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too much time in pointless yearning
leads me through a gourgeous, delicious world
that i am permanently precluded from.
in(-)focusing on how i cannot be what i want
i stop myself from becoming what I can.

I don’t usually do this (post and run), but here’s a tiny rejoinder that came to my mind and I found it worth posting:

If opinions had any actual value, none of us would have to work for a living.

Friday night, dropped off at Mathomhouse. Poor Ducky had to drive right back (3 hours each way). I definitely need to pay more attention to Ducky’s journal. This underscores that journals of those I’ve met in person seem to be more real and interesting — I feel I can grok an underlying tone better once I’ve listened and observed someone speak. Tone is quite difficult in text and all that. So, Ducky = the cool.

FOODIE WEEKEND:

On Saturday we took downtown to hit one of our favourite breakfast places, Byways. We then went to Powell’s city of books, a few upscale kitchen stores, and finished at Whole [paycheck] Foods. Also hit a small asian market (after I couldn’t find the large asian market that I saw somwhere) on the way back home.
When we arrived back at Mathom House, we saw that ‘s loaves had arrived so toast was made. It was, of course, delicious. We made Fondue for dinner. It was a mix of Irish cheddar & Emmenthaler with ale instead of white wine. I think it needed a softer cheese as the cheese would not homogenize properly and fell out of solution too easily. The cheese issue certainly didn’t stop us from eating it, however. We dunked in the fondue with bread, small potatoes, and Bratwurst. definitely a filling meal.

Saturday Night we took the MAX downtown to and went to Scandal’s (which is moving) & of course, Silverado. At scandals, and I had the idea to turn the space into a gay tiki bar: freshly squeezed, properly made cocktails served by hot men in sarongs. Silverado was fun, though their strippers have been nudged in the way of beefy and shaved, which I can tolerate. I do prefer their more usual normalish hirsute fellows. (Perhaps it changes on Saturday Nights?)

Sunday we left sleeping and joined our local Tikiphiles in the 1st of a session of work parties at a local tiki bar we are refurbishing. We are calling it “Tiki Church.” Came back and lazily made Pad Si-Ew for dindin. We relaxed and watched movies and got not much of anything accomplished. Heaven.

And now today I’m back at work. Yawn.

We made FARK news today with our Washington Department of Health spots. weeee!

A super duper hooper birthday to the illustrious and fabulous !
Many happy returns indeed!

HOORAY!

To !

Happy Monkey!

So, let’s pretend in the future somewhere, I will run a helpdesk.

If I do, I think I’ll make a huge banner to hang over the front desk, prominently displayed for those coming in to see:

Silly Retardeds! Computers are for Smarties!

Do you think that would go over well?

Dear Universe:

Please let RIM have to shut down their Blackberry service. The cries and pain of the affected users will be like a supple sound to my ear. Delicious.

So heather has her residency this week (starting Thursday) and I was thinking about coming up friday to visit, leaving on Saturday.

She already has accomodation through another friend who is in the program, but I won’t. To save cash, I was wondering if any friends in Seattle might be able to put me up for the night? Friday Night?

I’d bring a cute puppy with me!

-=C

Hey there everybody (and I mean everybody – yes, you too. 😉 )

News:

Um, not much. I’ve been working and playing City of Heroes [and CoV, thanks, Rob] and cooking lately. and I have a new cooking method that we’re obsessing about: roasting veggies, particularly brussel sprouts. You can thank Orangette, particularly this recipe. I have used this method for roasting potatoes (with garlic, rosemary, salt) before. With veggies? Devine.

The other day I did this with onion, carrot, brocolli, cauliflower, potatoes, garlic. Instead of salt, I tossed them with Mae Ploy red curry and olive oil.
Once cooked, transferred them to a stock pot and added Pacific’s creamy tomato soup in the tetrapak. Delicious.
I usually make this “Tomato Curry Vegatable soup” by cooking the veggies in a bit of curry and olive oil in the pot first. The roasting way is FAR superior in both flavour and time considerations. The carmelized bits add a dimension to the soup that is well received. Yummers.

This weekend we need to put away all the Christmas decorations. I know the house is going to seem bare and lonley once they go away. I’ll have to fill it with the smell of cooking, I suppose.

In other news, I’ve applied for a position at PSU. My exact job description for my IT career-track that I was on previously. It would be nice to be making what I deserve again.

Also, I’ve been extremely tired of the internet culture lately – the idea that “everyone is a critic” and I suppose the underlying idae of criticism and opinion. I think at the base, Opinions are worthless trappings of ephemeral illusionary meaning. I wish we didn’t spend so much time about personal reaction and judgement to external objects (and more precisely what we view those reactions to mean). I just don’t buy that the analysis of a person’s taste has any objective meaning in any sense of scale, grand or small. I guess I’m mellowing and getting more accepting in my old age.

I’d better get back to work here – it is Friday and a some old friends are coming up this weekend to visit. Neither has seen the house since the Tiki Room went in, nor the bathroom. We’ll need to clean up a bit tonight.

Cheers!