1. Wax the floors.

2. Go up on the roof and look out over the city.

3. Work on charity projects.

4. Clean the bathrooms.

5. Walk the streets.

6. Organize the shelves.

7. Pet the cats.

8. Watch Metody sleep.

9. Play piano quietly in living room.

10. Do laundry.

11. Read a book.

12. Check email / surf internet.

13. Think entirely too

1. Broken Boy Solider - The Raconteurs
2. This Place is a Prison - Postal Service
3. No One Would Riot for Less - Bright Eyes
4. Cemeteries of London - Coldplay
5. The Ocean - The Bravery
6. The Ice Is Getting Thinner - Death Cab for Cutie
7. Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect - The Decemberists
8. Black Comedy - Bright Eyes
9. All These Things That ( Read more... )

13 things I'd like to pass on to my children Valentine ( Read more... )

1. 1923: Nearly ten, Hans wishes to play a game of chess with his father's fine chess pieces. He is denied, too young to be allowed to touch one of the family's few remaining treasures.

2. 1930: Sixteen year old Hans wishes that Dieter, a beautiful dancer at the Eldorado would stop mocking him for his High German accent. They have a brief affair ( Read more... )

1. Metody
2. Valentine
3. Marcus
4. Spike
5. Jackie
6. Eike
7. Dot
8. Imogene
9. Newt
10. Marie-Pierre (if he would attend)
11. Gretchen (were she alive)
12. Dietrich (were he alive)
13. Mark the barista (if he could attend)

Hans Varner
original character

1. Involved in another war ( Read more... )