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July 29, 2004

Go watch This Land.

01:27 PM | Comment (0)

July 27, 2004

Came to a realization tonight. I've had three bottles of champagne leftover since Rich's birthday in March. That's right. Not even a bottle a month. Pathetic I know but I'm reluctant to open a bottle because with just me drinking it, it will likely go flat. Which begs the question, how did I find myself surrounded by so many people who stopped drinking to excess?

10:44 PM | Comment (8)

July 26, 2004

Fun was had in Seattle. Nice to be there just hanging out instead of dashing around Redmond. Particularly liked the Van Gogh to Mondrian at the Seattle Art Museum. All the scantily-clad cute boys (one advantage of highs in the 90s) milling about didn't hurt, certainly.

10:39 PM | Comment (1)

July 23, 2004

We're off this morning for a three-day weekend in the northwest. Yes, ironically I finally schedule a day off only to see SEA on my boarding pass yet again. But it's all play and catching up with friends. Should be fun. Maybe I'll even update those picts over on the left.

No promises though.

08:15 AM | Comment (1)

July 21, 2004

A KFC supplier of chicken carcasses tortures animals as it kills and dismembers them. I'm shocked! Shocked I say!

11:35 PM | Comment (1)

Ride home tonight was frigid. Fog so thick that I couldn't see from one block to the next. The mist turning into precipitation on my glasses after just 10 minutes or so. As an added insult, wind gusts practically blew me off the bike at one point. I think I'll take the bus tomorrow.

11:22 PM | Comment (2)

July 20, 2004

Can you explain why the world needs an ancient Greek edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Anyone? Anyone?

(Sad, I know. Eleven days and that's all I come up with.)

09:30 PM | Comment (3)

July 09, 2004

TV's Frugal Gourmet, Jeff Smith, dies. Sad, I learned so many great techniques from watching his show. Worse is how he was driven off the air.

08:43 PM | Comment (0)

July 06, 2004

V. happy this evening about the return of The Amazing Race. It's one of my favorite summer shows. Yeah, yeah, poo-poo all you want. All I ask is that you watch one episode then tell me it's not a fun, exciting hour. Didn't win an Emmy for nothing.

08:41 PM | Comment (0)

July 05, 2004

Spoke too soon last time. I'm not done with this cold in the summer riff. Years ago (decades actually [what is it with me and parenthetical thoughts tonight]), I remember reading a reference to summer cotton sweaters for the first time in some impossibly exotic novel or text. So, you say, no doubt reaching for the bookmarks menu. Only that my adolescent mind couldn't comprehend of a summer temperate enough to allow the wearing of any sweater, cotton or otherwise. A naive view that I chuckled over a few minutes ago as I was stashing the haul from this elongated weekend's shopping activities. Now I, me and myself posses so many of said garments they no longer fit in the rather generous allotment of shelf space.

10:45 PM | Comment (0)

It's July. (Stating the obvious as usual.) So you'll forgive me if I moan just a bit about the injustice of being forced to don a fleece hoodie while cooking dinner (yes, trite hot stove reference and all). Or yesterday when it wasn't a particularly warm 85 in the Sonoma town square yet we still got to experience a 30 degree plunge in the 42 minutes it took to reach the GGB.

Okay, I'm done for now.

09:17 PM | Comment (0)