I just found out about Kiva, which is a microlending website that lets private citizens in the US lend money to small businesses in the 3rd world. I think it is an amazing idea for many reasons. First, it is a loan, with interest that these people are expected to pay back, which they do at rate of 97.2%. The interest, which is not high, runs the ( Read more... )

Ok. I have been trying to hold off on two geners of lj post because I don't want to clutter up friends pages with stuff they might not be interested in. These two categories are links and angst. I have decided that I am going to go for it. I am sure there are some of you that don't have huge friends lists or that have free time to spend on ( Read more... )

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According to pinku, this guy is dressed up as a spleen! He is doing a spleen dance to teach kids about internal organs. I hope fervently that my spleen would be so graceful and interesting if it were to escape my insides. I kind of wish I knew what he was singing about. Probably just the day to day of being a spleen.

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Well, I went out for a walk this evening. I thought I'd go to mount Tabor, as that was about how far I wanted to walk and it involved not walking past unsavory bars. Unfortunately, as I was almost all the way out of the park, a car came down the road towards me and in trying to get off the roadway, I fell off the little lip of asphalt and rolled ( Read more... )

For those of you who are not going away this weekend, I am having a potluck at my house on Saturday. I am sure it will be lots of fun. I think it will begin 7ish and end when people leave. If you don't know where I live, email me. Lestamore at gmail.

So, before this snowpocalypse, I decided I would stock up on grocerys so I would not have to walk to the store every time I wanted something. This was probably a good plan. But, I didn't plan what I would want to eat, so I bought a bag of potatos, a bag of onions and a bag of apples. Oh, and a giant brick of cheese. I also have eggs and flour ( Read more... )

Here is the Norse-ish poetry I wrote about driving up the highway on-ramp to escape the I-5 traffic jam ( Read more... )

So, this weekend I took a painted enameling workshop. The idea is, basically painting with glass. Very finely ground up bits of colored glass that you mix with oil. It was amazing. It seems to combine in my opinion the best parts of drawing with the best parts of painting and when you are done, you have a THING, not just an impressive piece of ( Read more... )

I figured a little thanksgiving bloggling would be a good thing today. I have seen it a lot elsewhere today and it is a worthwhile trend I think, even though I am not celebrating the holiday in the traditional style. In no particular order ( Read more... )