Strange survey ( Read more... )

I took the bus downtown yesterday evening and got off to a place that I had not seen before. The buildings were the same. The street signs and names unchanged. The feel that came over me though, I had never had shared with that space. It was a Christmas emotion ( Read more... )

I learned how to shave again today. For some reason my long time away from work letting me shave randomly, four days here, a week there, made me forget the act ( Read more... )

I hate it when people talk under their breath. If they have something to say then spit it out. If they feel they have a need to keep quiet instead talking than they should keep their lips shut ( Read more... )

A few minutes ago, I was down on my knees my left arm zig zagging through tree branches to check the level of the water in the Christmas tree basin. At that moment, my hands feeling the prick of the trees needles and the rushing luxurious smell of the tree, I was taken back to when I was twelve and worked at a Christmas tree lot ( Read more... )

Christmas 2005

i this. i that. i wish i had bought stock in Apple.

i am not a follower. i do not need to be i'd.

and also to the popword use of the written slang word 'effing.' Eff you. Eff me. And most of all eff i.

The new smoking band in Seattle only makes me want to start smoking again. I want to defy the government. I want scream at people who tell me I can't smoke here. America day by day becomes more of a police state. The sad part is most people are willing to be victims. George Orwell was right; he was only a few years off ( Read more... )

Old men sitting in their cars reading the paper or snaking on some fish and chips, occasionally staring out the front window to the glass like sheet of water that was Puget Sound this afternoon. I passed them walking, none of them cared about me. The sun was setting, orange and reds, bleeding into each other. It was a luxurious time to be at the ( Read more... )

I am a very lucky man. The other day I was Christmas shopping in the South Center area, when I came upon a Home Depot. I pulled in, and bought the weather stripping I had been planning to install on the front door for about a week. I got home put it on and closed the door. No cold air. It is the only place that let the elements invade ( Read more... )

The morning was grand here in Seattle. The weather was slightly chilly in the morning and cool in the afternoon, but there was sun all day long and blue sky that hurt the eyes if looked at too long ( Read more... )