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— Nail. Head.

Interesting.

THREE (nick)NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Cute
2. Puffin
3. Monkey

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. The Wild Hooligan
2. Melintur
3. Elenadan

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I can adapt/assimilate knowledge easily
2. I am sturdy
3. Sense of Humor

THREE THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I am a pushover
2. I overanalyze
3. I have rarely felt comforatble with being alive

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Russian
2. Polish/German
3. Danish

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. Other people
2. Mortality
3. Impossibility of true objectivity

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Fun
2. Coffee
3. Social Interaction

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Chipped chrome nail polish
2. Stripey stocking-cap
3. Cloth belt

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE BANDS OR ARTISTS (at the moment and always):
1. J. R. R. Tolkien
2. J. S. Bach
3. Edward Gorey

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. Sleigh Ride
2. Santa’s Secret
3. What are you Doing New Year’s Eve?

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. To play with other musicians
2. To go to Amsterdam and then to Eastern Europe
3. To host a dinner party

THREE IRONIES THAT YOU DWELL ON:
1. The human need to control others to change one’s perception of reality
2. Man’s return to holding true in the face of the fallacy of ends justifying means
3. Man’s ignoring testable and predictory reality in favour of feelings and ad-hoc reasoning

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. There is a certain wide angle to the hips
2. Natural Chest
3. Butts, man. Butts.

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE SAME SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. “goofy-yet-striking” facial features: Strong|button nose, pronounced cheekbones|chin, large eyes, DSL lips, etc.
2. Strong hands
3. Hipbones / that groinal “v.”

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN’T DO:
1. Contain my pansexuality
2. Feel comfortable around straight(read homophobic/macho/unfeeling) men
3. Entertain concrete aesthetics

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES:
1. Cooking
2. Gaming
3. Entertaining/Socializing

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Do something widely irresponsible without any resulitng negative consequences
2. Bake Christmas cookies
3. Relax in front of fire with a board game, heather, friends, winter-style ale, and a fine grade of drinking T.

THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING:
1. High School Teacher
2. Caretaker|Hostellier|Host
3. Craftsman

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO:
1. Amsterdam | Europe
2. South Pacific
3. Brazil

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Be a grandfather
2. Produce a ‘piece of work’ I can be self-satisfied with.
3. Hike and camp a long-ish mountain trail (John Muir specifically, Roman road in Britain, or other international one will suffice)

Teeny Scratches did not affect the playing.

Stayed up far too late watching some of the nifty documentaries on the bonus discs, am now very tired.

I still have specific issues/problems with the film (on par with my minor dissapointment with TTT), but I’m not complaining (too much) anymore. Too happy about the good parts.

I’m happy and at peace with the completion of the Movie phenomena, and can re-claim the literary/philosophical facets.

Still really tired, though.

It is now in my hot little hands. In looking at the discs, disc 2 has some faint scratches on it. It had better not skip tonight or I will be cross.
CROSS I TELL YOU.

I’m contemplating taking it back for an exchange…But I don’t want to go back to Target, I want to go home and watch!

GRRR.

They are really faint… Perhaps they won’t matter.

Return of the King EE comes out today.

I just want to go pick it up and go home.

Yay.

Gruss Vom Krampus was an overwhelming success — I was very happy to have a lovely turnout. Great to see you , and . Great fun was had by all.

The next day we went to our friend’s party in North Portland and had another blast, much fun was had, etc.

Sunday was re-coup and resting.

Not looking forward too much to the cleaning and reorganizing the house.

And a-yup, it has been a Monday!

Got the tree last night. Thanks for reccomending the place on 82nd. Not only did we get a fabulous 7′ noble fir, not only was it extremely affordable ($30), the wonderful operator delivered it for us. 😀

Living room is almost done – much still to do – added some items to the to-do list and scrached off many. Tree is decorated and it looks fabulous.

Poor had a car failure today. She borrowed her sister’s van so that she could pick up our Niece from school and it died on her, on I-84. I passed it on the way to work, and was only about 4 cars behind ODOT taking her away from it. Poor monkey. Everyone should give her some interweb hugs. 😉

One day left – I hope all goes well.

cheers everyone!

Happy belated birthday

Happy non-belated birthday

As well to

May you get many happy monkeys.

Hey there everybody!

Hump day, aooooo-gah. Decorated the living room to about 1/2 way, awaiting the xmas tree. Tonight we should be getting that, finishing the living room, and tackling the tiki room. I also need to find some time to put up the outside lights (in the rain, no doubt). We’re definitely getting there.

Oh! Need a costco run in there sometime as well. Jeeze, there is just little time left.

I can’t leave work on Friday, but I really need to for the party so I’m torn as to how to flake with the least amount of fall-out.. Come in early, leave at lunch? Call in from home out? Hmmm. Any ideas there, slackers?

I also have nothing to really wear – the only black pants I have are workpants. They could work I suppose. I need to find a RED tie as well. I think I have one but I don’t know where the ties are…

I’ve been playing with making fun type with Illustrator – here is my current sandbox version of a Candy Cane style. I did it mostly to see if I could do it, and to see how the interaction of all of adobe’s transparancy/mixing modes work with color and such.

Those in the Illustrator know: Any tips, etc?
Those not in the design know: What’dya think?