I think everyone should be required to ride the bus once in awhile. It's so easy to get isolated in a car, to forget about the wide variety of people that live in or visit the same place you do ( Read more... )

Both of my potential new tenants declined, I think I'm coming down with a cold, and Erik and I are taking a red eye flight to Connecticut tomorrow to spend the week with his parents, which is sure to be extra exciting since we're so close to the election ( Read more... )

On Sunday I got an email from a friend I don't see often. It was all of three sentences, and boiled down to ( Read more... )

Every year in Oly people dress up as plants, animals, fungi, bacteria etc, and parade/mosey/dance through downtown to the beat of not-quite-marching bands and samba drums.

I don't know why every city doesn't do this, but I suspect it's because they're boring.

I've only been in the actual parade twice*, but we've got a little tradition of showing ( Read more... )

On Friday Pinniped played at Kitzel's Crazy Delicious Delicatessen to an awesome ArtsWalk crowd. We didn't get people really going until the last couple of tunes, but we had people up and stomping and clapping to two sets at the end, one of which we hadn't performed before, so that was awesome! I'm especially thankful to the group of ladies who'd ( Read more... )

Over on ontd_political there was an article today about an empathy disparity between the rich and poor.

In the comments at the source of this article, someone explains that they show empathy by hiring a maid, gardener, and pool boy. The money these people get is money they wouldn't have otherwise, therefore charity! Or something like that ( Read more... )

On Thursday, work was infuriating ( Read more... )

Artswalk, or Music Shuffle with occasional visual art, or Biannual-holy-shit-I-know-half-of-Olympia day, was awesome this year ( Read more... )

I saw half of Olympia today without trying to. Look and be amazed!

@ Home Depot
Jon-computer-guy (coworker)
Bruce (Dad's former coworker)
zair99 (What? He doesn't even live in this town anymore ( Read more... )

I finally checked out the Olympia Comics Festival Saturday. It was small and only featured independent creators, which was nice. They ran the gamut in skill and professionalism, and got me thinking about comics as an art form and industry again. Not thinking much that was new, however. It still boils down to one problem: Comcis does a terrible job ( Read more... )