last night i watched Before Sunrise, a movie i have avoided for nine years due to an aversion to the dirty, greasy, scraggly look of Ethan Hawke (didn’t he just play that guy in Reality Bites?). that combined with having watched Richard Linklater’s Slacker was enough to keep me away.
i now see the error of [...]
today in Seattle, it is hot. not wearing-a-washcloth-sweater-midwest kind of hot, but hot nonetheless. this is more of a burn-your-butt-on-your-car seats, fry-through-your-sunroof kind of heat. Mark is making music on my Powerbook, so i am relegated to the older Mac.
three nice things happened to me today:
→ one: i spent the day working on design [...]
“Strength and wisdom do not have to be opposing values.”
- Bill Clinton at the DNC
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despite being ill for the better part of last week, i managed to recover (and finally pinpoint the source of my symptoms) in time for a trip we had planned to Vancouver to celebrate Heff’s birthday. Vancouver is such a sparkling, beautiful city and i had realized we had never actually visited during the summer. [...]
i’ve been sick for the last couple of days and it has relegated me to the couch. this afternoon, i started to feel a bit better (despite having been bitten by my dog). Mark stopped by Sonic Boom to pickup the new (and much anticipated)Low boxed set A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of [...]
i hesitate to place this under the ‘Visual Delights’ category, but will remain true to the generality of it. last night we watched The Secret Window with Johnny Depp and John Turturo. i had a feeling from the trailers that it would be bad. but, still i wanted to see it out of trust for [...]
er, i meant Beta, Beta, Beta! i know i’m master of the obvious to some, more tech dedicated. but here is the short list of new web apps i’ve been trying out.
Kinja: a nice app that turns your favorite weblogs into a daily digest along with added content from Kinja editors. it’s a nice alternative [...]
i have a weakness for children’s books, specifically clever, well illustrated books. one of my favorites is The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Stories featuring twisted fairytales like The REALLY Ugly Duckling who grows in to a really, ugly duck. so you can imagine my delight when i stumbled across this gem at the bookstore.Don’t [...]
this morning Mark woke at 5am to prepare for a 8.5 mile hike he’s doing today. he was eager to try out the new pack he had bought. yesterday we had gone to the big sale at Outdoor & More where much of their stock was 20%-60% off. we usually buy our outdoor stuff at [...]
summer is in high gear and yet, true to form, i am already thinking about the fall. you must admit fall does have its points. after all there is: Halloween, weather, pumpkins, scary movies, Shocktober and the new Nick Cave. add two more items to that list: the release of Slayer’s DVD Reign In Blood [...]
i’ve been thinking about the dangers of advice. specifically the dangers of advice to those in relationships outside our own. most people consider honesty to be the cornerstone of any deep and meaningful friendship. a crevasse in that idea is the inevitable ‘love on the rocks’ scenario. everyone has had a friend that is in [...]
the Federal Marriage Amendment has been struck down in the Senate today. although this issue continues to be a way to rouse the conservative voters into action, today all that mattered was the outcome. in other news, John McCain is my favorite Republican.
“The constitutional amendment we are debating today strikes me as antithetical in [...]
this past weekend, Mark delighted me with a bout of spontaneity and decided to drive out to the Big Four ice caves. the drive is relatively short (only about 1.5 hours) and beautiful at that. we packed the dogs in the car, picked up my sister and Heff and headed out.
there is an extremely easy [...]
as reported by Reuters:
Newsweek cited unnamed sources who told it that the Department of Homeland Security asked the Justice Department last week to review what legal steps would be needed to delay the vote if an attack occurred on the day before or on election day.
oh dear. read on.
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i had noticed on the version of Typepad that i’m using only the last 10 weeks appear in the archive list. i know i can add more, but i’ve been wondering whether anyone actually reads the archives? i don’t mean mine specifically, i just mean in general for blogs. or is it like a serial [...]
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it’s been about a month and a half since we moved in to the house and i have to say things are coming along quite nicely. prior to moving we had purged most all of our useless Ikea furniture in an effort to force ourselves to replace it. our couch didn’t [...]
well, we tick off another slightly traumatizing Independence Day for the dogs. thankfully, that was really only the last few hours of the day. the rest of our day was spent laughing, eating and playing badminton on the lawn. we spent the day with our usual companions, my sister and Heff (names have been changed [...]
spent a relaxing day at Second Chance Ranch talking with Katie, playing with the dogs and visiting with her horses. Penny had a brief reunion with her former mates and Primo enjoyed all the smells of the ranch. unfortunately there was no riding due to an injured back and leg, but it was really just [...]
for some reason or another, i have been reminiscing about plane travel. it seems i’ve been flying pretty much all of my life. of course, my US life kicked off with a long trip across the ocean to the Great Lakes State. beyond that my mother had worked for a major airline for most of [...]
i have given into my cravings for books and music over the last weeks and bought the new Clinton (not George) book My Life. i didn’t buy it because i thought it would be enlightening or because i need to reminisce over his time in office due to the current state of affairs. i bought [...]
