hey there all. as promised, i'm posting. posting with a belly full of pizza. doesn't get better than that.
so it's been a great few weeks with some smooth sailing. i found a very nice therm-a-rest mattress for 1/7 the usual price at work and got a nice backpacking sleeping bag for $75. the whole sleeping set-up cost less than $100 and weighs less than 5 pounds. a big bonus when you have to carry both pads and such on your back.
the backpacking trip went very well. lots of absolutely gorgeous country and some not so pretty shots. geezer, there's even a nice ass shot courtesy of my favorite gal.
i've found myself spending far too much money at work but i've still managed to put some away. i'm going to buy a moped pretty soon, i think, just so i can get around more easily. right now i feel like a child or something because i need to be driven everywhere. so i'll pick up some nice gear in the bicycling section and go balls out on my vespa! hardcore!!
i really can't think of anything else to put other than this one thing...i bought a $5 rubber doughnut to work on my forearm strength. i've decided it's time to take my knitting to the next level. or i want to boulder. but mostly it's about the knitting.
that is all.

i've been on this absolute kick for classical the past few weeks. that and leonard cohen and bright eyes. i don't really know why. right now i'm playing some of the best piano ever written. it's rachmaninov. i'm pretty sure that's how you spell his name. like neitchze it's impossible to know it you've just gotten it wrong like i think i did there or not. and i'm terrible at speling. just ask sara. terrible at spelling.

anyway, we've got one day of clinical left. i'm excited and yet i think that i'll miss my residents a lot. they're really great people and interesting. that's what you get when you put a few thousand years of experience into one building. one of our gals used to teach classical piano, he daughter does teach and play and her son in law is a drummer. another guy is the uncle of the drummer for Death Cab for Cutie. they'll have a new album out, by the way, in a few weeks here. comes out Aug. 30th. sara has hinted that it would make a great birthday gift. i'm so tired even my creative juices aren't flowing right. yesterday i had only 83% oxygen concentration in my fingers. that's what they call dangerously low... and so we've proved, once and for all, that i have terrible circulation to my fingers.

i'm getting close to finishing a knit hat for later in the year here. it'll be cold enough for it in no time. sad, really, that that's going to be the case.
i took a nice dip into the Sound yesterday. it was cold as hell after the freezing. but it was fun on the whole and i'm looking forward to my next dose of briny goodness.
and i've found a word today that i didn't know: qat. evidently it's a currency or something, lol. saw it on the scrabble board earlier.

sorry to have been such a stranger to you all but i've been too tired to even deal with much other than sleeping, eating and working. i can't wait for sleeping in tomorrow. by sleeping in i mean 8 a.m. but that's beside the point. it's still a bit more sleep that last night.

and now i will leave you to ponder what will become of man's obsession with space now that our manned vehicles are failing. think about that for a while. we're doomed to actually having to care and conserve what we have on this planet. i know, i know, "GASP!!" but you realize that it's going to be a big shock to some folks. i'm looking at the SUV drivers *cough cough*
that is all, gaylords.

5 Questions with Sumo

1. If you could have any car in the world, what would it be?

for me it would be something that makes sense. like grabbing a bmw smart car until the hydrogen cell cars come out. the reason for all this is that i accept my own place in creating environmental trends with my consumption of goods. most people do not think of the difference they could make in the world just by driving something efficient. why should businesses be the only ones concerned with efficiency?

2. Who is the person you'd most like to punch in the mouth... and why?

it would have to be either bill o'reilly or anne coulter. and don't correct my spelling it it's wrong, i don't care, remember that i want to punch these guys in the mouth.
reasons being that they fuel ignorance and narrow thinking, assail the rules of logic and argument established and followed by the philosophers of every age and then become offended and use impassioned pleas to feelings to counter any argument that logically defeats their own. the kicker is that for years they've decried the democratic party's use of these exact tactics. but bring it up and they'll assail your patriotism. so just shut the fuck up! it's what they're hoping you'll do.

3. Book(s) you've tried to read but just couldn't get through, but you'll finish another time?

Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation," "29th Let's Go!," the Old English version of "Beowulf," Tacitus' "The Annals of Imperial Rome," Caesar's "De Bellum Gallicum" in the original Latin, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie".

4. What period of history would you most like to visit... and why?

the times of the Peloponesian War, founding of Rome and attempted conquest of Greece by Persia. as to why i will say that i want to see the look on a man's face when he has to kill a man by his own hand even though he has no reason to hate the man he is killing, to see what may be the most momentous event in recorded history and to witness the power of hope, faith and willing sacrifice in the most eloquent expression i've ever read of. also because i'm a total latin nerd... yeah, i'll hang my head a bit at that.

5. What would be your ideal job?

i want to be that lucky bastard that gets to name new colors!!
i'm completely serious. i've long thought that that has to be the greatest job ever.
think about it: all you have to do all day is throw a color name together with some random object that pops into your mind. like...roadhouse blue or tannin taupe or burnt espresso. best. job. ever.

and now, the rules:
1) Leave me a comment saying interview me please.
2) I will respond by asking you five questions. ( not the same as you see here.)
3) You will update your blog/site with the interview questions.
4) You will include this explanation and offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5) When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.