OLYMPIA -- There are days at the Capitol that can make your hair stand on end. Usually that's due to something the Legislature is doing. But not always.

Tuesday it was courtesy of the Pacific Science Center, which brought some of its mobile exhibits to the Capitol Building and set them up in the hallways, entry ways and Rotunda. Among the most prominent was Volts and Jolts, an exhibit on electricity at which people pausing in the Rotunda were invited to put a hand on a metal globe to see the effects of electricity on their body.

Peter DeFranco, of Seattle, was among dozens of members of the Audubon Society who had come to Olympia to encourage members of the House of Representatives to support an oil transportation safety bill. Scheduled debate on the bill fell behind schedule, and DeFranco accepted an invitation for a science center staffer to get a charge out of the ball. 

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