Two storms this week, one full of bees and one full of gin, both full of music ( Read more... )

Damnit. There's a total solar eclipse this month that isn't at all visible from this continent.

Anyone up for a bit of a trip to anywhere along a long narrow strip?

Also, anyone interested in watching the not-terribly-exciting lunar eclipse with me on the 14th? It will be in the late afternoon or early evening while the sun is still out I'm

I rode home yesterday through the rain. I love the rain when the sun is shining. There's something about it that just makes me want to close my eyes and feel the sun and the wind and the rain on my face and not think about anything for a while.

Not a good idea on a bicycle though.

I have a bunch of clothes that need some minor mending. Mainly pants. Mainly all of the jeans that I own ( Read more... )

Ann: au reviour
Ann: I think that's french for good bye
Ann: OR it's a french dessert, I cannot tell
Jason: Either way.
Jason: Good times.
Jason: Especially the desert part.
Ann: well put!
Jason: Desert is kinda like goodbye.
Jason: Goodbye to dinner

Current Mood: sunshine and rain and old cars
Current Music: Sufjan Stevens - They are night ( Read more... )

I was going to post about my weekend in the woods, but one of the people I hang out with at an Irish pub every Monday handed me a drink that she didn't like tonight which turned out to be basically a big glass of tequila, and champagne I suppose, so I am unsober. Perhaps I should sleep. Yes, yes I think I will. Perhaps I should stop spending ( Read more... )

Went to a pretty awesome bar for a sort of bachelor/bachelorett party on Tuesday. The bar is built around an honost to goodness living tree. Had a good conversation with the bartender about working as one in Madison and about fine liquors and music ( Read more... )

The icicles on my back porch drip furiously in the sun as if they desperately need to be gone by nightfall ( Read more... )

Last night I had a conversation with someone who doesn't speak to me about a topic we wouldn't discuss.

It was nice.

It turns out that spoony as an adjective and a noun has been in use for hundreds of years, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Who knew? Maybe that wasn't a mistranslation at all.

Also HOLY FUCKING CHRIST it snowed so hard it snowed inside my windows, between the main window and the storm window. Jesus.

I love it.