My exciting life, this place
At Toyah’s, looking through her kitchen to make something to eat. Chat with her about stuff. Go out to her bunny hutch, someone drove through it and the fence needs respite. Try to get it closed but a big bunny gets out and jumps very high.
On a bus, the driver hits someone and keeps going. We yell at her to stop bus she doesn’t. She hits another one, then just mows someone down. We’re freaking out.
Walking through a field with Salem? Noa? We come across a bunch of bunnies and I want to make jerky. We talk about how to transport them without Mom knowing and how much work to prepare. I go back home and start on making the marinade. Pull all sorts of spices and such from the racks. Put in too much honey and ruin it trying to take it out. Go to the bathroom to pee and it’s hard to get the door closed with all the people around. go to the other door and it’s the same way. Finally get it closed.
Hanging out, a big helicopter/jet? flies overhead and disappears behind the house. Watch as a missile comes in-I know it’s a nuke. It blows up a ways away and I see the shockwave come in.
In bed @30700. It’s pitch dark. Get up and go down the hallway, struggle with a dark figure.
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It’s early Fall-getting colder, more rainy. Our front tree is a beautiful red with a red carpet on the porch. I’m feeling a bit lost, adrift. Focusing is hard, just trying to get through my day. Not sure what’s next-just trying to move forward in time without trouble. Hanging out with hummingbirds while working, that’s it. Saw a skunk and rabbits recently in the back yard. Plus squirrels and birds-the usual suburban wildlife, though no raccoons. Been thinking about how the whole progression thing, and our tail, and our elementals. I saw a pretty cool deck at the witch store on Belmont-“Elemental Magick Deck”, by a pair of local witches (Amethyst Rose and Ginger Arechiga, sponsored by a coven-Witches Council Oracle). $44, though…
Thursday (9/4), hanging out in a slightly cleaner living room-got all the stuff off of the couches. Watching “How Buildings Learn”-I had the book, and it’s cool to watch it. Took a couple of days around Labor Day- slept in a lot and got a few things done. Took kids to the state fair, had a Dr’s appointment-203 cholesterol, bad hdl and ldl, meh a1c. Not much else is different.
Monday (9/8) afternoon. Trying to get a web thing going in Dev. No joy so far. (got it) Quiet weekend-working out, taking Salem to things, picking up Claire. Erika’s getting our room cleared out, we did the kitchen too. Ran a 5k yesterday, a little sore today-Matt did the same with walking around Comicon.
Tuesday afternoon. Trying to get a UAT deployment done, task grooming. Just tidied my office cart. Watched A Scanner Darkly last night-that was some fucked up shit.
Thursday morning. Afternoon-busy doing stuff. Erika is spending the night at Breitenbush. I’m without a car. Fine gamelan last night-Mindy wants to do a klenengan.
Friday afternoon, pretty quiet. More password changes, but none that I need to do anything with. Other stuff-helping out-lack of access for things I should have access to. Window sales guy came last night-spendy, but top quality.
Monday morning (9/15). It’s getting chilly in the kitchen, so on goes a sweater. Mellow weekend-blew out leaves from the back and front porches, tidied up the front porch as well. Also fixed one of the drawers in Salem’s new bed. It rained a lot overnight on Saturday and Sunday morning. Workouts, a quick one on Friday. A Costco visit so Matt could get his glasses fixed-no go-he’s a “guest” member. Only spent $100, and got a decent fresh pizza, coffee, frozen fruit, etc. Forgot honey…maybe at Winco.
Monday afternoon (9/22). Listening to an AI meeting. Pretty busy week-workouts and driving people around, a thing, put Salem’s bed together, took Friday off and we went to brunch. Salem went to a camp orientation thing, a bonfire at the Sellwood beach, drove their friend home. Got the Anne Tyng book-didn’t have the article I was looking for. Rained a little on Sunday morning.
Thursday (9/25) morning. Tuesday (9/30) morning. Yeah, that’s how it goes. Pretty quiet weekend-workouts, driving around, got a Fender PA for $40! Made up a funnel for the back gutter out of tar paper. The rain hasn’t really shown up yet-just a little drizzle.
Friday (10/3) noon. Pretty quiet, even though we’re in a “war zone”… It’s a completely ridiculous thing to say, even in rhetorical terms. So, yeah. Not a war zone. Not even around the ICE building. Password change on Tuesday night. Co-worker didn’t catch an issue with checkins, so panic on Weds AM. Took Salem to Providence for a seminar on Weds AM. Went to Salem’s choir recital on Weds rather than gamelan. Erika got her face treated-not as bad as the last time.
Wednesday (10/8) morning. Not much going on-trying to stay motivated. Workouts are getting cut in time, but fine otherwise. Pretty quiet otherwise-put some bins in the shed, moved Salem’s desk. Salem went to a retreat, going to Ashland this weekend, got her glasses.
Friday morning. Pretty quiet-password change last night. Car has a flat. Panicked because stuff to do. Borrowed the neighbor’s car, got Claire from work, dropped her off at the station, picked up Salem from the Keller-she went to a ballet dress rehearsal. A little shocked at the car I was driving… She worried about the Ashland trip. There are a lot of girls that she doesn’t get along with. She went anyways. Fine gamelan Weds.-had to duck out before the last piece. We’re hosting a klenengan Nov 15th. <Afternoon>, car is at the tire shop. Got a tow from AAA. <Evening> Got car back, after the guy forgot to leave my keys, and the dash lit up, then subsided, then Erika got a check engine light then a low tire light. Aargh.
Monday afternoon. Time to finish work. Didn’t get a ton done. Pretty quiet weekend-rainy. Went out to Beaverton to a witch store Sat. Breakfast at the Grove Sun., filled the tires Fri. night-seem to be ok now. Picked up Salem from their trip-was fine. They’re tired.
Tuesday afternoon. Not much going on-got the last official password rotation done, and a db server switch. Hopefully they all work fine. Low tire light when I picked up Claire last night. The tire guy didn’t do a great job.
Tuesday morning (10/21). I should call this. Got stuff to do. Took Friday off, fun with tires, no gamelan, fine workouts. Mathias went to San Diego for the weekend-had a great time, decided to come back Monday rather than Sunday night. Downspout was leaky-tried to just replace it-doesn’t fit right, so need to replace the whole thing. Went to NoKings in downtown Milwaukie, rather than Portland-Erika didn’t want to deal with a huge crowd. Salem came later, went to ChaChaCha for dinner, misplaced her phone, kitchen had it. Pulled out the A/Cs and put them in the shed. We saw a guy stuffing a rabbit into a bag at the rabbit party zone over by the Bomber on 99e. Claire yelled “fuck you” really loudly.
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Looking through Hollywood’s closing warehouse. Just a bunch of random stuff. Look through a bunch of electronics.
Climbing up Everest, but a different way. Get up to a point.
Walking down the stairs in a office. There are a lot of us. Go into the ground floor.
Walking through a bar, but long tables. Someone’s commenting on what we’re doing.
There’s a storm, driving through, stop and get out and take shelter.
A couple of fragile things fell off a table. Look and they’re all ok. Look under the table and my Doulton is there. Turn it over and it’s missing the hand. Look around and find a hand. Discover that the kids have put a Mickey Mouse doll in the Doulton and it’s using those hands.
Hanging out with Kendra. Talking, I lean my head on her shoulder and she gets pissed, tells me to stop. I do it again and touch her arm.
Getting ready to evacuate, at the gym-it’s flooding. We all get into a big warehouse. It’s tight, and I leave and go back. The flood is all gone. Walk over to an apartment building and there are people moving in. I ask where they’re from and they’ve been planned to move there. The girl says I’d better leave, and guys with masks and guns start towards me. I leave and go across the road.
Walking into a building, there’s a big glass wall on one side with an open waiting room and a big stuffed giraffe. I’m confused then see an etched label-it’s a dentist. Walk past and through, then go back to eat some clementines naked. A woman walks up and we talk about how hard it is to navigate-she’s a human factors person. I say I’m a UX guy. I think about getting my Masters as I’m driving on an overpass.
At home, trying to drain our septic tank. The hose is funny and I have to move it around. Matt comes to help at the other hole and his shoe drops in. I tell him and he goes in to get it. He gets out and we start the big hose.
Driving down a dirt road, go up and around to use the shortcut. The car behind us goes straight. Make a turn and the snow is deep. Go back the other way, the car is gone and it’s a huge drop instead of a road. Start climbing down the vines that are there. There are lots and it’s pretty easy.
Loading our stuff up to move. Going through boxes, tell someone that that’s not going, put it in another box. Try to load it into the truck, need to back the truck more. Jump up and help.
Trying to help someone with a problem person. Go to grab them and they disappear, just the clothes. Walk around trying to find out what happened.
Hanging out. Someone brings a cute puppy that they want to give away. It sits with us, but wants to go with its owner. Finally it wants to stay, but we’re leaving.