Month: July 2010

Memorials

Warning Sea-Catte.

The new header is from David Dowker’s Machine Language.

Yesterday we had a memorial service for Gizmo and other lost pets, John Caspell and other of his relatives, Unca Dave and others, and Granny and others.  I know, it sounds kind of weird, but it was a very good memorial and I cried buckets.  Then we sang and played, including Orphan Girl and Hallelujah.  Paul brought the 12 string Guild (a MANNNNN’s guitar) and played It Takes a Lot to Laugh it Takes a Train to Cry, and Wild Mountain Thyme, and Willie’s Diamond Joe, and much else.  It was a moving and challenging day, and we all got through it okay, but I could have done without Auntie Mary saying that she couldn’t go through another one of those again and can she please go first.

Love and loss let us know what’s important.  Love each other while you can!

Elementary, my dear particle

Oh, great. Now we have to rewrite physics AGAIN.

From the same site… Here, have an electric blue worm.

When palaeontologists drink….

Added Book of Eli to the list of movies watched.  Visually awesome, flawed in plot.  Every time I see one of these movies I think… where’s the goddamned food coming from?

Took off work early yesterday to get a massage…. since nobody I actually see on a regular basis is providing one.  Depressing, but there’s divorced life for you.  It’s either pay for it or go without.  Woke up this morning with tingling and numbness in my left hand as a direct consequence of the massage, but everything else feels better.   Massage dude gave me some stretches and reminded me to breathe.  I was testy with him, I admit it.

Memorial service en masse tomorrow.  I’m leaving for the 7 o’clock ferry, we’ll see what everybody else does. I messaged everybody else to either be here at 6 am or find another ride.  I’ll be bringing musical instruments.

I am off to work early to make up for lost time yesterday.

20 parrot tricks in 2 minutes. Just like it sounds.

It’s bloody hot here now.  We go from having the heat on to the air conditioning, it’s truly remarkable.

The things ya see on Wreck Beach

I’m not at Wreck, Mike is (no surprise there) but what he saw at the beach is tres amusant.  Mike was sure he recognized a guy down there and said, “What band are you with?” and the guy, shure as shit, said, “Headwater”.  So now Mike’s seen one of the band members who’ll be playing at Jeff’s birthday party naked.  Vancouver is a lovely town. And a SMALL town.  Don’t piss anybody off, we all either work together, are related, belong to the same dragon boat team or are taking video of your sorry ass.