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Monday, August 20, 2007
A few weeks ago B decided she wanted to throw a party, so checking the calendar yesterday afternoon was about the only free date, so we went with that. Of course, I didn't find out it started at 2pm until after noon. I picked up two cases of Hecho en Mexico Coca-Cola in glass bottles from Costco. Made with real cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, they taste amazing, giving people a serious flashback to their youth. They're awesome if your local costco has them, $18 a case of 24. Good stuff! I'm still enjoying Astro City, almost done with the collections. I picked up a large number of the Transmetropolitans, too, but haven't had time to read them. Friday, August 17, 2007
Sorry, last week was super busy and I didn't get around to blogging. I may summerize it later. This week we've been on vacation, a family reunion at my parent's lake place, but an enormous drama bomb exploded, ending the trip early so we're back at home. I'm going to give it a little time before writing about it to help me get more perspective. After reading my friend's blog (Cognitive Dissonance on the sidebar) for a while, I looked up the quote at the top, "I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work." It's from Transmetropolitan, a comic book featuring a gonzo journalist obviously styled after Hunter S Thompson, set in a future distopia. I read a lot of webcomics, but don't in any way consider myself a comic book guy. I don't really like most of the comic book movies, either. I read a few comics when I was 10, like Marvel's Star Wars, Shogun Warriors, Devil Dinosaur, and Godzilla, but wasn't into most super heros. However, I decided to check out the first collection of Transmetropolitans from the library and read them. I laughed my ass off and greatly enjoyed it. Mentioning this to some friends, my friend WOPR gave me some collections of Planetary and Astro City, both of which were excellent. I'd highly recommend them. If those bastards turn me onto comic books at my age, I'll kill them. Sunday, August 05, 2007
Yesterday was tons of fun, but tiring. I slept in until 10am, which was awesome, but then B told me I had to take Peggy and the kids to the Farmer's Market, and show Peggy how to get there herself. Fine, fine. She bought blueberries and apricots, the kids and I bought cheese curds as always, but didn't get raspberries since there was a 20 minute line at that stand. Next we went to an old friend from college's place for a Blue Angels Seafair party. Her and her husband have a house right in the Mount Baker neighborhood, right above I-90. It's on the high side of the street, but has a pretty good view. Her husband had gotten a keg of Red Hook ESB, and he grilled up hebrew national hot dogs. Yummy! They didn't go with the 40+ bowls of various condiments like last year, but it was still tasty. Fun party. Afterwards, I took Harry on a bike ride with the trail-a-bikes while B took a little nap, then we went to a friend's house for a salmon BBQ. Mmmm, love fresh salmon. The toilet on the main floor of our house won't flush. Gah! Plunging it did no good, and my 6' toilet snake failed to find anything. Gah!! I hate plumbing. Thank goodness we've got 3 other toilets. The next step is to drain the water out, take the toilet off the floor and snake down again. $2 for a new wax ring and the toilet is reinstalled, easy peasy. Well, mostly easy. We'll see. I probably just jinxed myself. Saturday, August 04, 2007
Uff-da. On Thursday night, after I got home I pulled the two new trail-a-bikes out of the truck, filled up their flat tires, and got one of the mounting brackets installed on my bike. Before dinner Isabel and I went on a little bike ride through Magnason Park, it was very fun. Both of us are getting a lot better on the trail-a-bikes. Last night we figured that since our babysitting was leaving town for the next three months we'd take advantage of it. We stopped off at Safeway and picked up a take-n-bake sausage pizza for the kids, and headed downtown. We went to the mexicn joint in Pacific Place that used to be a tex-mex joint, I laughed that they didn't change any of the decorations. Right at the end of dinner the fire alarm went off, causing the evacuation of the entire mall. Funny. We had already paid, and just got our check back, so I signed it quick and we bailed. We were going to see the Bourne Ultimatim with my friend NotMe and his wife, but when we got to the theater at 7:20pm they were sold out until 9:50pm. We went to Vons, a bar nearby, and staked out a table. B was wearing her new blue shoes with the 4" heels, she is terrible at walking in them. The movie was terrible. I mean, TERRIBLE. Uff-da. I'm sorry, it's easily possible for an action sequence to go too long. After I've seen Jason Bourne drive a motorcycle up 10 flights of stairs in Madrid, I don't need to see him drive his motorcycle up 90 more flights of stairs, it just gets BORING. Uff-fucking-da. Thursday, August 02, 2007
So, I've been shaving my head since last December when my good friend Chuck had his cancer relapse. When he died in March, I kept doing it partially because I was sad, partially out of intertia, and partially because I like the look. Too bad I'm no good at glaring, if I could stop smiling I'd look downright sinister. Anyway, it's pretty easy using my eletric norelco shaver, about four minutes every morning and it's egg-smooth. However, if I skip a day, like I did on sunday, man oh man is it a lot more work. What a pain in the ass. Last night we took the kids to U Village to their wednesday summer concert, this week it was the Beatniks. They were excellent, as always. This time B had a migraine so she skipped jazzercise and came with us, and the kids brought their swimsuits so they could play in the decorative water fountains. Man, those things are dangerous, I can't believe they let kids play in them. They're obviously not designed for it. I'm shocked there hasn't been a ton of serious injuries. However, since I've seen tons of kids survive it, I like those odds. Yeah, once again I lose out on "Dad of the Year". Oh well. Harry has been quite the little bugger lately. Last night I had to sit him down for a 10 minute time-out, which extended to 15 minutes since he kept claiming he didn't know why he was on time-out, and I wouldn't let him off it until he told me why he was there. Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Monday night was the last monday of the month, which means my investing-problem drinking club. We had a good time, my ride left at 9pm but another member who wanted to stick around offered to drive me home later, so I stayed until 11pm. Ugga, was a little under the weather on Tuesday. I found someone selling a pair of Trail-a-Bikes on craigslist for $80. Many people try to get $100 for them since they paid $250 and only used them once or twice. These were older, but in fine shape. Since we were going to pay $40 to rent them in Idaho, that drives our cost way down, plus I'm fairly certain I can sell them for more than I paid when we're done using them. I want to try to attach one to the other so I can tow both kids. heh. After we picked up the trail-a-bikes last night in a tiny neighborhood of like 4 blocks that's stuck just south of the industrial district and just north of the Boeing field runway, we drove downtown and went to Anthony's on Pier 66. It's the cruise ship pier, but they're only around on weekends. We had babysitting, so we went into the bar for some drinks. (We'd filled up on B's homemade gumbo earlier). Very fun, I had 3 pints of Maritime Pacific Old Seattle lager, and a glass of Lagavulin 16-yr single malt. B had a Bailey's chocolate mousse and some sweet desert wine. The views from the bar there are awesome, Mount Rainier, both Qwest Field and Safeco Field, Elliott Bay, West Seattle, and the Olympic mountain range in the distance. We talked with a guy from Detroit for a while, it was his first time in Seattle. I was a little under the weather today again. Heh. |
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