Dentist: "You have to watch this guy Barbara, he sometimes thinks four times faster than the average person."
Me: "A teacher once pulled me over for speeding."

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I'm back. Let me nap first.

It's 1am here, and you could call it sunset, or sunrise, or whatever, as the sun hangs on the horizon in perpetual glow ( Read more... )

i'm finally just in alaska. canada is much larger than you'd suspect and i think they lie about the size so that you'll keep buying gas, plunging deeper and deeper into the veldt, at 7.00/gallon ( Read more... )

Ten years ago we would have poured through maps and charts to plan this trip, flipping pages and unrolling old canvas scattered on shelves around us. Now we chat over a computer while all looking at different websites with information on weather, terrain, road conditions, scenic stops, and even bathroom conditions and a Starbucks locater ( Read more... )

Baseball fans are up in arms about the Barry Bonds homerun ball. At least the ones with official blogging power are. Personally I like the play of power from a historical standpoint. I could see myself as the merchant that put an asterisk on the capstone of pharaoh's pyramid.

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The Schmidt Sting Pain Index is amusing ( Read more... )

Last night I was driving in a car that smelled of wood and leather, and I'm not gainfully employed.

I think I accidentally turned into a cowboy.

Got in a bit of a nostalgic mood tonight. A small achievement and a number of transitions in people's lives got me looking around with a wax poetic about the moment. It's all happy turmoil, the best kind of turmoil... when people pull out the good scotch and sit around and celebrate a moment in the sun ( Read more... )

The fact that livejournal now screens everyone for content... and does not really check what the content is, simply calls you a pr0n-loving freak or a saintly cherub and blocks you thus... is one of the death knells of this format. If it isn't already dead then it's on its way, and we'll all move somewhere else. I'm curious what that will be ( Read more... )

A Memory:I return from the last run and finish my duties in a flash, mechanically, at the highest setting. I storm into the office... cursory waves at my friends at the desks, driving straight at the manager's office as if it were downhill ( Read more... )

Ugh, so long without a post... so long without a post ( Read more... )