Add comment November 17th, 2007
I? Am apparently Not Normal
Saw this on the blog of one of my most favoritest authors and decided to play along and see what it had to say about my brain.
Hmmm…. Guess that explains some things.
Mr. N (whom you have probably not previously heard of), responded with “I could have told you that”. Such a nice boy that one.
1 comment October 30th, 2007
Seattle: The passive-aggressive capital of the world!
Seattle-ites are well known for the passive-aggressive nature, so seeing a nastygram that someone had left on the windshield of a truck in our parking garage, was not a surprise.
Also not surprising was the spelling on the note. The note-writers in this building are notorious for their bad spelling.
It seemed, somehow, necessary to not only photograph it and post it, but…. fix it. (Too vs. to is one of my pet peeves, right up there with there/their/they’re and your/you’re - and yeah, I know, my grammar and punctuation often sucks. Whatever with that.) This is how I left it:
As usual, enclicken to embiggen
As was pointed out to me later, what I *should* have done was to correct it and then GRADE it. But, alas, I wasn’t thinking. And that truck? Very tall. Me? Not so tall.
In other news:
- Had dinner with Denise last night. Very yummy. We all ate too much.
- Bought another stack of Japanese knitting books at Kinokuniya before said dinner. They were very heavy when our bellies were full.
- Nihon Vogue has begun! I get to go to The Best Place On Earth (aka Canada) twice a month for the next 9 months. Woo! (and yes, as a matter of fact, I AM already behind on my homework. Gonna make something of it?)
- Acupuncture is magical. Just sayin’.
2 comments October 12th, 2007
Jazz Hands!
or “More random blackberry pictures”. ‘Cos I know you guys live for that kind of thing…
(Dell 1710 printer left in photo for scale)
I stopped at the Pike Place Market this morning to pick up some flowers as a thank you for my friend Livia. This is one of the few things that I really love about the market - the ability to get off a bus at 8:30 in the morning, walk a block down hill, hand $15 to someone who’s head you can almost see behind the wall of flowers, walk out with a bouquet of flowers you can barely see around, walk back up the block you just walked down, and be on the next bus heading up the street. I wasn’t even late for work. Go me.
And? For the TOTALLY random shot - Critterboy and I were heading to… the opera? probably. Something. At any rate. We were parked on the ferry behind a Scion xB, that had, on the entire back of it, for reasons we absolutely couldn’t fathom, THIS:
Yes. We had Ronald giving us the old jazz hands! over the hood of the truck all the way to Seattle. It was a VERY long ride.
Clowns are scary, people. Don’t do that to your fellow commuters!
2 comments September 19th, 2007
Still giggling
You know it’s going to be an amusing conversation when it’s with this guy and it starts “so there’s this big goth event in Arkansas…”
(and yeah, he always looks exactly like that)
(and yeah, I swear I have Genuine Knitting Content[tm] to share, I just need to plug in my camera and download the pics. this weekend, maybe.)
September 1st, 2007
I see dumb people
Being that there isn’t any really good coffee available on my side of the pond, I end up getting my early-morning-jumpstart-the-functionality coffee at the Starschmuck’s at the ferry dock. It’s not great, but it’s consistent, and that’s KEY first thing in the morning. Most mornings it’s the same group of people, shuffling along, mumbling their orders, and all is fine. Today, however, I hear LOUDLY from someone two or three people in line behind me reply to the person taking orders down the line:
“I need a venti nonfat breve caramel macchiato*” Um…. yeah. I’m sure they’ll get RIGHT on that, honey.
At least it was good for a (well stifled) giggle.
*If you need a glossary of terms to make this REALLY amusing, start here.
2 comments August 3rd, 2007
Winders!
OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!
We’re FINALLY getting new windows in the bedroom! WOOOOO!
The entire east wall of our bedroom has, until this morning, been single pane glass. The. Entire. Wall.
At the moment it looks like this:
Ipe!
Soon, though, it will be loverly and have some sort of insulating quality and ventilation and and and and. Yeah. I’m kind of excited. Can you tell?
More pictures as Critterboy provides them.
1 comment August 2nd, 2007
IE6 is hateful
If you’re seeing either a)a whooooole lotta green before the text starts or b)the right-side nav pane showing up at the very bottom below the posts, please know that I am fully aware that it’s a problem at the moment, and that it appears to only be an issue on windowsXP/IE6 combos. If you’re having an issue with it, please go get Firefox. Firefox rocks. Or, if you’re really groovin’ on the Internet Explorer, upgrade to IE 7. Why IE 6 is borking the layout I’m not positive yet, and probably won’t have time to dig through the css to figure it out until next week.
5 comments July 7th, 2007
Momentary amusement
I’m on hold with the Seattle Aquarium at the moment, and the hold music is “Saturday Night Fish Fry”….
2 comments July 5th, 2007
More ferry bench cell phone photography!
I finally finished the Japanese Feather socks. I’m not sure why I stalled out on these just beyond the heel on the first one (heh. I typed that as “just beyond the hell”), but I did, and they languished for ages and ages and ages, sitting all melancholy-like on the nightstand. On a whim I picked it back up a couple of weeks ago and spent some quality time trying to figure out where in the hell I was on the pattern. Once I had that, I whipped out the rest of that first sock in about an hour, and immediately cast on for the second, which just seemed to fly off the needles too. Go figure. I absolutely LOVE the way these turned out, even if I was totally incapable of taking a decent picture of my own foot. Wouldn’t figure it would be that difficult, but I swear my ankles aren’t that wide and my feet aren’t *that* short.
And, of course, not one to leave well enough alone… I give you more random pictures from my morning commute! I know you were waiting breathlessly for them.
The view from my bus stop on the way to work:
One of the meadowy places at the new Olympic Sculpture Garden has, in the last couple of weeks, completely BLOOMED. From above the whole thing is PINK! with these flowers. I’m not sure what they are, but I love them.
And the metal tree in the sculpture garden, which I totally didn’t realize was metal until the morning I took this picture and the sun was making it sooper shiny. Who knew?
There are a few more BSG pics on my phone yet to be downloaded, and I think a couple more Lusty Lady marquees, so those will be coming in the days to come, as it were.
Ooh! And the seagull (possibly even the same one as in the masthead) is back on the nest on the piling, so within the next 20 days I should have baby seagull pix. Newly hatched seagulls are REALLY cute. Almost as cute as the baby bunnies I got to play with yesterday. They were cute enough that CritterBoy, who is horribly allergic to bunnies, couldn’t resist petting them. It was like some sort of freaky magnetic field that just sucked him right in.
5 comments July 4th, 2007
Drive-by redesign
Shazam!
Still too tired to really think, but at least had the sense to take today off to recover from BSG. In some ways the trip was entirely too short, since there were people that I so rarely get to hang out with, and in some ways it was way too long (hotel bed from hell and soooooo far to drive). I spent some more time spinning today, since I always come home from the festivals re-energized and inspired about the spinning, but mostly did as little as humanly possible.
Oh, yeah, and I redid the header and changed the color-scheme. It was time.
3 comments June 26th, 2007
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Well, another BSG is over (well, over for us at any rate, it still goes all day tomorrow, but we’ll be on the road headed to Belmont Station in Portland to get some tasty beer and then home to the north lands to sit on the deck and drink the tasty beer).
This year, like last year, was a hell of a lot of fun with much merrymaking with people we just don’t get to see often enough (waving madly in the direction of Sheila and Michael, Tina and gang, Barb, Jen, Jessica, Peggy and Rebecca, and Natasha, and I know I’m missing some), and meeting people in person whom we’ve only known through the internets (hullo Joanne and Laura and Tammy!)
Much fun, entirely too much food, a ginormous rental car full of fiber (’The Behemoth’), and NO FLEECE. Woo! Go us with our uncanny restraint. We’ll thank ourselves later.
More pix in the gallery.
3 comments June 24th, 2007
Random backyard wildlife
I’ve been seeing a lot of butterflies in the past couple of weeks, most of them appearing to be Western Tiger Swallowtails, which is very cool, since it seems like it’s been MANY years since I’ve seen any at all.
Tonight when we went to cover up the chicken coop, this one was sitting on the window ledge, looking a little worse for wear. When I put my hand on the ledge next to it, it climbed right up onto my hand and just sat there for about 15 minutes while I tried to get a decent picture of it.
Sadly, I don’t think it’s long for this world - its wings were pretty shredded, and there was the big chunk missing from the bottom of the right wing. I put my hand back to the window ledge and it crawled back off and just sat. It was awfully neat getting to be that up close and personal with it, though.
1 comment June 15th, 2007
Portrait of a Chicken
Lizzy Chicken, begging at the window last night.
That’s it. Nothing more to see here. Move along.
3 comments June 11th, 2007