I am woken before dawn by a constant, low magnitude shaking. At first I am unsure if it is just a trick of having been woken suddenly, but it continues unchanged past the moment I am aware of being fully conscious. I become aware of a distant rumbling sound that accompanies the shaking.
My brother Michael is in the bunk below me, in our old room ( Read more... )

Thinking about you tonight, boid.
Edit: I've been getting dirty looks in the laundry room tonight, because every time I pull a sheet of fabric softener out of the box, I start giggling uncontrollably. This is the kind of stuff I have to live with every day, because of the profound effect you had on the rich tapestry of the... of the, uh..

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's that time again. I have achieved fame and glory atop one ridiculous conveyance or other...
I've been riding unicycle for about a year now. Getting off a curb, or really riding off any drop of up to---say---24 inches, is pretty easy. It's something I've been able to do it since pretty much the beginning. Getting back ( Read more... )

The dream opens with my grandfather and I standing ( Read more... )

Somewhere under this enormous pile of unfinished business the events of February left me digging out from underneath, are the normal threads of my life, waiting to be rediscovered, dusted off, and tied into square knots or whatever it is one does with the threads of one's life. There's about a half an hour of Final Cut Pro 4 updates left to be ( Read more... )

...peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich, orange, cheez-its, and those awesome pink-and-white animal cookies.
Except my mom didn't believe in cheez-its, chunky peanut butter, or animal cookies. I would've made a fuss about eating 9-grain bread, and when I was five, bananas were "yucky" on peanut butter. Though for some reason cheese or mustard were ( Read more... )

We were hanging out on the ground floor of the office building we worked at. I was there; Marc, Rick, and Ron, who I work with at the Sonics were there; Carl and Brandon, who I work with at Boeing were there; and a few others were there besides. We had been awkwardly exchanging gifts for Christmas. We kept getting distracted by other things, and by ( Read more... )

It's been a while, but here I am.
A lot has gone on in the intervening interval. I feel like I've been cheating, somehow, on my friends by not investing in my livejournal. My existence has been scattershot, random, and non-linear. For about a month, I was sleeping extremely erratically, and all attempts to bring that into line were met by more ( Read more... )

Rescued from my old Macintosh SE/30, just in time, apparently, for it to give up the ghost for the nth time.
---kjaer / 2006 June 16
20030210 - 6:48a
I woke up this morning from the second bad dream in as many days. This one was much worse than the last.
I was alone at my parents' house---the house I grew up in---for an unknown reason. It was ( Read more... )

I saw Sarah doing this, and thought I'd like to play, too.
My legacy, according to Google ("The case for Raymond"):

• She's tired of sharing all her space with Ray
• "You see, Raymond," she said, "I am single."
• Raymond is the gateway to the beautiful Willapa River.
• Raymond to intercept approaching Union troops
• Raymond's office of Emergency ( Read more... )