r.i.p. world birthday web. wow...that was a super old school site! remember when the web had, like, 4 web sites on it? remember surfing the entire web in, like, 3 hours?

drumming, drumming, drumming...what is wrong with *drumming* up a little business for a yard sale? plenty if the area residents (and guests) are trying to sleep. apparently people in capitol hill will stop at nothing to attract a little business.

have you seen apocalypse now redux yet? some surprising new additions for sure. especially the french sequence and the second playboy bunnies sequence. anyway, that's all i say about that...other than bring a pillow for your ass. long film, long film.

well, it seems that august may not end up as much of a blog month either. i'm so behind on the *i* word...steve said that he had nearly forgotten about it too. boy, what were we all thinking with that? anyway, lots of interesting stuff going on at work but none of which i will post here. sorry!

i'm feeling kind of lonely tonight. i can't really say why. well i guess that i do know why...i guess reality always manages to creep into everything no matter how much we try to keep it at bay. and i guess that maybe we are never as immune to things as we thought that we had become.

the street dj was back in full force this morning apparently, although i wasn't on the westside this morning. steve was in town for the weekend and so we did some touristy stuff. finally went up to mt. ranier, although not very far in. and speaking of ranier...loria and michael are coming to town in a little less than a month. so this has been quite the visitor's summer it seems.

i've gotta get back to updating this thing more often i see. i guess that i started feeling weird about the whole blog and i can't quite figure out what to do about it. would anyone miss it if it were gone?

ok, so august didn't start out as much of a blog month. i was sick this past week...what can you do? all i can say is that the er in kirkland is pretty fucked up at 3am. talk of charcoal, pills, and headers down the hill...all while the security guards laughed and laughed. i *think* that i was the normal one in there that night. so there you go. context.

anyway, to catch everyone up...lucia and jesse were both in town and steve is coming into town next weekend. took lucia to dilettante's and jesse to coastal kitchen. it was good to see everyone but all the same kind of strange seeing everyone in a city other than chambana. so...talk of a new officemate starting next week are on the agenda now...ah...yikes.

one question: who exactly is that street dj on republican? like clockwork.

sick, sick, sick...

so something involving rose petals on saturday night led to a very *special* episode of cops in redmond and the next thing you know we are on the run, ending up at a taco bell in capitol hill talking to an off-duty cross dresser and a blind man named mark. but not before landing at a 7-eleven just outside the 520 exit and listening to the man about how the super sour watermelon slurpees will completely fuck you up. obviously that guy hadn't seen what we had seen that night. it's amazing how quickly the shock led to anger, which has now subsided into one hell of a funny story. but who to tell?

gotta get v! now on dvd WITH commentary! hear that, jesse?

ok, are you in the seattle area? what is UP with those damn empire glass ads? if i have to hear about those 24 free dinners at the cucina cucina italian cafe and diamond stud earrings with the purchase of a new windshield one more time...i mean, 24 free dinners?? what the fuck? how expensive are these windshields? or maybe, more importantly, how cheap are these dinners? the ads remind me of the old ginsu knife ads from the 70s.

flying saucers are everywhere...and medical problems? two words: alien abductions

well, my brother got infected with the latest email virus and i got a whole slew of virus messages from him. i knew that it was a virus right away...so far the auto text for virus messages gives it completely away that it is a virus. it's almost always too awkward and reads as if it was a bad translation. all your base. i was, however, worried that my dad or someone might open one of the attachments, which required some quick phone calls home.

sometimes i wonder if i've woken up from the dream. i wonder if maybe i've been living the whole thing the entire time and maybe the dream is just a summary of the patterns that my mind has found. suddenly i feel ok about it, though.

well, noon was a better time and it seemed that the whole day went much better than monday when all was said and done. yeah, ok, i still kind of feel like a fuck up...but maybe more of a minor fuck up than a major one.

anyway, guess whose house i was at this evening? yep, bill's house. and it was *that* bill. cool house, although i've gotta say...those people behind the movie antitrust must have seen the place because the house in the movie was pretty damn close to the real one. anyway, we didn't get to go into the house too much though...not too much at all, in fact. but it was still cool to see it.

i hope that you all have some love in your live right now.

i hate assholes. ask me about *my* week...could 5pm have been any more of a disaster? and, well, 4pm was pretty bad too.

yep...i'm just a misunderstood destroyer...

so this weekend ended up playing out much differently than i had originally thought...although it was such a back and forth week with regard to phone calls, reservations, etc that i wonder if i really had any concept of what was actually going to happen this weekend. not that we ever really know...but that's neither here nor there. my dad called today from national en route to reno via o'hare. i couldn't help feeling bad for him with regard to the whole thing.

anyway, i'm back in the loop now and i have another test to run at work this week. i had another amazing weekend despite all the oddness going into it. it's a really nice feeling. i should have known that "the emerald city" would bring such things...

one question before i sign off for the night...who is this aaron carter kid that they keep advertising on mtv? apparently he's the brother of a backstreet boy...but that means zero to me. it's the worst ad campaign that i have seen and they are giving away a ton of stuff when you order his cd. bad sign, kid...whoever you are.

well, it's been back and forth but it seems that i am definitely going to reno this weekend. to review, my grandfather broke his hip and things are a complete mess down there...i have no idea what's going on and neither does my dad. it's really, really bad timing, especially after a particularly frustrating week. but i'm glad i'm not going alone. and that i'm not going through this completely alone is quite surprising. but nice.

soooooo fellow babies...i'll be out of the loop for a few days since i'm not sure that i'll be able to post before i leave. hope that everything's well with all of you.

here's another good article on katharine graham in today's salon if you are interested.

spyder games is so, so, sooooooo bad. what's really funny, though, is that christina from high school is playing this character named taylor and in the last episode said that she grew up in alexandria, virginia. ok...that's only funny if you know that she really did grow up in alexandria, virginia...i mean in real life. ok, maybe that's only funny to me.

it seems that some things are changing...for the worse. when will this stop? and not just in south africa...but everywhere...