A beautiful night around a grill and a smoker and mounds of vegetables and what a pleasant breeze and there is nothing as awesome as a surprise meal that ends up one of the best in your life. Crashing and waking up slowly around 9:00 with the window up and warm morning sunlight flooding in. By 11:00, though, a hard wind was blowing, and just after ( Read more... )

Was in New York. Liked New York a lot. It was cloudy the first day and rained shitty gusty rain on Monday, but it was real nice on Sunday, and I liked New York a lot ( Read more... )

We had an incredibly intimidating hail storm today at about 3:00PM/MT. I'd never seen so sustained a force of nature like that. A blizzard of pellet sized ice falling from the sky high about the Rocky Mountains.

It's now past the All-Star break, so it's time to take a look at the season mid-way through. This summer has been a good one, for sure, ( Read more... )

I have become redundant. I'm a broken record. I'm just saying the same things I've been saying for the past two years. I'm bored with myself.

What about you? What are you into? What are your dreams?
Some times my dreams are big--big like the Grand Canyon, western expansion, manifest destiny, liberty, Death Valley.
Some times all I want to do is work ( Read more... )

Today was a funny day.

I slept through my first two classes because when I woke up at eight o'clock I was feeling depressed.
Then I woke up at eleven and hurried to shower and eat breakfast so I could finish a response paper by 12:15, when I thought I had to leave to make it to class on time.
But it was raining ice today, rendering the walk to ( Read more... )

Right now I'm sitting at my mother's computer desk, the TV's on C-SPAN 2, I've called both my senators--had a lively conversation with the Brown office, a more muted conversation with the turds in the Voinovich office--and I'm hopeful though realistic about the prospects of protecting the Constitution and Bob Loblaw.... At least Sherrod Brown has ( Read more... )