I’m stealing idea from a friend’s now-defunct blog. She would snap photos showing misspellings and egregious grammatical mistakes. It usually good for a laugh or two. I’m calling it “Learn to spell, Washington.”

A signboard in a stripmall in Orting will get things started:

Remember what the powder was like on Mount St. Helens or the Silver Dollar Ski Bowl?

For you folks who fancy yourselves as the next super-G gold-medal winner and an amateur historian, there's Lost Ski Areas of Washington. It's basically what it sounds like: information about former ski slopes around the state.

This is usually something more for The Adventure Guys, but I'll post it here because the link was sent to me by Chris Medrzycki, who runs this skiing blog and used to sit next to me in the press box at Rainiers games.

I received a cool e-mail from Bert Brown, a former faculty member at the University of Puget Sound, after he read my Buel Sever story:

Interesting story about Dr. Sever and the Nürnberg trials. You may know that another former Tacoma resident, the late Col. Burton C Andrus, was the officer in charge of the prison at Nürnberg. Col. Andrus later became a professor in the UPS Business School. He has written a book about his experiences there; my copy is loaned out but I think the title is something like "I was the Nuremberg Jailer". Copies should be available in local libraries. I am sure Dr. Sever knew Col. Andrus; I don't recall if he is mentioned in Andrus' book but it would be likely.

For all you folks who folks who enjoyed my Buel Sever story, there's another veteran-looking-back-at-World-War-II. Friday is Pearl Harbor Day, and I'm going to talk to with a man who survived the bombing of the Hawaiian Navy station.

And remember that meeting about the Medical Reserve Corps that was supposed to happen Monday? Because I was out in the floodzones, that'll be this afternoon.

As always, I'll keep you posted throughout the day.