I saw a very interesting thing last night. When coming out of the grocery store from getting a lottery ticket, I saw a rainbow.

But all the clouds had cleared off and the sky was clear. It was a humidity rainbow. Very pretty. Rather disconcerting.

First, I think we should start a website for it. I've found some wonderful sites and blogs from travelers and technomads (thank you for cluing me into that!!) and they have a lot of stuff about where they've gone and what things make it possible (which is a great help with planning) but less about the process of moving from the home-based ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the whole living in an RV/bus thing. And one thing I would desperately miss is my garden (actually was joking around about taking a bit of my home earth with me kind of like a vampire which led to an idea of putting a coffin shaped garden on top of the bus/RV- hey, it is the ultimate DORK adventure!). So I'm trying to ( Read more... )

Tonight I got the coolest hat in the history of coolness. Or hats. It is perfect for the steampunk outfit concept I came up with last night in the middle of the night and had to draw out before I could get back to sleep ( Read more... )

Ok, what it said was to get ideas from friends... so, here it is ( Read more... )

Watched Fanboys. Thank you, Matt.

My dork odyssey may not be as farfetched as I'd thought.

And when my stomach is upset perhaps I shouldn't eat slimey tentacley things (octopus salad).

We're into the last 10 hours of the ebay auction of the really nice watch that James got from his brother. Please keep your fingers crossed for us, if this sells for a high enough price, it could pay off most of the cost of the electrical work next week.

Downtown Lawrence sidewalk sale today! Looks like they have lots of good deals on stuff. Parking is, as usual, difficult. But the temperature isn't bad for walking a couple blocks ( Read more... )

Rock Band has Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton. I sang. I got an almost perfect score on Medium. Yay!

Now I want Rock Band.

Yay! Finally got the lead shower liner out of the back of the truck AND we got $5.50 for it at the 12th and Haskell recycling center ( Read more... )