I dyed my hair blue today.

Today's been a little more productive. I never did end up going to sleep the other night, so I'd been up for a couple days before I caught ten hours of recovery last night ( Read more... )

A couple summers ago, Jake and I went to the Hansen Planetarium in Salt Lake City. Originally, we had gone hoping to see a laser show, but they didn't have that section open. What was left was a mini-Boise-Discovery-Center with some space exhibits, a giant pendulum, and one of those refracted sun-viewers ( Read more... )

Well, there went my productive streak. I came back from Dad's funeral two days before my vacation started ( Read more... )

I had my first post-dad-being-gone-bonding-moment last night. You know what I mean, right? Those things you never used to do, but now that he's gone that you feel you have to, to keep the damned thing going ( Read more... )

I normally don't steal photos from CNN, but I couldn't pass this one up. Amen bruthah.

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Galyans! That was the name of it!

Sporting goods store in the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake City where I bought my wetsuit this weekend. It's HAYOOGE. Two stories, each the size of a couple Barnes & Nobles.

Off to a caf

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Today was Bloomsday! I usually don't register for the Pac NW's largest footrace, I just run it, because you can still participate without paying the fee. This year, however, I felt that after all that work, I deserved something. Anything. And fleeting as it is, there's something satisfying about being handed a cheap, mass-produced t-shirt on ( Read more... )

I developed my electrician skills even further this weekend and put in two new light fixtures. One in the old office-slash-second-bedroom and one out front (apparently, the old wires got wet and Randy and Nate came over one night to find it throwing sparks!). It was going great until the fixture turned out to have been built uneven and somewhere ( Read more... )