For Cory
- Recent accomplishments
- Start going jogging around the park in the morning with my dog.
This is awesome, I only wish I could take him on sidewalks to bump up
the mileage a little. - Saw “Moonlight and Magnolias” at the Intiman last Friday. So-so.
An interesting sort of vaudville interlude between acts sounds like it
should be loads of fun but maybe I was just too tired to appreciate
it. The problem with local theater is how insular the casts seem to
be. John Procaccino has been a major character in every production
this season. Which is OK, because he’s been pretty terrific in all of
his roles, but still, the same actor night after night… - Had an outstanding night of fun Saturday in observation of my
birthday. We had dinner at Mama’s (where, they swear, the ziplock bag
of fluid hanging in the middle of the doorway keeps flies out…) and
then went to Shorty’s where I had plans for a pinball tourney. We got
about ten people to participate towards the goal: highest combined
score on Addams’ Family, Monster Bash, and, just to mix it up a
little, The Simpsons. Yeah, we should have normalied the scores since
a good game on Adamms’ Family can easily compensate for a lousy game
on the other two, but everyone had fun. I handily won but
disqualified myself so that others could get the prizes (which I
bought, so it wasn’t that exciting for me to win anyway).
John-Anthony took first, Tanya had second, and third went to Lisa.Line of the night goes to John-Anthony. Said to me as I’m opening
gifts from some people and he’s explaining that he would have gotten
me something but didn’t have time: “You didn’t get me anything
for my birthday.” Tanya and I gave him
book and I bought a card from some guy who was going door-to-door
during his party trying to raise money for the picture of kids on milk
cartons. - Took Io to Marymoor Park’s 40 acre off-leash dog area on Sunday.
This is a really awesome park - it’s incredible that there is this
much open space for dogs and that there are so many dogs in Seattle
(about 60% of Seattlites own dogs and dogs outnumber children!). - Upgraded my laptop to a Vista RC. Immeasurably better experience
than the shit I was dealing with over the last month. To be fair,
there were a bunch of known issues with the Toshiba tablets with the
old build I had and I didn’t know about them until it was too late to
take the preventative measures that could lead to an experience as
lousy as the one I dealt with. - Checking out Google AdSense. I’m pretty sure it’s a violation of
the terms of use to tell people “go click on my links to make me
money!” but I wouldn’t tell you not to. I’m semi-excited to have
search built in, however my archiving is too difficult to process so
the search only hits the most recent chunks of my blog.
- Upcoming
- The U District food bank auction is a week from this Friday. I
need two more people to fill out my table - any takers? - Later in October I’m hiking to the top of Mt. St. Helens with a
bunch of friends. Really looking forward to this trip! - Nick’s wedding is in November.
- Would like to watch Deadwood and When the Levees Broke.
Cory said,
August 18, 2007 @ 12:00 am
You’re a beautiful man, man. Zach and I watched “When The Levees Broke” on a lazy Wednesday a couple of weeks ago. We were both absolutely floored by it. And remember, “Deadwood” is like Joyce - it gives back what you put into it’ i.e., don’t watch it while you’re messing around with other crap. Mr. Swearengen demands yer fuckin’ concentration, damnit!
Nick said,
August 18, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Mmmm… Deadwood
Cocksucker! Swearengen! San Francisco! Cocksucker!
(Do your parents read this? If they watch Deadwood, they’ll understand that.)
PS: Your captcha discriminates against the visually impaired, like me.