I'm of course as always behind the times with these, but Mike Rowe is awesome. This is the video on PETA, lamb castration, and American labor, and it's fucking brilliant.

Does someone have a high-power laser pointer and/or hip waders I can borrow for a couple of weekends?

Does anyone have leads on where I can get/rent those for-cheap? I can see a laser pointer being useful in the future, but hip waders are really just going to be for course I and II.

Lots of heavy processing lately, but I think I've gotten through my entire backlog and am back to being grounded. Went to Gasworks to decompress yesterday after The Last Rails Class, and for the second time, found someone else there doing the same thing I do, standing at the sea wall and looking at the city. The first time I ran into someone else ( Read more... )

I've talked about this to a couple of people already, but Faxon is trying to find a temporary home for his ponies somewhere around Lake Stevens, and I wanted to see if you folks had any leads. Here are the specifics ( Read more... )

Talking with John last night brought up a lot of things that I didn't have answers for, and again shone a very stark light on my occasional trying to dive up and out of difficult conversations. I haven't been letting myself sit with discomfort as much as I really need to. I'm not very good at giving myself time in general (though I'm getting better ( Read more... )

A long, interesting week ( Read more... )

Speaking of following pulls, it looks like I'll be volunteering as a test engineer for a woman creating a website coordinating medical groups that travel to Guatemala. Seems like there are a bunch of people going over to help out all the time, with a ton of resources and experience that could be shared, and all with something to contribute to the ( Read more... )

Talking with Saul today was really good for me. Not even so much the what, but the how. I felt like a lot of walls came down, that I was ok with letting myself be complicated and oniony. (Consistency is all I ask! Give us this day our daily mask...) Since I mostly spend time with people 10-15 years older than myself, there's a bit of a reflexive ( Read more... )

Had my Red Cross interview today. I'm really impressed by those guys. I expected it to be a run-down, sterile, depressing hospital or shelter-like setting, and it feels more like a planned parenthood building. Modern and welcoming almost to the point of being yuppie. The woman I talked to seemed energetic and like someone I could connect and be ( Read more... )

I hate being sick. There's only so much time I can spend sitting on my ass watching Leverage. I want there to be some sort of an at-home multi-person assembly-line type project for the next time I'm sick, so that I can be productive and around people without leaving home and without having to have the mental focus for brain-intensive tasks or for