archive for May of 2008

flickr Natural Ingredients

Posted May 29, 2008 • Comments Off on Natural Ingredients

auntsmack4u posted a photo:

Natural Ingredients

Vodka Tonics and some backyard bokeh

web Spy planes

Posted May 19, 2008 • Comments Off on Spy planes

The resolution and usability of the bird’s-eye view on map.live.com are unbelievable. For some reason, today, I found myself looking at my hometown again. For some even less fathomable reason, this is the tidbit I choose to share.

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This is my junior high school. It’s bigger now than it was; I think the buildings with the darkest roofs (at the top and at the upper right) postdate me. I graduated from this school in 1987, so it’s fine that they’ve moved on.

However, there is one thing that happened within the bounds of this picture that I thought I’d relate.

See the white and yellow buses? See the cement steps to the right and just below the yellow bus?

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I was standing on those steps when I learned that Wham broke up.

That is all.

web The blue one is a little bit cheating for me

Posted May 12, 2008 • Comments Off on The blue one is a little bit cheating for me
I mean, come on, this is what I do. I was mostly limited by typing them out and by the fact that so many of them have “official” names that don’t match what the website wants. Still, though. Over a hundred.

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web Balance sheet

Posted May 12, 2008 • Comments Off on Balance sheet

Because I have to re-convince myself this is the right thing to do. Because lately it’s been so much waiting and so much worrying—and it’s showing—that I became tempted to tell Molly to scrap the whole thing.

Will miss:

  • Open, bright kitchen
  • Passthrough directly over the sink
  • Brand-new vinyl windows
  • Ceiling fan
  • Light switch right next to my bed
  • Washer and dryer on the bedroom level
  • Two easily accessible entrances

Won’t miss:

  • Searching for a parking spot
  • Noisy neighbors
  • Balcony neighbors think is shared property
  • Unstable satellite dish
  • Back door that unlocks and opens itself in some storms
  • Outdoor storage closet
  • Maintenance guys coming in without knocking
  • 20 steps from the street to the apartment
  • Dark office
  • Ten layers of sticky white paint
  • No catproofable areas
  • Tiny washer and dryer
  • Bad heating/cooling vent placement
  • Noisy furnace/air conditioner in the living room
  • Leaky second shower
  • Metal folding closet doors
  • Dumpster
  • Going upstairs to pee
  • This constant waiting around for the seller’s bank to unass their thumbs

Flat-out gains:

  • Reserved parking spots right out front
  • Space, space, space
  • Wood floor
  • Separate dining room
  • Deck
  • Triple-LNB satellite dish bolted to said deck
  • Another bedroom
  • Powder room on the main level
  • Close-off-able basement rooms
  • Fenced yard
  • Attic
  • Brick
  • Flowers
  • Can finally hang hammock chair purchased in 1999

flickr STEP AHEAD OF YOUR TIME TO PANASONIC

Posted May 5, 2008 • Comments Off on STEP AHEAD OF YOUR TIME TO PANASONIC

spike55151 posted a photo:

STEP AHEAD OF YOUR TIME TO PANASONIC

flickr How to draw Pip

Posted May 3, 2008 • Comments Off on How to draw Pip

Ape Lad posted a video:

How to draw Pip

flickr Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #826

Posted May 1, 2008 • Comments Off on Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #826

Ape Lad posted a photo:

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #826