Over the course of the last 4 days, I've had the glorious luxury of playing chess 7 times against 3 different outstanding opponents.

V: 2 me: 0
Allen: 0 me: 2
Mark (naech): 3 me: 0 ( Read more... )

Yea! I finally had some time tonight and made some great head way on my dead language project :)

postgreSQL, ruby and quiet time FTW! \m/

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
- Katharine Hepburn

I had a wonderful day hanging out with V and his joint-custody dog. We roamed Volunteer Park, had a great lunch on the sidewalk at Volunteer Park Cafe, and wandered down Madison Valley to Lake Washington. He's a great storyteller and good listener, and his hand lightly touching the small of my back felt nice, comforting, familiar. He got some ( Read more... )

I wore my electric blue Doc Martens today (and matching sunglasses).

On my walk to the Crumpet Shop for breakfast this morning (they will indeed make me groats with steamed soy milk and honey while I'm on this crazy diet. sweet.), a guy complimented my elephant <3 <3 bag on Pine, and when I turned to say thanks, he was a vaguely familiar rasta/ ( Read more... )

After I got home from work and chatted with Miss Emily who is in Thailand for a few minutes, I went for an epic Capitol Hill wander. I spoke with several cats, and 3 off-the-leash standard poodles, all separate owners, all galavanting and galloping towards me with poodle-like glee ( Read more... )

It's been awhile ( Read more... )

Confederate History Month, often celebrated in April in the South, is so outside of my childhood and adult experience that I had to look up what CHM even stood for when I read this article that Kris sent me:

Commemorating CHM: "They Too Needed Emancipation" by Ta-Nehisi CoatesI grew up in Kansas, which may now have a reputation as an ultra- ( Read more... )

I'm finally feeling a bit better today ( Read more... )

If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am beginning to think that a key to this cultivation is to let go of as many expectations as ( Read more... )