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Our meeting with a local photographer was an unmitigated disaster.
A meeting with our photographer was an unqualified disaster.
So ixchelmala and I have been making preparations for our wedding. Our invitations have been sent to the print shop, and the envelopes are on their way.
( Our story about the photographer from hell. ) -
The impressionable minds of youth...
I read a news article recently about a substitute teacher who showed "Brokeback Mountain" to a class of 6th graders. She closed the door and told them, "What happens in this class, stays in this class." Now the grandparents of the child (where are the parents?) are suing the school district for $500,000 on account of the child's emotional trauma ( Read more... ) -
I want to tell you so many wonderful things...
WARNING: HARRY POTTER PLOT SPOILERS AT THE END OF THIS POST. DO NOT READ PAST THE CUT-TAG UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED THE BOOK!
This weekend has been a whirlwind adventure for ixchelmala and myself. We were co-planners, co-executors and co-laborers providing the bulk of the "entertainment" for my sister's wedding reception at our parents' house ( Read more... ) -
I had a weird dream last night.
I had a dream last night that my subconscious tells me was a real film. It was very vivid, with many characters, shot in black and white, and based on the dialogue, clothing, and soundtrack, it was shot in the 1950s ( Read more... ) -
On Deleting Files, and the Emergency Recovery of a Relationship
This morning ixchelmala called me and demanded to know whether I had some of her very important files on my hard drive. I told her that I didn't have them.
( Click this cut-text to find out why these files were so important. ) -
This wonderful Christmas holiday
Noise bothers me. I like silence. Really, I crave silence. Which is why I really need to move away from my current apartment so badly. But there are so many other reasons.
( I have been finding myself spending a lot of time with ixchelmala ) -
I popped my car engine's cherry last night.
I've done a fair bit of work to my cars, but my experience inside the engine bay has been very limited. My car is a 1993 BMW 525i. The engine, a 2.5-liter straight six-cylinder, has 216,000 miles on it. It is leaking oil into the spark plug chambers. Every mechanic told me the same thing: it's caused by a leaky valve cover gasket. With Bentley ( Read more... ) -
I need to get out of this neighborhood.
I made the poor decision 5 months ago to move into this apartment in Hawthorne, and I failed to completely check out the neighborhood. I also chose to stay in a corner apartment that faces the open-air parking lot and the side street. I wasn't able to get underground parking, either. It was a hasty move made in a panic because my former roommate ( Read more... ) -
Teaser: Our visit to Joshua Tree National Park
My girlfriend, ixchelmala, took me and her cousins to see Joshua Tree National Park yesterday. We woke up at the ass-crack of dawn, put lots of food and water in the trunk, and drove for two hours until we finally arrived. The sun was just coming up over the hills and the view was spectacular ( Read more... )
