Nice nostalgic find

I was looking for something completely unrelated, and found the column when Dan Savage first called for a sex act to be named after Rick Sanitorum. The I, Anonymous for that week is pretty funny too.

Crap, I found one of those ribbon sticker/magnets. The brilliance is that the sticky part is on the magnet, I'll just tear off the old, gay, "I love Dubya." You come in with your superior photoshopping skills.
The rest of the world: give me your ideas, and we'll make a new sticker to place on someone's car. You know what I'm talking about.

A cozy day

It rained this A.M., so that is my excuse for not painting, especially as it looks like it will stay dreary and damp. I would like to sit on the couch and watch movies all day and sleep when I wanna, but more likely I'll spend it working on trying to upload all my weekend pictures on my photo blog. Perhaps I'll do it on the couch instead. I spend an hour every morning trying to make sure all is well with Kickball, and then organize my schedule, when I haven't checked my phone messages in a week! Sorry everyone.

One of these days the money will be gone and then I will have that kick in the head I need to get my shit together. See, I can't even relax when I have time off.

Internet finds

So, robots are super-cool, and being able to stand again after falling is a nice trick, but does anyone else find the video kinda scary?

Finally, someone figured out how to make money from people stealing others' music, and making it legit to boot. Bout damn time, cuz ain't no one goin back to the malls to buy shitty cd's.

Tired and dirty!

We camped and hiked all weekend. It went like this: we left Portland about 10:00 pm on Friday night. I know, silly, and likely disasterous, but we just couldn't face not going. So we did, arriving at the campsite at 12:30, finding a lovely spot, setting up, having a fire, etc. It was lovely. The next day we moved camp to another site on a river and with less dirt. We then hiked an amazing trail that we didn't even know existed. The best part was the view, which was of the Cascade Range and more incredible than anything I've ever seen. Then we heard a large crack and didn't think anything about it until later when the trail had a creek next to it that at first led me to believe that we had taken a wrong turn on the way back. Alas, soon we happened upon the creek as it was making its way down the mountain, something having set in motion a new water source. We followed it for a while then headed to camp to make sure we were prepared in case it decided to course through our 'perfect' campsite. Thankfully it did not.

Then today, we got up and drove to another trail, Indian Heaven, which was truly a bit of heaven, though the 1200ft of elevation gain in the first mile felt like hell. There were huckleberries galore and I do believe we each ate at least a quart. I skinny-dipped in water deeper than I am tall (an amazing feat if you know me at all), finding out later that a group of Reed hikers watched us the whole time. I ran down the mountain bare-footed because of blisters. Later, we saw some natural bridges, an ice cave and a big tree (the largest known ponderosa pine, ooooh).

A fantastic weekend, except for being much too dumb to bring a watch along on the hike today and missing kickball practice. Oooops, though likely they didn't need me anyway.

Photos up when I get the chance. SCT, feel free to add your own reflections, and thanks for a wonderful weekend.

Friday

Well, some painting got done at the sandwich's yesterday, but it felt a lot like treading water. Sadly, so will today. I'm heading there now, but it will be way too hot to do anything on the South side and then I'm leaving to go camping for the weekend. Sorry GS!

Book club was fantastic. Lots of fun having everyone in the same place again and we actually remembered enough of the last book, Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto, to have a coherent discussion. I do believe it received 4 thumbs up, so check it out.

The rest of the evening was just plain silly.

So, I'll catch you cats all again on Monday, have a lovely weekend.

But first, check out this amusing offer: $250,000 if you can prove Jesus isn't the son of the Flying Spagetti monster...it's intelligent design...take a look.

So I found this

Here's a video from Discovery Channel Canada saying that the Mercedes/Swatch Smart Car is finally being introduced to the Americas. YES! Perhaps I'll pick one up on vacation. They have six gears. They are wonderful. You only have to pay 1/2 price on parking in Germany if you have one of these. DAMN!

Seriously, if anyone has some extra dough sitting around, I would love to be a trend setter on this one.

This will be short

great sandwich! is back and I need to go and paint her house. She just got back and though I'm sure she's disappointed that I didn't finish painting her house while she was gone, she seems relatively confident enough in my abilities not to have freaked out when she called yesterday. Whew.

So, watched the Cincinnati Kid last night, with my beau, Steve McQueen. He's dreamy, but the movie was a little less than spectacular. I did like the ending, all old-school and somewhat anti-Hollywood. But the gem of the evening was Kung Fu Hustle, which I've mentioned before is one hella good movie. Their site has some fun Flash games.

So, I'm off, let me know if you find any good internet gems. I'll be at book club tonight, so I'll likely not chat again until tomorrow.

Another blog change

Since I was so bored, I decided to rework my blog. Most of what I wanted to do was possible. Now I have one day on the main page. To see earlier days, simply, well, it should be self-explanatory. Let me know if there are bugs or if I've made the site less user friendly. I thought it would load faster this way, and it will be easy to see past days. The only thing I wish I had was a calendar for the archives, though the drop-down menu isn't so bad. Also it was seemingly impossible to get the blog title to link back on the archives page, so I had to add that lame-o button on the side. I'll try and fix it, I promise.

Daily Ruminations

I'm so bored. Funny, cuz I actually do have lots to do. I just don't want to do those things, or be responsible or even show a modicum of effort. I would like to enjoy being lazy a bit more, that just seems a bit impossible. So, today I will try and accomplish something. The internet is boring too, so nothing interesting unless someone points me to it.

Last night we watched Sin City, which I was rather skeptical about. It however, outshone itself. Wonderful graphics and a nice meaty story. I would actually like to see it again. So, tonight will be the date with Steve McQueen.

Interesting things from the Internet

Click on the image for more information on how to buy your own pirate jesus, pirate budda or pirate jimmy hendrix items.

I have a date tonight

With the Cincinnati Kid!

Comedy central has a blog

Called: CC Insider. The best part is the newest Daily Show clips are placed on the blog. No muss, no fuss.
You must watch the interview with Anna Nicole Smith, at the Pamela Anderson roast. She's a sharp one.

Vintage photos - Consumer reports

I tried to get this to you kids yesterday, but was riddled by slow loading.Enjoy.

Wow

Sara's car was seriously messed up! She was hit on the driver's side by another vehicle, and then hit a telephone pole with the passenger's side. There is wood from the telephone pole still stuck in the car. We should all take a moment and thank Jesus that Sara is well (seriously, her picture of Jesus was unharmed in the accident and cast a force field around her that kept her safe). She did get to wear a fancy orange vest and waive her ability to sue for serious bodily injury or death that occured while she was getting her "personal items" out of her car.

Haha, rednecks are funny.

Did you see that pile of bacon?

Awww, a robot box for a kitty with missing limbs!

It's cute except I worry about all the spinning.And the meowing doesn't sound so happy.

Two weeks

That's right, two weeks since I quit smoking. Twelve years are beginning to erase themselves, as I no longer wheeze, cough or hack any longer. I can smell much better and my throat is no longer sore. The best part, no to little hangover when having had a ton to drink. Also, I'm not nearly as endlessly thirsty, which makes for fewer trips to the bathroom. Bonus: at kickball practice yesterday: I was out of breath because I was running, not because I just sucked all my oxygen out of my lungs. All around wonderful results, highly recommended.

A friend always says, do anything for two weeks and you'll be used to it, it gets easier and then you can decide more rationally whether or not you want to continue an activity. These last two weeks were a little slice of hell, but I can safely say that resisting the urge is hella easier now, and I'm pretty happy to have made it this long. Even the patch is history!

Well, today is off to the dump to help Sara extract her stereo from her wrecked car. (She's alright except for some whiplash and pain and suffering of course). Then hopefully I can drag my sorry ass to GS!'s for some painting.

weekend of love

So, had a good time this weekend. Went swimming twice, played some kickball and avoided the internet quite nicely. Which is why I'm just gonna end this now. More when I'm bored.

This little bugger made swimming a bit more interesting. See my photos for an actual photo...it has orange bands. Weird

I still haven't been back to paint GS's house, what a slacker I am!

Introducing...my new nephew/brother/cousin...Sam Riley

blotto

Wowzers, last night was the first time in a hella long time that I was able to transport myself from one place to another simply by concentrating. Hottub, friends, too many dogs and a couple of drinks made for a hella wonderful night. With the headache today to prove it. What fun!