chair wrapped in colorful afghan --- Last week she had febrile respiratory disease, prob RSV. Over a couple days she lost her butt and belly fat. She slept proned on our chests, wailed if laid abed to ease backs or rise. Despite morning rallies baby weakened, grunted with breathing effort. We kept her from library sensory time when sick. Hon she came back hard, partied harder this week than she ever has. She wore us out! Saturday: bonfire in sponsor's yard. Celebrated my 15 years, sponsee sisters' 7 and 5 years sober with pizza, ice cream, crew. Baby pet dogs. Enthroned on camp chair, baby ravenously ate her first pizza distanced from sponsee sister's infant. Sunday after church: chili cookoff in undercroft. On kid chair at low table she ate strawberries, stared as kids chalked the blackboard. She'd never seen so many in one room. Monday: trick-or-treat, streets behind Peacemakers Motorcycle Clubhouse, 3 blocks from us. Parents drove kids in. Hundreds of costumed children roamed streets, most every house spooky, adults grotesque & happy. Our town's biggest block party. Little lion, delighted, picked candy from offered buckets, dropped in hers. Peacemakers raffled kid bikes. When my lion was done, Evy & squad walked on & baby and I returned to creepy house: red light illuminated our mannikin's face. Candles, coyote, elk, deer skulls ringed candy bucket. Groan, howl, scream, chain clank, cauldron bubble, maniac laugh, pipeorgan on 1986 Hallmark halloween sound FX tape. Tonight: library rally for peace candidate opposing our congressional warmonger. Platform: end war in Ukraine (stop funding it), abolish CIA, end all sanctions everywhere. I want him to repeal 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. The Quaker retired engineer won our primary with rural vote. He ain't perfect but'll represent us. Incumbent reps Lockheed Martin Missles & Fire Control, TPMC, Sikorsky Aircraft, Avon Rubber, Universal Solutions International, Infineon Tech, Bering Straits Native Corp. War grifters infest our congressional distr- ict. The thousands of workers deserve good socially useful jobs. Execs should be stripped of assets & passports, scorned, blacklisted. Maybe tomorrow we'll bop over to McDonald's Play- Place after NCLEX review class. Tuckered moms can't stop party baby!