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sending your weekend into a psychedelic spin
My old college buddy Curtis, with whom I’ve recently reconnected with on Facebook (what, really?? that never happens!!) sent me this little gem in commemoration of my birthday yesterday. [direct link] Keep watching. It starts weird, and keeps ramping the weirdness. I feel at times that I was put on this earth to behold art…
Read Morestate of the union
Me about half an hour ago, just woken up. Still processing tequila and filet mignon from last night. Chicken pox scar above eyebrow. It’s my birthday today. I don’t often perform self-assessment on my birthday, but I’m feeling very low-key about this year so why not run some analytical checks upon the thing that is…
Read Morethat’ll show me
I woke up stupidly early, answered some emails (my boss: “what are you doing up so early? stop it!”) and thought about starting my day for real. I made one more attempt to sink back into sleep, which worked, I guess. Next thing I knew I was looking for the source of an awful smell…
Read Morethings i want – hot weather edition
To drive while people are playing guitar and singing in the car To wear a brightly colored dress and earrings and go out to dinner while in Mexico To come upon a peacock, completely unexpectedly To feel that endorphin rush thing while running To find glitter around the house for WEEKS afterwards To hear locusts…
Read Morehave a bowl of failure.
At a thrift store recently (the one with the d-bag), my friend and I spotted these beauties. As I said on Facebook – Becky: Perfect if your wedding theme color is ecru. And if you’re serving cereal. Jeana: I would totally go to an ecru themed wedding that served cereal. Becky: come to think of…
Read Moreworst camera ever made
It’s the Polaroid X800. Horrible design, horrible interface, doesn’t work, is bad. The most grievous violations: Packaging does not indicate what additional items to acquire to make it work (batteries, MicroSD card) Does not have a wrist strap or place for a wrist strap — on a camera that is intended to be under the…
Read Morea widow’s story
Another monthly challenge to myself: read a book, and report on it here (to keep me honest.) These will not be terribly in depth or insightful reviews. Here’s April’s. I couldn’t face another book of fiction so I went for this memoir, which is something I’ve wanted to read since before it came out. Oates…
Read Morekayakky
Finally, the kayak post. I’m not even going to apologize for the crappy, foggy pictures from the Worst Camera Ever Made (underwater edition). Any quality of pictures cannot recreate the fabulousness of this trip. However, it started off rockily. I inadvertently dressed completely matchy-matchy — my shirt, backpack and water shoes all contained the same…
Read Moresespe means knee
After more than an hour with a highly experienced technogeek and many swear words later, I finally managed to get my pictures out of the the Worst Camera Ever Made, the one that will get its own blog post soon. It was an underwater camera, a great idea (in theory) for the kayak portion of…
Read Moreproof positive
Here is a proof that I’ve been kissing frogs (and liking it) lately, as mentioned in my mini man marathon post. Yes, that’s an unflattering pucker pose of me, and that little rock-looking thing in the middle of the picture is a real frog, encountered on a recent hike. This particular frog was too smart…
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