I know the Year of the Ox started last week but this weekend was the festival here in San Diego.  Here are some of the highlights:

Surprised to see a co-worker in the kung-fu demo and lion dance performance.  Daniel really does rock!


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First off I really, really, really don't want to be at work today...

More importantly I am having a major dilemma.  Our 10th wedding anniversary is coming up this May and I really want to do something special which means travel.  I am just struggling with where.  Here are the choices and reasonings:

a) Europe (England, Ireland, France)

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Are so weird, fun, disorientating, exciting and plague the waking brain with their meaning.  I don’t have them nearly has much as I did when I was young (maybe my need for wish fulfillment has decreased with age and stability?) but they do visit from time to time.  This morning I had a crazy dream involving Kevin Shields and I am obsessed with it.  ( Read more... )

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Is fog and trees.    This morning was beautiful.

It makes me want to watch Tim Burton's Sleep Hollow.


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I went to see Goldfrapp last night and it was amazing.  The stage was dressed in a medieval, pagan theme complete with a maypole with huge antlers on top and the pre-music was the soundtrack of The Wicker Man! I was in heaven. Then Alison came out in a crazy harlequin dress and proceeded to sing like the strange angel she is (especially for the ( Read more... )