OK, I guess I should post something, if only to satisfy the slavering masses hanging on every syllable…
Since I haven’t posted since the end of March, here’s a longish recap: mixing gamelan, Colin play, bird’s mating dance, Matt concert, friend’s kid’s birthday party, Erika at auction, Kid’s fest, get grass cut & maintained, Colin’s birthday, Bin Laden killed, royal wedding, Mathias’ Olympiad, coming of age at church, Colin’s sleepover, Mathias too, Mathias sick, Erika diverticulitis & sciatica, Mathias’ cut up toe, new brakes & engine mount, chipped tooth, Colin farm trip, Hood River trip, cleaned car, i, Chicago trip, church & school potlucks, buy the house? not. renting & packing bleh, kids out of school, new iPod. Got it? That’s really only so I know what happened between March and July 2011 when someone asks…
Basically it’s been the usual, except that we’re moving into a tiny apartment next week. It sucks, but we’re going to save $600/month which will pay for school and hopefully pay off enough debt that we can buy a house. I tried to tell Erika this when we moved up here, but she didn’t hear me, so we’ve peed away all the extra money we got when I got a big pay hike. Oh well. Such are things.
The link farm: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%, Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System, Militarized Conservatism and the End(s) of Higher Education, Offshored Production, Dysfunctional Diplomacy and Outsourced Policy, I’d Add a Couple Things, Green Party platform, 9 Things The Rich Don’t Want You To Know About Taxes, The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science, The Corporate State Wins Again, The Real American Exceptionalism, How Americans Can Get Up and Stand Up, Escape from the Zombie Food Court, The Tenfold Path to Guts, Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution, The Truth About the American Economy, The Future of Power, Play Again, The Sky Really Is Falling and Rumi’s Field.
Listening to: Lisa Gerrard, Pere Ubu, mloski, Henry Wolff/Nancy Hennings, Gordon Hempton, Primus, florian fernbacher, David Byrne, Henry Cow, Soundwalk, The Future Sound Of London