It’S Time For Action

We know what you’re thinking.

You’re wondering how you can make the most of the extra hour afforded by the time change this weekend.

Well, here are a few ideas.

1. Build North-South Freeway.

2. Improve personality through harrowing journey of self-discovery and by tossing out sweatshirts adorned with stupid slogans.

3. Choreograph interpretive dance telling the story of the Growth Management Act.

4. Haul out old albums and shake your head about the idea that you ever had a Dan Fogelberg phase.

5. Don’t think about sex.

6. Write “Spoklahoma,” a musical to be performed in the garage by neighborhood kids.

7. Drive over to Aryans’ compound, discuss Golden Rule.

8. Invent X-ray eyeglasses that really work.

9. Contemplate how American life would be different if Doris Day had gone ahead and accepted the role of Mrs. Robinson in “The Graduate.”

10. Get those abs in shape.

11. Draw up list: most overrated Inland Northwest attractions.

12. Teach daughter how to punt.

13. Learn five Spanish verbs.

14. Floss your teeth like they’ve never been flossed before.

15. Save enough money for retirement.

16. Come up with 10 locally-significant meaningless buzzwords.

17. Attend screening of “Bride of Chucky.” Go around asking members of the audience, “What’s wrong with you?”

18. Call newspaper columnist’s voice-mail, critique meandering pointlessness.

19. Find out once and for all if your cat is now or has ever been a member of the Communist Party.

20. Create an exciting new pasta dish your family will love.

21. Rig up buzzer that goes off every time one of your kids uses the word “like.”

22. Outline new diet/fitness regimen to be started tomorrow.

23. Call someone up and ask him/her out. This time, don’t start with “Um, do you know who I am?”

24. Frown at messy closet. Have beer.

25. Reread “Trout Fishing in America.”

26. Call pregnant friend and make her promise to spell the baby’s name the old-fashioned (standard) way.

27. Find out about becoming a Big Brother/Big Sister.

28. Rent “Little Big Man,” fast-forward to key Faye Dunaway scenes.

29. Call friend who went to the University of Montana and whisper, “Eastern, 31-27.”

30. Lean on rake, watch squirrel.

* Today’s Slice question: If there were an official “Inland Northwest Weekend Breakfast-Fixing Uniform,” what articles of clothing would it include?

and Saturday. Write The Slice at P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; fax (509) 459-5098. Thanks for all the Halloween snapshots.