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Finished “Anybody talk”

So at least I’m being smart and working in the cool of the day. Having accomplished that I can now go about the rest of my day, which involves errands, blech.  Katie says she has a line on an apprenticeship position.  Later…. Yay, errands all done. Did you know, I didn’t have a single pair of shorts?  Outrageous, in this weather.

Everything is deeply intertwingled

I got a sudden urge to look up Big Rude Jake on Wikipedia.  The article mentions that he’s recorded with Gary Justice.

So have I!  Isn’t that a strange coincidence? Dr Filk, who was a fan of Big Rude Jake’s, would have been amused.

I really liked working with Gary, he was very sympatico, and he told cool stories about working with Daniel Lanois.

Yellow-Yellow goes for the gusto

The story of a clever bear.

What happened yesterday?  I wrote down two songs (Home on Derange and the Pirate’s To-Do List).  Lost my purse for about half an hour – found it where I left it, in a shopping cart outside Rona.  Lucky me. Got replacement keys to the landpeer and Paul and the kids.  Got my massage table back, w00t. Purchased a mirror which I can’t actually use in the bathroom, so I’m going to hang it in the bedroom instead.  I also viewed Paul’s new apartment, which is much smaller and much darker, so I’m very glad he and Dan got in to paint the new place off white (it was slate grey green and the kitchen was red, if you can believe it).

I learned that both the kids have job interviews… join me in wishing them success.

Watched The Emperor’s New Clothes. Very enjoyable costume drama and Iben Hjejle was awesome.  The whole “we will assault the melon-selling bastions scene” was very enjoyable.

Today I help Mike celebrate his birthday.

Ability

Is a state of mind.

On a whim I looked up the project co-ordinator for my Experience ’75 grant (we did research in a cemetary, which is going to look great on my bio when the zombie movie comes out) and found out he got written up in a parenting article.  I had SUCH a crush on that man, he was one of the sweetest, funniest (= evil) people I ever met.  He used to pretend to be retarded as well as crippled if we were pushing him along, while the four of us students killed ourselves laughing.  But I was 16.  And dumb as a fence post, candidly.

And think about it.  From the time his name crossed my mind until the time I located his address and phone number was 90 seconds.  Stalking has never been so easy.

Wreck yesterday

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In the morning I loafed and lazed, squeezed in a grocery shop, and then reverted to dawdling and doodling; around 1 Mike came and fetched me in the convertible, and then we went down to New West to get Katie and Kashka.  (One half of the reality show girls).  Kashka is covered with ink from her ears to her ankles, including Betty Boop as a skeleton, which is freaky, because Betty Boop’s skull looks exactly how I would imagine Margot’s skull to look.

It was very pleasant on the beach.  There was a kicking breeze all day, and it was not from the usual angle, and pushed the incoming tide up the beach.

At first Mike tried to fly his approx 4 square meter kite but the breeze was so stiff he was getting dragged 10 and 15 meters down the beach, which I watched with the kind of chill consternation which is all you can muster when you’re feeling so mellow.  Then he tried smaller kites, which was much more successful, and provided us all with much in the way of aesthetics.

Liz, Kashka’s ex, joined us.  I’d met her when we were still living at the Augur Inn and really liked her; I still do.

As the tide came in (Mike always checks the tide tables and parked us WELL up the beach) the breeze shifted until it was straight onshore.  Surf’s up kids!  The girls were bobbing up and down in the waves several times – they’d come back out to warm up and then go back in.  I asked Katie if it was awkward to go the the beach with mom and she just laughed and said after ten years she was used to it.  And it’s been ten years since we started going as a family.

Odd, isn’t it?  I got in to waist height and let a couple of waves slam into me, because I wanted to say I had gone in and had some idea of the physical exhilaration of it all, but I’m 50, and the idea of trashing the bottoms of my feet and then having to climb all 407 stairs (counts vary!) had very little appeal, and at the end, the girls complained that their boobs had been thrown around so much they were all sore.  Mmmm… My kind of fun doesn’t have that kind of toll, but that’s just me being lazy again.  Also, Mike and Liz and Kashka and Katie all complained about how much salt water they swallowed.  Ick.

A man with t shirts and beaters went by; one showed a parody of a Starbucks logo with beers and WRECK BEACH instead of STARBUCKS, and the mermaid wearing sunglasses.  Kashka leaped up and said, “I want one!” so I obliged her.  I laughed, “All your mother’s many kindnesses to Katie are coming back for YOUR benefit, how annoyed Suzanne will be!”  But no probs, I’ll be seeing Suzanne later this week to catch up on the buzz.  Katie is living rent free at Kat and Kashka’s, so I am being politic.

I ate the best hotdog ever on the beach.  Those three jalapeños I added made for just the right amount of heat.

I wrote a song on Mike’s parlour Larrivée – no lyrics yet. Which reminds me I should pick up my guitar and make sure the tune is still there.   I believe so.

The GVRD but not the cops were on the beach.

All in all, it was a lovely, lovely day, and I got home around 7:45, very crisp around the edges. Tonight, off to see Patricia for the long promised Cavalcade of Cheese.

Busy day planned

First, over to Planet Bachelor for a council of war about the kids’ employment.  At 1, Tanya and Battery and Tre are coming over (I haven’t seen a babby that small in a long time, and I’m much looking forward to it).

And to round the day off… Night Market!  with Mike!  And almost for sure Keith, and maybe Jeff if he’s feeling up to the mob scene.

And between now and the time I leave for Planet Bachelor, I must list not left or right but make a list and get on with it, because although I did ALL my laundry yesterday – and line dried it – and hung it up – and mowed the lawn – I still have papers and crap spread all over the house and it doesn’t look very welcoming at the moment.  Jeff is maintaining a discreet silence – he knows that eventually I will tame the mess.

Jeff set up the air conditioner yesterday, it was really necessary.  Today looks solid overcast so it should be much cooler.

Inspecting Margot

I just realized the pads of her front feet are black and the pads of her back feet are pink.  It’s tortoiseshell madness!

Yesterday evening, leftovers and Journey to the Center of the Earth (3-D) with Brendan Fraser.  Cute film, but not exactly a feast for the brain.  Keith is here.

I finally got my tutorial in how to run the lawnmower, so I can scratch that off my list.