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six months
braemblerose and I have had a very intense past six months. While I could write a long post about each event, this post is about the overall level of change in our lives. Since the start of the year, we've experienced these major events:- she is pregnant (I helped)
- we went on a silent meditation retreat
- I have a new job
- I no longer have an appendix
- we went to ( Read more... )
- she is pregnant (I helped)
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dream
In my dream this morning, I was at an outdoor gathering. Tall trees shaded the picnic tables as Sam ran around with the other dogs. Three wise women appeared, bearing love and healing. One of the women held me close to her breast, and I was forgiven. -
Fighting Wal*Mart
For the past two weeks I've been spending massive amounts of time working with Responsible Growth For Northcross to fight against plans to build the largest Wal*Mart of Central Texas in our neighborhood ( Read more... ) -
brewing photos
I've created a brewing album in my photo gallery, and uploaded photos from the two batches coreblue and I started two weekends ago, and the all-grain brew he started today.
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five-spice orange blossom mead
Two weeks ago (Oct 29th, for the record) I started another batch of mead. This is my second batch since I've lived in Austin.
I used the same ingredients and procedure as the first batch, with a few variations. For starters, we had warmed up the yeast for use on Friday night rather than Sunday night, so I made a starter with two cups water and ( Read more... ) -
morning haiku
this side of
the bed you slept in
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pushing my camera
I played around this evening with pushing my camera in very low light, to get a feel for what my limits are without use of a tripod or flash. I made this photo of my dog:
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sapiosexual foreplay
me: if you'd like, I'll explain man-in-the-middle attack to you sometime
her: will you explain it naked?
me: yeah we need more naked whiteboard time!
her: more? I didn't think we'd had any
me: that was an additive "more", not a multiplicative one
her: oh ok -
arriving home haiku
her laptop
glowing on the couch
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communication
As she just posted, braemblerose has left the jungle and is now back in Iquitos. She called me last night, for the first time since she left for the jungle, and this morning we exchanged our first email messages since then. We're rapidly catching up on a backlog of communication, and looking forward to magnitudes more when we're together again this weekend ( Read more... )