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The laundry has built up, but it's getting chipped away at. And the dishwasher is churning away.

Big goals today:

1. Pack some warm clothing for tomorrow's trip:
   • Warm clothing
   • My tickets
   • A fully-loaded iPod. At least one new audiobook.
   • Books. Just two:
     • The Jumbo Book of Japanese Puzzles
     • More Information Than You Require.
   • Medication for 3 nights and 3 mornings.
   • Toothbrush, toothpaste
   • Electric razor, razor brush
   • Camera
   • Laptop?
   • Cell phone charger
   • If I end up throwing in anything that's not in the above list, I should write it down, so that after the trip, I can really examine whether I used it.
2. Go to bike shop and buy that light kit and collapsible cage. I'll need it when I get back.
3. Time permitting, copy some French in Action to my iPod so I can brush up on my French. I don't know how well 1987 Parisian will go over in 2008 Vancouver, but I want to be prepared.

Clown nose

I found a clown nose in my luggage. It's a relic of a trick I never ended up trying. It's from Penn & Teller's book, How to Play in Traffic, and it goes like this:

Prepare for the trick by carrying a clown nose with you anywhere you're likely to be asked for ID. Use a small piece of red foam to "improve" your ID so that there is a small, but easily removed clown nose on your picture. Then, when you hand someone your ID, you put on the clown nose. They look at the ID, they flick off the nose, they look at you, they laugh.

Neat sounding trick, and I found a clown nose at a local party shop, but I couldn't find any "red foam" anywhere. Pencil erasers don't work, even when I use rubber cement to make it a little more tacky. I figure a tiny wad of that poster-stick stuff would work, but I can only find it in blue or white. And wouldn't it come off in my pocket?

Do any of you think you can solve the problem of applying a temporary clown nose to a piece of ID?