sea ranch and a special surpise...

some sea ranch pics:

red beard and the sea

crabby

the house

the view

relaxin

the sunset

the evil model train

the mohawk

what happens when jeni and i stay at work too late, a brief series


never been inside, but guessing this might be my favorite store


MY NEW BIKE!!! yay!

super size

biggest trash can i've ever seen (hard to tell, there's nothing to scale it off of, but it was easily 5x5 feet at the top), salt lake city, utah:

p.s.

(finished painting the bathroom tuesday morning)

ma and grandma are coming today! i told taxi. usually when i leave him in the morning he's curled up under a blanket on the couch, today he was watching anxiously out the window.

hang in there, 94109

in case you were wondering, so far i'm surviving: 94109

and with the help of miss leslie, all but the bathroom got painted this weekend! yay!

extra extra

it's been a while since i shared any photos, here are some random ones.
soaking up some rays

scary buttface at the boardwalk

paw crosser


a little high/headachey on paint fumes, more painting tomorrow...
come over and see how cool it looks!

you know you're a dork if...

the clue for 11 across in the ny times crossword puzzle is "acid" and you write in "HCl" without a second thought.

land of the free

wonder how they were celebrating in "real america."



unfortunately this election was bittersweet. i'm proud to be an american, but not so much proud to be a californian right now. we voted overwhelmingly for the fair treatment of animals...but not for humans. hm. but in the spirit of looking on the bright side, and because my eyeballs hurt from randomly bursting into tears all day when people asked if i was happy about the election, prop 8 was a lot closer than prop 22. i'm certain we'll get there some day, hopefully some day soon.

holy shit.

nader just said something to the effect of:

is he going to be uncle sam or uncle tom?

say goodbye to your career and your dignity, ralph.
ugh. and i voted for that POS years ago.

halloween and a big day

i don't have any halloween pictures, but i have this one from a halloween fundraiser we had last week for the lsmp kids. my costume was better after a few more days of refining and a sweet embroidered name patch handmade by colette. but this gives you an idea.

by the way, jackie, i'saiah, and anthony offered up unsolicited presidential selections. they all voted for obama...on nick kids. and a quote from another (7 year old) lsmp kid, "i'm voting for obama, cause if sean mclane wins we're all gonna be hecka poor."

and i'm almost too excited to sleep tonight. tomorrow will be even worse. elections are tough. get out and vote!!

oh! check out this email a friend's boss sent out to his company:

Everyone,

I’m pretty vocal about my political views but I do not recall ever sending everyone an email asking you to vote a certain way on a certain political measure. So this is a first. I am asking everyone to please vote yes on Proposition 8. Since this company was started 25 years ago this has been a family first organization. Proposition 8 is also about putting family first. Let me state this is not an anti-gay initiative, it is a pro-marriage proposition in that it defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. Simple as that. Gay couples enjoy all the same legal rights as married couples. Society has always regulated who may marry: for example we as a society do not allow cousins to marry or brothers and sisters to marry or boys and older men to marry. If marriage means anything then it means nothing.

Please join me in voting yes on Proposition 8.

Thank-you

Tom

who knew "thank you" was supposed to be hyphenated?

and prop 8 is absolutely an anti-gay initiative! comparing same sex marriage to incest or NAMBLA-esque relations? really?! what an idiot. who does he think he is telling his employees how to vote?! and with a 50% divorce rate, um, sorry, but the institution of marriage (as defined between a man and a woman, by the way) stopped being so "sacred" a long time ago.

i don't like the word "tolerant," but i like the point of this ad:


i didn't ask jackie, i'saiah and anthony how they were voting on prop 8. but they're smart kids.

good luck tomorrow!

one last gem (haha, contrary to the picture that shows up, this one isn't a prop 8 ad):