It's ok to not care.

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Also, if you get bored look here and see if you spot anything that’s me.

I totally made that last word up.

Immediately, rush down to your favourite store and buy every last tin of the Jones Soda Candy – because it’s the greatest candy ever.

I must, have, more. If you see any in Portland please pick it up for me, I’ll pay you up to 2bucks a tin for it. I’m particularly eager to get some Fufu berry, and some of the Berry lemonade – but the Green Apple with suffice .

Darfur poster
Mine safety

There’s a whole bunch of them, check it out.

What the fuck does that mean? I mean, I can understand – Let’s get down to business – Let’s chew the fat – Let’s rap, but talk turkey? Who talks turkey?!

Oh well. My life – is goddamn boring right now. Lindsay is working weekends and of course, I have weekends off, this of course leaves for many, many hours of Counterstrike:Source, reading Something Awful, and thinking about things I could, and in most cases, should, be doing. I sit at home and accomplish a whole lot of nothing. I need something else going on I think. My next few posts will cover various things that I’ve been meaning to do.

Part One; Reading

I love to read, I really do – there’s only one problem. I’m so frequently plastered to a computer screen that my reading list boils down to:

SomethingAwful
Slashdot
CNN.com
TheOnion

You get the point, hardly the classics. I need to compile a list of books that I’d like to read – be it again, finish, or something new. Here’s what I have handy that I need to finish up:

Sarah Vowell – The Partly cloudy patriot
This book has been in my bag for ages. At some point I convinced myself at my old house that I would take public transportation to work, and this book would accompany me on my trip. That didn’t last long as I started working from home, and about as long as it lasted, is about as far as I got through the book.

Sarah’s writing is bloody brilliant, she makes an appearance on my top5 list as her wit and intellect are about the sexiest thing ever regardless of her plain appearance.

David Sedaris – Dress your family in Courduroy and Denim
I’ve read a lot of Mr. Sedaris’ writing and love it all. I never started this book – it took was purchased in the event that I finished up The Partly cloudly patriot . As you’ve already learned, this didn’t happen.

Here’s, what I want to read again:

Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude

This book, wow, this book – w. o. w. I don’t know that I was ever so enthralled in a single piece of literature as I was in this book. I recall having the most amazing visualizations in my head of Macondo and the Buendía family, and for these reasons I must read this again.

The classics, Catcher in the Rye, To kill a mockingbird, and The Lord of the Flies. All of these books I read in high school and despite being far to cool to admit it then – I loved them. I really would love to revisit all of them.

Something new? I don’t know – anyone have any good suggestions?

Take 482,719. I’m going to try to actually write a blog and make it something worth reading. I realize that a lot more goes down then I let on to.

Here’s a brief update.

Lindsays mom just left town – we had a good time. Went to the coast, had a BBQ at my parents, had some killer chinese food in china town, etc… It was a good time – though I must say it’s funny having two southern women in the same room because they just talk and talk and talk and talk and talk .

Lindsay and I were going to do a little wedding thing for our parents exclusively, but I believe we’ve determined that we actually want a full blown wedding despite our earlier ideas. We keep flip flopping back and forth on the issue – but as it came closer and closer to just doing the simple thing for a limited crowd, it because more and more obvious that it wasn’t really the desired method.

We’ve moved, for those that are unaware, into a lovely condo on the waterfront downtown. It’s quite nice, though for the money we really should have just bought a house, but for the time being it’s fun, and Lynz get’s to experience living downtown and on the waterfront (Which I fear has spoiled her as she’s looking at 600k houses :p).

Picture time!

Panoramic from the deck that I made (I need to make a new one (this is huge, click link only!)

Lynz and I
OMGTONGUE
Orlys

My new Car!
Vroom!

Rose festival ships coming into port – (Complete with Pirate boats! ARRRRRR MATEY!)

Some pics from the Autocross I did the weekend of the rose races (My car is the deeper of the two silvers (Silverstone))

Some totally glorified vanity shots of my car from early july

I also have a couple gigs worth of shots to resize and get uploaded into some sort of gallery – which I will do over the next couple of days.