I looked at houses and condos in Seattle that I could afford. The prospects were grim. In north Seattle the area I live and would like to continue the best my budget could handle is a studio condo. Great a itty bitty box. Farther out in the sububs I could get a decent one bedroom condo. But I don't want to live in the burbs ( Read more... )

Part of an e-mail I sent earier ( Read more... )

Man, I miss smoking. Almost daily I daydream about a cigarette. Sure, its been nine months since my last drag, but still the desire is there. The cause of this little episode was the cool mentholated taste of a cough drop. Cough drops and smoking go well together; I don't know why?

From part of an E-mail ( Read more... )

I had no sleep last night. Not a ounce, or at least that I know about. The problem was that I had to be up at 4a.m. to drive Salvador to the airport in Zacatacas to pick up his sister, Olga. (Salvador has a giant old ford truck, but it is way past open highway traveling ( Read more... )

Most of the day was spent doing chores around the house such as sweeping and washing the car. During ciesta I hung several sheets from the cieling rafters to block a visable view into my apartment. It seems to work well and leaves me with a hallway like entrance, rather than a bam your in the apartment ( Read more... )

Valparaiso is wonderful. I have been told the name of the city translates into ´Paradise.´ I could not agree more ( Read more... )

Modern times has provided a strange view of natural selection. Smarter more productive people in the United States and other first world nations are having less children. The logic behind this seems to be a concentration of raising the best children possible by quality rather than quantity. As a result, the masses are becoming dummer. It is no ( Read more... )

This afternoon, bored, I decided to clean out the kitchen cabinets. Being lazy, I grabbed a chair to stand on, to reach the top shelves, rather than going in the shed for the step stool that I lazy left there getting something else down ( Read more... )

Part of an e-mail I sent earlier ( Read more... )