Yesterday was Jeff's 50th birthday. We celebrated by dining at Roy's, one of our favorite places for special occasions. Every bite (and every sip) was just perfect.

Last Sunday, as we loaded our christmas decorations back up into the attic, I brought down my trombone and music stand ( Read more... )

( 2008 was a rather up-and-down year. )

I just completed my annual count of every CD I own. Multiple disc sets count as such, i.e., a 2-CD set counts as 2. I did not count MP3 discs I have made of various compilations drawn from my CDs ( Read more... )

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I have decided to take a break from LiveJournal.

( There are several reasons )

Jeff just posted this on iReport.

My joy over Barack Obama winning this election is seriously dampened by the fact that my state constitution now denies me and my husband and my loved ones the same rights that everyone else has. I am now officially a second-class citizen of my state. The margin was even greater than I would have ever guessed: 55-45. Pretty shitty for a state ( Read more... )

This past weekend, Equality Arizona (our statewide GLBT advocacy group) held a "Weekend for Change" in which they had quite an array of activities to get out the vote and make one last push to defeat Prop 102 and elect some new (democratic/progressive) faces to our state legislature. I appreciate how they picked up the ball with Prop 102 after ( Read more... )

Here's a commercial about Prop 8 in California that really tells it like it is. I don't think it's being aired, I think it's just out there in YouTubeLand. It's probably too incendiary to win over the few remaining undecided/middle-of-the-road voters, but it's great for firing up the base.

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You know, before this whole Prop 102/Prop 8 thing, I ( Read more... )