Everyday I get up and look out the window at the ginkgo trees lining the street.  Everyday the tips of the leaves become a little more yellow, but only on the outside branches.  Next to the trunk, almost all the leaves are still green.  It's like a slow, natural tie dye effect, and I am in love.

It's fall, and the living is easy.

If you feel comfortable talking about it and don't mind me asking, who are all of you voting for in the coming presidential election?

What issues do you feel most strongly about?

Dutch opthamologist  Petrus Johannes Waardenburg was the first to notice that people with two different colored eyes also tended to be deaf.  This led to the discovery of Waardenburg syndrome, a neonatal genetic disease, where some of the phenotypes include heterochromia in the eyes, hearing loss, and microcephaly, although there are many ( Read more... )

Hello!  I am in Kalispell, Montana at a hotel.  We just ate our complementary breakfast and will be heading on to Glacier in an hour or so.  We'll spend the night in a lodge up there, then head out Monday morning ( Read more... )

Justin and I are off to Glacier National Park!  We've got a lot of driving ahead of us on practically no sleep, but hey, this is what we prepared for.  We will spend about two weeks backpacking, divided into two halves, separated by a two night stay at a lodge there in the park.  I will be back hopefully around the 22nd, as long as I don't get ( Read more... )

Do you think people just decide to be happy, and some decide not to be?  Is that the difference between happy and unhappy people?  Can you ever really flip the switch and have unhappy people being happy all of the sudden?

I'm sitting by the open window.  I don't know why it gets so hard, and I don't know why I don't think about why I do what I do ( Read more... )

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Definitely dreamed about shooting stars last night, and their glowing, sequential streams dancing above us, but sometimes behind you.  I guess it's long term memory now?

When The Internet People (which should probably be a company) installed our internet, they gave me a shitty wireless adapter for my desktop, but I got it to work with a little scotch tape and patience.  Until I moved my computer when I got a new desk.  I got it to work again, same methods applied.  This worked until I moved my computer to unplug ( Read more... )