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Boy, the superintendent’s gonna be pissed!

from Ghostbusters, of course.

and on a completely unrelated note, i kinda wish i had bought a pystar when i had the chance, just to own one.

2. I always forget how hood Stereolab is. Listening to disc 1 of ABC Music now.

here’s a shot of ben at the pub. i’m pretty happy with how it turned out. with my holga and using film, it’s a bit a of a crap shoot for me. . . i just haven’t gotten the “feel” for it yet. . . so it’s a bit of guess work.

1. irish fair. went to st paul’s irish fair this weekend. i think my mother’s favorite part was the shirt that said, “st paul was in the bible, minneapolis was not.” heh. oh you st paul catholics. . . . got a wicked sun burn but it was fun to be outside (perfect, absolutely perfect, day) and listening to irish music. we watched the dancers for a bit. ate some good food (though what i had wasn’t irish). we got to watch a bit of hurling, which i’d heard was getting big in the twin cities but hadn’t had the chance to see it yet. in a way it is sort of like lacross but with hard bats instead of sticks and nets. it’s fun being irish (and now i know welsch too! plus i admit that after this weekends research, looking more english than i thought).

2. excited about camping. yesterday i started looking to see if things were going to fit in my new pack. i think i’m going to make it. i put up my tent and re-sealed the seams of the rain fly. i flushed the carbon out of my new water filter. now i’m starting to feel excited. we’ve been planning the trip since like february so it had begun to feel a bit unreal. now it feels real again. when i set up the tent under the blue blue sky, i remembered how it feels to be up there on the lakes, feeling the wind blowing in off the water. oooh, i can’t wait!

2. a coworker of mine came in to a meeting late recently and apologized because her child was sick. she also said, “i’m such a bad parent. my daughter threw up and i just fabreezed her and took her in to daycare.”

now i don’t like needles much. i’ve only given blood once. . . though i know i should go back and do plan on it but . . . the woman who drew blood was really nice and worked diligently to avoid any pain. it’s kind of a hard thing to do because i have small veins or veins that hide or something. anyway, i told her about a bad experience i had once and she told me a story about a woman that feinted at the site of the needle. i said that the good thing about having a bad experience is that everything else seems fine then. she was very nice but did say out loud that she hoped that the whole day wouldn’t be like this. so as i was leaving i told her i hoped i had been the most difficult part of her day.

i like to think that i brightened her day just a bit.

2. i’ve been working on scanning in all my old rolls of black and white photos. i came across some this weekend (that porch pic is one of them) and had some fun scanning them in. some of them however i have no memory of taking. they are taken in what appears to be a chemistry lab. there are bottles of acid and something cooking over a bunsen burner. how odd.

2. last night my airport card stopped working in my macbook pro. since i also need a new optical drive and a fan replaced i just brought it in. you know what fixed the airport issue? zapping the pram! i haven’t thought about pram since the 90s. crazy.

2. yesterday i went ice fishing with my sister’s boyfriend. it was my first trip. he was kind enough to buy me a pole and i picked up the tab on the minnows. we cheated a bit by towing the ice house out using a four wheeler but we did have a hand auger so that counts for something. i caught five fish which is better than i usually do and i can’t pretend there’s really a lot of talent to it but it was fun. it was a beautiful day out, i’d say forty and sunny. i took some photos with my holga so we’ll see if they come out. anyway, in my book, ice fishing is just plain fun. we threw everything back this time but i think next time we’ll have ourselves a nice little fish fry. thanks, matt.

For your blog. “If you want to.” As Eva would say.

Good, we live in a safe place. Maybe next year we’ll make the top once they clear up what’s happening in #2.
http://www.startribune.com/12559136.html

Aren’t you glad you don’t work here?
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/12387856.html
“They all worked in the same area — the head table, where workers cut the meat from pig heads and extruded the brain from the skulls with a compressed air system.”

2. last night becky and i watched kiss kiss bang bang. i very much liked it. basically it’s a dective-y film noir kind of movie. i’ve always loved those kinds of stories. but it also has the rambling fast paced narration of Robert Downey Jr. and the special kind of sarcasm that only Val Kilmer can do. Plus there are a number of grammar jokes if you pay attention.

and sometimes that thinking would be right. heh. i was just listening to music and it faded out and i thought it was crashing again but no, just politely fading the music out for an incoming call. heh.

2. also, because i haven’t said it here in a while. i love coffee.