2004-10-29 
 

egg-siting

OK, this is just too odd to keep to myself. (And thanks to the Phoenix for pointing it out.) But it takes forever to download....and we're on DSL. So consider yourself warned.

Happy Ovals.

It's safe for kids. (a bit psychedelic, but safe) The one thing that bugs me is that I've always been told BROWN eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh.

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2004-10-28 
 

curse reversed

They won! And I got to watch it on an 82 inch screen while the eclipse was visible through the window to my right. A very satisfying, if somewhat geeky, eve.

Reversing curses is good.

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2004-10-23 
 

the day after yesterday

Watched The Day After Tomorrow yesterday. For an action/disaster movie, it was pretty good. Or is it just that Jake Gyllenhaal is the hottest thing to hit acting since Johnny Depp?

Anyway, not much else to report. I'm at the end of the biannual insane weeks at work and heading into a couple of merely crazed ones. That being said, G and I did carve out some time for a pumpkin evening.

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* posted by me at 4:54 PM

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2004-10-18 
 

nonplussed

So, for all of you who've been wondering, they've decided NOT to sell. It'll take some time, but I'm sure I can double-think myself into a positive attitude eventually.

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harvest

A nice weekend. G and I invited doughboy to dinner on Friday night at the new Cuban/Mexican place down the street, which he paid for...his new nickname'll be Sugar Daddy if he keeps that up! We then wandered down to the Pilsner for drinks with him and Michael upstairs...and then home where it was just the two of us. We kept it that way for the rest of the weekend.

It's been four years after all. And while my type A (or A minus) personality didn't allow me let go and celebrate during the work week on the actual day, this weekend became a bit of a celebration. Pumpkin hunting down in Half Moon Bay, quiet giggles together, a movie on the couch, a lazy Sunday, shopping and then a sudden dinner at Bombay. Perhaps a bit subdued if you look in from the outside, but appropriate for us as we begin our fifth year together. (and yes I'm counting from the day we first met...they won't let us get married so we get to make up our own rules.)

Four years ago this past week, around midnight and under a full moon, I followed G into the 7-11 on 18th at Noe. In truth, it hadn't been the destination I originally started out for, but I followed his cuteness a full two blocks in the opposite direction just to get the chance to introduce myself. He wrote his number on the back of a receipt...which I still have somewhere.

That night, he was on his way to meet a friend, so our first date would have to wait, but our first kiss happened about 5 minutes later...under the maple trees across the street from my apartment.

After watching him walk away, I dashed inside the apartment, told Dude to put his questions about my quick return on hold for a minute, and raced to the kitchen for a pen and paper. This is what I wrote:

Can one kiss heal a lifetime? I think it can.

Of course I'm paraphrasing. The exact words may have been "change a lifetime" or something else similar which at the time seemed too grandiose to share with anyone but a scrap of paper, but it's four years later, so I'm letting you all in on the secret.

Happy Anniversary G! (from the rooftops as it were)

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* posted by me at 1:21 AM

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2004-10-13 
 

to ad or not to ad?

Using Google's AdSense on this site would provide me with a teeny tiny source of income. Very teeny tiny. I'm guestimating less than 50 bucks a year, if that.

But that might pay for this website.

Also, in all honesty, I'm curious as to just HOW interested random strangers are in this site. If a search for I love Annie Lennox brings someone to my page and they then clicked on an ad for Annie Lennox at Amazon in the sidebar, I'd get the aforementioned teeny tiny amount of cash along with an idea of why people were popping onto certain pages. (Right now I can see how many total pages are viewed and what the top search strings are, but there's no real knowledge of what the connections are.)

Then there's also the knowledge that using this ad service would quite likely put my site closer to the top of the Google search lists than it is right now. Do you know how far down I am on the 158,000 site results that pop up for I love Annie Lennox? Neither do I, I couldn't keep scrolling through them forever. (Sure, adding a Michael Slaven to the end of the phrase gets this site a bit closer to the top of the results, but still frustratingly far down. I'd rather be on top.)

Or maybe I'm just a money hungry nut who's willing to sell out at the first scent of cash. (Or in this case the first scent of cent.)

Today's entry has been brought to you by the letter M and the number aught-four.

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* posted by me at 12:37 AM

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2004-10-11 
 

furniture

We have three new pieces of furniture.

1. A nice solid wood armoire for our entertainment center. (A rather lofty name for our rag tag assortment of electronics, I know.) It's a bit beat up as the former owners must've had a small dog that liked to chew on wood...or a rather odd child. With a little love and sandpaper, it'll be just fine. We couldn't beat the price and using the cubes to hold up the TV had begun to feel a little too dorm room. We discovered it at a garage sale a few blocks away....which in SF implies at least one or two hills. We wrapped about a hundred feet of rope every which way around it in order to secure it to the roof rack, and then drove away with me holding the end of the rope that trailed through the window tightly in my right hand. As if I would somehow be able to stop this huge object from hurtling forward...or backward depending on which side of the hill we were on. G and I were good boyscouts though and got it home in one piece.

2. A nifty desk that we found abandoned up the hill which looks almost new. Our best guess it that the previous owner didn't have a screwdriver and/or the patience to tighten the bolts that had allowed the desktop to slip down an inch. We on the other hand like figuring stuff like that out, and I'm happy to report that there's room for both my keyboard AND my mouse on my new desk. My old desk has been around for almost a decade now, but it's still in good condition and a nice size for a smaller apartment. Anyone interested? I figure the cosmic balance requires me to send my desk out into the universe for free, so speak up quick if you want it.

3. A telephone table that we totally didn't need, but which I'm convinced will someday be famous on the Antiques Roadshow.

In other news: Desperate Housewives shows potential as a new obsession of mine. Latter Days manages to be both sexy and smart and will be moving into our DVD library at some point in the near future. Most importantly, the pie pictured below tasted even more wonderful than it looks.

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2004-10-10 
 

pie

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2004-10-06 
 

three notes

B Flat: I sometimes wish I could turn off my overly protective social censor in order to say things like, "That's a FABULOUS outfit!" when I pass by a total stranger wearing an electric blue muppet-fur hat with matching scarf.*

E Flat: Dude and Dudette have returned to the lands from whence they came and work has begun again.

A Flat: We watched the Triplets of Belleville tonight. Very odd and very wonderful with a theme song that runs around my head like happy ants on a jelly donut.

I won’t be an old man in Singapore
Playing scrabble and eating petits-fours
I want to be wicked, Utterly wicked,
Wicked like the Triplets from Belleville


*No muppets were harmed in the writing of this entry.

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* posted by me at 2:46 AM

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2004-10-03 
 

further adventures of the fantastic four

Not a lot of time to blog as we're about to head out the door to experience the Castro Street Fair, but wanted to post a few more pictures for y'all.


wine country


this picture would makes more sense if you could see the
nifty sculpture that they're dancing next to, but
the artist came out and asked that we not use the
photos in any public arena...so I'm respecting that..


dude and the bridge


hottie photographer


love in the clouds


dude in the clouds


peaceful garden at the MYSTERY SPOT


mikey at the MYSTERY SPOT


chicken wings and mystery spots

Labels: 1000 words, g, local getaway

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