Games tonight chez moi.

I think I may be in serious need of some chocolate today. Anyone want to go to a dessert shop or the Melting Pot and consume large quantities with me? Or bake cookies?

Anna, Shannon, and I took an introductory glass blowing class every Sunday morning for the last month. Let me tell you, though glass blowing is a blast, waking up at 8 AM is not the right way to do it! The first two weeks we made things that I'm not entirely impressed with, but week 3 we started to make things that look like actual stuff:


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Okay, has anyone seen The Shining? You know that scene where Jack Nicholson's character has pretty much lost it, and you get to see him in the group photo of folks who were at the lodge back in the days of black and white photos? Well, that sort of stuff happens for real. I was looking through a photographic archive in Gig Harbor and found ( Read more... )

Game night on Thursday. 7:00 PM until all the sheep have been traded to ports abroad.

Inquire if you need directions.

I'm thinking I'll spend much of the evening watching Iowa Caucus coverage. Anyone want to join me?

I now have an iPhone!

This means that you can now send me SMS messages and I'll actually check them.

I'd promised some people pictures of my house. I guess with the invasion of the flamingos you can see the exterior. Here's a peek into the interior. All photos taken with the new phone:


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Game night tomorrow night 12/27/07. 7:00 PM, my place. See ya!

One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 percent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today." They are just 100 percent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 percent human, that we're ( Read more... )

It appears that the increase in worldwide temperatures have caused wild flamingos to winter in my front yard:


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